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Sunday, February 23, 2014

How to Start an Online Business with No Money and Help

If you’re into the brick-and-mortar business world, opening even a mom-and-pop without any money and help is close to impossible. You’re going to need a physical space, some people to run your business, marketing materials to display and give away, and of course, goods to sell.

It’s a totally different thing when you’re in cyberspace. If you’ll do your research on success stories, you’ll discover that at least 30 percent of them didn’t have the above-mentioned resources when they took the big leap—yet they’ve made it. What are their secrets? Let’s uncover them today:

Firm Decision: The first thing they do wasn’t really to build a website or earn XX profits. They simply changed their mind-set and came up with a very firm decision: they’re going to do everything to succeed in the business.

Offer: What will be your goods? They can be services or products. If it’s the latter, then you can take a look at yourself and determine if you can convert your talent, skill, or passion to money. For instance, if you’re good at Adobe Photoshop, you can work as a photo editor. If you’re selling products, you can be an affiliate marketer or a drop-shipper. Either way, it doesn’t require you to maintain an inventory. Their respective manufacturers will take care of that.

Webpage: We could see you raising your eyebrows. Seriously, how can you have a webpage if you don’t have enough money? Well, you can always begin with a blog. One of the best platforms out there is Wordpress. It’s so friendly to search engines that it offers a variety of plug-ins, and it’s easy to build your pages with it. There are also wonderful widgets that can help you share your different social networking accounts, such as Twitter and Facebook.

Social Networking Sites: We’ve already mentioned two of the solid ones. Facebook, in fact, is becoming so notorious among online businesses they are overtaking Google in terms of ad placements. In Facebook, you can set up your own business fan page and allow leads to follow you. It’s the same thing in that regards with Twitter.

Videos: More and more people are sharing videos than photos because they are very dynamic. Coming up with your own videos doesn’t have to mean spending money. You can even make use of your handy camera to record. You just have to be oozing with creativity and ingenuity to garner the interest of your targeted market.

Starting an Online Business even When You’re Already Fifty

Let’s be real: not everyone who is already at retirement age, or close to it, is actually looking forward to a very carefree life. In fact, a lot of soon-to-be retirees are apprehensive. With the way things are going, their retirement plan may not be enough to cover all their expenses once they’re already out of work. To make things worse, their choices for jobs become very limited due to their old age.

If you’re already fifty, scared, and don’t have enough savings to speak of, don’t worry. You do have an exceptional option. You can begin learning the ropes of opening an online business. You can even use your wide range of working experience to give you a good head start in your chosen niche.

Here’s how you can plan your virtual enterprise:

1. Brush up on the different online marketing techniques. The principles are basically the same: you spread the word that you’re in business and looking for buyers to sell them your products. What is different about it is how you execute it. The Internet has a wide variety of tools you can use. You can get to know them and perhaps test them for a while to see how they really work. Once you get the hang of them, marketing can become a breeze.

2. Go back to your network connection. Your online business is one of your greatest excuses to dig up those business cards and get in touch with your connections. If you’re working, don’t tell them you’re leaving your work. The message may reach your boss, and you may get fired prematurely. Just simply inform them that you’re cooking up something, and you’re offering certain products or services. Ask if they’ll be interested to take advantage of them once they’re already in place.

3. Prepare your business cards. Just because you are into an online business doesn’t mean you can ignore the traditional methods of marketing. Business cards still work, since you can include your website in the contact details.

4. Ask for help. Admit it, you’re old. There are plenty of things you cannot do properly anymore because you get tired easily. You shouldn’t be so stressed too. So look for some help. Online, you’ll find several freelancers who are willing to negotiate fees and job descriptions. Give them all the routine tasks such as designing your webpage and updating it, as well as providing content. You, on the other hand, can take on the most pressing matters, like finance and marketing.

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Market Your Online Business at No Cost with These Strategies

Anyone who says that you can open and maintain an online business without any cost may have never set up one in his entire life. It is just like any brick-and-mortar enterprise. You have to shell out some money for investment. You can buy it to purchase equipment such as printers and mobile phones, even to buy a web host and domain so you can create your web store.

