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Tips For Starting and Running a Work From Home Online Business

Who wouldn’t want to start and run their own work from home online business? You could work at your own schedule and your own pace, and pick and choose what you do with that business and how you run it. If you want to add different services or products, you could do that. If you want to take away some choices, you could do that as well. Many people appreciate being in charge of their own success and appreciate seeing the fruits of their own labor. But starting a running a work from home online business isn’t as simple as some think, but it’s also not so complicated that you should be hesitant about it. Working on the internet and running a website is something that many people do today and they have a lot of success with it. So let’s look at how you can start and run a work from home online business, and what your options are with this type of endeavor.

If you’re going to sell something through your work from home online business, you may need a tax I.D. number or sales license you get through your state. This is your way of collecting sales tax for sales in your own state. These are very easy to get and usually just cost a few dollars. The state website or clerk’s office where you get this paperwork also explains how you need to collect and report that tax. Many who start and run a work from home online business get this license and it’s very easy to do and keep track of. Of course if you’re not selling a product you may not need such a license.

Some find that a freelance work from home online business is good for them, if they can provide a service to clients. You may be able to become a virtual assistant, which is someone that provides clerical services to clients. This might include data entry, bookkeeping, proofreading, letter writing, scheduling, and so on. There are those who make their own work from home online business in this regard and do very well. Your website should state your rates and the services you perform. Clients need a good way to contact you so of course email is good, and you may want to get a dedicated phone line as well.

Whatever your work from home online business, be sure that you do actually work it. When you sell a product online you need to continue to market that product and promote your site. This means getting links to your site, contacting past clients and customers to entice them back, and adding new products and articles for site content. Many find that multi level marketing is a good work from home online business because it means two streams of income – the sales you generate and the sales generated by those you recruit to work under you. In any event, you can make a good income from home if you work at it!

MLM Recruiting Tips: Network Marketing Training for Online Business From Home

If you’ve been struggling in your home business, you’re wise to look into new MLM recruiting tips for the internet marketer because, well, let’s face it, the world is way different than it was when many long-standing successful MLM companies were first created.

And, quite frankly, this is the reason why the average MLM company has a success rate of about 1% for bringing in a full-time livable income. Because let’s just look at it logically…

… If you’re restrained to marketing to only your friends, family, and strangers on the street who don’t have the slightest interested in your business, doesn’t it make sense to find a way to reach the thousands who are searching online for your specific product or service?

Undoubtedly, the possibilities are endless when you compare with traditional offline marketing.

Consequently, I’d like to introduce to new network marketing training for building a full-time business from home.

A successful online business from home has four basic elements within the mechanics of the business…

1) A capture page. This is the page that you often see online where it prompts you to enter you email address in order to advance to the next page. Obviously, you’re not gonna enter you email address on anyone online unless you REALLY want to see what’s on the next page, right?

Here’s where the strategy comes in: EVERYBODY, both offline and online, is searching for one of two things: To alleviate pain or gain pleasure. And the internet makes this even simpler, because you might say that anyone going to Google and searching for something is entering keyword phases that are geared to either alleviate pain or gain pleasure.

Take yourself, for example. You may have found this article by Googling “mlm recruiting tips” or “mlm recruiting” or “network marketing training” because you’re experiencing pain in your business and struggling to recruit.

Perhaps you’ve tried the traditional techniques of walking up to strangers and say, “Hi, you look like a really sharp guy – are you willing to keep your options open?” And perhaps you’ve experienced that pain where they just look at you like you have two heads and maybe they walk away.

OR, even worse, maybe they start claiming you’re just involved in one of those MLM scams and how dare you approach them!

Don’t worry, I’ve been there too.

But getting back to the capture page… you need to put something on it that gets attention and relates to the reader’s pain and promises pleasure – something like “FREE brand new system pays up to $3000 in commissions without picking up the phone or selling anything”… that brings new hope to someone who has just experienced a lot of pain trying to sell – because who wouldn’t want to know more about a system that pays WITHOUT you having to sell or convince, right?

2) The second element of your online business from home is the sales page.

