What is the entrepreneurial spirit? Do you have it and is it something that you may want? Some would say that having the entrepreneurial spirit is something that you are either born with or you are not. Yet others would argue that it’s something that does lie in all of us but it’s an event or person that you may witness that is the key to starting you on your way to being an entrepreneur.

No matter how it starts once you catch the bug to break out on a business venture of your own there can be no stopping you at that point. It’s the success stories that we all here in entrepreneurial circles that keep us all going looking for that formula to success that will work for us. Continue Reading »

It does not matter if you are new or seasoned pro to online sales market. We all have one goal in mind and that is to make the sale. But what about beyond that initial sale how do you maintain a good customer relationship with some one that you may never meet. Email marketing in case you have been living in a hole somewhere is the absolute key to keeping your customers happy and coming back for more.

So how do you do that starting out of course you can attempt to respond and keep up correspondence with your initial base of customers. You will however very quickly learn that this can be a time consuming and daunting task that will be detrimental to the success of your business venture.

Now if you have your own website more than likely the hosting company you are utilizing has “free email auto-responders”  but most of these are basically throw a way programs that are very simplistic with no instructions are customer support on how to tweak them to your special needs. You get what you pay for goes the old saying and auto-responders are a dime a dozen besides you are paying for the hosting service not the responders. Continue Reading »