Today I would like to share with you about an interesting article from my online friend. It is about “How to run an internet business without a website!” Sounds interesting huh! Stay tune.

Here is Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero article from her awesome “Red Hot Copy” blog.

My website www.red-hot-copy.com has been down for three long days now. That means no online sales. That means no email. That means brand, spanking new web surfers looking for information about copywriting pull up a “Page Not Found” when they Google my website.

I am not a happy camper.

But life goes on. It has to. So how can an Internet marketer run an Internet business without a website? Here are a few workarounds to keep you in business while things get straightened out.

1. Keep an alternate email address in your back pocket. Sure it looks more professional to have your email address with part of your URL or website listed as the root. But having a free email address is also handy if your website isn’t working. I recommend either Hotmail, www.hotmail.com, Yahoo, www.yahoo.com, or Google, www.google.com. (Yes, AOL is an option in the event of an emergency but I just despise them for working so hard to dumb down their subscribers and make them juvenilely dependent).
2. Invest in a shopping cart. My shopping cart at my website is my most valued piece of Internet marketing real estate. It is the reason I am able to contact you today, regardless of the fact that my site is down. You can use a shopping cart to send up a flare in the form of autoresponders, emails, and ezines letting them know you’re still alive and well. You can even do promotions and make sales directly through the cart (if you have good copy).
3. Do direct mail, voice broadcasts, or faxes. I feel like I’m time-traveling back to the dinosaur days but sometimes a postcard or an actual hard copy of a sales letter can cut through the clutter when an email cannot. Of course you can’t send them to a website if yours is down. Have them call a phone number. I use www.ureach.com to receive my toll-free number and faxes. If you’re looking to send them or do a voice broadcast, contact my friend Ron Romano at www.findmeleads.com. Fortunately I have detailed information for many (not all) of my subscribers. If you haven’t been collecting addresses, phone numbers, and/or fax numbers I suggest you begin.
4. Find joint venture partners. Even if you don’t have a website, you can find someone else who is selling a product related to your field. In the carrot-growing business? Why not joint venture with someone in the tomato business? If you have a database you can still survive a website crisis. I wouldn’t advise going to your list too often to sell or you will lose many subscribers and a lot of good will.
5. Back ‘er up. You must have a back up copy of your website or you will be in a world of hurt when it comes time to rebuild that puppy. I work with people who have lost months just trying to get their site staked out online. My webmaster, my virtual assistant and I all have a backup copy of my website. Wanna see? I wish I could show you but my @#! server is having issues. So no site for me.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Lorrie Morgan-Ferrero, President of Red Hot Communications, Inc. is among a handful of the most highly sought after copywriters in the industry. Having studied with the leading gurus like Dan Kennedy, John Carlton, and Gary Halbert, Lorrie’s passion is teaching both entrepreneurs and copywriters how to master their own marketing through powerful copy. Her award-winning home study course, “Red Hot Copy to Woo Your Target Market” is a staple in marketing libraries. Annually she conducts an international online copywriting school, (“Red Hot Copywriting Bootcamp”), teaches a live workshop (“The Speed Copywriting Workshop”), and is a frequent guest speaker for other events. Lorrie’s ezine, “Copywriting TNT”, reaches over 15,000 subscribers in 74 countries worldwide. Learn more at www.red-hot-copy.com.

In 2008, there were only 27 billionaires on the India Rich List. In 2009, the number has almost doubled to 52-two short of what India had at the peak of the stock market boom in 2007. The richest newcomers are two brothers from Torrent Power - Sudhir and Samir Mehta, ranked 23 at USD 2.02 billion.

So we shall see that in 2015, India will be slowly climbing the ladder and become closer to China. By 2020, India will be there where China is now.  My prediction is India shall be the next “China” and finally together with existing Asia’s giant Japan and Korea, we will see that Asia, in 10 years time from today 2010, is the next economy Super Power. India and China will dominate the economy and it is time to have a collaboration with India if you are thinking to tap the Big market in mid and in south Asia.

The advent of scale change in India will create turmoil in global markets. If India’s oil demand more than doubles over the next 10 years, and China’s does the same, oil producers will have to deliver an extra 9 million barrels of oil per day to feed the extra demand from just these two countries. Since the total increase in world oil production in the last three decades was barely 9 mbd, don’t be surprised if oil prices catch fire at some point in the next few years.

