Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Business - What are you thinking about?

What are the images that pop into your head when it comes to getting into business?  It might be something simple like a person that is dressed in a suit.  It might be a person pulling out a wallet and handing over a platinum business credit card to pay for a big purchase.

Can you see yourself opening up your laptop and pulling up the latest internet browser to view your online business bank accounts?  It is all about thinking and taking action to become a person that thinks and performs business.

What is a business person?  Is it all about the big business cars, business travel, and meeting with people at expensive lunches?  The bottom line with business is providing goods and services to people that will pay for them.

You are participating in business transactions right now.  You buy stuff.  Do you ever sell stuff?  Are you paying attention to what people are buying?   Could you bring products to market and sell them?

There are lots of people that have phones, but are they using them as business phones?  Are they just talking on the phone and wasting their minutes or are they putting plans in action to turn those cell phone minutes into real business income?  These are questions that you have to ask yourself.

There is one service that will continue to be needed.  It is called business marketing.  Sales and marketing are going to be an item that cannot be wasted or ignored.  Regular people have lots of messages coming at them and they will forget about a business.  

There are constantly new services, products and features that have to be sold.  Some items are getting old and new items and services are coming in to replace them.  Do you still use a brick sized cell phone?  Probably not.  Improvements are getting made and marketing and sales help you make the decision to upgrade to the current available options.

There are risks with getting into business.  Nothing always goes right.  This is why there is an option for business insurance.  It helps to have a plan in place for when things don't work the way that they are planned.  Insurance for a business is worth looking into.

What about the financing?  Where is the money going to come from to do the business?  The key is business financing.  Planning and action are just two important parts.  Business owners need to know about financing and accounting.  Learning about loan products and compound interest are worth putting the time and the effort into getting up to speed.  Where is the operation going to work from.  This is where real estate and internet technologies need to be checked.  Does it make sense to rent a place or buy a building for the business?  These are questions that need to be asked and answered.

What about finding good workers?  Are you ready to start taking on employees?  What about independent contractors?  What about farming the work out to another agency?   The questions about business are numerous.

You might not want to deal with employees in your business.  You might want to act like the larger established businesses and use outsourcing the work as a means of getting tasks and projects completed.

One thing is for sure, the advancement of business technology means that companies have more choices.  Running a business and knowing how it operates is just one part of the puzzle.  What about a laser focus on business strategy?  Just because you know how to do the business today does not mean that your business will be around in a few years. Just think about how technology changed the travel business.  People working as travel agents got creamed by software code and web browsers. 

Business is competition.  How do you make sure that your business is ready for the marketplace with all the information floating around.  Your propsects are armed with powerful information in their hands.  Is your team keeping up with the current market?  When is the last time that you took a look at business training for your niche?  

What is going to be your business model?  Are you going to spend lots of money on office space, using a virtual office program or working from home?  Things are changing quickly when it come to internet business. 

Writing, Typing and Practice for Evergreen Income

Build up your typing skills and you have a chance to really start using those skills online.  What is the benefit of typing faster?  It just means that you can create more content than the other guy online.

The need for information is like a flowing river that does not run dry.  More people are getting online and they have wants and needs when it comes to content.

Your fast typing skills gives you chance to capitalize on this new fact. There is still going to be an issue when it comes to getting people to visit your sites, but the first step is getting good quality content created.  The faster that you can type, the more content that is at your disposal.

What can you do with more content?  You can create your own websites and blogs and fill them up with your information.  There might be really tight niches that are really specific that you can write for.  This means sitting down and hammering the articles with your full force and concentration.

Sites are a great place to load your info.  Once you create your new info you have lots of choices.  A person might come to your site and they want to read specific niche info, your site could also include ads and newsletters to give them even more of what they want.

Just think about any topic and there is going to be a need for content.  The newsletters are just another way for people to stay informed.  People have lots of different passions and your content can help them learn more and do more.  

Information does not just have to be fun and games.  You can help niche markets find information that is tailored just for them.  There are different levels of information.  There is beginner information, intermediate information and advanced information.  People are at different stages of learning and your content can help them get to the next stage.

Writing information can be your strong suit.  You might be able to take a hard or difficult piece of information and break in down into smaller and easier to understand topics.  This is just one option for using your writing skills.  

You could also use your faster typing skills to take a difficult subject and put a different view on it.  Could you take a serious subject and find a way to make it entertaining or funny.  People can learn through different ways and you could be one of those people that is a fast writer than can fill that need.

