Being an Online Business Person is About Choices

        Being An Online Business Person is About Choices

-We all have to decide how we are going to fail.. by not going far enough or by going too far.-Sumner Redstone

    Everything that we achieve or do not achieve comes down to one thing and that is the choices that we make. Do we get out of bed today or stay there. Do we go to work or go and hang out somewhere? Do we try again when we have failed or do we give up.

    There are any number of choices that we make each and every day of our lives that will affect how we live for months or years to come. Choices are what business is really all about.

    
    Some believe that success is a matter of luck. These people have no idea of what it really takes to be a success. It really comes down to the chances that we take and the choices that we make.

    The easiest choice that most people make is to stand pat, to stay where they are and continue to do what they are doing. Hoping in the back of their mind that some how some way it will turn around on its own. I made a choice to create this blog. You made a choice to come here and read it today. This choice can have no impact on your life or a grand impact if you decide to make a second choice. To act on one of the suggestions that you find here. To alter the way that you have done business. To try something like email marketing or to build your own website. I have two websites and by this time next year I hope to have ten of them. Why? Because I like to pile more things on my plate? No. It is because they generate income. They make money and I wish to make more money. I wish to grow and expand my business in every area that I can. Perhaps you wish to do the same thing.

Perhaps you are just starting out and are struggling with the right way to turn?

    That way will be a choice that only you can make. I can suggest possible choices, but in the end you will be the one making those choices and I suggest that you keep making those choices. The more you make, the easier it will be to make the next one. Becoming a great online business person is not gonna happen overnight, but is there any field of endeavor
that you can think of where it happens overnight. Good luck with your online business, remember to stumble us on stumbleupon, add us to your google plus and get back to work.

Your Online Business, What is it?

            Your Business, What is It?

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of work is the same. – Carlos Castaneda

    If your online business has not been booming perhaps it comes down to what you are selling. I do not mean your product line, but the products in that line that you are pushing. I have over seventy possible affiliates that I can market and for the longest time I was not getting much in the way of a return from them. It was not because they did not offer quality services it was just that I needed to match the right affiliate with the right site. I needed to introduce that affiliate in a certain way to my visiting customers. Once I figured out how to do this I began to see some real returns.

    For instance, this is a business blog. It is about being a better online business person. I had to find out what areas that my visiting customers needed help in the most and introduce that help without seeming as if I was trying to force it upon them. Also the affiliate had to be truly useful to my visitors. If I wrote a post about an email marketing service then it had to be one that is worth the price that it would cost my customer to purchase that service or I would hear about it later.


    You will go through trial and error where it comes to finding the item and or items. The service and or services that will make your business grow.You are going to have to figure out over time what to emphasize. If you find that one thing then the sky could be the limit.

    Good luck with your business. Take a moment to stumble us on stumbleupon and to add us to your google plus. Okay, I guess that it is time to get back to work.

Starting your Business

                Starting Your Business

    - “All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.”- Walt Disney.

    After a long day of job hunting, filling out applications and pounding the payment I decided that the only person who would ever really appreciate what I had to offer as an employee would be me.


    Maybe this sounds familiar to many of you who have or wish to start your own business.  Many small businesses are started out of frustration. We are usually frustrated with the job that we have or the fact that we do not have a job at all. This was the reason I started to work online. I started like many of you have, by working first at Amazon or Ebay. I did that for a while and while I was doing it I believed that this would be the end of the line. I had found my home and would earn a living there. Very soon I realized that I was still working for someone else. They were not actually signing my paycheck, but they were still in charge of my future. This was when I decide to start my own online business.

       Having you own business is the best kind of freedom you will ever know. During the good times you will know who is responsible and during the bad times you will know who is to blame. Running your own business is not going to be easy, but nothing worth doing is ever easy.          
If you have not gotten started yet there are many resources available to aid you with becoming the best online business person that you can. Click here  for a link to my website where you will find many tutorials on the basics of building your own site.

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The Online Business Person, What's Your Line

            Online Business Person, What’s Your Line


-I  believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. - Andrew Carnegie

    What is your line of work?

    What type of online business person are you?

    Do you know?

    If so do you know it well enough to be considered an expert at that particular line of business?.