It’s going to be a disruptive decade ahead for other markets too: in metals, energy and even agro-commodities, as Indian demand starts looking more like what Chinese demand has been in the recent past. If this explains why China has been busy in a one-country race to grab the world’s resources, wherever they may be, perhaps it is time India took the natural resource game a little more seriously.

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These are all the example of creative advertisement. So is Advertisement really important to your business? Learn about advertisement today.

Advertising is attempting to influence the buying behavior of your customers or clients by providing a persuasive selling message about your products and/or services.

There are many different types of advertising that are effective for small businesses, from traditional forms of advertising such as signage, yellow pages listings and newspaper advertising through newer forms such as pay per click advertising on the Internet.

Technically, advertising is only one way of promoting your business, and you will want to be sure that whatever form of advertising you choose fits in with your marketing plan and overall marketing strategy.

Business promotion is to running a successful business as practicing scales is to playing the piano well; it may not be a thrilling activity in itself, but you just have to do it! You should spend at least an hour a day on business promotion or planning how to promote your business (and more is better, if you can fit the time in)!

You promote your business by getting the word out. The first axiom of business promotion is that you have to do this consciously. You can’t rely on other people to do it for you, no matter how great your product or service is.

Word of mouth is excellent small business advertising – but it’s slow, and may be practically non-existent for new businesses. If you want to grow your customer base more quickly, you have to advertise.

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Every day on the internet we could see many articles or ads talking about driving people to your website. Driving traffic to a website has become the “holy grail” on the internet (wow! what a word huh!). People are realizing that trafic need to be built or develop, because they simply won’t come. Website traffic simply does not happen by itself. This is so true since I starts blogging 3 years ago. Your website is just one of many millions on the web and people rarely just stumble upon your site by accident.

There are many ways to drive traffic to your website. Do you want to know?

1. You can buy traffic from vendors that will pummel your website with hits from automated programs. This will increase your hits but will it increase your bottom line? Probably not.

2. You can set up blogs that spider (connect to) your website increasing your traffic count. Does this drive users to your website? Only if your blog is so interesting that people are reading it. There are thousands of blogs posted on the internet and your blog is just like a needle deep into the big Atlantic Ocean!

3. Another trick is to create RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds for your website and subscribe to other RSS feeds. This again will increase your hit count but will do very little to drive potential customers to your website unless you are providing valuable information. Tricks will increase your hit count but do very little to drive potential customers to your website.

4. A better way to drive traffic for your website is by using pay-per-click with Yahoo and Google. You identify the most common keywords associated with what you’re offering and bid on those keywords. This can be a costly option if you are bidding on popular keywords but it’s a reliable way to generate highly targeted traffic.

5. The best way to generate traffic for your website is to provide quality content that will solve your customer’s problems. People search the internet for information that will solve their problems. Write and post as many articles as you can on your website.If you don’t have time to write articles or can’t write then hire someone to write the articles for you. You can have quality articles written by freelance writers at www.elance.com for practically nothing. The articles should be relevant to the problems your customers are experiencing and to the services you provide to solve those customer problems. Remember, it’s all about providing solutions to your customer’s problems. Check the “How To” Articles section at www.netbizexpert.com for more information about your website content.

The bottom line is that you can’t trick people into finding your website. You must provide valuable information that solves your customer’s problems. Your customers do not visit your website to read your blog about how you spent the weekend (sorry for being direct today ). They will come to your website if they know they can find a solution to their most pressing issues. Keep your content fresh and relevant to solving your customer’s problems and in no time you will have plenty of visitors to your website.

Guys, after reading all these how about today I will try to solve your problem on this traffic or visitors issue. Why? Because right now I am offering a free advertising to expose your websites to TENS OF THOUSANDS of new and unique visitors! I am not pulling your leg but instead I am pulling your butt to sit up straight and key in your website details here, http://www.roslihanip.com/freesubmission/

Are you fed up with your boss deciding how much money you are going to earn this year and what you are going to have to do to get it? And when? Will you get a bonus as now is the end of the year? How is your appraisal for this year?

Had enough of your hard work growing your boss’s bank account, instead of your own?

