Archive for May, 2010
Internet And Business Online – The Price Of Common Sense
Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”
Sometimes those with the most wisdom or common sense may not have a college degree or letters after their name. Some of these individuals never set foot in a college classroom. Some of them don’t even like to read, yet they understand people.
When a crisis comes up many of these individuals refuse to panic and they can generally solve the problem by taking a step back and trying to look at the big picture. These men and women are not stupid; on the contrary they can sometimes think circles around somebody well-versed in the study of textbooks.
Believe it or not the skill of common sense is as much an asset in building a business online as any marketing course known to man. Sometimes wisdom without understanding (common sense) can lead to problems.
A friend of mine tells the story of a young man with whom he worked many years ago at a roadside fried chicken stand. The small restaurant was busy, but my friend noticed a curious behavior in a young man working the kitchen. This young man had grabbed a pen and began scribbling and mumbling to himself. The orders were backing up and folks were asking why it was taking so long. My friend finally confronted the kitchen worker who was, academically, at the top of his class. The young man stopped his scribblings and looked dumbfounded and replied, “I was just trying to find the algebraic equation for how many salt packets I should put into each bag.”
The young man was very smart, but he lacked the crucial element of common sense. My friend grabbed a few packets and responded, “I think this is a good answer.” He threw the salt packets into the bags and began delivering the orders.
That story may sound humorous and even mildly pathetic, but sometimes knowledge without common sense can lead to indecision. The young man in the story wanted to do the right thing, but he let a difficulty stand in the way of business.
Online business presents an opportunity for virtually anyone to develop a company. Those who are gifted with great intellect can find a home online, but successful ecommerce is not limited to intellectuals alone.
If you have a problem with certain aspects of marketing or search engine optimization (SEO) you can find freelance help to figure out the best route to take. If you don’t feel comfortable producing original content for your site you can use a free article directory or use a freelance writer. You can also use self-guided web builder software to develop a website.
There are many online tools that can assist you in putting a business website together, you just need to be willing to look and ask for help when needed.
We all know someone either now or in our past that possessed an enormous amount of wisdom or common sense. These individuals tend to leave a lasting impression and can leave some wishing they could give up just a little bit of their knowledge in order to gain some of their wisdom.
Winfriends Social Network, Pre Launch
I would like to bring under your attention the new Social Friendswin Network. As generally known, social networks can be of great help to home business owners and network marketers
Imagine having been one of the first in MySpace and getting paid on all the members below you. Ok it is a little late now to still capitalize on that but Friendswin could still offer this opportunity.
Let me ask you this question. Where do you think you would be right now, if you joined Myspace when they launched and got paid for all the people that joined it after you? You would have been wealthy I guess. Imagine the down line you would have had for your home business and internet marketing ventures? This could still be a ground floor opportunity.
Friendswin hopes to capitalize on offering their members a service that offers video enabled profiles and video conferencing between members. Their platform will allow sharing of videos, blogs, music, classifieds, events, forum entries, and favorite/popular categories among users and groups moderated by participants within the network. Internal email will allow private communications between users, thereby facilitating dating, personal and business networking, information exchange and optional communications with the rest of the world.
Friendwin.com seems to be different than other social networking sites as it has an affiliate compensation plan that pays commissions for referrals. Instead of taking the Internets’ standard business model and spending millions of dollars to build a brand, they see to have chosen to create a compensation plan for people who want to promote the site. Friendswin could be the net’s newest and most exciting destination to connect with the internet community. Needless to say that eFriendsWin hopes to be a useful tool for internet marketers or home business owners.
Off course after the succes of Youtube, Myspace and others the number of social network sites grows by the day and many entrepreneurs are out to get a piece of the action. It remains to be seen if Friendswin can create enough members to make rapid growth possible. Other new ones like Uvme or Ojeez are working hard to get their share too and the market could get saturated.
Friendswin will not come for free. It is expected to charge a new member $49,95 per year as from Jan 1st 2008. After that a monthly fee of $9,95 is due. People that sign in during the pre launch don’t pay the annual fee for the first year.