    I have run an online retail store for over five years. I would consider myself an expert at running and building this type of business. I find myself unable to shut up when asked questions about selling on Amazon or Ebay. I did it until I decided their fee structure was too much to pay for the cost of doing business and moved on to building my own websites.  That said I understand the rules of those sites so well now that I can teach in less than an hour anyone how to become a powerseller. How to make a few thousand a month on Ebay. How to and when to set the best price to sell items on Amazon.

    In a way that all feels like another life, but it was not so long ago. I became an expert at selling things and the next logical step was to do that for myself. To take all the risk and reap all of the rewards. My question for you is “What are you an expert at?” If you market plumbing supplies, do you know this line inside and out? If you sell office chairs can you answer any and all questions without reaching for a manual?


    The better that you know your line the more money that your online business is likely to generate. If your business is not doing well perhaps it is because you have not mastered your line of work.

    Take some time and consider this. It is not the end of the world if you are not an expert at what you do. You have time. You can learn or you can switch to something that you know better. The first business that you design or build does not have to be the last. The worst thing that can possibly happen is that, due to success, you get stuck in a line of business that you do not enjoy and do not know very well. You will eventually get bored, angry or quit.

    Okay, that is it for this post. I would like to thank you guys for sticking around and coming back again and again. The blog is growing at such a rate that I would like to offer an invitation to those of you who wish to write a guest post. There are some of you who may think that I am wrong about something. There are others who have a topic that they wish to share, but do not have time to run a blog themselves. The guidelines are simple, 200 to 1,000 words on any business related subject. Just leave a comment that you wish to offer a post and I will contact you.

    Okay guys, time to get back to work.

The Online Business Person, About Survival

            The Online Business Person, About Survival

-In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.- Charles Darwin.

    What is the business environment that your online business functions within?
    Who else occupies this environment?
    How big are they?
    How many traits do they share with your online business?
    If you do not ask your self these questions often then what type of online business person are your?
    My personal response to this last question is that you are the type of online business person who is in danger of being overtaken and or eliminated by the competition you are unaware of.
    To know who else occupies your market space is to develop an important survival skill. Perhaps the most important survival skill.   



    So do your research carefully and identify whom it is that you are competing with. This may take time, but it takes time to run a successful business.  After all the survival of your business may depend upon this research.
    Once you have found out who your strongest competitors are then the next step is finding ways to outshine them. To reach out to their customer base and use that base to grow your own business. You can do this through marketing or undercutting their prices.
    “That’s not fair.”
    Really? Think that over for a while and tell me that it is not fair again after it has been done to you a few dozen times. All is fair in love, war and business. It is in the end not about being fair or being liked, but about survival. Your business must survive because you depend upon it. Your family depends upon it. It has to be the most important thing to you. Each and everyday do not think only about thriving, but about surviving as well.
    Okay, that is it for today. Remember to stumble us on stumbleupon to tumble us on tumbler and to tell a friend.
    Now how about we all get back to work.

A Online Business Needs To Grow

       

-You will miss one hundred percent of the shots that you never take,-Wayne Gretsky

        How many times during any given day or week that you are presented with a chance to try something new? To do something new? To learn a new way to do business or to grow your business? How often have to dismissed those opportunities?

    Not now.

    Not today.

    Maybe I will revisit later. Later has yet to arrive. The job of being an online business person is not just to hold on to what ever territory that you have carved out for yourself, but to grow and expand. You can always tell the difference between something that is living and something that is dead. The dead thing is laying still.

    If you are not fine tuning or adding new things to the way you conduct business you are dying as a business.

    “But business has been good this year. I made more than last year.”

    Really?

    Do you know who your competition is?

    Do you know who is chasing you? Who is trying to cut into your territory? Who is trying to pick up your customers?

    Do you even know who your customers are?


    I am here today to suggest to you that you try something new each week. Try one new thing each week. Once a week. Four times a month is a good start. Not that difficult to do at all. My advice to you the online business person is if you do not know who your customers are you get to know them. It is one thing to sell to someone or to provide a service. It is another thing all together to know them. You do not have to become friends with them, but you should know more about them. Familiarity breeds loyalty. People are much for likely to loyal to a business where they are well know. Do you feel more comfortable at a restaurant where you are just a customer or where the own says hi and the servers know you favorites?

    Use social media to get to know them better. To make them feel comfortable as your customers and the best part is that if they grow to like you and appreciate the services you provide they will recommend you to others. Your customers will grow your customer base.

    Okay guys that is it for today. Remember to stumble us on stumble upon and to tell a friend about this site.

