February 10, 2012

Look and learn how you can start a life only with U.S.$25 dollars

Money and money, many people think that only if you have a good position with a lot of contacts you can grow as person. If you read our blog frequently you might think that many business ideas that come here are impossible to achieve.

Well the Christian Science Monitor give us an experiment that show us that your are wrong.

Adam Shepard, did an experiment. He left home and went to live in a homeless shelter in a community of people with no money, only $ 25 in his pocket.

Without using any of your contacts and friends, after 10 months, came to have an apartment, a car and a U.S. $ 5000.00 savings.  

Find inspiration in the story of Adam Shepard to move forward with your business ideas, save money for capital that will serve to develop your business tomorrow.

“Alone on a dark gritty street, Adam Shepard searched for a homeless shelter. He had a gym bag, $25, and little else. A former college athlete with a bachelor’s degree, Mr. Shepard had left a comfortable life with supportive parents in Raleigh, N.C. Now he was an outsider on the wrong side of the tracks in Charles ton, S.C.

But Shepard’s descent into poverty in the summer of 2006 was no accident. Shortly after graduating from Merrimack College in North Andover, Mass., he intentionally left his parents’ home to test the vivacity of the American Dream. His goal: to have a furnished apartment, a car, and $2,500 in savings within a year.

To make his quest even more challenging, he decided not to use any of his previous contacts or mention his education.

During his first 70 days in Charleston, Shepard lived in a shelter and received food stamps. He also made new friends, finding work as a day laborer, which led to a steady job with a moving company.

Ten months into the experiment, he decided to quit after learning of an illness in his family. But by then he had moved into an apartment, bought a pickup truck, and had saved close to $5,000.”

Read the interview to Adam Shepard by clicking here on this link

3 factors or keys that you should know to be successful in business

Any business is a risk and you will be suspicious of anyone that tell you that have a secret and magic formula for make money to become in millionaire on few days.

Some times the business fail for a lack of preparation and not because the business idea was bad.

There are many factors and keys for business success, here three of them:

1.  A good idea.

2. A good business plan.

3. The will to bring it forward and be a winner.

The 3 factors are necessary for success, but the third is that often fails, you must be passionate in your project business and believe in it. You should never think it will fail, as I said above always there are risks but you should foreseen them in your business plan.

Do not be intimidated by the fact that you maybe you do not have an MBA, an MA or a PhD, most people who have been successful in business have not had these studies. What if you have to do is work hard and be consistent, to have faith in yourself.

Often one’s family is the fiercest criticism of an entrepreneur, wife or husband or parents begin to say “why waste your time doing that”, “please to study it,” “seeks a job,” “you to lose all the money from our savings. “

What you should do is stick to a plan for success, being a winner in business is difficult but not impossible.

How to make money online choosing names for business

If you want to make money online in a easy way, perhaps  PickyDomains.com is which you are seeking.

Anyone that starts a business needs to find the right name for it and the best domain for its corporate website. With PickyDomains you can help in this process  and earn money.

If you need the right name for the website of your business, PickyDomain said: If you need a great, memorable, easy to pronounce domain name that EXACTLY describes what your website is all about – you are in the right place. This is what we do. We find available domain names that are descriptive, concise and are easily remembered. And if we can’t find one, or you don’t like any available domain names we suggest – you don’t pay anything. PickyDomains.Com is completely RISK FREE.

And, if you want to make money helping to find the right name business for a website: Here is how the process works – all submitted suggestions have to pass moderation. Those that do are marked as ‘Published’. The ones that don’t are marked as ‘Disliked by moderator’. After your suggestions are published, clients look at your names. If they like them, they’ll be marked as ‘Liked’. That’s good – submit more names like that. If they don’t like them, they’ll be marked as ‘Disliked’. There is no point to submit more names of the same nature – try a different approach. When your name is selected (registered), it’ll be marked as ‘Picked’. When this happens, you will also get an e-mail notification from us, asking you what PayPal e-mail to transfer $25 to.

See, it’s really simple. And you don’t need to check domain name availability in advance – our system will do that for you automatically (registered domains won’t be added).

Pickydomains.com could be an interesting source to make money online with internet. You can start today, visit PickyDomain by clicking here on this link

A business idea for make money online, buy and sell domains and websites

A domain name is the name of any website, for example the domain of our website is “www.ElasticZone.com“.

The domains “dot COM” (.Com) are the most popular domains (other are “.Org”, “.Net”). The average price of this kind of domains is U.S.$ 10 per year, but you know that will you be able to resell that domains and even most important that maybe someone could pay you a million dollars for your domain?

Yes, maybe you become millionaire buying and selling domains, that is the case of the domain ”Candy.com” that was sold for 2 million dollars as reported the newspaper Christian Science Monitor.

Why does it cost so much if you only should pay U.S$10 dollars per year?

Simply, because the name is short and generates traffic of visits to the website itself. As I have said before, on the Internet to more traffic of visitors you have more opportunities to make money online (read How to Make Money Online with a Blog).

Today, It is not easy to find a domain as Candy.com but maybe you can find an interesting domain that still is free. You can explore to buy one in several sites as Alocate, you should invest only $ 10 per year but who knows, perhaps you will sell your domain for millions of dollars in some years more.

How a small business earn a lot of money with its website, a model business to follow

The New York Times usually publish several articles about cases of successful businesses.

In this case NYT made an interesting report about how an small business is making a lot of money with its website named AskPaty.

AskPaty is a website that give advice about cars, automotive advice, advice on car buying, maintenance and other related automotive topics. However, the difference with other similar websites is that AskPaty is thinking for women.

Who had this business idea was obviously a woman who didn’t find information about cars with that point of view.

