Dealing With The Anxieties And Stresses Of Managing Your Own Business
Discovering and tapping into your amazing talents will allow you to do an awesome work like starting your own business. Your ability to tap into a large potential income is available through many avenues, yes, even in this economy.
The moment that you begin to focus on what it is that you can offer or provide to be a help to someone is, is the second that you take control of your destiny.
Starting a business that has the potential to be of service or help to others is a starting point. Your passion, your ability, your strength, your goals, your dreams, talents and your gifts will help to position where you want to be.
When I began typing at the tender age of 14, I loved it. Taught by my sister, who at the time, was an excellent typist, I learned how to peck in no time at all. No long after learning the keyboard, I, like a dancer who doesn’t feel the need to look down at his/her feet, began typing without looking at the keys. My fingers began dancing and I knew I was onto something. When I entered high school, I took a typing course in which I excelled because I was already familiar with the process. Typing was fun, exciting and easy so I welcomed the course. The invitation to type awaited me five days a week and I accepted it with open arms. Typing gave me the opportunity to advance in my class thereby making straight A’s. Our timed writings taught me diligence and efficiency. It was a lesson I didn’t need to learn, but a lesson I’m glad I had the chance to participate in.
Here it is 2009 and I am still typing; I type for large corporations, professors as well as for myself. When I type for myself, it is always to help someone else. Whether I am typing a story, an article or truth, I am typing to help someone else; to teach and to grow the life of someone else through typing. To inform a young woman who may have lost their job and to let them know that hope is always stored someone for their life and just how to use that hope to start a business, to grow a business and to manage a business, any kind of business.
During the years that I have been typing, I discovered a talent, a real gift that has now become my passion; that talent, gift and passion is in the field of design.
I never would have imagined or even thought that I would have developed or should I say would have been given this awesome passion to design. Designing, personalized keepsakes, bookmarks, buttons, banners, home décor, journals, greeting cards and t-shirts has become embedded in my soul. This passion has given me the ability to create and design unique pieces that warm homes, blanket canvasses and adorn little girls’ and boys bedrooms.
Being given the talent to put together colors that compliment and enhance each design is a blessing. It is a gift that I use almost everyday. My gifts are gifts I enjoy making for other people.
Blessed and equipped to perform amazing works of designs, and responding to the needs of my customers, I work diligently and tirelessly to produce meaning and beauty.
After the beauty of each design has captured my eye, which means my design is complete and ready to be show cased, I mat and frame each creation using elegant frames that I believe will warm homes everywhere.
My design business is one of the joys of my life; it is my passion. I love to share with my audience my unique ability to create and design elegance and beauty. You, too, can do the same thing; find your talent, start a business, enjoy working for yourself, and enjoy your life!!!
Do you plan to be a slave for the rest of your life?
I expect not since you are reading about how to create an Internet-based
business. Most people want to start a business so that they can eventually earn
their personal freedom from a J.O.B.
Most fail though. They read instructions like these and then go out and
actually perform those instructions themselves. That leads to creating a J.O.B.
(just over broke) for yourself. You trade in an employer who works you like a
slave for 40+ hours a week for owning your own business and slaving for yourself
for 80+ hours per week.
That’s a mistake.
You don’t need another J.O.B. and you certainly don’t want one. So what is the solution?
These instructions are meant for you, but they are NOT meant for YOU to carry out. They are meant as a roadmap to start a company.
Let’s look at the Wiktionary definition for “company”:
A group of individuals with a common purpose.
Isn’t that interesting? It doesn’t say anything at all about becoming a slave yourself. A company is a “group of individuals”, not a single individual doing all of the work themselves!
If you eventually want to earn your personal freedom, then you have to not even be one of those individuals!
How do you get a “group of individuals” to become your company?
There are a lot of ways that have been done in the past. They even have names associated with them:
Partners
Shareholders
Employees
Contractors
Interns
Vendors
Agencies
Volunteers
Some of them aren’t paid. Some are paid in cash. Some are paid in less direct means (such as co-ownership in the business).
I’ve used all of the above methods to build companies. My current favorite is paid contractors.
