
Welcome to our blog on how to start a home business.Whether or not you have an existing business, product, service or an idea, you can create an online business right now for very little to no cost.
Our aim is to show you how you drive more customers to your business, make more sales, generate more income from a service or how to create a home business and make money even if you have no existing service or business or product. We do not sell websites or programs that supposedly generate 1000's of readers that never show up.
Here you will learn how to set up your home business and get visitors without any cost. We are doing it right now with this journal and pretty soon you'll see how you can use a simple blog or web journal to drive qualified readers to your online home business.
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By Robert Ringer
Some years ago, my son played in a youth basketball league that was pretty intense. The reason for the intensity was that most of the fathers were trying to relive their youth through their sons, and wanted their boys to become the athletes that they themselves never were.
In my son's first year, he played in a league for fourth graders. At that age, there are always some kids who are way ahead of the pack - who have developed their skills to a level two or three years beyond their chronological age. Kids like these can win championships all by themselves.
There were a lot of excellent ballplayers in my son's league, but the best of the best was a shrimp who played as though he could have stepped into the starting lineup of the Harlem Globetrotters without missing a beat. When he dribbled, you could swear he had a string attached to the ball.
Notwithstanding the fact that he was one of the shortest kids in the league, he led all scorers and had a season high of 42 points in one game. I don't know if he'll end up playing college ball somewhere, but at that age he was truly awesome.
I happened to be sitting next to this pint-size wizard's parents at a semi-final playoff game, and, as usual, he totally controlled the tempo. I noted that his mom and dad were also very short.
At one point, I asked his dad how his son was able to dominate kids twice his size. He replied, "I've always taught him that size is overrated." What a great philosophy to feed an undersized kid. What a great self-esteem builder.
I never forgot that father's words. In fact, on reflection, I now think of him as a modern-day Aristotle. He prompted me to think about all the big people and big entities that paralyze most of the world's population. And he reinforced my longstanding belief that smallness can actually be turned into an advantage.
Size matters ... but it doesn't carry the day. What matters more are qualities such as determination, persistence, a desire to learn, and, above all, resourcefulness.
David slew Goliath ... the war-torn Japanese caught, then overtook, the big, bad U.S. automakers ... Spud Webb, at 5' 6" and 133 pounds, won the NBA's slam-dunk contest in 1986 ... the Yankees are now routinely pushed around at playoff time by traditional non-winners like the Angels, Red Sox, and Diamondbacks. You could go on with this list for hours.
People often marvel at how Wal-Mart snuck up on Sears, which was the largest retailer in the world for decades. Not too long ago, Wal-Mart was a joke in retailing circles - a little regional company with stores in towns that had populations of 5,000 or less.
The fat-cat Sears board members and top executives, up to their ears in perks and golden parachutes, never even saw Sam Walton coming. If you were the largest retailer in the world, would you have been afraid of an outfit out of Bentonville, Arkansas?
Sears thought it was being very prudent to keep one eye on Target and the other on Kmart. Too bad it didn't have a third eye in the back of its corporate head to keep tabs on that cute little retailer from nowheresville.
Yes, size matters, but it doesn't insulate one from failure.
Take the poor elephant. He's the largest land animal on the planet, but that hasn't done him a whole lot of good. Of the more than 350 species of proboscideans that paleontologists have been able to identify, only two remain - the African and Indian elephants.
In fact, the elephant's main problem is that he is too big. Just to absorb all the oxygen he requires, he needs an acre of lung surface. He has to roam around 16 hours each and every day to find hundreds of pounds of grass and foliage to satisfy his hundreds of feet of intestines and complex digestive organs.
Worse, because of his enormous size, he can't even jump over a seven-foot trench. He's been known to be freaked out by dogs, mosquitoes, and even ants. And he is unusually prone to such illnesses as colds, pneumonia, mumps, and diabetes.
I tell you, size is overrated.
Upstart Microsoft didn't fear giant IBM ... upstart Google didn't fear giant Microsoft ... and some unknown upstart who is working in his garage at this very moment doesn't fear giant Google.
Nor should you fear giants. Never forget that you have many advantages over the big guys, one of the most important being that you can move much more swiftly than elephants like IBM, Microsoft, and Google. After all, they are under tremendous pressure to build more and more lung capacity just to be able to absorb enough air.
While the giants are huffing and puffing to fend off predators, you have the luxury of concentrating on action - bold, continuous action. And for you, jumping a seven-foot trench should be a piece of cake. Of course, if you're lucky enough to become a giant some day, you'll find that making that jump becomes harder with each passing year.
You'll also find that your chances of longevity will increase if you can figure out a way to put an eye in the back of your head as you grow larger. You'll need that eye, because you can count on the entrepreneurial descendents of Bill Gates, Sam Walton, et al to be coming up fast behind you.
For the uninitiated, Google ranks all pages on the web with a scale of PR0 to PR10 - higher is better. High PR sites or pages receive most of the traffïc for competitive keywords or phrases. Keywords are what surfers type into search engines to find what they're looking for on the web.
