I hate chain letters but had to share this with you!

“A 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud man, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o’clock, with his hair fashionably combed and shaved perfectly, even though he is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.
His wife of 70 years recently passed away, making the move [...]

June 16, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 79 Comments
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How to really monetise your blog

In my previous blog “6 steps closer to monetising your blog” I said that you need:
1. Patience
2. Resilience.
3. A great imagination.
4. Knowledge.
5. The discipline to learn.
6. Multiple Income streams?
Today I am going to tell you about the next 6 items you need:
1. Products that sell well.
2. A great mailing list.
3. An easy to use e-mail [...]

November 24, 2009 · Pat Sutton · 7 Comments
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Confessions of a Blogger.

At last my official blog website is actually finished. My intention of blogging for a living has become a reality.
Ok, what next?
The first thing I need to do is to go back over the archives and delete all my earlier muses.
In the early days, as is usual for blog virgins, my impression of a blog [...]

November 9, 2009 · Pat Sutton · 3 Comments
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10 QUESTIONS: DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES? By John Assaraf

Do you have what it takes to be really successful? Have you ever thought about what you must be prepared to endure and do in order to be successful in business or your career?
I think I have been asked at least 5,000 times what it really takes to be successful in business, so I jotted [...]

November 9, 2009 · Pat Sutton · No Comments
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How and Why to Start a Membership Site.

People often ask me about the benefit of having  a membership site.
I have 3 networking  membership sites that are free to join and are  self populating.
Once set up, these sites tend to need very little administration but, although they do not generate any direct revenue apart from occasional affiliate earnings, they have immense value to [...]

November 9, 2009 · Pat Sutton · No Comments
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How to market on Twitter 2

Thank you to all the people who have e-mailed me and commented on my websites about my first Twitter article. Here is a link to it, if you would like to read it again:
http://patsutton.com/index.php/archives/154
I am so pleased that you all found it so useful. With that in mind I have decided to write a sequel [...]

October 29, 2009 · Pat Sutton · 5 Comments
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