Mt. Shasta, California, January 23, 2012 — I like to share useful things. It’s my nature.

And a few days ago, I wrote up a useful report and made it available for free to folks visiting my new super-budget, get-opn-the-web-fast-and-easy service called WebNova.Net. It’s an opt-in thing, you get the report for free, and in actual fact people also get a follow-up email briefing course about how to boost income using a simple one-page “business card” type of website.

[If you’d like a copy of the special report, “Nine Free Ways to Get More Customers,” just click on the title I just gave, OK?]

I sent out notices to people who were already on my list as being interested in health, and growth, and small business.

Uh-Oh. A Problem. Too commercial!

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Mt. Shasta, California, Jan 18, 2012: I’m in the newspaper! I’m in the newspaper! (Again.)

Today the Mount Shasta Herald, which covers most of the Siskiyou county towns, published a great interview with me about my new book “Marketing Online, Clear and Simple, for Local Business.” I got my picture in, and a photo of the book as well. Wow! For the next 15 or 20 minutes, I’m famous!

[from the article]

Cronos’s book outlines three steps which he says will help local businesses make money online.

“A website is not enough. There are two other steps that need to be accomplished before money begins pouring in unexpectedly.” This three-step formula is clearly and succinctly laid out in his 172 page book.

Cronos said he was involved with computers before the internet became popular and as a business person in San Francisco, he was one of the first to put up a website.

“I didn’t intend to acquire this information, but simply due to circumstance, I’ve had the good fortune to see how selling and writing is adapted to the cyber-universe,” Cronos writes in the book’s preface.

“And through working with my clients and their businesses, I’ve discovered how to separate what works from the tidal wave of opinions and methods that normally bury the inquiring business person.”

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Weed, California, January 10, 2012 — I’ve been thinking. And that’s always fun. Here’s the scoop …

For some time now, I’ve been focusing on CopyDragon webwriters, because after all I have been a business writer for 40 years and an internet expert for 15 years. There’s been enough work and more to keep me busy.

But time and time again, I encounter small business folks, sometimes artists and “spiritual” folks and therapists and such, and they know they ought to get on the internet, but they don’t really have resources adequate to hire me for a custom, full-blown marketing project.

I wrote a book, spelling out the process, but now I’ve worked out how to create low-cost, easily affordable, and quickly-deliverable websites so that even the smallest enterprise can get a foothold on the internet. Since such a huge number of people search online even before visiting a local store — and even more with the proliferation of cell phones — then simply *being there* becomes darned important.

Get a Website for $99, 3-Day Turnaround

And now, anyone can have a website, quick and affordable …

Introducing Affordable Websites from WebNova.Net.

Want to learn how to use those Weird Graphics (‘QR Codes’), like that one on the left on my CopyDragon facebook page, to promote more fans to your gigs, more customers to your business, more ‘likes’ to your facebook?

I’m going to be ‘spilling the beans’ about QR Codes (short for ‘quick-response codes), and how to use them to create more fans, business, money, and a bigger audience. It’s the coming thing … a……nd you could fight it, but … “A rising tide raises all boats” … so the smart thing is to let it carry you on a wave of growing success, right?

I’m starting the discussion by discussing “What are QR Codes?” —

Want to know more?

Click the graphic below to visit the article, then scan the graphic below with your cellphone and press the ‘call’ button … and I’ll answer the phone.

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[this post reprinted with permission from “MarketingOnlineClearAndSimple.com“]

Resident of Mt. Shasta, California, local marketing heavyweight Nikolas Allen, raves about Arthur Cronos new book “Marketing Online, Clear and Simple,” available now on Amazon in print and Kindle editions.

“Totally stoked,” says Mr. Allen, “and ready to dig into “Marketing Online – Clear and Simple” by local author Arthur Cronos ! Thank you for the gift, Mr. CopyDragon!”

Mr. Allen, thank you and you’re welcome!

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Nikolas Allen (http://bamsmallbizconsulting.com) has the knack of presenting marketing how-to in a crisp and easy-to-understand fashion, and is the brains behind some of the best marketing programs currently earning money for local business owners in Northern California’s Siskiyou County. His online blog is well worth regular reading for the outstanding, insider marketing content he delivers week after week.

June 1976, San Francisco: As I mentioned, the Network Answering Service was created in my studio apartment at 495 Third Avenue, north of Golden Gate Park, and according to the employee manual, the primary purpose of the answering service was to feed Rosie the Cat.

Of course, we had a more noble mission, and-  But that’s neither here nor there, because this is about the CopyDragon, copywriter extraordinaire, raconteur, and gentleman at arms. That is, ahem, myself with my writing-copy hat on.

As best I know the first copy written was some advertising for Simple Simon bookkeeping (myself), and then there was a brief audiotext positioning message for my high-tech and newfangled answering machine, but this summer as I prepared to launch the answering service, I began writing a lot of what’s called “commercial writing,” which simply means writing for business purposes.

It includes:
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