But that does not mean you have to be spending money at it all the time. Perhaps one of the glorious things about doing business in cyberspace is that there are tools and techniques that do not require moolah:

Advertise your business on Facebook. This social networking website is the largest in the world. Today, it has a membership of millions, and the number continues to rise every day. If you want to get a glimpse of planet Earth, this is where you should go. Somehow, too, Facebook is friendly to businesses as you can set up your own fan page. There you can shamelessly plug your products and services, and you don’t have to feel guilty. Facebook members have the option to add you so they can stay posted of any updates.

Use Twitter. It seems like these days that Facebook and Twitter are interdependent and go hand-in-hand. The two mesh together so well, that you can integrate your Twitter account to that of your Facebook. Twitter is a micro-blogging platform, so you can add, share links, photos, and videos to all those who are “following you.” It’s the easiest way to keep the world up-to-date on what’s going-on in your business. It’s the electronic method of word of mouth.

Set up a blog. Despite the popularity of Facebook and Twitter, many still use blogs for the simple reason they are more comprehensive and offer a whole lot of features not found in the social networking websites.

Create a video. If it were not for video-sharing websites such as YouTube, the teens will never know about Justin Bieber. In the business front, one of the best success stories is Blendtec. Because of its “Will It Blend?” campaign, the company is able to boost its income to several million dollars, gain a huge following, and come up with other merchandise including a shirt dedicated to the main guy- Tom Dickson. As long as you have a good story line and decent-enough video recording device, you’re good to go.

Friday, May 8, 2009

Why Positive Attitude is not enough to Change Your Life?

Learn the 10 Success Factors to Permanent Change

Most people have a hard time changing things in their lives, which they know, need to be changed to get better results, but they fail to follow through. So what stops them?

A lot of time the reason is, not knowing how to sustain the right attitude to change things permanently due to faulty methods and misinformation. In seminars around the country, you often hear the cliché” your attitude determines your latitude” touted by many gurus in the personal growth industry to their followings, but many fail to explain the mechanism of doing so effectively and maintaining a winning attitude for a lifetime. Attitude not explained properly and how a person can actually get to that stage, is a sure recipe for failure. The result- many people obtain the right attitude for a little while, start seeing some change and after a while they revert back to old ways, and not being able to follow through completely , they often get discouraged and just give up.

There are many elements that precede the right winning attitude, and attitude in itself is the manifestation of a different process all together. Having a positive attitude or keeping one is not at all a sufficient success factor all by itself. Unless you dig deep down and find the real power that gives the proper attitude to succeed, even though you might get discouraged or fail on your face sometimes, you will not be able to sustain a permanent change. The real power that lies within you, and is the catalyst for all permanent real life change in people is your “WHY”.

Uncovering your true “WHY” will trigger a process of self-discovery like you’ve never experienced before. If you let it be, it will lead you to a life of fulfillment, great success and a purpose- driven lifestyle. Would you like to live your life like that? Here is the true process of change outlined below. Each is factor is interlinked and dependent on the one that comes before it, so to be successful you must follow the process in the exact order.

The True Process of Change

1- Uncover your true WHY for change- the kind of WHY that makes you cry or makes your present life unbearable- You just can’t continue living like this anymore.

2- Your WHY will lead you to your true purpose- You need to start embracing it, harnessing it, empowering it, and even if you just start doing it part time at first, it will take a life on its own and grow with time.

3- Living your purpose- even part-time at first will give you the right mindset that’s filled with possibilities and hopes.

4- The mindset will generate powerful positive emotions within you, which ultimately gives you the winning attitude you need to soar.

5- Your proper and winning attitude will enable you to overcome any bad habits, change course and become action-oriented.

6- Your positive actions repeated become habits that lead you to more success and more of the life that you want.

7- Your new habits will come to refine and define your character, closer to the kind of person you’ve been dreaming to be.

8- Your new refined-character embodies your reputation and gives it exponential value with time.

9- Your reputation becomes the most valuable capital you’ve got and opens the door to cooperation from other people.

10- Cooperation of other people will fast track the accomplishment of your goals and confer on you even bigger more exhilarating successes.