Tired of wasting time on an endless commute while your need a maid to raise your children?

Worn down from worrying about your financial future when you can barely make ends meet today?

If you want to ditch the rat-race, take back your time and your life if you dream of financial independence; if you want to keep the rewards of all your hard work, instead of giving the credits to your boss; if you want to be home for your children, then you know that a Home-Based Business or Working From Home is the answer.

But keep in mind that operating at home will still require business skills just like any other business (this is based on my personal experience). You could start your home business without quitting your current daily job as a “moonlight entrepreneur.” You do not need a high level of sales to start with because your start-up costs are small. You can then take the time to build up your business. There is less to lose and more to gain. And you will have lots of company: according to the U.S. Small Business Administration, over 50% of all small businesses are home based.

What are the Special Benefits of a Home Based Business?

Minimum investment

Operating from home,  the investment is very minimal and exited with a minimum of obligations and risks.

Maximized communication technologies

The Internet, computer and communications technologies now offer home based entrepreneurs the same tools for communications, accounting and marketing as are employed by multi-national companies. Web-based businesses are especially appropriate for home based operations.

Start small and grow by compounding

You can begin in a very small way, starting with one order at a time and grow by the power of compounding. With a simple math here is the calculation; your first 6 months sales may produce only $1,000 per month. But if you could stay focus and keep growing by 20% during each ongoing 6 month period, in five years your annual sales will be over $370,000.

A potential built-in organizational structure

While home based businesses are not just for families, a family will become closer by spending time together, sharing problems, designing challenging projects and sharing work and school lives. King Solomon put it this way: “Two can accomplish more than twice as much as one. If one fails, the other pulls him up; but if a man falls when he is alone, he’s in trouble. One standing can be attacked and defeated, but two can stand back-to-back and conquer; three is even better, for a triple-brained cord is not easily broken”. “Teamwork” is the key word or you could not spell “sUccess” without “U“.

The “all-in-the-family” approach to a home based business offers some other powerful competitive advantages:

• Common goals pull the family together.
• You can utilize individual and collective family skills.
• If you are still working at a job, family members can work during hours you are on the regular job.
• It could be a better solution to “working spouses“: why not work as a team at home?
• The kids learn the benefits of entrepreneurship.
• The business is set up with pre-established lines of authority and responsibility.
• Both spouses can exercise individual business capabilities.
• When all else fails (including your job) a family working together is the best survival unit.

Open to all ages

A home based business is open to all ages and walks of life like you and me, from high school students to the growing population of retirees for whom involuntary idleness is increasingly a problem.

 A productive activity for the out of work

Unemployed workers can gain the satisfaction of being productive by putting their skills to work in a home based business that helps defray living expenses while they search for work. The search becomes the “job” and the business becomes their moonlight activity which can include family members. A family working together during difficult times will create bonds that will last for lifetimes. I have heard so many gurus say that “The Money is in The Niche”. So convert your skill today to a Winning Niche to start your home based business. Then discover the true potential of your home based business with the real deal about finding, researching, testing and dominating any niche market that you choose.

Guys, I would certainly recommend you read this great article, How to Balance Your Full Time Job With Your Online Business

So with some of the tips above, what’s stopping you from starting your own home based business?

If you are anything like most people it’s coming up with an idea for a business that you know you can make work for you from home. No doubt you are inundated with money-making offers all the time. 99.9% of the time, they are touting ways to make money on the Internet, with your computer. But what if you don’t want to run an Internet business? What if you just want to run a business out of your home the old fashioned way? Then I would recommend you get some more ideas here, Business Ideas.

Lastly, I would like to advice you to stop hunting for Internet marketing software - it’s a waste of your time! The truth is, most so-called “marketing software” out there are nothing more than over-hyped, over-priced junk. If you have spent a fortune collecting them, you will understand what I mean. Internet marketing or SEO tools do not have to be expensive. In fact, on this page, Warrior Tools, you will be able to instantly download five awesome tools that will change your life forever, and all you need to invest is a measly $7.

Never stop learning!

