Friday, August 28, 2015

Data and More Data - Think about your business

Learning about the new nosql databases.  Data and big data are the hot talk.  What are you doing about big data for your business?  Are you thinking in terms of large amounts of data and how it could help your business or transform your business?

You might be hearing about new ways of getting things done because of tech.  Crowdfunding and crowdsourcing are two new areas.  People have lots of tech floating around.  People can pull up websites with their mobile phones.  They can follow causes or create new ones.   New business models are coming into the real with the power of new tech.

How is more tech and more data going to change the way that you do business?  Tech does change things.  Do you go into the bank and talk to a teller to do your banking or do you use the atm machines and your debit cards to get transactions completed?  Are you using mobile banking apps or picking up the telephone to talk to bankers?  Tech is advancing and the businesses advance too.

Data is all around and more data is on the way.  You might have heard about the internet of things.  This is where the devices are getting connected and plugged into the network.  This means even more data is going to be created.  Learning about big data and how to use data for your business is going to be needed.  Waiting is not an option.  The big data options are all ready lining up.

Start taking online tutorials talking about the nosql databases.  Start thinking about how your business can use big data.  Learn some of the programming languages and coding frameworks.  Even if you are not going to be the person that is doing the coding, just learning an overview can be helpful.

The changing tech landscape creates winners and losers.  Just like when the new tech in the old days came into the forefront, some companies jumped on the bandwagon fast and others were lagging behind.  Don't be like the companies that didn't get a fax number until it was too late.  The web and networking and programming are changing the way that things get done.

Thursday, August 27, 2015

Coding Tutorials on the internet

Learning how to code on the internet with online tutorials might be a way to start getting into the world of online business.  Learning how to create quick websites and blogs and posting content could be a chance for going after online income from niche web sites.

The idea of making general websites or niche websites might cause some people to immediately stop in their tracks and have a head filled up with fear like they were being chased by some of the zombies on the fear of the walking dead, but learning how to code on the internet with tutorials and videos could be the cure.

Coding t shirt

The online tutorials take you through the basics of learning how to code websites and more.  You just have to know the right places to look online.  Creating niche websites with your new found computer and programming skills could bring some new confidence.  Learning any new topic could be a scary thing to do.  Just taking the first steps of entering in the domain name of the tutorial site is taking the first step in learning.

Landing on a tutorial site and getting started is going to be key.  Are you going to make some mistakes?  Yes.  Are you going to learn?  The learning is going to be up to you.  Just make sure that you have the time set aside to read the exercises and do the work.  Keep on practicing and applying the information that you are getting.

What kinds of topics are covered in the tutorials on the web?  You can find everything from beginning programming courses to advanced programming videos.  Just remember that people are going to college to learn how to code and some people are spending big bucks to go to code schools.  Other people are learning how to program and code online by putting in the time and effort on their own.

Once you learn how to build web pages and blogs, you are on the unstoppable path.  How many websites can you create?  How many different niches can you tackle?  It now turns into the ideas of your mind and turning those ideas into real online websites.

Some people think about making sites for their own portfolios that they want to keep and grow.  Other people like making websites with the idea of finding a buyer and selling it to them at a profit. 

Creating simple websites with blogging tools is one thing, but learning how to code means that you can create your own solutions to problems.  What types of online tutorials are you going to take first? Are you going to learn about the newer nosql databases like mongodb?  Are you going to learn the scripting programming languages like php or phython?  There are lots of languages and programming frameworks to check out.  Have you heard about the javascript frameworks?   They keep on releasing new tools and you should take the tutorials to get an idea of how they work.


Learning Online with Tutorials and Videos

A laptop computer and the internet can be a learning ground for your online business. You could be turning on the youtube channel and watching information that could help you learn about building a business.

You might be learning the tools for setting up your own website or web application.  You could be learning how to program computers with languages like asp, php, or python.  You could be learning how to do online database programming with the new tools like sql and nosql databases.

There are lots of tutorials online and new online frameworks for building applications.  Learning about design, css, bootstrap and other javascript frameworks for building good looking and responsive sites that can work for desktop users or mobile users.

