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1. Why Start Your Own Consultancy? Even if you already have a job, ask yourself how safe it is? Even if it is really safe, would you always like to be dependent on it? And, even if the answer to this is 'yes', wouldn't you like to improve your career prospects, earn a lot more money, get known, build your profile, add another income stream and build a better pension - which continues to grow?
4. Female Mid Life Entrepreneurs Boom in Today's Market It is a fact that the female entrepreneurs are starting new businesses at twice the rate of men. And a high proportion of this number are women aged in the baby boomer bracket (born between 1946 and 1964).
5. When it All Starts to Come Together I was thinking the other night as I lay in bed and run through my head how my day went and it, occurred to me, even when the economy and things aren't looking so hot I can honestly sit back and say to myself, things are great and starting to come around. I realized, it's not the economy although it does play its roll in the "downfall of things" but hey it's all about getting out there and making it happen for you.
6. Key to Business Success One of the most effective key to success is having a mentor. Whether in your personal or business life, having someone to talk with who has shared similar experiences can be the difference between success and failure.
7. 5 Big Mistakes New Business Owners Make - And How You Can Avoid Making Them Are you making any of these 5 common killer mistakes that keep new business owners from getting the results they want? Wasting time and money keeps you from creating a business success story and leads to unhappiness and unnecessary debt. This article explains how to avoid making these startup mistakes in your business.
8. Business Building Blocks - Turning on the Faucet For Referrals As I went to my twice weekly Pilates session recently, I realized that I had never referred the studio I go to to any friends or clients. I am one of those "loyal-as-the-day-is-long" types and love to share my favorite resources so this surprised me.
10. Business Prospects in Web Design Wherever you go you will always find someone that is looking for a great web design for their site, the problem lies in the fact that web designers are hard to come by. This is where you could come into the picture, and actually make a fair living out of it. Regardless of the site, there are always needs for designers to set a site up and make it presentable for the public.
11. Scams Are Everywhere, and Not Always Immediately Detectable If you are looking for something to do on the Internet that does not require a lot of work yet nets you some extra money, you will want to pay close attention to the fine details of what is being offered today. This is because there are more and more scammers on the market than ever before. Today a scammer can create something and land an unsuspecting victim, without even breaking a sweat.
12. 4 Ways to Increase Profits For Your Business - Profit Margins Business is all about profits and we all hope that any venture we get into will turn into a money-spinner that vindicates all our efforts and leaved early retirement a questionable fact no longer. But gaining profits is not easy, as any person who has ever started his own business will tell you, it is a combination of hard work, cunning, knowing the market and placing your money in the right places. In this balancing act that is the business world, we need all the help we can get and here discussed are 4 ways to increase profits for your business.
13. 4 Ways to Cut Cost For Your Business There was a recent statistic which mentioned that businesses all over the world were losing close to a billion dollars a year in bad financial planning and internal money management. I was asking myself, could this be avoided? These are 4 ways to cut costs for your business and save yourself from this situation.
14. Starting Your Business on a Shoe String Budget Making money is the driving force of the world economy and while most of the world's population is content to being employees and drawing a monthly salary, there are those of us who would be called entrepreneurs - we who prefer to dare the world with our ideas and start a business of our own. I think one of the main concerns of anyone willing to put down money on starting a business is the issue of - well - money.
15. How to Assure Failure in a New Venture One of the great benefits we enjoy about the consulting work we do is having the opportunity to review the inventiveness of hundreds of entrepreneurs each year. It truly is amazing how many of these creative talents push the envelope of novelty. There is no such reality as the oft stated: "I have seen it all". None of us have seen it all, as the volume of freshly executed innovative products and concepts being nurtured, is never ending. And yet, so few of the projects we review ever make it past our initial critique and pre-product development criteria.
16. Starting Your Own Business - 5 Killer Tips to Reduce Your Costs Having your own business means you would have to be the person who has to deal with each and every aspect of the business. The most important part of any business agenda is to cut the costs associated with it and increase the profit as much as you can actually. There are many tips which might help you in cost cutting and increase your profits. Let us take a look at some of tips that you should use in order to cut your cost from the very start of it.
17. Starting a Business? Here Are Resources You Have Right Under Your Nose I have found, with the clients I work with, that they almost always underestimate the resources they already have right here and right now to get started on their new business. If you find yourself doing the same, let me remind you of what you have.
18. Starting a Restaurant Businesses Starting restaurant businesses is not only for gourmet chefs and expert cooks. A good number of restaurants, especially the finer ones that offer more than fastfood junk, are owned by food and eating enthusiasts who do not have topnotch cooking skills themselves. But what they lack in culinary skills, they compensate for with business sense. So you see, even if you are a good cook, your restaurant is bound to fail if you do not have the business skills for starting restaurant businesses.
19. Planning - The First Step in How to Start a Restaurant You're an excellent cook - does this mean you should get into the food business? How to start a restaurant is an interesting question asked by both experienced chefs and cooking hobbyists. It's not rocket science but it's not for every wannabe either. As in any other business you might want to venture into, getting into the food industry requires a lively entrepreneurial spirit, loads of business sense, tons of patience, and a dedicated staff who are good at what they do.
20. How to Start Restaurant Businesses - Whose How-to Should You Pay Attention To? Before you let your eyes stray any further down this article, let me tell you that you should only read further only if you have an open mind. There's no use selling you an idea that you have already written it off in the first place. You see, how to start restaurant is not as easy as a three-step click, copy, and paste deal. Many people will try to tell you what works and what doesn't but hey, who are you taking advice from? Experts? Sure, but expert in what? Expert in Internet marketing? Writing an ebook? Perhaps, an expert in international cuisine?
21. Secret Tools to Turn an Introductory Coaching Session Into a Client Making Machine When I started coaching, I was doing things right and bringing in clients for free introductory sessions but I was not signing up enough coaching clients. The sessions went great and the clients seemed satisfied so I could not figure out why they were not signing up to coach with me.
22. Business Plan - A Crucial Tool in Restaurant Start Up Like any other business, restaurant start up require more than passion for food and cooking or gobs of cash. Learn why a business plan is a major requirement in starting a restaurant.
