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Welcome to the online version of "How to Grow Your Small Business Rapidly Online". On this site, you can read the full text of "How to grow Your Small Business Rapidly Online". This book provides in-depth advice on how to take your small business online, including internet marketing strategies and conducting market research online. You can sign up for our newsletter, or download the PDF version of the ebook from the online store.

About the Author

Jim Green is the author of the bestselling Starting Your Own Business also published by How To Books, and has started and successfully run more than one small business. He is based in Glasgow.

Chapter List

  1. Preface
  2. Using The Internet For The Purpose For Which It Was Devised Can You Imagine A Worse Case Scenario Than This?; What Possible Use Is The Internet In These Circumstances?; Use The Web For The Purpose For Which It Was Devised; Making The Internet Work For Your Small Business; So, How Do You Make Online Marketing Work F
  3. Why Even The Most Unlikely Small Enterprises Can Prosper Online Using Self-Help To Alleviate Dire Circumstances; Getting Rid Of The Negatives Before Tackling The Positives; Going Online: First To Survive, Then To Grow; Ossie’s Internet Challenge; Ossie’s Online Activity; Ossie’s Core Objective; What Ossie Does Offline
  4. Why The Internet Is Tailor-Made For Small Business 21 Good Reasons To Grow Your Small Enterprise With Online Marketing; Why You Still Need A Website Even If You Do All Your Business Offline; Why The Internet Is Such A Dynamic Marketing Tool;
  5. How To Convert Your Local Business Into A Global Concern Benefiting From The Global Dual Knock-On Effect; Here’s How To Determine Whether You Qualify; Evaluating Intellectual Properties For Online Adaptation; Confirming What You Think You Know About Your Intellectual Property; Using Online Research To Add To You
  6. The Power Of Recognition As An Expert In Your Niche Imparting Information That Provides Solutions; Why Expert Status Is More Attainable Online Than Offline; The Tools You Will Need To Mark Yourself As An Expert In Your Niche; Powering Up The Tools With Your Expertise; Providing Solutions To Problems;
  7. How To Become Famous Online As A Small Business Owner Online Fame Promotes Your Produce And Its ‘secrecy’ Keeps You Secure; How To Capitalise On The Amazing Power Of Your Own Name; How To Write Articles That Sizzle, Trigger Sales, And Increase Your Online Fame; How To Swamp The Web With Your Articles; How To
  8. Creating Your Plan Of Action For The Internet Words Of Caution Before You Start On Your Plan; Stick With The Plan; Don’t Chop And Change; Questions You Will Want To Ask Of Yourself; Mission Statement; Staying Local Or Going Global; Your Website; Your Domain Name; Promoting Your Website Online And Offl
  9. Why Marketing Online Is Fast, Easy And Stress-Free 10 Inbuilt Advantages To Marketing Small Business Online; Cutting Your Start-Up Costs To The Bone; Choose Your Own Hours; Around The Clock Order-Taking; The Internet Ignores Public Holidays And Nevertakes A Holiday; How Your Local Virtual Store Reaches Out
  10. Why Niche Marketing Works Best For Small Business What You Must Do Before You Start; Don’t Try To Sell Everything To Everyone; Don’t Risk Failure Before You Start; Information Outstrips All Other E-Commerce Niche Purchasing Options; The Secret Of Success; People Buy What They Want, Not What They Need; How
  11. Why Your Domain Name Must Reflect Your Enterprise The Catalyst That Drives The Engine; Fitness For Purpose; No Finesse Required; Exception To The Rule; Do’s And Don’ts For Choosing Your Own Domain Name;
  12. Building A Website Tailored To Your Precise Needs Mini-V. Maxi-Websites; The Perfect Vehicle For Small Business Online Marketing; Sales Letters Styled In The Advertorial Format; The Approach Isn’t New; It Has Been Worked Successfully For Over 200 Years; How To Create The Components For Your Virtual Sales
  13. Creating Content-Rich Pages To Lure The ‘spiders’ So You Reckon All This Is Beyond You?; You Are An Experienced Writer But You Don’t Give Yourself Credit For It; Techniques That Work Offline Work Equally Well Online; Vital Factors That Point The Way To Good Web Writing; Encouraging Interaction With Your W
  14. How To Write Sales Copy That Sizzles Follow The Guidelines To Produce Your Own Sizzling Sales Letters; Imagine You Are A Market Trader Addressing Your Audience; You Can Develop Dozens Of Products Using This Concept;
  15. Why Power Keywords Are Central To Successful Promotion Watch Your Traffic Skyrocket When You Target The Right Keywords; What People Do When They Do A Search Online; Think As You Think Your Customers Would; What Are People Searching For?; Why Homing In On Niche Keywords Produces Instant Results; How Keyword Pow
