I have talked about the 80/20 rule in online businesses in this blog before. And we can say the rule applies to almost every aspect of it. Today I want to focus on your customers. In most cases approximately 20 percent of your customers are creating about 80 percent of your profits. So it would [...]

What I am about to tell you is the most important thing you will ever hear about starting a business. (I have probably started more businesses than anyone I’ve ever met, so please forgive me for sounding like a know-it-all.) Ready? To start a business — any business — successfully, you must be able to [...]

Whether you already have an Internet business or you’re thinking of starting one, you should have one major thing on your mind: driving traffic to your website. Learning how to do this is crucial to your success. After all, if you don’t have people browsing through your products or services, how can you sell them [...]

“I know I need to be in Google … but that can be expensive if you don’t know what you’re doing.” I hear comments like this all the time from Internet entrepreneurs and e-business owners just like you. Getting your website listed on Google using AdWords is a way to drive targeted traffic to your [...]

When you’re building an Internet business, it’s useful to step back and evaluate your progress every now and then. You will be at one of the following levels … Level One: The “getting ready to start” phase. You are spending a lot of time and money buying and studying Internet marketing courses. But you aren’t [...]

 This work proves that mere exposure to luxury goods increases individuals’ propensity to prioritize self-interests over others’ interests, influencing the decisions they make. In Experiment 1 it is found that participants primed with luxury goods were more likely than those primed with non-luxury goods to endorse business decisions that benefit themselves but could potentially harm [...]

I wanted to buy a how-to video for a partner-dance called the West Coast Swing, so I went to Google and did a search. As you’d expect, I instantly found 2,480,000 results, including quite a few sites that looked like they might have the professional-level show dancing that I was looking for. What you wouldn’t [...]

A few years ago, I suffered from terrible back pain. It was so bad that I was taking steroid injections and trying every other pain-relieving method I could find. Looking online, I discovered that millions of others were going through the same ordeal. That’s when I had a brainstorm: If I could find a way [...]