Ranking high in Google for popular keywords can prove very lucrative. It can make the difference whether your website is in the black and producing hourly profits, or a total worthless waste of pixel space. Having a high Google PR is equivalent to having monëy in the bank, it is that important.
Google is still the undisputed king of traffïc and, regardless of what's on the horizon, Google is the major deliverer of the web's traffïc. That's why losing your high Google PR ranking, sometimes overnight, can be so devastating for the struggling webmaster or marketer.
Read this article to discover how you as a webmaster can protect yourself from lost profits and traffïc, even if Google pulls the plug on your site or PR, while putting another one of their endless algorithms into place.
10 Ways to Outsmart Google's PageRank System
Here's a list of things you can do to lessen the impact of a sudden drop of the almighty Google PageRank:
• Diversify your traffïc - make sure you cultivate other sources of traffïc other than the search engines. Förm partnerships and strategic links with other webmasters. Interact in forums and online communities.
• Provide quality information and frëe products or services that get 'good word of mouth' recommendations from your visitors. Content will always be king - make sure it reigns supreme on your site.
• Pick the right domain name. If you can, choose a short catchy keyword for your domain, one people will remember and would naturally type into a search engine or browser to find what they're looking for on the web. For example: www.hotels.com.
• If you're having success with your site, (or/and especially if you're not) venture into off-line advertising and promotion. Use traditional promotional products, t-shirts, caps, bumper stickers, etc. to promote your URL. You can also try PPC (Pay-Per-Click) advertising to provide you with targeted traffïc and sidestep the search engines. Well sort of!
• Try viral products like ebooks, reports and frëe software programs to get your links out into the marketplace. You can also try product or site testimonials which are another great source of targeted traffïc.
• Be extremely careful of any out-going links from your site. Don't link to bad neighborhoods (link farms, banned sites, etc.) Google will penalize you for bad links so always chëck the PageRank of the sites you're linking to from your site. If you don't have the Google Bar - you can chëck any site's PageRank at: www.iwebtool.com.
• Onsite SEO factors do have an influence on rankings - make sure your site is dressed to kill. Pay attention to keyword density, title descriptions, meta tags, alt tags and interior linking structure. If you can, optimize your site for all three major search engines: MSN, Yahoo and Google. But don't stop there, also submit your site to the countless other smaller search engines on the web. It's the old adage, don't put all your eggs into the ever-changing Google basket or you'll probably turn your site and yourself into one desperate basket case. Other search engines listed at: www.isedn.org.
• Along those same lines, have a large spread of keyword phrases that you're targeting with the content on your site. Don't go after extremely competitive keywords which have countless major players with deep pockets buying links, left right and center. Instead, pick a whole range of keyword phrases that have less or little competition. All these keyword phrases will add up to a flood of traffïc for your site. Phrases that for the most part won't be affected by a sudden drop in PageRank. One good site for finding these keywords is www.nichebot.com - it will give both the number of hits and the amount of competition for each keyword.
• There is one more strategy you must explore if you want to lessen the power and importance of your own site's PR. One strategy that will bring in tons of Google traffïc even if your PR is ZERO. You must utilize the PageRank of other sites on the web. Use off-page optimization for your major keywords. Build countless anchor text links through keyword rich articles, content related blogs and products that benefit from the high PR of other sites on the web.
• Keyword rich articles are some of the best examples of this method, placing them on high PR sites will filter Google traffïc through these articles onto your site. It will also warm up these visitors before they reach your site and they will be more receptive to any of your site's offerings - nevër underestimate the power of the Pre-sell. Build enough of these links and a sudden drop in your own Google PR ranking won't drastically affect your bottom line or the amount of quality traffïc you are receiving.
What's even more satisfying, if you build these links, partnerships, and off-site optimization - your Google PageRank will probably go up. If it doesn't, who cares, for you will have Google-Proofed your site against any sudden drop in your site's PR rankings and broadened the reach of your site by using the high PR of other sites on the Web. In the process, you will have protected your site and yourself from the big bad Google PR wolf.
You don't have to conquer Google, you just have to outsmart it!
Take Bert Ingley for example. A few short years ago he was doing freelance web design and spending his free time surfing the internet for the latest sports scores and playing his favorite sports video games.
One day he had a flash of insight: why not combine his web design knowledge with his passion for sports video games and start an online home business selling video game strategy guides! And thus VG Sports Inc was created. in 2005 his revenue was set to hit $360,000! You can read his story by clicking here.
All you need to do is capitalize on your skills and interests to create a highly profitable online home business.
Remember, the key is to look for an existing market that needs something you can offer them. You need to find a problem first before you start trying to find the solution. This is a critical step in guaranteeing the success of your business.
Do not make the mistake of developing a product and then trying to find customers who will buy it! Just because you build it, doesn't necessarily mean they will come. It is much easier and more profitable to find out what people are already hungry for and then supply it!
We will be showing you exactly how to do this in following posts....so stay tuned!
Automate
Are you one of those intelligent home business owners who start out with the best intentions and grow your web traffic, run some successful promotions...and suddenly go from dealing with a handful of emails and orders each day, to drowning under 100's of customer inquiries, questions, orders and requests.....
