Posted by Laurus Nobilis on April 5, 2009 under Online Business | 
How To Achieve Genuine Success With An Honest Business Online
Many people have the dream of starting an honest business online so that they can work from home and live a more balanced and meaningful life.
Unfortunately, most of them do not know how to go about achieving honest online success.
Some newcomers to internet success sign up for a range of opportunities and never seem to make a success of any of them, others never seem to get off the ground at all.
The problem is that a lot of outrageous claims have been made over the years about how easy it is to get rich on the internet and a lot of folks seem to think all they have to do is wait for the money to roll in.
Make no mistake, promises that you can earn income online without having your own website are misleading at best and downright deceitful at worst.
If you are serious about establishing an honest business online then you absolutely need your own website.
You cannot achieve high levels of honest business success by using a cloned site of a parent company nor can you succeed by referring clients to an affiliate sales page instead of to your own professional website.
There is a cost in time, effort and even money to generate website traffic to your site so make sure those visitors actually count.
Most people do not purchase on a first visit to a site so you have to capture their names onto a subscriber list so that you can regularly communicate with them.
This allows you to build trust and credibility with them. You can send them a newsletter, ezine or similar with interesting and valuable information, the occasional free offer and links to products you would like them to consider.
Unless you have your own website, you will be unable to do this and your ability to succeed will be limited. It should also be noted that you need to own your own domain name rather than use a sub-domain of a free hosting service.
You also need to have your site hosted by a service that can cope with your online growth. Free services (and many paid services) provide limited bandwidth that cannot cope with a spike in visitors during an advertising campaign or consistent high traffic.
The first thing you need to do if you want an honest business online is to decide on the focus of your business.
What is your basic theme? If you are looking for products to sell, try to make sure your revenue streams fit within a general theme. Once you have decided on this, your second step to creating your business is to get your own website.
If you do not have programming or web design skills look for a service that offers an online website builder that is easy to use as well as plenty of support and training to help you succeed.
Only after you have set up your website complete with quality niche content and links to your sales pages can you begin to market your honest business online.
So if starting an honest business online is your dream, it is within your grasp. Get up, take these simple steps and genuine long term success can be yours.
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You have decided to start your online business. It is so great and you are assured to meet success. Millions will rain in a few days and in the next few months you’ll be richer than Bill Gates. What will you do then? You’ll get bored! With this in mind, below I give you 5 secrets that will make your site a failure and years of bankruptcy.
Secret No. 1: Sell a product that you do not understand.
It is essential to know at your fingertips the product you want to sell. Mastering this subject does not guarantee the sale, but helps greatly. Imagine yourself in your favorite supermarket, in ecstasy before a 21-inch monitor. The seller arrives and you ask: “That’s a Trinitron screen?” and hey reply “It’s a very good technology that makes the picture more beautiful and especially better than when it is not a Trinitron. But it is very complicated so I will not bore you with details “. It is obvious that you are going to take your caddie and spinning at the nearest competitor.
Conclusion: Do your visitors flee at the ignorance of your products?
Secret No. 2: Sell a product of poor quality.
It is one of the best-kept secrets and yet the publicity that it generates for your site is immense. When you are satisfied with a product, you recommend it to a few people but when you get a poor product you talk to everyone: the media and friends alike.
It is therefore essential if you want to talk about yourself, offer products or services of poor quality. Moreover, ultimately this will reduce your workload. Ahhhh … Finally calm.
Secret No. 3: Do not collect email addresses.
If you want to fail, and that is what I wish you because I want you to be happy, it is necessary to minimize contacts and leads. What is the base of your income? The client. And before being a client, it was a prospect, usually a name on a list or a visitor visiting your site by accident.
Secret Number 4: Making a site confusing.
There will always be sites that link to yours, and sooner or later, some engines will add you to their bases and from that moment, it will be an escalation of your website traffic. To minimize the risks of facing this influx of unwanted visitors, make sure that three-fourths of the links are broken, that pages are poorly written and confusing, URLs are more than 90 characters and are encrypted but especially do not divulgue your contact information online. You don’t wish to show that you are a real person don’t you?
Secret Number 5: No market research.
If you are looking to market a new product, you need to avoid keywords research. by doing so you will never know if your product is in high demand. Just knowing if your product is in high demand is not important and you don’t care about that. You can invest your money with no problem in that product.
If you are seeing yourself in these secrets than it’s time for you to thing again about doing business online. It’s still the time to figure that out before it’s too late!
To Your Success!
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General entertainment may be the most productive way for any site informing rather than selling. Some sites, on the other hand, do both selling and providing informative articles, including sites which sell products and ads like Amazon. Two preeminent examples of sites focusing on the entertainment niche are Salon.com and IGN.com, both highly successful websites. With blogging, the rules are somewhat different. This short guide explains the basics of making money online with an entertainment blog.
