With commercial banks dead in the water these days, and the government trying to play capitalist, it seems to me that private funding is one of the more viable means  of of securing capital for your business.  I am asking[...]

Would you like to know how you can literally market while you sleep?  No matter what we are doing day or night, our systems and those we design for our clients enable us to grow our list of contacts, organize[...]

It’s almost cliche because we’ve heard it so many times. “Fail to plan. Plan to fail.” When I meet entrepreneurs and professionals I am always curious to know what they want for their business. The most common answer is, “I[...]

“Great marketing is a reflection of your attitude toward success in business. If your attitude stinks your marketing probably stinks too. Entrepreneurs with winning attitudes are always enhancing their marketing and striving for better results. So it’s not about what[...]

To paraphrase the quote of interest, internet marketing strategy is chess, not checkers…. All day long we talk to people who are baffled they are not winning the top search engine placement game. Generally, these individuals are playing by the wrong rules, or their strategy does address all the moving parts. [...]

I am taking a break for the holiday weekend and hope our fellow entrepreneurs are doing the same. It’s a great time of year to reflect on the many blessings we enjoy as Americans. As I was pedaling back from[...]

We will soon launch a free weekly business coaching call each week for entrepreneurs who are starting, funding and growing successful businesses. We would like your comments on the topics that would be of most interest. Thanks for your thoughts[...]

Last week I wrote about the importance of creating a website that will help you generate leads. This includes having a professional design, contact information such as your company phone number being highly visible, and offering information of highly perceived[...]

An old sales trainer of mine used to teach his pupils to “Show the chain. Sell the link.” The phrase means that rather than trying to get people to make a major commitment early on, and rather than keeping people in the dark about where you intend to take them, you should tell people the process and get them to commit to just to the first step. [...]

Hopefully your blog is integrated to your website. When our professional web design team plans a site, we have recommended to our clients that they integrate their blog so they build organic traffic to their site. In the context of[...]

For some people we’ve been talking to recently, the bottleneck in growing their business is not finding people who are willing to buy what they sell, but who are willing to sell what they buy. For example, one person needs to find… [...]

If you haven’t heard anything about Twitter you’re probably emerging from a long vacation on another planet. Most of us have watched the Twitter craze grow and I have to admit we jumped on the band wagon. Every day I[...]

Not every business needs to leverage the internet to be successful. But with millions of potential customers using search engines, social networks, and forums, it makes sense to know how it all works. Here is the first step in learning[...]

I think most entrepreneurs want smaller government. But I think most entrepreneurs also want a society that takes care of its poor, elderly, handicapped, and people with other disadvantages. In order to make that happen without compulsory taxation, we need to volunteer our time to the causes we believe in. Serve.gov is a powerful platform and community for making this happen. [...]

This past week has been a busy one for us here. For my part, I analyzed a lot of sites and came across several new competitors. One competitor has made over 700 sites, almost all of them for a particular industry. They have also won multiple awards for web design. Why? As near as I can tell, it’s because the pictures are very nice and they move around. Any innovations with navigation? No. Any innovations… [...]

Online Community Geared to Helping Entrepreneurs Network and Prosper SCOTTSDALE, ARIZONA, JUNE 18, 2009 Clifford Jones, founder of WealthNet Partners, LLC, recently launched a new community for entrepreneurs on the social networking site Linkedin.WealthNet Partners, LLC is a Scottsdale, Arizona-based[...]

This is one of my favorite questions to ask entrepreneurs. I am on my way to meet a new prospective client. And I’ll ask him, “What’s holding you back from growing your business?” The WealthNet community of entrepreneurs and professionals[...]

One of my favorite questions for entrepreneurs I meet is, “What’s really holding you back from closing more sales to grow your business in the next 90 days?” The answer to this question tells me a lot about the mindset[...]

This post might be a bit more technical than usual, but it serves several purposes. First, it showcases an example of some of the technical things we keep up on in our effort to give our clients top search engine placement. Second, it shows how our competitors miss the boat. Third it has some practical implications for how you should build your own website and how you should seek links on other sites. [...]

I’ve been using Customer Relationship Management (CRM) software since the DOS days. Yeah, I’ve been around for a while. From the beginning I saw CRM applications as leverage to grow my business. And for the most part, the investments have[...]