23. Features Vs Solutions There are two factors that will always, without question, separate the successful entrepreneurs from those who struggle. The first is that successful entrepreneurs understand the difference between features and solutions. The second is that they tend to ignore features and take action based on solutions.
24. How to Market Your Psychotherapy Practice You decided to become a psychotherapist because you have a genuine desire to help people. But if you're like most therapists out there, what you didn't sign up for was the often harsh reality of owning your own business. Most therapists are put into the position of being an entrepreneur begrudgingly.
25. TO "E" Or Not to "E" The great man once remarked "TO be or not to be" never did he imagine the thought will cross minds of young budding entrepreneurs more than anyone else. 99.99 % of MBA's who are trained to be global managers today are no different when it comes to choosing what they want to do in life after completing their masters.E in this article stands for Enterprise and it is this spirit that is killed every moment. True reasons no one knows but fear dominates them all. Fear of failures, fear of the unknown and fear to try something different is what kills this spirit to Enterprise. It is not a lesser known fact that there are entrepreneurs everywhere, from a small shop owner to an exporter but guess what not even 10 % would be management students.
26. Joint Ventures Can Make Or Break a Business The Intricacies of the joint venture. So powerful, yet so fragile. With the power to make your business immensely profitable, but at the same time, with the power to ruin future possibilities of expansion and Increasing profits if done incorrectly.
27. Is Your Business Failing Enough to Succeed? In order to be successful, your going to need some successes. Obviously! But what may not seem so obvious, is that your going to need some failures. It's how you learn, it's how you get better, it's how you become a more adaptive person. Blindly rushing into success after success without failure will eventually get you burned. I know I've been there before. While it may be a great confidence builder to get some instant wins right out of the gate, it can be a detriment as well.
28. Turbocharge Your Product Launch to Optimize Buzz Do you have a product or service on the launching pad? This article gives you the basics on how to turbo charge your launch without being just a flash in the pan!
30. Helping Your Teenager to Become an Entrepreneur In my childhood I was always told by my family and friends to go to school get a good education. Get a high paid job and everything will be just fine. The last few years I started following a different set of rules because in order to achieve job security many people often give up their freedom. Freedom is one of the most important assets we have and we should start to think more about the things that we do in our every day life that sacrifice our freedom.
31. Building Small Business Trust Many consumers who are purchasing goods and services are certainly looking for ways to save money, but also ways not to lose money. Reasoning and logic may tell us, consciously or sub-consciously, to spend hard-earned money in trustworthy situations, places or on goods with an notion of trust to back them up. When starting a small business, developing trust is one factor to negotiate during the planning stages.
32. Entrepreneur Business Idea An entrepreneur is a person who starts or started a business entity with the sole aim of seeing it prosper. The business arena is full of these people. On the other hand, we cannot be wrong to say that each one of us has been an entrepreneur in their life at one time or another. When a business idea crops up to your head it's good if you grab it before it is too late. This is what differentiates a good businessperson and a bad one. Giant companies like Starbucks the coffee star in US started from very a humble beginning.
33. Multiple Income Streams, Take Your Life Or Business to the Next Level A multiple income stream is quite simply trying to earn a wage or salary by using several different sources. Most of us, me included, have full time jobs, but we usually try to supplement that with income from other sources. Now for most people they don't see it as an income they merely see it as a top up to their full time salary, a bit extra for a night out or spending money for their holiday.
34. What Can the Presidential Election Teach You About Generating Buzz For Your Business? The election is over, the results are in, and we have a new President-elect here in the United States. Whether you are pumped up or disappointed with the results, there are some fundamental things we can all learn from this election that will help you build your business.
36. The Trouble With Business Goodwill Closing a company down can be troublesome and expensive. First there is the administration. Apart from that there are the tax challenges in the additional potential tax liabilities that may be generated as a result of the merry-go-round of closing down a company. The most costly of these is the possible treatment of business goodwill. For example, say you have a fairly typical small firm, which might be regarded as having goodwill worth 50,000.
37. Smart Women Understand the BLT Factor This article is about understanding that people will be more drawn to you both personally and professionally if they Believe you, Like you and Trust you. These attributes are just as important as the knowledge and expertise that you have about something. In order to have a successful life, you must be willing to create good, trusting and run relationships with the people around you and in your community. We all know it instantly when we meet someone that has the BLT Factor. When we leave this person, we feel great.
38. Successful Entrepreneur - The Mindset This is where business success really begins, in the minds of entrepreneurs. An entrepreneur is someone who creates, develops and executes a winning business that is an extension of who they are. It also could be an outstretched view of their ideal image of success.
39. Business Start-Up Mindset - Is it Holding You Back? Mindset is such a powerful, yet greatly under-utilised, tool. And when you are busy working week in, week out, it is too easy to keep the same mindset that you perhaps started out with when you first went in to business.
40. Top Small Business Ideas - 3 Ideas That Can Work For You We're all looking for the top small business ideas that will work for years to come. I've done some research into some of the most unusual and lucrative ideas out there. Following are 3 that can work for anyone and will bring large profits.
41. Old Business Models Don't Work Anymore! More and More businesses are laying of millions of employees, Why? It is clear that the antiquated models of business are not effective anymore.
42. Can Anyone Start a Christmas Light Installation Business? Each year, people spend over 400 million dollars on lighting services over the holidays. Over the last 10 years, the industry has grown ten fold. The beauty of the Christmas Light Installation industry is that virtually anyone can do it. No prior business knowledge is required. I know high school students that make $12,000 or more in just 60 days. I believe that anyone can make at least $20,000 in the 60 days leading up to Christmas.
43. New Business? Develop a Powerful Business Idea Are you deciding on a new business? Many people decide on new businesses all the time but many lack the insight on what it takes to develop a new business idea.
44. Independent Pet Store Start Up Costs No matter how well the business is going to do, you need to have the start up costs before you can begin to make any money. Therefore, looking at independent pet store start up costs is very important. The first thing that you need to do when you are looking at independent pet store start up costs is to make sure that you know how to tally them in the right way.
45. Finding Investors For Your Start Up Business Ideas There has been a recent wave of websites and TV shows about people starting their own business. But what kind of audience are they broadcasting to? Well, it turns out a lot of us Brits want to start up our own small business. According to Business Link, over 10 million of us would like to start up our own business at some point. Easier said than done though, find out why.