Note that the site is not live yet but will be up soon.
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Internet Business Management Automation Will Greatly Increase Your Profits
Managing Affiliate programs can be very tedious and time consuming.
The normal daily monotony consists of:
*Tracking leads manually to see which campaigns are working
*Managing your affiliate program, let alone your affiliates
*Sending carefully-timed emails to each of your prospects
*Tracking clients as they move from prospect to customer
*Sorting out pay
Internet Based Home Business And The Law Of Attraction, A2
I know this is the second article in the series and you are still asking, “What in the world does the Law of Attraction have to do with an internet based home business”? I also know there are probably other questions you continue to ask as well and I have all intentions of writing other articles to express an opinion in response. But to get back to this question and my response.
The last article gave my opinion on how goals were associated with the law of attraction and also a little about beliefs. In this article I am going to give you my opinion on how gratitude plays an important role in the Law of Attraction, your internet based business and being as successful as you would like to be.
Most people think about gratitude, when they think of it at all, as saying “thank you” when someone opens a door for them or when they are given some type of help in any number of situations. Believe you me, it is nice to have someone open the door for you, especially when you need (have a bulky object in your arms) it opened. Even though “thank you” is appropriate to say when other people help you to show your appreciation and gratitude, this is not what I am getting at when I refer to gratitude in association with your internet based home business and the Law of Attraction.
When you consider the Law of Attraction in combination with success in life you have to consider what material objects really are. How they are brought into being and what actions are necessary to attract them into your life.
I will not be able to address these issues except from a very broad perspective in this one article, in fact I will only briefly hit upon them. It would take a complete book to address what material things really are and another complete book to discuss how they are brought into being and what actions are necessary to attract them into you possession. Taking this into consideration please realize that I am just going to touch very broad aspects of these ideas.
1-What material objects are. Material objects are composed of atoms (as I understand it you can actually get to a smaller unit than the atom, I think I have heard it termed the Plank Scale). The most solid thing you see is 99.9999999… percent space. All material objects, including you and I are made of atoms. I am not an expert in this field, so far be it from me to try to detail any of this information, BUT, if the center of an atom was the size of a basketball the electrons circling it would be about 20 miles out from the center. Considering everything is made up of atoms you try to determine how much of you is space and how much is matter.
2-How material objects are brought into our possession. Everything in this universe has a specific vibration. Like vibrations attract like vibrations. To bring anything into your possession you have to maintain a vibration in resonance with the things you are attracting. The problem with this is that nearly all of us attract through an unconscious vibrational pattern. We do not control our thoughts our thoughts control us.
3-What actions are necessary to bring matter into being, as far as material wealth is concerned. That is easier to answer. First is thought, which is pure vibration. Seeing what you desire in your mind brings that thing into focus. Second is word. What you talk about most of the time is what you think about most of the time. Third is action. Taking inspired action on intuitive ideas that are presented to you at the time they are presented will bring you what you have thought about and spoke of.
Here is where gratitude comes into play. To bring the things you desire into your life you have to be grateful for what you have right now. You have to believe that you are deserving and be thankful for all you desire before it is physically present and in your possession. So if you can’t see your internet based business as successful right now, even though you are spending such and such amount of money out of pocket and spending so many hours of your leisure time building a business, you will never truly be successful as an internet marketer.
Get your goals firmly set in your mind, especially your one year and above goals. Think about them, focus on them and see yourself as having achieved them in your mind. This brings you into vibrational resonance with what you desire.
Talk about your goals as if they were already accomplished. This creates and instills belief that you are deserving and that you can have those things you desire.
Take inspired action whenever your intuition, not your emotions, shows you a path to follow. And for goodness sake show and speak gratitude to the Universe for all the many wonderful things you have in your life right now.
You know what you have to show gratitude for. It may be a wonderful family, great relationships and enough money at the end of the month to pay all your bills. Though, It just may be for being able to get out of bed each day, having eggs for breakfast, breathing fresh air or any of thousands of little things that we take for granted each and every day.
