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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10 business start up tips.

Before we get down to the 10 busines tips, I want to give you some important advice.
Before you start to trade, create a business plan. There are many great business plan templates available on the web, they’re not as difficult as you think.
The plan will tell you from the outset if your business is viable!
It [...]

April 6, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 8 Comments
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Create the desire so people buy from you!

The ‘desire’ portion of your profile is where you present the facts of your expertise and success; create and justify your prospect’s conviction and cause him to demand a piece of the action’ for himself.
It’s vitally necessary that you present proven facts because survey results show that at least 80% of the people reading [...]

March 14, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 107 Comments
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Just because you have a bad memory…..

….there’s no reason to be rude!
I have mailing lists going back many years and decided that I would have a clear out. I was afraid to just hit the delete button in case some of the people would still be interested in what I have to say.  So I decided to upload them into my [...]

February 24, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 63 Comments
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Email Marketing using Auto Responders.

Sales letters through your letter box are hated by everyone. It’s unwanted, uninvited and fills your re-cycling bin. But it’s pretty clear that it’s also incredibly popular with advertisers. Why? Because while most potential customers throw away their junk letters with barely a glance, enough take action to make it all worthwhile.
They do buy—and in [...]

February 15, 2010 · Pat Sutton · 66 Comments
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The best affiliates for your blog.

A lot of people ask me to suggest affiliates. They want to know which ones are the most effective at monetising their blog. I suppose it would be safe to say that I have done a hell of a lot of research on this subject as bad choices can make the difference between a profitable [...]

February 14, 2010 · Pat Sutton · One Comment
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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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How to market your website so that people buy from you!

It doesn’t matter what kind of business you have and how benevolent you are, you can give things away for free, you can raise money for great causes, you can hold people’s hands but everyone at sometime needs to make a living.
The baker puts bread on your table, not to feed your family but to [...]

December 7, 2009 · Pat Sutton · 2 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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Put a sandwich board out to drive traffic!

The content of your website tells your visitors all about you and your business; it is your shop window. The problem is that if your shop is on a back street and you have no passers by then you need to get people to take a detour down your street! It’s easy, you put a [...]

November 10, 2009 · Pat Sutton · 12 Comments
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