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Casual Articles - 17 Tips to Plan a Website
After marketing on the internet for quite some time, through the school of hard knocks, I have learned many valuable lessons. I would like to share these with you, as it may save you a lot of heartache and disappointment.If you have to pay any money to get into any kind of business, my advice would be, don't do it. If you choose to go this route, be very wary and carefully study what you are getting into, as chances are you will be the one losing money. There are some businesses that are worthwhile but they are very few and far between. Off the top of my head, I cannot name one. Too many people are lured into an internet business by a get rich quick scheme. Instead, you might find yourself getting poor even quicker.A newbie to the world of the internet must not be discouraged. It takes time to research, find a good business, or even find your own niche. I would advise you to take your time. Never jump into anythi
Have you ever wondered why some business owners seem so calm and steady, while others are in a constant state of worry and panic?Surprisingly, the difference between these two scenarios has nothing to do with the operation of the business-it is the vision of the owner.Your vision for your business provides the foundation for its success, or failure.Without a strong vision, your business will be buffeted by the winds and storms of life, and end up either precariously perched, or crashing down.So, how can vision have such a profound effect on the success or failure of a business?And what is a vision, anyway?Working with small business owners over the last ten years, I have watched numerous businesses crash like the proverbial house built on sand.A small percentage of these businesses have grown into successful, thriving enterprises.Why?What is the secret to a successful busine
Everyone wishes they knew how to make one.
SOME have them but don't know what to do with them.
The very few know *what* to do and *how * to do it ... and have success!
What am I talking about?
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Setting up a Website
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Some of you might have no idea of all the things you need to think about before you ever put a website online.
Remember the Kevin Costner movie where it was said, "Build it and they will come!"? That worked like a miracle, and it was after all a baseball field ... and it involved a miracle or two.
Don't imagine for a second that you can put your website online and that visitors will miraculously appear and start shopping ... it requires effort, hard work and a great belief in your business or service. Did I mention "hard work"? Yes, it's worth mentioning again if you want your success online as well as offline.
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17 Tips
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* CREATE A WEBSITE PLAN - grab a piece of paper, draw a square or rectangle at the top which represents the HOME page. Now turn the page over, and write down all the things you want to do with the website, which could turn into the names of website pages e.g. Contact Us, About Us, Products, Services
Partnerships, like marriages do not always last. When a partnership is being dissolved the biggest area of contention is usually the valuation of the business. Valuation is generally very subjective. Areas of contention can be as simple as the current value of manufacturing equipment, book, or replacement value, to future profitability, to what value an individual partner may have to the ongoing business.How can former partners agree on a fair market value of the business? There are companies that specialize in valuing businesses, but again, this type of valuation suffers from the same problem of subjectivity.Hopefully, when the partnership was initially formed the individuals involved created and agreed to a partnership agreement. In the agreement, there should have been a method whereby the partnership could be dissolved and in order to do that an equitable method of valuating the business is stated. The best and by far
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Some of you might have no idea of all the things you need to think about before you ever put a website online.
Remember the Kevin Costner movie where it was said, "Build it and they will come!"? That worked like a miracle, and it was after all a baseball field ... and it involved a miracle or two.
Don't imagine for a second that you can put your website online and that visitors will miraculously appear and start shopping ... it requires effort, hard work and a great belief in your business or service. Did I mention "hard work"? Yes, it's worth mentioning again if you want your success online as well as offline.
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17 Tips
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* CREATE A WEBSITE PLAN - grab a piece of paper, draw a square or rectangle at the top which represents the HOME page. Now turn the page over, and write down all the things you want to do with the website, which could turn into the names of website pages e.g. Contact Us, About Us, Products, Service
The Fear FactorHave you ever been afraid to pick up the phone to make a sales call or a prospecting call? If you answered yes to this question than you will understand the following explanation of the word fear: when your body releases glucose, adrenaline, and other energy-producing chemicals. Your heart rate increases, your breathing becomes shallow, and you become hyper-alert.Surprisingly enough here is how the word excitement is explained - when your body releases glucose, adrenaline, and other energy-producing chemicals. Your heart rate increases, your breathing becomes shallow, and you become hyper-alert. With the same explanation for both words it can only be in your own best interest to understand how you can begin using fear to your advantage.Try using these 4 simple steps:1. Find a guinea pig. Be your own first volunteer; deliver your sales or prospecting pitch in front of a mirror. Then graduate
Don't imagine for a second that you can put your website online and that visitors will miraculously appear and start shopping ... it requires effort, hard work and a great belief in your business or service. Did I mention "hard work"? Yes, it's worth mentioning again if you want your success online as well as offline.
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17 Tips
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* CREATE A WEBSITE PLAN - grab a piece of paper, draw a square or rectangle at the top which represents the HOME page. Now turn the page over, and write down all the things you want to do with the website, which could turn into the names of website pages e.g. Contact Us, About Us, Products, Service
I’ve been struggling to devise a distinction between management consulting and business coaching.Some of the apparent differences that come to mind are these:(1) Consultants tend to fly great distances on planes, while coaches are often locals who take the bus, hitchhike, or walk.(2) Consultants have MBA’s or a Ph.D. while coaches might have squeaked their way through high school.(3) Coaches come cheap. Consultants cost bigger bucks.(4) Consultants dress better and are generally better looking.(5) Consultants are fifty times more likely to have season tickets to the chamber orchestra.Well, as you can imagine, these differences aren’t very impressive.But I happened upon a quote, quite a famous one from Ralph Waldo Emerson, that great American philosopher and man of letters, that seems to separate the wheat from the proverbial chaff.Do you recall that Emerson said it is man’s
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17 Tips
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* CREATE A WEBSITE PLAN - grab a piece of paper, draw a square or rectangle at the top which represents the HOME page. Now turn the page over, and write down all the things you want to do with the website, which could turn into the names of website pages e.g. Contact Us, About Us, Products, Service
I know what your thinking, "what the heck does starting a garden and planting seeds have to do with building an online business?"Well... it all depends on how you perceive what I'm about to share with you.I'm merely using that headline as an analogy to a Powerful marketing strategy that I use to send HIGHLY targeted traffic to my online business... Effortlessly, that almost every website on the Internet is hungry for.Now, we all know that in order to be in business you need to either provide a Product and/or Service that cater's to an particular Niche.That's the easy part to figure out.The part that is usually the hardest with most online businesses is growing that business, and we both know that in order to grow your business online you need "TRAFFIC".We've all experienced these growing pains, myself included.And, finding a cost effective marketing strategy these days like the one I'm ab
* Each web page needs to have a TITLE which appears in the top edge of the browser. This is written in the html meta tags. On another piece of paper turned lengthways, draw two lines - one to create a narrow column on the left, and the next two about the same width. Break the length of the page into 8 or 10 sections by drawing lines across the page [one section per web page - use more than one page if necessary]. In the left-hand column, write the Title for each page, in a separate line [leave the other columns blank.] This information will be embedded in the html so that the search engines will display a *different* title for each page. The Title appears at the top of the browser window, above the typing / url line. This is very important and must be
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