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

September 1, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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

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

August 31, 2009 By 8 Comments

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.

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How to make money online with a blog without put money

August 31, 2009 By 4 Comments

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.

 

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Cooltronics, a real case about how make money fast with your business idea

August 19, 2009 By 3 Comments

The main founder of Cooltronic is Tyler Dikman, he has 24 years old and now sells millions of dollars by Internet.

He starts selling lemonades at the door of his house as many American children, but since these early stages he was different due to the use of marketing strategies.

His company was founded when he has 17 years old and his success was immediately.

Cooltronics primarily provides advice on the use of technology, as you can read from its website:

“For the past seven years, CoolTronics® has been helping individuals and small businesses with making the most of the what computer technology offers. While we are expertly informed computer people by training, we are first and foremost customer service providers. The most important feature in getting technology to perform is the requisite know how and support to realize its full potential. CoolTronics® has built a reputation on the notion of exceptional customer care.”

 

CNBC interview to Tyler Dikman and he gives us 5 tips, simple but worth gold coming from a winner in business:

  • 1. Always fulfill your promises, never promise something that you can not fulfill.
  • 2. Achieved a mentor. A mentor is a person with more experience in business and can guide about business. Should not necessarily be one, may be several.
  • 3. If at any time the work exceeds your capacity avoid it, ie does not grow more than you can or you could break your promises and thereby breaching the tip number one.
  • 4. Starts doing business with your friends. He points out that started contacting doctors and professionals as a hobby by understanding their technological needs.
  • 5. You never will have success or money with ideas you must to run them. Only if you run your idea you will succeed.

The video on YouTube where Tyler gives these tips can be found at the following link

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Small Business Ideas that really worth

August 11, 2009 By Leave a Comment

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

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Changing trends in the packaging to sell more in crisis times

August 6, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Some trends in crisis times are changing, one is how to display products to be sold to the public.

It is usual that big corporations use big packaging to give the impression that the consumers will get more than they are paying. Perhaps, that trend now is changing.

The costs of unnecessary packaging material and storage have been producing smaller packaging.

That is at least the new policy that has developed a company that markets a range of products for water sports known as  Destination Water as is reported by CNN Money.

This company grew 14% in 2008 compared to 2007 and for 2009 has a plan to grow over 12%.

The interesting thing about this policy of use small packets is that the consumer has received it positively as there would not be perceived as a waste of resources in times of economic crisis.

Sometimes simple changes such as the one discussed here, which also produce significant savings, changes for better the face of a business producing more sales to make more money.

You can read this story about Destination Water on CNN Money by clicking here on this link

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Twitter as a marketing tool for make money and new business opportunities

August 5, 2009 By Leave a Comment

Twitter is the new revolution to make business don´t matter if you have a big or a small business. If you are in business and not have your own Twitter maybe you are losing money.

The New York Times reported for example some successful cases where twitter is used as a marketing tool for doing business and make money:

“SAN FRANCISCO — Three weeks after Curtis Kimball opened his crème brûlée cart in San Francisco, he noticed a stranger among the friends in line for his desserts. How had the man discovered the cart? He had read about it on Twitter.

For Mr. Kimball, who conceded that he “hadn’t really understood the purpose of Twitter,” the beauty of digital word-of-mouth marketing was immediately clear. He signed up for an account and has more than 5,400 followers who wait for him to post the current location of his itinerant cart and list the flavors of the day, like lavender and orange creamsicle.”

The great advantage of Twitter is that it costs absolutely nothing and their expansion and market penetration is growing very rapidly.

When I start my Twitter account I was a little bit disappointing but when I discovered applications such as TweeDeck I understood the huge potential of Twitter. These tools make Twitter a great chat with text messages where I can chat with hundreds or thousands of people at once depending on how many people follow me.

I invite you to use Twitter by clicking here on this link. Visit also TweetDeck in this link.

You can read the full quoted from the New York Times by clicking here on this link

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An invention and perhaps a business idea for lovers of good coffee and grills

August 3, 2009 By Leave a Comment

If you love a good coffee this invention could be an excellent business idea.

As you can see in the picture, using a metal cylinder you can get a fresh roasted coffee. You put within the metal cylinder coffee’s seeds and then roasted them to obtain a fully aromatic coffee directly from your grill.

This is one of those business ideas that are pure invention with a simple stuff that you already have around you.

The price of this product is 109.95 U.S. dollars and is called the Coffee Roaster Drum and can be purchased here at this link

What do you think about this business idea? Do you have one to share with us?

The information of this product via UberReview

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7 tips to have Sales Success and make more money with your business

July 24, 2009 By 1 Comment

Learn secrets or tips to sell is one of the most important aspects for success. Always we are selling something … sometimes ourselves. For instance, we are selling ourselves as good professionals to get the best job possible.

At Aspire Now website gives us Seven Keys to Sales Success. In summary they said:

“1. Work your plan – double your manager’s goals for you, or double your sales figures.

2. Deliver what you promise.

3. Offer what you can deliver today.

4. Build relationships, not orders. Build 4×4 relationships.

5. Use your network. Keep people informed.

6. Keep some in reserve.

7. Spend time wisely. Time is our biggest resource — and our smallest. Use it well and make the sell.”

About the first tip they said:

“1. Have a planned quota or goal to achieve? Now double it. Set your goal as double or triple whatever your boss told you to sell. People tend to miss their own goals – on average, they only hit about 80% of the goal. Therefore, your goal needs to be higher than your manager’s goal for you. If you are in business for yourself, take your sales goal that you know you need to sell to make money, and triple it. Strive for that goal, rather than the break-even goal. You’re in business to make money, not lose it, right?”

You can read the full article from Aspire Now by clicking here in this link

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