Written on October 29th, 2008 by no shouts
Business likes partnerships and here is an extremely worthwhile link between the top chartitable orgs around the world. It goes under the name of www.agoodcause.co.uk and it embraces online shopping as a force for good! Every time you make a purchase as an AidMaker you will be supporting these excellent causes. Just log in at and start using the site for your own convenience and the relief of some of teh world’s most pressing challenges. Here is the link again: www.agoodcause.co.uk
Written on October 27th, 2008 by no shouts
How Do You Know When You Find The Right Work From Home Job Business Opportunity?
When you want to work from home there are a lot of business opportunities that you can choose from. However, to find the right work from home job business opportunity for you there are a couple of things that you need to do. (more…)
Written on October 17th, 2008 by no shouts
Working for Yourself – Do You Really Need Employees?
Many would-be entrepreneurs, when faced with the reality of escaping the rat race and going it alone in a solo enterprise, raise a multitude of questions regarding their employees. They worry about how many staff they will need, the best time in the company’s life to start looking for extra hands, how to manage payroll, taxation, benefits and staff illness. Before you know it the budding small business owner has wound himself up to the point of inertia and decides to stay put, trapped in the shackles of office life.
However, good news is never far away. Here’s some for you: you can start a business and make a success of it without ever having to take on a single employee. Back in 2006, an article by Jim Hopkins in USA Today talked about the rise of the microbusiness, which at the time, numbered 20 million in the US alone. That’s 20 million people making it in business without the headache of employing anyone else. How do they manage it? Here are a few ideas to get you thinking like a solopreneur.
Strategic partnerships
Bringing in a partner is a resource often overlooked by the first-time entrepreneur. Take the example of a Bob the Baker who makes the most wonderful cakes in the world. Bob knows his cakes would be a hit all over the country and needs to work out how to sell effectively on line. So, he teams up with a Winston the Webmaster who also happens to know how to use the internet to market very effectively. This partnership works quite simply because two people, who each need the skill the other possesses, have come together to produce an income. Bob cannot sell the cakes without the skills of Winston and vice versa. Any employees? Not necessary. It’s a straight partnership, the income split is worked out according to workload (or however else they choose to work it out). Is it not better to have half a successful business than own a failure in its entirety?
Outsourcing
The baking business is booming now, Bob is busy making all those lovely cakes and Winston equally so updating the website and promoting them. Orders are pouring in from all over with as many as 20 emails a day. Is it now time to take on an office administrator to deal with this? What about someone to help bake the cakes? How about someone who can upload pictures onto the website and manage simple order fulfilment? That makes three new employees, right? Wrong. All of these jobs can be outsourced or, in other words, contracted out. A VA (virtual assistant) can take on the job of taking in and responding to the emails, another baking firm could be contracted to make the fillings for the cakes, yet another VA could be used to manage parts of the website.
Franchising/licensing
The business has grown phenomenally in its first year and the cakes are amazingly popular. There are now no fewer than 6 contractors involved, all looking after various aspects of the day to day running of the company and still nobody is employed. Bob and Winston, however, are feeling the burn and would like to take a little more of a back seat. But how do they start doing less without having to take on staff to manage the business? Sell licences for people to take on an identikit business of their own, running it in exactly the same way as they do. By creating a licence or a franchise for the business the owners not only create substantially higher revenues from their original idea but do so by stepping out of the business to manage the franchise operation, still without employing anyone!
It sounds so simple, does it not? Business really can be as simple as this with some thought and planning. Obviously there is hard work, talent and determination involved in getting through each of the steps but the end product really is achievable without the need to wade through the red tape associated with taking on permanent staff. Any more excuses to not go for it?
