If you’ve thought about starting your own business, or you have one that has yet to take off, make sure you read this post ’til the end!

Tomorrow, I’ll be doing a business building webinar (Thursday, September 3rd) at 5:30 PM titled “The Top 5 Startup Questions Ever Answered.”

It’s going to be question and answer style – half presentation, half one-on-one consulting with a client of mine.

The webinar will be free for everyone who signs up.  If you miss it, I’ll post the replay for 24 hours :0)

• What is the most effective way to market services to potential clients? And in order to do this, what do I need to find out first?
• How can I ’sell’ myself to potential clients when I’m new in the industry and I don’t have a lot of experience?
• What challenges may I face when starting my own business?
• What are some of the big no-no’s when owning my own business?
• What should I be doing to stay ahead of my competition?

Make sure you sign up before this thing gets too crowded!

Sign up –>> Top 5 Business Building Questions Ever Asked Webinar.

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Don’t get me wrong – I love Freshbooks.com.  But, I always have an internal argument whenever I sign up for a web app because I never really know where the data is!

That data, if you run an online business, is your absolute most valuable asset.

The other day, I found a free, online invoice system that I wanted to share with you.  It’s an open source web application meant to help manage and create invoices in a simple, straightforward way.

The invoice system really is nice.  As of right now, it doesn’t integrate with Paypal, so it won’t let you send one-click-and-pay invoices to your clients, but hopefully a developer will get it straightened out soon!

via siwapp – Free Online Invoice System.

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About three weeks ago, I learned about a way to increase sales through a website by 13% with relatively no effort.  Now, obviously, when I heard that I was like, “Gimme a break!”  I work my ass off to write good sales copy and you can throw a button on the page and increase sales?!

So now, three weeks later, I though I’d let you in on the secret too (plus give you a link to the freeware I’m using!)

The secret is live help or online customer service.  You’ve probably seen it if you go to VerizonWireless.com to pay your cell phone bill or some of the upper end sales pages online.

By simply putting the “Live Support” button on one of my niche websites, conversions went up a staggering 24%.

Now, just so we’re all on the same page, there have been a few people that clicked it.  6 to be exact.  4 of those have been, “Oh!  There is someone on the other end of this chat window” type conversations.  But for an increase of 24% overall, I’ll take it!

Here’s the link to the live help software I’m using…  There are open source, server side apps out there like HelpCenterLive, but I find this app to be pretty solid.

LiveZilla – Freeware Live Help

If you know of any other server side live help applications out there, let me know!  All the ones I tried seemed ugly and outdated, but who knows.  Maybe I’m missing the good ones…

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