Managing mundane tasks suddenly becomes a full-time job!
If you want to grow quickly, you cannot afford to be spending your days chained to your computer, managing every single chore manually.
Some of you are already there and are tired of wasting your days dealing with same repetitive tasks over and over again...but automation is even more intimidating.
The mysterious scripts and software that seem to magically automate the average online home business site can be a bit intimidating for a new e-business owner.
You see others doing it all around you---taking advantage of this mysterious automation, freeing up their time to increase profits even more, but how the heck are they doing it?
If you automate your daily web site chores, then you're going to have time to focus on promotions and growing. If you are drowning in routine tasks, you are going to severely handicap your sales adn income because you'll be too focused on trying to just stay afloat.
By getting an automated system set up early on in your home business, you won't have to scramble to put a second rate system in place once you DO get busy. We will cover this more at another time. Just remember to automate early and automate as many aspects of your business as you possibly can.
To find out how to automate your email system, Click Here
If you wanted to learn about quantum physics you'd want to learn it from Stephen Hawking, if you could... right?
If you wanted to learn how to win the Tour de France you'd want Lance Armstrong to teach you...? Of course...
What if you wanted to learn about starting a REAL online business?
Well, since 1998, we have had a profitable online home businesses.
Now here are 4 steps for producing one of your own.
1) Create a "Theme" based web site with compelling content.
2) Traffic - That continuously attracts targeted visitors...
3) PREsell - Convert your interested, information-seeking visitors into warm and willing-to-buy mindsets...and...
4) Monetize - You can and should monetize in many ways, not just one.
Most people would rather put forth some money and hope for the best
instead of testing to see if they are on the right track. They do
not realize that it's not difficult track what their customers do
at their website. With this kind of valuable information, they can
easily maximize by adjusting their website to reflect their market's
interests and needs. It is actually better to lose a handful of sales
during this testing process, than to lose thousands and thousands of
sales by not fine-tuning their site.
Testing, tweaking and re-testing will ulimately earn you the big
money. NEVER forget this.
So, what are some of things you need to test to increase the response
to your web site?
*The Headline or Opening Statement--this is the first impact you have
on a potential customer.
*Your Offer--test your angle and the benefits that you emphasize to make
your offer as appealing as possible.
*Your Price--if your price is too low, some people will think that your
product or service is of poor quality...if it is too high, some will
not be able to afford it, or the price will outweigh the benefits.
Only change one thing at a time, otherwise you will not be able to
determine which change was affective and caused an increase in your
sales.
Keep in mine that there is no "unsuccessful test". You can learn from
every test if you approach it correctly. Every "failed test" brings
you one step closer to the winning formula...a top selling web site!
Suppose your current marketing technique is generating sales, wouldn't
it be nice to sell more? Your goal should ALWAYS be to seek bigger
and better profits--no matter how great your campaign is. Test everything.
Test your layout, price, headlines, salescopy, ordering process...everything!
Later, we will show you how. Until then we would like to hear how
you are doing and how you test, if you do at all. Just leave us a comment
about your Home Business.
One 18-year old high school dropout in Florida is making $45 an hour giving gaming lessons to people who want to acquire professional-level skills. Better yet: He has turned it into a web-based business. And he's giving other young videogame aficionados a chance to teach his growing customer base, at rates ranging from $20 to $65 an hour.
And if all that isn't impressive enough, consider this: This kid, Tom Taylor, was recently profiled on the front page of The Wall Street Journal.
Let me ask you a question: Would you say his financial future is looking good?
I love this sort of story because demonstrates two fundamental truths about making money that most people can't seem to understand:
1. Anybody who has modest intelligence can start a successful home business. You don't need wealthy parents, a college degree, or influential friends. What you need is a financially valuable skill.
2. The Internet is the fastest, cheapest, and easiest place to start a business.
I wouldn't have thought of making gaming lessons into a business in a hundred years. But now that Mr. Taylor has provided the seed idea, I can see dozens of possible outgrowths.
The first, and most obvious, is that he should locate experts in other videogames, and expand his business horizontally.
Next, he should promote one or two of his very best experts in each game to "elite" status, and sell their services for $100 an hour. (If you don't think he can get $100 an hour for that, you don't understand much about marketing.)
And then, he should develop packaged offers, combining multiple game lessons or even multiple instructors, and begin to offer longer-term, higher-priced contracts.
He should learn everything he can about marketing, and become an expert in finding new customers and upgrading (i.e., upselling) his existing clientele. And he should hire someone to make sure the quality of his services improves as his business expands.
This kid could easily have a $2 million to $10 million business in three years. The hardest part is already done. If he doesn't succeed on a massive level, it will be a shame.
By the way, one of Mr. Taylor's instructors is an eight-year-old New Yorker who goes by the online name of Lil Poison. He teaches classes after he finishes his homework, and has used some of his income to buy a hamster that he named Cantana after a character in one of the games.
Think about a skill that you have and can teach. Would you like to create an Internet home business based on that?