Blogging On What?
Usually you want to blog on the topics that excite you, because more often than not that will be your best writing. On the other hand, creating posts designed for high profit also works. Say you hate action TV shows, but actions shows are the rave. What do you do? It’s still up to you, but in the end you can honestly do this for pay and do this for fun. If it’s like pulling teeth, maybe you should ask someone else to do it (a guest blogger).
TV Show Reviewing:
Since TV shows were mentioned, let’s go over blogging on them. This can mean writing blog posts on new characters in the shows, upcoming seasons being released on DVDs, certain genres of TV shows like action or horror, or even a new writer’s strike. TV show reviewing is often the most lucrative field for entertainment blogging; few hate TV, many are hooked on it.
Other Reviewing:
Of course, entertainment sites like Salon and IGN also focus on books, anime, comics, and movies. Reviews take a special kind of skill to write, however, and doing them solely on your entertainment blog is a risk. Write on multiple subjects, and see what catches reader’s interests.
Commentary:
Commentating on the latest stories in Hollywood is also quite lucrative. This isn’t so much news, but offering what a newspaper opinion column does. News means “Just the Facts” while commentary lets you go into more personal experience with series. Say you’re in love with science fiction shows; “Battlestar Galactica” and “Star Trek” are addictions to you. You can tap this vein of interest to find similar fans across the world. You can write opinion pieces like “10 Reasons Science Fiction Shows are Hot!” or “Why the Sci-Fi Channel is Working Miracles!”
Hot News:
One major aspect of all entertainment blogging is staying informed on not only what happened yesterday but what happened today. New TV series, new bestselling books from names like Stephen King or Dean Koontz, an action star like Will Smith or Bruce Willis signing up for the latest action film trilogy … these are all strong topics. You can find much of this out by simply opening up the entertainment section of a major newspaper, while also using the net for what it’s meant for.
Make Money Blogging—How?
So how do you make money blogging with entertainment blogging? Often the most lucrative way to make money is simple ad sales; there are thousands of potential markets, from selling ad space for new movies to taking small commissions from items you’ve reviewed.
Film blogging is the rich niche nr 2.
Truly, film blogging is a hot commodity online today, mainly because so many of us love to watch a good film. It’s the modern storytelling form, even more so today than the novel.
This guide not only offers clear topics, but some useful ways to make money blogging with an online career opportunity.
Choose a Genre, Choose Again:
Choosing a genre may seem simple to you. “I love horror!” Or “Anything with Johnny Depp!” First, remember there are likely film blogs on just about every topic you can imagine; it’s been done so you need to offer something new. That means experience in good and bad films, a unique way of grading a film, and the willingness to blog continuously on the same topic. Sometimes, for the more experienced blogger, it’s important to focus on a very specific niche. And actually, Horror Blogging or blogging on Johnny Depp are good examples.
The problem is the online world is full of them.
Unique Topics:
There are almost no topics left for film blogs. So choose one that you are willing to write on continuously, and one which will give you enough material to actually write on. Johnny Depp has only been in so many films, so if you plan to make money blogging, check that one.
On the other side, while there are hundreds of horror blogs, there are thousands of horror movies coming in from across the world, and a wide fan base. That’s a good pick. So are most genres, from science fiction films to the more thriller type films like “Rambo” or “Jurassic Park.”
Sidelines:
You still need more topics, because many of these films will be years old and have no interest. That’s why you may also consider using TV shows and even online shows which fall into your category of favorite films. Say you enjoy French films, and you start running out of the ones you’ve seen. France has television, France has TV shows. It’s just to create more possibilities for content creation.
Make Money Blogging:
As with all entertainment blogging aspects, film blogging is a huge market, especially if you focus the niche on a specific topic. Horror blogging would of course get a host of movies, many of which need small fan based advertising—that’s you. You can also sign up to be an affiliate with major sites selling movies, like Amazon and Barnes & Noble; this won’t make you rich, but you will often get steady streams of sales. If you establish yourself as a film critic, there is the opportunity to write feature articles on major sites.
ExposeIT.no is a blog about Creative Business Online. The blog is driven by Trond Lyngbø working at MesterWeb AS a Norwegian Internet marketing company.
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More and more people are turning to the Internet to create their own work from home based business and the problem many face is there are so much bogus information online it is hard to tell fact from fiction.
We are going to get into many things but before we do let me first say that you can start a business and make money online for free. Bare with me and we will get there. Consider this the condensed version of your education that took me several years and thousands of dollars to learn.
You have the “Guru’s” claiming to be able to teach you how to make 10’s of thousands of dollars virtually over night. Then you have the TV Infomercial Gods claiming “a couple clicks” to millions. Hopefully we all know the TV infomercial guys are not telling the complete truth and let’s take a look at the “Online Guru’s”
Most of these programs claiming outrageous amounts of earnings are using the Google Adwords advertising program and while it does work let me give you a little heads up on what to expect.