A contractor is someone who owns their own business and provides services to your business. There are massive advantages over having employees. You don’t generally buy office equipment (or even provide an office) or tell contractors
what hours they can or can’t work. You never pay overtime (unless you create a contract where you offer that). You never have to fire anyone. You can just stop using one contractor and start using another. Lot’s of taxes (such as unemployment insurance and social securty) are non-existant in a contractor relationship… or they pay for them. The same goes for health insurance. They run their own company and you run yours. You aren’t responsible for paying health insurance in someone else’s company.
There are lots of contractors who are actually one-man companies (doing exactly what I don’t recommend… but it’s very popular out there). Your relationship with a contractor can be very similar to employee with some major exceptions:
1. You don’t control their hours. You can ask for a guarantee of a certain number of hours per month or something like that, but they don’t work for you in the way an employee does. You don’t get to call them into your office and chastize them for being 5 minutes late to work.
2. You can’t provide them an office and office equipment. That is strong evidence that your relationship with them is as an employee and not a separate company.
Neither are big enough disadvantages in an Internet business to use contractors vs. employees. Of course you can also try to attract interns and volunteers. At one point, I had over 25% of the work being performed in one company by
unpaid interns. I benefited from free labor. They benefited from learning how my business ran.
Most of us struggle with getting paid help right away for two major reasons:
1) You don’t have money to invest.
2) You don’t have a good “hiring” process.
Most would actually state that #1 is the reason. The reality is that #2 is the real culprit.
You see… every human resource you add to your business should increase net profit.
Let me say that again.
Every human resource you add to your business should increase net profit.
Hiring isn’t an expense! It’s a way to build your business.
I recently met with four coaching clients who were supposedly following what I teach to build their business. They were all profitable, but their profit was tiny. It basically just added some extra spending money every month instead of
providing a real income and true freedom.
I went through their metrics to find out where the problem was. I assumed it was one of those three things I always talk about: Traffic, Conversion, Product.
Those are the three things that contribute to the amount of net profit, so I carefully review those with each one and asked about the procedures they were using for each part of the equation (which we’ll cover in future chapters).
Their answers were all consistent. They were following good business practices as I taught them and it was working… but only with a result of a tiny amount of profit.
I didn’t get it. These are the same procedures that I run in my own businesses. I didn’t understand how it was possible that they weren’t making more profit.
I thought maybe growth was simply somehow happening at a microscopic rate of speed for them, so I asked them how many human resources they had.
All four gave me a blank stare.
I thought maybe they didn’t know how to answer because it’s not really the number of human resources you have that counts. Some types of human resources only work 2 hours per week. Some work 80. Some (like vendors that are a group
of people) can work 2,000 hours in a week. Hours doesn’t really count either. Some will be less effective with their time than others. Some you can’t even measure in hours (like vendors). They don’t even tell you the number of hours.
You pay for results.
So I clarified by telling them how I measured that metric overall. I asked… “How much did you spend last week on all of your human resources combined?”
A received another blank stare and then some stuttering. Then the truth came out. There were working a J.O.B., not running a company at all. They were doing all of the work. They worked 80 hours the prior week, but didn’t pay any kind of human resources to do anything!
That’s a problem.
You can’t build a company without the company part!
You need to hire employees or contractors or vendors or in some other way get some human resources at work in your business or you simply don’t have a business.
The first excuse really doesn’t cut it. Everyone can come up with a $1 if it will make them $2. Everyone would do that all day long if they could. Wouldn’t you buy as many $2 bills as you could if they only cost $1 each?
The 2nd excuse is the real culprit, not a lack of money. You’ll find money if you know you can easily turn $1 into $2. The real problem is the hiring process.
I realized that several years ago. I tried various ways of building a company and found out quickly that people are flaky. Actually, they simply don’t care about your business as much as you do. That gives the appearances of people
being flaky, but the reality is that they simply have other priorities. It takes a long time to build a hiring process that is profitable. Of course key to that whole concept is having profitable things for them to do after you hire them, but we’ll have to cover that in future chapters as well.
