Our latest business endeavor with the skin care products has really been an eye opener.  Having mostly sold information and services for the past 10 years or so, selling physical products retail and wholesale is big change.
If you’ve been asking what things you should sell or considering switching from physical goods to services or information or vice-versa here are some things to consider. These are only my experiences and may be different for yours.
Physical goods Pros:

Tangible and honest for the most part. People get to touch feel and evaluate the …

I’ve been spending a lot of time offline lately with this new bath and skincare business. Along the way I’ve been reflecting on the causes of online business and home based internet marketing failures. A quick search in any of the internet marketing forums reveals groups of people frustrated with their inability to make money online.
After some reflection I’ve identified 10 factors or common mistakes contributing to online marketing failure.

Unrealistic expectations brought about by hyped up sales letters, marketing gurus, and forums.
Products with no REAL value. If you look at …

I know you’ve heard the saying the money’s in the list, but the money isn’t just in your email or mailing list. It’s in your to-do list too.
Increasingly I am of the opinion that life is all about lists. Lists of short term goals, lists of long term goals, task lists, checklists, etc…
To my right on my rather messy desk are to-do lists written on post-it notes for my various projects. On my computer there are several checklists I’ve created for courses and how-to guides. On the wall to my …

SEOQuake ia a  killer must have SEO and competative intelligence tool. If you’re doing any kind of online marketing and SEO related work you should download SEOquake now. It’s free and gives you an amazing amount of data displayed in a DHTML layer beneath the search engine results and whatever page your on.
SEOquake by default comes loaded with a number of parameters by default but you can even create your own. Checkout the features and you’ll quickly see the value power of this toolbar:

Google PR
Google PageRank of current page
Google Index
Number …

Facebook advertising has been the all-the-rage for a while now and for good reason. Few advertising mediums allow you to target groups so specifically. The information you place on your profile page makes that targeting possible.
For instance, if you say your into gardening and do it yourself projects those ads are displayed to you. If you’re considering going into a certain market change your interests in your profile page and wait a few minutes and you’ll see ads directed at those interests. If you go to the bottom of those …

A few years back in response to link spam and people trying to game link based page ranking by search engines the “noFollow” tag was created. This tag protects a page from passing pagerank with links. Many blogs now are setup to “noFollow” comments.  There are still good reasons for commenting on blogs even if they use “noFollow” tags.You just don’t get the benefit of the backlink.
There are still however some high PR blog pages that still have “doFollow” commenting. So, if you’re looking for some backlinks you don’t have …

Okay guys I’ll try and get this right. Sorry, I just got back from a nice dinner(no, not a “niche” dinner…well kind of) - carne ranchera and some margaritas. Anyhow, if you’re looking for a rock-bottom bargain on private video hosting for membership sites and whatnot Amazon’s S3 service is the way to go.
At my last company I worked in business development. One of the projects I worked on involved online backup and storage. I learned that even many of the big players in that space use Amazon’s S3 to …