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Three Winners of the 2009 Rainmaker of the Year awards have been selected and profiled in Originate! magazine. They offer the strongest role models to other lawyers in effective business development and marketing, and their stories show the tactics and techniques that make them successful.

It’s the season for gift giving and getting prepared for next year, but most lawyers do the same old thing…sending out holiday cards or attending more holiday parties. What else they could be doing is the subject of this month’s lead article in Originate!, the premiere online newsletter on business development for attorneys. This article [...]

With the economy still struggling, lawyers need to make sure that the marketing investments they make will pay off in hard results. What will give them a payback and what won’t is the subject of this month’s lead article by Steve Barrett in Originate!, the premiere online newsletter on business development for attorneys. www.pbdi.org/originate

Have you ever thought about starting your own blogging site to make money? Many people do think of this, but not a lot actually act upon the thought. Blogging is fast becoming a profitable way to make extra money. In fact, many successful bloggers make a profit well into the six figures.

While the offline world allows decision making to happen at a slower, more introspective speed, the online world lends advantage to those who can keep up with the market, and make their decisions preemptively in order to maximise the changing dynamics of the internet.

Will my pages succeed? Will I make money? Is this something that has long term potential? The answer is yes, but only when you follow the right systems and master the right amount of discipline to allow you to climb to the top.

While the first section was focused less on the practical side of Clickbank, and much more so on the theoretical side, this section is based around the practical systems and optimisations that any affiliate marketer can use to make sure that their Clickbank income stream becomes as optimised, and input-light as it possibly can. These tips won’t bring you to an autopilot income straight away, however they’re necessary steps for anyone looking to create one for the long term.

With such a massive amount of marketers and internet entrepreneurs looking to create an online business that scales around their lifestyle, it’s becoming fundamental for even the simplest business to be able to be outsourced, automated, or optimised to the point where it requires a tiny time upkeep. While this type of business leaves out [...]

Publishing articles is still by far the best way to get good search engine rankings and drive lots of quality traffic to your sites! All without spending an arm and a leg.

There’s one big problem with article writing, though…

It all starts when some well-meaning (yet misdirected) person encourages a budding internet entrepreneur to “start in a niche they know a lot about”, or base their business around “something they’re passionate about”…

As horrible as it may sound – they’ve unknowingly sent the hopeful entrepreneur down a path of false expectations, poor results and eventually – failure.