Fortunately, I now have a “hiring” process that is quite profitable when teamed up with my other business procedures. I use it over and over and over with every single business I start.
A client asked me for my hiring process and I promptly began selling it. It’s a very simple written procedure with a video. I also use some software, but I didn’t include that. Some customers of that procedure were able to implement
it without the software. Others weren’t. They fell victim to the fraud problem (another part of the reason I previously said that people are flaky… people will say they want a job and then claim they performed the job… but they really didn’t).
My software solves the fraud problem in my business. I tried giving my customers the methods I used abstractly. I couldn’t tell them exactly how I had solved the fraud problem using software because then my contractors would find
out and possibly be able to get around the fraud prevention methods I used. We would get into an escalating war where I had to constantly change the fraud prevention methods and then unscrupulous paid contractors would openly see what
I did because it was released to customers… and then they could get around those new procedures.
So I was stuck. I couldn’t share my software and so some of my customers weren’t able to duplicate my success.
Then one day a customer said… “why don’t you franchise it?”
It’s an obvious solution. It’s how McDonalds became a multi-billion dollar company. Every McDonalds franchise follows the proved procedures and much of it is embedded in software that they can never actually see, but never-the-less
practically forces each franchise to be profitable.
I’m now going to do the same thing. I’m going to start with my “hire” procedure along with all of the infrastructure behind it. I’m not willing to sell my software for the above reasons, but I am willing to franchise it for a monthly fee. Here’s how you will get access to the software and maintain control of your company while I continue to maintain control over the software any my company:
1. You pay the basic monthly franchise fee for hosting, access to the hiring procedure and access to the infrastructure that makes all of the other procedures function. Later there will be other procedures that will be offered as plug-ins for a much lower monthly price, but for right now you start with the hire procedure because that’s what EVERYONE needs in EVERY business.
2. You register a domain for your business and point the name servers where we tell you to point them (so we can host the site for you at no additional charge).
3. You choose a password to access the email, blog and various other administrative areas of the site.
4. You choose the amount you wish to pay people for performing the hire procedure itself. Or you can use the defaults we use which have been optimized for profitability (recommended).
5. Daily you will receive an email with a file you can upload to PayPal to pay your contractors. They are only promised that they will be paid weekly, so you can choose a day of the week and upload all 7 files that were emailed to you that week.
6. Optionally, you will have a blog on the home page of the above site. You can add links for new products that you have created and can blog about things happening in your company. Otherwise, you can put up a single blog post welcoming people to the site and leave it at that.
There are other optional things you could do that we’ll teach you about once you are a franchise member. These things help your business to grow faster, but aren’t mandatory. In the end, you want your freedom. The only thing in the above list that is mandatory and is done more than once is uploading your payroll to PayPal to pay your contractors. Obviously you can hire someone local that you can trust with your PayPal password to do that for you, so this can become a 100% turn-key business.
I know. I’ve done it several times now. I currently own 3 businesses that are 100% turn-key and I do absolutely nothing with them. I just spend the money they earn.
Here’s what we will do when we receive the above information and your first payment:
1. Provision hosting for your company site.
2. Install the blog software using the password you provided us.
3. Install all of our software using the password you provided us (so you can access the administrative screens if you wish).
4. Give you an email where you can send suggestions for future releases of the software. The software works. It is what we use in our own business. However, we would love to hear your suggestions and we will implement any that make sense
for everyone and are proven to be profitable.
5. Tell you how to launch your business (by running the hire procedure yourself a few times… or by hiring someone locally to do the same).
After that, it’s a machine. The machine assigns new hires to hire more people. You can slow down the process by paying less. You can speed it up by paying more. I recommend maximum growth by leaving the payment amount at our optimized
level for maximum growth.
How do you make money? Well, I already mentioned that you control the blog. You can put links and articles about your products on that blog.
You will now have some significant traffic to that blog. People who are interested in working for you are visiting the blog. If you followed the advice in prior chapters, you have a product that is attractive to a large segment of the population… including those now visiting your blog. Some will purchase.
