Written on December 10th, 2009 by no shouts
Performing Better Searches
Performing and perfecting search engine results can save web surfers lots of time and energy. Understanding the nuances of searching allows researchers to immediately drill down and locate the information they are seeking, without having to wade through a myriad of irrelevant search results in the process. The increasing complexity of search engines has made understanding search engines a necessity for those who spend any amount of time online. The following search tips are standards that will work in most of the major search engines. (more…)
Written on November 5th, 2009 by no shouts
5 Easy Ways to Revamp Your Brand
If you want to play ball in your business like the big guys, consider revamping your brand. In a time of tight economy, it’s futile to go down with it when you can switch on your creativity like the big corporate players do and enjoy more success.
The media recently reported the decision by Victoria’s Secret to revamp its brand by toning down products that leave too little to the imagination and start embracing a wider (read: more mature) market. (more…)
Written on November 2nd, 2009 by no shouts
Telling the Truth About Social Marketing
There seem to be two totally opposing views on how to succeed with social marketing
Social marketing is about growing your business through user-driven websites like youtube, facebook and digg (plus hundreds more).
Some advice says you should create a large number of different user identities on many sites and then start promoting your own sites to drive extra traffic. (more…)
Written on September 15th, 2009 by one shout
How to Make Money Online with your Own Home Based Business
There is no secret to making money online with your own home based business. What it does take is a lot of hard tedious work, writing, learning, and studying. The object to making a living from the comfort of your own home is to select the right keywords and to get your website positioned on the top page of the search engines. This is known as SEO or search engine optimization and is the key to making real money online.
The first thing you need to do is optimize your website for your selected keywords. Add your keywords throughout the text of your web page, title, alt images, h1 headers, and meta tags. Optimal keyword density is somewhere around 1-3%. Too much and the search engines will penalize you, too little and they won’t pick you up at all.
The next and most important step to making money online is building back links. The more links you have pointing back to your web site, the higher you will rank in the search engines. It also helps to have links pointing back to your home based business from high authority sites. Any web page that has a page rank of four or higher are usually considered to be high authority. (more…)
Written on February 8th, 2009 by no shouts
Is There Really Such A Thing As A Free Work At Home Opportunity?
When you want to work at home there are all kinds of opportunities that you can choose from. Sometimes you need a free work at home opporutnity. You will have a hard time deciding what you want to do. You need to take some time looking over each opportunity that you find. (more…)
Written on February 2nd, 2009 by no shouts
How To Start Your Own Baby Food Business Part #5: Fresh, Organic, and Local
Of course, you don’t have to make fresh, organic, and local underlining values of your baby food business. Perhaps these attributes are not as important to parents in your area. However, as I have already shown you, the market for products that have these qualities is growing rapidly. And the fact that your baby food is fresh, organic, and local is unlikely to turn people off. But you may loose potential customers if your food doesn’t have at least one of these attributes. (more…)
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 July 14th, 2008 by no shouts
How to Set Up Your Home Office and How it Determines Your Success
If you are like many of people that start working from
home, your desk space is probably cluttered, and you can
rarely find what you are looking for, especially at a time
that you really need it. Setting up your home office space
truly does have an impact on your business success.
Organization is a skill that can be learned by anyone,
which is very good news. One key ingredient, which I
can’t emphasize enough, to becoming better organized,
is to take one small step, then take each step after that
one at a time. (more…)
