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Casual Articles - Seven Steps to Starting Your Internet Business
On Saturday evening October 28, 2007 I learned a very important lesson about Internet Marketing.I returned home from a pumpkin carving party with my two sons and checked my email only to discover an email from one of my joint venture partners Ellen Violette, The eBook Coach. In the email Ellen mentioned that one of my domain name for TheArticleGuy was going someplace very strange.As I checked it out, I discovered I had forgotten to respond to several reminders from GoDaddy to renew my domain name. Because I had forgotten, it had gone back on the market and, due to all the traffic and back links I had built, it was quickly snatched up by one of the companies that does such things.I was more than I bit panicked.Survival Tips1. Seek and accept the support of those around you – As I was freaking out my 12 year old son made me really proud of him. He walked over, handed me a Bible, and told me “swearing doesn’t help Dad.”2. Turn to those with more experience and cooler heads – I called
Now that you’re all legal, it’s time to find a product we can sell profitably.
Step 3: Choosing Profitable Products
In order to choose a profitable product to sell, you need to follow four steps: observe, analyze, test and commit. Start by observing the world around
Which one are you? An effective IT project manager, able to deliver software on time, according to specs, and within budget, or someone referred to by your peers as a project mangler? Find out with these Top 10 Signs You're a Project Mangler.10. Your .mpp attachments are considered to be more harmful than the Netsky virus.9. You think your job description is limited to running around and asking people "Are you done yet?"8. Your record for the "longest consecutive number of days without changing your project plan" is 3, which was achieved over a weekend.7. You don't publish your project plan for fear developers might find out what the REAL dates are.6. When the first 90% of your project is done, the second 90% begins.5. You couldn't write a line of code to save your life, yet you tell developers how long it will take them to complete their feature.4. You only work from 9 to 5 but expect developers to work evenings and weekends to meet your deadlines.3. Your best motivational
Think of this as a step-by-step process.
Step 1. Forget the website for now!
Many people believe they have to start an online business with a website. This is wrong and a dangerous mistake. Why? Websites (particularly for a novice) can take a lot of time and money to create. Why start there when you aren’t even certain you can make this work? Let’s start easier.
You “think” you want an online business. Let’s start by spending maybe $20. Sound ok?
Go to your closet or garage. Find four or five things to sell and list them on eBay. It’s very easy to set up a seller account (and free) by following the eBay tutorials. The listing fees are very cheap compared to other methods of selling. It is an excellent place for a novice seller to start.
Now, when you make that first sale, do you feel a rush? If you don’t feel the exhilaration that comes with selling something, don’t quit your day job. An online business is NOT for you. But what if you do feel that rush? Time for step 2.
Step 2: Make the Business Legal
To start a business requires at the very least a business license (probably city/county and state) as well as a resale license. These are very easy to obtain. Start by going to your local city or county office (determined by where you live). Tell them you want to form a home-based business and they will give you the paperwork necessary. Also ask them what state obligations you have. They will point you in the right direction.
Now that you’re all legal, it’s time to find a product we can sell profitably.
Step 3: Choosing Profitable Products
In order to choose a profitable product to sell, you need to follow four steps: observe, analyze, test and commit. Start by observing the world around
There are many people on the Internet who cruise around surfing and looking to pick a fight on Forums and Blogs. For those who participate in the online community where ideas and opinions are shared surely you have been personally or verbally attacked for your opinion or ideas. Well for us online article authors we often are attacked too by naysayers and detractors who comment on our articles.Sometimes these negative folks are commercial competitors or opinionated politically charged advocates of one thing or another. Others are just really vindictive schmucks. But here is what I think;I simply do not care what they think or what they consider they are doing when they think they are thinking? This opinion is from observations or humans and Internet Slander, fake and bogus comments and weak minded peanut galleries. Too harsh; too negative? It is the reality on many of the article comments. Not to mention those who have an axe to grind. I want all my comments and star erased, I do not want anyone to have the option.If they d
You “think” you want an online business. Let’s start by spending maybe $20. Sound ok?
Go to your closet or garage. Find four or five things to sell and list them on eBay. It’s very easy to set up a seller account (and free) by following the eBay tutorials. The listing fees are very cheap compared to other methods of selling. It is an excellent place for a novice seller to start.
Now, when you make that first sale, do you feel a rush? If you don’t feel the exhilaration that comes with selling something, don’t quit your day job. An online business is NOT for you. But what if you do feel that rush? Time for step 2.
Step 2: Make the Business Legal
To start a business requires at the very least a business license (probably city/county and state) as well as a resale license. These are very easy to obtain. Start by going to your local city or county office (determined by where you live). Tell them you want to form a home-based business and they will give you the paperwork necessary. Also ask them what state obligations you have. They will point you in the right direction.
Now that you’re all legal, it’s time to find a product we can sell profitably.