More importantly though… you receive the email addresses of every contractor who actually performs a task in your business. You can assign them new tasks that are different than the hiring task.
I will be providing new procedures in future chapters that allow you to increase your traffic, improve your conversion rate and even create products. You can then just plug them right into the franchise software or you can assign them manually outside the franchise software by sending emails to the contractors who are actively working for you.
Are you ready for a true turn-key business? It all starts with the hiring procedure. Any company that offers franchise opportunities has a perfected hiring procedure. You can go get a McDonald’s franchise (not very attractive to me) or you can buy in this much less expensive and much more turn-key solution.
Here’s the URL to get started:
http://www.DiegoNorte.com/services/Franchise/
P.S. We are only offering five franchises right now. We have beta-tested our franchise system with four others already so we are ready to roll… but we would like to roll out the franchise slowly to see if there are any scaling issues. If there is no subscribe button on the above URL… that means all five slots have been taken. Thanks for your understanding. We’ll open it again later.
P.P.S. If you want to see how our system works from the perspective of paid contractors, you can apply here:
http://www.DiegoNorte.com/apply/
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Building Your Business Through Internet Marketing
Building a successful business on the Internet takes more than simply creating your own information products and offering them for sale at your blog or website. To successfully market your products and services via the Internet you
need to create the following:
1. Visibility - People won't be able to buy your products and services if they don't know they exist. One of the best ways to become visible on the Internet is with your own blog, which you update three to five times a week, at a minimum.
2. Credibility - Before customers or clients will purchase your products, they must see you as a credible expert on the topics you write about. You can start establishing credibility right now by writing short articles on topics in your area of expertise, and submitting them to online article directories. In addition to credibility, you will gain more visibility through these articles as
they start to show up on various websites, blogs, and in e-zines and online newsletters.
3. A growing mailing list - This gives you a way to reconnect with people who visit your sites. To create a mailing list you need a way to capture names and email addresses of people who visit your site. For this you need an opt-in box, and something to entice people to sign up for your mailing list. Once you have an opt-in box, and something to offer people who sign up for your mailing list, you're ready for social networking sites. As you interact with people on these social networking sites, you'll invite them to join your mailing list.
4. Trust - People tend to purchase products and services from companies and individuals they know, like, and trust. There are a variety of ways to build trust. Start with an audio welcome message and your photo at your site. People feel they know you better right away if they can both "see" and "hear" you. Also, offer something free to people who sign up for your mailing list. Be sure
this freebie is something your niche market will find valuable. Share your knowledge and expertise in your regular blog posts. All this will help people get to know and trust you.
5. Passive Income - This just means you create something once, then sell it over and over again automatically. Information products can be an excellent source of passive income once you have created enough visibility, credibility, a large
mailing list, and trust in your products and services.
Start building your business through Internet Marketing today by incorporating all these elements into your overall marketing plan.
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RUNNING A SERVICE BASED BUSINESS - PROS AND CONS
By Bizymoms.com Management TeamAll of us have our own set of skills and areas of expertise—all you really need to possess is the drive, dedication and the desire to turn your skills into a revenue generating opportunity.
A service based business is difficult to start and continue simply because in essence, you will be basically selling yourself and not a product. And in a consumer conscious world, your biggest challenge as a service based business owner will be in building and providing a tangible experience of your services to a customer.
The entire crux of a service based business is centered on your ability to not only reach the right customers, but to also maintain your clientele.
Everything from your skills, to your professional competence to your customer service and relationship building abilities to how well you can package yourself and your services to suit the needs of your customers will be under the glare and yes scrutinized by your potential clients. In the service based business it helps to remember at all times that the product that you will be selling your customers primarily, is you.
However if you can get past the initial hiccups of starting your service business, the rewards can be more than satisfactory. The time, effort and hard work will pay of rich dividends in the form of a thriving business, good revenue and in the opportunity of letting loose your creative skills and interests.
Every business is subject to volatile market trends, various degrees of customer satisfaction and expectations and the numerous laws of marketing and publicity etc. However in the service business the onus of success almost always is placed with the customer. Since a service business is where you are offering your customer some form of service, the only way he/she can access your expertise or skills is by actually giving you a try. And if you are new or unknown, getting set into the business can be difficult.
