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 Plan The Perfect Website!

According to Wikipedia – The Internet actually started in 1969, (yes, only 1969!), as the ARPANET, a Defense Department system designed to let survivors share files after a nuclear attack. From being available on just a handful of top secret computers, it’s grown to millions and millions of users.
And it’s still growing. According to a [...]

February 9, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 5 Comments
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Don’t wait for Business Opportunities to knock – you’ll wait forever!

If you’re sitting at home on the sofa watching Law and Order and you hear a rat-a-tat-tat on your door! Don’t get excited, it’s not a business opportunity knocking!
If you’re comfy in front of your computer chatting to someone on Facebook then your attention is in the wrong direction to notice a fleeting business opportunity [...]

January 30, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 5 Comments
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Selling to the taxi driver!

You know, one of the easiest things to do on the internet is to assume that people are not being honest and that they are only talking to you because they have something to sell. Who do you think is to blame for that? We are of-course!
Have you noticed on the social networks how many [...]

November 18, 2009 · Pat Sutton · One Comment
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6 steps closer to monetising your blog!

I’m often asked how to make money from Blogging.
Not wanting to dampen enthusiasm, it’s not a get rich quick scheme.
But it’s not impossible.
To get you there you need to have these six crucial skills:
1. Patience
2. Resilience.
3. A great imagination.
4. Knowledge.
5. The discipline to learn.
6. Multiple Income streams?
Why patience you say?
If you do everything right.
Join blogging [...]

November 17, 2009 · Pat Sutton · 9 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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