Make Mistakes and Keep Moving Forward

Starting your own online site is possible with blogger.  You can get your feet wet in the online world by creating a blog. 

A simple blog is your online publishing platform.  A blog is an instant global marketing platform.  

Writing content in a blog presents you with a great opportunity.  Sign up for google adsense and create engaging content on the topics that you are passionate about.

Blogging can be done on your own schedule.  You can create lots of content offline and then upload it when you want.

You can run your blog like a magazine.  Think about all the topics that you want cover ahead of time.  Planning your blog is a simple step.

Create the blog categories that you want to touch.  Create a list of keywords that you want to cover.  Find content sources to help you get off the ground.

Don't forget to make your blog a multimedia platform.  Take pictures and create graphics.  Make videos about your topics.  Make audio programs.  Keep your site updated with new content for your audience.

Consider setting up a newsletter for your blog.  This is another chance to build your online tribe or group.  Getting a newsletter will increase the need for more content.  Line up content sources like plr ahead of time.  Your newsletter can be another traffic driver for your site.

Start a new site and learn as you go.  Make a few mistakes and but keep on moving forward.  

Put on the Business Owner Hat

Starting your home business gets off the ground with changing your mind.  You are moving from the employee mindset to the business mindset.

What is different about being an owner?  The owner has to take action and initiative.  The owner has to come up with offers and be ready to adjust to rejection.

The employee completes assigned tasks.  The owner has to do the extra task of designing, planning and executing.

Are you ready to step outside of the employee role to earn money?  Most people are afraid to try to earn money from an entrepreneurial lane.  Business owners have to be ready to deal with hearing no and be able to keep moving forward after failure.

Biz owners have to build up skills and adjust to changing market conditions.  Employees are really shielded from the real business market.  Management and leadership has to find out what is changing and adapt.  

Regular people are experiencing business transactions everyday.  They just don't see themselves as business owners.  Every time that they go to the gas station, they are reacting to price changes.  Sometimes the price of gas is going up and other times the price is going down.  When they are shopping at the grocery store, they are paying different prices for items.  The regular person is budgeting and spending money.  They are paying bills all the time.  The business owner is doing the same thing, but they are operating from a different side of the table.

Biz owners are buying items that make more money.  They are buying equipment instead of buying items for fun and entertainment.  Owners are looking at ways of increasing value.  They are looking at customer demand and finding a way to fill it.  

Are you ready to put on the hat of the owner? 

Home Biz Online and Offline Plan

Come up with a plan and then start taking action.  

Get yourself a domain name.  

Focus on creating high quality content.

Figure out how you are going to make money.

Some people like selling online.

Others may enjoy selling offline.

Key in on driving traffic.

Go for more users by using videos.

Don't forget to include google adsense for passive income.

Home Biz Equals Global Biz

A home business is a global business as soon as it gets online.  The internet is the 24 hour a day business option.  

What are some home business options for long term income?  Think about the power of books and video. 

Books have long term income potential.  A book might take off today or it could be at some time in the future.  A book might catch on a deliver income for years.

Videos have a long life span also.  You could create videos that go viral or create videos and sell them.  Think about dvd movies and digital downloads.  

Creating niche online sites for different markets is another option for a home business.  The key with a home business is that you don't have to spend lots of money to get started.  There are lots of free tools to help you market your business.

Come up with your home biz model and then start taking action.  Use social media applications to get even more reach.  Once you get online, your home business is a global biz.  

Your home biz can start small, but the opportunity to scale is available on the web.

Use Your Tech Tools for Business

How are you using your technology devices?  Are you just using them for fun like watching tv shows on netflix or are you putting them to work in your business?

computers

Your computers are tools for business.  You have to look at them as a way to earn money.  The same computer that you are using to play games could be used to create the next online best seller in the amazon kindle marketplace or the clickbank marketplace.

It is time to use your business tools for business and not just for fun.

cheap android tablets

Mobile marketing is just starting to kick off, but you need to stay on top of it for business purposes.  Cheap android tablets are much less expensive than the apple ipad, but it gets you into the game.  You might just want to pick up one of the cheap tablets to check your online sites.

Are your online sites mobile optimized?  Get a cheap tablet and check them yourself.  Don't stop with just a tablet.  Your potential customers are connecting to the web with cell phones and mobile phones.  Pull up your sites on smartphones too.

smartphones

Your smartphones can be used for more than keeping up with your college friends.  How can you get more from your smartphone?  Take a look at apps that help you get business done.  Get the square attachment so that you can process credit card payments.

Remember to keep your business hat on at all times. How can you get more from your business tools?

Videos and Home Business - Payment Processors and Online Traffic

youtube videos

Are you using youtube to post entertaining and instructive online videos?  What are you waiting on?  The internet is filled with lots of sites, but there are lots of people that don't want to read.  They want to watch videos.  Get in on the online video craze.  Make videos.

don't want to be on camera

Some people don't want to be on camera.  Don't let that stop you from creating good online videos.  Use software.  Software can be the difference maker.  There are lots of programs that can turn pictures into movies.  Find one that you like and put it to work.

slideshows

Create a slideshow.  Talk while the slides are flipped.  This is not hard to do.  Sure, your first presentations will be bad, but you are going to be in it for the long haul.  Get started creating slideshows and posting them online.

internet marketing

Videos and slideshows can be your introduction into online marketing.  Make sure that you create videos that are evergreen.  This means that people will want to watch them in the future.  You don't want to invest a lot of time into videos that won't pull in viewers in the future.  What are some topics that don't get old?  

payment processors

Video views generate traffic.  Where are you going to send the traffic?  Create a website and send the traffic there.  You might want to create a simple blog that you keep updated.  You migth want to sell a product.  It is all up to you.  

There are lots of ways to get paid these days.  You are not just getting a check in the mail.  Money moves fast these days.  Just make sure that you sign up with payment processors like paypal,
gumroad, and selz.  You might want to sell services or digital products that are available for download.  Come up with a simple plan and then get started.

Sky Diving and Your Home Business

Have you ever seen people going up in airplanes and then jumping?  This is called skydiving.  I personally think that those people are crazy.   What does skydiving have to do with business?  The people that skydive put fear to the side and do something that they want to do.  Are you sitting on the sidelines or are you brave enough to jump into your own business?

Getting started is a big part of the problem.

There is someone with a great idea right now.

They know exactly what they want to do.

There is just one big problem.

They never get started.

They sit on the sidelines.

They don't make up their minds to start.

This happens all the time.

There are some things that just scare people.

Remember the time when you were scared to ride your bike.

Remember the time when you were scared to speak up in class.

Remember the time when you were scared to do something.

At some point, you reached a point where you made up your mind.

You took action.

You might have failed, but you wanted to success so bad that you didn't stop.

Your home business is just one more task that will require some courage and taking action.

I am still not going Skydiving.