Love Your Online Business

              Love Your Online Business

“It is more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.”

    I believe that Steve Jobs said that. Who ever said it had it right. It is more fun to be the one who creates their own destiny rather than being the one who is controlled by it. As long as you run your online business your way you are in control of your fate. You will be the one to determine how your business is to be run.

    So what I am getting at is that since it is going to be run your way then you might as well love the business that you are running. I hope that you have picked a sector that you enjoy. A business sector that you are enthusiastic about. If you have not then it will show through in everything that you do. You will not give it your all.


    Think of it this way you are in a relationship with this business. If you love this business you will treat it better. You will want to spend more time with it. It will be more of a joy and less of a effort to conduct business each day.

    Ask yourself do you love the online business that you have selected.
    If you do then I have no real advice for you. If you do not love it then I would suggest that you do one of two things. Either learn to love it or find a new business model.

    “But I have been at this for years. I have so much time and effort already invested.”
    Sure you do, but can you see yourself spending the next ten or twenty years working on this business model. You may think that you are too old to change, but people have changed jobs and opening new businesses at all stages of their lives.

    To love what you do is the heart of being a successful online business person. That love will translate into more effort. That love will translate in to time spent. That love will translate into profit. If you are the number one cheerleader for your online business then it can not help, but make an impression on customers.  


    Love what you do and your customers may grow to love it to.

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Doing Business Online

            Doing Online Business, On a Budget

    Many of us decided to work online because we were not making enough money at our existing job or because we lost that job. Working online was meant to be a bridge while we sought another job.

    For some of us it became a full time gig. We earn our entire income from what every business that we are into. Some of us started out on Ebay or Amazon. We learned the basics of selling online and we took it to the next level. That would be websites and or web pages of our own.

    I have found that the biggest obstacle to starting an online business is financial. Many people are scared off by the cost involved. This advice is for the begins out there. You do not need money to start out. Money helps, it always helps, but you do not need it in the beginning. The truth about money is that until you learn the basics of what works and what does not work you will waste money hand over fist.

    If you are on a zero budget I would suggest starting at a site like Squidoo or Blogger (Blogspot). At Squidoo I learned how to write articles. How to add media to them. I learned how to add links to Amazon and Ebay so that I could earn money from items mentioned in the articles that I wrote. It was a very important learning experience. I still try to do a article or as they call them a lens a month just to touch base.

    From there I moved over here to Blogger. I have many blogs and there are many ways to monetize them. Many free ways to do this. One way is with Adsense. This is where Google puts up ads on your blog and if someone clicks on them you get anywhere between a penny to a few dollars depending on the ad. The second way is with Affiliate links. You put up your own affiliate ads. If people click on those ads and purchases something you get a commission. There are many sites that provide these services. There is Linkshare and Commision Junction and Share a Sale. They are all great to work with.

    Next there is Clickbank. Many consider this the best money maker of all because it is free to sign up for. You are marketing digital products be they course or ebooks and you get to keep a huge share of each sale.
There are people out there who earn six figure incomes from clickbank.



    “I don’t see any Clickbank items on your Blog.”

    Yeah, I know. I just have not found the right ebook or course yet. If I am going to market something then I have to review it myself and believe in it. When I push a book I will have read it and believe that it is worth the money.

    The other side of the Clickbank coin is that if you have fifty dollars to invest you can become a publisher and others will be the ones who market your book. You get to kick back and wait for the royalties to roll in. I would suggest that it is not the easy. If you wish to make real money as a publisher you will have to help market the product.

    If fifty dollars is too much then you could always get a free ebook program or sign up with some of the pay as you go Ebook publishers.

    There are sites that over thousands of digital products. Some have free trial if you can not afford the first months premium.

    The bottom line is that there are many ways to get started if you have little or no money to work with. Being an online business person does not come with a price tag. There is not shame to starting with nothing. Some of the wealthiest people on earth started that way.

    Anyone can spend a great deal of money. It is the ones who work hard and refuse to give up who succeed in the end.



    I am going to do something for those of you who wish to start on a zero budget. Get yourself a Blogger blog and then sign up with Linkshare. You sign up for free. It is free for life. You picture your advertisers and get the ads for free. You put them up at your sites and get paid a commission when someone buys something from one of those ads. There are some advertiser who will pay you customers just sign up for a free trial.

   



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