46. Get Rich Quick - Hmm, Really? If you intend to make money online, you will no doubt have seen some of these businesses. We talk about the pros and cons(artists) of the GRQ business and highlight everything you absolutely need to know!
47. Traits of Highly Successful Entrepreneurs I would define a successful business as one that has been around for a long time. Churning progressive profits and weathering the worst financial times and the most bearish of economic crises.
48. 5 Tips on Starting Your Own Business Starting your own business can be quite a hairy proposition and you are entering the neo-liberal market place, a place wrought with dangers, speed bumps and never ending wells of disappointments. Getting started on your money making venture is not easy - allow me to reiterate that one more time.
49. How to Start Your Own Business on a Low Budget Here are some tips to start your own business on a low, low budget. If you want to start your own company and you don't have enough money to think about entertainment rooms or even a simple cubicle, here is a way to get your company lifted onto its feet with a low and sometimes even no budget at all.
50. 6 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Busting Out of the Rat Race Leaving the security of a career can be scary. But if you feel that this would be the change you need to fulfill your dreams, go for it! You only live once... why not make life the best it can be?
51. Shortage of Money? The Economy is Bad and That's Why It's the Perfect Time to Start a Business There is not such thing as shortage of money (Money doesn't just disappear from the face of the earth, you know?) so why are people cutting back? The truth is that Money always wonders around somewhere in the economy for us to fetch, but the trick is to open our eyes and minds to find the right opportunity. I outline 3 simple steps to find it in this article.
52. Philosophies of the Ant - Take Shelter in a Storm What does taking shelter in a storm have to do with being a successful entrepreneur or running a Business? Think about it. What should you take shelter from in order to become as successful as you'd like to become? Let's take a look at what an ant might have to avoid along his journey of searching for food and protecting the colony. Numero uno would be the bully that is lurking around the corner with a magnifying glass! Another would be a literal rain storm and another might be cold weather. The list could go on and on but how do these things relate?
54. Getting Ideas For Self Employment You are ready to be your own boss. You are tired of being tired. But you don't know where to start, or what to even do. You need ideas for self employment. Well I have one; ever thought of doing a home based business? This idea is probably one of the most popular ideas around. And while the idea of self employment makes a lot of individuals nervous, this can be a really profitable thing to do.
55. Good Business Ideas - Open Your Mind and They Will Come Contrary to popular belief, you don't have to be extraordinarily smart or creative to come up with good small business ideas. Simply train yourself to be more aware of needs in the marketplace, and before long you could be on to the next big thing.
56. 5 Craft Businesses You Can Start Many people spend hours making various crafts for friends and family and have naturally wondered if they might be able to make money from them as well. The answer is yes if you have a product that people want, offered at the right price, and that you make available in places your likely customers will look. This article will discuss 5 crafts you can make at home that have the potential to become a moneymaking business.
57. Brand Yourself As a Successful Professional (Even When You're Out of the Spotlight) Independent professionals and entrepreneurs often let down their guard with colleagues and relationship partners. But even when you're having an informal conversation out of the spotlight, you're creating a brand. Focus on your strengths and share your struggles only with your coach.
58. Selling Solar - How to Start a Solar Business and Why We've all heard a lot about solar energy recently. But have you ever thought about starting your own solar business? There are plenty of excellent reasons to get into this growing industry.
60. Is Your Company ISO Certified? An ISO certificate is a very good benchmark to judge a company. This article highlights certain important points regarding the latest quality management system, the ISO 9000 series and particularly about the ISO 9001: 2000 standards.
61. Can You Make Money From a Gas Station It is a fact that gas operators are not earning much for every gallon of gas because most of the earnings go to the big companies that own the oil. They only earn up to 15 cents per gallon, and even less when the gas is paid for via credit card because they also have to pay for fees.
62. 5 Food Service Businesses You Can Start If you have a love of cooking and a desire to open your own business, why not combine your skills with your desires and open your own food service business? The choices of exactly what you can offer are endless but you might want to stick to some tried and true ideas to increase your likelihood of success. This article offers 5 of the best food service ideas for you to consider.
63. It Takes a Long-Tailed Village You are by now no doubt familiar with the concept of the long tail, the ability of the Internet to support the most microcosmic segment, specifically targeting (say) yellow VW microbus owners or people that walk their cats on leashes or whatever oddities you can assemble. But I found myself in a conversation this week about a very different aspect of the long tail, with a deputy city manager of a small community outside of Columbus. As in Ohio.
64. How to Write a Home Staging Business Plan As with any new business defining a home staging business plan should be on the top of your to-do list when thinking about starting a home staging business. With the current housing market in a decline and housing prices falling many home sellers are in need of home staging consultants which makes it a perfect time to start your own business.
66. A Quick Lesson on How Strategic Alliances Can Help Your Business Today Most of us have heard of Strategic Alliances, but do we really use them? If you are a business owner, they are the most effective way to increase your market reach faster, more efficiently, with less cost and less risk.
67. Chiropractors - Practice Building Made Easy Learn about how to create the chiropractic practice of your dreams using a few simply strategies. If you want to love what you do, help as many people as possible, and make a healthy six figure income in the process, you should read this article.
68. Chiropractic Marketing - What Works and What Doesn't If you're a chiropractor who is looking for ways to market and build your private practice, it's important to realize how profoundly consumer trends have changed in the past 2 years. It used to be that you could rely on big yellow page ads, direct mailings, health fairs, or other display advertisements as effective lead generation methods. While these methods can certainly still work, they are expensive and there is no guarantee that they will produce a good return on investment.
69. How to Identify the Red Flag Client She was abusive, disrespectful, and bad-mouthed the person she had worked with before. How on earth did she get through the Red Velvet Rope Policy and how can you identify a red flag client before you start?
70. Massage Therapy Practice Building Made Easy Learn how you can quickly and easily attract a plethora of perfect clients to your massage practice. Overcome all of the conventional beliefs that it will take years of work and tons of effort to make a living.
71. Serious Entrepreneurs Don't Quit Are entrepreneurs born or made? The The jury is still out, but serious entrepreneurs all share a set of undeniable traits...enviable as well as fascinating. One thing all self-made millionaires have in common is that they never quit! Read on to see if you have what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur.
