When I first started my online business, life was tough.

I had a demanding job in the IT industry which required working over-time, regularly.

I have wife and kids to attend to when I got home and barely 2 hours to work on my business.

Through close self monitoring and talking with different mentors, I realized that I had in fact, a lot more time that I realized to grow my business.

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In my previous post, on how to determine if you need a copywriting service, I promised that I would tell you about my experience with hiring my first copywriter. Read on because the copywriter is the respected Michel Fortin of http://www.michelfortin.com

If you haven’t heard of Michel, he’s one of the most well-known online copywriters in the internet marketing industry. Although I’m sure he writes a lot for other industries too.

One of his most well-known jobs was writing an online salesletter for John Reese’s Traffic Secrets course which managed to make more than a million dollars in 24 hours. This was a first in the internet marketing industry and it opened up people’s minds.

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If you’ve been studying internet marketing or business in general, then you would know that understanding what your customer want is critical to business success.

If your customer thinks that you understand him and that your products are a perfect fit for him, he’ll keep buying from you for a long time. This article will teach you how to do that.

If you’re the type that buy clothes regularly, then it’s likely that you’ll visit some particular shops a lot. It’s either because you think their clothes match your style, or you love their brand name. If the shop continues to sell the same style of clothes, you’ll continue to be their customer.

This is how powerful understanding your customer is. This is why McDonalds don’t sell pizzas and Louis Vuitton don’t sell anything that is cheap.

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It’s the year 2011 and it’s time to start planning for this year if you haven’t already done so.

Ask yourself a quick question…”Why are you making resolutions for yourself and setting goals for your business at the beginning of the year?”

It is because you want to improve your current situation and want to use the new year as a motivator to kick you into gear.

For there is no reason why you set goals in the new year and not throughout the months when you need it.

If you want to have 2,000 visitors to your website daily as a goal, then there’s no reason not to set this goal earlier on when you thought about it.

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Here’s what happened a few days ago which can teach you a thing a two about why some people achieve the success they do.

I was writing some marketing material for my business and I was interrupted by a Skype message. I normally turn off my Skype when working but I forgot to turn it off this time.

I was initially going to ignore this message but it was from a very successful internet marketer friend who I respected.

So I put on my headset and microphone for a quick chat. This quick chat lasted about an hour!

My friend wanted to discuss his business model. Without revealing too much, he wanted to know my opinion on his ideas and most importantly, would it last?

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If you have some internet marketing knowledge, then you’ll know that there are an endless number of traffic generation techniques you can use. Some are effective and some are like a spark.

In today’s video, I show you a 4 hour internet marketing plan which you can use every day for your online business. In time, the effect of these tasks will build up and give you a mass amount of targeted traffic.

These tasks in the video are proven to work. If you continue to stick to the plan, traffic generation will not be your concern.

Enjoy.

Building an email list is the primary task of any business. One of the biggest mistakes I made when I started my online business was neglecting my list building task.

For some stupid reason,  I thought that list building was not suitable for my business. Well I was wrong. Building a list is “a-must” for any business you’re in. If you disagree, tell me your example of a business by commenting below.

What a lot of people don’t understand is a lot of visitors don’t buy with their first visit to their website. They may like your product and prefer to shop around to find a better offer. After a while, they will forget about you.

If you have them on your email list, you can regularly send them useful information and keep reminding them that they can purchase aproducts or services from you.

You need to continuously remind your prospects that you exist and that they can buy from you when the time is right for them.

Here’s a video I made on 5 places you can build a list from for your online business. Don’t say they are obvious if you haven’t implemented them in your business.

Enjoy the video.