When you first started your internet based business you were probably introduced to the simplicity of using PayPal ‘buy it now’ buttons to sell products and services from your website. It’s easy, there’s no cost in setting it up and PayPal is used by a wide range of internet shoppers so it really is a great place to test out a new idea.
Once you prove out your product or service and know that you’re going to be selling online long term, it is time to move past PayPal buttons. The …

Your ecourse is a great way to promote your products and stay in touch with your customers. You may not realize it, but it also serves another purpose. You can use it as a test market for new products and services you may be thinking about offering.
A test market is a limited group of people you offer a product to in order to receive feed back before you put the product up for sale to the general population. Using a test market will allow you to get feedback on your …

Setting up an autoresponder is not difficult and it will allow you to stay in contact with your mailing list automatically. You can use it to create passive income with an ecourse, or a newsletter. Both help you stay in touch with your subscribers so that you can provide valuable information to them, create trust, and make product recommendations.
There are many autoresponder programs to choose from, Aweber and WAHM Cart are very economical and easy to use. You can find free autoresponders, but they will include ads for other products. …

If you would like to gain free publicity for your ecourse, you might want to consider writing a press release. A press release is a document that contains newsworthy information about your business and is then submitted to the media.
You can submit a press release to your local newspapers, as well as radio and television stations. You can also submit them to news services you find on the internet. Press releases follow a general format. The following are some basic tips for creating your press release.
If you would like the …

An ecourse is a series of emails, generally on one topic, that goes out automatically to subscribers. People sign up for ecourses on a regular basis to learn more about topics of interest to them. Offering ecourses to your website visitors is a marketing method that often results in increased sales.
What is great about ecourses is that they are maintained and delivered using autoresponders and so they only take a one-time set-up. Lessons or messages in an ecourse can be set for distribution at specific intervals. You decide how many …

There’s not a single one of us that doesn’t need SEO help. As soon as you think you may be getting it, the laws will change and you can start all over again. Plus there are so many steps that you may forget to do something the next page you build. Please don’t be afraid of SEO. It is a huge task, but each step you take will be good for your business. I have some great free resources for you to check into. …

In order to launch your ecourse, you must add an opt in form to your sign up page. Doing so can be as simple as answering a few questions and copying code into your website. The first time you do work inside your newsletter’s interface, it may take a long time, but don’t worry, you’ll soon be old hat at it!
Aweber is used by many online business owners and is one of the more popular systems for delivery of newsletters, follow up and broadcast emails to their subscribers. You must …

If you want to generate traffic to your website, increase the size of your mailing list, and sell more products, consider creating an e-course. An e-course is information, usually delivered in a small chunk at a time. Most go out as one lesson per day or week, via email.
An e-course can be on any topic. Take a look at your website and think about what your target market would like to learn about. If your website is devoted to information about beauty treatments, you can create an e-course explaining …