72. Getting Started in Solar - How to Market Your Solar Business When marketing your solar business, the sky's the limit. Just like any other business, there are plenty of ways to market solar power. But selling such a beneficial product makes it easy to employ a variety of marketing methods and many of them cost little to nothing.
73. Making a Living With Solar - How to Build Your Business Once you're committed to starting a solar business, the next step is to choose a direction. Will you only deal in the initial sales of the systems? Or will you branch out into cleaning, service and accessories? How far you expand in the business is up to you.
74. Conscious Entrepreneur - Believe in Your Power to Transform the World No matter what business you're in, no matter where you live, no matter what challenge you may be facing right now... you absolutely stand in a place of power to positively transform the world. What would it take for you to BELIEVE you can truly transform the world?
75. What Disciplines Do Entrepreneurs, Lifestyle Enterprise Owners, and Executives Really Have to Know? Business disciplines include subject areas such as finance and accounting, marketing and sales, operations, and information technology. However, subjects related to the humanities and social sciences are just as relevant, given that business is all about people. By understanding individual preferences, such as values, attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors, enterprises can better relate, build a rapport, and interact with their constituencies, and manage their human resources.
76. Ideas For Self Employment There is no greater freedom than being employed by yourself. No boss, no daily grind, and you don't even have to commute if you choose to run a business from home! However, when venturing out into the entrepreneur world, you need to keep in mind that there are many great challenges along with the many rewards. This article outlines a few ideas for self employment.
77. The Business Building Basics of Free No, I'm not here to help put you out of business. I know that unless you're operating as a non-profit organization, the goal of your business IS to make a profit. However, building a business is not only based upon selling something for a profit.
78. Why You Should Have a Passion For Residual Income You really truly should have a burning passion to build a lasting residual income. What does income mean to you now? It means having the money to eat, have shelter, pay living expenses. You need a constant income to meet your needs and be comfortable.
79. How to Make $100 a Day - Start Up Business Ideas If you have an idea, put a plan together and make is a business. There are many ideas that are available for you. It is possible to make $100 or more with start up business ideas.
80. Free Small Manufacturing Business Ideas - Working With What You Have You've probably noticed that more and more people are looking for handmade, unique products and gifts. This can be a huge money maker for the right company. In fact, if you put your mind to it, you can probably come up with a few free small manufacturing business ideas you can implement right away.
81. Things to Consider When Starting an Business With the recent volatile economic conditions, many people are thinking about starting an business. But many people don't know how to get started.
82. The Top 10 Ways Mentors Can Help Having a mentor may add to your bottom line. Internet marketing can definitely be more than one has bargained for! Have you found yourself spending countless hours searching, researching, and/or perhaps investigating, surfing, downloading, or joining affiliate programs, and promoting .... Yet, have made little or no online profit? Has it become a tedious and thankless task? Are you disenchanted?
83. Vending Machine Manufacturers Are Not Often the Best Vending Solution A vending machine business is an excellent way to earn handsome profits, provided you know what you are doing and you are patient enough to wait to see profits grow. Keeping in mind that most people want to start their business by spending the lowest possible capital, some good advice is to start with a rented machine, instead of a new one. As tempting as the vending machine manufacturers' offers are, it is always better to use the services of a distributor and find a vending machine to rent initially.
84. Tips When Starting Your Vending Machine Business Vending machines make a great side business or full time business. Many people start a vending company as it is their only job. If you want to start your own vending machine business, then it is best to start small.
85. The Vending Machine is a Very Profitable Business Everyone has used a vending machine at some point to get a drink or tasty snack, and many places use food vending machines rather than operating a full kitchen that serves fresh food. The biggest advantage to such machines for customers is that you are able to buy food in places that you otherwise would not find it available. There are many different kinds of these machines, and being a machine supplier or owner is a great way to make some extra cash.
86. The Quickest Way to Make $200 - $1500 Per Day Could this be the fastest and most efficient way of earning from $200-$1500 per day? Forget the rubbish out there, and continue reading for further proof.
87. Apple CEO Steve Jobs Demonstrates the Millionaire Mindset Jobs' stunning career has had its ups and downs (most notably, he faced public humiliation when Apple fired him in 1985), but any would- be entrepreneur can learn much from him. In fact, we can pick apart his strategy to learn what has worked for this man with the million- dollar touch.
88. How Entrepreneurship Improves Your Life It's taken me 15 years to realize, though, that entrepreneurship is about more than achieving the obvious objectives-much more. The fact is, those who pursue entrepreneurial success meet unexpected tests and trials that shape them for good. Here are five reasons why starting your own business will mean more to your life than you think:
89. Why Your Business Plan Won't Make You Rich Or Famous Think a business plan will get you investors and millions of dollars to start your business? Think again. Business plans are valuable, but not for the reasons you think.
90. Are You Burning the Candle at Both Ends? Your business can be a thrilling adventure and being an entrepreneur you just can't sit still because there is business to be taken care of, deals to make, places to go and people to see. With every thing that is going on in your business: Are You Burning The Candle At Both Ends?
91. The Finding Niche Strategy For Long-Term Success If you want to survive now you'll have to find ways to separate yourself from the crowd. You must have a proven niche strategy to help you find the best niche. You must go on a finding niche campaign. I'll give you ideas to finding a long term niche.
92. Work at Home the Lazy Way - Truths About Wholesale and Dropshipping In a day and age where anyone can sell anything to anyone...it is no surprise that these very clever internet entrepreneurs want in on the action. There are many, many internet based Wholesalers and Dropshippers that technically, do not offer any more than you would expect from a large high street store. The internet wholesaler will more than likely, actually be a Dropshipper. Let me explain a little more about the Dropshipper, as it is a relatively new exercise in this impenetrable market...
93. 8 Entrepreneur Profit Tips The life of an entrepreneur can be rewarding as well as challenging. Not everyone has got what it takes to be successful in such a competitive world. Entrepreneurs need to take risks, be creative, and work extremely hard to achieve their goals. They are the James Bonds of society. This article gives you 8 entrepreneur profit tips for those of you who've made the choice to work for yourself.
94. Hop, Skip Or Jump Your Way to Entrepreneurial Success There are different types of entrepreneurs. Many think all entrepreneurs fall into a single unique category and can be considered 'successful' for making that choice. There are many different kinds of entrepreneurs in business. Some lead effectively and some do not. Which kind are you?