Although this should not deter you if your mind is made up, one of the best ways of assessing any situation or as is the case a business, is to consider the pros and the cons very carefully and based on that one can chart out a further course of action.
Pros of the service business
Undoubtedly there are several advantages of starting out your own service business. Here are some of the most obvious ones-
You get to be your own boss: This is one of the top reasons of getting not just into the service business, but any business. Being the boss, you are in effect in control of your time, resources and future, your destiny. No more being answerable to higher authorities, no more having to adhere to rules and regulations laid out by someone else. You can plan and organize your life according to your wishes.
A major selling point of the service business is that there is no end to the kinds of service based business ideas to choose from. From child care, to pet care, VA services to resume writing or domestic services such as housekeeping or errand service the list just goes on and on. If you have a skill or are good with anything and you feel that there is a market for selling it, then it is an option definitely worth exploring.
In most instances, the ease of setting up the business and the relatively low investment required especially if you are running it out of your home is a major contributing factor. If you have some spare space or room, then with a few adjustments and changes you can easily run your business. For example if you are planning on becoming a VA, all you really need is a computer with internet connection, a phone and fax machine, a desk and chair and some basic office stationary.
Money: On the top of most people’s list, a service business has the potential of providing you with good revenue. If you plan your business well, you sit to gain income that can even surpass your expectations!
Cons of the service business
Risk- One of the biggest drawbacks to this business is the risk involved. You may be skilled at your job or service, but without the backing of a good business plan and marketing strategies the chances of your business succeeding is almost zero. Another risk factor is the off hand chance that even after careful planning and analysis, the market that you intend to break into will not respond favorably.
Another drawback to the service business is the lack of a tangible product for the customer can see or touch making it difficult for a customer to accept your skills based only on your word. It can be especially difficult to convince a new customer of your skills and superiority of service.
Uncertainty: this is something that comes with the job. Yes, it is not easy being a business owner, and while it is the perfect opportunity to showcase and utilize your talents and skills the sheer uncertainty of whether or not you will succeed requires a strong and positive mindset. Not a lot of people have the tenacity to weather storms.
No guarantees of a steady source of income/ no benefits- your income will be dependant of the work available only. Besides this, you will be responsible for paying out your health insurance premium or life insurance.
Conclusion
Starting your own service business can be a dream come true. However if you really want to succeed in this business, the best way forward would be through careful consideration of all contributing factors. Condition yourself to look at the bigger picture in the future, while not loosing focus of what is required in the present.
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Organizing your business for success
Does operating your home business make you stressed? Do you feel you are not achieving the highest productivity levels you are used to? If so, more often than not you should have a disorganized business. A disorganized work place reduces the productivity of your work by causing unnecessary wastages of time if not would have been used for value adding business activities. By doing so you unavoidably increase the stress levels which again has a downward spiral effect on your productivity. So if you want your business to drive towards success you may need to organize it. Let us now look at some of the effective ways you can do so. Don’t try to manage time, manage yourself instead We all try to manage time but is it possible? Time is an independent variable which doesn’t wait for any of us whether we like it or not. All we can do is manage ourselves to do the maximum workload we could within the available time. Set a specific time of the day for all routine activities and discipline yourself to stay away from distracters such as funny e-mails which you may enjoy after business hours if you want to. In addition prioritize your activities so that you attend at least 60% of your time on tasks that have a high impact on the performance of your business such as servicing customers and taking strategic decisions. Make sure everything is at its place Get rid of all the files and documents related to last year from business premises to proper storage area. Then ensure you have a proper file system (with color codes, alpha-numeric references or whatever applicable) which ensures proper documentation of all the documents. Another thing you may do is maintaining your work stations clean. A messy desk with of full of paper, office supplies and even food will not only hinder your concentration levels but also waste your time since you have to search all over again to find anything. Invest in some handy drawers and cupboards if you happen to have too many things to keep on your table. But thereafter make sure you keep everything at the designated place not where you used to keep it. Electronic storage also needs to be tidy Not only the physical layout should be clean and tidy, the storage within computers should also be properly organized. Create folders with sensible names and logic so that two similar documents are only stored at one place. Further purchase a steady virus guard and update it regularly so that you are safe. Further periodically back-up your files just in case of an emergency. Discipline you communications Get rid of junk mail as soon as receive them and forward mails only to the appropriate people and only when compulsory. When you communicate with people, send detailed voice and email messages that explain the reason why you contacted and what your need to know from them. As a result the person will first get ready before he/she responds to you. In a summary organizing is vital not only in a business but in everything in our lives. So learn the art of organizing and if you do nobody can prevent you from succeeding. About us: Bizymoms.com has been helping moms work from home for over 10 years. Visit today to find out what is the best business opportunity out there suited for you, free resources including live chats, interactive message boards and informative articles. Also visit us if you are looking for great free website content that will compliment your website topics.
