Giving away free information and content can be a great way to gain trust and establish yourself as an expert but many businesses are doing it wrong says experienced internet marketing veteran Maria Marsala from CoachMaria.com. Maria has been in the internet marketing arena and coached business owners for over 10 after spending 20 years as an executive on Wall Street. She thinks small business owners, especially women, are notorious for giving away too much for free. Speaking to the online resource center for women in business, GetYourSuccessNow, Maria notes that the natural tendency for women is to give, give and give freely because of their desire to nurture and help others. That can be a

Today I was spammed by a fellow business owner trying to sell me copywriting services.  Unsolicited emails from someone you don't know, is spam.  Plus I have a copywriter, as listed on the employment page on my website.   The business owner wanted to write stuff for my blog.  I'm not sure she had been to this blog, but if she looked at the dates I post articles and such, she's have noticed that I don't have a big problem posting to my blog!   In fact, I enjoy coming here to write.  Although I admit loud and clear -- I am the worst proofreader of my own work known to women-kind.   Writing isn't the problem. The second thing she did wrong was email me using a yahoo

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