The habit of writing can also be beneficial for you.  Just like everything else in the world, you have to keep on practicing.  Why not use your practicing to stay up to speed and add potential income streams at the same time.

You are writing articles and information products and at the same time, you are getting more work in the habits of good typing.  Instead of just writing those keys that don't make any sense on their own, you can put together real writing sentences and create real products.

The writing that you produce today might not turn into anything immediately.  This is not a big problem.  You need to consider the writing for the long term.  The articles that you write might pick up steam later on.  Just make sure that you write your articles in the evergreen way.  The evergreen way of writing means that your articles are not really tied down by topics or time frame.

You have the ability to improve your writing by investing some time.  Most people think about investing when it comes to money, but they are not thinking about investing in practicing and building their business.  You have a large potential pool of people online that are looking for information and only more of them are coming into the marketplace.  

Use some of your free time to practice to stay sharp when it comes to your writing skills.  Your practice might not lead to immediate quick online income in your bank account today, but you never know, you might open up your online accounts in the future to see more web visits or even a new online sale.  It all starts with writing more quality content and putting your skills to work.

Bills and Making Money Online

The monthly bills are rolling in on schedule.  Where is the money going to come from?  

Everyday people are walking to their mailboxes and dreading the bills that are coming.  They want to work, but they are stuck in the old mindset.

What is the new mindset?  It requires changing the way that you think and starting to take action.

Waiting is just not an option.  The internet is moving fast and if you are not focused, it can just pass you by.

Are you paying attention to all the changes going on in marketing?  Are you just using computers as a consumer and not as a producer?

The web is open for business, but most people are just not thinking about how to make it work for them.

There are lots of little task sites and freelance sites where people want to get work done.  This might not be a big income earner, but it could be extra money made online.


Sunday, August 17, 2014

Watch Videos on Marketing, Business and Web Programming

There are some really great videos that you can watch on youtube related to business and getting started.
All you need to do is head over there and see the different topics.  What are some of the videos?  I like to watch videos on web programming, marketing and starting a business.

The videos that are focused on marketing and advertising are really topical.  Right now, there is a big change happening with ads.  More people are connecting to the web with mobile devices and this is bringing a new biz opp for ad providers.  

The ad companies and agencies are also getting on the tech wave.  The big tech change is happening in the way that ads get purchased.  Everybody understands the stock market.  This is how the new advertising platforms are starting to operate.  The software is beginning to have a bigger part in buying ad spots ( programmatic ads ).  Watch videos from ( appnexus and ad:tech conferences).

The web programming videos are really good too.  So many new programs and ways of creating online sites are getting released.  The videos on the newer database technologies like mongodb and cassandra are just two that are interesting.  The scripting languages are also making some headway.  The angular.js and node.js videos are interesting concepts.

There are plenty of good videos that talk about starting a business.  A few good places to start are glendon cameron, hip hop motivation, and kinghuman.  You can always get even more good ideas by looking in the sidebar of the videos.   Youtube recommends a lot of other good stuff.  

Start watching those videos and get started with your business.

Control Your Business

What is going to be your home business?  One of the fast ways to get into business online is to promote products.

How can you promote products using the internet?  You could setup your own sites or you can market online without a website.

What are some of the ways to market online without a website?  The answer is really simple.  nowebsiteincome.com is one site that talks about it.  Just think about how to share a message without spending money on your own web hosting.  You might want to promote using documents.

How could you promote with documents?  You could use your writing skills to create regular old docs that contain your affiliate links or phone numbers.  You would need to share the docs and get them into the view of your prospects.

Getting a link from a program that pays for leads is one of the first steps.  After you get that under you belt, you have to come up with a plan that marries the prospects with the offers that fit.  

One of the ways that people promote online is with videos.  You can think about it like tv.  You watch lots of shows on tv, but they have tv ads in between the regular content.  

Another way that people might promote is offline.  Internet marketing is hot and always a topic of discussion, but you don't really hear a lot about offline marketing.  This is a big deal because people still walk through stores and walk around and buy stuff.  You might not have a website, but you could be promoting offers in an offline fashion.

What are some of the downsides to marketing other vendors products?  You are not in real control over anything.  The vendor could go out of business and you would have wasted some time promoting offers that are no longer there.  

Offers for products and services can come and go.  This is just a part of business. When you are relying on another business for your business, this could be a problem.  

You might want to test the marketing waters with affiliate programs at the beginning, but it might be helpful to take a look at your business model for the long term.  Do you want to put your business in the hands of another company?

