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Copyright © 2006 Robert Lampkin
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A Home Business or Home Based Business is just what it sounds like, it IS an actual working company or Small Business that you can set up and run or work from the comfort of your Home. The advantages of running a business from your Home (Home Business) are way too many to mention in this short article and may also differ greatly from person to person, but here are just a few good ones…
In these times of Cutbacks, Layoffs, Company Closings, Strikes, Takeovers and so on, the general public, on the whole, has come to realize that there IS NO LONGER such a thing as Job Security. Many people are now setting up their own version of Job Security by choosing to start their own Home Business or Home Based Business. This way THEY have CONTROL over their own Security and FUTURE! ;-) In the past it was much more difficult, costly and time consuming to set up and run a Business from Home (or any place else). Now, with the growing popularity of The Internet as being perhaps the greatest communications tool ever (so far), as well as being an unlimited resource for information. It has NEVER been easier to set up a Home Business and acquire the knowledge that you may need to SUCCEED at your Home Business in a very short period of time. If you have ever had the DREAM or DESIRE to run your own Home Business, NOW would be the very best time to start yours! :-) You can find all the help that you would need to get started on your path to Home Business success when you go to see the Home Business Butler
Copyright © 2006 Robert Lampkin Mr. Lampkin has been successfully operating a Home Maintenance, Home Improvement and Home Renovation business since 1982. He is a savvy marketer who provides "FREE" Home Business Success Training for the average person. Visit http://www.HomeBusinessButler.com to learn more. (part 2) |
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| Selecting A Home Business Copyright © 2006 Robert Lampkin | |
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Choosing what to do or the kind of service(s) to provide as your Home Business should NOT be as intimidating or difficult as you may think it is. The process would be much easier if it is kept simple – always remember the K.I.S.S. principal (Keep It Simple Stupid) Consider NOT what you think people would want to buy from you or what service they may need of you, but instead, what you may have to offer others. Meaning – consider just what it is that you may be good at, what natural talents or passions do you have. In fact your natural talent or passion for (no matter what it may be) could provide you with your start… For example, ask yourself these three key questions!
Answering these three questions honestly to yourself could lead you to your DREAM Home Business. You see, by answering honestly you could find your hidden talent or passion and you could turn that talent or passion into your Home Business. – For example.... You may find that you are a great Tennis Player, if so, you may want to teach or coach the game. You may want to sell Tennis clothing and equipment. Or offer any number of other things pertaining to the game of Tennis. Can you see now, just how simple and easy it is to find your passion or talent and thereby find YOUR Home Business. If, on the odd chance that you still feel that you have NO special skills or talent, you should NOT feel bad about that because you are certainly NOT alone and there are DEFINITELY some things that YOU CAN do about that. You can always opt to market other people’s products or services for them. This way you can earn a percentage on the sales that you bring in. There are in fact many people already making BIG incomes doing this on The Internet. You don’t have to worry about anything and it should NOT have to cost you too much more than a little or as much time as you want to invest in it. Everything is done for you. You choose the company and they provide you with product, product training and information, sales material and in most cases a website that you can promote and make sales from. Some companies may even guide you as to how and where to market their products or services in order for you to make good money. And the BEST part is that MOST of them WILL do all of this for you for “FREE”!
You can find some highly recommended companies to work with on this Home Business Site.