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Unlock the Power of Your Intuitive Link®

How to Tap Your Intuition for Answers to Your Everyday Life Questions

You know that little faint voice you hear in the back of your head, or the hunch that you get in your stomach? The one that tells you whom to trust, what decision to make, which direction to take, or even what to believe about someone, or conclude about some situation you’re faced with?

It's your intuition speaking to you. Are you heeding the message or are you ignoring it like most people?
Unfortunately, the society we've grown up in, has conditioned us not trust our most important valuable sense: our sixth sense- our intuition.

Why? Because our intuition – which we were given at birth – is the key that unlocks the door to unlimited wealth, health, happiness, and answers to dilemmas and questions we face in our daily lives. If we had our intuition, we would have the power to make money, get the right job, make the right business decisions, pick the right partner, and create the life that we so much desire and want.

Intuition works exactly like a muscle, the more you use it, the stronger it gets, and the more accurate it will be. For that purpose, I will show you two tested and proven methods, to hone and tap your intuitive-link with god for any answers you’re seeking in your life. These two methods are simple, but very powerful, so don’t be fooled by their simplicity. If used properly, you will gain clarity on your life purpose, unleash your creativity to unprecedented level, and stimulate your imagination like never before.

Method One:

A) Calm your mind, still your thoughts , and write on a blank sheet of paper your own specific question about a particular situation or something pertaining to you ( GOD, what’s the answer or best solution to this issue-name your specific issue?) write this with the hand that you usually write with-your dominant writing hand.

B) Stay still and hand the pen over to your dormant hand, the one you never write with.

C) Wait a second, and the answer or a lead to your answer will come to your mind, and you just write whatever it is with the hand that you never write with.

Follow the answer, even if it's just a lead and not the entire answer, and more steps will be shown to you after you’ve taken the first action. Thank God for helping you and show sincere gratitude.

Method Two:

A) Take one day a week where you don't plan anything at all. Not a single thing.

B) Go to the beach or a place of nature to think about a particular issue or a current situation in your life.

C) Calm yourself, and start gazing at the sky, the stars, the mountain or any natural place you favor.

D) Get in the feeling of really enjoying Mother Nature and noticing the abundance and beauty surround you.

E) Gently, tune in to your intuition on that particular issue concerning you and ask for help with answers in a very specific question format.

F) Be open and flexible to answers coming in different ways and forms.

You be surprised of all the clarity, ideas, and strangers (messengers) you might meet on that day that GOD sends your way to provide you the answer to whatever you ponder. Always remember to be grateful and thank GOD afterwards, and you will receive more clues and unmistakable signs for sure.

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Why You Can Succeed in this Decade of Entrepreneurship?

By Erfan Hettini,

We live in the most intriguing decade of all time-- The decade of entrepreneurship. A decade that presents a tremendously unlimited number of opportunities for the average person, with unprecedented success rate for the equipped one.

In a decade where mergers resulting in layoffs and job insecurity have become the norm. More and more people are choosing to start their own business today than any time in history. More and more people have reactivated the entrepreneur within and are realizing an unparalleled success and so can you .

Let’s take a look and see why the time is ripe for you to launch your own business and see what factors are on your side to help you succeed.

The best way to illustrate my point is to first ask yourself the following question: do you realize we live in a different age?

Never before in the history of the world has it been easier to start your own business than it is today. The internet has proven numerous times over that we have indeed entered the speed age, the age of information, those who have the right information and put it to use in the shortest time possible, benefit the most .Every 60 seconds, there is a new millionaire
born somewhere in the world.

There are certain success factors that are best explained through a contrast between the Industrial Age and the Information Age.

There are two key factors with different aspects of that Industrial Age vs. Information Age.

A) Demographics of millionaires and Billionaires of both ages
in relation to Age, Time, Wealth.

• In the industrial age it took more time to create wealth and the age of a wealthy person, and especially billionaires was on average almost in their fifties and sixties. In this information age there are plenty of self-made multimillionaires in their twenties and billionaires in their early thirties.

• In the industrial age, billionaires were very few, but in the information age: it’s not as seldom as before. The U.S. alone has well over 400 persons in the billionaire club.

• Achieving billionaire status in the industrial age took on average 20-25 years to accomplish versus 10-15 years for the information age.

