9 out of 10 professionals and small business owners have at least one book or information product inside their head, but lack the time and organizational skills to get it out into digital or print form.
You may cringe when you read this list of ten things keeping you from writing your book, because it rings too close to home for you. You may have already written a book or an e-book, or have come close to starting it. It’s hard, we know it, and we’ve been there too. But go …

Blogs are the hottest thing going these days when it comes to marketing on the Internet. A blog is a way of delivering your messages and article to clients. They are a like personal web sites, easy to create and far less expensive than traditional web sites.
Just when you thought you were mastering the tasks of ezines and newsletters, along comes blogging, and you have to ask yourself:
Do I really need a blog?
Isn’t an email ezine or newsletter doing the same thing?
Should I do both?
Are these two marketing tools going …

You’ve got your blog set up and you’ve started posting pithy, useful information that your niche market would benefit from and enjoy. Days go by, you keep publishing, but no one comments and your traffic stats are barely registering. What do you do?
Like any website you own, you must do some blog promotion to start driving traffic to your site. Here are 16 steps, in no particular order of importance, that you can start doing now to get traffic moving to your blog.
1. Set up a Bloglet subscription form on …

First, let’s make sure we’re all on the same page on what social bookmarking is. According to Wikipedia, social bookmarking is “an activity performed over a computer network that allows users to save and categorize a personal collection of bookmarks and share them with others.”
The basic concept behind social bookmarking, like all “Web 2.0″ features, is the power of user directed content. Social bookmarking is one way of organizing and categorizing information.
Unlike your own personal website bookmarks you create through your browser, other people have access to socially bookmarked sites. …

As your home base on the web, your website is the hub of your web presence. So, you’ll probably be putting some effort into making it look spiffy and driving lots of traffic to it.
Now the question is, once a visitor arrives, how easy it for them to find what they are looking for? In other words, is your website easy to use?
Here are some things you need to take a look at to make sure that your website is usable:
Is contact information no more than one click away from …