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10 Ways to Use Internet to Promote your Home Business

2014-02-25T16:37:00.001+08:00

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Are you a company or individual that has a low advertising budget? If so, there are a variety of fairly new low-cost advertising and promotional tools that you can use. If you have a business and you want to expand your territory but cannot afford to plant stores all around, you can take advantage of the Internet's many free or low-cost tools. Nearly everyone in business is on the Internet now, and they enjoy the convenience and ease of buying from or learning more about your business online. Give your customers what they want by having a sound presence online.

10 Ways to Use Internet to Promote your Home Business

1. SET UP YOUR OWN WEBSITE OR BLOG

You can either set up your own website or a free blog (www.blogger.com) or you can pay someone to set it up for you. You can usually have a nice website designed by yourself for as little as $5.00 per month plus yearly registration of your domain name, the website address. Most importantly, your website needs to have easily navigated layouts, be filled with useful and interesting information and be free of junk or unhelpful things. Avoid using anything that will discourage a customer from lingering; this is one time when some upfront paid advice from a web designer can be well worth it and will pay itself back in no time.

◦ Besides just information about your business and your sales basket, what else can you offer? Think of adding articles, individual stories about staff and company events, how-to information using your products or services, lessons learned anecdotes, freebies such as downloadable craft tutorials or a free ebook, etc. Be generous and your customers will be impressed, checking back regularly for more.

◦ Submit your website name to many website directories. You can search the Internet for free website directories and you will find quite a few links to places where you can advertise.

2. USE PAY PER CLICK ADVERTISING

Advertising online has a large reach and is the way many sites thrive or even survive online. You can set a price that you would be willing to pay every time someone clicks on an ad that you write. You only have to pay this when someone clicks on your ad. If no one clicks on your ad, you do not have to pay. These ad formats allow you to set up a daily advertising budget and you have the freedom to cancel and restart your ads any time you want.

◦ Use 'sidebar ads'. These display ads while people are playing games. Consider also expanding into ads on apps for smartphones and electronic tablets.

◦ Use Google ads on the side of your Google bar. If you type in something, then it will come up on the right side of your search results as small ads.

◦ Be considerate about placement of ads on your website and be careful about the types of ads you're willing to have shown on your website. Do you really want your competitor's ads showing up?

3. USE YOUTUBE TO PROMOTE YOUR BUSINESS

Perhaps one of the most popular and creative ways to show more information about your business is to use videos. Some examples of how to do this include:

◦ Upload a video of your company, and put on as many links as you can from all sorts of topics so as many people as possible see it.

◦ Videotape launches and other public events promoted by your business so that clients who couldn't make these events are still able to catch up on what happened.

◦ Video how-to information related to your business, so that when someone is looking how to solve a problem your business has knowledge of, they find your video answer and learn more about you. Self-help videos on common, basic problems can be a great way to show your business's sharing side and to garner interest from potential new customers.

◦ Create an ongoing storyline showing customers using and enjoying your products or services. This may require a little more work but stories rope people in and they're far more likely to remember your business if there's a regular mini soap opera to tune into!

4. PARTICIPATE IN FORUMS

This is one way to help promote your product or services, showing you as an expert and as someone who genuinely wants to help resolve people's problems. Often you can do this for free. However, this option has one huge caveat––be sure to post in forums that are website promotion friendly if you intend on using your URL or emblazoning the post with your business details. Not all blog sites or forums allow promotion blog or forum posts and breaching this could see your business blocked and even badmouthed. In some cases you may have to pay a fee to advertise on their sites but usually you do not. In many cases, simply stating that you're the founder/owner/director/community manager, etc. of a certain site can be sufficient to alert people to the good your company is doing online. Let them do the rest of the adding up and finding of you––consumers are intelligent.

◦ Make use of user pages on sites that allow this. It can be a great way to promote your business, especially if you contribute information to the website that in turn leads readers back to your user page for more details.

5. USE EMAIL MARKETING

You can create lists of customers, or potential customers that you can keep in touch with on a regular basis. However, be aware that many recipients regard this as spamming and may complain. Always seek to get the agreement of customers to be emailed first, and always take into account spamming laws, which detail that you're not allowed to send people information they do not want. It makes good business sense to only send information to people who want to hear about your products or services and not to those who do not. These e-mailings can all be sent out in bulk, as if you were sending them through postal mail.

◦ Spend a lot of time making emailed information worth the recipient's time. Prepare a newsletter filled with useful information about living life in general, or with humorous anecdotes, etc.; don't just email updates about your business and marketing pitches. Be subtle!

6. GET ON FACEBOOK IF YOU'RE NOT ALREADY THERE

Even if your business does have a Facebook account, make sure it is optimized to get the most from it. Use Facebook ads, updates and Fan pages to keep fans posted on your business happenings.

◦ As a business, just be careful to get your business a Facebook Page and not a Profile; profiles are for individual people only and they are limited in what you can do as a business. Moreover, if Facebook discovers you using a profile as a business, you stand to lose the whole profile and all the friends your business has accrued.

◦ Keep updates relevant and interesting. Don't just talk about your business though; share anecdotes, news items, comments about things seen on fan's pages, images, etc.

◦ Hold little competitions for customers to win small prizes. For example, if your business makes eco-friendly items, have fans answer a quiz or send in photos of themselves doing something sustainable in order to win one of your eco-products. Follow up with a photo of the winner holding your product; make use of every opportunity to interact with fans online. Do not involve Facebook buttons such as "Like", "Share", and "Tag" as part of any contest though; this is against Facebook terms of service.

7. TAKE YOUR BUSINESS TO TWITTER

Get a good Twitter handle for your business and start tweeting updates. However, remember that Twitter is a conversation, not just a place to push your products or services. Be sure to instruct employees to interact with online fans.

◦ For a small business, the best policy is to cover what's expected of online interaction, then ask your employees to use their best judgment when using an aggregated Twitter account. This builds trust and self-monitoring and will help to keep the flow of conversation going well for your business. The only exception to an aggregate Twitter account is for an employee you don't trust. In which case, why don't you trust this person? Does this person really belong on your team or is it simply a case that they've a lot to learn yet? Be honest with yourself.

◦ Seek insight from those following you. Ask them questions to find out what they want from your business, whether it's more, something different or for your business to stop doing something. These insights are invaluable information and are part of the conversation flow.

◦ Encourage sharing of your Twitter information by making it interesting and worth people's while. As well as business information, share a few random fun things too, like photos, inspirational messages and charity efforts your business is involved in.

◦ Add tweets to your website so that customers can see real time what is getting tweeted about your business.

◦ You don't need to be sitting around tweeting all day. Use a tweet schedule service like TweetLater or Hootsuite to schedule your tweets to appear when you'd like them to, all while you're doing other things. This lets you take advantage of different time zones around the world too. If you ask for email digests, you can check these in good time and respond to someone who has tweeted, sooner rather than later, if needed. Moreover, email digests allow you to track trends and topics on Twitter that are of importance to your business.

8. BECOME A PART OF PINTEREST

Pinterest has created an platform for visual social media input and your company can make the most of this by feeding in well taken photos of your business products and other relevant images. Make them interesting, compelling and shareable though; some creative effort will need to be put into the photos to make Pinterest users want to share the photos around. As with any advertising, focus on what makes your products interesting and desirable and try to capture that in photographs.

◦ Crowdsource using Pinterest. A creative way to get the crowd to promote your products for you is to ask your Pinterest followers to pin pictures of themselves holding, using or standing near a product of yours. Repin these onto your "beloved customers" (or some such) board. This gives your customers the chance to feel that they've been noticed and cared about and it also tells future customers that people use your products––and love them!

◦ Encourage your employees to pin pictures from your website or of official events to spread among their friends. Ask that they include a socially relevant comment to help engage others looking at the pinned photo or image but don't direct them; they're more likely to know what to do innately than any directives could ever establish!

9. GO ON GOOGLE+ BUSINESS PAGES

A more recent stream of consciousness in the world of social media, your business really should be here as well as on Twitter and Facebook. It's still unfolding and this is a niche time to establish your business' presence. Join groups, share photos and information and link up with your customers in Google Hangouts.

10. KEEP SOCIAL MEDIA INTERACTIONS MEANINGFUL AND CONSIDERATE

Social media is a great tool for businesses but it can also be misused and create follower fatigue, unlikes and unfollows and general annoyance if misused. As part of this:

◦ See your fans and followers as people first, customers second. Make that vital connection as human-to-human because this is what online social media acolytes expect and they're far from impressed from a business that assumes superiority. Befriend people, follow them and take an interest in them as much as you expect the same back. Interact and talk the talk with them; don't simply assume that because you're selling something that they want that that is all you need to do online.

◦ Provide meaningful content that matters. What you share, say and produce online must have resonance for your followers and not be a slavish reproduction of "buy our product". Link with people and organizations that your brand should be linked with and share their content around too, and converse with them openly online.

◦ Be knowledgeable rather than jumping on bandwagons. Hashtags on Twitter and Facebook campaigns can be compelling. But do they match what your brand is trying to say? Often it's better to wait until all the facts are out before throwing your weight behind a cause that simply springs up online overnight.

◦ While it is important to trust those of your employees who are representing you on social media, be sure that they "get" what it means to connect and interact with others online. Don't force employees to do it if they're uncomfortable or show any signs of irritability or cynicism. Your business cannot afford rudeness or faux pas caused by lack of motivation.

◦ Learn from errors made using social media and online resources. Mistakes will happen and your business will recover from them. Learn the lessons these incidents teach you and don't repeat them.

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Things you need to do to Succeed in SFI

2014-02-19T14:41:00.002+08:00

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In my last post, we learned How to Get Started with SFI for FREE and Your Second Month with SFI: How to Become an Executive Affiliate 2 (EA2) and Earn Money for FREE. So, if you haven't read it before, please check it out first before reading this post. If you are not yet a member, you can JOIN US too, and become an Executive Affiliate and earn a residual income.

Now, let's discussed the things you need to do to SUCCEED with SFI and earn extra income.

1. START EARNING MONEY BY ACCUMULATING VERSAPOINTS

One of the reasons why SFI is so successful is because it's so easy to get started. In fact, you can immediately begin earning income from the TripleClicks Executive Pool just by scoring VersaPoints for doing simple actions that help you become successful in SFI.

Each time you complete an action on your SFI To-Do List, you instantly earn the points attached to that action. Some actions are worth 10 points, some 20 points, some as much as 150 points.

So, your first objective in SFI is to earn as many VersaPoints as you can each month. The more VP you score, the higher your rank and the more you can earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool. Receive a share of our big, companywide pool with a minimum of just 1500 VP a month!

• Visit your SFI To-Do List for a complete list of pointable actions

Note that by earning at least 10 VP each day you'll also qualify for our daily drawing for $1000 in prizes! Learn more HERE.

2. INCREASE YOUR EARNINGS BY GENERATING SALES AT TRIPLECLICKS.COM

Each time someone you've told about TripleClicks or SFI buys something at TripleClicks.com, you earn a sweet 45% CV Direct Commission! PLUS, you also earn all the VersaPoints on the order too if they are not an SFI affiliate!

