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Self-Starters Weekly Tips
Monday July 1, 2002
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Welcome! Get ready for FREE and inexpensive ways to get your own business up and running on the internet! Whether you are already in business and looking to grow or improve, or just now starting your first online business... you're in for some great tips! Happy Monday ;)

INSIDE THIS ISSUE
1) Business Shareware & More
2) How to Create a Viral Marketing Ebook
3) Set Up Your Own Affiliate Program
4) A Marketing Book You Will LOVE!

You can now view tips from past issues online at:
http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com

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1) Business Shareware & More
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OpenOffice.org ...is both an open source product and a project. The product is a multi-platform office productivity suite. It includes desktop applications such as a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation manager and drawing program, with a user interface and feature set similar to that of other office suites. It also works transparently with a variety of file formats, including those of MS Office. Available in 27 languages. It runs on Windows, Linux (including PPC Linux) and Solaris. http://www.openoffice.org/

(IN SIMPLE TERMS: This is a FREE software program similar to Microsoft Office, and you can open MS Office documents... and save your files in MS Office format!)

Business Letters
The SBA contains a collection of eight .zip files which contain 600 sample business letters for almost any kind of business correspondence. http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov/shareware/indexalt.html#run

Sample Business Agreements
http://www.morebusiness.com/templates_worksheets/samples/

Press Release Templates & Examples
http://www.morebusiness.com/templates_worksheets/press/

Bplans.com, created by Palo Alto Software, offers thousands of pages of free sample plans, planning tools, and expert advice to help you start and run your business. http://www.bplans.com

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2) How to Create a Viral Marketing Ebook
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Ebooks can provide the Internet marketer one of the best promotional tools online. With its vast variety of uses, just one quality ebook development and distribution can produce an on going viral marketing tool that will work 24 hours a day, seven days a week and multiply itself by leaps and bounds. Your ebook can literally be viewed by millions simply by giving it away.

View this article in its entirety by clicking on the link below:
http://www.webservicenetwork.com/articles/ViralMarketingEbook.htm

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3) Set Up Your Own Affiliate Program
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If you have a product or service, starting your own Affiliate Program is a great marketing tool! Recruit hundreds, or even thousands, of salespeople to promote your product/service!

Here are a few resources to get you started:

'The Practical Guide to Creating and Managing a Profitable Affiliate Program'.
http://affiliatetoolkit.com/affiliateannounce/report.htm
This FREE five part email series provides ideas and tips to help you build your affiliate program including:
-Planning Your Program
-Building Your Team Of Affiliates
-Keeping Your Affiliates Loyal
-Which Links Attract The Most Click Throughs?
-Silly Mistakes Affiliate Merchants Make
-Free Targeted Advertising For Your Affiliate Program
-Further Reading & Resources

My personal recommendation for an inexpensive and easy-to-install Affiliate Program Script is Your Affiliates by SunnyScript ($59): http://www.sunnyscript.com/item1.htm (Requirements: Unix powered server or hosting solution, Perl 5 or higher with standard CGI module installed)

Also see: Affiliate Program Management Tools & Resources
http://www.affiliateprogrammanagement.com/

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4) A Marketing Book You Will LOVE!
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I recently found one of my favorite clients reading this book, and asked his opinion on it... He gave an excellent review of the content and the results from implementing the knowledge (he currently has 32,000 opt-in subscribers and had 500,201 hits for the month of June... 105,271 hits for the month of May). Check it out!

101 Ways to Boost Your Web Traffic: Internet Promotion Made Easier, 2nd Edition
by Thomas Wong

Another great book to take a look at:
Home-Based Newsletter Publishing (As low as $5.95 {used} from Amazon.com!)

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FINAL NOTE
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It is my personal mission to bring you an assortment of resources for your internet business each week in an easy-to-use format. Most of the resources found in each issue are a result of years of research that I have done for my own internet business and others, and are shared with you with my positive recommendation. You can view tips from past issues online at http://www.selfstartersweeklytips.com. As always, feel free to share this issue with your friends or colleagues!

~ HAPPY MONDAY ~
Lynn Terry, Editor & Owner
Lynn@WebServiceNetwork.com
Web Service Network
http://www.WebServiceNetwork.com

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