http://www.jimkukral.com Small Business Consultant Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:34:57 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I was working out today and when I came back I checked my email and saw this. Dear jim kukral, new sale / lead was registered by our affiliate program. Sale details: Total cost: 164.00 Commission from this sale: 54.12 I made $54.12 during my workout, for doing nothing. When I teach students about this, it ... http://www.jimkukral.com/this-is-why-i-love-affiliate-marketing/ The other day I posted about how to do a successful Webinar. One of the things we didn't have time to cover in that podcast was passion, and how important it is for you to show it in your voice. I do an enormous amount of online teaching as well as ... http://www.jimkukral.com/passion/ If you're going to charge more for your product/service, then you better make sure you deliver more. I'm constantly amazed by how greedy business owners can be. They work so hard to build up a brand that people love, and when the first sign of success hits them, they scale ... http://www.jimkukral.com/greedfailure/ I just wrapped up a podcast with friend Greg Friese about Webinars. If you are at all interested in using Webinars to close more business or train or educate a group of people, a Webinar is for you. Download here. More specifically, you will learn: What software options to use for ... http://www.jimkukral.com/webinars/ I have a disclosure policy now, do you? Do you have one? If you don't, you may want to get one in place soon as the FTC will be tightening up the noose on bloggers coming on December 1st, 2009. It's funny, as an affiliate marketer and long-time blogger, I've learned ... http://www.jimkukral.com/disclosure/ This is a guest post from David Brier. His information is below. If you'd like to submit a guest post, click here. When I am not solving clients’ branding problems, I am planning the next delicious meal for my wife and myself. I make a mean (and ridiculously succulent) Tandoori chicken ... http://www.jimkukral.com/the-branding-lesson-i-learned-where-i-shop/ If you'd like to write a guest post for JimKukral.com I'd be happy to discuss it with you. I'm looking for original only content of course. Please contact me to submit your post. What kind of content am I looking for? Text, audio, video, you name it. I'd like it ... http://www.jimkukral.com/guest-posts-wanted/ I wrote the other day about how Aweber added a nice new form builder feature to their product. Read about that here. It got me thinking. Aweber gets it. They know that you have to continuously improve your product if you want to stay on top, and they know that you ... http://www.jimkukral.com/good-to-great-adding-features/ Here's a list of the resources and tools and blogs and, well, everything I love and recommend. Please enjoy. Web Tools & Resources Aweber Email Marketing Software - This is what I use to build email lists on all of my sites/blogs. A no-brainer, just buy it. Constant Contact - Build your business ... http://www.jimkukral.com/resources/ I'm a huge fan of Aweber, the service I use that collects emails for me and let's me do email marketing with ease. There are other out there you can use, but in my experience, Aweber is the only one that let's you do it all (except import emails but ... http://www.jimkukral.com/aweber-launches-form-builder/