And how great is this: SFI takes care of all order processing, payments, product shipments, and customer service (including live chat) for you–all at no cost to you! And if all that wasn't enough, you can keep earning those big 45% commissions every time they buy something at TripleClicks.com–for life!

About TripleClicks: TripleClicks.com is one of the fastest growing and most popular e-commerce sites on the Web today. With more than 110,000 products (and hundreds of new products being added weekly), TripleClicks has something for everyone—and that makes online sales both lucrative and fun! We've also partnered with thousands of companies from all over the world (including PHILIPPINES) so you can earn commissions on the sales of thousands of high-profit international and local products too!

HOW do you generate TripleClicks sales? The actual strategies you can use are unlimited, but we recommend you start with the dozens of methods we've listed in our marketing section:

• Visit your Marketing>MarketingMethods for methods for generating TripleClicks sales

Note that many of the methods are 100% FREE, can be done entirely on the Internet (no face-to-face selling), and can be put into action within minutes!

3. MAXIMIZE YOUR INCOME WITH SPONSORING AND DUPLICATION

Scoring VersaPoints and generating sales at TripleClicks.com are a great way to start earning money with SFI, but if you want to create a major monthly income stream, you must employ sponsoring and duplication.

Anyone can get someone to sign up free as an affiliate, and even earn some 45% Direct Commissions via TripleClicks sales, but if you stop there, you'll be leaving the big bucks for someone else.

The KEY to creating a major income in SFI is by learning to lead and grow a TEAM of active SFI affiliates. As a Team Leader, you'll turn on one of the most lucrative components of the SFI compensation plan: VersaPoints Matching.

VersaPoints Matching means that every month you can get matching shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool on every affiliate under you within up to 12 generations downline (and on every one of your Co-Sponsored Affiliates, too). In other words, for every VP they earn, YOU can earn matching VP! Many of our affiliates earn thousands of matching shares each month on the activities of hundreds of affiliates!

Here's how YOU can too: Whenever you sign up an affiliate, do what a sponsor is supposed to do! That is, help them become active doing the basics explained on this page. Teach them, encourage them, and cheer them on! Soon they will be scoring VersaPoints for a multitude of actions and sponsoring their own affiliates every month and adding generations to your team! As this "duplication" takes place, your earnings can explode because you can now be earning thousands of additional shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool because of the actions of generations of affiliates under you!

By the way, SFI provides you with many different ways to easily communicate ("communicate to duplicate") and work with your affiliates. This includes 24-hour live chat, group messaging (send emails to your entire group with just one click), and even Twitter-like instant posting to all your affiliates.

HOW do you sign up SFI affiliates? The actual strategies you can use are unlimited, but we recommend you start with the dozens of methods we've listed in our marketing section:

• Visit Resources/Marketing/StandardSponsoringMethods for methods for signing up SFI affiliates

Note that many of the methods are 100% FREE, can be done entirely on the Internet (no face-to-face selling), and can be put into action within minutes!

Once you've started signing up affiliates, put on your leader hat and begin creating the all-important, income-boosting duplication!

4. ADD SUPPLEMENTAL INCOME STREAMS (OPTIONAL)

Want to earn even more? If desired, you can add up to three additional income streams:

A) Co-sponsor SFI affiliates and add monthly 15% commissions (and matching VersaPoints too).

B) Refer ECAs (E-Commerce Associates) to TripleClicks and you can earn upfront VersaPoints and lucrative cash royalties for life! Simply refer companies that sell products to your ECA Gateway. For each that becomes an approved ECA, you can earn VP and 10% of the CV on all of their sales at TripleClicks.com–for life! Plus, you'll earn an immediate 100 VP when your ECA lists their first product.

C) SFI's Pay-Per-Action (SFIPPA) program allows you to act as an advertiser for SFI and earn supplemental income by getting others to take actions such as filling out forms. Earn up to $12 per action.

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Your Second Month with SFI: How to Become an Executive Affiliate 2 (EA2) and Earn Money for FREE

2014-02-07T19:54:00.000+08:00

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The other day I posted How to Get Started with SFI for FREE and EARN MONEY . So if you haven’t read it before, I suggest you check it out first before you read this post.
By now you are on your second month with SFI, if not you can join here. As what we have discussed in my previous blog, you can become an Executive Affiliate with SFI for free. You probably got the same Versa Point (VP) like the others or maybe higher because you understand everything about SFI already. If not, this blog will help and answers all your questions. I will explain it in the simplest way I can.

 To start, you maybe wondering why your Versa Points drops to Zero on your second month and how you will get those FREE VP to become an Executive Affiliate?

 Here's the FAQs:

Q: I scored over 1500 points last month and was an EA, but now I have zero or almost no points for this month. What happened?

A: What happened is that a new month has started. The points you scored last month qualified you for the perks and payouts you received (or will be receiving) for last month. It's not feasible of course for us to pay you more than one month on the same points. Now that a new month has begun, you begin the requalification process.

Q: Why make everyone re-qualify every month?

A: If you want to earn benefits, bonuses, and commissions every month, you must earn them every month. Furthermore, if there was no requalification requirement, many people would simply do nothing. Surely you do not want to invest your time and effort building a team of people who do nothing (which would mean no override commissions for you)?

Q: Last month, there were many actions on my SFI To-Do List to score easy points. Why not add more actions like these so I can easily become an EA again?

A: Reading training articles, uploading your photo, joining a2a, etc. are all very valuable actions, and that's why we rewarded you with points for doing them. But after the first month, you need to "graduate" to other actions to earn your points so that you may earn a larger, more substantial income.

Q: So I have to buy something now?

A: No. Buying is ALWAYS optional. You can ALWAYS earn the points you need through other activities.

Q: What are these other activities that will earn me points without having to buy something?

A: There are many daily, weekly, and monthly actions you can take to earn points without buying. These are all listed on your SFI To-Do List at your SFI Affiliate Center homepage (www.sfimg.com).

Q: Are there any actions I can do where I get to KEEP the points each month?

A: Yes. See your SFI To-Do List for details.

This are the FAQs from SFI support: You can access it in the Menu Tab>Support>Index>VersaPoints.

So base o the FAQs above you will need to re-qualify again and earn VP on your Second Month to become an EA or EA2 ( An Executive Affiliate who has maintained the EA rank for two or more months)

How?

TIP #1 : Remember the BEST TIP and SUMMARY in my previous post? You have enough VP on your first month to be an EA without earning the Launchpad VP. Now is the time to answer those question and earn it. It will also help you remember again the lessons and tips by reading it again. Nice huh!?

You will earn 15VP for each x 30 Launchpad = 450VP

TIP #2: Do you Daily Actions 330VP, Weekly Actions 152VP and *Monthly Actions 115VP = 597VP (*Your Monthly Actions depends if you will have an Standing Order)

To sum up: You will have free total of 450VP + 597VP = 1047VP FREE

VP needed to re-qualify as Executive Affiliate 2 = 453VP. Ok let's leave this for a while to explain you more how you will earn and eventually get this needed VP.

All that said, make sure you're not focusing totally on VersaPoints. Yes, income can be earned from accumulating VP, but the primary role of VP is to determine your rank. As SFI BASICS ( www.sfimg.com/SFIBasics ) explains, the way you create large incomes in SFI is through sales, sponsoring, and duplication. We strongly urge you to review SFI BASICS and follow it's guidelines.

How to Become an Executive Affiliate 2 (EA2) and Earn Money for FREE?

In SFI, the are 6 ways to earn money, you probably read it in your menu tab INCOME>COMPENSATION PLAN. If not you can access it here

https://www.sfimg.com/Reference/CompPlan

To summarize, here's the 6 ways to Earn Money with SFI:

1. DIRECT COMMISSION

To get a Direct Commission, you must have PSA or Personally Sponsored Affiliate. This will be your TEAM or some people call it Downlines. You must have at least 5 PSA to get the full benefit and income.

You can start inviting and building your TEAM using your Affiliate links which you can access at menu tab: MyAccount>GatewayList .

For marketing aids like posters to use in Facebook, Twitter, or Blog, access at Marketing>MarketingAids.

Here's an example of my link: http://www.sfi4.com/12867090/FREE

You can use this link by changing my Affiliate ID 12867090 to your own Affiliate ID#. You will have this when you join SFI. If you haven't joined yet, click here to join to get your Affiliate ID.

How much you will earn with you PSA?

Remember TripleClick.com that I discussed in my last post, this is the store of SFI, anything that your PSA buys at TripleClick.com you will earn a 45% of the Commission Volume from them.

Earnings Example: An order is placed by one of your personally referred TC members that has $23 CV and 1,725 VP. You earn a $10.35 Direct Commission (45% of $23) and 1,725 shares in the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

You can earn not only from your PSA but with your personally referred TripleClick or TC Member. In case that a person only want to shop and don't want to be an Affiliate, you can refer them to TripleClicks.com using your TripleClicks ID#.

Here's mine: http://www.tripleclicks.com/12867090 , use this by changing my Affiliate ID# to your own. If you join SFI, you are automatically a member of TripleClick Executive Pool. If not, you can join by clicking this link.

Remember that if you refer someone to TripleClick.com using your TripleClick Affiliate link, they will be your customer for life.

2. SFI's TRIPLECLICK EXECUTIVE POOL

SFI's TripleClicks Executive Pool provides a simple, easy, and lucrative income stream that all SFI affiliates can tap into every month. SFI-powered TripleClicks.com is one of the fastest-growing e-commerce Website in the world, and we now put 40% of the CV of EVERY purchase–companywide–into the TripleClicks Executive Pool for our affiliates to share in!

How to share in the pool:

For each VersaPoint (VP) you accumulate during the month, you will receive one share of the month's pool.

The more VP you score, the more you will earn from the TripleClicks Executive Pool! It's that simple. Note that VP can be earned for doing a wide variety of actions (see VP Ledger for complete list of pointable actions).

To earn even more shares, become a Team Leader:

A. As a Bronze Team Leader , you'll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 6 levels (including your CSAs).

B. As a Silver Team Leader, you'll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 8 levels (including your CSAs).

C. As a Gold Team Leader, you'll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 10 levels (including your CSAs).

D. As a Platinum Team Leader, you'll receive matching VP on all EA2s in your downline within 12 levels (including your CSAs).Matching VP

Example: You are an STL. The EA2s in your first 8 levels account for a total of 57,500 VP this month, so YOU earn a matching 57,500 shares of the TripleClicks Executive Pool.

To explain further, here a very simple example:

If you become an EA2 (meaning you are minimum of 2 months as an EA) and you have 5 EA2 PSA with 2000VP each. Their total accumulated VP is 10, 000VP. You will earn 5 US Dollars with them. (2,000VP=1usd)

The higher your rank, the better is your earning. If you are a BTL (Affiliate with 3000VP or above). You can be a BTL with a combination of Action Points and Sales Points. You will earn with the PSA of your PSA until the 6 levels of your downlines. NICE HUH!? why NOT?

3. CO-SPONSOR AFFILIATE (CSA)

 Remember in my last post How to Get Started with SFI for FREE and EARN MONEY , I have discussed there that if you become an Executive Affialite on your 1st month, SFI will give you 2 Co-Sponsor Affiliate. Just like your PSA, you can earn a commission from these CSA if you maintain as an EA every month.

