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

I've had it with contact form sp*m. For those of you who haven't experienced the joy of this form of sp*m, it's something that automatically generated by sp*mbots and you receive lots of messages containing completely useless garbage via your contact form. Man, don't these people have a life???…

Everything happens for a reason and a purpose, or so my former business coach used to tell me. I guess that includes hurricanes, as well..:). My big takeaway from Hurricane Humberto was that I need to ramp up my passive revenue streams. It was quite cool to come home and find a number of sales receipts in my email inbox. However, the cold, hard reality is that the income from those…

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Earlier this year I decided to "fire" Internet Explorer 7.0. It was crashing too often, hanging up too much, and I could never configure an interface that was most useful to me. I've been using Firefox as my browser and couldn't be happier -- it's everything a browser should be. The coolest thing about Firefox is the large number of plug-ins offered.…

My fiancée and I were speaking recently about the ability to sit still in what we both refer to as a "boring" environment and just do nothing. It's a challenge for each of us, as we both tend to engage ourselves in something, whether we're reading, watching a movie, or playing an online game, and we always fight the urge to just sit there and do nothing (and be contemplative or meditative). I know that there's a great deal of value and power of sitting and doing…

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Honestly, no, I don't really love hurricanes. However, it's often better to laugh than to cry, and fortunately for us, Hurricane Humberto's bark was much worse than its bite. I guess it's always…

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I consider Amazon.com to be the Internet pioneer for establishing affiliate programs. Their strategy to permit others to sell their products for a commission on affiliate websites has single-handedly help them become an Internet powerhouse and has resulted in Amazon.com becoming a household name.



As an online business owner, you, too, should be offering your own affiliate program. Affiliate marketing is so much less expensive than to take out a banner…

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I'll be a guest on this week's VA Visionaries teleseminar series on the topic, How to Fill Your Virtual Assistant Practice (and Expand Your Profits) with Article Marketing. If you'd like to register, you can do so here:…

Word-of-mouth referral is one of the best strategies to employ to keep your service business full. The best way to manifest these referrals is by creating "cheerleader clients", or those clients who think you're the greatest thing since sliced bread and eagerly and enthusiastically tell everyone they meet about you and your services.



The one trait that all of my clients seem to have in common is a sincere desire to help others. They're all fairly well…

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I am pleased to announce that I will be a speaker during the first semi-annual Hire-A-Businesswoman Week (September 17 - 21, 2007) presented by the International Virtual Women's Chamber of Commerce.

Hire-A-Businesswoman Week will offer over 30 mini seminars with…