The internet is filled up with information and you can learn all kinds of topics.  After getting the education online, it will be up to you to come up with new ideas and put your new found skills to work.

Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Blogging Home Business - Blog Your Passions

Get to blogging online the easiest way.  Are you going to be ready to drop big money on a blogging setup?  You might want to ease into your blogging by setting up a free blog, but with a twist.

The twist in your online blogging could be getting a low cost domain name and learning how to use the blogger system.  

Pointing your blogger site to a real domain name just makes it look better to the outside world. 

Adding some adsense to your site and creating some articles should be a good way to get your blogging skills off the starting line.  

Learn how to create some headlines and add the content that you want to add. It could be some fun articles that are geared around one of your favorite topics.  It could be something that you have a little bit of passion around.

So just take a simple thing like your favorite sports team.  Could you write up a few articles on it?  You could talk about the upcoming season. You could talk about the mistakes that the management makes.  You could talk about the stupid play calls that caused the team to lose games.  This is all content around something that you enjoy.  

The easy articles might not bring in big traffic numbers, but you are getting off the sidelines and getting into the online blogging game.  Will your sports team favorite bring in dollars into your account?  It might not be a cash generator, but you are moving from doing nothing to actually getting some stuff done online.

After learning how to do a blogger site, you might be ready to get a little deeper into the blogging world by setting up your own web hosting account.  The options for your blogging grow from there.

Instead of just posting articles about your favorite team, you might create a newsletter for even more chances to go after income.  You might also want to join some related affiliate marketing programs and even start branching off into other content types besides just writing articles.

Once you build up one blog website, you realize that you can do more of them.  The word flashing in your head right now is niche, niche, niche.  You might have more than just one passion.  Could you start setting up some other sites and talk about more of your online interests?  


Social Media from home biz

Social media and content creation could happen from your home business.  Lots of companies are turning to social media for a chance to connect with customers and drive in new business leads.

Setting up social media profiles and creating content for social network apps could be your at home business.  This could include getting in on creating new videos and posting them to your social media accounts.

You might already have lots of content, but social media sharing may give that content some new life.  Just think about all of those blog posts that you created on blogs that don't get any love at all.  What about working from home and sharing that content on your status updates.

New social media options get released all the time and there are going to be opportunities for helping others get up to speed.  It might be creating information products around new social media apps and becoming an early adopter.




Design Design

Working from home business in design could be one of your ways of going after online income.  You can find software programs that could help create digital images.

Designing graphics and images could be helpful for other online businesses.  Just think about all the different types of websites and blogs online that want to have more than just text on their sites.  They might want to have headers or other images designed to make their sites look customized.  Don't forget about creating logo designs and other types of custom designs.

Web design is another potential work from home business.  Learn about wordpress and other web development systems and look into creating custom designs or themes.  Becoming a designer from home might be a longer term income plan.

Joomla templates and wordpress templates are widely used on the internet.  People hunt online for good free wordpress themes and good free joomla designs.  Some home business people in the template design business might offer free templates to drive traffic, but also offer premium custom designs for sale.  Just take a look at some of the blogging platforms to get a good idea of what is possible.  Could you create your own online theme store filled with your designs?  You might even branch out and outsource some of the designs to other designers on the web.

Styles and designs can become old.  Just think about how you pull up a website that has not been touched when it comes to design for years. New technologies get released and companies want to freshen up their look.  Creating new designs with software is a way to work from home.  Design is everywhere.  


Tuesday, August 18, 2015

Custom Tee Shirts

Working from home with a small home office business might be done with design.  Designing stuff like t shirts might be done from home.

There are software programs for doing designs.  The custom t shirt business is taking off online. Have you been on facebook or other social media apps and seen custom t shirts that are being advertised?

The custom shirt business plays right into a few things online.  Niche marketing with social media and search engine advertising are ripe for the custom shirt market.

Funny custom t shirt designs could be done on your computer or you might think a little bit bigger. One of the advances of the current technology options is outsourcing.  You can get designs completed for a low cost on the web.  You already know some of the sites online where can get designs completely for really low prices.  