When you sign up for the Adwords program or any other PPC program like it, you have to submit your banking or credit card information.
You then proceed to start placing ads that hopefully shop up on the first page of the “sponsored listings”. this is if you pay enough for every person that clicks on your ad and if Google deems your ad and site to be relevant enough to remain on the first page at a decent cost per ad click.
As soon as your ads start running and people begin clicking on them you’ll be very excited until you realize you are paying for each one of those clicks. Not only are you paying for each one but that money is coming out of your bank account every single night.
If you are working with an affiliate program the chances are you will be paid on “net 15 terms”. This means that whatever you earn from the 1st through the 15th of the month you will receive a check the following first of the month.
In the meantime your ads are running, people are clicking away and the cost of those clicks are coming out of your account every single night. This means unless you stop your ads you will be paying for clicks every day for 30 days until you receive your first check. That is IF you made any sales.
Would it not be nice if you could do the same thing without playing for the clicks every day? Well you can and we are getting to the part where you can make money online for free.
Let’s assume you are paying a low .25 for each click and you set your spending limit at $25 a day. This is safe because once you reach that limit your ads will stop and you will only pay $25 for the day. Over a 30 day period that is $750.
So you purchased this “Guru’s” package let’s say for $49.99 and you have run your ads for 30 day and now you are $800 in the hole. Let’s hope you made some sales. The reality is the majority of new people trying this approach fail miserably and I know because I was one of the majority.
What the “Guru’s” are not telling you is that they are spending thousands a month in PPC ads to be able to make thousands a month. This is something they leave out because the “average Joe” can afford the $49.99 for the “Guru’s” package but they cannot afford to spend thousands in PPC ads before they make money. If “average Joe” knew this he would have never purchased the package. Now you know.
Let’s get to how you make money online for free.
We now know the “Guru’s” package is using the “sponsored listings”. You know the ones over there on the right of the search results?
What about the regular search results on the left or main part of the page? They are completely free and all you have to know is how to do certain things the search engines want to see and use completely free resources available to anyone online like Web 2.0 sites.
You can achieve the same results and make money online for free. It may take a little longer and a little more work to build your business but there is much less financial risk involved.
Some may say it is as simple as basic SEO but the reality is most people have no idea what “basic SEO” is let alone how to build a website to be optimized.
There are sites and free resources that take care of much of this for you.
Steve Phipps has been involved in the Affiliate Marketing field for over six years and has used his “Make Money Online For Free” techniques to help many people get started in their own low cost home based online business. You can visit his site at: The Affiliate Freeway
Posted by Laurus Nobilis on April 1, 2009 under Online Business |
What ever kind of business you choose to operate from your home is totally your decision, but there are some things that you would have to do to assist you in being successful. While thoughts and hopes of a higher standard of living comes to mind for allot of individuals who choose to start their own online home business, they often don’t remember that it is at the end of the day a business.
Managing an online home based business often gives individuals the huge misunderstanding that they could dictate every area of the businesses’ operations but while there are several aspects in which they are totally in charge of, clients and customers would also have an input on many of the other functions.
Making money online secret #1 - The first things you need to run a home business successfully is you must have a schedule. It might be very easy to stay up late look at a movies and then repeatedly press the snooze button the next morning on your alarm clock, but when it comes to dealing with customers over the telephone phone you really don’t want them to think that their morning call woke you up from a deep sleep and while the idea of having plenty of free time might be very appealing and taking the occasional nap the during the day might be attractive, try to keep regular working hours, this is very important to any online home business.
Making money online secret # 2 - Try to ensure that your office is only used for office related activities, not only would you receive a tax benefit for carving out a special space that would be used only for work, you would also have the feeling of readiness for work when you step into that room in the morning. Similarly, when the work day is finished and you leave your office you should have the feeling of reaching home. You would want to keep friends and family distractions away from the office just as you should also keep work distractions away from the rest of the home.
Having a professional approach in all business activates when in your online home office would defiantly help your image as an online home business owner. If you can’t afford to have a separate phone line for the business, try to answer the telephone in a business like manner during working hours.
Making money online secret #3 - Promotion and Marketing is very important to your business; it does not matter if the business is online or offline. Chances are that you don’t have a sign hanging at the front door of your home that tells passers by that you are open for business. The only way anybody will know that you are open for business is through promotion, advertising and marketing.
Building a well organized and informative website is very important if you want your customers to navigate easily and get all the necessary information on your products, it should serve as a sales pamphlet that includes information about your experiences, your business and your products. Including contact information on the very first page is a crucial to getting more business and customers, you should also have a form available for visitors to answer questions or to send requests for information. If you would like to know more on this topic check out Dotcomology the art of making money with your home business.
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