This is a video presentation that your reader is immediately brought to as soon as they enter in their email address. The sales page is designed to do all the selling for you while you’re sleeping, on vacation, or maybe sitting at your day job. Hence, your job is to do whatever it takes to get your link that has your capture page on it in front of as many people as possible, so as many people as possible can be watching your sales video.

3) The third element is an automatic response email system. People tend to buy from those who they know, like and trust. And, especially if you’re looking for MLM success tips, anyone how has ever been successful in network marketing has found a way to develop true rapport with their downline.

Traditional methods mean spending hours on the phone with a prospect, developing a “friendship” until they like you and trust you enough to buy. But let’s face it… even this can be a little phony. I once joined a business from a stranger I met and felt a real connection with as a friend. When she quit this MLM, she never returned my phone calls. Some “friend”, huh?

Anyway, your email response system does this for you because the network marketing training that most successful entrepreneurs teach has to do with emailing your list daily and sending them to your blog, which has your personal content and your personal videos.

After receiving several emails with your personal content, your “followers” begin to feel like they know you – and some will like and trust you as well. These are the people who will buy from you.

4) The fourth element has to do with upselling. It has been proven that roughly 30% of the people who buy from you will want to buy more. Notice I said “want to buy”, not “is willing” or “can be convinced”. Building an online business from home isn’t about convincing, it’s about helping people and giving people what they’re looking for. Once the see how what you have has helped them. They want more.

How to Buy a Domain Name – Tips For the Newbie

If you are planning to make a income on the internet through your own internet marketing website or you just want to put up a website or blog about your favorite subject, there are certain steps that you have to complete first before you will be able to view your website online. One of the first and most important of these steps is buying a domain name. When you are new to this process it may all seem to be a little challenging, knowing just how to get started or what you have to do. If you find yourself in this position this article will definitely aid you when you are ready to buy your first domain name.

What is a domain name?

Simply explained a domain name is your one of a kind address on the internet. It allows Internet browsers (individuals searching the internet) to locate your particular website. Your domain name may be made up of your name, your business name, or variation of a set of relevant words associated with your website, company product, theme or subject. A good domain name will pretty much let people know what your website is about before they actually see or visit it.

Things to do before buying your domain name?

Because people and businesses have been buying up domain names for years now, it has been said that all of the good domain names have been taken already. Maybe this is true to some extent, however with a little research and imagination there should be no reason that you cannot create or find a domain name that you will be suited to you and or your website subject or niche. A good idea is to try to think of names or combinations of words and names that not only will tell the web surfer what your website is about but also be a name that is easy to remember, easy to spell, hard to forget. A domain name can be up to 67 characters in length, so it can also include names made up of a small phrase. such as “BestInTownPhoto.com” or “TheBarkingDogsKennels.com”. These kind of domain names not only focus directly on what your website is about they are easier to remember than abstract or random characters or letters thrown together. You must also be aware that there are different types of domains which all have their certain type of extensions or ending:

-.com – Stands for company/commercial, but it can pretty much be used for any web site.

-.net – Stands for network and is usually used for a network of sites.

–.org – Stands for organization and is supposed to be for non-profit entities.

–.us, .nu, .co.uk, – Are country specific domain extensions that may require the register to be a citizen of the given country.

–.biz, .info – These and other like them are domain types that have been added because there are barely any short and intelligible domain addresses left to register.

When you are determining the type of domain name that is right for you simply stick to these guidelines: In the United States try to get a.com or.net. In other countries, if you cannot get the.com, then using your country’s domain extension is a workable remedy

Write down the different names you come up with that appeal to you, make sure to put down as many as you can think of so that when you begin your search for available names to buy, if your first choice is already taken, as it very well may be, you will have a number of alternate or backup names that you can try. Many times finding the exact domain name you want can be “HIT or MISS” it is good to be prepared. You may also be able to keep the domain name of your choice by simply changing one letter, character or hyphenation within the name.

If you are determined to have a particular domain name and find out that is already in use by someone else there may be the option of purchasing that name directly from the owner by using the “Whois System” to help you identify the current owner of that particular domain name so that you may contact and make a offer to purchase that particular domain name. However because this is your first time buying a domain name and that method can involve much more, I will save the how to about that issue for a later time or article.

