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Archive for January, 2008

Even In A Recession, Pet Owners Still Spend $$$

By Doug Bertram • Jan 30th, 2008 • Category: Pet Business Marketing, Pet Business News

Here’s a PR Newswire story that shows pet owners indicate they would cut back on luxury items to maintain their level of care of their furry friends.

Check out the bottom of the story - you can call and get the full survey results…



Create Content to Drive Sales

By Doug Bertram • Jan 29th, 2008 • Category: Featured Post

I reviewed a site last week for one of my larger personal coaching clients - a successful online wholesaler with a tight Ferret niche.
 
Their ‘cleanly designed’ main content site has only 12 pages in total.
 
Two of those pages were the obligatory “About Us” (i.e. about them) information, and an additional page was a Contact form with very little text on it.
 
Leaving 9 “Product” pages (segmented into categories)… all rather sad little pages that listed their products — about 200 of them — most with only a single line description per item.
 



Mini-Income Streams = Outrageous Lifestyle

By Doug Bertram • Jan 23rd, 2008 • Category: Doug's, Online Pet Business Opportunities

I set-up my first online pet related product in April of 2004. At first I poured hours and hours into the marketing campaign’s - trying my best to make it a $250 a day product. IT DIDN’T WORK. Over the next 6 months the product’s best day totaled $75 in sales.

Was it a failure?

At that time I thought it was…



I Will Promote Your Blog…FOR FREE…No Kidding!

By Doug Bertram • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Online Pet Business Opportunities, Pet Business Marketing

If you have a really good blog article, tell me about it. If you picked up a copy of my Pet Blogging Profits report and are just starting out, tell me your web address and let me be the first to link to it. [….]



Dog Niche Ideas…

By Doug Bertram • Jan 17th, 2008 • Category: Online Pet Business Opportunities

Here is a quick United Press story I found today…
One point I think is very important that all petrepreneurs need to take into consideration when selecting the niche(s) you are going to target, as you start or grow your pet business don’t forget the breed specific angle - especially breeds that are widely loved like […]