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Written on October 17th, 2008 by no shouts
How Decluttering Can Boost Your Business
The benefits of decluttering are well recognized when it comes to making space in your home. But have you thought about how those benefits can be applied to your business too? Here are two compelling reasons to adopt a declutter mindset in the workplace…
How important is it to your business that you are decisive and purposeful? That you keep driving your business forward? Most business owners accept that forward momentum and clear purpose are absolutely key to the success of their business. So let’s take a look at how clutter fits into the picture here…
When you think about it, clutter plays a distinctly subversive role when it comes to forward momentum. In fact wherever you encounter it in your business and in your environment, clutter is a manifestation of procrastination. All clutter exits either because you’ve deferred a decision about something, or because you’ve made the decision but not taken the action. Either way it’s procrastination at play.
For example, if you have a pile of papers cluttering your office floor, you will either be trying to ignore them in the vain hope that they will magically disappear under their own steam and you won’t have to decide what to do about them. Or you will already have decided what you want (or ought) to do with the papers, but be postponing the action phase of the operation. Either way that pile of papers sits there on your office floor, cluttering up your workspace, draining your energy and making you feel bad for not having done anything about it yet.
I’m sure you’re well aware of the effects of procrastination, not only on your decisiveness as a business person, but on your general wellbeing and energy levels. Procrastination is an extraordinary energy drainer, capable of stopping you and your business in your tracks if you let it get a grip.
So by dealing with your workspace clutter, you eliminate an enormous amount of procrastination and free up large amounts of energy. Makes sense doesn’t it?
The second reason for adopting a declutter mindset in your business is an entirely practical process of creating the space for new customers.
If your workplace is stuffed with outdated rubbish, if your diary is heaving with ‘ought to but don’t want to’ appointments, if your schedule is full of low grade clients who aren’t paying you full price, where’s the space for new business to come in?
Nature abhors a vacuum. This means that if you declutter and create space in your business, it won’t stay empty for long. The trick is to declutter and create space at the same time as setting an intention to attract new clients or customers to fill that space. Know what business you want to come your way and set about making the most inviting space for it you can.
I know a number of people who swear by this technique. When business is quiet, or when they want to crank it up a notch, they take a look around their workplace and they ask themselves: What can I declutter today? Sometimes it’s a bigger clear-out process and takes a bit of planning and a day or two to execute. But at the end of the process, invariably, they get that call, offering them the chance of exciting new business.
So these are the two key ways in which decluttering can boost your business:
1. It cuts your procrastination guilt and clears the path to forward momentum.
2. It creates the space for new business to materialize.
It’s got to be worth a try hasn’t it?
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Mary McNeil of Create a Space is an experienced, ICF-certified life coach who works with her clients on a variety of decluttering, success and creativity projects. Her 30-day home learning e-course: ‘Declutter Your Way To Creativity’ is available from http://www.Create-a-Space.co.uk .
Written on October 16th, 2008 by no shouts
THE #1 Inside Scoop to Selling for Guaranteed Results
What comes to mind for you when you think of selling? Most people think of selling as needing to convince or manipulate another person. How does that feel? Yuck! Most of us don’t thrive on that. The “need to sell” tends to come from feeling like you are in a lesser position and that you need to convince people of your value.
As an Entrepreneur I want you to begin to shift from a selling energy to that of serving. And for you to see each selling experience as a sacred opportunity to serve. I want you to see selling become a serving of a passion that’s inside of you. I *know* that when you see and feel that selling IS truly serving, you will be able to be of true service to the world, and you will be able to do what it is that you came here to do. (more…)
Written on October 9th, 2008 by no shouts
How To Make Some Extra Cash Right Now
I put making money on the Internet into two categories at this point in my career. You either need to make some extra cash right now, or you are looking for an ongoing income from something like a home business.
You may even be able to develop that into a residual income if you are smart about it. So let’s look first at residual income and then at making immediate cash. (more…)
Written on October 9th, 2008 by no shouts
How To Use Online Video To Promote Your Business
If you’ve been working online I’m sure you might have heard about sites such as You Tube, and Google Video. It’s a well-known fact that the Internet is changing, and so is the way people are starting to promote their business online to new prospects. Now people are using the power of video to showcase their goods.
So how can you become apart of this Internet explosion, and quickly cash in? Well its quite simple actually. You just need a few things to make it all work together as a whole. (more…)
Written on October 9th, 2008 by no shouts
Why Are People Turning To Teams For Their Success Online?