But what I want to tell you is, despite of my inactivity here, the traffic simply coming and coming. This is very interesting. Wanna know why? Just wait. See the stats here,

This is really great and I still generate income from adsense and text-link too. So if you are asking about strategy, I would say it is the hard work that I have put since 2007 since I first blogging at this domain. I am a single blogger at this domain and I do it mostly when I have free time at home. Most blogs with huge amounts of traffic are in fact run by a dedicated staff of writers who can churn out content much faster than a single blogger could ever hope to manage. Part of the reason these blogs are so highly trafficked is because a repeat visitor knows there’s likely to be something new every few hours or so. They have reason to visit multiple times during the day. But mine is a personal blog but gives a pretty good traffic!

Let’s face the fact that most of us including me do not have the money or the desire to take on a large contingent of writers to keep our blogs updated every few hours. The good news is that huge traffic is still possible at a single-author blog. Look to StevePavlina.com, Zen Habits, Entrepreneur’s Journey, even ProBlogger itself (I pick these examples because you’re likely to be familiar with them, but there are so many others). These are just a few examples where a single-author blog is receiving hundreds of thousands of page views each month, and in some cases, over a million. So it is possible and never an impossible! Don’t you think so? Believe in yourself my friend!

On One this I wanna to give credit to Alvin Phang who introduce to me his awesome product, AtomicBlogging, and that is the starting point for me to jump into blogging world with the strategies that I learned from Alvin via his AtomicBlogging.

If you want to do it, learn it from the expert and I consider Alvin is an expert from this part of the world, Singapore and also I also want to give credit to Gobala Krishnan, a Malaysian, with his wordpress ebook. These are two guys who helped me in my early years in blogging world.

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On top of that fixed-line voice services are expected to take the biggest beating when compared to mobile services. Data and Internet-access services, however, are projected to grow more than 14 percent.

Looking at the current global economic crisis, subscriptions of redundant fixed line voice services will be cutt off as companies have tight budget nowadays and moreover companies will go for free VOIP services via skype or yahoo for their voice services.

Certainly Malaysia economy is also into an unstable situation judging from the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER) saying that the country’s unemployment rate is in danger of rising and may even hit 4.5% figure in the year 2009. The country’s jobless rate now is fluctuating around 3.5% figure.

The number of workers being retrenched in Malaysia these days is sharply on the rise, it is estimated that as many as 200,000 workers from various factories throughout the country would find themselves jobless as the global economic downturn continues to hit hard before mid of 2009.

Electrical and electronic will be the main 2 sub-sectors expected to be the biggest victims. Product demand is slow and orders have been non-existent since the turn of the year. The most sensible thing to do is - shutting down factories, either temporarily or permanently, and retrenching their workers.

Certainly, the year 2009 would not be a very good year as far as unemployment is concerned. It might even go as the worst year for the country’s economy. So guys, do not push the panic button just yet, our situations are still in control and as a layman we need to be extra careful in our expenditure and my good advise is to live a simple life, not to be extravagant and also remember Allah who will always help us in time when we need most. Always remember Allah whether during good time or bad time, because when you remember Him, He will always remember you in return.

Okay, now let’s get serious. May I ask you one question, “How’s your rice bowl in 2009?” Sounds serious huh!

Remember late last year, Citigroup sent shockwaves across the world when it announced that approximately 52,000 jobs worldwide would be lost by early this year. This is an addition to the 23,000 jobs that it has cut from January to September 2008. This is the worldwide scenario however…..

Things are not as gloomy on our shores. A consultant is saying that Malaysian economy is relatively insulated compared with other countries. So there is no need to panic as the signs are still positive at the moment. We should not be overly pessimistic about the outlook, even though we may experience more of a downturn, says a recrutiment specialist.

And today…I read about this interesting article (but it is in Bahasa Melayu, my mother tongue, Keusahawanan jalan atasi pengangguran, means Entrepreneurship is a way to overcome laidoffs!)

So let’s face it, we don’t get too comfortable. If not Utusan Malaysia will not put up such an article late last year. Although Malaysia might seem to be cushioned from the global crisis, it’s not time for it to rest on its laurels, especially if the crisis is prolonged.

So guys, just be yourself. Review your goals for 2009. Spend less, save more. Have your emergency buffer handy. And think to double up your cash in this bad time. How?

Network marketing is the best way for the verage person to create financial independence on earth especially today!

How do I know?

In less than a year I was able to create a passive income stream through internet network marketing that has brought me
freedom.