Step 3: Choosing Profitable Products
In order to choose a profitable product to sell, you need to follow four steps: observe, analyze, test and commit. Start by observing the world around
How to do itPeople skim through newspapers and magazines and they aren't necessarily looking for information on products or services (unless they're reading the classifieds) It's therefore absolutely vital that your advertisement grabs their attention and encourages them to read more. Many ads are designed merely to create awareness of a product or service, however, small to medium size businesses need a result.Use words that attract attention in your headline - The two most powerful words in a headline are - YOU and FREE. Other great headline words are - How to - New - The Secrets of - Amazing - Breakthrough - Announcing - Discover - Protect - Facts you - At lastDon't worry too much about a photograph or a graphic - A good headline is what you need to grab attention and differentiate you from your competitors. There are several ads in my local paper for plumbers. All but one has the name of the plumbing business at the top of the ad - "Fred Smith Plumbers." One of the ads has "DYNAMIC PLUMBERS" at the top
Now, when you make that first sale, do you feel a rush? If you don’t feel the exhilaration that comes with selling something, don’t quit your day job. An online business is NOT for you. But what if you do feel that rush? Time for step 2.
Step 2: Make the Business Legal
To start a business requires at the very least a business license (probably city/county and state) as well as a resale license. These are very easy to obtain. Start by going to your local city or county office (determined by where you live). Tell them you want to form a home-based business and they will give you the paperwork necessary. Also ask them what state obligations you have. They will point you in the right direction.
Now that you’re all legal, it’s time to find a product we can sell profitably.
Step 3: Choosing Profitable Products
In order to choose a profitable product to sell, you need to follow four steps: observe, analyze, test and commit. Start by observing the world around
Companies continue throwing money at IT projects and accept a pathetic 30% success rate. The IT field is filled with complexity and the fast pace seems overwhelming at times, yet we as professionals should adapt to the changing environment and use available best practices to increase the success rate of IT projects. IT professionals need to understand best practice guidelines, processes, templates and how to deploy them in different situations.Following these best practices is not a silver bullet. They also will not guarantee success everytime. They will however, provide you with the necessary tools that provide you the greatest chance for success.Today we will review a few best practice IT management techniques.Align IT and Business Align IT projects to specific business strategy goals and objectives. Do not start or continue IT projects that are not aligned with the business strategy.Qualified Leadership Make sure that each project has a full time leader with overall responsibility and authority for the
Step 2: Make the Business Legal
To start a business requires at the very least a business license (probably city/county and state) as well as a resale license. These are very easy to obtain. Start by going to your local city or county office (determined by where you live). Tell them you want to form a home-based business and they will give you the paperwork necessary. Also ask them what state obligations you have. They will point you in the right direction.
Now that you’re all legal, it’s time to find a product we can sell profitably.
Step 3: Choosing Profitable Products
In order to choose a profitable product to sell, you need to follow four steps: observe, analyze, test and commit. Start by observing the world around
One of the things that sets successful people apart from the rest of us is coaching or mentoring. Smart people know they don’t have all the answers themselves, and others have already found out through their own experiences the best approach for a particular field.All of today’s professional sports men and women have coaches. They can be general or specialist – fitness, diet, particular skills etc. Politicians have speaking and writing coaches. Singers have voice coaches, actors, dancers – all in the highly paid sports and entertainment businesses. The rewards are high if you reach the top, and there is a fine line between success and failure.Career mentoring is no different. You need to get a competitive advantage over the rest of the workforce. This could be increasing your chances of promotion in your existing company, or looking for a new position elsewhere. You could be thinking about starting your own business.How do you start? It is not smart to re-invent the wheel, so you need to find someone who has already be
Now that you’re all legal, it’s time to find a product we can sell profitably.
Step 3: Choosing Profitable Products
In order to choose a profitable product to sell, you need to follow four steps: observe, analyze, test and commit. Start by observing the world around you. Look at trends reported daily in the news. For instance, obesity in America gets a lot of coverage and based upon your observations, it appears to be true.
Next, make some assumptions about the trend you have identified. For instance, if people are generally fatter, we can assume they don’t like that and they are probably wearing bigger size clothes. Now let’s test those assumptions.
Let’s use eBay as a microcosm of a larger world. We can use one of many tools available on the market to analyze sales at eBay. “Auction Intelligence” is one of them. With Auction Intelligence, we determine that in the last 30 days at eBay, plus-size clothing for women has sold more than $191,000 and exercise equipment has sold in excess of $1.125M (all in 30 days!). Obviously, these could be profitable products for us to sell.
It’s time to commit to one. So let’s pick plus size clothing as our example. Now it’s time to find a supplier.
Step 4: Finding Wholesalers
When we made the company legal, we obtained a resale license (unless you live in a sales tax-free state like Oregon). A resale license is required if you wish to purchase products from legitimate wholesalers. But how do we find legitimate wholesalers for your plus size clothing line?
There are three methods for finding legitimate wholesalers: thomasregister.com, trade shows, and trade magazines.
Thomasregsiter.com is a free service to you. You use the search tool on their website and find prospective wholesalers. For your plus size clothing line start by searching for “women’s clothing” or “women’s plus size clothing”.
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