Your Business Your Way!
Are you a stay-at-home mother who has dreams of becoming a work-at-home mother, but you don’t know where or how to begin? You don’t know what steps are necessary to start, grow and manage a business of your own. You know you want to work, but not just for someone else. You have a consuming desire to work for yourself at home. You have the desire, you have the passion, and you possess a skill along with talents and many gifts that make you who you are; unique and distinct.
You’ve worked in the wide wonderful world of corporate
Working for Yourself!
You think and dream about working for yourself; you long to be your own boss and being your own boss means doing things your way. This is perfect for you. Being able to design your business your way that is conducive to your lifestyle is important to you and for you as well as for your family. You and your family are one; you are the same, so your work schedule has and needs to revolve around you and the members in your family, for those who reside in your home.
Designing Your Business
Designing your business your way will allow you to apply your talents, gifts, skills and abilities to the various tasks at hand and will also allow you to observe and appreciate the success that comes from your high ethical standards, strong work ethic and efforts you put forth everyday to help you grow and enjoy your home-based business.
Working for yourself offers and provides you with a litany of rewards that range from the joys of being your own boss to wealth generating possibilities. Owning a business means dedicating yourself to hard work. It means knowing what people need and how you, as a business owner, can help them to meet their needs. You’re competent, you’re committed and you’re skilled. You naturally possess salt-of-the-earth customer service skills. When your customers receive your product, they are amazed and astonished by your presentation, which is delivered professionally and on time every time.
These are just some of the things that have helped you to build a wonderful business. You’ve taken your knowledge, wisdom, skills, abilities, work ethic and professionalism and you’ve created and designed, with confidence, in addition to a real commitment, a beneficial and highly productive home-based business.
Equipped with Tools
When you designed your business, you didn’t have to consult with anyone; you just had to check yourself to ensure that you were well-equipped with the tools you needed that have now landed you in the best position you’ve ever been in; being your own boss. The effort you put forth, the time you’ve spent and your hard work has most definitely given you all the rewards that you knew were possible and now you enjoy every day of life!!!
Typing, A Part of My Life
Graphic Design
When I began typing and transcribing in the comfort of my home, I never dreamed that I would find another passion; one that has given me so much more than I ever thought was possible and I don't mean monetary gain.
What I started out making coloring and activity pages here and there, it quickly grew into a whole new venture.
I stumbled across a software program that allowed me to create and design Christmas, Thanksgiving and birthday cards. When I first began using this program, it was so hard to figure out, but the more I used it, the more I loved it. I was fascinated by it although at times, I became frustrated because of the difficulty I encountered when I tried to create new designs. I didn't give up and as time passed, the difficulty I was experiencing became less and less and I was on to something big!!!
This great software program that I was using promised me a 30-day trial and just as soon as I was able to figure out this program, my 30-day trial had ended and since I didn't have the money to purchase the program, I had to let it go. I thought about that program almost everyday and hoped that I would be able to purchase it at some point. Well, I found that same software program and was able to purchase at an excellent price.