Register Your Domain Name

Once you have your list of preferred domain names you can now locate a service online that will not only show you the availability of the names but also register your chosen domain name as well. There are many of these companies and services to choose from. some of the better known and reliable services are:

“GoDaddy.com”,”Domain Name Registry.com” and “Register.com”, you can also do a Google Search for “Domain name registries” to find other places to register your domain name.

Be prepared to pay between $8-$15 for your right to own your name for a one year period. This payment must be made annually to keep your ownership of your Domain name active. That is a good reason to choose a name that you will want to keep for a long time period. so that people will know exactly what your name is and where to find it over the years.

The last thing you will need to do is to take the IP address information provided to you from your webhost and in put input it at your domain name register before your domain name will function properly. It will allow the “DNS” (Domain Name System) to locate your domain name and website when your domain name is typed into a internet browser, this is called pointing you r domain name to your web host servers. A majority of domain registrars will probably require your IP and DNS server names in the course of registration, although some will call for you to go in and enter the information manually enter after your domain name registry fees have been paid.

Once you begin to follow the steps mentioned here in this article to buy your domain name you will see for yourself that they are not complicated at all, in fact buying a domain name is quite a simple process, so don’t let the idea of doing this very important task yourself stop you from getting your first domain name online.

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Marketing Ideas: 7 Simple Marketing Tips to Boost Your Business Now

Marketing is the life-blood of your business; yet, for many, marketing is a complex beast that they do not want to deal with. When you break it down to a simpler process, marketing can become your new favorite practices! Here are 7 marketing tips that you can use right now to boost your business:

1. Understand Your Target

No matter what business you are in, whether offline or online, you MUST know your target market. When you understand exactly who you are selling to, you know exactly where to advertise, what to say and even what to sell. Researching your target market will help you understand where they are in life right now and where they hang out which makes advertising a whole lot easier!

2. Build a Database

One of the most important aspects of online business is building a solid database by collecting information from your visitors. Building a database allows you to market to your visitors and customers over and over again for little or no extra cost. I highly recommend Aweber for your email marketing and database building needs. Most online business owners collect names and email addresses while others collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. When making your decision about what to collect think about your marketing plans. If you will be including physical mailings then add home addresses.

3. Give Customers a Preview of Your Work

A great way to build your database is by offering visitors a preview or free offer for joining. This free offer can be a report, audio interview, video, or even a CD or DVD that you mail directly to their home. This offer gives your customers a great preview of who you are and what you can do to help them achieve their goals. Put the time and effort into helping them understand your business in a way that will benefit them.

4. Branding

Branding is a term that is often thrown around in marketing circles. Building a cohesive message from your logo to your website to your blog to your email messages to your twitter account and to the products that you sell is branding. You want your customers to hear your name and think a power word or phrase. For example, when you hear “like a rock” do you think Chevy? Or “MMM MMM Good” did you think of Campbell’s Soup? It doesn’t matter if your business doesn’t have the advertising budget like these two companies, always include your name, logo and slogan on all of your marketing materials, emails, products, etc.

5. SWOT Analysis

During my undergraduate degree at Penn State, every single project, assignment or paper that I had to complete for my advertising and marketing courses needed a SWOT analysis. What is a SWOT analysis? SWOT: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats. For every client that I work with and every online business that I’ve built, I take the time to work through each one of these steps because often I uncover information and opportunities that I’ve never thought of including for my business. For Strengths, I work through the strengths or advantages that I have over my competition. For instance, I have a very strong background in the marketing and advertising area, so I know how to market my business and bring more targeted traffic to my website. For Weaknesses, I work through the weaknesses or advantages that my competition has over me. For example, when starting out, my competition has a larger market share and more individuals recognize another’s name or work over mine. For Opportunities, I prepare a list of opportunities or possibilities that I have with my business like the new markets that I can penetrate or the new products that I can offer an existing marketing because of my background. Finally for Threats, I look at environmental or outside threats to my business. For example, if you work in a medical niche, you must be aware of laws and regulations surrounding your business. Many online business owners fail to plan their businesses and often fail because they didn’t plan. A SWOT analysis allows you to carefully analyze your business or idea without spending days writing a full-fledged business plan.