 How much?

 Each time an SFI affiliate that you are the co-sponsor of places an order at TripleClicks.com , you earn 15% of the CV.

Earnings Example: An order is placed by one of your co-sponsored SFI affiliates (CSA) that has $28 CV. You earn a $4.20 Co-Sponsor Commission (15% of $28).

Note: If you're a Team Leader, you can also earn Matching VP on all your CSAs. See TripleClicks Executive Pool above for details.

How to acquire CSAs (Co-Sponsored Affiliates):

 A. A minimum of TWO (2) CSAs are allotted to you each month you attain the rank of EA (minimum 1500 VP)—available on or about the 12th of each month.

B. You can win CSAs in the Daily Grand contest.

C. CSAs can be won via Pricebenders Auctions. See schedule for upcoming CSA auctions HERE .

D. CSAs can be won each day in the Entrepreneur365 Finalist drawing.

E. Every month, thousands of Co-Sponsored Affiliates are forfeited and need a NEW co-sponsor. Become a Team Leader and a share of all of these forfeited Co-Sponsored Affiliates will be automatically added to your team, with YOU as their new co-sponsor!

• Receive 1 share if you're a Bronze Team Leader 

• Receive 2 shares if you're a Silver Team Leader

• Receive 3 shares if you're a Gold Team Leader 

• Receive 4 shares if you're a Platinum Team Leader

Important Note: You must maintain EA (Executive Affiliate) status to retain any CSAs you have been assigned. If you lose your EA status, you immediately forfeit ALL CSAs you've acquired to date.

4. TCredit Bonus

Qualification: EA2 (minimum second month as Executive Affiliate)

What are TripleClicks TCredits and what can I do with them?

TCredits are the TC store's "currency," which you can use at TripleClicks.com to:

1. List your unwanted items for sale at TripleClicks.com and convert them into cash (just one TCredit per listing).

2. Bid on Pricebenders™ Auctions to win great products at 90% or more off their normal price.

3. Redeem your TCredits on any of over 100,000 products at TripleClicks.

4. Use as rewards for hard-working affiliates in your team (transfer TCredits via your Genealogy).

5. Use as contest prizes on your Leadership Page.

6. Offer free TCredits to attract new TC members and earn lifetime commissions on their purchases.

7. Download music from the TC Music Center (just one TCredit per song download).

8. More to come.

TCredits allow you to take FULL advantage of your TripleClicks membership benefits and can also be used in many ways to build your SFI business. A single TCredit sells for $1.99, but you can receive, as part of your compensation as an SFI affiliate, up to 20 TCredits FREE every month! To learn about all the things you can do with TCredits, click HERE .

• Receive 10 TCredits if you're an EA2 

• Receive 12 TCredits if you're a Bronze Team Leader 

• Receive 14 TCredits if you're a Silver Team Leader 

• Receive 16 TCredits if you're a Gold Team Leader 

• Receive 20 TCredits if you're a Platinum Team Leader

5. ECA REFERRAL PROGRAM

Let me put it this way. Refer a company that sell a product to list their products on Tripleclicks.com for sale. Each time someone buys a product you earn 55% of the money.

How?

Make referrals to the TripleClicks E-Commerce Associate (ECA) Program and earn VersaPoints and lucrative royalties for life!

Simply refer companies that sell products to your ECA Gateway . For each that becomes an approved ECA, you'll earn 10% of the CV on all of their sales at TripleClicks.com. Plus, you'll earn an immediate 100 VP when your ECA lists their first product.

The ECA referral program is very powerful because all you have to do is introduce an ECA to TripleClicks and you're all set to earn royalties for life! Every time anyone—anywhere in the world—buys something at TripleClicks from one of your referred ECAs, you earn a royalty!

Earnings Example: The total CV for all of your referred ECAs is $20,000. You earn $2000 in ECA Royalties this month (10% of $20,000).

Tip #1: Buy from your own referred ECAs and receive "rebates" on your purchases.

Tip #2: Refer customers to your ECA's "store within a store" TConnect Websites. With the combination of Direct Commissions and ECA Royalties, you can earn a handsome 55% of the CV on any sales generated!

6. SFI PAY-PER-ACTION (PPA)

SFI Pay-Per-Action (SFIPPA) is an optional, supplemental income program available to all SFI affiliates that allows you to act as an advertiser for SFI and earn supplemental income by getting others to take actions such as filling out forms.

Each time you generate a qualified SFIPPA action, you earn a bounty. The amount of the bounty varies depending on the action. The SFIPPA currently available (with more in the works) is:

SFI AFFILIATE SIGN-UPS Bounty: Up to $10 for each qualified sign-up

For complete details on SFIPPA, click HERE .

Now that you learned how to Earn Money on your 2nd month with SFI, it's now easy to get the needed Versa Points to become an EA2 for FREE.

 Actually, you can do this right away on your first month with SFI as long as you read and understand everything. READ, STUDY AND NEVER GIVE UP!

BEST TIP: (OPTIONAL)

The easiest way to make sure you qualify as EA every month is to set up a standing order at TripleClicks.com worth at least 1,500 VP.

SFI has made it very simple to do this with 2 excellent products you can buy on standing order:  

  IAHBE (International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs)  

  125 TCredit Pack

Either of the above products will earn you the 1,500 VP you need to maintain your EA status every month, and I can recommend both.

Other products you could add to your standing order are S-Builder co-op shares ,TripleClicks Gift Cards, or things that you might use already, such as cleaning products, health supplements, etc.

 It makes sense to transfer as much of your regular spending as you can to TripleClicks because you earn VP on everything you buy. For list of products that you can buy and earn VP at the same time, visit TripleClick.com , a Sub-Division of SFI, Just launched in January 2009. It features thousands of products.

  You can also combine buying products at TripleClicks.com with your ACTION VP for the month to make up your 1,500 VP total.

Investing money with SFI is not an obligation, you can become an Executive Affiliate and Earn Money for Free, but you can also do it depending on your budget.

If you want to become a TEAM Leader right away you can invest and fast-tract your income, but the most important is to BUILD YOUR TEAM, grow together with your TEAM as TEAM stands for Together Everyone Achieves More.

Success is in your own hand so NEVER EVER GIVE UP!
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2014-02-06T17:46:00.000+08:00

Strong Future International

Today, I will explain what SFI is all about and how to get started. Some of you must have heard of SFI before but you were not sure if it is real or one of those scams online. But I can tell you that it's real and you know that it’s free! So you have nothing to lose. You can earn money just by doing simple task on their website. So let’s get started.

SFI means Strong Future International. It was launched in 1998 with just one product sold only in the United States. Today SFI has now grown to more than 10,000 products and services sold in more than 190 countries around the world. It is believed to be the largest Marketing Network in the world. SFI is top-rated online business backed by the Better Business Bureau that empowers regular people to earn money from home using only their Internet connection. It is a legitimate business with over 16 years of history and thousands of success stories. know more

Step 1: SIGN UP HERE FOR FREE

After signing up, a video introduction to SFI will welcome you. Watch this as this is very important. Follow the instruction in the video then proceed to Affiliate Center.

Step 1.1 Check your email and confirm your registration

Step 1.2 Add SFI email to your contacts

Step 1.3 Complete your Affiliate Profile (go to menu MyAcct>MyProfile)

Step 1.4 Upload your photo

Step 2: EARN VERSA POINTS (VP)

"The more VP get, the more earnings you will have"

Versa Points or VP is a reward point that you get in everything you do in SFI. The more Versa Points you get, the more earnings you will have. You can get VP by selling or by buying something, this is called SALES POINTS. Any VP that you get by doing an action is called ACTION POINTS. Action Points are the things you do everyday like reading the articles and visiting the menus.

Doing these actions will show you how SFI works and help you get trained. Plus, as the points you earn for doing sales and actions accumulate, you increase your payouts and perks! Your Power Ranking is also based on the VersaPoints you accumulate.

IMPORTANT NOTE: When you join SFI today you become an Affiliate (AFF). The first thing you should do is to try and Get 500 Versa Points within 24 hours of joining. If you get 500VP within 24 hours of joining, SFI will give you a BONUS of 200VP and a "FAST-TRACK" Badge. A Badge is like your Rank in SFI.

How you will get 500VP? There are several actions that you can do to get these points in 24hours by completing your profile, uploading your photos, confirming your registration, adding SFI to your mail contacts, etc. Please check your VP ledger, you can go to this menu HOTSPOTS>VP LEDGER and look for the GETTING STARTED ACTIONS then click the link directly.

YOUR GOAL IS TO ACCUMULATE 1500VP IN A MONTH to BECOME AN EXECUTIVE AFFILIATE (EA)

(Note: In SFI, your month starts on the 1st and ends on the 30th or 31st.)

WHY DO I NEED TO BECOME AN EA?

Remember the above I mentioned, VP determines your RANKS, and your POWER RANKING increase your payouts and perks. The higher the the Rank, the higher the earnings you will get. Becoming an EA every month qualifies you to earn. Also, If you achieved EA rank every month, you will receive two (2) Co-Sponsored Affiliate + 10 TCredits which you can use in an auctions.

SO, HOW TO GET VERSA POINTS OR VP?

Step 3: GETTING-STARTED ACTIONS (Confirm your Email, Complete your Affiliate Profile, etc.)

To get started with SFI and earn points, you need to visit your GETTING-STARTED ACTIONS. Doing this actions earns you Versa Points (VP). You can access this in your VP Ledger (HOTSPOT>VP LEDGER). Your VP Ledger is the summary of all the points you have earned and missed. Below is the example of my VP Ledger and the corresponding points that I earned.

Clicking each link will redirect you to the things you need to complete or read. You must complete it first before you will be awarded with the corresponding points. Some of the links will redirect you to an article and you will get the VP on each article by clicking the green colored letter "V"(see above) which is located in the upper right corner of each article. Read and understand each article before getting the points as this will help you understand more about SFI and how you will succeed.

Step 4: DAILY, WEEKLY, MONTHLY ACTIONS (see the menu TO-DO LIST).

If you go to your HOME PAGE TAB, you will see a MENU colored in RED. It has 12 tabs (ALERTS, TO-DO LIST, TIPS, STREAM, TRIPLECLICKS, SCOREBOARD, A2A, MOVERS, GROWTH, GOALS, ASK SC and WIN IT tabs). This is how it looks like:

Each of the menu above, will earn you 1VP. Just read and review the contents on each menu. On the bottom of each one, you will see "I HAVE REVIEWED THE INFORMATION ON THIS PAGE". Click this and you will get 1 VP (see above). Click and review all of this and you will earn 11VP everyday.

After reading and earning the points, the MENU turns into GREY, it means that you got the VP already. Within 24 hours, you can get another VP once it turn RED again, so you need to check it everyday.

This is your DAILY TO DO LIST or DAILY ACTION. You must do it everyday to get 330VP in a month. For your WEEKLY and MONTHLY Task, You will see what you need to do in the TO-DO List Tab or visit your VP Ledger at HOTSPOT>VP LEDGER.