I ordered the program and it came in the mail about five days later. I immediately downloaded it to my computer and picked up where I left up or should I say, that was my hope, but again, the difficulty of use set me back just a little. I worked on it everyday and even though it came with a manual, I figured that since I was able to figure it out on my own with my free 30-day trial (even though it took me all 30-days) I knew that I had the ability to figure it all out again and I did, but this time the time was less and I was on my way to creating some half way decent designs. Looking back on them now, they look kind of sickly and need to be improved upon.
We all know that when we practice something enough, we get better and better; like when Wilt Chamberlain was a kid, he practiced and dribbled that basketball every single solitary night until he was drafted into the National Basketball Association. I don't believe that this holds true in every situation of life. I believe that I have been blessed with and given this talent to design. It is truly a gift. Oh sure, there are a lot of designers out there; some are so phenomenal that it takes my breath away when I witness the beauty in their creations. I believe that my designs are unique in that I use exuberant colors, some really dark, but lightened by a stroke of light and some are really bright, but for some reason, I just love to design with the darker colors because I believe that the radiance in my designs make them different; I take no credit at all for what I do.
And so, this typing and transcriptionist have found a new found love and passion; it burns so deep within me that I feel the need to design and create everyday of my life. I'm like a writer; sometimes my creations creep right into my head and other times, I just can't piece the design together; it is then when I walk away, take a break and regroup just to return to the computer later in the day or the next day. Whatever the case or situation may be, I never give up; I just keep designing and with every creation I make, it is always different from the one before.
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Succeeding Online
A Simple Internet Business Model
With the myriad forms of information on starting a business on the internet, there's simply too much in the way of software, marketing tips and gadgets and gizmos for your website to know where to begin. In addition, yOu've got to manage your-self - your time, your emotions and your energy. Here's some ideas for starting an internet business.
Coming up with a profitable business idea. Finding your niche is a first hurdle for many. The balance must be struck between something you have a great knowledge about and something that a huge target market is very hungry for. You don't have to set aside days, weeks and month for market research by any stretch of the imagination. If you can identify a niche where people are searching and buying - or competitors are paying decent amounts for google advertising say - you may well be on to a winner.
Building a website. Being able to do basic webmaster tasks is an asset - for example, adding pages, being able to refine menu systems and how to set up your site on the net. Providing high quality content to your visitors is going to make them more likely to want to buy something from you either there and then or on a revisit to your site.
Thirdly, you can start finding ways to make your site as "sticky" as possible - the marketing side. First up adding a signup form and having an ezine you can keep in touch with prospects is a must. Many internet marketers stipulate "the money is in the list. After you've built a list, either from natural traffic to your site, or selling a budget item on ebay for example, you can start a forum or message board and start a sort of community which drives your presence through the addition of user-oriented content.
Your product must be something people will really really want. A starter product would be an ebook that you sell through your site that has excellent info in it. You must differentiate from the crowd and decide to provide the best ebook on the subject there is. This will help create leads for further selling of higher end products, and you will be increasing cash flow of the business and generating loyal customers.
Converting a visitor in to an ezine subscriber does not mean you have a passport to send a barrage of sales messages. Better to give them value in a content based ezine and announcement list, with subtle sales emails once a week or so. You can also gain repeat visitors to your website by reminding them that your website is there, or informing them you have a new blog or forum that they can get amazing information from - for free! An internet business can be very prospect driven. Your job is to effectively create satisfied, paying customers out of visitors to your website who are willing to buy more from you.
Prospects and prospects who are buyers can be marketed to about the higher end products and services you are providing. You can also leverage these people to help you to get more traffic, by encouraging them to use a tell-a-friend script, to spread the word about your site, or by giving them user-driven content experiences such as an interactive forum, messages board or some other feature to allow participation by your people. Traffic techniques to start out with include using search engine optimisation on your site, generating backlinks from other sites, directories and blogs, social bookmarking and article submission to article directories and ezine publishers.
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Best Tips To Get Organized For Work At Home Moms
If I was to come into your office area right now, would you cringe? Don’t feel bad, I’ve been there too! But you know you don’t work at your best when things are a mess, or all the important stuff is swimming around in your head. Here are some great tips to start getting better organized.
