Posts Tagged ‘Internet Entrepreneur’

 

February 9th, 2012

Six Main Goals For Success For Running A Top Home Based Business On The Internet


If you want to be successful running a top home based business on the Internet, here’s a blue-print to keep you on track.

Create a list of the following six topics and write three bullet points for each. They need to be things that are relevant to you and be sure to read this list until the contents become etched into your memory. Keep telling yourself that these are your goals and the more you go over these in your mind, the easier they will be to achieve.

Remember something very important……your thoughts influence your actions and your actions influence what you achieve.

Personal Development: Have a think about who you want to become. Do you know what your mission and purpose are? When you can get clear on these two vital factors, implementing them will be easy. Maybe you get a deep sense of satisfaction from helping others and that is your driving force. If this is your mission and purpose, then you most likely will go to great lengths to achieve this.

Do you want to become a world class Internet Marketer and Online Business Entrepreneur and an expert in your field? You might want to help others achieve success so they can experience the kind of freedom that running a successful business provides. The kind of freedom that you enjoy. Maybe you aspire to being a positive and dynamic person who inspires others.

Material: What things do you want to have? Maybe you don’t have your own home but would like to get one or perhaps you have one but need a bigger one as your family grows. Do you have dreams of moving to the country or by a beach? You may want to be able to afford a new car, travel the world and go to some of those exotic places in your dreams and stay in lovely hotels.

Financial: How are you going to finance the material things? Have a think about how much you need to earn each month for the next six months. Then you could increase it to cover the following six months. What would you like your nett worth to be in twelve months? How much would you like to earn over the next few months as you build your business? Maybe some of these would go on your list.

Business: What would you like to accomplish? Have a think about what leadership level you might want to reach in your company. Maybe you are in Network Marketing or Direct Marketing and you want to grow a team. Think about how many people you want to attract to your business. Maybe you want to generate 100 leads a month or find an assistant so you can leverage your time. Maybe you want to outsource certain elements of your business so you can focus on the parts you are good at.

Experiences: What do you want to be able to look back on later on in life? What dreams and aspirations do you want to accomplish? Do you want to be a great parent, making a difference in the lives of your family or do you want to travel the world? Maybe you have a burning ambition to walk in the foothills of the Himalayas or make a difference to people who are starving.

Physical: If you keep yourself in good physical shape, you stand the best chance of keeping your mind in good shape. In order to achieve this you will have to do whatever it takes to keep yourself physically fit. Would you like inner peace, calm and unwavering focus? Maybe you want twelve hours of productive energy each day with super laser-like focus on your goals. Do you want to be supercharged? To be able to do this you need to have plenty of physical exercise to keep you in great shape.

If you become aware on a daily basis of what your goals are when setting up your top home based business on the Internet, you are far more likely to reach them. I wish you all the best of luck on your journey to success and if you’ve found this blog post useful, I’d love you to share it with your friends.

January 17th, 2012

Simple Tips And Strategies For Article Marketing To Make Money Online In A Home Based Business


Article marketing is one of the most effective ways to promote any website, bus

iness or blog. To get great traffic and rank highly on search engines particularly when you want to make money online in a home based business, you need the benefit of some great tips and strategies to use in your article marketing to help you on your way.

Although many strategies exist, one which is an absolute must as a starting point, is researching keywords or keyphrases as they are also known, and these should be included in your articles. A keyword or keyphrase can be just one word or several words in length but not longer than a sentence.

Let me just take you back to a year or so ago to when I used to work in a traditional job working in a college. I loved it and thought that’s how my life would be forever but due to the desperate economic climate affecting most parts of the world and like so many thousands before me, I was made redundant and needed to find alternative work. That’s when I turned to the Internet and decided to work from home and work online. As it turned out, being made redundant, although terrible at the time, has turned out to be a blessing in disguise.

Until that point, I’d never known anything about keyword research before. Never had any need for it but all that’s changed now. It’s become a very necessary part of my daily routine and if you work online, maybe in an Internet marketing business or another type of Internet business, then a brilliant strategy to use is article marketing as it’s so effective in driving visitors to your site.

