2. Make it easy to record basic message information. You can have Contact Mgr. software running in background. The phone rings, answer and click on your icon to bring it up. Start making notes on who, when, where, etc. for follow-up. Have plenty of spare printer cartridge ink or refills. Don't run out of ink. You may need a hardcopy of something immediately.

3. Have an organized system for your goals - Event Control. Once written, your daily goal system should be prioritized. If you have to delegate, mark to whom and put a due date on it. A misunderstood topic itself, it deserves special attention. For more info, mailto:Autobot@HomeBizNet.nu?subject=goals

4. Make good use of customer information for follow-up. Utilize your Email along with your Contact Mgr. software. Follow-up is key to sales, customer service and backend sales. Keep good info on each of your clients. This information should be kept strictly confidential and handy. Knowing all about your clients' business will make you more effective on phone. (Hi Jim, how is that Project A marketing campaign coming along?) For more info visit http://post-master.net/rs/hbn

5. Price your services competitively, keeping in mind your own monthly expenses. Add your expenses up on an annual basis like basic monthly phone charges, equipment, office supplies and divide total by 12 to determine a monthly overhead cost. Obviously, revenue you generate must exceed this number each month to make a profit.

6. Contract for your services formally. Put together a standard contract for both you and your client to sign. The "Business" section of your local library will probably have some standard contract forms that you can amend for your use. We utilize Legal Forms Software. Forms are valid in all 50 states. The contract should have a minimum length to it, like 6 or 12 months with options to renew it at expiration. You need to plan on a certain amount of business and income and you can't do that without a minimum service contract length.

But where do you start with mini-sites? And how do make sure that your mini-site is a success time after time? (If you're going to create one mini-site you may as well create ten!)

Simple. Follow these 5 steps to success:

Step 1) Choose High-Demand Low-Supply Keywords Step 2) Find A Good Affiliate Program Step 3) Build A Mini-Site That Gets The Sale Step 4) Promote Your Mini-Site Step 5) Measure Results

Let me explain...

Step 1) Choose High-Demand Low-Supply Keywords ==============================================

Quite simply this means discovering niche keywords; popular keywords with little or no competing websites. Wordtracker, an outstanding webmaster tool, does exactly this for you, free.

Wordtracker's free top 500 keyword report shows 500 most popular search terms on web. Use suitable keywords from this report, or choose your own keywords and feed them into Wordtracker. Wordtracker then generates many similar keyword combinations and quite literally tells you chances of achieving search engine success with those keywords.

Wordtracker's free trial will probably be good enough for most mini-site owners' needs:

- http://www.wordtracker.com

(To find out more about high-demand, low-supply keywords visit: - http://www.AnyoneCanSellOnline.com/learn-more.shtml )

Step 2) Find A Good Affiliate Program =====================================

What makes a good affiliate or associate program? Is it a program with high commission rates, or lifetime commissions? Is it a program based around a product that people *actually* want to buy? Is a good affiliate program simply one that has a high visitors-into-customers conversion rate (Amazon.com comes to mind, here!). Or does affiliate program just need to provide excellent tracking and reporting?

A good affiliate program may have some, if not all, of qualities mentioned above. The following sites can help determine a good affiliate program for YOU, too:

- http://www.AssociatePrograms.com - http://www.affiliates4u.co.uk - http://www.LifetimeCommissions.com - http://www.shoptour.co.uk/webmaster-profit/

(The first two sites both have affiliate forums, where you can find out what others currently think of as good (and bad) affiliate programs. (Never be afraid to ask for advice.))

Or, a good affiliate program may simply be determined by answering this question: would YOU buy products from site?

If you're really keen to know more about what makes a good affiliate program, then I highly recommend Dr Ken Evoy's FREE 5- day Affiliate Masters e-mail course. This intensive course shows you what to look for in a good affiliate program, how to pre-sell and so much more. To take course send a blank e-mail

- mailto:tamsshopping101@sitesell.net

Step 3) Build A Mini-Site That Gets The Sale ===========================================

Firstly, it's important that you design a clean and easy-to-use website. It's vital that links work on your site, that pages load quickly and view correctly in a variety of browser versions; and, there should be no spelling mistakes! Good web- authoring tools like Dreamweaver allow you to check these things before your mini-site goes live; otherwise use Netmechanic once your site is up:

- http://www.macromedia.com/dreamweaver/ - http://www.netmechanic.com

And here's a beautifully-designed web-site that can also help, providing free website design advice:

- http://www.jessett.com

You must choose your words (website copy) carefully, too; use often-cited acronym AIDA in crafting your copy - Attention, Interest, Desire, Action. Also, there are many online resources that can help you build a website that sells. Use one of them! Here are a couple of resources I recommend:

- http://myss.sitesell.com - http://www.minisiteprofits.com

If you really want to understand importance of words in selling - including a better explanation of AIDA - I'd recommend you take free 5-Day NetWriting Masters email course! To take course send a blank e-mail

- mailto:twmsshopping101@sitesell.net

Step 4) Promote Your Website ============================