Internet Marketing Mistakes - My 8 Costly Ones

In her blog post Lynn Terry asked me to list some of the mistakes I have made since starting my internet marketing business (you can find Lynn’s question here - Lynn’s Question To Me)
Good Question Lynn…Here are the most costly mistakes I have made so far:
Mistake #1: Not realizing the value of information products would [...]

Using WordPress For Websites

I built DotComMothers in May 2007. At that time I did not spend too much time thinking about good design for the site. I had an idea for a website and wanted to get it up and running as quickly as I could. I know a bit of html and I built a basic website. [...]

Secrets To Success

I think so…This week Australia lost one of its greatest entrepreneurs ever - John IIhan of Crazy John Mobile Company. John IIhan’s success story has inspired thousands of people. His parents migrated to Australia from Turkey when John was 5. His parents worked hard and instilled the value of hard work into John. John had [...]

Reciprocal Links

What Is? When two websites agree to link to each other then its called reciprocal linking. Its also commonly called ‘link exchanges’.
Is It Still Relevant? There are lot of articles on the website claiming that search engine algorithms don’t give the same importance to reciprocal links as they did. Well this might well be true. [...]

A Newbie’s Perspective: Sandy Offers To Share All

Thank you Lynn for giving me the opportunity to participate in this conversation with you. Now here is my response to Lynn’s question (you can find Lynn’s question here - Lynn’s Question To Me
Let me start at the beginning: After the birth of my daughter (5 years ago) I started working on my own as [...]

How Do You Know You Have Found Your Passion?

Lynn Terry of self starters weekly tips posted an interesting question on her forum - ‘how do you know you have found your passion?’ Well this got me thinking. After some thinking here’s how I think one can find out if they have reached their passion:
Is work a chore? If you don’t consider your [...]

Forums I Love

These days forums are an essential part of networking. There are lots of forums in the cyberworld. You have to be very careful and pick the right forums. Otherwise you might spend heaps of time on the forums and not gain much. Forums are addictive and so pick the right ones. A lot of [...]

Blogs - Do we really need them?

When I got into internet marketing 6 months ago I knew I had to start blogging. However the word’ blog’ has always been a bit scary thing for me. Don’t get me wrong I love reading other people’s blog. I spend at least an hour everyday reading blogs. Its just that I didn’t think I [...]

Article Marketing

Writing and submitting articles to various directories is one of the most effective ways of increasing your site’s ranking on search engines (and increasing traffic o your site).
Let’s start with why this is so effective:

At then end of every article you can write a few lines about you and your business. You can provide [...]

Do You Ever Feel Down Down Down?

Well I do…Its quite common to feel down down down when you are running your own business. These are the times I wonder:

Why am I doing this?
Why am I working so hard to run this business? I know my services are in huge demand (my programming services). I should quit my job and [...]