Finding the right keywords for your articles is absolutely crucial because they are the foundation on which the whole article rests and if not done correctly, will affect the effectiveness of your marketing campaign.

Most people go to search engines like Google, Yahoo and Bing when looking for products and services. Keyword research indicates what words or phrases people are using to search for products or services in your particular niche.

There are several tools which can be used to conduct effective keyword research and one of these is the Google Keyword Tool. This is a great one to use because it shows what terms people have used to search for keywords on the Google search engine and it’s completely free to use. To get the most out of this tool, it’s best to make use of keywords which have very little competition.

Once you’ve completed your research and the keywords have been identified, go ahead and write your article and make it interesting and educational to the reader. Preferably both but make sure you incorporate your keyword in the both the title and the article or nobody will be able to find your article. Once your article is complete, submit it to EzineArticles.com to obtain their approval.

Conducting accurate keyword research is the foundation of the entire marketing strategy. If you don’t get your keyword research right, nobody is going to be able to find your articles and you will have wasted your time and effort. Get your keyword research right and you’ll find your article will show up in the right places. It will get your website and business known by those who already want to buy from you through these proven methods.

So if you want to make money online in a home based business and you implement these tips into your article marketing, you’ll soon get your target market reading your articles. Who knows, you may get lots of positive feedback and comments to them on your blog too. This is very rewarding and will spur you on to write more articles for certain. I wish you all the best of luck in your endeavours. If you’ve found my post useful, I’d be grateful if you’d share it with your friends and leave me some comments. Thanks!

January 9th, 2012

Does An Internet Marketing Business Need A Facebook Page?


You bet it does, along with just about every other business on the planet both online and offline no matter how big or small. This is the 21st Century and technology is racing ahead at such a speed. If you’ve got an Internet marketing business or any other kind of business, you need to be getting a Facebook Page right now. Don’t wait, you won’t want to get left behind.

So why Facebook?

New sites such as Google+ and privacy-focused Diaspora are attempting to knock it off its pedestal, but at the end of the day, almost everything in today’s social media space is focused around Facebook.

With around 700 million user accounts, Facebook has grown exponentially since its Harvard beginnings in 2005, and in fact, if it was a country it would be the 3rd most populated in the world.

Some people have misgivings about Facebook for various reasons such as lack of time, concerns about privacy or general confusion but the benefits definitely outweigh the drawbacks.

For the majority of us, when we think of the Internet, the first website that comes to mind is Google, but in fact, Facebook has more web traffic than the titanic search giant, where people spend around 700 billion minutes per month on the social network. Clearly, this is where your business needs to be.

Then again, it’s not just about the numbers. Still not convinced? Read on.

Online Presence

An individual has their own personal profile, but as a business, you can create what is known as a Facebook Page. Recent updates to the way Facebook works, mean that you can interact with other users pages as your business. In other words, any activity on Facebook can be attributed to your Business Page rather than your own personal Profile – effortless advertising at its most subtle, so long as you’re not over posting unnecessarily.

Contact

Anybody who ‘likes’ your page will see everything that you post in their News Feed – a live, constantly updated stream of information. The nature of the site means that everything you do in the public domain on Facebook will show up to all your target audience, giving them an opportunity to interact all the time. Post something interesting every day and people are able to get to know you and your business better, and this knowledge leading to trust is crucial for your success.

Respect

This is a platform for you to show and tell your audience just how special you are – not in an overt way, but through being a veritable expert on your market niche. Post informative tips, interesting news articles, useful ideas so that you are first in the collective consciousness of your audience when they need your services.

Branding

Facebook is another outlet for your company so make the most of this – the more you are seen across the Internet with a consistent brand image the better, so even if you’re new to this, you can be on the same level as the big guys! Get yourself a professional branding package if you can which will greatly improve public perception of your business, and then make sure this is the same across your online presence, including Facebook.