Teespring is just one of the sites where you can easily create custom tee shirt designs and drive traffic.  Working from home might not even require a really great fancy design.  What if you can come up with really catchy or funny phrases for t shirts?

The internet is right in front of your eyes. The home business could be a real tee shirt business where you invest in the equipment for making your own t shirts.  You can find online tutorials and videos that show you how to do it.


Home Biz Home Biz Office Dreams

Chasing after your own home business dreams might be the road to take.  What are the goals of your home business?

Do you have dreams of being able to pull out your american express gold card and get what you need for your business?  It could be buying a computer to help write your next ebook.

It could be pulling out your american express platinum card and picking up some badly needed computer printer paper that needs to be placed inside of your hp color laserjet printer.

It could be entering your american express card into online pay per click account to start running ads for your new online marketing campaign for list building or direct linking to new offers.

You are sitting in your big black leather chair thinking about all the stuff that you are going to do when your home business takes off and you have to go and get a big office building to hold your new success.

It might just start with an idea and pulling out that amex card. 

Beauty Niche Websites

Beauty niche websites could be one of your niche topics for web development.  Do you think people buy cosmetics?  

Get a cheap domain name related to your topic.  Take a look at some of the sites that are going to sale at the domain name flipping sites.  

Sign up for affiliate marketing programs.  Find content sources for your websites.  You don't have to stop with just one niche website.

Do some keyword research to see what people are searching online.  Checking the paid traffic sources to find what people are paying for clicks could be helpful.

Start making your own keyword lists for your online content.  Write articles or get the articles outsourced.  

How are you going to go after income from the site?  Contextual ads, information products and cost per action ads might all be on the table.

Are you going to build up a mailing list?  Are you going to keep the site for long term income or are you going to create the site to flip to another buyer?


Work from home work from home

The ideas could be just running through your head.   How can a person get in on the world of internet affiliate marketing and earn from the place of a home office.  

The technology of the computers and the faster internet services make it possible to do things that would seem like they were crazy.  

People could go into business from their house and it does not have to be some type of scam.  It could be a real business that is run with the help of technology.

The business might be something simple like using a computer to write content.  Writing content is a real business.  

Writing content is not the only thing.  What about getting into the technology business from home?  People that know how to write computer code might be able to make money from a home computer office.

Don't forget about the new changes happening and how applying those changes could be a biz opp.  Just a couple of years ago people might have looked at you crazy if you started to talk to them about social media.  Now, social media is a real thing and companies are learning how to use it for their businesses.  Could this be done from a home office worker?

Another potential at home business could be jumping into the marketing business.  What kind of products need marketing? Just about all of them.  Marketing from a home office might mean coming up with your own websites or headlines or articles.

Working from home with technology really means just working away from a big office building. You might be working at a coffee house or working outside on a beach with a good strong internet connection.

Could writing a book be considered a real business that could be done from home?  You could come up with all kinds of information products and sell them on the internet. Is this a real internet work at home business?

What about picking up some internet coding skills and learning how to program computers.  People are getting on the tech wave and learning the new platforms and putting out products.  What about creating apps that work on the new mobile phones that are expensive, you know the big smartphones are not cheap.  

Coding applications from a home office is not like a pipe dream.  People are at their computers daily coming up with new software programs for different markets.

What about going into the internet marketing business and building up an email marketing list?  Some marketers create sign up boxes for newsletters and the put them online.  They get people to subscribe to the lists and then they give them lots of content and offers that are related to the list.  List building is a big topic on the internet.  


Sams Club walking through the doors

Pulling into the sams club parking lot and searching for a good parking spot.  Find a little bit of shade that requires turning the car around.  Getting out of the car and walking towards the sams club entrance on a really hot day.  Find a little bit of shade while walking and heading for the door.  The kettle corn dealer is out in front and you can smell the sweet flavor in the air.  Walk through the doors and see the massive amount of shopping carts that are all clustered right outside of the doors.  The sams club greeter is right inside.  You take a few moments to select a cart and hope it is a good one that rolls really well and does not make a lot of noise.  Sometimes you pick the wrong one and you are constantly thinking about the squeaking while you are picking up things and dropping them into the cart.  Only a few steps into the store and you have no option but to stop or slow down a little bit.  There is a massive wall of big screen tvs that are like a big magnetic pull that will not let you go.  You cannot believe the pricing on the tags that are below the huge screens.  You can't sit there all day, you have other things to do.  You start thinking to yourself.  It is almost football season.  The preseason is starting to kick off and wouldn't it be great to kick back and watch the game on one of these monsters.


