This might sound strange coming from me, considering that I make my online living taking full advantage of the capabilities offered by WordPress and yet, here is my statement:

You Should NEVER Use WordPress For Membership Management!

On last webinar for Expert WordPress members I have shared this opinion and received quite a feedback, which is greatly appreciated. I know that my statement goes against what many other people are currently teaching but I have very good reasons!

Reasons I will share in this blog post and let you decide if my opinion makes sense or not, it is YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS after all!

With 2009 coming to a close I wanted to share information I think is extremely important and call it:

Marketing Fitness Plan

Has a nice ring to it, huh? I like it! But what is even more important then my like or dislike of the title is an actual information.

As we strive to succeed and do more and more business online we become entangled into buy/sell relationships whether we like it or not. Sometimes it is based on immediate need, other time it could be an idea that struck a chord with you and lastly – because a sales copy was just too damn good!

You know its true! I get caught up in buying frenzy too!

In this post I want to share my own personal plan to “trim the marketing excess” and move into 2010 lean and mean marketing machine!

Gone are the days when the only way to transact business is to hop from one market to the other or talk with one business person to the other just to have the product or service that you want. With online marketing around, you can transact business in fast and easy way anytime and anywhere you may be. Online marketing, also known in other names like internet marketing, web marketing or eMarketing allows everyone and anyone to market products and services through the internet. Internet marketing has been eliciting favorable massive response from users and customers all over the world.

Online Marketing versus Traditional Marketing

Today’s topic of conversation might not resonate with everyone but it will become more and more relevant to you as your online business grows and develops. At some point you will have to consider getting help or risk being stuck overloaded with work and just UNHAPPY about your work as you were when you decided to start it in order to get away from your 9 to 5 J.O.B

Yeah, I use the 3 letter word and I apologize but the truth is – most of us start with online business to get away from that nasty word and in process of development manage to overload ourselves to the point where we forget why we started!

Today’s guest – Amy Holding will give us the details you need in order to successful simplify your life – How And Why Consider Virtual Assistant!

While reaching some level of success can be done via multiple ways, including strategies some would call “questionable” – achieving Sustainable Business Success with ability to grow and prosper can be done ONLY via solid business practices.

Be it online or offline – if you don’t care about your customers, people you work with and those who helped you to climb that ladder of Success … you will fail. In this series I would like to introduce you to people who not only managed to build successful business online and grow it but also have some VERY interesting stories to tell!

Ross Goldberg, a man behind the Immortal Internet Marketing is a first guest with a story that reads like a novel but perhaps what is even more important for you – with experience and knowledge well worth to draw upon!