Running an online business means that you will have business expenses just as in any other type of business. Often those starting online businesses don’t have as much start-up capital as someone starting an offline business, and that’s part of why they chose the online route. To them, there are times when every penny counts.

Here are three quick and easy ways to save a few pennies and free up some fund that you may be able to reinvest back into growing your business.

1) Use Skype for your long-distance telephone needs.

Skype is an Internet-based telephone service that is owned by the same people who own Ebay and Paypal. That tells you that this company has serious backing, and will be around for a long time.

Skype allows you to download a simple piece of free software, and then call anyone anywhere in the world that has an internet connection, and has also installed the free Skype software on their computer. You simply use a microphone plugged into your computer and listen over the speakers or a headset.

For just pennies per minute you can also use the enhanced Skype services that allow you to make calls from Skype to regular “landlines” or to receive calls on your computer from regular phones. As an example, I recently made an 80-minute phone call from my hotel room in Singapore to the U.S. for under $2.

This call would have probably costs me several hundred dollars had I used the hotels phone system and paid their exorbitant service charges. You can get all of the details on downloading, installing
and using Skype from their website at: http://www.kqzyfj.com/click-2231139-10386654

2) Use Self Promotion.com to semi-automatically submit your websites to all of the major search engines and important directories.

This free service speeds up the process of site submission, allows you to store your data and periodically resubmit, and provides direct links to the proper pages on the search engines (included the ones that have gone to paid-only inclusion).

This service is free, but when you make a small donation to help fund the site, you get access to a fantastic suite of bonus tools. I’ve found the extra tools a real time-saver.

You can get all of the details at Self-Promotion.com

3) Pay for your business purchases with a Paypal debit card.

If you are in a location where you can qualify for and use a Paypal account and debit card, use it for you business purchases. Certain purchases qualify for a cash-back credit.

On large purchases such as computers, pay-per-click advertising, and airline tickets, this can quickly add up.

Since many online customers do have Paypal accounts and prefer paying for purchases using those accounts, you should offer that as a payment option. By paying for your purchases with your Paypal debit card, you get a little rebate on your purchases.

To get all of the details and sign up for a Papal account visit:

https://www.paypal.com/us/mrb/pal=GTQ2ANFJTKDNG

Those are just three quick, easy to implement methods of saving some money in your online business. If your business is just getting started those little savings, reinvested in your business, could be what saves your businesses from failure!

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Willie Crawford has taught thousands how to build successful online businesses since late-1996. His membership site contains over 40 interviews of leading online marketers sharing their views on “How To Break Into The Internet Marketing Inner Circle.”

You can access those powerful and shocking interviews at: http://www.ez4u2gowebbusiness.com/TIMIC.htm

Click Here To JV With Others

Let’s face it, many people find article writing quite a painful experience and often put it off rather than knuckle down and get on with it.  Sometimes it’s not the thought of actually writing the article, it’s about the ‘how to do it correctly’ and then once this has been achieved, the thought of  ‘how to submit it to all the various article submission sites as quickly as possible’ rears its’ ugly head.  In fact you could get a headache just thinking about it!

These thoughts have resulted in many a stagnant blog yet if these same blogs could be revitalised, they could be sold!  Can you imagine the money you could generate in just a few weeks by giving these old blogs or even new ones some juice and then selling them on?

I’ve got good news for you and that is, FREE article writing information on how you can do article writing the right way!

Read on to learn how Willie Crawford does it …  after all, why would you not follow the example of someone who is successful in the internet marketing arena for many years.

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My Super-Effective Article Writing Formula Copyright 2009 Willie Crawford

Here’s the formula that I use to quickly write informative articles that get results. For many of the articles that I write my goal is to get visitors to a website where they take some action related to the topic of the article. Often the action that they take is to buy some product that I recommend.

Here is the formula that I use to write articles almost in an assembly line fashion. The reason that I write so many articles is that in some niches you need dozens, even hundreds of articles, to break through the clutter.

I begin with keyword research. You want to know what keyword phrases your ideal customers are using when searching online. They come online searching for solutions to their problems, and when they come across your articles offering a solution, they become raving fans.

To do keyword research, I often use the “Google External Keyword Tool.”   You can find it by googling that term. This tool shows you how many searches are made on a given term in a month, plus how many webpages there are out there already targeting that phrase. The tool also suggests related terms that you might want to target. You can use this tool to compile a list of suitable keywords and then download your research results in an Excel spreadsheet.