Travel Niche Websites

Another type of site to add to the online portfolio could be the travel website.  People like travelling to new places and they are in the buying mode.

People travel for all types of reasons.  It could be business travel.  It could be travelling for a summer vacation.  It could be travelling back home to visit with family and friends.

Travel has lots of other things tied to it.  What is tied into travel?  People are going to need a place to stay.  This means that there could be openings for affiliate offers for hotel rooms.  People are also going to need to get around.  This means searching for car rentals.  Sure, some people might be using some of the new car services like uber or lyft, but most people are going to want to be in control of the driving.  Spending money while away from home is going to happen.  People are going to be buying food so think about restaurants.

Some people might be travel every once in a while, but others might be big time travelers.  Business travel people might be on the road a lot.  You might want to consider setting up a newsletter to send even more travel information.

Checking for cheap flights and cheap hotels is probably going to happen a lot.  Some travelers might not want to go the cheap route.  There could be luxury travelers that want to experience the best that the travel industry has to offer.  This could even be a different niche.

Top travel locations might even warrant a specific niche site.  Think about las vegas.  There are lots of different things to do when travelling.  Business travelers might be heading off to national conventions or special seminars that are just for their line of business.  Las vegas has more than just big hotels.  People might also be in town to catch entertaining shows or do lots of shopping in the upscale vegas shopping malls.  

Creating websites around the traffic niche might be an option worth checking into.  There are lots of affiliate programs that have offers for the travel niche.

Online Discount Shopping

You might be seeing more offers for setting up sites that focus on internet ecommerce.  

Shopping online and people looking for online discounts is a real thing in the world.  The internet shopping niche is a huge one.

How are people getting into the online selling lane?  They might be using some of the big shopping sites to sell their products, but now people are starting to move to creating their own shopping sites.

Creating ecommerce sites is not that hard these days because there are software applications that can be installed and setup.  The next step is one that pops up online all the time.  The main source is going to be traffic and products.

The paid traffic options are already in place for online discount store owners to plug into for the visitors.  Think social media traffic sources and search engine traffic sources for a clue.

Some people might be using other platforms for their selling, but they might be ready to start setting up their own sites for more control.  Think about craigslist, amazon and ebay when you are thinking about big ecommerce sites.

You might be seeing lots of information products that talk about using the existing platforms for making income.  There are going to be people who want to just plug into the systems and let them do some of the unwanted hard work.  


Saturday, August 8, 2015

Websites Built up to keep or sell

Create websites and start posting content to them.  Making websites with easy to use software is the way to get the job done.

The layout of a design is simple when you use a program like wordpress to develop your new sites.  You can find free and premium wordpress templates or wordpress themes on the web.

The next step is finding graphics and content to post on the new website.  For graphics, you could use your own talent and skills.  Find software programs that are simple to use.  You could also outsource some of this work for low cost designers on sites like fiverr.  

Getting content is up to you also.  If you like writing, you could just write for the site.  You might also want to check into private label rights articles for low cost or free content.

After you get your site going, you can start thinking about the future plans.  Are you going to keep on putting up new content?  Are you going to let your site stand alone as a niche site and drive traffic with paid advertising?  Are you going to build up a newsletter? You might even want to think about selling the site and doing the whole process over again.

Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Worthless Web Page

Sometimes you search the web and you wonder what you are doing wrong.  I went to a search engine and typed in a few keywords.  The results came back and I went through a few of the pages and one page really shocked me.

The page was filled with words that just didn't make any sense.  At first, I thought that I was just reading it wrong, but it was not me, it was the content.  It seemed like a computer program just continued to spit out words until it hit a specific number or something.

I sat back and thought to myself, am I going about this whole thing wrong?  You create articles and post them online and they do nothing.  You pull up a search engine page and you see the stuff that actually makes it through ( high in the search results ) and you have to sit back and wonder if it is even worth it.