6. Be Enthusiastic

Did you ever have that monotone professor in high school or college that put you to sleep every time they started talking? They never showed excitement or enthusiasm and you probably never cared for what they were teaching, right? To attract attention and customers, you need to be enthusiastic about what you sell and what you do! Your enthusiasm will transfer excitement to your products and services for your customers.

7. Be Persistent

This is probably the biggest mistakes most business owners make in marketing and advertising. Many think that marketing is the magic pill. One advertisement is going to solve all of their problems. Yet, it couldn’t be further from the truth! The average consumer needs to see a message about seven times for it to be effective and for them to take action. You can’t simply run one newsletter advertisement and expect it to explode your mailing list; many times you need to run it multiple times for it to be effective.

Marketing is truly the key to being successful in business both online and offline. It is a necessity to share your products and services with your target market. If you are on a limited budget, choose one method and make a commitment to running your advertisement at least three times then analyze your results.

Four Tips on How to Sell Tattoo Flash Art

With so many talented tattoo artists who sell tattoo designs, how can you get ahead of the game and start making money through your own designs? Yes, talent is an important part of the business, but it’s not enough to be talented in designing new tattoos; you also have to be skilled as a salesperson.

Even as a beginner, you can show other tattoo artists and sellers what you’ve got by following these tips for you as a tattoo artist and seller:

Tip #1 – Brainstorm Your Brand

It’s never too early to start making your own brand of tattoos. All you need is to come up with a cool brand or business name that would be hard to forget. Try looking for famous brand or business names online so you will have a better idea of how your business should be named. Remember that this is a very crucial step because a good brand name will mean a good number of target customers to take a look at your products and purchase them.

Tip # 2 – Build Your Tattoo Shop

In order to sell tattoos, you will need to have a place of your own where you can display the best tattoo designs you’ve got. As a starting business, it’s better for you to choose a small and strategic place for your tattoo shop so you will save money and figure out the things you need to improve before opening a bigger shop in six months’ time or so. In your tattoo shop, make sure you display your tattoos on a nice set of display racks that can be viewed as people pass by your shop. When potential customers enter your shop, make sure you offer them your portfolios and lead them to the best designs you’ve created.

Tip # 3 – Get Help from Other Artists

Are you tight on budget? Well, you don’t actually have to open your tattoo shop if you’re financially unready for it. For sure, there are several tattoo artists and sellers who will be willing to help you get your business started. To sell tattoos without spending too much, offer your original designs to local artists, tattoo gallery owners, and sellers. See if you could win their hearts and make them agree about how you want your tattoo designs to be sold in their shops even for a matter of more or less three months.

Tip # 4 – Go Online

The Internet tattoo niche is ideal for people like you who are too busy in both creating original tattoo flash arts and selling them. In just an hour or two, you can create your own tattoo shop online and sell tattoos in an instant. To sell flash arts online, simply go to a web hosting site, create an account and choose a website hosting service. Or better yet, you can simply hire an expert on business website creation and let him bring your business to the top of the competition.

Tips to Choose the Best Business Web Hosting Platform

Are you thinking of taking your business to more potential customers rather than confining to the walls of the shop? Websites are the fastest and easiest way to reach a larger crowd. But to start and maintain one, you should approach a business web hosting company.

Whether you own a big business or your business budget is low, creating your own online platform is considered as the basic promotion nowadays. Most of the potential customers love to shop at home, where they can get their needs delivered to their doorsteps. So the website plays a vital role in the growth of your business and to get great customer satisfaction you should maintain them properly. This job is done by a business web hosting company.

Web hosting is a service provider for your website, where they store and maintain your files, documents, etc. There are diversified options for selecting a web hosting for your business. But basic thing to keep in mind is the type of business you own. Whether you own a big business and can afford good budget web hosting or you are in need of a more affordable choice. Also, consider what you expect your website to provide your customers with.

Commonly found types of web hosting are; shared, dedicated, VPS and cloud hosting. Shared hosting is the cheapest and has less disk space. As the name suggests, more than one website share a single server. They are better for new websites, as they are cheap and such websites may not expect a larger customer traffic.

Dedicated hosting offers a single server for your website and thus provide a larger disk space. They cost big than shared and other types, so it is best for big-budget businesses. They can handle customer traffic and better website tools as they have greater ranges. VPS and cloud type are a combination of both shared and dedicated hosting.