Remember the Universe has already made everything you could possibly imagine, all you have to do is get in vibrational resonance with it to attract it.
Internet And Content Marketing
Tracking the development of Internet is not as tricky as it seems. People hadn’t heard about SEO then, and it wasn’t that essential. Practically there was lack of competition in each slot. The idea of ample keywords on page leading to improved delivery positions by the given search inquiry only emerged later. Then simple algorithms were in use. However such ‘content-spammers’ necessitated struggle. Today ‘links to a site’ play an important role in determining the success of a project on Internet.
The Internet is a reservoir of information-be it good, bad, relevant or not. This itself determines the being of Internet & its worth for people. This calls for availability of useful information on the net that would help people conduct reasonable online business.
Numerous aspects of Search system algorithms used for upgrading search delivery positions have resulted in thousands of sites overfed with keywords to million extraneous links. Doorways/fictitious pages used for a redirect of a user on another, are less optimized for search systems. The advanced algorithms either lower their positions or remove them from delivery.
The only way that can not only put you on top but also help you retain that position is- qualitative content! Good content is not only agreeable for the search systems but is also pleasing for the visitors. Useful information in turn transforms the visitors to captive audience of your project, which surely is the keystone to a successful project.
Unique & good contents are easily placed with other projects. But be wary of people who ignore rules of a good form & give out the text for personal. When your content gets accommodated on pages of others’ sites, you receive expansion of number of links to your site, consequently an improved position of your project on the search delivery. For this, placing of articles on free article directories with links to your sites, is essential.
Thus if content determines ranging of a site in search system results, qualitative & unique texts are a must for successful online-project development
Internet And Business Online – Equal Opportunity For All
Is it only those man and women who grow up in prosperous homes that can pursue the dream of owning their own business? Is it true that the young are the only ones equipped to deal in an online environment? Is nationality an indicator of candidacy for ecommerce?
No, no and no!
There was a time when successful businesses were often developed and operated by those who came from families of wealth. There was a time when youth was necessary to fully build a thriving business worthy of a legacy. There was a time when gender, social class and ethnicity were all important indicators of the probability of success in business.
Those rules do not apply to online business.
The world of online ecommerce is subjected to a different filter. Many of these businesses are being developed by men and women in their fifties and sixties who have always wanted to develop a dream job and found the Internet the perfect ‘vision’ vehicle.
There really only seems to be one predominant prejudice in online business – “Can you deliver what you promise?” If you can’t then you could be young, rich and a part of a nationality you believe to be acceptable and still lack a stable bottom line.
The truth is the Internet facilitates business online because they are product driven in an environment that acknowledges a consumer centric mentality. Websites are developed using knowledge-based content that consumers expect and price structures are fair and competitive.
In most cases the customer will never ask for a photo ID, a bank statement or the median age of your employees. They are simply looking for a site they can trust to deliver a product they need.
On virtually every point the Internet has leveled the playing field to allow anyone the opportunity to develop cash flow based on their ability to connect with a customer base and deliver an ‘in demand’ product.
Where face-to-face commerce may be elusive to some, the world of online business and marketing is an exciting prospect for individuals who may be stressed out over a decline in job satisfaction and/or security, a feeling of purposelessness and a general decline in interest in traditional employment.
Many individuals who have taken the plunge into ecommerce are discovering a freedom they have never experienced in an environment that works well when they really want to participate in a thing called life.
The work of developing an online business may be the hardest work you have ever encountered, but it comes with its own set of payoffs that other alternatives just can’t compete with.
Even individuals who are differently-abled are finding success in an environment that does not seem to think it important to consider the physical capabilities of the online business owner.
This article may seem as if I am suggesting that online business is a walk in the park. Let me be clear, it is not. It is extremely hard work with no guarantees of success. That being said, most entrepreneurs find the world of online business the most promising alternative in the tough world of business.