Donna Gunter's Blog – August 2007 Archive (15)

Once upon a time I used a little product called Norton Anti-Virus to protect my computers from infestation of the latest nasty virus going around the online world. Then, a friend turned me onto …

When I started my online business in 1999, I had a website, but did very little with it, as it seemed impossible to get noticed by the search engines. My website simply served as my online brochure and I had no plan in place to drive any traffic there. Fast forward to 2007, and now almost all of my clients come to me from my website. In fact, my website has brought 5 clients to my door in the past week.

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I'm a 2005 Hurricane Rita evacuee and fortunately made it through a hellish evacuation process and ensuing hurricane with hardly a scratch. Running from a hurricane and dealing with its landfall isn't something I've ever had to do before, nor is it something I'd ever like to do again. However, as an solo business owner, I'm quite thankful that I have an online business. The fact that I own a virtual company and can operate from anywhere that there's electricity…

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It's hurricane season again (actually, the season began June 1), but it rarely gets interesting until at least August or so. We had a not-so-close encounter with Hurricane Dean, which was rumored to be headed Texas' way, but fortunately stayed south of us in Mexico...whew!

Eric and I were talking about evacuating, and he was surprised to learn that I wasn't sure that I would evacuate again (I'm the one who really…

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Many times when you're starting out in business, or changing direction in business, you become overwhelmed with just where to start, or who you can contact for assistance. You have many contacts, have belonged to a number of associations or groups over the years, and have spoken to numerous groups and associations in your career. The overwhelm often comes from knowing many people and many things but not having any centralized method to access all that…

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When I began my business back in 1999, I had a website, but did very little with it, as it seemed almost impossibly overwhelming to get noticed by the search engines and come up on any type of search whatsoever. Despite the fact that I helped my clients be found online, I simply used my website as an online brochure and did NOTHING to bring any attention to my site.

Fast forward now to 2007, and almost all of my…

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One very common mistake that online service professionals make is providing endless information on their website, blog, or ezine without asking for anything in return (i.e. selling a product or service). Now, that doesn't really make much sense, does it? How do you stay in business if you don't have any sales?



I have had clients who simply like to have their products sit obscurely for sale on their websites and do little to make their list members or…

Being in the business that I'm in often means that my colleagues and competitors often promote themselves with the lure of living a very rich life (lots of money, expensive cars, owning McMansions, exotic vacations) in which you work only a few hours per week. In some cases, these wild claims are probably actually true. However, I'm not yet rolling in the dough, so I have to show up at…