While choosing the web hosting company, check out whether they provide the following features.

The bandwidth and disk space they can provide for your budget: All your documents, website pages, your expectation of the number of customers who approach your website, all depends on the space your host offer. For customers to access every element of your website without any lag and traffic, you are going to need a decent range.

Compatibility and reliability: Make sure that the web hosting platform you approach has a higher availability rate which can also be termed as uptime. You don’t want to upset your customers by keeping your website unreachable or unavailable at times.

The security they offer is also important to keep your website away from malware and viruses.

24*7 customer support is a vital feature of a reliable business web hosting company can offer. Customers may even search for their need at late night, so it is better your website is available the whole day.

8 Internet Tips for Small Business

Over the past 3 years we have seen incredible growth in the internet both in terms of users and uses. The internet enables many small business owners to obtain customers Nationally and even Internationally for small amounts of capital. Other internet technologies can increase business efficiency. Yet so many business are daunted by the prospect and many small business owners make little use of the internet. Here are 8 tips aimed to help small business owners:

Create a website. There are lots of free packages out there to help you develop your own website. However, for relatively small amounts of money it is well worth investing in the expertise of a web developer who can create a professional website to project the correct image for your company. Just as in all walks of life, there are good, bad and indifferent web developers. Carry out your own research looking of other small business sites, most such websites have the a link to the developer on the homepage with their contact details. As such you should be able to contact the company that has developed your favourite sites.
Update your website. You have invested in a website, keep it up to date. Make sure your products or services are current. Update with recent news.
Make sure that your website is being found in search engines. There is no point in having the best small business website in the world if no one knows about it! There are a group of IT professionals that specialise in this type of work. It is know as Search Engine Optimisation or SEO for short. Consider recruiting such help.
Consider internet adverts. Search engines, such as Google, Yahoo and Bing have their own versions of internet advertising. This will push more customers to your website.
Use Social Media. Millions of people use social media such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. These can be used to promote your business to a lot of people in little time.
Write a Blog about your business. Try to avoid writing sales articles, but offer people free helpful advice about services and products, build up a following who hopefully will then turn to you in the future.
Use an online bookkeeping program. Again, such programs save you time and allow you to access your businesses books and records wherever you are in the world that has an internet connection. It is advised to check with your accountant to see what they recommend. It may even save on your accountants charges at the end of the year.
Use online banking. This will help you save time and keep a close eye on your business finances.

Small Business Web Design & SEO Tips to Boost Your Website Ranking

If you are an entrepreneur, then it is very important to understand the trends & challenges of the business market in today’s competitive world. As a startup, you must have to compete with the industry giants in your business.

Online business is now overlapping the traditional way of business. Hence, it is very important to create a strong online presence for your business. No wonder you had to deal with those industry giants too.

The primary requirement for creating an online presence for your business is “A Website”. A website, that helps to establish a brand. A website, that helps to grow your online presence. A website, that helps to build trust in the market & brings you business.

In order to have such a website, you need to focus on two things.

Website Design(UI/UX)
SEO

There are two options to build a website. Either you hire a freelance web designer or an agency who can build you a website or you create a Job vacancy – pay salary to a web designer who can make your website in-house right in front of you.

If it is a small website that didn’t need frequent changes, then hiring a freelance web designer or web design agency is the best option. Simply, contact some of the website designers or website designing agency. Spend some time on their work portfolio. Analyze & evaluate their work. Talk with them about your business and then select the best you think for your business website.

If your website needs daily updation, then you can hire a web designer/developer to work in-house so that quick changes can be done according to your preference.

However, you can also hire an agency who can work for you on a routine basis or as website maintenance contract.

Whatever the way you choose, make sure to follow these Web Design Tips for Small Business Website

The second thing you need to focus on is its SEO.

It is highly advisable to hire an internet marketing agency who can handle your total internet marketing because such agencies have skilled experience experts along with the needful resource through which they can rank your website better in search engines.

You can also hire an SEO expert who can work for you in-house. Analyze your requirement. Depending on your business, you can choose either. Whatever you choose, make sure to follow this SEO checklist for your small business. It will help you to take care of your rankings in search engines and brings you a business and qualified leads.