Leading internet marketers say that you should not put all your eggs into one basket. Anybody knows that. Right? But how can we spread out our “eggs” and give each one an advantage over its competition? Find out which programs are working for their affiliates and then find out how to promote them. Our team will do just that, we will treat you as a team member and give you the guidance you need to make it in internet marketing by sharing what we’ve found works the best and gives us the highest income from our efforts. Are you a stay at home mother or father? Maybe you are looking for a side income from your computer. I even know of realtors and famous television stars that are finding tha making a lucrative income on line is not only possible, but fun as well. If you are like any of these folks, you want to find a program that will make the most money in the shortest time while allowing you to attend to life’s responsibilities. Right? Sound good? (more…)
Written on October 9th, 2008 by no shouts
The Reverse Funnel System By Ty Coughlin – Scam Or Legitimate Business Opportunity?
Are you researching the Reverse Funnel System (RFS) and its advantages or disadvantages? This is an unbiased review of the program and its founder.
For people looking for home based business opportunities, the program by Ty Coughlin is one of the many options to choose from. So what exactly is the Reverse Funnel System and who is Ty Coughlin?
The Reverse Funnel System
“Systems Work, People Fail…It’s That Simple!” That is the basis for Ty Coughlin creating the Reverse Funnel System. The Reverse Funnel System refers to the manner in which prospects are accepted into a specific home based business opportunity. Rather than gathering the names of prospects, the RFS requires prospects to pay a fee to receive additional information about the business opportunity. The fee is generally around $50. Proponents of the system say that it serves to weed out prospects who are not likely to follow through with the business opportunity. (more…)
Written on October 9th, 2008 by no shouts
Your Short Cut to Online Riches
Copyright © 2008 Chris Sullivan
If you are hoping to make money from home, there has never been a better opportunity then today with the explosion of the internet.
These businesses are plentiful and very easy to start, they require minimal start-up capital, and have the incredible advantage of being able to be run from anywhere in the world where an internet connection can be found.
The only requirements are a computer, a high-speed internet connection and the desire and commitment to succeed. (more…)
Written on October 9th, 2008 by no shouts
Meeting Customers on Their Own Terms…Their Search Terms (Part 2)
The Relentless Art and Sweet Science of Keyword Selection
Optimizing a website means deciding what keyword phrases (KPs) you want to compete on and then weaving those keyword phrases into the copy and metatags of your website’s critical pages. A search engine, like Google, will compare the keyword phrase of the searcher with the content of gazillions of web pages, find the pages that have the most matches, further evaluate each matched page by looking at inbound links, determine which page is the best match and then rank accordingly in the search results. Success in this process depends upon you researching and selecting the best keywords possible to compete on!
Two points need to be emphasized here: 1) you decide what is important—these decisions are strategic and critical, and 2) you realize that they are not set in stone—there is much trial and error involved. As your business evolves, as the buying behavior of your customers evolves, and as the phenomenon of search evolves, your KPs must evolve too.
The wonderful world of search has become incredibly competitive, and that has vast implications for your KP selection. Virtually any competitive keyword phrase will return literally millions of competing pages. As we will see, if you are not in the first 20, you are out of the running. It’s pretty scary.
We spend a lot of time researching KPs to find the best opportunities, which basically means we develop a much longer list and then reality check that list by seeing how competitive each phrase is. Then we recommend the KPs that look like they offer the client the best chance to compete successfully. (more…)
Written on October 1st, 2008 by no shouts
The Secret to Making Unusually High Profits
An Efficient Market is one in which prices reflect up to the moment information.
Let me give you an example. I’m sure you’ve gone to a big sports event or to a concert and seen scalpers selling tickets outside the arena.
If you needed to buy a ticket, what you’d find is that different scalpers would be offering tickets at just about the same prices. How does this happen? Well, the buyers do comparison shopping and buy from the scalper who offers tickets at the lowest price or best perceived value for the location of the seats. (more…)