Copyright © 2006 Robert Lampkin Mr. Lampkin has been successfully operating a Home Maintenance, Home Improvement and Home Renovation business since 1982. He is a savvy marketer who provides "FREE" Home Business Success Training for the average person. Visit http://www.HomeBusinessButler.com to learn more. |
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Ways To Increase Your Moreover, because traffíc is an essential element of any successful site, many novice webmasters make the mistake of believing all traffíc is created equal. Huge mistake. For if traffíc is King; targeted traffíc is God. All traffíc is good, but there is a great distinction between ordinary traffíc and targeted traffíc. Someone clicking on a link to your site who is looking for the exact information or product you have displayed is said to be a targeted visitor. These are the kinds of visitors or traffíc you must try to obtain in your marketing and link building. Why? Because targeted traffíc is often the key to building a successful site on the web. Targeted traffíc will greatly íncrease your salës conversions, bring back repeat visitors and help your site gain a prominent online presence. So here are 10 targeted traffíc building steps you can take: 1. Google Is God! Only half-kidding but at least where targeted traffíc is concerned, Google is still the all important being you should be worshipping online. Don't ignore the other two major demigods Yahoo! and MSN, but Google will deliver most of your traffíc. Your website stats will point this out to you daily, so you must optimize your site for Google. As a general rule make your pages Google friendly by only using one topic per page, include your keywords in the title, meta description and url for that page. It would also be helpful to have your main keywords in the first headline on the page and most experienced webmasters try to place their keywords in the first 90 words and in the last 25 words. Sprinkle your keywords and variations throughout the copy but don't keyword sp@m, just let the engines know this is what your page is about. 2. Target The Right Keywords You must target the right keywords in order to get useful traffíc to your site. You must first chëck the number of searches and amount of competition for your chosen keywords. You can use software like Keyword Elite or sites like www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ which will give you the Overture and WordTracker monthly stats to help you pick the right keywords for your site. Instead of picking highly competitive keywords, take the middle road and milk the 'long tail keywords'! Most webmasters create a master keyword líst for their site then branch off into sub-categories from this master líst. For example, if you have a site on laptops your sub-keyword categories could be laptop accessories, laptop batteries and so on. Similarly, most webmasters only develop their sites in a simple hierarchy with the homepage as the center with their major keywords as separate pages and then sub-categories branching out from these. Your webpages should not be more than three clicks away from your homepage as this will really displease the search engine gods! 3. Have Relevant Content Perhaps what will appease the SE gods the most is relevant content. Your content has to be relevant to the topic of your site. Keep everything on topic and within the scope of your site. Relevant, helpful content will also be the biggest magnet for targeted traffíc. Surfers are usually looking for information, give them what they want and your site will reap the rewards. Original, high quality, relevant content will draw in targeted traffíc to your site so make sure you have some good content to satisfy your visitors and the search engines. 4. Let The Search Engines Find You Instead of submittíng your site to the search engines, let them find your site. One of the best ways to do this is by placing your links on high traffíc/spidered sites: on online forums matching your site's content, on social networks such as MySpace, YouTube, Squidoo... and on article directories like Ezinearticles, Goarticles, and Ideamarketers. The search engines will follow these links and index your site before you even know it. 5. Use Traffíc Modules One of the most effective ways to bring in targeted traffíc is to create traffíc modules: whole areas of your site devoted to one sub-topic. For example, if you have a general site on cars, you could develop a whole section on a car-buying guide. Another section could be on car accessories, link all these pages together into a neat traffíc cluster on your site. The search engines will love these closely grouped pages and reward you with lots of targeted traffíc. 6. Use Articles Don't forget article marketing, just because it has become extremely popular doesn't mean it has become any less effective. Writing short helpful informative articles on your site's topic is still one of the best ways to get targeted traffíc to your site. Place your links with your targeted keyword anchor text in the resource box. Article marketing is an invaluable source not only of targeted traffíc but also one-way links to your site. These links will help íncrease your rankings, especially in Google which considers each link as a democratic vote for your site and ranks each page with a PageRank PR 0-10. Articles are also extremely important for pre-selling to your potential customers. These articles warm or soften up your prospective buyers to your salespitch before they even reach your site. 7. Build Opt-ín Lists Most marketers and webmasters use opt-ín lists to bring targeted visitors back to their sites. Instead of just receiving that visitor once, you can get repeat visits by using a simple follow-up system with an autoresponder. Studies have consistently shown it might take 6 or 7 follow-ups before a potential customer buys. Building a subscríber líst will also be helpful in creating a web community around your site. These community members may become your most targeted of all your visitors. Likewise, you should have a bookmark feature on all your pages, any repeat visitor is a targeted visitor! 8. Have Blogs & RSS Feeds Make sure you have a blog and RSS feed attached to your site. This will not only bring in targeted traffíc but your visitors can also subscribe to your RSS feed. This will bring targeted visitors back to your site. Use a free site like Google's own www.blogger.com or better yet create your own blog using free software such as WordPress. 