Email is your best friend and your worst enemy. If you don’t take charge of it, it will take charge of you! Outlook is a terrific tool to keep track of your emails, your daily schedule, your to-do list, client phone numbers and email addresses and more. I use the folder function to act as an online file cabinet. Really, it’s simple and it works great! I just create a folder by subject and drag pertinent emails into it. Then when I wonder, “What did we talk about last time?” or “Where’s my log-in for that account?” I know right where to go.
Paper, paper everywhere…are you buried? Maybe a computer system isn’t for you, but all is not lost. If you don’t have a planner, get one! There are many kinds of planners to choose from, in all kinds of shapes and sizes. Find one that fits your needs and use it to keep track of doctor appointments, school meetings, your work schedule, etc. Set up a good old-fashioned rolodex or file box to keep track of phone numbers, emails and other information.
I also print out e-books that I buy and put them into report covers with a clear plastic cover so I remember to read them and they don’t go to never-never land on my hard drive.
Now, tax planning. Neglect your record-keeping and you’re asking for a real headache down the road. An easy way to keep track of receipts is to get a hanging file folder and 12 manila envelopes. Have one envelope for January, one for February and so on. During the month, throw all your receipts in the corresponding envelope. When the month is over, tally up your receipts and write it on the outside of the envelope. That way, when tax time comes, most of your work will already be done. Or again, use a simple Excel spreadsheet or just a spiral notebook to keep track of your expenses by category. Remember to track your income too!
Take some time each day to “take care of the little things” and you’ll stay organized, feel less stressed, and get more work done!
© 2007 Becki Maxson
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Becki Maxson juggles a husband, three teenage sons, Boy Scouts, meals, laundry, volunteer stuff and home business in
She is the founder of http://www.KingdomWork.com, an online resource for Christian home-based business owners, and is a Marketing Mentor for Advantage Conferences.
Multi-tasking has become one of the most famous words in corporate America. Human Resources, CEO's of large corporations and major corporations believe that in order to perform the sometimes rigorous and large variety of tasks they require of their employees, it is important to know the meaning of multi-tasking and how to apply it to your job. It is vital to know how to juggle three or more duties efficiently. Usually the tasks you are required to perform is never commensurate with your salary. If you cannot multi-task, you cannot perform and complete your job duties in a professional and timely fashion.
As a wife and mother, I have been multi-tasking since before I became a wife and mother; even long before then. Why is it that people place so much emphasis on multi-tasking? Why has it become such a mjaor part of our lives when our ancestors have been multi-tasking long before this word was interred into Webster's Dictionary? It is one of the most important job duties in the workforce and yet it is something that comes so very naturally to most moms and women in general. We multi-task at the blink of an eye. We often multi-task without blinking an eye; we just do it! We don't think about doing it, how to do it; we just do it. We multi-task successfully, calmly, proficiently and so very perfectly.
Let's say you're a stay-at-home mom in search of a career outside of your home. You read the employment ads in your local newspaper, circle the jobs that interest you; you go online and fill out applications; a few days later you receive a phone call inviting you for an interview and you are elated. During your interview, one of the questions you'll be asked is this; "Do you know how to multi-task or how good are you at multi-tasking?" You answer, "Yes, I can multi-task, but you don't elaborate, because you'll be there for hours explaining your expertise in the field of multi-tasking!!!
In corporate America multi-tasking means stepping out of the boat and working twice as hard for someone else. Why should you be forced to juggle a hundred things when your juggling talents can be applied to a business of your very own! Why bother going for that job interview and answering those dead end questions that often lead to a dead end job. Interview yourself for your own home based business and tell yourself:
1. I have the passion for starting my own business.
2. I have the qualifications to start my own business.
3. I have the wisdom to start my own business.
4. I will obtain the knowledge to start my own business.
5. I have great determination and I am excellent at multi-tasking.
You have been equipped with the tools you need to start your own home based business. Not only are you a terrific multi-tasker, but you're also a mom who has great potential of being a fantastic entrepreneur pouring out passion into your business, bestowing your blessings of wisdom and knowledge into your business for a thriving and successful work-at-home business!
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