Internet Business

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Explain to the merchant that you can use free domain hosting and free domain names, but it always looks more professional for a business to have its own domain name and .com is the most recognized. However, one of the others might have a name more appropriate to the business. The costs for acquiring a domain are usually less than $10 with free hosting for a small site.

These options should be outlined and explained to the merchant so that he understands the scope of your service. You should have a contract sheet with the cost of designing the site, cost for monthly maintenance, cost for weekly or monthly changes to rates specials or coupons, cost for maintenance of customer email lists and cost for preparing and sending out newsletters.

If the merchant wants a domain name or web hosting, he should be asked to pay for it up front. As you do need to meet with local merchants, it’s necessary to dress appropriately, be business oriented and be well groomed. Avoid wearing very casual clothes unless you live in a beach community.

After your initial contacts with the merchant, billings and web site changes could be handled by telephone and email.

So there you have it. A simple business, it’s not rocket science. I would do it myself if I didn’t travel so much. You would be providing a very necessary service to the small business community.

small work at home enterprise

The basics of this small work at home enterprise are as follows:

1. Contact a few small merchants with repeat customers. Offer to build a simple web site to advertise their weekly specials or coupons. You’ll have to some research to come up with acceptable rates. You could design a site for $30 to $50 then negotiate a monthly amount for maintenance and charges for changes. Your rates would depend on how many changes would be required. I think a monthly maintenance amount is important because you will have to check a site often to ensure it is up and accessible. There are free stat counters available to check the number of hits a site receives.

2. You can save yourself time by scanning the advertising in local daily and weekly papers. Since the advertising rates in weekly or free advertising papers are the lowest, give them particular attention. If a business is advertising and does not include a web site, you have a prospect. The first thing any merchant will do is advertise his web site. Some good prospects are green grocers, cafes, drycleaners, beauty salons, delicatessens and fabric stores. Any small independent business with repeat customers is a potential prospect.

3. Offer to send out a newsletter to customers for an additional cost per submission. If the merchant wants to send out a newsletter occasionally to his customers, he should collect their email addresses.
4. The merchant should hand out a small ad or card to each customer directing them to his new web site, and he should also add his web site to any other media ads.

Your beginning costs for this enterprise are basically shoe leather and some printing of advertising materials. You’ll need business cards, rate cards and contract sheets outlining your services. You can use free web hosting, free programs, free banners, free graphics, and free templates to build your web sites.

A typical web site page might comprise a top banner with the merchants name, a table with the store location and phone, a secondary table with his rates for services, and a third table with his weekly specials or a coupon. The reason for using tables for each segment of your page is that they are easy to edit. Once your simple site is up, you can easily change the specials or coupons without much work. I recommend coupons on each site because any honored coupons would demonstrate the effectiveness of the site. If the merchant has a picture of his store, logo or letterhead, you can scan it and insert the image into a table on the web site.

Explain to the merchant that you can use free domain hosting and free domain names, but it always looks more professional for a business to have its own domain name and .com is the most recognized. However, one of the others might have a name more appropriate to the business. The costs for acquiring a domain are usually less than $10 with free hosting for a small site.

Social Media is Not Social Minded

Be my friend and share my toys You Can

Remember When You Were a Kid and The Other kids on the playground Would say Things like “if you be my friend, I’ll let you play with my new toy?” Or Perhaps, “if you Give me some of your dessert I ‘ ll be your friend. “It’s Just What kids do, and MOST of us grow out of That. Or, at least I Thought we did.

A growing trend in social media is to lure people to “like” or “follow” companies, products or brands by Giving Them Something They Want; a t-shirt, sticker, hair-care products or Some Other Equally useless awesome “stuff.” OK, that’s cool, everybody wins, sort of.

It’s a disaster, NOT daycare.

However, I think a line has-been crossed. While I and Many Other tech-minded people Were at SXSW, a terrible disaster Took place in Japan. Hundreds, Possibly Thousands of people and Were Killed, Wounded or missing Went after a record breaking Subsequent earth quake and the tsunami. Within a matter of hours I Heard about companies Promoting That If They get enough “likes” on their Facebook page Would They donate money to help with search, rescue and / or recovery going efforts. One that I saw Said If They get 100.000 new “likes”, they’ll send $ 100.000. What? That’s just as If They Had said “we feel really bad about it and we want to help, But only if you’ll be our friend first.” Is it just me, or That is not very social? Perhaps it crosses events Into anti-social.

Let’s make social, social again.