Step 5: LAUNCHPAD

SFI will send you an email everyday for 30days upon joining, this is called Launchpad which you can also access in your VP Ledger. Launchpad is a collection of articles, tips and tricks on how you will succeed with SFI. Read and understand this carefully then answer the questions below to earn 15VP for each. After 30days, you will get 30 launchpad x 15VP = 450VP for your 1st month with SFI.

BEST TIP: Save the VP of your Launchpad for the 2nd Month. If you will compute all the VP of your Daily, Weekly, Monthly and Getting-Started Actions, you will have enough VP to be an Executive Affialite on your 1st month of joining SFI (see summary of your VP at the bottom of this page). This applies to all the Affiliate who joined on the first week of the month.

IMPORTANT NOTE: In SFI, your Month starts on the 1st and ends on the 30th or 31st. If you joined SFI on the 15th for example, you need to answer some of the LAUNCHPAD quiz to earn enough 1500VP to be an Executive Affiliate before end of the month. Save the rest for the following month.

Step 6: INTERMEDIATE ACTIONS

Now that you have done your Daily, Weekly and Monthly Actions and maybe read some parts of your Launchpad, it's time to visit your Intermediate Actions. These are a collection of articles that you need to know in SFI. Read and understand everything you read in these section as this will give you a lot of knowledge about SFI and what you need to do to succeed. You can access these actions in you VP Ledger. HOTSPOT>VP LEDGER

Summary of your Versa Points:

Daily Actions

11 Tabs x 30 days = 330VP

Weekly Actions

38 Action Points x 4 weeks = 152VP

Monthly Actions

5 Action Points x 1 month = 5VP

*On your 2nd Month, this VP will increase if you will get an Standing Order with 100VP + VP of your Standing Order + 10VP for Rating your Sponsor and Co-Sponsor

Getting Started Actions

595VP for all the Actions you have done + 200VP FastTrack = 795VP

*Fast-Track VP are bonus VP you got if you earn 500VP within 24hours of joining SFI

Intermediate Actions

400VP for doing actions, reading and reviewing all the articles in your Intermediate Section.

Launchpad

*As what I have said in my BEST TIP Section, save this VP for your 2nd Month in SFI.

TOTAL VP YOU SHOULD EARN IN YOUR 1ST MONTH

330 + 152 + 5 + 795 + 400 = 1682VP

CONGRATULATIONS! YOU ARE NOW AN EXECUTIVE

AFFILIATE!

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The Best Internet Advertising is Free Internet Advertising

2014-02-04T16:00:00.000+08:00

The Best Internet Advertising is Free Internet Advertising

Free internet advertising is one very important method for promoting your products and services to thousands of free classified ads.

Most of these free classified ads web sites give you the power to facilitate marketing with features such as classified ads submitter forms. Features like this give free Internet advertising an extremely fast way of getting your products or services on line. It is accessible 24/7 allowing you access anytime, it's very effective and efficient and most of it comes free. No downloads. No sign-up fees. No hidden charges. No annual or monthly fees. No sales fees. It is absolutely free.

Free internet advertising makes it easy for you to put free ads on several of the premier quality web sites whenever you want, for free. This kind of benefit you get from free internet advertising can only do, to say the least, miracles for your business. Most of these free internet advertising companies give you 3 slots to advertise any product or service for free.

Free internet advertising is the perfect way and best way to make your products or services known to the millions of prospective consumers in the Internet and make your web site start producing money. There is an enormous audience for free internet advertising that is present in the Internet, that the probability of anyone needing your services or wanting to buy your products is very high. There are free services out there that may suit your services, products and web site. Browse the internet for the best free internet advertising for assessment on their amenities and features how to advertise or join your web site for free internet advertising.

Most web sites promoting free internet advertising have features like classified ads submitter ñ where you can get a enormous exposure with instant results and expand your sales by large volumes over night, opt-in email lists ñ non spam bulk emailing program, guaranteed 100% legal. Opt-in email lists are created by people who have volunteered or ëopted-iní their email addresses to these lists. These lists are very effective for creating personalized email to prospective clients.

Free internet advertising provides a great technique for building traffic. People constantly search on online free internet advertising ads for specific services or products. Free internet advertising target clients inclined to buying a particular kind of product or service in mind.

And the best reason to advertise in free internet advertising is because it is absolutely free.

Internet Advertising Methods: Expensive vs Cheap

2014-01-28T16:00:00.000+08:00

Internet Advertising Methods

People opt for internet advertising methods because practically half of the world's population knows HTML. If you have your own business, you have to decide on what internet advertising method works for you. Ask yourself what are you going to avail of: the expensive internet advertising methods or the cheap ones? Others will pipe in "expensive!" immediately, but they don't know cheap internet advertising method attracts great benefits as well.

Here's the lowdown and a comparative look on the cheap and expensive internet advertising methods:

The Expensive:

1. Pop-ups

Not only is this expensive, but also outright annoying that visitors close pop-up windows without even bothering to know what they're all about. This is an internet advertising method that you can do without.

Fly ads are derivatives of pop-ups which are also equally irking to the visitors.

Pop-ups. Not only is this expensive, but also outright annoying that visitors close pop-up windows without even bothering to know what they're all about. This is an internet advertising method that you can do without.

Fly ads are derivatives of pop-ups which are also equally irking to the visitors.

2. Pod casts

Broadcast is to TV as pod cast is to internet. It's one sophisticated internet advertising method that can somehow hamper your budget. But if you're thinking results, pod casting is worth the money.

3. Paying the search engines

How does this one work? When someone types in a keyword related to your site, your URL is automatically included in the first page of the top results. Fixed payment for the search engine allows just that. Expensive, yes, but if we're talking about Google and Yahoo search engines here, then don't give it a second thought.

This is associated with another internet advertising method: the pay-per-click system.

The Cheap:

1. Blogging

Go along the bandwagon and blog about your website. This is an internet advertising method that is popular as of the moment, so you never have to worry that this will never spur outcome. All you have to do is sign up for a blogging account, post and voila! You don't even need to pay!

2. Submit to not-so-big search engines

This is cheap and dependable. If you submit your site to smaller search engines, you have bigger chances to get bigger results. Remember that the search engine giants can dwarf and overlook your site easily, so this internet advertising method might just be the right one for you.

3. Text links

This is not just cheap...this is virtually free! Let someone text link your site and return the favor.

Cheap versus expensive, that's always the question that hounds on whenever we're trying to get something. In the field of internet advertising, just be wise enough to figure out what will suit your needs. Go for what you want as long as there are visible results.

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Make the most of a Low Cost Internet Advertising Method

2014-01-21T16:00:00.000+08:00

Low Cost Internet Advertising Method

Internet Advertising had long since been a major determinant of a business' success. This would include the presentation of the product / service to the consumers. What really matters is how it is presented to the target market to be able to capture it.

Whatever the package, the ad media also plays a great role in determining the success of the product or service awareness.

What may be its advantages over other proven medium like the best-selling TV ads?

Advantages

1. Low Cost

Eventhough the Internet ad might be viewed as "classy" or far-reaching, as compared to other medium, this is far cheaper than most. Internet Ad Packages are offered for as low as $29.99 for a one-month run-time period.

2. Capture market

Should your product / service aim to cater to the younger generation or the corporate-oriented ones, Internet ad would be best since they would always be "hooked-up" into the net surfing sites that might have a link to your very own. Result, a great number of "hits" on your site!

2. Hassle free

All you would ever really need is a PC (and some knowledge and bright ideas in forming your site) wherein you could open your site, search for the best Internet Ad package, and check / update the status of your ad. You may actually never have to leave your home to advertise!

3. Updated ads

Unlike the TV ads that need to be updated on a regular basis, Internet ads may run for quite some time without the need for change. If so, change in the site is very minimal and may be done easily at home.

Disadvantages

1. Scope

Limited market may be captured if one would solely use the Internet Ad for advertising. Although most people now are into the use of technology, i.e. surfing the Internet, still, majority of the average consumers still relies on the old form of advertising as a means of gathering information about certain products / service.

2. Additional cost

If one would enlist the help of another professional or establishment to produce the site for their product or service, this would entail additional costs on the part of the entrepreneur.

Given the stated list of advantages and disadvantages about low-coast Internet Ad, an entrepreneur may now weigh in its applicability to his / her product or service.

The aim of Internet ad is to offer the widest range or "Maximum Exposure" of the brand at the least possible cost. Now, does that not sound good or what?

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Pay-Per Click Ad Campaign: Earn More by Spending Less

2014-01-14T16:00:00.000+08:00

Earn More by Spending Less

What is "Pay-Per Click"? "Pay-Per Click", is an easy to understand advertising strategy. There are around 300 million searches at major search engines everyday. This causes 80% of internet traffic. Placing your websites on these search engines is very important in reaching as many potential customers as possible. But in order to be seen and clicked most frequently, your website should be viewed at the top most of the search list. Most people only reach up to the third page of a search engine so the lower your rank, the lesser the chance you will be clicked. In "Pay-Per Click" advertising, you pay to be always visible on the internet. You select keywords or key phrases about your website, and the highest bidder ranks the best. There is no upfront cost. You only pay after a visitor clicks your link. This is why it is called "Pay-Per Click".

Everyday millions of people around the world click on Pay-Per Click Advertising Campaign. With the booming internet industry and the ever growing online business, an ad of virtually anybody on the planet can be seen on the internet anywhere in the world.

The "Pay-Per Click" advertising campaign is the premier growth area in online marketing. Last year, an estimated $741.2 million was spent on "Pay-Per Click" advertising. The usual search engine optimization can take weeks or even months to produce results. "Pay-Per Click" advertising can attract customers at an instant. Why? Because, this cutting edge ad campaign can be placed on any website and can be viewed by potential online customers, anywhere, anytime and all the time. The only challenge is placing the ads on proper websites that will attract possible customers for a specific product or services.

"Pay-Per Click" advertising campaign attracts the right consumers at the shortest possible time. This is the most cost effective way of marketing products or services. You can also monitor the customers who visit your site, what they are looking for and what they are buying. With the right creativity on using the right search-phrases, we can direct the right people who are willing to do business with us.

"Pay-Per Click" advertising can easily be managed 24 hours per day and 7 days a week through the internet. This allows you improve the campaign strategy by effectively responding to the activities of both customers and competitors.

So what are you waiting for? "Pay-Per Click" now and let your business take the fast route to success.

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How to Make Use of Cheap Internet Banner Advertising

2014-01-07T16:00:00.000+08:00

Cheap Internet Banner Advertising

For years now, internet banner advertising has captured the World Wide Web for it has become a large help in saving an amount of money while reaching beyond territories. Banner advertising played a major part in market trafficking all over the internet and many individuals and companies have bought themselves these cheap internet banner advertising. Some made use of it financially; others have no idea on what to do with it.

With your cheap internet banner advertisement, would you just sit in front of your computer and wait for people to notice you? Would you let your company get trampled by other company's marketing strategies?

Okay, so you admit you bought internet banner advertising, but does that mean you won't do anything about it because it costs cheap?

These following steps will help you get up on your feet and make your cheap internet banner advertising priceless. With these simple instructions, there will always have traffic on your website.

First, to be able to capture the attention of your target audience, your title and topic should be thought of with concern. You have to make the people believe that your cheap internet banner advertising is worthy of their time. The advertisement has to meet the audience's need.