95. A Religious Sect Accidentally Created a Great American Industry During the Civil War years of the 1860's the Seventh Day Adventists opened the original Western Health Reform Institute in Battle Creek, Michigan. This religious group was keenly interested in healthy living and undertook some of the earliest research on the benefits of foodstuffs naturally derived from Native American crops. The result was their creation of the earliest breakfast cereals.
96. In Business For Yourself With the economy continuously getting worse and job security becoming a rarity, work at home businesses are becoming increasingly attractive. If you are considering a home based business opportunity, do yourself a favour and get all the information in regards to what starting your own small business will require and what will be expected of you to have lasting success.
97. Things to Look Out For in a Virtual Office Virtual offices must be cheap first and foremost and be wary of those whose price tags fall above the line of sensible pricing. The market is full of companies who offer virtual office suites in competitive package but have a look at the list of services that they provide. While some bundle everything into a single package that is non-customisable, you might be paying for things that you do not need or serve no impact to the business that you are doing.
98. What Are the Top Earners in Network Markting-Direct Sales Doing That You Aren't? Almost everyone wants success. But few understand the basic requirements of creating that success. However, top earners in every arena of endeavor, including network marketing and direct sales, understand a these basic principles. Not only do they understand them, they apply them in their chosen fields and reap the rewards. So can you.
99. Singapore Virtual Offices - Which is the Best Choice Rent in Singapore is high but trend following and trend setting is what we are known for. Virtual office services all over the CBD and business districts and town of Singapore have been popping up and the players include a whole host of international progenitors of this business as well as local companies who ever the same service.
100. Examples of SWOT in a Membership-Based Business Last week I discussed, "My Favorite Entrepreneurial Tool-Deciding My SWOT" and I received dozens of e-mails asking for examples of SWOT in my businesses. As a reminder, SWOT is a business acronym that stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. EVERY single company, no matter what size it is, has SWOT.
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1. SpiderWeb Will Rock the Web Whoa Baby! This blog is getting whiskers. Anyone that has followed my path will know that I now have been heavy into educating myself about Internet marketing. Thus, the reason for no posts.
But I have been busy and on assignment. One of the keepers is a beta program known as The SpideWeb Marketing System. If you have seen it in passing, but did not consider it...time to time warp for a reconsider. I think this is going to be the next big monetizing scheme for the web.
Many have tried to create a self-sustained or auto-pilot system. This puppy started out with 12 streams of income, but now has 22. I have a gut feeling it's going to be a winner.
It still is in beta, so do get in now to position yourself. Leave a comment if you want to join my team. It's no cost, but I also don't need any slackers. Yes, I will drag you along, but you have to do exactly as I say and follow a plan of action.
This is a heads up on Mark Wielgus at 45n5.com. Mark is on top of online trends, and I am here to tell you that he researches, tests, and reports on things you will come to appreciate on a daily basis. All the information in this post was gleaned from 45n5. My belief is that Mark combines some marketing savvy with geekdom knowhow. He even writes simple, but useful utility programs and then gives them away for free on the blog. Here is a recent link to one he dubs "Keyword Scrubber".
45n5.com has turned into one of the few blogs I simply must check out on a daily basis. Now Mark is committed to deciphering Affiliate Marketing as a top priority. Another project he is combining with this effort is his personal mission to produce and post a video every day in 2008.
I think with 365 videos in the planning, his little experiment is one to watch for trends, plus the techniques, tips and tricks he is bound to uncover along the way. So, if you want to make 365 videos in one year, watch this guy in 2008 and I think you will learn something.
This is not for a lack or loss of interest, but merely a necessity of time management. Regardless, my blog niche revolves around the central theme of mobility and using technology to be independent. So, you can always check back here and/or catch my more frequent updates at the Rugged Notebooks or Digital Nomads sites. My plan this year is to move to private domains.
One thing I have been doing is writing more focused posts...themed, if you will, or a series of posts on a subject of interest. Recently, this has had a major slant towards telecom, and in particular new gadgets like MagicJack and VoIP telephoney solutions like Google GrandCentral.
I am finding that being more focused on a particular subject area makes it easier and more interesting to research, test, review, and write. I think my readers appreciate it a well and it is helping in the SERPS.
If you are still blogging, drop me a line and let me know how you are getting on. There seems to have been a drop in the number of friends I met online in 2007 that have continued to blog, or scaled back like I have. -Digital Nomad
I saw this over at the BigString 2.0 website and thought it was good advice. BigString is an interesting concept in itself, which I will let you discover for yourself. These 12 items have been edited somewhat, so not to get dinged for duplicate content. There were some typos in the original text anyway. Enjoy.
1. Do not send email when you are angry. Wait until you calm down before you send that email. Feelings and thoughts can be difficult to interpret and easily misconstrued.
2. Never send a sarcastic email that could be taken out of context. Sarcasm and email do not mix. You can easily offend someone in an email without intent to do so.
3. Do not send email gossip. You never know where the email will end up. Just make a commitment to yourself not to participate in any gossip.
4. Never end significant relationships via email. Email is the equivalent of an electronic paper trail. Not good for any sour ending, whether business or personal.
5. If you don't want your boss or coworkers to see it, better not send that email from work.
6. Never put anything in writing that may come back to haunt you. A good overall policy. Not just for email.
7. Never, ever, hit ‘Reply to All’ when you just want to send an email to one individual.
8. Don’t email pictures of yourself to others. Especially, online acquaintances and complete strangers.
9. Don’t make promises or commitments via email that you cannot or will not keep.
10. When you send attachments, be sure that you have selected the correct files and documents.
11. Good advice from New York Governor Elliot Spitzer, “Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an email.â€
12. Try BigString recallable email. If you do happen to make errors...the recallable, erasable, and non-forwardable features will help to correct such mistakes.
I have had a few email exchanges with Mark, and these are a few of his cautionary thoughts by way of how he has explained the ideas behind how it should work. Most people will not succeed with this mashup concept, or any other website scripting without the underlying concept and knowledge (or experience from learning) of how to build such a niche site.