Tips From Honest Income Program to Boost Your Internet Marketing Profits

In Honest Income program, Steven Wagenheim tackles three top internet business opportunities that one must take full advantage of in order to increase online income. The second of those three opportunities, and one that makes up a large section of the entire guide, is affiliate marketing.

Thus, it is important to take a closer look into what benefits one can enjoy with this online earning method and how you can improve your earnings.

The Profitability of Internet Marketing

Those who are new to internet marketing are baffled at the idea of why it is sought after by many hoping to make income online. First off, you can simply enter into an affiliate program, then promote and sell a product from your affiliate partner. You also have the ability to choose which products to promote, thus making it easier for you to focus on a given niche.

This format is indeed appealing to many since you no longer have to come up with a profitable business idea and then fund that business idea to get it into operation. All you have to think of as an affiliate marketer is to promote the product and direct web users to your affiliate merchant’s sales page. No need to worry about updating your inventory, shipping items, and dealing with customer service. There is no need to worry about producing a break-even income since whatever you earn from affiliate marketing is a profit in itself.

Honest Income Program’s Internet Marketing Methods

In Steven Wagenheim’s discussion on internet marketing, he tackles some of the basic do’s and don’ts that you must keep in mind to increase chances of success. But more importantly, he focuses on the affiliate marketer as the key factor in this formula. It therefore begins by adapting the specific skills that a good internet marketer possesses.

Wagenheim identifies three basic and most important skills that one must have: organization, work ethics, and patience.

Organizational Skills

The most important skill that any internet marketer must possess is that of proper organization. As an affiliate marketer, you cannot rely on earning your desired income by focusing on simply one product or service. In most cases, you would have to promote several products or services from your affiliates at one time to boost commissions that you can get from these products.

It is difficult to manage affiliate promotion for more than one product, though. Hence, proper organizational skills will enable you to enjoy bigger earnings through affiliate marketing.

Solid Work Ethic

Next is a good work ethic. A lot of people come into these online business opportunities thinking it is just a hobby or an additional source of income. In fact, there are a lot of people who do not take it seriously. Even if you are only engaged with affiliate marketing as a part-time job, you need to dedicate yourself into it.

Patience

The final skill that Steven Wagenheim has taught in his Honest Income program when it comes to internet marketing is the value of patience. Most people come online thinking that they can get huge amount of income overnight. There is this false misconception that you do not have to work and money will be sent to your account right away. This is indeed false. You need to work hard and be patient since it will take a while before you can build a sustainable income.

Success Tips For Home Based Businesses

Are you an online entrepreneur? Then you will know how important the role of proper planning is in business success.

Have you planned for success in your home based business? Do you know how to increase your chances of home based business success? Here are some suggestions that will help you get the most out of your online business. As an online entrepreneur, you will find these tips invaluable.

The first thing you should do is to chart out a schedule. Set your goals and plan how you are going to achieve them. Follow your schedule strictly, doing your best to take all the steps that are needed in order to gain your business objectives.

Although a home business offers you freedom from regular hours, and you can work whenever you wish, it is important to fix timings for yourself and adhere to them. It’s tempting to take a nap or go on a picnic with your kids instead of working your downlines but you have to be disciplined about the amount of time you put into your home based business.

Economize where you can, without compromising on the quality of the service or products you offer your customers. This is particularly relevant at a time like this, when the economic downturn has forced several organizations out of business already. Do your best to keep expenses down – the old dictum that a penny saved is a penny earned has never been truer than at the present time. Look for ways to economize such as bulk buying, waiting till goods come on sale, leasing instead of buying or going in for cheaper options wherever possible.

Be innovative. Spend time thinking about things you can do to increase customer satisfaction, ways to streamline your business operations, new products you can add to what you are offering your customers, striking ways of advertising your product and creating awareness about it. When you get a good idea, try it out to test its effectiveness. Innovation will keep your business fresh and your customers interested.

Diversification is also important as far as home based business success is concerned. It is always wise to have more than one source of revenue. In times of economic recession, having multiple streams of income can be of immense use. Even if you lose your job, or one business fails, you have other resources when it comes to income generation.