9. Use Social Media Build links and contacts in all the important social media networks such as MySpace, YouTube and Flickr. These social networks are a great source of very targeted traffíc. 10. Use Multimedia Perhaps the biggest opportuníty to build targeted traffíc is using video and audio media on your site. These will help personalize your message or content and build trust with your visitors. Video clips also have a great viral potential which will bring in traffíc. Sites such as YouTube, Google Video can help you get your message or content in front of millíons of eyes overnight. Savvy marketers are already exploiting the traffíc potential of this new multimedia trend overtaking the web. Why should they have all the fun? You too, can take advantage of these free media sites and pull in targeted traffíc to your site. Of course, there are many more ways of getting targeted traffíc to your site. But just using one or two of these techniques should íncrease your targeted traffíc in the coming months. Appease the traffíc gods by putting these steps into practice and see for yoursëlf. Copyright © 2007 Titus Hoskins. About
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Repeat Business - How to Make Sure They Come Back - again and again by giving them a reason to do so. |
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The single most important asset of your business is the client database. Why? Because your client base is both your most powerful sales tool and your best source of revenue! It's difficult and expensive to attract new customers to any business, on or offline. You'd know that because like mine, your inbox is under constant bombardment from people who want to help you increase you list size or to increase your traffic rates and Offline, finding qualified buyers and a way to get to them is becoming increasingly difficult, too. The cost of client acquisition is becoming higher and higher. Similarly offline, if you go to a list broker, you'll find that their fees are quite heavy and of course, unless you're brilliant at writing copy your chances of getting a high response rate are slim. If you can consistently get above a 2% response, you're doing well! (Sidebar: an offer arrived in my inbox today promoting a software package. When I read through the offer and followed all of the links, the clear message was that the offer showed about a 1.7% response. The offer made the vendor thousands of dollars though simply because he had a huge list. What I’d like to know is what’s happened to the other 98%?) Everyone has read some statistic or other that attempts to indicate how much more it costs to attract a new customer as opposed to reselling an existing one. I've read figures as high as 80%. I think even that is an underestimation... I think it's much, much more. The very best business you can get is via referrals and word of mouth. How many websites have you visited because someone suggested you should? When you need a plumber, an electrician, a printer, a new computer, a new anything, how much more valuable is a word of mouth referral from a friend, relation or work colleague than sifting your way through the "name, rank and serial number" adverts in the phone book or the local newspaper? Sales people and sales teams are expensive, high-risk investments. It's easy for them to become sidetracked and to lose their way. It's far better to have your prospective customers come to you. It's far better to keep your current customers in the loop by keeping them abreast of your latest offering. It’s far better for a service-based business to offer customers an inducement to pay in advance or to renew early. It's much more cost-efficient to offer a referral benefit, too. The bottom line is this: your time, or your sales team's time is better spent talking to qualified, interested buyers and existing clients than fishing around for new ones. Spend time nurturing your client base. It will pay you dividends! © James Yuille, Brisbane, Australia, 2004. About the writer: |
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Account for everything. Employees, performance , inventory, sales, and receivables. If you can't do it find someone who can. It could be the life or death of your business. Become your customer and know what she expects before she asks. Walk a mile in her shoes and you'll see things from her perspective. Then exceed her expectations. Don't be afraid of the competition. If it is a major force you can strike lighting quick. Same size companies represent yardsticks for comparison to reach your full potential as a company. Expand your niche in speed, specialization and service by discovering new markets and different market segments. Follow up. the old 80 / 20 rule can be applied here. 80 percent of sales are from 20 percent of existing or former customers. Be tireless trying to find new customers. Fusion market your small business. Team up with other business partners who can spread the word about your business when they close a sale. Make sure that your offer is a special promotion for that market partner. Treat your business like family. They require constant attention, love, nurturing and support. Trust your marketing, hang in there and follow your plan. Times change and if you can become a rock of stability your chance of success will increase tenfold. When planning the future forget the past. Expectations, service and technology represent opportunities for change. Work on your passion. Passion is a heart felt difference or that feeling deep down in your bones. Get emotional about it. Don't get paralyzed from the neck up and freeze up the process before it gets untracked. The psychology of buyers coming out of the last recession and continuing through the boom, buyers were divided into 5 categories, they will continue coming out of any current recession. 29 percent are Practical Loyalists - Buyers who try to save on the brands they are loyal to. 26 percent are Bottom line Price buyers - Buyers who buy simply on price and do not care if it is a brand name or not. 24 percent are Opportunity switchers - These buyers watch for sales or use coupons when shopping. 13 percent are deal hunters - These buyers are value hunters and do not mind which brand it is as long as it is a bargain. 8 percent are non strategists - These buyers just buy and go with no strategy.«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«»«» |
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