Cranking out "out of the box" and rubber stamp solutions is what everybody else is doing. Doing the same thing that everyone else is doing online will bring the same results...which happens to be not making any money online. This also happens to mirror Einstein's theory of insanity, and he was no dummy. It's also making many people wealthy for some pretty worthless online information products.
So, if you use the script out of the box, most of your money will be made from luck or successful keyword research (aka) what words and topics you use to build these niche minisites in mass production.
Now is the time to learn. Take the time to consider doing it right. - Digital Nomad
A 25 Year Old Entrepreneur Making a Living Online from Home
You probably have read about or heard of The Rich Jerk and Chis X of Day Job Killer. If not you better stop and do a Google search right now. About 2 years ago, Holly Mann, a young mother started to successfully market directly against high profile Internet marketing gurus like these guys.
Living in a foreign country with no job and few resources, Holly decided she could research, design, and deliver a kinder and gentler approach to online marketing. Evidently she found her niche selling "How-To" information, because she has become successful in a short period of time (well, a couple of years).
"Honest Riches 2" is a 95 page proven guide. Holly shows all the techniques she has used to make money online through affiliate programs starting with no website and no start-up money, then on to free websites that can easily be setup with little or no experience, including free advertising that most people don't know or think about.
Yes, it seems possible to make money online and work from home just about anywhere (Holly lives in Thailand), but don't quit your day job just yet. You need a system and you need the right tools and knowledge to be successful. Changing your career is a life altering decision.
Before taking the leap, do plenty of due diligence and adequate research for information and resources about starting an online business and becoming an online entrepreneur. This e-book is geared for beginners, but is a valuable resource for all online marketers. No "get-rich-quick" schemes here....like any real business endeavor, it involves some effort and some work. But you will learn strategies and techniques to start making money right away.
To read more about Holly Mann techniques and other online marketers, visit Thank You Holly Mann.
After many attempts at beating a dead horse, everyone involved in the Agloco fiasco can now uncross their fingers. It ain't gonna happen. Even John Chow has finally admitted defeat along with almost 30,000 signed up in his Agloco network.
Here is a partial screenshot of his last post on the subject, and here is a link to the post about the Agloco demise at TechCruch. Like John says...it shows that all those MBAs don't always muster up success, even the second time around. For posterity, watch the video on the Agloco viewbar attributes, and think about all the gurus that were on board for this.
It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.
I have been searching heavy for the folks that are making it online and not the wannabes. One such source is 45n5.com authored by Mark Wielgus. This guy tells it straight. You have to hunt an peck to find the good stuff, and you will have to piece it together, but I think a good start is on this website.
Mark will show you how to find a niche, create a website in 10 minutes, and then shove it in the pipeline with some SEO tricks. Theoretically, there is no reason why you could not do this everyday for a month and then have 30 minisites up and running for affiliate programs in thirty days. That's if you want to have a website between you and the merchant.
I am finding that you maybe don't even need a website to market affiliate programs, but you do have to commit to spending some money for Google Adword campaigns. Better have a pad and pen ready.
There is always something to learn. Take the time to learn something new each day. - Digital Nomad
Anything that goes viral online can be fun to watch, but sometimes it's even more exciting if you are part of the effort with some skin in the game. The Thinking Blog will make you think about many different things, and it will also make you think about viral marketing with the chance to start the new year right with a new laptop computer as part of an online promotion.
You should know Ilker Yoldas as a website developer and graphic designer. Ilker is also a professional blogger. A great combination for promoting ideas and new products online.
The Thinking Blog celebrates its first anniversary with an online giveaway to help get a new product line of rugged computers noticed online and hopefully taking it viral. Few things work as good as "FREE", except maybe these two words combined: "FREE COMPUTER".
The giveaway rules from Ilker state, "To enter our giveaway, all you have to do is write about it in your blog. Ensure you have two links on your blog post, one link with rugged related keywords to RuffPC.com (e.g. "rugged computer", "water resistant laptop", "spill proof notebook", and the likes) and another link to this giveaway post."
With a worldwide entourage of blog buddies and faithful readers, some bloggers become the experts of online marketing by disclosing this online information by showing you what to do. "TTB" is in this category with over 1600 subscribed RSS readers and several thousand new and returning visitors to the blog each day.
To win the free laptop giveaway at The Thinking Blog you have to participate by writing a review in your own blog post. This promotion is being sponsored by Ruff PC, and the computer giveaway is worthy of your participation.
The computer is a brand new, rugged, water resistant laptop called the RuffBook Tech. This road-worthy laptop has a magnesium alloy case, and is built to survive the harshest conditions.
Stop reading about it in this post, and go read the complete entry rules at The Thinking Blog. Now go get your chance at owning a new rugged laptop before the end of 2007. Also, congratulate llker by leaving a comment or two on the blog.
Happy Anniversary! -Digital Nomad
Related Links:
www.thethinkingblog.com or email: ilker@thethinkingblog.com Contact: Alan Shad, President: www.ruffpc.com Telephone or email: sales@ruffpc.com
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I wanted to make a quick update in reference to writing and submitting Pillar Articles to article directories vs. the chore of "Feeding Blogs" with endless content. This test is progressing nicely. I have submitted 5 pillar articles since about the middle of last month.
I know this is working, as I have been posting less to all the blogs I author in varying degrees as a test. This has not affected the blog traffic much at all. Traffic is actually improving, according to StatCounter and Alexa for two of the blogs that I author. One averaging over 10 page views per visitor at the time of this writing.
It may also be that I am now writing better, more focused content, since I do not feel pressured to try and post something every day for the sake of trying to post so frequently.
The five recent pillar articles have been downloaded for publication over 100 times in less than 30 days, and this is just for GoArticles. I periodically will submit similar articles to several of the more popular article directories.
OK. You can "stop feeding your blogs" now, and you also can stop making endless comments on popular blogs, trying to get made a "Fav" on Technorati, and otherwise making the meter go up on metrics that have much ado about nothing when it comes to quality traffic.
I think submitting to article directories will also create better traffic with better long-term and permanent links.
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Here is possibly a way to secure a domain name when you are in a hurry, and at the worst an extra free email account. You can use your own domain to create a personalized email address for you, a business, or anything else through an AOL service called My eAddress. You have up to 100 invites for others to get their own email address on your domain. The free service is called AOL My eAddress.