Online Business World

Another way to approach the online business world is to get other referrers to sign up for online programs.  The affiliate marketing programs might be different, not all will have another layer.  

Everybody knows about the click bank program, but some might not be aware of the other program called jvzoo.  

This program offers the instant option for some offers.  It is not like clickbank where you can promote just about anything they offer.  With jvzoo, you have to apply to each program.

Are you ready to break into the referral game?  Just visit this location first.

http://www.jvzoo.com/register/5917

Getting Traction for Your Content

Entering information into your blog might seem like you are just tossing a pebble into a lake.  You see the rock flying from your hand without a clue of whether it will make any difference.

How many blog posts have you written?  Did they return anything back to you?  You just never know when the equal and opposite reaction will occur.  You might try giving your blog posts a little bit of extra help by using some of your social media accounts to share the content.

Sharing content on your twitter account or your other social media outlets might give your content another chance to strike it rich.  The one thing to remember about the social media streams is that the data keeps on coming like the waves of the sea.  They just don't stop.  So you might post it and it disappears quickly like it went down a garbage hole.

Your blog content might also be shared using documents.  You know that creating a pdf is really easy.  Just copy and paste the url of your articles into your docs and save them.  You could then share that information online.

So you might have blog posts that are not getting any love online, but you don't have to stop with just hitting the publish button.  You can do some other stuff to help get that content some traction.

The shirt business

One of the topics that people are talking about these days are t shirts.  T shirts, yes t shirts.  What is the big deal? People are selling t shirts online and some people are making money.

It is really a mixture of technology and social media and advertising.  You have lots of people on the social media pages and people buy ads targeting different groups.  T shirts get designed on an easy to use platform and then social media traffic ads send the visitors.  The low cost of getting started is one reason that people like going after the t shirt money.

Some people make t shirt designs that are really simple while others make really detailed shirts.  What if you are not a great designer?  You might still get around this because of the internet.

You can find some designers that can create t shirt designs on sites like fiverr.  What is fiverr?  It is one of those low cost job sites where people can get things done for five dollars.  It might sound crazy, but there are some people that will work for those five dollars.

So you might be able to get into the t shirt business.  Getting the designs done is one thing, but you also have to consider the other half which is buying traffic to send to the offer.  This means learning how to use advertising programs for the search engines and for the social media sites.  

Games

Making the affiliate marketing business a part of your online game is going to be a fun adventure.  Get down to the business of planning everything out and then come up with a way to do it.

Are you going to play your marketing game online or offline?  Games are fun and you might even forget that you are doing some work.  Part of the game is going to be coming up with content.  Can you come up with a fun way to make content for the web?

What comes to your mind when you think of a person with a really big mouth? You know the type of person that just keeps on talking and talking and talking.  You might think negatively about this type of person in one way, but it could be a great asset in a different format.  What if this is a person that is in the sales business?  They might be perfect when it comes to talking about offers?  It might be just like a game for them when it comes to selling.

What type of game are you going to use for your business?  There are plenty of different kinds of games and you are going to be the one that makes it up.  You might have your own website and you come up with a game for how many different ways a person could think to share it.  This might sound stupid, but hey, it is your game and you are the game designer.

Now, you can go back to thinking about how you are going to use games for your affiliate marketing.

Monday, August 3, 2015

How can web traffic be generated?

Content posted online

links to that content

typing in a web address into a web browser

typing in search terms on a search engine page

downloading apps with links inside

desktop applications with hyperlinks

social media pages

documents with links or just plain text of web addresses

email messages 

newsletters

videos 

audios

domain names

printed materials

word of mouth

tv ads

pay per click search engine advertising


Social Media Traffic - Taking Photos


Social media applications are all over the web.  People love using social media to share information in the form of pictures, videos and text.  Learn to stay up on the latest developments in this new form of media.

Are you using the fast growing and popular site called instagram?  This is social media.  People post photos and they share them with friends and followers.  The people can add their comments in the comment section, plus other social media accounts can be leveraged to help deliver more traffic.  Think about facebook and twitter being integrated with your ig account.