For the people to bring attention to your internet banner advertising, you should be able to raise the curiosity and convince the people. You should be able to deliver your products or services with strong words that may lead the target audience at deciding.

You should be able to constructs words on your advertisements that could lead the target audience that you are directly talking to them to give a sense of familiarity on your services.

As you persuade the people by calling for them and directing them to buy or entail your services, they give importance to your business proposal. Your cheap internet-based banner advertising will become one of the sought for ads there are.

Make sure to present your ads to the global community repeatedly to get them familiar with you and your services.

Always remember that having a website doesn't mean it could sell products by itself. You must be sure to accompany it with marketing strategies. By buying banner advertising, you or your company would save time and money while achieving market sales. These internet banners advertising may come cheap, but it could lead you or your company to riches.

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Blogging: Free Internet Marketing Method

2013-12-27T11:33:00.001+08:00

It's been years since blogging has been practiced. But it's just recently that it has been considered as one of the addicting fads. Many teenagers have resorted to blogging as an outlet for their emotions, a little online nook where they can blurt out whatever just bugs them or whatever makes them feel elated. Savvy marketers have discovered that blogging is one of the best Internet marketing methods that won't cost you a cent.

What exactly is blogging? Blog is the widely used term that refers to web log. Basically, a blog is an online journal. A blog could be set up to no cost at all, and can be used for just for the fun of it or for business reasons.

Blogging for your Internet business is one surefire way to boost the visibility of your products and services. Here are a few ways to boost your internet advertising with the help of a blog:

1. Make your clients or customers abreast on your website's alterations. Your new products and affiliate websites could also be announced through your blog.

2. Keep track of your business objectives and plans through open writing. Your blog content can be easily stored through archives. What could be better than searchable information that could be easily accessed by anyone browsing the web, right?

3. Air your opinions, advice or reviews on specific services or products that are related to your business. Publishing is a very easy process with blogging.

4. Include links that will fetch back links and subsequently improve your ranking on search engines. This could be better executed through putting well-written articles in your website. Affiliate links could also be included in your blog to earn more extra income.

5. Collect response through the ability of blogs to fetch comments from your blog readers. You can learn and improve your products and services through with the feedback from your readers.

6. Connect easily with other bloggers. When other bloggers notice that you have something good in your blog, they will put you in their favorite lists that will automatically link you to their blogs.

So, how do you set up a blog? Here are some of the options you can make use of to take advantage of this fun way to advertise your Internet business.

Either you load a blogging software or let a blogging hosting service do it for you. Host services such as LiveJournal and Blogger.com are the most popular in this field. Those hosts will provide you with easy instructions on how to put up your blog.

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Best Internet Marketing Solutions Without Overspending

2013-12-14T21:16:00.001+08:00

The Internet has made this world an open enterprise. It has become important for companies to further expand their market and their consumer targets. Engaging to Internet Marketing maybe a risk for people who wish to be involved with this type of business.

Ensure that most of your target consumers will surely acquire your product. Consider the best products which will definitely capture their interests and needs. This means that you need to identify specifically who these people are, their location and financial level in the society. Have a marketing knowledge and skill to achieve your goal in the field of Internet marketing.

At the present, you can use varied Internet Marketing Solutions that is being offered by companies which can be your tool for support to your consumers. This solution maybe email marketing, search engine optimization or creating web pages or sites. Since you need to maximize your return profit, you need to choose Internet Marketing Solutions that will help you achieve this. These marketing techniques will not cost much since they are very self-explanatory, thus, learned easily.

Email marketing is a common Internet marketing Solution. This is a cost effective way of communicating and interacting to your consumers, driving them to visit your website and check out your products. It may be in a way of marketing articles, leading them to forums or newsletters. A newsletter has an advantage of expanding your consumers as more and more sign up on it until you can have a bulk list of emails.

Another great Internet marketing solution is through websites. This is a good promotion strategy to employ since you can display all the necessary information for your target consumers. The website should capture their interest and be complete since every transaction, from inquiry to payments may take place. All correspondence that will be done online must be well-facilitated by the features of your website.

Another Internet marketing solution is search engine optimization. This is a type of service for your website that you can make use of in order to raise the number of visitors to your site. Once a consumer uses a search engine, your website will rank high in the list of searches which in return will increase your site's traffic.

Considering these Internet Marketing Solution, there are different companies offering software products containing one or all of these solutions. It would be a great opportunity to try one of these which will match your financial capability and expected return profit.

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Writing Articles as an Affordable Internet Marketing Method

2013-11-29T20:13:00.001+08:00

Writing Articles as an Affordable Internet Marketing Method

From Overture, a keyword suggestion tool, you will see the millions of searches done to a certain keyword. When these keywords are typed on search boxes of search engines, indexed websites containing articles with those keywords will be displayed. And this is what leads traffic to websites with keyword-rich articles. Yes, the magic word is articles.

Content is king. You can say that again. That is why writing articles is one of the most utilized Internet marketing media today. Internet surfers just can't get enough of information on various fields. Providing information through these articles is a surefire way to drive hot traffic to your web site.

Why is this so? Here are the benefits that writing articles can give your Internet business.

1. It's absolutely free.

Too good to be true? Not. Okay, you have to pay for your Internet Service Provider. That's it. All you need is your thoughts, your computer, and your hands. If you have those, nothing will stop you from typing words that will make you complete that article for your website. On which aspect of that process did you really shell out any cent? Maybe later when your electric bills come.

2. Your website will be noticed in a short period of time.

Submit that article of yours to article directories that get the most web traffic and in no time your web site will be crawled. That is if you don't forget including your resource box or byline.

3. Obtain back links automatically.

When you submit your articles to directories, surely, other websites will make use of your article too. With the copyright terms of your articles, the URL of your website will still be in tact and will subsequently direct more traffic to your website.

4. Improve your reputation.

As an Internet marketer, if you plainly display your products on your website, you will not gain much conversion rate. Conversion is when your traffic converts to sales. You have to show that you are knowledgeable on your field. And what better way to show that than by writing articles that will allow you some bragging rights, right?

Just make your creative juices flow and jot down or key in those ideas quickly to jumpstart your article writing momentum. With those benefits listed above, a writer's block is the last problem you will ever be able to surmount.

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Affiliate Marketing: Why is it One of the Most Cost-Effective Ways to Advertise your Business

2013-11-16T18:22:00.004+08:00

Affiliate Marketing: Why is it One of the
Most Cost-Effective Ways to Advertise your Business

Ever heard of affiliate programs? These are forms of Internet advertising that rewards the affiliates for driving traffic to the advertiser or for other transactions. The advertiser pays the affiliate to place a link on their website, and the affiliate sends traffic to the advertiser in return. Simply put, it's about paying commissions to people who help you make sales. It's that easy. NOT.

Affiliate marketing has its ups and downs. It could be draining if you are not armed with updated information and the technical how-tos. But this article's sole objective is to reach out to you and not to badmouth affiliate marketing.

Here are the following reasons on why web marketers go gaga over affiliate marketing as a form of Internet advertisement.

1. Low cost

Many are scared to go on a home based business because of the capital required. In affiliate marketing, you don't have to spend much to start raking in moolah.

2. Inventories not included

Product management fuss could be very stressing. An inventory is not asked to be maintained. The merchant does the maintenance required.

3. Unlimited income through leverage

When you have a paid job, your monthly income mainly relies on whether you go to work or not. With affiliate marketing, your affiliates could all just lead traffic to your site without having to lift a finger after providing them your ad copy and links. Though not every web marketer earns limitless, it still is a fact that all the necessary matters for the advertiser or Internet marketer are all there to be successful.

4. Go worldwide

With affiliate marketing, you are dealing with a global market place. All you have to do is choose a niche product and prepare all the necessary tools for your affiliates to lead traffic from just about anywhere to your website.

5. Low risk

The very main reason for Internet marketer's enthusiasm with affiliate marketing is its having a low risk factor. Especially for those with low budget set aside for advertising, affiliate marketing is just the way to do it.

6. No closing time

With affiliate marketing, your business works every single second of the day while targeting a worldwide market! What could be better than that?

But all of these will be put to waste if you don't have the right niche product and all the other important tools to make it big in affiliate marketing, i.e., well-SEO-ed website. So better work on this first before ever considering those benefits.

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Free Website Promotion...Why Not?

2013-11-13T13:52:00.003+08:00

Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?

Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.

How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

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1. Enlist your website.

Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.

Just don't forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.

2. Know your forums.

One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.

3. Write a press release.

Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!

4. Be friendly online.

Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.

5. Write an article.

Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

6. Just let the whole world know about your site.

What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!

7. Make a banner ad.

Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!

8. Take up a free website promotion course online.

Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don't you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.

When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it -- there is such a thing as free website promotion!

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How to Acquire Free Web Site Promotion

2013-11-11T00:47:00.001+08:00

You have finished making your own website. You have introduced your company and presented your products and services. You have added propositions and promos to catch your target audienceís attention. You have achieved the dos and doníts of building a company web site. But why isnít your website a major success?
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Maybe you're not planning the key to the best promotion of your web site. Here are some guidelines on how to acquire free web site promotions for your companyís success.

If you have started to promote your web site, keep it constant. If you promote your site with persistence, it will catch your audienceís attention.

Be patient. Try each method in promotion until you acquire the best, free promotion there is. You have to accept trial and error for your web site to reach the top.

There are many ways for your web site to be seen. Here are some free web site promotions you could try until you find the most effective.

*Free promotions such as search engines and directories would give your web site the deserved traffic you always wanted. Make sure to check your web siteís ranking to know whether or not this type of free promotion is right for you.

*Make a deal with other web sites on trading links which could help both web sites. Make sure to use words that could easily interest the audience.

*Find free classified ads that could boost the promotion of your web site. These ads could be seen by other people who you are not targeting for, but may as well be interested in your services.

*Free and low-cost internet banners are spread all through out the World Wide Web. Banners that pop-up at the top of a page or in a separate window would automatically catch your target audienceís attention.

If your web site and its free promotion did not work even after accomplishing these methods, analyze your web site. Track down all visitors, advertisements, and transactions. Then locate errors in your web site. Upload new files to your web site continuously for audience to return for new products and services. Monitor your own web site if itís up in the market or down.

Then be ready to try the methods again and surely it will work.

It has always been said that the best things in life are free. Yes they are. And as soon as your free web site promotion proves to the audience its worth, then youíll believe itís true.

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12 Benefits Of Having A Website

2013-11-06T22:10:00.001+08:00

Some of the goals that can be achieved by having a website include the following:

1. Far Cheaper and Much More Flexible Than Print Advertising

The Internet is extremely different from print advertising in that space is cheap, your advertisement is accessible for a longer period of time, the content can be changed without having to ask someone to do it for you (if you use a content management system) and you can potentially reach a wider audience.

This is not to say that you should not use other forms of advertising at all You can use it to entice people to visit your website and find out about your company and potentially open two-way communication between the potential customer and a sales person.

2. Market Expansion

The Internet has allowed businesses to break through the geographical barriers and become accessible, virtually, from any country in the world by a potential customer that has Internet access.