• A contrast between Warren Buffet and Bill Gates illustrate the following point. Warren is a multi- billionaire of the industrial age mostly, and a gate is a multi- billionaire of the information age. Warren is much older, and a gate is much wealthier than warren and became a billionaire in his early thirties.

B) Benefits of Entrepreneurship
In terms of income, tax, time, security, income potential

• An income created through a job is called linear income which is trading time for dollars. An income created through a business is called leveraged -income which is leveraging the time of the employees, advisors and vendors to create income for the business owner.

• As an employee working a job you pay the maximum taxes and you are the last one who gets paid. In a business you pay minimum taxes and you are the first one to get paid.

• When you are an employee, your freedom of time and schedule are bound by what your job dictates. As a business owner, you have a large degree of control over your time.

• As an employee you could lose your job regardless of your performance. As a business owner your security is in your own hand.

• Your income has a ceiling as an employee, but as a business owner you determine the ceiling of your income.

Live Your Own Truth

3 Simple Steps to Get out of the Rat Race

Article by Erfan Hettini

We live in the most exciting time of human existence. Never has been a time before with so many opportunities for people to prosper than it is today. We are virtually at the cusp of entering a full fledge online economy. Not only that, but we also have many opportunities still offered today from the industrial age which have reached maturity over a decade ago.

Whether, you realize it or not, the internet economy which started with the birth of the computer, still has a long way before reaching maturity, which means you can ride the wave to maturity which will take at least another decade or two and profit from it to create the life of your dreams.

In close analysis of the trends taking place in today’s economy, you will notice a pattern that is similar to the pre-industrial age. Many people are reverting to their natural aptitude and starting their own business.

In the pre-industrial age, most people were small entrepreneurs, exchanging skills and products for other products or money. Employees were a rare thing, and it was the industrial age that invented organized labor and corporations where you have to punch in and out. And what’s happening today is nothing short of an entrepreneurial awakening. People are reactivating their entrepreneurial soul and taking their product to the world’s online market through their computers and that’s revolutionary.

If you are sick of the rat race and want out, you would first need to follow three simple steps to be successful as outlined below.

Step 1: Discover your true passion

What do find yourself doing when you are not on the job?

The next time you go home after work, pay very close attention and break your routine, whether it’s watching T.V., drinking or any mundane activity.
What do you naturally gravitate towards doing, and not born out of habit and learned social behavior? Is it writing something, reading something, fixing something, building something, or talking about something? What’s that one thing that just makes you feel joyful and childlike?

Ask yourself this very crucial question and answer it with all honesty. If you had all the money you need to pay all your living expenses for the rest of your life, what would you get up and do for FREE every morning for the rest of your life that would be in service to other people?

Step 2: Connect to your passion

A) Tally all the free time you have before going to work and after, including weekends and create a schedule of it such as 5-7 am, 7-9 p.m. and more hours on the weekend to practice your passion.

B) Dedicate your new schedule to practice your passion and strengthen it on daily basis. If you do that, you find that you are gaining clarity and deeper insight about yourself that you didn’t know existed. You will also feel more focused than ever before and a great sense of joy.

Step 3: Embrace and live your passion

A) Follow your new passion schedule for at least 90 days and until it becomes a second nature to you.

B) Search the internet and find out how you can build a successful online business around your passion. Chances are they are successful people out there who are living the same passion full-time and with a web-based business model. Find that one person that makes so much sense to you and attend their seminars, workshops and sign-up to their newsletter if they have one.

C) Find a way that you can emulate their business model, but with your own flavor and personality. Meaning, how you present and do your passion must incorporate elements of your personality. For example, you can get from one destination to another, by a car, train, bus, airplane, walking, jogging or on a ship, which method would you choose if you have the option? There’s only one of you, and only you can deliver that product or service in that one certain flavor, and the internet is your gateway to the world’s market.

d) Keep your job till your part-time passion start generating twice as much as your job for at least a year, and don't raise your living standards, but actually stash the extra income to give you enough living expenses for at least a year or two.

e) Congratulation, you are free to vacate your job and do your passion full-time with minimal downside.

f) Focus on expanding your business and teaching other daring souls how to break free from the rat race.