Fundamentally, shouldn’t we as Humans (even Humans Who Run Businesses) do Good Things Because they’re good, and Not Because We hope people will like us for doing it? Let’s try this – Be Remarkable, Do Something really great and worthy of Being Noticed and guess what, people will notice, and They Will Tell Their friends. In the end, people will ACTUALLY like you, and Not Just on Facebook.

Should we make These companies earn Our friendship and Let Them Not buy it.

Let’s make Social Media social again, What Can We Do to Make Things Better?

All in One SEO Pack Configuration

internet businessYou want your WordPress powered site to rank well, right? MOST Like You Have Probably site owners read Dozens of blogs, and more “Top 10 SEO tips for WordPress”, or Perhaps ” Must Have WordPress Plugins “posts Than you care to remember. The only problem is That Many Of These articles say you just Have to install the plugins, NOT how to use Them. I’ll Admit That I am as much at fault as Anyone Else. Here’s the problem, while Some plugins require little or no configuration, events and less on-going attention – All in one SEO pack is Not One of Them. Miss a check box field and ignore or You Could Be Than doing more harm good – Could your site rankings drop faster Than Wile E. Acme Coyote holding an umbrella.

This post will Be updated from time-to-time When There Are Significant updates to the plugin. Items That Are new to this post will Be Bold. Additionally it, I’ll mark items That Could Be detrimental to your rankings with a caution sign.

Internet Business Ideas

Internet Business Ideas

Remember that these are Internet Business Ideas, and execution are your responsibility, as the result.

1. Another way to find domains, is to run a check against the domain dictionaries available and automatically verify search volumes (using OST, Wordtracker, etc..) For this term. And it uses the cost of Pay Per Click (PPC) ads more important than you think are most profitable opportunities. If you get a domain to a profitable run, you can use a parked domain program . Or one or two articles published content and get some links … and search engines will start sending traffic to your site. If the phrase that people are writing exactly matches the domain name, you can get an advantage with search engines.

2. If you’re smart and know a language, you can be doing this in several languages. And do not pay for any domain until you have tested free (five days) to see if it actually get any traffic (and how well they monetize traffic, ie generates income). After you’ve tried the domain for five days, there is nothing to stop you to seek another five-day trial. It’s legal.

3. Misspellings. Massive opportunities still exist in the misspelling in the market and misspellings. People trying to enter a site, they end up on your site instead … and they sell things (or you can use the idea of a domain parked). Some even find opportunities in PPC campaigns on major brands spelling errors (for example, instead of Nike, write Nik). Find mistakes has never been so easy. There are many tools you can use to find misspellings.

4. Parked domains and type of traffic: People sometimes guess a URL (ie, the Internet address of the page you are looking for) If you are looking for a restaurant, you can try restaurante.com though have never used that site. Search terms that people may be typing in the URL, domain purchase and fill with ads. There are several programs to monetize parked domains. Or combine this with the previous idea of buying sites such as misspellings or similar domains restarante.com failed to make money online.

Social Networks and Social Bookmarking

 Social Networks

Strategy to make money on the Internet: Social Networks and Social Bookmarking

These methods are part of the movement “Web 2.0″ which began in 2006 and 2007. The idea is to work the web more interactive, user-focused. To that end, sites like Technorati emerged, where users can store their favorite sites and rank them, and other users can find sites by virtue of its popularity.

In Latin America, YouTube, MySpace and Facebook are the tools you need to develop to make money online. Record a video, find friends in Facebook, are ways to promote your website and create interest and traffic.

However, care, most of these communities discourage blatant marketing. Therefore, its main use is to make contact and drive traffic to your website.

Make money online requires an entrepreneurial mindset and perseverance. Most Internet entrepreneurs waive the first year, after seeing that failed to score. My recommendation: do not think you will make millions of dollars as they present in products to make money online. Beware, before you use your money and get a book with tons of meaningless information.

Make Money Online: How?

Make Money Online

Make money online is not easy. Many products offered on the Internet are not reliable, and offer solutions “simple” and “big money” for a few dollars. In fact, I’ve bought several of these products to earn money online, and not really useful to me. What I learned I had to learn from mistakes and failures, and want to share with you the real ways to make money online.

Before the assessment of, I tell him that require little investment, patience and hard work. There is no easy answer to making money online. To give an example, it takes traffic from 200 to 300 people before selling an electronic product. And to get this amount of traffic, it takes position at number one in Google for at least 5 keywords or search words. To be simple, but in fact pursue these issues can take months.

And even, unlike the products to make money online teaching is required to develop a well planned marketing strategy. For example, I have a friend who developed an electronic product to help men to seduce women. After months of work and not a sale, I asked for help. The conclusion: the men who wanted the product they were young Hispanics without a credit card to purchase.