You see this a lot online.  The rules of business can change and you have to be ready to deal with them.  You can think about how the search engine optmization market keeps changing.  The search engines run their business and it has a big impact on all those people that are rely on search engine traffic.  You might have even heard people talk about how their sites lost traffic because of the changes.  This is just an example.  Build your business with more control locked in.

What can you do to get more control over you business?  

Saturday, August 16, 2014

Options for Blogging

You can create all kinds of sites online.  Take something that you really enjoy and see if you can make a site with it.

Writing might not be your thing.  There is still space online for more than just writing text online.  Sure, there are plenty of people that immediately think about writing when it comes to online sites, but not everybody falls into that category.

Take some pictures and post them to your blog.  You have heard the old saying about a picture is worth a thousand words, right?  Get a cheap digital camera and take some photos.  Share your pics online through your photo blog.  People might come to your site to see the interesting photos that you post.

Photos and pictures get shared in different places online. You see pictures all over places like facebook and twitter.  Social media is a perfect outlet for sharing good looking photos.

What if you are not good with taking pics?  Don't stop because of that.  You have some choices.  You can get better at taking pics with time.  Just like anything else, you want to do more of it to get better.

The other option for photos is to use programs to create graphics.  There are some inexpensive graphics softwares that you can use to make great looking images.  

Your images don't have to be serious.  They could even be really funny.  Just take a look at some of the funny meme pics that are available.  You might be a really funny person that could come up with great tag lines for pictures.  This is what memes are all about.

What if you don't want to take pics?  Go in the other direction and hit the record button and become a podcaster.  Do you like talking about stuff?  Do you like educating?  Do you just want to share some of your opinions?  Record your stuff and put it on your blog.

Another option for recording is to bring your articles to life by putting a voice to them.  You might already have a lot of articles in your hands, but they are on a blog, but they are not getting the traction that you think they deserve.  What about opening up a recording program create an mp3 of the articles?  There is a whole group of people that might ignore a long article, but they might listen to a great mp3 about subject they are interested in.  Just think about the busy people that don't feel they have the time to sit down and read a super long article.  How much easier is it to download an mp3 file and press play?

Just a few options for your blogging.  

Content 4 Sites - Easy Blogging

The content needs are busting at the seams.  All you need to do is consider all the different blogs that are currently online.  Only more of them will get launched.  Blogging is a form of web development that makes it easy for anyone to share online without knowing all the rough details of setting up hard core websites with coding and programming.

Why is blogging the method that people choose to get online?  The answer is really simple.  It is just ease of use and the other is the quality of the blogging systems.  

The blogs that are online now look just as good as some of the expensive hard coded sites.  It does not have to take a long time to get a blog online that just looks amazing.  You might be thinking about days or weeks, but really blogs can get launched in a matter of minutes and they will still look like a high valued site.

Content is the real difference maker for blogs.  The sites need to keep getting fresh content loaded that people want to read.  This is where the problem comes in for most people.  They might be all charged up at the beginning, but they don't have the stamina to keep on pumping out those great articles day after day.  

There is a solution for getting the content for these blog sites.  You can do it all yourself and end up hitting the blogging and writing wall or you could start using leverage.  

What is the leverage for blogging?  The leverage is plr content.  Instead of doing all the writing by yourself, you get your content from article files that are created by other writers.  They make the content available and you take the extra step of customizing them for your sites.

You might open an article and see that it is really a general article on a topic that you have some knowledge about.  You can take that article and add to it and change it up to make it perfect for your site.  Using the article on the front of the blog is a helper.   

The blogs need to get new information all the time.  People come to blogs and they want to read something new.  This plr content can be helpful in keeping your blog readers updated with something else to chew on.

The content can also be used a quick way to get up to speed on new topics.  You might not have all of the details about a subject, but this type of information can at least get you into the ball park.  

Blogs are so quick and easy that they are just like doritos chips.  You know the sayings about doritos?  You cannot have just one.  The same thing is popping with blogs.  You learn how to use them and you will find a way to set up another and another.  This will quickly complicate things when it comes to your content levels.  This is just one more reason to turn to content from private label sources.

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Now, you have the inside scoop on how to get content for blogs.  You can find these articles really easily by searching online.  Download them and store them in a safe place.  Open the files and take a good look at what you have.  You might come across some good content that you can use on your sites.  Another tip for using these articles is for a mailing list if you have one.

Thursday, August 14, 2014

Starting Small with a free blog

Get a free blog and see where you can take it.  Some blogging systems are available online for really no cost but your time.  