3. Diversify Revenue Streams

A website is not just a medium for representation of your company, it is a form of media from which everybody can acquire information. You can use this media to sell advertising space to other businesses.
A recent trend has risen where businesses feature their very own directory of complimentary services, where the visitor can search for information on a business that will enhance the use of your service. The business sells complimentary businesses a listing in their directory.

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4. 24 7 365

No more turning customers away when its time to close shop, putting up a note saying closed for public holiday , or leaving an irritating message on your answering service specifying your trading hours tell them to visit your website for information they are looking for.

5. Offer Convenience

It is far more convenient for a person to research a product on the Internet than it is to get in a car, drive somewhere and look for or ask someone for information on a product. Also, a potential customer won t have to judge a call centre agent to determine whether he/she has their best interests in mind, or just wants to make a sale.

The potential customer can visit your website whenever they like in their own privacy and comfort, without the stresses and distractions that exist in the real world .
Your website is a self-service medium   for example, instead of having to wait in a long cue to pay your TV License, you can now do it electronically through the TV License website.

6. Add Value and Satisfaction

By offering convenience, a point of reference and that touch of individualized customer service, you ultimately add value to your offering and your customers experience a higher level of satisfaction.

Your website can add value in other ways too, by featuring tips, advice and general interest content you can entertain your customers. This will also help them remember you better.

7. Standardize Sales Performance

By looking at which approached / pitches have worked in the past and those which have not, you can produce the ultimate pitch and use it with your website, so that you use it on every customer. No more training of sales people and waiting for them to get a feel for your line of trade.

8. Improve credibility

A website gives you the opportunity to tell potential customers what you are about and why you deserve their trust and confidence. In fact, many people use the internet for pre-purchase research so that they can determine for themselves whether a particular supplier or brand is worthy of their patronage, and won t take them for a ride.
The Internet also allows for Viral Marketing   where your website visitors spread positive word-of-mouth about your business - your customers do your marketing!

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9. Promote your Brick n Mortar Presence

Getting lost trying to find a place can be frustrating for a potential customer. You can publish what they call a dummy map on your website, which shows directions and landmarks graphically, and the potential customer can print it out when looking for your Brick n Mortar premises.

You might advertise a promotion on your website encouraging the visitor to visit your Brick n Mortar premises (e.g.. At a branch near you! ).

Also, if you recently moved to a new location, you will have to wait for the next 'phone directory to come out before people figure out where you currently are. Because a website is flexible   you can change the content as you like   you can change you contact details instantly and lower the risk of losing customers when moving to a new location.

10. Growth Opportunity

A website serves as a great place to refer potential investors to, to show them what your company is about, what it has achieved and what it can achieve in future.

11. Two-Way Communicative Marketing

Customers can quickly and easily give feedback on your product and/or marketing approach.

12. Cheap Market Research

You can use features on your website such as visitor polls, online surveys and your website statistics to find out what your customers like more and how they feel about certain aspects of your business to determine how you can improve your product and the way you do business.
Website statistics show you how much traffic your website receives, how the visitor got to your website and where, geographically, the visitor is from.

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The Advantages of Creating a Free Web Site

2013-11-05T15:18:00.000+08:00

There are a wide variety of advantages and possibilities for creating a free web site. A company web site can play an essential role in your companies promotional and marketing technique. It also makes a very influential reflection on your business as a whole.

In today’s society, many people prefer to research businesses on the Internet for information, such as services offered or product descriptions and prices, thus the overall public and consumers nearly depend on a corporation to possess an online web site. With a company web site, your products and services can be accessible all day everyday, 365 days a year, and is publicized to millions of potential customers, not just locally but worldwide.

Create a free website and take advantage of this extremely powerful marketing tool which has the ability to boost your sales, if done properly and professionally. You may also add your website to your business cards, thus enhancing the image of your company. With a company web site, you can have descriptions, images, and costs of your merchandise, the most recent company info, or maps denoting the location of your companies retailers, making it easier for local customers and potential customers to locate your business.

Create a free website for your company and help save some trees, as you will no longer need the use of print based media, such as brochures, advertisements, etc to help promote your business. A company web site is virtually hassle-free and more cost efficient than keeping up with printing and reprinting brochures and advertisement, thus saving your company money on commerce and management expenses.

Create a free website and increase your sales by creating an additional channel for accepting orders. Customers can sign-up and purchase products directly from your website hassle-free. Networking with other companies is detrimental in building strong business relationships with other companies, locally and worldwide. With a company website you are also able to contend with other businesses in your market area, such as competitive prices, unbeatable sales prices, etc. With a company web site you can also help create brand awareness by linking your website with other advertising campaigns.

So, if you are a new business owner or even a seasoned one but new to the Internet, it may be beneficial for you and the future of your company to research the endless advantages and possibilities of having company web site, and creating it for free.

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Start Your Own E-Commerce Business

2013-11-02T18:05:00.003+08:00

1. Research: For products you love, relate to, and wish to sell; Competition – what your chances are of succeeding in that market; Suppliers – who you can find that product for a good price from.

Here are seven guidelines to starting your own e-commerce business.

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2. Time investment: For your own eCommerce business to be successful, time is your biggest investment. The more time you put in to your business, the greater the chances are of succeeding. However, an eCommerce business can also benefit you if you only invest a short amount of hours in it, as long as your time is being spent effectively.

3. Find a platform that is attentive to your needs: An attentive and passionate customer support team can save you loads of time.

4. Reliable source of information: Ensure that you know where to retrieve information when in need. While running a business, store owners tend to encounter unpredicted challenges. It’s important that once you face a challenge, you have a knowledge base filled with information that helps you overcome it.

5. It’s OK to dream: Convey your dreams through your store design. Technology today barely limits your design aspiration. When choosing a store design template, let loose, but also ensure that it corresponds to your products.

6. Strategies to generate traffic: Once their store is up and running, owners must start attracting customers to their businesses. Therefore, the platform you choose to work with has to have suitable marketing tools (Facebook Store, eBay, and Amazon Integration, Price Comparison sites integration, Coupon Distribution, etc.)

7. Analyze and optimize: For a business to grow, its weaknesses must be translated into strengths. Future store owners should guarantee their businesses have the tools and integration capabilities for a thorough analysis of their operations. Thereafter, adjust and optimize their actions consequently.

How to Succeed in Your Home-Based Business

2013-11-01T13:43:00.002+08:00

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Although no one can guarantee that your home-based business will bring you the fame and fortune you hope it will, if you work hard, price your products and services right, and keep your customers satisfied, you stand a good chance of doing just that. The results you get out of your business are a direct result of the work you put into it.

DO WHAT YOU LOVE

To do what you love, you first have to know what kind of work you really want to do. This requires intense introspection and an understanding of which kinds of work get your creative juices flowing and which kinds dry them up. Doing what you love also sometimes requires that you ignore what other people want you to do for a living. You may decide, for example, that you'd really like to start a recording studio in your home, but your spouse or best friend may think something more practical, such as buying into a fast-food franchise, makes more sense. Ultimately, you must decide what you're going to do for a living — even if it means you can't work at home.

TREAT YOUR BUSINESS LIKE A BUSINESS

If you want your business to be a business — an organization that generates the kind of money you need to become financially independent — you have to treat it like one, not like a hobby or a momentary fling. Here are some ideas:

• Set aside a real home office — not just a closet or a shelf — exclusively for your business.

• Make an investment in business equipment and supplies: a decent computer, extra phone lines, a fax machine, and whatever else you decide you need to run your operation.

• Create a marketing plan and marketing materials.

• Publicize your company's products and services to a wide audience of potential customers and clients.

• Build a strong customer base and make plans for future growth.

BECOME AN EXPERT

People respect those who know more than they do. By specializing, you assume the role of a presumed expert, even if you've just started your business. It makes good business sense for your clients to hire an expert instead of someone less experienced. By avoiding the mistakes and dead ends that someone with less experience may make, your clients could end up spending less money by hiring you — even if your hourly rates are higher.

CHARGE WHAT YOU'RE WORTH

Here's an instant going-out-of-business plan, no matter how hard you work: Charge your customers less than you're worth. Why would you do that? Well, some people charge less than they're worth because they don't realize exactly how much they are worth. Others charge less than they're worth because they are embarrassed or afraid to ask for an amount that reflects their true worth. Whatever the reason, if you don't get paid what you're worth, you are putting your business at risk.

If you don't know what you're worth, find out what other companies charge for similar products or services by researching catalogs, price lists, stores, and e-commerce and auction Web sites. From there, develop a pricing or fee structure that will help you attain your personal goals.

MANAGE YOUR CASH FLOW

Cash, or the lack of it, is one of the key indicators of a company's success over the long run. If you have cash, you can buy and stock new products for your customers, develop innovative new services for your clients, pay for your day-to-day operations, and expand your operations. If you don't have cash, your business will certainly suffer, and so will your customers and clients.

It's not enough to simply watch your cash flow — the money going in and out of your business — you've also got to manage it. This means looking to the future, planning and scheduling your projected cash inflows and outflows, billing quickly, staying on top of money owed you, and paying attention to the money that goes in and out of your business.

BUILD A SOLID CUSTOMER BASE

Building a solid customer base is much easier said than done. At the heart of the process is creating an organization that values its current customers and goes out of its way to ensure their satisfaction and happiness. Customers are smart — they can tell whether they are high or low on a company's list of priorities. If they sense that you don't care much about whether they do business with you, they'll likely jump ship as soon as another company that really does care about them comes along.

ASK FOR REFERRALS

Word-of-mouth referrals are probably the least expensive and the most effective way of getting new business. This makes referrals the most important way for home-based businesses to market themselves. Here are several of the best ways of earning great referrals from customers:

• Do great work: When you do great work, your clients are happy to give you great referrals. Do less-than-great work, and you'll be lucky to get any referrals.

• Do your work on time and within budget: If you consistently deliver on your promises, you'll soon have more business than you could ever imagine possible. And you'll earn your clients' referrals.

• Keep your clients well informed: When clients spend their money on you, they want to be kept apprised of your progress, not only to stay in touch with the project, but also to keep a watchful eye out for problems before they get out of hand. Do your clients a favor, and keep them informed about your project's progress. Whether the news is good or bad, your clients and customers will appreciate your forthrightness and candor.

• Be dependable: If anything, you should always keep your word — even when it hurts. If you promise to do something, do everything in your power to keep your promise, no matter what it takes to follow through on it.

• Be flexible: Customers and clients appreciate vendors who are flexible and willing to meet their needs, no matter what those needs are. Not only that, but also, they will pay more for that flexibility. Think what you can do in your business to better meet your customers' needs.

• Thank your clients for their referrals: Everyone likes to be appreciated for what they do. Your customers are no different. Be sure to thank them for their referrals with a hand-signed card or small gift.

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3 Life-Changing Habits of High Performers

2013-10-30T11:56:00.004+08:00

When it comes to being successful, high achievers have a number of habits in common. But that doesn't mean you can't be right up there with them.

Here are three qualities all successful people share and how you can make them your own:

1. Say 'no' to distraction. Every. Single. Time. Successful people make better use of their time because they are disciplined goal-setters. I’m referring to those high performers who experience no down-time. Sure, there are vacations and time spent with the family, but that comes after success has been achieved.