Just a few comments and cautions from the TOS. You have to give out quite a bit of personal information, like a valid cell phone number in the US or Canada. Additionally, if you use the "Bring your Own Domain" option, you can use any hosting company you like while using free email service from AOL. However, if you choose the "Popular Custom Domain" option, you will be stuck with AOL as the administrator for the domain, so you will not be able to host a website at that domain.
This could be a catch 22 for your future plans, so please read the "Terms of Service" carefully at AOL My eAddress.
Bouncing around the blogosphere, you may find that many of the well known bloggers are coming to the same conclusions that I already have. Get back to basics, don't worry about PR, Technorati, or Alexa ranking...and concentrate on traffic.
For some people this still means spending horrific amounts of time networking and hitting the social network scene. I am more convinced that writing pillar articles for submission to article directories is a much better approach.
This involves spending more time on research and organizing your thoughts far enough into the future to determine how you can approach a particular subject. You need to write for yourself, but you also need to write about things other people will have an interest in reading.
In many ways this is much better than the prospect of having to write posts just for the sake of writing a post. I know at many times people get a writing block, or just get bored, or even fed up with the notion that they have to "feed the blog" (I think I just coined a useful phrase).
Some of the additional rewards of pillar articles, is that your writing will be more involved and engaging, you will be building authority in one or more areas of personal interest or a niche, and you will be expanding your own knowledge base as you research and process information.
Additionally, you will have a greater chance of having your articles republished elsewhere on blogs and mentioned in references in such a manner that they are permanently linked back to your blogs and websites. Go plant some seeds for future traffic building, and resist the urge to "Feed the Blog".
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The Death of Page Rank! Everyone is complaining about their PR, or Google Page Rank dropping. I say, "Get over it and move on". As I wrote in a recent post about traffic strategy, it is becoming more obvious all the time that all these ranking metrics really prove is nothing...unless you want to post and brag about how you make the meters move.
Just like Technorati, or Alexa ranking, PR has little or nothing to do with traffic and successful marketing. Anything ill-gotten is just that, "ill-gotten". So, if you have spent months or years gaming the system, don't be surprised to see what your true worth might be in the Blogosphere and the Arpanet.
Take a deep breath, get back to work...and try to learn how to add value to your online projects and for your readers and visitors. Like the book says "Do What You Love, and The Money Will Follow."
I think that all this nonsense is amazing to the true online marketers that know how to push the buttons to make things really work. It once again boils down to Niche, Traffic, Monetization, with the actual "Product" bringing up the rear.
Maybe backwards of how the analog world works, but after all it is a "Market of One" when it come to the Internet and online marketing. Build a better mouse trap and you will be found.
Besides, you really can't toss rocks at Google for trying to plug holes in the dam by making the PR rank more honest. More fun for gamers, too, who just have a burning desire for shortcuts and beating the system.
Now we can all look forward to posts on new theories, new techniques, new ebooks, new widgets, new podcasts, new videos, new ezines, new seminars, new gurus, and new yearly conventions. Page Rank is alive and well, it just no longer is what it had become.
Apologies in advance for all the cliches. - Digital Nomad
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It's the middle of the weekend, so no heavy thought riddled posts today. Just some fun and games to let your mind roam a little. Maybe this should become a habitual weekend exercise to post about. Find something that is lighthearted, but still interesting and write a quick post about it.
I have had this bookmarked for some time, and today finally tried out PhoneSpell.org. Oddly enough, my telephone number does not spell anything. What are the chances of that. I tried both 7-Digit and 10-Digit combinations. This is no joke. Mouseover and click to see larger in a new window.
Oh well, give PhoneSpell a link up and see what you come up with for your numbers. It may give you an idea for a new blog or domain name, jog your memory for a new marketing approach, or just make you laugh. Maybe we can resurrect the notion of the "enum" network.
Sometimes we just need some levity. While you are there, check out the Voice Nation link at the bottom, and help PhoneSpell pay some bills.
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Are you lost in the blogosphere? Tired of posting and timestamps? I have been doing some experimenting with the different blogs that I write, including analysis and research about blogs versus websites. This has involved researching the current methods to create traffic, which everyone and their brother has rehashed in posts and how-to SEO ebooks and seminars.
You know, like leaving comments on blogs, posting frequently, writing interesting posts, viral contests, linkbating, joining social networks, etc. These all do work. The caveat is that if you are using some of the monetization schemes that everyone writes about, you first have to have a presence with regard to a Techorati rank, and Alexa rank, or both to get in the game.
The long and the short is that both of these ranking systems have little to do with making money in my mind. I personally have no interest in PPP, PPC, PPA, or any of the advertising schemes that require tons of time and effort. It is a double edge razor blade in my opinion, because you have to spend an unbelievable amount of time socializing and creating backlinks. It also is why bloggers burn out fast.
Technorati is notoriously bad for not sending traffic. And get this...everyone that measures traffic knows that bloggers don't click on ads or text links. So what is the point of pandering to other bloggers in the blogosphere to get their traffic. Even Darren Rowse has recently admitted that Adsense income was no longer worth cluttering his Problogger blog up with ads.
I can almost guarantee that if you spend much of your time in forums and social networks to gain popularity, you will have little to show for it except some nice ranks and bragging rights. All this indicates that it's time to get back to the idea of selling a niche product or service (a real product that fills a need) using a static website and driving traffic to that website. That is what online marketing is about. By best accounts, only a few dozen bloggers make a full time living out of 100 million blogs. Not a very good business model if you ask me.
A good Technorati and Alexa rank may be giving you the illusion that you are successful. The same is true for frequent posting. I have deliberately cut back on posting to see what would happen. You guessed it...Technorati and Alexa ranks drop like a rock, and very quickly. The effort to maintain your rankings is an endless nightmare of posts to blogs, and posting comments to social networks and forums. It is like being a shark, stop swimming and you die.
I am beginning to think a better approach is to use your blogging as part of a network traffic strategy to create desirable traffic. I also am going back to writing "pillar articles" for article directory submission. These end up as permanent links and keep on giving for years to come.
There are only four things that matter in online marketing, and they are in this order of importance:
1. Niche 2. Traffic 3. Monetization 4. Product
Notice that the product is the least important thing. Unless, you just write for kicks or the truly original purpose of blogging...to keep a journal, my money is on investing time online that will produce recurring revenue and better return on your investment of both time and money.