This can be a way to learn about blogging and sharing information.  Another positive point for using free blogging is typing.

You can help enhance your typing skills with your blog.  Hitting the keys over and over again can help you stay sharp with your typing skills.

The blog that does not cost you anything is still very powerful. You have a place where you can talk about the things that catch your interest.  You will need to make sure to go by the rules of the blogging platform.

You don't just have to focus all of your blogging efforts on writing.  Blogs are also great for showing interesting pictures, videos and audios.

Your free blogging site might not become a household name, but it does not matter, you just want to start improving.

The free blog that you setup could be the stepping stone to other online ventures.  A blog is also a way to start connecting with others online.  You might post some content and then get some blog comments from people that read your stuff.

What if you already have something to sell? You could use your free blog to help sell your stuff.  If you don't already have a product, you could come up with one and use the blog for more marketing.

The one price for a free blog that you cannot avoid is time.  You are spending your time on a free platform that does contain some risk.  What is the big risk with free sites?  The problem of getting a site banned or deleted is real.  You might open up your blogging account to find that it is gone and it really sucks. 

Don't take a free site lightly.  Just think about all the ways that you can gain more experience and grow.  The small beginnings of a site might lead to something bigger in another way.

Is Your Website Ready for Mobile Web Users

Start paying attention to the changes happening online.   One of the changes is how easy it is to build a website.  A website is the entrance into the online business game.

Newer web development technologies are making it simple to build great looking sites.  Why the big need for the change?  The reality is that people are coming online with different devices.  

Welcome to the mobile internet.  The web is getting accessed by people with different computing devices and this has caused a need for change.  There are lots of websites that have older designs.  The old websites might be considered obsolete.  

A mobile web user can pull up a webpage, but it might not show up correctly on the screen.  This can be a big problem for the website owner.  The web owner is doing everything that they can to get people to visit the site and a bad user experience could mean a complete waste of time and resources.  A mobile optimized or responsive website is what is needed.

Why the need for mobile responsive?  There is more than one game in town.  The old days of the web would be used by people sitting at home with a desktop computer or a laptop.  Mobile devices are getting online with different screen sizes and different operating systems.  This new complexity means that some older websites that are coded without mobile internet users in mind will need to come up to the latest standards.

Business owners might still have basic webpages that were built with basic html and text.  You know that some business owners are not keeping up with all the new changes in technology.  They might be keeping their heads down focusing on doing the business and not thinking about how important new web development techniques can be to the company.

The good news is there are new web dev frameworks and platforms that can be used.  Designers and programmers are coming up with great new ways to use tools.  The average business owner is probably not going to know the difference between html and javascript.  They just want to get a solution to their internet marketing and web development problems.  Some of them might not even realize that they have a problem.

Don't make the mistake of believing that a website is done once it has been created. New technologies are being released and it is changing the game in business.  Make sure that you invest some time to learn the upgrades and new mobile development options that are available.  

Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Services or Products

There are only so many hours in a day to provide services.  What can you do to get past this hurdle?  It might be time to start thinking about creating digital and physical products.

The great option of creating a product, especially a digital product, is that you don't have to worry about money for time.  When you are providing a service, you are tied to the clock.  When you have a real product or a digital product, you just deliver the item.

Digital items have a big advantage.  There is no limit to the product.  You could have people downloading your information from around the globe and you don't have to worry about keeping the item in stock.  They just pay for the product and they hit the download button and you are done.

It is important for the business owner to start thinking about how they can create digital products to get out of the money for time trap.  Think about the information products that you can create.  You might not want to be a writer, but you are in luck.  There are other forms of digital products.  

What about creating video information products?  Can you come up with a great info product for your market?  If you are unwilling to be in front of the camera, you could choose to do audio programs or use software to create your videos.

It is time to starting thinking about different ways to earn income without spending all of your time.  Think about creating information once and getting paid from it over and over again.  


Tuesday, August 5, 2014

Time Management - Getting more from your time

What are you doing with your free time?  Are you just sitting back at home and watching the tv?  If you are going to be about business, you have to be about business.
You could take the same time that you are wasting and instead, put your time to good use.  Think about getting the most of the time that you have.  Planning and time management are two big ways to get ahead of the game.

Instead of wasting your time doing things that don't lead to your goals, you could be productive as much as possible.  It might be something simple like making a list of the tasks that need to get done.  It could be outsourcing some of the work.  It could be finding the things that are really worth doing and not doing the things that don't lead to getting your goals completed.

