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You need to know that he wasn’t selling anything. Instead he was responding to a fella that had emailed him about his inability to get anything going on the Internet, not even a website, after spending $60,000 on training. Chris goes on a rant about what keeps people from making any headway, then he charitably gives away (yes, gives away!) this very simple method for creating a business.

Go ahead and read Chris’s rant…it’s really worth it!!!

And let me know if you’re interested in getting a group together to pursue this further – a kind of 7 Day “Build a Better Business Bootcamp” (aka, B-Quad).

And if that doesn’t inspire you, this certainly will – prepare to be entertained and moved by the story and performance of Susan Boyle, a 47 year old (unlikely) contestant on “Britain’s Got Talent.”

Google announced on April 6, 2009, that it is now providing “local content” on all of its search results, according to its official blog.

In a post on its official blog Google wrote, “We like to make search as easy as we can, so we’ve just finished the worldwide rollout of local search results on a map, which will now appear even when you don’t type in a location. When you search on Google, we will guess where you are and show results near you.”

So how do they do that? According to Google, “In most cases, we match your IP address to a broad geographical location. You can also specify your likely location using the “Change location” link on the top right corner, above the map. We try to make our guesses as good as they can be so that whether you’re shopping for [groceries], [sporting goods] or [flowers], or looking for your [bank], your [gym], or the [post office], you can just say what you want, and we’ll try to find it right where you are.”

This is big news for local businesses and great news for those local businesses who have optimized their websites for the local markets. Did you know that Google gives you the opportunity to upload coupons, images, and videos to your local listings? And in most cases they also provide reviews. Do you have any? Can’t you see how valuable good reviews are for people who go looking for a business like yours online? In essence, it’s a referral. And if you have any negative referrals, that will impact your business, too.

Find out how you can started right now utilizing this new local search feature to your advantage!

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How to Evaluate the Online Market of a Product to Not Waste Money or Time

from wikiHow – The How-to Manual That You Can Edit

In this article we cover things you ought to do before leaping in to sell products online, using your own website. Often the feeling of excitement of starting a website business is closely met thereafter with a feeling of loss, both emotional and financial.

Steps

1. Calculate. Understand what price you will need to sell at to make a healthy profit. A business like Amazon might make 10%. This is not enough for a home business; idealy you will want to be making at least 30% or more. Make sure you’ve factored in tax and any kind of discount or free delivery.
2. Do your sums. Make sure you’ve really thought about what things are going to cost. You are likely to lose as much as 5% of the final cash amount (inc tax + delivery) to the credit card processors. You will also spend money on packaging, and this can be more expensive than you realise.
3. Use “Google Products” to try and ascertain what kind of prices other folks are selling the product for. This is what you have to compete against.
4. Use “Google Hot Trends” to get an idea of what people are searching for. Remember, you might have the right product but if people don’t search for this kind of product online, you won’t sell anything. This means that you can be top of the search engines but still not have any visits.
5. Use the “Google Keyword Tool” to get an idea of what kind of traffic you might get if somebody was looking for your site, or one of your products. The ‘competition’ bar next to it is also useful.
6. Use “Quantcast” for getting an idea of what brings in a large audience, and what doesn’t.

Warnings

• Don’t quit your day job. If you can’t make your site work while working, it’s unlikely you’ll do any better staying at home.
• Don’t enter a saturated or super-competitive market. There won’t be much money in it.
• Don’t buy loads of stock. In fact, instead of buying wholesale, make a loss on your first few orders by buying from competitors and reselling. It is very easy to decide after a few months the business isn’t as fruitful as you’d hoped and now you have a lot of unshiftable stock.

Related wikiHows

• How to Conduct Market Research
• How to Conduct an Online Customer Survey
• How to Use Online Product Surveys to Improve Customer Retention
• How to Start a Small Business

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I hope this information was helpful in your search for the best online business…Too often, and especially now in this ailing economy, you’ll be tempted to “buy in” to a business whose sales copy pushes all the right buttons. Proceed with caution. Before you make any kind of investment in a business, you must be sure there’s an adequate market, determine whether the market is crowded or not, and verify that you’ll be able to make any money with the business. The free online tools covered in the six essential steps above will help you make that determination.

Good luck!

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If you don’t know the story about Christian the Lion, it goes something like this…

Christian was a lion purchased in 1969 by two Australians living in London, John Rendall and Anthony ‘Ace’ Bourke (sometimes erroneously cited as Ace Berg) from Harrods department store. They had discovered him for sale in Harrods’ exotic pets department and, concerned for his conditions and fate, decided to buy him.

Rendall, Bourke and their girlfriends Jennifer Mary and Unity Jones cared for the lion until it was a year old. Christian’s increasing size and the cost of looking after him led them to the realization that they could not keep him in London for much longer. The solution came when Bill Travers and Virginia McKenna, stars of the film Born Free, visited Rendall and Bourke’s furniture shop, where Christian spent his days. They suggested that they ask the assistance of George Adamson, the Kenyan conservationist who, together with his wife Joy, was the subject of their movie. Adamson agreed to help them rehabilitate Christian into the wild at his compound at Kora National Reserve.

Adamson slowly introduced Christian to an older lion ‘Boy’ and subsequently to a female cub Katiana in order to form the nucleus of a new pride. Tragedy struck several times: Katiana was possibly devoured by crocodiles at a watering hole. Another female was killed by wild lions. Boy was so injured that he lost his ability to socialize with other lions and humans, and was shot through the heart by Adamson after fatally wounding a man.

That left Christian as the only surviving member of the original pride.

Adamson continued his work, and over the course of a year the pride established itself in the region around Kora, with Christian as the head of the pride started by Boy.

When Rendall & Bourke were informed by Adamson of the successful result in 1971, they traveled to Kenya to pay the visit to Christian that was filmed in the documentary The Lion at World’s End. According to the documentary, Adamson warned Rendall and Bourke that Christian may not remember them, but the film shows a first cautious lion suddenly leaping onto the two men, wrapping his arms on their shoulders and licking their faces. The documentary also shows the female lions, Mona and Lisa, and a foster cub named Supercub welcoming the two men because of the influence of Christian.

Rendall details a final reunion that occurred in 1974. By this time Christian was successfully defending his own pride and had cubs of his own — and he was about twice the size he was in the 1971 reunion video. Adamson warned them that it would most likely be a wasted trip as he had not seen Christian’s pride for nine months. However they discovered when they reached Kora that Christian and his pride had returned to Adamson’s compound the day before their arrival.

Rendall describes the visit he, Bourke, and George Adamson made: “We called him and he stood up and started to walk towards us very slowly. Then, as if he had become convinced it was us, he ran towards us, threw himself on to us, knocked us over, knocked George over and hugged us, like he used to, with his paws on our shoulders.”

The reunion lasted until the next morning when everyone went to bed. According to Rendall that was the last anyone saw of Christian.

Adamson counted the days after that visit until Christian’s return, but gave up waiting after 97 days.

If you want to write to John and Ace or send a donation please write to:
George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust
16A PARK VIEW ROAD
LONDON N3 2JB
UNITED KINGDOM

You can purchase this DVD from http://www.bornfree.org.uk/shop/acatalog/Videos_and_DVDs.html.

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