  16. How To Avoid Search Engine Positioning Mistakes Optimising The Website For Inappropriate Keywords; Overloading The Meta Tag With Keywords; Replicating The Same Keywords Over And Over Again; Using The Hidden Text Technique; Creating Pages With An Over-Abundance Of Graphics And Marginal Text; Incorporatin
  17. Snaring The Spiders To Generate Top Ten Rankings On Demand It Works For Me And It Will Work For You; The Technique – Yours To Copy – Yours To Keep; How It Works In Practice; Url; Follow This Tried And Tested Technique And You Will Hit The High Spots;
  18. Creating Site Maps To Feed The Spiders
  19. Flooding Your Site With Low And No-Cost Traffic Investing In The Pay-Per-Click Search Engines; Participating In Newsgroups, Forums, Mailing Lists; Exchanging Links With Other Websites; Creating Articles For Newsletters And Magazines; Using Cgi Traffic Plug-Ins On Your Website; Triggering Interest With F
  20. Converting Your Expertise Into Digital Produce How To Create Your Own Digital Information Produce; Choice Of Formatting Systems; Compiler For Exe Production; Compiler Options For Pdf Production; How To Create Virtual Book Covers Automatically; Why It Is Important To Have A Cover For Your Information Pr
  21. Using The Amazing Authority Of Zero Cost Articles To Lure Visitors Why All Successful E-Entrepreneurs Use Articles To Attract Visitors; How To Make A Start; Writing Your First Article For General Distribution; The Worst Thing That Can Happen With Every Article You Publish; Where To Submit Your Article Output; 128 Article
  22. The Power Of Linking To Other Websites Easy Zero Cost Steps For Building Link Popularity; How Does Your Site Get Those Coveted Inbound Links?; Preparing Your Site First Before You Start Looking For Links; Budgeting Time For Link Building; Establishing Realistic Linking Goals; Be Selective About
  23. The Changing Face Of Email Marketing The Controversy Surrounding Bulk Email; There Is A Better, Legitimate Way: Opt-In Email; Common Excuses For Not Implementing Opt-In Email; 12 Common Email Mistakes You Must Avoid At All Costs; 12 Careless Practices That Sabotage Email Marketing; Five Ways
  24. Why You Must Create Your Own Newsletter The Goals All Newsletter Publishers Strive To Achieve; Core Incentive To Submit Your Newsletter To The Directories; Secrets That Convert Your Newsletter Into A Cash Machine;
  25. The Influence Of List Building In Attracting Prospects Incentives;
  26. Create Your Own Blog And Send Business Messages To The World Publish Your Thoughts; Get Feedback; Post Photos; Go Mobile; Getting Started;
  27. What Rss Is And What It Can Do For You Brand New, Untapped Marketing Channel; What It Means For You; Eliminate The Spam Filter Nuisance; What Can You Do?; Does It Sound Too Good To Be True?; The Majority Of The Online Marketers Have Never Heard Of Rss; Here’s What Rss Can Do For You In A Nutshe
  28. Let Google Adsense Add To Your Online Income Discover Your Site’s Full Revenue Potential; Precisely Targeted To Your Website Content; Maximise Revenue Potential By Displaying Google Ads On Your Website; Becoming An Adsense Publisher Is Simple; Adsense Takes The Sting Out Of Online Advertising; From L
  29. Converting Prospects Into Customers People Won’t Buy From You If You Make Any Of These Mistakes; Be Aware Of The Golden Rule Of Selling Online;
  30. How To Set Up An Online Payment System Reviewing The Leading Payment Processors; Opting For Either Of The Two Most Favoured Facilities; Major Drawback And How To Overcome It;
  31. Giving Stuff Away For Free To Attract Visitors Did My Experiment Work?;
  32. Test Marketing Your Online Activities Are You Investing Or Gambling In Your Online Marketing?; How Much Does Your Website Make Per Visitor?; Establishing How Much To Spend On Website Visitors; Computing Your Income And Unique Visitors; Installing A Website Tracking System; Measuring Web Page E
  33. How To Analyse Virtual Footfall To Improve Your Website Why Is It Important To Monitor Your Visitors?; The Statistics Report Contains All You Need For Analysis;
  34. Servicing Your Customers Online Why The Internet Presents An Avenue Of Opportunity; It’s Called ‘e-Service’; 8 Secrets For Successful E-Service; Why It Pays To Survey Your Website Visitors;
  35. What Online Marketing Cannot Do For You Marketing Can’t Make You An Overnight Success; Marketing Is Not About Doing Something Once And Forgetting About It; Marketing Can’t Fix A Bad Experience; Marketing Can’t Repair A Flawed Business; Marketing Can’t Make People Buy Things They Don’t Want Or Ca
  36. Channeling Your Online Fame Into Offline Activity Guesting At Seminars; Guesting In Broadcast Media;
  37. Getting It All Together To Grow Your Small Business Rapidly Devising An Online Marketing Vehicle; Not Just A Website; Learning How Even The Smallest Enterprise Can Prosper Online; Why Online Marketing Is Tailor-Made For Small Business; Converting Your Local Business Into An International Concern; How To Become Ackn
 
 
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