In looking at keywords, what you’re trying to identify,  in addition to search volume, is “What problems are these searchers try to solve.” People come online looking for solutions to their problems. You identify those problems and then let them know (via your articles) that you have the perfect solution.

In crafting my article titles, I use my keywords but also work in a promised benefit. My titles promise to show them the solution to a nagging problem. When they see that title listed in the search engines, this is what entices them toclick through to your target site.

In crafting the body of my articles, I use the “problem, agitate, solution” formula. I describe the problem to letthe reader know that I understand their problems. I then go into excruciating details explaining the problem, and how it’s not going to get any better unless they do something about it. Finally, I point out the obvious solution, which is my recommended product.

Sometimes I only point them to a website to read more about the problem. On that website, they’ll also find my recommended solution. This is a less-threatening, soft-sell approach.

When I do my keyword research, I sometimes identify hundreds of related keywords that are being searched on a lot. At the same time, I identify several different painful problems (or variations of the same problem). This is what allows me to write articles in almost an assembly line fashion.

After the articles are written, I use an automated submission service to submit them to the top article directories. I use automated submissions because otherwise I’d spend countless hours submitting each article (not a very good use of our time).

In the resource box of these articles, I point readers to a target site. Where permitted I use anchor text in the links in these resource boxes. That anchor text is generally the keyword that I’m targeting (the same keyword that I used in my title).

I also post these articles to my blogs or maybe to a static page on one of my sites.

Since I like to leverage my time, I also turn many of my articles into videos, and podcasts. I generally create the videos by putting the main points of the articles on PowerPoint slides. Then I read the article as I go through the slides – recording then using Camtasia (screen capture software).

Alternatively, I sometimes simply turn the text of an article into a PDF. Then I scroll down my computer screen reading the article, and again, recording it using Camtasia.

To create the podcast you can use recording software probably already on your computer, or you can download one many free pieces of software such as Audacity.  Simply read the article as you record it. I generally save it as an MP3.

Submit the videos to video sharing sites, and submit the audio to podcast sites. I use an automated submission service for this, submitting to numerous sites!

Here’s one final tactic that I use to get my articles to rank higher for a target keyword and get noticed more readily in the search engines. I look for ways to create external links pointing to my article in one location – generally my main blog. I do this by bookmarking the blog post that contains the article.   This is perhaps the easiest way to give the article a search engine boost.

There you have it, my super-effective article writing formula. It generates a steady stream of high quality website traffic for me, and a steady stream of orders too. Feel free to use it.

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Willie Crawford has been marketing online for 13 years, and used article marketing most of that time (writing over 1500 articles). His favorite tools for automatically distributing his articles, videos, podcasts, and press releases is the automated submission site: http://EasyPushButtonTraffic.com

Thank’s to Willie Crawford for this article, I’m off now to revamp my article writing and make sure I follow it up with the easy and lazy way of doing article submission.

Discover the easy ways to earn $100 a day

$100 a day from working online may not sound a lot of money to some people but, on the other hand, it pays for all the household bills for many millions of people around the world, especially in this time of living in a recession.

Ask yourself right now …

What could you do with that money?

Pay your mortgage, your car payment, put food on the table and also have some treats?  Get rid of your credit card debt?  I’m pretty sure you could do a lot with it.

The downloadable ebook,  ‘20 Ways To Make $100 A Day‘ has been around for approximately two years now.

Had you found it when it first came out, and followed just one of the 20 chapters on the easy ways to generate $100 a day, what a difference your life would be right now?

I know exactly what’s in this eBook because I wrote one of the chapters, the ‘Offline to Online‘ chapter.  The other 19 chapters were written by very experienced internet marketers.

Can you imagine how many years of experience that actually totals?    What knowledge?

Let’s not forget the master of the plan, Willie Crawford!

If you haven’t heard of Willie Crawford, then you should check him out – because you’ll be pleasantly surprised at what you’ll learn about this … very genuine internet marketing expert.

It was he, who instigated this project within the TIMIC – The Internet Marketing Inner Circle

(By the way, in case you don’t know, TIMIC is a private forum for Joint Venture Contacts and if you are interested in joint ventures, click the above link to find out more.)

Willie decided to put the eBook project into action, after constantly seeing the following question being asked in a public forum …    “How do you make $100 a day on the internet?”