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5 Ways To Avoid The Holiday Slowdown

By Charlie Cook   |   December 10, 2009

Is it too late? Is December typically a slow month for sales for your business? Should you just sit back and wait for 2010 so you can get a fresh start?

This weekend I was working on my Christmas list. I was trying to come up with a few things for the family Secret Santa gift exchange. And what I discovered was that there were a lot of things I’d just forgotten about or put off purchasing and that my wish list had a lot on it. Of course it was mostly gear for cycling, skiing or sailing.

Whether or not your prospects are part of a Secret Santa gift exchange, giving and getting is in the air. Along with the holiday season comes the expectation that we’ll all get what we want during the December holidays. Read More »


For Members Only…

By Charlie Cook   |   December 9, 2009

Over the last ten years every time a client asked for a sample email, sample article, sample proposal, squeeze page, or any of a thousand different resources of mine, I’ve had to dig through my files and send it.

What a pain…

For the last few years I’ve know there was a better way and it involved Read More »


How To Get Your Share Of Growing Online Sales

By Charlie Cook   |   December 1, 2009

This past Black Friday, shoppers were online buying like crazy. In fact, retail sites saw an increase of 30% in sales over last year’s Black Friday.

Did you get your fair share of the pie? Do you see your sales increase too?

Unfortunately most of the people I hear from missed out. They had a lot of turkey for Thanksgiving and then, when they looked at their web sales they were flat or down. Here’s what Joe said. >> Read More

What Turkeys Can Tell You About Marketing

By Charlie Cook   |   November 24, 2009

Want more prospects hungry to buy? Find out what the noble Turkey knows about marketing and how he (or is it she) knows that get’s a whole country salivating to sit down for dinner.

Discover what Turkeys know about marketing  >> (Read More)


Ryan’s Candid Review of Creating Web Sites That Sell

By Charlie Cook   |   November 19, 2009

Here’s a video product review of our top selling course, the one used by Brian Tracy, Tom Hopkins, and other top marketers and thousands of web site owners just like you.  Watch the video. Read More »


3 Ways To Increase Online Sales

By Charlie Cook   |   November 17, 2009

“Our site gets 1300 visitors a week and we have a subscriber email list of 46,000 — but our sales have shrunk this past year. Last month we made less than $10,000 and revenues keep slipping. What are we doing wrong? What do we need to do get more people buying?”

— Jim from San Diego

Do you want your web site to bring in more sales, too? Read More »


How Quickly Is Your Website Gaining Traffic and Sales?

By Charlie Cook   |   November 17, 2009

Top Internet GurusOver the last few months, we’ve been using a new strategy to bring in more traffic to the site. According to Gurudaq, it’s paying off. Today MarketingForSuccess is the top internet gainer.

And while Gurudaq is an imperfect measure of success, it’s one more tool for evaluating performance. And whether you’re listed on Gurudaq or just use your Google Analytics to track your site’s performance, regularly measuring your website’s performance is a great way to motivate yourself to do even better.

And being on top, even for a day is a nice feeling, wouldn’t you agree.

– Charlie


What We Found

By Charlie Cook   |   November 15, 2009

Each fall for the last four years, my wife and I have taken a week’s vacation at our place in northern Vermont in October. And while we could sit around and watch the leaves change from our deck, my wife is always eager to get out and see new places.  This year we Read More »


How Does Your Website Score?

By Charlie Cook   |   November 13, 2009

Whether you’re an aspiring athlete or an ambitious online entrepreneur or business owner, there are two things you need to know to succeed.

First you need to know Read More »


How to Improve Email Response By 4200%

By Charlie Cook   |   November 10, 2009

Do you use email to market your business? Have you ever been frustrated by the lack of response. You write your email, send it out and then… nothing happens.

This past week in my MasterMind Group, Jay wanted to know how he could get a better response with his emails. Read More »