Successful people have that same list of tasks to accomplish as anyone else, but the difference is they make time to get them all done with no excuses. They may not enjoy it, but that is irrelevant. What matters is that it gets done. They are disciplined in planning their work and sticking to their plan.

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Even when you’ve achieved that level of success, the work doesn’t stop. I am always on the lookout for a great, profitable investment. I might be out with my family, but my brain is always aware of business opportunities around me. I don’t just shut it off when I’m not at work.

2. Read something new everyday. Successful people read constantly, find mentors who can teach them and value new information that can help push them forward. Whatever field you are in, you have to learn before you earn. Learn your product, customers and competition. And then: keep learning.

3. Flaunt your failures like a champ. Fail as many times as you can. Everyone fails. It’s part of life. Too many people take failure as a sign it's time for them to give up. Those people don’t get very far. What sets successful people apart is the ability to get up and give it another go with a better plan for how to be successful the next time around.

If you want to embrace the habits of successful people, you’ve got to make the change within yourself first.

10 Time Management Tips That Work

2013-10-29T00:37:00.002+08:00

Are you working on clock time or 'real' time? Learn how to manage your day by understanding the difference with these 10 time management tips.

Chances are good that, at some time in your life, you've taken a time management class, read about it in books, and tried to use an electronic or paper-based day planner to organize, prioritize and schedule your day. "Why, with this knowledge and these gadgets," you may ask, "do I still feel like I can't get everything done I need to?"

The answer is simple. Everything you ever learned about managing time is a complete waste of time because it doesn't work.

Before you can even begin to manage time, you must learn what time is. A dictionary defines time as "the point or period at which things occur." Put simply, time is when stuff happens.

There are two types of time: clock time and real time. In clock time, there are 60 seconds in a minute, 60 minutes in an hour, 24 hours in a day and 365 days in a year. All time passes equally. When someone turns 50, they are exactly 50 years old, no more or no less.

In real time, all time is relative. Time flies or drags depending on what you're doing. Two hours at the department of motor vehicles can feel like 12 years. And yet our 12-year-old children seem to have grown up in only two hours.

Which time describes the world in which you really live, real time or clock time?

The reason time management gadgets and systems don't work is that these systems are designed to manage clock time. Clock time is irrelevant. You don't live in or even have access to clock time. You live in real time, a world in which all time flies when you are having fun or drags when you are doing your taxes.

The good news is that real time is mental. It exists between your ears. You create it. Anything you create, you can manage. It's time to remove any self-sabotage or self-limitation you have around "not having enough time," or today not being "the right time" to start a business or manage your current business properly.

There are only three ways to spend time: thoughts, conversations and actions. Regardless of the type of business you own, your work will be composed of those three items.

As an entrepreneur, you may be frequently interrupted or pulled in different directions. While you cannot eliminate interruptions, you do get a say on how much time you will spend on them and how much time you will spend on the thoughts, conversations and actions that will lead you to success.

Practice the following techniques to become the master of your own time:

Carry a schedule and record all your thoughts, conversations and activities for a week. This will help you understand how much you can get done during the course of a day and where your precious moments are going. You'll see how much time is actually spent producing results and how much time is wasted on unproductive thoughts, conversations and actions.
Any activity or conversation that's important to your success should have a time assigned to it. To-do lists get longer and longer to the point where they're unworkable. Appointment books work. Schedule appointments with yourself and create time blocks for high-priority thoughts, conversations, and actions. Schedule when they will begin and end. Have the discipline to keep these appointments.
Plan to spend at least 50 percent of your time engaged in the thoughts, activities and conversations that produce most of your results.
Schedule time for interruptions. Plan time to be pulled away from what you're doing. Take, for instance, the concept of having "office hours." Isn't "office hours" another way of saying "planned interruptions?"
Take the first 30 minutes of every day to plan your day. Don't start your day until you complete your time plan. The most important time of your day is the time you schedule to schedule time.
Take five minutes before every call and task to decide what result you want to attain. This will help you know what success looks like before you start. And it will also slow time down. Take five minutes after each call and activity to determine whether your desired result was achieved. If not, what was missing? How do you put what's missing in your next call or activity?
Put up a "Do not disturb" sign when you absolutely have to get work done.
Practice not answering the phone just because it's ringing and e-mails just because they show up. Disconnect instant messaging. Don't instantly give people your attention unless it's absolutely crucial in your business to offer an immediate human response. Instead, schedule a time to answer email and return phone calls.
Block out other distractions like Facebook and other forms of social media unless you use these tools to generate business.
Remember that it's impossible to get everything done. Also remember that odds are good that 20 percent of your thoughts, conversations and activities produce 80 percent of your results.

5 Ways to Get Out of Startup Mode And Grow Your Business

2013-10-27T17:48:00.000+08:00

Entrepreneurs stay in startup mode way too long. Keeping a small business in startup mode requires you to stand on the brake. If you keep telling people you're "just a startup," you will never take actions for real growth.

It's time to move from startup to grown up mode and from planning to doing. In two years, you want to look back at your startup phase as an important part of your thriving business' history. You want to say,"I remember when I was sitting on my floor packing boxes myself. Now I employ over 100 people." This is the mindset to move towards and here are five ways to do it:

1. Delegate. When you're in startup phase, you are handling everything. To become a going concern you have to start investing in people to do tasks you can no longer do. Three quarters of all small businesses have zero employees, which underscores the resistance people have to delegating. You have to grow your business. It is a misnomer to think people cost money. A lack of production and failure to grow your business costs far more.

2. Pick your battles. Don't get wrapped up for a week deciding on a logo when it ultimately doesn't matter. Your brand will evolve as your business evolves, so your logo is likely to change. There are more important things to obsess over -- gaining customers and making money. When you are hunting big game, don't swat mosquitoes.

3. Get attention. The single biggest problem every startup has is becoming known. Your most important task is to get attention for you and your company. It's the gateway to every dollar you raise. Muhammed Ali told the world he was the greatest long before anyone knew him. He got attention and infuriated people. But he proved himself, which turned criticism into world admiration. Get attention. Get critics. Then get admiration.

4. Change your pitch. Instead of saying "I own a small web design company," say "I own a web design company like none other that guarantees your company increased sales." Notice the difference? The first makes you seem small and insignificant. It makes no claim. The second makes you seem unique, confident and capable of being a money maker. Know how to pitch yourself and your business. Be ready to quickly explain what your company does that is better, faster and of value to the marketplace. Then, make big claims to the world.

5. Create urgency. If you start a business venture without setting specific timelines for action and achievements, you will be stuck forever with excuses. One of the biggest mistakes I have made in business was not operating with enough urgency. Being an entrepreneur is a marathon activity with lots of sprints. Win a lot of little races and you will provide your people and company with momentum. We recently shot a television show at my office and I told the editing staff that I wanted rough cuts in half the time they thought necessary. Then I called everyday for a progress update. This pressure to perform doesn't lead to inferior products; it get products to be finished. Urgency is key to getting things done.

Remember: Your vision is not improved by staying in startup mode. It's time to accelerate and become a going concern that is grabbing market share from the other bigger more established players. It used to be the big who ate the small. Today, it is the fast who eat the slow.

10 Ways to Grow Your Home Based Business

2013-10-26T15:17:00.002+08:00

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Small is beautiful.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Inch by inch, row by row, that's the way my garden grows.

While such homespun wisdom might be fine for common folk, it can be awfully frustrating for an ambitious homebased business owner determined to take his company to the next level of growth and profitability. Sure, a thriving one- or two-person service business with no inventory, rent or employees can seem like an easy way to make money at first, but when the phone starts ringing off the hook and customers keep coming back for more, homebased business owners who fail to plan often fall victim to their own success. Either they burn out trying to juggle everything themselves or they spend so much time and money hiring people to help them that their profits go down the drain.

Fortunately, there are some ways to take your homebased business to new heights without sacrificing your business's profitability or losing your peace of mind.

Follow these 10 steps to grow your homebased business into the personal and professional success it was meant to be:

1. Focus on a single product or service, and then market it, sell it, promote it-do everything you can to increase sales of that one product or service. While it's tempting to swing for the fences and try to be all things to all people, it's often less risky and more profitable to pick a product or two that you can execute really well and just try to get on base.

Richard Roy, a Sparta, New Jersey landscaper, started a homebased dog-waste removal business called Dr. Pooper Scooper when he got tired of picking up the dog poop from his customers' lawns. Instead of splurging on a retail storefront or an expensive Yellow Pages ad, Roy decided to use his truck as his primary advertising vehicle. Says Roy, "I decorated the truck as a Dalmatian, used full signage and put magnetic business cards on it. By using the truck as my moving billboard, by joining community groups and through word of mouth, I've turned what was once my nightmare into a thriving business serving 100 customers and making 1,100 pickups a week."

Thanks to Dr. Pooper Scooper's success, Roy is now planning to phase out his landscaping business and focus on his new venture full time. "When I scoop the poop, I do it 12 months a year and never have to fix or replace equipment," Roy says. "It's also three time easier than landscaping, and I can do it until I can't walk anymore."

2. Expand your product line to offer complementary products or services. Once you've hit on a product or service that customers really like, don't miss the opportunity to bring out related items to diversify your product line. Not only does that give your customers a wider selection, but it also makes your products more appealing to retailers who typically like to stock a line of products as opposed to a single item.

Meredith LiePelt, who runs a company called Contemporary Baby out of her home in Dublin, Ohio, started off making colorful burp cloths for newborns. Now she's expanded her line to include such "go along" products as receiving blankets, bibs and gift baskets. Says LiePelt, "Our retail customers have enjoyed having more gift-giving options, and our wholesale clients are able to offer their customers a wider selection to choose from."

3. Find ways to increase sales to your existing customers. It's a lot cheaper than finding new ones. Even if you can't expand your product line, you can boost revenues by selling more of your existing product or service to the clients you already have. One easy way to do this is through volume discounts. Especially if your products cost little to produce, offering your customers the chance to buy, say, two T-shirts for the price of one lets you ring up additional sales without sacrificing much profit. Another common practice is to reward loyal customers by giving them a punch card that entitles them to a free product or service for every 10 items they buy. This technique is common at hair salons, car washes and arts-and-crafts stores, but homebased businesses can use it, too.

4. Hire someone to help you out-an employee, a freelancer, an intern, an independent contractor, even your kids. Not only does this free up cash flow by adjusting your expenses to the level of work you bring in, but it also enables you to cultivate a large network of talented people you probably couldn't afford to hire full time.

Marc Kirschner, a neighborhood directory publisher in New York City, employs 50 to 75 writers-all of whom are freelancers-to develop his directory's content. This way, Marc saves on payroll taxes, medical benefits, employer liability insurance and all the other costs of hiring full-time staffers. There are other benefits, too. "Bringing in outside help gives you someone else to bounce ideas and strategies off of," Kirschner says. "It prevents you from feeling you're going it alone."

5. Create a Web site to advertise your company or sell products online. Thanks to the Internet, it's no longer necessary to open a store to reach retail customers. For marketers of specialty products like rare books, collectibles and gourmet foods, a Web-based boutique lets you reach millions of shoppers around the world without paying for rent, utilities or garbage collection.

