Written on May 26th, 2009 by no shouts
Getting Your Home-Based Business off the Ground – 7 Simple Steps to Freedom
So, you’ve been thinking about getting out of the corporate rat race for years, and starting your own home-based business. But your old friend FEAR keeps reminding you about how good you have it – paid vacation, benefits, a good steady paycheck… Still it’s hard to leave your kids every morning and let someone else shape their lives for 10-12 hours a day. It’s hard to give up the dream of being in control of all of your time.
Are you ready to pay the price for the freedom of owning your own business? Are you ready to create a business that feeds your spirit – not just your bank account? If so, how do you get ready mentally and emotionally to take that leap of faith? Leaving the past behind and focusing on these 7 steps will help you kick into high gear and launch your new business.
1. As a new business owner, one of the first things I did was hire a business coach who could support me mentally and give me a kick in the pants when it was needed. Since I was new to the construction industry, my coach gave me ideas about how to market my business. (more…)
Written on May 20th, 2009 by no shouts
How To Put Audio On A Website Without Paying Monthly Fees!
I had read in several places on the internet that if you could learn how to put audio on a website it can make your site more personal,let you connect more with your visitors, and can substantially increase conversions.
That sounded pretty good to me, so I set about trying to find out how to put audio on a website without it costing me a fortune.
After spending ages searching around the net, I quickly came to realise that this may not be as easy as it first appeared.
Everything I found seemed to require me to be some kind of technical whiz-kid. All I wanted was to be able to record an audio and put it up on my site.
Was that really too much to ask? It seemed like it! I’m certainly no techy, that’s for sure. I earn a very comfortable living by creating and selling ebooks and I do that without having to be a technical genius.
Therefore, I needed to find something that would be fairly idiot proof and would simply show me, in non-techy language, how to put audio on a website quickly and easily.
After a long search and after having to wade through stuff that I just couldn’t get my head around, I finally found a service that looked really good, easy to understand and would allow me to put audio on a website without much difficulty.
Eureka! Right?
Wrong. Or at least, half wrong. It turned out that whilst this product had everything I needed, it was not only quite expensive, but they also expected me to pay a monthly ongoing fee!
By this time, I was fairly desperate to just get the job done, so I went ahead and purchased the product. Turns out it was push-button easy. Very nice to use and I now knew how to put audio on a fat burners website whenever I needed to.
The other thing that turned out to be better than I expected at first, was the fact that, the monthly fee’s only got a bit uncomfortable on the pocket when a certain bandwidth had been exceeded.
That cost started to kick in as this particular website started to gain more and more traffic.
I have to admit that I still use that service today on some of my sites, (mainly because i’m just too lazy to change it and also because it’s working well enough).
However, as things moved forward, I knew how to generate large amounts of traffic to my sites and that meant that the costs of having audio on those sites and paying a monthly fee, began to mount up.
I needed to find another solution. So the searching started again.
How could I put audio on a website without having to pay these monthly fees?
Another seriously long and painful search started and then… I found it! The perfect solution. Exactly what I wanted.
Point. Click. Copy. Paste. And Voila! There it is. A fully functional audio, complete with buttons, up there on my site and working like a dream! Connecting me with my visitors and increasing my conversions like wildfire.
And the best part? It now takes just 60 seconds to get the job done!
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Well, check out my bio section below and you’ll soon be connecting better with your customers and making more sales, easy as pie.
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Written on May 20th, 2009 by no shouts
Straight Talk from a Home Based Business on the Internet Expert
Can you handle little straight talk about your home based business on the Internet? In this article I want to talk about a few things that are absolutely a must if you want to earn money online.
You will never make any money on the Internet joining another home business opportunity. Some people treat Internet business opportunities, like chewing gum. They are constantly spitting it out looking for something new.
Chances are you are in a very good home based business already and do not need to join another one.
Today is the day that you start to accept responsibility for your own success. Blaming someone else for your own shortcomings is not going to work anymore. Actually it probably has not worked in the past. People who make money on the Internet spend more time achieving than complaining. (more…)
Written on May 11th, 2009 by no shouts
Most people do not succeed with their home based businesses because they do not understand what it takes to succeed. They usually jump in thinking either they are going to get rich quick or that the business is fully automated meaning they wont have to work much. The truth is, home based businesses take time and real strategies to succeed. Developing the right strategies will lead your home based business well on it’s way to financial success.
The most important thing you have to know when first starting out is that the traffic coming from the search engines will bring the highest converting customers out there. The reason for this is that they are looking for exactly what you are offering. So, developing a strategy to get your home based business to rank high in the search engines should be your top priority.
Getting your home based business to the top of Google, Yahoo, MSN, and the like for selected keywords will take a lot of hard and persistent work. You must convince the search engines that your site is an authority site in your niche. Do this by getting links pointing back to your site from other sites. The more back links you get and the more you get from high authority sites, the more the search engines will consider your site to be an authority as well.
The best strategy for getting links pointing back to your home based business is by writing and submitting articles, for example on the subject of mesothelioma. When you write an article and submit it to a certain directory, you get to leave a link in your resource box pointing back to your web site. This is extremely advantageous to your web site, and if you use a distribution service to submit your articles, it will benefit your home based business ten-fold. This strategy will not only boost your web site in the search engines but also boost your traffic from the article readers and the position of the articles themselves in the search engines.
Another strategy I use to build back links is through forums. Forums allow you to set up a signature in your profile so that for every post you make, your signature with a link back to your home based business is included. By joining in two or three forums and contributing on a daily basis will really maximize your efforts. Also, once you build a real rapport and trust with people in a forum, you can begin to market to those people as well.
The best way to succeed with your home based business is to build back links by using a combination of both strategies mentioned above. You must know that a couple of months of doing this will only bring your home based business very minimal results. Staying motivated to do this long after that will be your toughest challenge. You have to remain steady with your efforts and keep at it on a daily basis. The efforts that you put in each day will really pay off in the near future. When you do finally see your home based business ranked in the top search results, you will then know your strategies and efforts have paid off and success will feel sooooo good!
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