I don’t worry about bills anymore. I don’t worry about getting up at 8am and battling traffic. I don’t worry about just getting by. I don’t worry someone else controlling my destiny.

It’s an amazing feeling just thinking back to my life just 12 months ago compared to today and how different things are and how short of time period it all happened in.

Why did it happen?

I took action and never looked back.

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“SOME will lose their nerve, others will hang on by the skin of their teeth - but for many small businesses 2009 will actually be a happy new year”, say optimistic business leaders.

How simple? some may ask me? I will not write more today, just view this presentation.

After that I would recommend to sign up for the free tour. I will show you a step-by-step how to get an income USD1,000 (RM3,800) per week doing this business with the power of the internet.

It is one of those sayings that sounds really good but is not always easy to put into practice. Even the most successful network marketers will tell you they did not work as smart as they could when they first started in the industry.

The truth is, most networkers have a weak link or two in how they go about their daily routine. Uncovering and strengthening the weak links is one of the keys to making big money in MLM or any business venture that you are in to.

Another challenge is that your downline may be struggling to know the best way to go about building their business as well. Unfortunately, you may not know this is the case until your monthly commission check shows up with less money than you were hoping for!

So how to go about it?

I can’t tell you the secret of success for your particular goal - but I can give you some tips on where to look.

In fact I can sum it up like this: “Find someone who has already achieved a goal like yours and follow in their footsteps“.

Here’s why. Those people are the most likely source of the knowledge you currently need. Most people fail to achieve most of the goals they set. Many of the reasons for failure could be placed in just two categories:

Lack of knowledge on how best to achieve goals in particular.
Lack of knowledge on how to achieve a specific goal.

Let’s talk face to face there is no easy way to succeed. Talk to people who succeed like George Walton of wal-mart or other like Donald Trump. They will tell you that it takes lot’s of determination. You have to be a man of action to really succeed. Or even our local, Tony Fernandes of AirAsia, will tell you the same. Determination is the key.

Like I said there is no easy road. But of course you can succeed like me. You have to be persistent.

You have to build your business brick by brick. One step at a time. You start at the base of the ladder first.

Everyone who as succeeded in life have start at the base. That’s a fact of life. Like the man you are today, start as a baby.

Even the most dynamic, highest-earning entrepreneurs in the industry took MONTHS to begin seeing an income of any real significance.

And the real wealth, the $100,000+ income we all strive for, took an average of almost 3 YEARS to achieve!

I am not scaring you but this is the true fact!

Every house is build brick by brick. So is your business !

Of course we all want to go faster. But we have to start at the base first. It’s a basic law. We are subject to time and circumstances.

We have to learn. We have to experiment. With learning and experimenting we get experience. And with experience we become an expert.

We have to set goals. The goals will guide us one step at a time. It will will pave the way to our success.

You cannot go on a road trip without knowing your destination. You need a map. You need time. You need to rest. You need to eat. And sometimes there is roadblock.

When we hit a dead end we turn back and take another road. But we keep going to our destination.

It’s the same thing with your home business. There is bumps and jumps and sometimes we crash. But we always keep our eyes to the goal. That is what give us the drive. It’s our paradise. The goal become our existence. And it is.

By never, never giving up you will reach your goal one day. One mile at a time. It’s impossible that you won’t reach it. Unless you die.

In this world nothing will come easy but if we are persistent and willing to learn and pray to God, with the God’s Will and with our perserverance, Success is around the corner. Stay focus and never ever give up is the trick.

“I’m not comfortable being preachy, but more people need to start spending as much time in the library as they do on the basketball court. If they took the idea that they could escape poverty through education, I think it would make a more basic and long-lasting change in the way things happen. What we need are positive, realistic goals and the willingness to work. Hard work and practical goals.” Abdul-Jabbar, Kareem Basketball Star.

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.” Carnegie, Andrew Philanthropist (1835-1919)

“There aren’t any great men. There are just great challenges that ordinary men like you and me are forced by circumstances to meet.” Halsey, William F. US World War II Admiral (1882-1959)

 

“Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent.” Loren, Sophia Italian film actress.

“There are no secrets to success—don’t waste time looking for them. Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty to those for whom you work, and persistence.” Powell, Colin U.S. General.

 

From Berita Harian.