And while creating Web sites once required a big investment and the skills of an experienced Web designer or programmer, do-it-yourself Web sites are now available for less than $30 a month with no technical knowledge required. Typically, the companies that help you register your domain name (Web address) will provide online templates you can use to build your site, host your Web pages on their server and provide you with multiple e-mail addresses as well. E-commerce capabilities can often be had for an additional charge. You can also set up low-cost Web sites through Web hosting companies and search engines.

6. Join forces with another business to promote your company. Partnering with a company in a related industry is one of the cheapest and easiest forms of marketing that you can employ. If you make spa products, for example, you may be able to convince a local health club to carry them in its store by offering a discount to its members. Likewise, you can send a free, one-day health club pass to anybody who buys your lotions and scrubs.

Nancy Tamosaitis, a homebased publicist, says her New York firm, Vorticom, has partnered with a graphic design firm to provide creative services such as Web design and brochures to her corporate PR clients. From time to time, she also joins forces with specialty PR firms to assist clients in fashion, finance and other industries. "Now that I'm working from home, my clients receive infinitely better service and results-at much lower cost-than when I managed a $3 million profit center at a top PR agency," Tamosaitis says.

7. Target other markets. If you sell to teens, start marketing to college students. If you sell to working moms, maybe your product will work for stay-at-home moms with a few modifications. Another strategy is to take a retail-oriented product or service and sell it wholesale. For example, a homebased catering business that specializes in cakes, pies and other tasty desserts can contact local bakeries to sell its goods on a wholesale basis. While the price you get from the bakeries will be lower (because the bakeries need to mark it up to their customers to make a profit), you'll sell more products and generate consistent cash flow that you can bank on.

8. Find new and different ways to market your business through e-mail newsletters or by doing guest-speaking gigs or by teaching a class. Marketing your homebased business doesn't need to involve spending big money on newspaper ads, Yellow Pages listings, or TV or radio spots. Grassroots marketing techniques cost far less and are often much more effective. Most chambers of commerce and community groups are more than happy to provide a forum to a local business owner who's willing to share his expertise at no charge. Sending out a weekly newsletter is also a great way to get your name out in front of new and potential clients. Thanks to the Internet, you can send out your newsletter via e-mail using online templates and automated delivery systems.

9. Expand to another location. That could mean renting "virtual" office space in a business center or by sharing office space with another growing business. Brad Taylor, a CPA in Springfield, New Jersey, spends most of his time at home preparing tax returns, developing tax-planning strategies and revising his clients' QuickBooks files. But when he needs to come to New York City for a meeting, he sometimes rents space at a Manhattan business center operated by HQ Global, a national provider of temporary office space.

For a monthly fee or a la cart, business centers like these offer everything from conference rooms and receptionist services to remote-access voicemail, high-speed Internet connectivity and tech support, offering homebased business owners as much or as little outside office services as they need. Taylor pays just $10 an hour to use the space and is able to bill the cost to his client. "While I still want to run my business from home, this has allowed me to pursue new opportunities and network with other professionals," Taylor says.

10. Think about turning your business into a franchise or business opportunity. While most homebased businesses remain small, yours may have the potential to hit the big time through franchising, licensing or wholesale distribution. The key question to ask yourself is if your business can be converted into a business format that somebody else could operate (a franchise) or if you have a standardized product or service that someone could resell multiple times (a business opportunity). While you may think that expanding your business requires raising capital, hiring employees, buying equipment and leasing office or warehouse space, it's often more profitable-and less risky-to license your product to a big corporation with manufacturing capabilities and an existing sales force to do the work for you.

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A cash cow for the enterprising, the Internet is littered with opportunities to make a fast buck. While it rarely qualifies as a solitary source of income, the Net can easily help you supplement it. However, the amount you earn depends on the time and effort invested. Go through these 20 options and find out which ones work for you.

Selling photos

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If you enjoy photography and are good with a camera, you could be sitting on a huge reserve of revenue. There are people who will be interested in your collection of images. Nowadays, it's easy to take your photos to the public, providing a convenient way to build a secondary income stream. Many stock photo agencies, such as Fotolia, Dreamstime and Shutterstock, offer incentives for people to earn from their photos.

Blogging
If you're a passionate closet writer who wants to be published but can't find a way to do so, make each keystroke your way to wealth by penning your own blog. Starting a blog doesn't require extensive technical skills but it's important that you have expertise in the field you are writing on. This will attract visitors to your site. Building a large following will enable you to earn profit by luring advertisers, writing paid reviews or getting commissions for promoting other people's products.

Paid Writing
If maintaining a blog is difficult for you but you still want to indulge your passion for writing, you can jot down articles for other blogs or sites such as Weblogs, Helium or PayPerPost. Writing an e-book can also be a good option. E-books are investment free, with no cost for printing and shipping. If you have a strong command over languages, you can become a copy editor, where Webmasters will pay you to read articles and correct grammatical errors, sentence fragments, etc.

Affilliate/Reseller
For those who have the knack of selling, one of the best ways to make money online is to become an affiliate/reseller. An affiliate is a person who gets a commission for selling every product that he promotes, whether on his Website or through any other avenue such as eBay. You don't have to own the product. You only need to sign up for an affiliate program with a company and start selling its products under your referral link. Firms such as Commission Junction or Click Bank have a large pool of products.

You Tube
If there's a dramatic performer hidden inside you who craves applause and adulation, upload yourself on YouTube. You can be a filmmaker, musician or comedian who wants a wider audience. Your earnings will come from ads displayed on your video page. This process is similar to the pay-per-click advertising program common to other Websites and blogs. Sites such as Flixya and Mediaflix can be helpful in this regard.

Advertising
You can sell space on your Website or blog for advertisements and you earn when these ads are clicked by visitors to your site. The sorting and placing of ads is free. The profitability of pay-per-click advertising depends on the traffic level of the Website and, most importantly, on the clickthrough rate and cost per click. Google AdSense is the most popular option, while others are BidVertiser, Text Link Ads and Blogads. Direct banner and RSS feed are some other forms of online advertising.

Online Marketing
Once a Website is created and optimised for search engine (SEO), the SEM or Search Engine Marketing begins. A treasure trove lies hidden here. An SEO/SEM expert, who is responsible for marketing a Website, can promote it in various ways. These include article marketing, writing press releases, forum posting, blog posting, submitting your site to directories and search engines, social bookmarking, etc. Most companies don't do this in-house and pay you to conduct the SEM for them.

Virtual Assistant
Small businesses always need help in running their processes, but may not be willing to hire a full-time employee. As a virtual assistant, you are expected to perform practically any administrative task that a traditional secretary or assistant would, such as make travel reservations, handle expense reimbursements or pay bills. You can do it from the comfort of your home, interacting with clients either online or by phone. Your expertise will decide how much moolah you rake in.

Buying/Selling domains
Buying and selling domain names is another way to make money from home and requires very little investment or time. You can buy domains at their registration prices or even cheaper and trade them at a profit. However, always research on sites such as sedo.co.uk, afternic.com, ebay.com or other domain auction sites to get an estimate of the hottest selling names. The best way to find good ones is to use terminated domain lists, which contain several expired names that are back in the pool.

Freelancing for Professionals
Freelancing is a great option for professionals who are experts in their respective trades and know how to ensure customer satisfaction. Various freelancing and project-oriented sites allow companies that need help to describe their projects. Freelancers and small businesses offer bids, ideas or proposals, from which the buyers can choose what they find most suitable. Websites such as Elance cover everything from programming and writing to data entry and design, while RentACoder focuses on software programming.

GPT Programme
GPT or Get-paid-to sites are becoming increasingly popular among teens. You get paid for signing up for free Websites, newsletters, playing games and filling out online surveys. These are suitable for people who don't have a skill set but want to earn extra money. Taking online surveys is simple- register with a few legitimate, paid survey sites and answer questions. The topics range from shopping to politics. This might not help you make a living, but you can earn good pocket money. Contests2win is one of the trusted GPT Websites.

Making themes
As more and more people seek an online presence, the demand for Website templates and WordPress (Blog) themes will keep increasing. If you are good at Web designing and coding, you can earn a lot from designing Web themes. In this segment, there are mainstream Websites, such as TemplateMonster and ThemeForest, which act as a marketplace where you can sell your themes. Templates are sold and priced depending on the rights and features that are bundled with them.

Support & service
Providing coding or fixing other Webmasters' issues is another great way to earn extra bucks. There are simple jobs ranging from adding a script to setting up sites, but knowledge of Web coding is essential. One can offer support for Web CMS (content management systems) like Drupal or Joomla. After you are comfortable with your own installation, you can help other people to set these up and configure them.

Stock/forex trading
Joining the stock/forex market may seem a bit risky. However, you can start small and continue researching till you gain experience in this area. Once you do, it will be easy to earn from exchanging foreign currencies and/or stocks. Their rates fluctuate depending on supply and demand, and economic and political influences in the world. The aim of any trader is to spot which currency/stock is likely to rise or fall in value against another. The more time you put in, the more you will earn.

Selling your own brand
If you have a flair for designing cool images, don't bother about creating your own inventory. As long as your design can be printed on a product, you can pocket some money. You can upload designs on various Websites such as CafePress, and if somebody orders these designs, the company will print them and distribute the products. It could be designs for T-shirts, hats, bags, books, posters, calendars, greeting cards, etc. You will receive a commission for each sale. Other such sites include Lulu and Zazzle.

Inbound call centre
Many companies, who are facing space constraints, especially those in metro cities, prefer to hire workers outside their offices or outsource certain processes. You can set up an inbound call centre at home to handle such jobs. Research different companies that are outsourcing their work as they may have opportunities for inbound call centre agents. You can work for more than one company. This can be either a part-time or fulltime engagement, depending on your need.

Researching for others
Don't be morose if you can't write, design or code. Lack of talent cannot stop you from making money online. If you're willing to work hard for a few hours a week, you can take up simple research jobs for other people who don't have the time to do it themselves. You could search for opportunities in organisations that provide funding for research and offer to assist them through online investigation.

Building Applications
With smartphones gaining popularity, the demand for their applications, or apps as they are popularly known, has also shot up. There are over 3 million apps for the iPhone and over a million apps in Google's Android market. Most of these are selling like hot cakes. Developing and selling your own smartphone app is becoming a lucrative way to make money on the Internet. Apps cost virtually nothing to develop and entail no storage or shipping costs. So they enjoy the best profit margins.

Transcription
Medical transcription involves making written copies of oral material dictated by doctors or other medical experts. These may include history and physical reports, clinical notes, consultation notes, reports, letters, psychiatric evaluation and so on. The dictated material needs to be transcribed swiftly and accurately, which is the most challenging aspect of the job. To become a medical transcriptionist, you need to have a good knowledge of medical terminology and a high typing speed along with accuracy.

e-tuitions/Webinars
The demand for tutors is high and growing. So, if you like helping others learn, e-teaching could be the earning ticket for you. All you need to become an online tutor is expertise in your subject and a few spare hours per week. TutorVista, e-tutor, SmartThinking and Tutor.com are some of the sites you can enroll with. If you gain a good reputation as a coach, you could even conduct Webinars-lectures or seminars transmitted over the Net. College and university students are willing to pay to gain entry to a well-respected Webinar.

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