The tv can be on in the background, but you want to get the most done with your time.  It is time to start measuring. You might remember in the past the whole franklin covey time management system books.  It is time to start getting smarter about improving your business.

You probably already know some things that could be done to help your business.  Instead of putting them on the back burner, start marking them off of your lists.  Take the time and get one of those smaller tasks completed.  It is one more thing that is off of your list.

Do you need to upgrade your website?  Do you need to get more content for your blog?  Start inching closer to your overall goals.  The tv shows are fine, but the real question is how is your business doing?

Sunday, August 3, 2014

Include Email Marketing in Your Online Site Plans

Are your sites premium online inventory?  The web is filled with different kinds of content and more people are getting online.  One of the business models that people immediately try to use is online ads.
The idea is to generate web traffic to your sites and then leverage that traffic into income from ads.  Do you have the kind of content that advertisers want to pay for? What if you don't generate it? 

Don't just think about the web traffic on the front end.  There is another way to stay relevant.  The concept of email marketing might seem old, but it is still a way to earn income.

Loading your content sites up with ads might be a turn off to some of your visitors.  Another business model for content is to get your prospects to sign up for an email newsletter.  

The email newsletter could deliver even more valuable content to the people that really want it.  People love creating blogs and constantly updating their sites and this is a good idea, but if they are not adding a mailing list sign up box, they are potentially missing the long term game.

You can post some content on your blog and it just does not get the love that it deserves.  Email marketing gives your content another chance to reach your audience. 

Creating high quality content for your site is job one, but you should not put all of your eggs into one basket. You want to open as many different revenue streams as you can.  Internet ads for the front of your blog or site is just about a given, don't forget to include email marketing in your online site plans.

Internet Marketing Advertising - Did you sell cookies to raise money in school?

Start your own internet marketing advertising company from your home office.  The web is the online platform for sharing information and selling.

There are lots of companies that are already in business that have products to sell.  Everyday, new companies are getting started and they have the same idea in mind when it comes to selling products and services.

The need is real for people and companies that can come up with new ways to sell.  The internet is the global platform and there are different methods for attracting traffic and getting people to buy.

You could be sitting at your home office computer and conducting real business.  Create campaigns and turn your thoughts and ideas into workable online solutions for businesses.

Can you get the right products for the right groups of people?  The web is filled with new information and the information is only growing.  You might have already heard about the new massive waves of data that is called big data.

Data is getting created for lots of different reasons.  More data means companies have more information to measure.  They want to use this data and turn it into sales.  

You might come up with the perfect way to use data and come up with internet marketing ads that drive the point home to the right audience.  Advertising is not a new idea.  You might have already had your own chances in the past to participate in advertising and sales. 

The school candy sale and the school bake sale are just two examples of learning about business, marketing and advertising.  You learned the costs of the products.  You got the product in hand ( candy bars ) and you had to find a sales strategy ( sell the candy to the people that worked with your parents ). 

The truth is that you have already dipped your toes into the business world, but you might not have been paying a lot of attention.  Business is happening all around you and now we have the internet to help get business done.

Marketing and advertising are business services that are tough to put your hands around.  You are using your ideas.  It is a part of the creative class.  You are not limited when it comes to setting up an internet marketing advertising company.

The web takes the old school idea of the candy sale and takes it up a notch.  You don't have to worry about bringing home boxes of candy and eating them all before you get a chance to sell them.  You can get into internet advertising with just a few business tools and you don't even need to have physical products to sell.  The internet is available for more than just selling physical goods.  You can focus your attention on digital or physical products.

It is now time to start putting on your thinking cap.  Can you come up with new online strategies and internet ads?  You can do it.  It does not take long to learn about online ads.  

You might want to learn about creating headlines and making classified ads to start.  There are free classifieds where you can test your offers.  The other thing to remember about becoming a business owner is that you might not do all of the work on your own.  What about outsourcing some of the work?

You might be good at bringing in the business.  Getting the work completed can be a task that you may want to outsource.  There are lots of resources online.  The internet is big and there are lots of people that are looking for services and tasks.  It might be you strong point to bring the right people together at the right time to get the projects done.

Project management is a big business.  Can you line up the work and work the plan until it reaches success?  You can do it.

The first step is to start looking for the opportunities.  The internet is here and there are lots of changes.  With each change, more opportunities arise.  Your internet marketing advertising company might start out on the kitchen table, but you don't know, it could turn into something bigger in the future.  Start dreaming big when it comes to business.