As the case of AskPaty the NYT reported other cases of small business that launch successful websites where their founders are finding new business, new sells and new sources of make money online.

The internet technology is inexpensive and is easy to learn the tools for build a social media. You can built for yourself your ecommerce business with several scrips, many of them free.

If you are thinking to start your own business maybe you should start making your own website or blog por make money by internet and explore the opportunities that your business idea could have.

You can read the NYT article mentioned clicking here on this link

What is the best software to make money with a blog? WordPress, Blogger or TypePad

If you want to make money online with a blog you will find that there are several alternatives of software to start one (I recommend you to read How to Make Money Online with a Blog).

One of the most popular is WordPress.org and is free. You should go to that link and you can download the program to install it on your blog hosting (I use wordpress).

Usually your hosting provider give the option to install WordPress with only few clicks (check Alocate that give you that option with its Linux Hosting plans).

At Blogger.com (a service of Google) you can make a blog as a sub domain totally free without invest to buy a domain or hosting. WordPress.com (notice .com and not .org) also give you the same alternative. If you want you can explore these free option but really you quickly will move to WordPress.org or maybe TypePad.

TypePad is other blog platform very successful but you need to pay for it but they provide you with the hosting services.

I use WordPress and I am very happy with this software. As wordpress is an open source you can find also a lot of resources over internet free that will allow you to learn more about this software and how to make money with your blog.

How to make money online with a blog without put money

How to make money online is one of the most common questions.

You heard about other people that are making a lot of money with internet and you don’t sure if that is true or not. Well the answer is that is totally true, you can make money with internet and you don’t need a huge investment to do it.

There are several sources of make money by internet but now I want to tell you about one of them … make money with a blog.

A blog is a website as you are reading now and you can make one totally free using services as Google who give you the possibility to make your own blog in Blogger.com, however if you are really interested the best way is to buy your own domain and a hosting service (on average the cost is U.S.$ 70 each year, check the information on Alocate).

At start you don’t need to pay a designer of your blog because there are a lot of  designs that are free.

Once you have the blog you should start the process known as “monetizing” your blog. I mean you have to put ads on your blog and you start making money.

The process of put ads in your blog is very easy and automatized, you can use the service of Google Adsense for mention one. Also you can sell digital products in your blog or whatever.

The obviously secret is that if you have a lot of visits reading your blog you will have more opportunities to make money, so the most important thing when you make a blog is how to attract more people interested in your blog. You must to give value to your readers for achieve it.

Maybe you are reading this article and thinking how start, well you should start thinking about what will be the topic of your blog. You can write about business, cars, show business, architecture or anything but always think that you should give some value to your readers.

 

10 tips to make the best business card works for make new business opportunities

One of the most important tool to make new businesses is a business card. It is inexpensive and usually it is the first approach on marketing business.

When you give a business card it is perhaps one of the first steps for build a new business relationship in order to increase your networking. If you are in business you should always have in your pocket your business card.

The website Business Know How give us 10 tips about how you should make a business card.The tips are writing as usually mistakes that we should avoid in our business cards. In summary these tips are:

  • 1. Minuscule print. 
  • 2. No physical address.
  • 3. Slick texture. 
  • 4. Blank back.
  • 5. No photo. 
  • 6. Incongruence.
  • 7. No benefits. 
  • 8. Not unique. 
  • 9. Challenging sizes.
  • 10. Home jobs. 

For example about the 6th tip they said:

“6. Incongruence. If you offer a web design service and don’t have a web site of your own listed, your card will raise red flags in people’s minds. I recall meeting a gentleman who introduced himself as a web designer and gave me his card.

When I asked him why he didn’t have his web site listed, he said he didn’t have one.

If you want to sell a Ford, drive a Ford. If you want to sell cell phones, have one and make your number available. If you want to sell toll-free service, make sure you have your toll-free number on your card.

You have to walk your talk and demonstrate that you live, eat, breathe and firmly believe that what you offer is of tremendous value to others, starting with yourself.”

Photo via SXC

I invite you to read the full article from Business Know How website by clicking here on this link

Small Business Ideas that really worth

When you are seeking business ideas you should think “what I enjoy to do?”. Tomorrow you will be dedicated 100% in that business idea so if you want to be successful you should like your business.

The wonderful thing about business is that you can do anything that you like if you put enough effort, passion and knowledge to develop a business model. Everyone has an expertise to sell or to share with others.

Maybe, you like to watch TV all day and you have the expertise about showbusiness or about what Tv Program works or not, perhaps if you make a blog you make money writing about it.

The issue really is how I approach my expertise toward a busines model that really worth. For that a clue that could help to find the right way is to know what are the people preferences when they buy over the internet. The magazine Pandecta give us to the following information:

  • - 29% Software
  • - Books 17%
  • - Music 16%
  • - 16% Computers
  • - Travel 10%
  • - Other 12%

If you’re considering a small business or home based business you should research the trends on the market and maybe the above numbers could help you.

You can read the Pandecta article by clicking here on this link

How to make a Budget if you are a freelancer with variable income

It is usual to read that you should make a budget to control your personal finances.

That sounds great but what happen if I have an irregular income, how will project my expenses and inversions?

Well Get Rich Slowly, one of my best blogs about personal finances, give us some advices.

His author summarize two methods for making a budget when revenues are variable.

1. The average method. This method consists of making an average of our income for the last 12 or 6 months. That average number will be my estimate income in order to make my budget and find the balance with my expenses.

The problem with this method, as the author said, is that if one month I have zero income this method could be a nightmare. If I do not have enough savings will not balance my expenses.

2. The method of the lowest income. In this case is not an average but it takes the lowest income I’ve had the past 6 or 12 months.

This method is much more conservative and more secure.

You can read the full article with graphics and more on GetRichSlowly by clicking here in this link