What are your thoughts or experience?
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If You Work in Difficult Conditions, Then A Rugged Laptop May Be Just What the Doctor Ordered
Rugged laptops are not cheap, you may know that already since you are interested in them. And they also don't come with the same configuration as the other commercial laptops you may be used to. What you get instead with a rugged laptop, is the possibility and flexibility to work in a lot of tough locations on difficult weather. That is the real value of a rugged laptop, value that earns all the money you may have paid for it.
If you work in a place where you find one of the below listed conditions, then you should really consider buying a rugged laptop:
Liquid All Over (including on your rugged laptop)
Rugged laptops have sealed keyboards that won't let the water or any other liquid to seep inside. Also, the ports that you will find on a ruggedized laptop are usually protected by efficient covers that keep the liquid away from connectors so you won't experience any unpleasant situations in wet environments.
Strong and Persistent Vibrations
Rugged laptops were designed with this issue in mind, they have strong components, a hard drive that resists to strong vibrations, things that commercial laptops don't do. Put a normal laptop in a vibrating environment and you may have the surprise of loosing data. Not with a rugged laptop.
They are also tested for...
Drops, Drops, Drops
During a work day you may drop your rugged laptop more than once. You should know that all the components inside it are strong and tested to withstand a strong impact: CPU, hard drive, optical devices, etc. The rugged laptop case is also strong not easy to break.
Electromagnetic Fields
Commercial notebooks won't perform well near an electromagnetic area such as radio transmissions, power generators, etc. A rugged laptop was actually designed to work in such environments, environments where commercial notebooks may actually stop working.
About the author: John Smith is the editor of MagicLaptop.com. Read the complete guide on "How To Buy A Rugged Laptop" www.MagicLaptop.com
Do you have a list of bloggers you like and want to recognize? This is what my Saturday Shoutouts project is all about.
This is where I give people a mini review as a mention in a weekly post, and then Stumble, Netscape, use other bookmarks, and write a few comments to their blog posts.
This week will be fairly brief with four bloggers instead of the targeted five blogs I attempt to call out each Saturday afternoon. Charlene is recognizing Breast Cancer Awareness Month by doing a pink overhaul at her Casual Keystrokes blog. Scott is happy to be an S.O.B. at Finding Your Marbles (great name for a blog). Then David points out the marketing value of YouTube in a post on Social Media Optimization, and there is Ilker at The Thinking Blog, who is always thinking for us.
Leave a comment and let me know what you are up to with your blogging efforts.
Doing a recent search on "SOHO", the obvious acronym for Small Office/Home Office (assuming that you are not from New York City), I came across this website for the SOHO Phone Guide.
It is a good example of "soft selling" and using what looks like a free consumer information guide to steer readers to a commercial enterprise. In this case, a shameless plug for Onebox. In my early marketing days before the days of the Internet, this may have also been referred to as an advertorial. A thinly disguised attempt at making an advertisement look like editorial content.
In this case the marketing message may be useful for those that are lazy, or perhaps less adept a putting some of the free online telephony solutions together for use in there small business adventures.
I was a Onebox early adopter when it first came online, and prior to it becoming a paid service. All-in-all, still a good option for those willing to pay a monthly fee for unified messaging and a one number follow-me type telephone service.
Once again time to acknowledge new friends and blogs worthy of note and interest. As is the new twist, you should get 3-4 extra links from being mentioned in my Saturday Shoutouts. Not sure why, but Shoutwire was being obstinate last week. That bookmark has been replaced with a bonus link. You also get a few comment or two on your blog and another Stumble for being picked.
This week we have Patrick from Top Secret Blogger and advice about staying on topic, John the Cow man is proud of his new look at John Cow Dot Com, and thoughtful design with Dawud at DawudMiracle. Round it out with what's up about music and cats at Wtfzup, plus Wendy at the new eMoms at Home (and Dads with Dawud again).
As might be expected, I too need the favors of social media networking, and those beloved comments on my personal blogs at the links that follow. -Digitalnomad
Here are a few other online Video Messaging systems I should have mentioned in my last post about TokBox. Everyone that uses the tried and true Skype will know that they have video capability. Other contenders are OoVoo.com, Yahoo Messenger, AIM, and many others I don't care to mention or promote.
Festoon,Inc. had a plug-in for video chat that supposedly worked with both Skype and Google Talk, but the free download is no longer available (website www.festooninc.com domain expired 8-30-07) .
The best of the lot is said to be SightSpeed. Below are two promotional screenshots from the Skype and SightSpeed websites to give you an idea if what to expect.
Sorry to say that I am behind on my testing, and hope to report my personal findings in the near future. No doubt that as telephones and computers continue to converge there will be more "Talk-and-See" options, just like predicted in the Dick Tracy comics and Flash Gordon movies from the 1930s.
This was noted on Jimmy Huen's Blog some time ago last month, and I must admit I was intrigued. Also a little bit embarrassed as I did not have a video camera to test it out. I finally ran out and bought a camera (still in the box).
I do fancy free or near free telephony and communication solutions, and probably will end up building my own private network one way or another. The idea of video chat will certainly figure into those plans. I want to be able to at least have this capability with a rugged laptop and some wireless solutions when on the road.
It may sound implausible, but it is not impossible. Follow this Digital Nomad and you know that just feeding the blogs is not going to cut it anymore. Blogging should be part of your online marketing network, but not a diversion.
Anything that goes viral online can be fun to watch, but sometimes it's even more exciting if you are part of the effort with some skin in the game. The Thinking Blog will make you think about many different things, and it will also make you think about viral marketing with the chance to start the new year right with a new laptop computer as part of an online promotion.
It's the middle of the weekend, so no heavy thought riddled posts today. Just some fun and games to let your mind roam a little. Maybe this should become a habitual weekend exercise to post about. Find something that is lighthearted, but still interesting and write a quick post about it.
Sorry to say that I am behind on my testing, and hope to report my personal findings in the near future. No doubt that as telephones and computers continue to converge there will be more "Talk-and-See" options, just like predicted in the Dick Tracy comics and Flash Gordon movies from the 1930s.
