A One Day Internet Business

How You Can Start Making Money Online in Only Minutes…
Without Even Designing Your Own Web Site!

Back in the early days of Internet marketing, there wasn’t much you could do to get started with marketing your business online until you actually launched your own web site.

Before you could make money, you had to:

• Choose a domain
• Set up your hosting
• Design your web site
• Put it all online
• Optimize and test your web site

But maybe you want the chance to "get your feet wet" before you commit to building a web site and getting really serious about marketing your business online.

Or maybe you’re trying to discover your…

The Best Of Copyblogger

If you haven’t been following the Copyblogger blog, click here to catch up and get a lot of free advice on blogging.

The articles cover a lot of territory… spend the time exploring the articles and gain the knowledge of what it takes to create content your bog needs to stand out. A blogging tutorial on one page.

Don’t Overlook One-Way Links

One of the most important aspects of search engine optimization is to build relevant one-way links.

The best way to describe one-way links are links to your site from sites which do not receive a link from your site.

The search engines love them.. it tells them that your website is so useful that other sites want to share it with their readers.

Search engines like Google place huge importance on link popularity when ranking your site.

Another benefit is that you can receive direct traffic to your site from people who click on the links.

Building one-way links takes time and nurturing. Your first…

Searching for a niche? Look outside the box!

(Or, How Santa Claus made him $100,000)

Recently we conducted a survey in which we asked the question, "Where do you most need help with your Internet business?"

And the #1 answer — earning 40% of the votes — was, "Finding my niche."

It’s not surprising, actually — finding a profitable niche is the first thing you need to do as you build your business, and definitely the most important "make-or-break" step you’ll ever take in your online business career.

So obviously, we tend to get lots of questions from readers asking us what they should sell online.

Here’s the answer we always…

Top Five Ways To Make Strategic Alliances

Thanks to the Internet, it’s now easier than ever to get into "win-win" relationships with other businesses — and generate HUGE profits doing so!

That’s because online tools like email, web sites, and blogs make it SO MUCH easier to reach your customers and build rock-solid relationships with them.

And with useful tools like search engines, you can find other reputable businesses who sell to the same customers — and then work together to promote each other’s products.

Everybody wins!

Here are five of our favorite ways to ramp up revenues by forming strategic alliances with other businesses:

1. Enter into a "link-exchange" partnership. You put a…

Do You Have A Great Backend?

People are always coming up to me and asking, "What can you tell me to help increase my Internet marketing sales?"

All too often, when I ask them to tell me about their business models, I discover they’re selling only ONE product.

So I ask them, "Have you ever considered selling backend products to your customers?"

Backend products are simply products you can offer to your existing customers, after they’ve made their initial purchase.

Because you know what they’ve already bought from you, you should have a good idea of other things your customers like to buy. And that should make it easy for…

Seven deadly web design sins

(Make sure YOUR site isn’t committing any of them!)

Whenever I go surfing on the Web, I’m always afraid of what I’ll find…

… Because I come across so many sites suffering from DEADLY design sins, I want to stab out my eyes with a pen!

Think I’m being dramatic? Maybe just a bit… but these fatal errors are guaranteed to be killing the sites’ conversion rates — and I just want to grab the site owners by the shoulder and tell them, "It doesn’t have to BE this way!!!"

So today, I’d like to tell YOU about the top "seven deadly design sins" —…

What’s the best thing to sell online?

Every week, I get dozens of emails asking me the exact same question: "Derek, help! What should I sell online?"

Now, I’m not going to tell you exactly what product you should sell to make great money on the Internet.

(After all, if I told the thousands of you who read this blog to start selling "Product X," then you’d be facing quite a lot of competition, wouldn’t you???)

But what I will do is tell you exactly what TYPE of product you should be selling, if you want to reap the greatest profits from all your online efforts.

And that type of product…

“Start a blog?! But what on Earth will I write about?”

Starting your own blog is, quite simply, a fabulous idea for your business. Not only does it help you add a personal face to your business, it’s also a GREAT way to get free traffic from Google and the other search engines.

(Because there’s nothing they like more then fresh, original, and frequently updated content!)

However, when I tell my students they need to start their own blog, they often look at me like I’m crazy.

"But I’m not a writer!" they cry. "What on earth could I possibly write about that would interest my visitors?"

The good news is,…

The truth about long salescopy

If you’ve known me for any length of time, then you know that I am an avid supporter of using long sales letters (10 to 20 pages… or even more!) to promote your products online.

Of course, everyone’s entitled to their opinion, but people who dismiss long salesletters because they "contain too much hyperbole"… "they’re too salesy"… or "they’re just too long!"… are missing the point.

A well-written long salesletter is the ONLY thing that can make up for the lack of face-to-face sales time between you and your online customer.

Think about it: If you sell your product from an offline store, you…