The lifeblood of your busi­ness is your list of cus­tomers and prospects. Wouldn’t it be great to grow it faster?

Accord­ing to the Inter­net Mar­ket­ing Center’s 2006 sur­vey, online adver­tis­ers are cap­tur­ing con­tact infor­ma­tion from an aver­age of between 5% and 10% of the peo­ple who visit their web­sites, and of those, only 1% to 2% become pay­ing customers.

That SUCKS!

How would you like to uncover a lit­tle known way to do 4 to 7 times bet­ter… with­out hav­ing to attract a sin­gle addi­tional vis­i­tor to your website?

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Since we’re get­ting ready to fly to Vegas to speak this week­end, I didn’t want to leave with­out mak­ing a quick post. But with no time to write an arti­cle myself, I decided to spread some link love.

Any­way, here are five of them…

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The last two weeks were crazy-​​busy at the Fortin office.

From speak­ing in Philadel­phia, return­ing to Canada for just a few days and then leav­ing for Raleigh for another event (and being stuck for 24 hours in Chicago’s air­port due to a can­celed flight), to being in the mid­dle of launch­ing three major products…

… I just wanted to “pop my head in” and say “Hi!” But while I’m here, there’s some­thing I wanted to let you know. Some­thing that can be down­right frightening.

What is it about? Take this chill­ing scenario…

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