Go Viral

If you like, this is your main goal here, and while it doesn’t happen to everyone, Facebook helps hugely. Everything is about sharing here, and it’s free word-of-mouth advertising! Sign up to RSS feeds and surf the net regularly for interesting content which you can then share on your Facebook page, be it videos, articles, tips, anything, and it doesn’t necessarily have to be yours either, as in this case you are only passing it on. Even the best journalists are known to share content from other companies and similar, so why can’t you every now and then do the same thing? Again, if people know they can trust you to pass on good information, then they will more than likely believe in you equally when you’re posting your own material.

This list could go on and on, and that’s the best thing about Facebook right now. It’s a true hub of activity, and the best thing you can do right now for your Internet marketing business or any business that you may be involved with is to get a Facebook Page as fast as you can.

N.B: Remember, a Facebook Page is different to a Facebook Profile. The latter is focused on business and a space for interaction with customers or potential customers, whereas a profile is what your friends and individuals use!

January 6th, 2012

Why Women Working From Home Need To Consider Using Video Marketing – Part 2


How To Start Video Marketing For Women Working From Home

If you’re thinking of joining the ever-growing ranks of women working from home running an online marketing business and you’ve read my previous article about video marketing and are ready to get started, I’ve got some advice that I hope will help you on your journey.

Through a process of trial, error and frustration, I worked out a fairly streamlined process that I hope, will make your life a whole lot easier.

If you’re feeling daunted by it, don’t be – there’s no need. If right now you’re thinking you won’t be able to stand in front of a camera and talk for two or three minutes, don’t let that put you off. The benefits are huge if you can master the art of video marketing.

The more you practice, the more confident you’ll feel

It’s OK if you don’t feel confident at the outset. That’s how it is for the majority starting out and that’s quite normal. The only way this is going to get easier is to just jump in and get going even if you make mistakes and forget what you need to say.

So assuming that you’ve already done your keyword research around the niche that you want to target, then let’s get started.

Have you chosen a location to shoot your video? Do you have a tidy and light office away from noise or do you prefer an outdoors location? Either are fine but both have to show you in a professional way. You need to make sure you are neat and tidy too. If outdoors, you need to avoid a windy area and free from distractions for your viewers. They need to focus on you and not on the people playing games in the background.

Do you have a video camera and a kind and patient camera operator? You could use a tripod instead but it takes quite a while to set up. Better still and much quicker, do you have a smart phone with a video camera? They’re great and really easy to use and you just download your video onto your computer, edit if necessary and send to YouTube. Alternatively, you can record straight from your laptop and that’s fine too.

My preferred method is to get someone to video me using my iPhone, then I download it onto my Apple Mac. If no editing is needed, I just upload it to YouTube. Job done. Simple.

If you really can’t face the camera, then you can always do a slide-show with recorded voice over. You can use power-point on a PC or keynote on an Apple Mac and these work great too. An example of this can be found here

Punchy, interesting videos attract viewers – make the most of it!

Remember, video marketing is very popular and it’s a great way to get your messages out to your target market. Don’t forget your videos need to be entertaining, informative or educational or a combination of all. They must be attractive to the viewer and provide valuable content.

I aim to shoot around three minutes of video footage in total, preferably less, and if possible, without using any kind of cue prompter. A good method I recommend is to write an article on a topic you’ve researched or learnt for article marketing or for your blog, then read it a few times and do a video about it while it’s still fresh in your mind. This way you won’t need to read off a cue prompter or a sheet of paper and it’ll be much more conversational.

Listening to someone speak naturally even if they make a few mistakes is much more appealing that watching someone who is obviously reading. If you allow yourself to relax, you’ll find your words flow much easier.

Another tactic I use is to have a few large bullet points on paper beside the camera to jog my memory as I go. This keeps the flow natural.

Don’t forget you need to say your keyword in your video and you’ll need to put your keyword in the title too. You will also need to put your keyword and other related keywords into the ‘tags’ section and make sure you include a link to your social media or website in the ‘description’ box along with details of your video. I put the link at the top of the box.

If like me, you want to be successful amongst the army of women working from home, and if you implement some of these strategies, they should get you off to a good start. I wish you good luck. Do let me know how you get on. I’d love to hear from you.