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Lies, damn lies, Statistics and Internet Marketing

Looking to make your fortune online? Keep buying ‘shiny new products’ that promise to deliver? Believe the testimonials provided on the sales pages?

Many internet marketing guru’s have raised the well known phrase ‘lies, damn lies and statistics’ to the next level.

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The Catch 22 of Making Money Online

So many people start out with a dream of making easy money online. But most people quickly discover it’s nowhere near as easy as the guru’s selling their latest ‘get rich quick’ schemes would have us believe. Unfortunately most people also pay a lot of money to learn this lesson.

What’s the catch? It really is a catch 22. There are just SO many things to do that most people either start to focus on just one thing or losing patience and keep trying new ideas and possibilities.

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Can anyone rely on one web hosting account to run an online business?

If you run a business online – you almost certainly need a web hosting account. That usually means relying on another business to provide you with a service – and as is the way of the world, that’s where problems can start and become disasters.

Why am I writing about this today? Well I use Mattie Blaze hosting for a number of my domains – most on auto-pilot that I rarely touch. More than a week ago they had a problem and in their wisdom raised a ticket in their system (where I never look) and sent an email to my msn account (that got trapped in spam because they had never sent one there before) then suspended my hosting account – along with 50 websites!

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An Online Business – or Wishful Working and Thinking?

Are you creating a real Online Business – or just wishful working and thinking?

The good and great Online Marketing Guru’s have their sales pitches refined to a T. Buy this, do that – and if it doesn’t work, just be patient and keep working at it, because the rewards will come!

Great for them once they have your money – but not so good for you, because the uncertainty and lack of income is not only stressful but wastes the most valuable resource you have when starting out = your time.

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Our www Easy Start Mission to Help Jump-Start Your Online Business

Hi, my name is Steve Mackay and I make money working online. If you are just starting out, I would like to share with you ideas that work and those best avoided – warning you about many of the scams we are all bombarded with every day. * The dream most guru’s paint of relaxing on the beach while every day money rolls in on auto-pilot will always remain just that for most people – a dream. But if you are prepared to work hard to get a real online business up and running, it is something most of us are quite capable of achieving. * I hope you will leave constructive comments and questions about problems you need help with – as well as your success stories when they arrive!

Why it is essential you have your own products or services to sell online

This morning I found an email in my spam from somebody I don’t know telling me his ‘good news’: that starting next month TradeDoubler.com will take over exclusive rights to a programme I have been making good money from on Commission Junction (CJ).

For me as an affiliate marketer this was terrible news with a triple whammy:

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How many domains should I start my online business with?

If you research how to start an online business you will soon discover a bewildering number of training programs – all suggesting different ways to make money. Many of the methods, plans, blue-prints or training programmes you can mix and match – swapping ideas and techniques as they start to work for you.

But one thing that is difficult to change along the way is the number of domains, or websites that you choose to work with. And all honest plans should explain that it is going to take months rather than days or weeks to start getting the free targeted buying traffic you need to bring you a substantial regular income.

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Choosing an AutoResponder is your most important online business decision

An autorepsonder is the most important piece of automation software you will use in your online business – so choose it with care.

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