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First Steps for Serious Entrepreneurs
You don't have to be online very long to realize that the Internet is a
feeding ground for people running scams online. So, how do you know what
will work for you? How do you start a sensible business that will grow
and prosper?
One Step Forward, Two Steps Back?
Did you know that humans make decisions based on emotion and justify
with logic? It simply how our brains work. But, we can't always trust
our emotions to do what's right for our finances.
Too often, people find themselves in a vicious cycle of trying
opportunity after opportunity and never getting any farther ahead. One
step forward, two steps back.
Fortunately, we have that big round thing sitting between our shoulders.
Along with a pencil and paper, you can prevent getting into that cycle,
or get yourself out of it.
Are You An Entrepreneur?
Do you know what an entrepreneur is? The dictionary defines it as; A
risk-taker who has the skills and initiative to establish a business.
Don't let the "risk taker" part set you back. If you've ever crossed the
street, or driven a car you're a risk taker. You could have been hit by
a car, you know!
What does that leave? Skills and initiative.
Initiative, you probably already have. Maybe it’s the thought of a few
more zeros in your bank account. Or maybe you want to put your children
through college. Or buy a new car, or earn a vacation. Initiative is the
easy part. So, you’re a risk taker with initiative. What does that
leave? Skills.
Whooooo Are You?
Without a plan in hand, the Internet can seem as confusing as Alice’s
journey through Wonderland. There’s the cats that appear and disappear
(often with your money)... plenty of tweedle dee and tweedle dum action
to waste your time... the self appointed royalty hollering “MY WAY! Do
it MY WAY” while their pages paint the roses red - and, of course, an
endless array of opportunities laid out on the table of the proverbial
mad tea party.
If you're as confused as Alice was in wonderland, you may have made the
mistake of thinking you have nothing to sell.
You see, often people aren’t looking to repeat their “day job” online,
so they start looking for opportunities. That’s a fast track to becoming
“prey” for opportunists, scammers and pyramid operators.
There is a little bit of magic that happens when you write ideas on
paper.
Before you scoff at the simplicity of it, ask yourself if you're already
where you want to be. If not, why not give it a try?
Write down the answers to these questions on a piece of paper. Take as
much time as you need.
1) What magazines do you like? Write as many as you can think of.
2) What kinds of things do your friends and family often ask you for
help with or advice about? Think back over the past several years, too.
3) When you’re shooting the breeze over coffee with a friend, what do
you talk (or ramble) about? Be honest.
4) What are your hobbies, interests, obsessions and pet peeves? List as
many as you can think of. Don't forget the pet peeves. You have NO idea
how many successful businesses started because of pet peeves!
Look! It's You - On Paper
Do you see topics or subjects that come up in all four categories?
Circle them first. You might even have more than one subject area that
comes up repeatedly. That's okay. Now look for subjects that come up in
three out of four areas. Circle those, too.
There you go, it's you on paper. Now we’ve taken care of the skills part
of the equation, too. You've just circled several great areas that you
could run a successful business in.
The Roots of Success
Look at the subjects/topics you’ve circled. For each one that you’ve
circled, ask yourself;
1) Is there growth potential? Will this be a viable business area three
years from today? After all, time is the only commodity that you can
never replace once you’ve spent it.
2) Can you speak with knowledge? People don’t buy fishing supplies from
someone that doesn’t know bass fishing from walleye fishing. We humans
are pretty good at sniffing out a phony in an area we have interest in.
Make sure you can speak with knowledge about the area you choose, or
you’ll do your own reputation more harm than good.
For an entrepreneur, identifying the true nature of your skill set is
the raw beginning of a success story. From there, it’s time to
brainstorm.
- Can you write an ebook?
- A buyers guide?
- A product comparison report?
- Can you freelance?
- Can you organize a group of freelancers?
- Can you buy wholesale and sell retail?
- Can you write unbiased product reviews?
- Can you put together a package that other people would like to sell?
Once you have chosen an area of business suited to you, it's just a
matter of brainstorming to get you started.
Need help implementing this plan?
Just post the circled items from your lists and we'll help you out.
You'll be amazed to see the ideas that flow when we put our heads
together.
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What
You See Is What You Get
Not really, but that is what WYSIWYG is
supposed to mean.
The thought here is that anyone who knows
little to nothing about designing a web site can create a site simply
using point-and-click and drag-and-drop methods. For the uninitiated,
the misconception is that anyone can create a site as good as a trained
web master. The hook is that it saves time and money to do it yourself.
WYSIWYG editors do have a place on the web.
For someone who is interested in learning HTML, some of them can be a
good place to start. For someone interested in making a site about the
family vacation, a WYSIWYG editor might suffice. For a site destined to
promote a business or organization, such a tool might create a somewhat
usable website, but it can also lead to trouble and despair.
If you have been following along in this forum
you might have come to the conclusion that I personally don’t offer much
in the line of support for these authoring tools. There is very good
reason for that. Generally websites generated from these editors do not
look the same in all browsers. The results, in reality: What You See Is
What You Get, In This Browser, With This Window Size, With This Text
Size, On This Operating System, At This Screen Resolution, With This Set
Of Browser Preference Settings. The last two are very important
considerations, as you have no control over a persons own personal
browser settings. I would wager a guess that a lot of people don’t even
know about these options on their own computers. In all my years of
designing websites and working in the field of technical support, I have
found that more often than not, a person buys a computer, brings it
home, unpacks it, plugs it in and that is where it stops.
There is no guarantee that the website will
look the same in any other browsing situation. In fact, it may look
rather different in another browser, or worst case won't display at all.
I have witnessed this first hand, I recall a
person that built their site at home and uploaded it thinking everything
was just fine. They were also in the process of closing a client and
when they were at the clients house they asked; “Do you have access to
the Internet?” Well they did, and when they entered the URL of the
website into the browser they used, a big white screen appeared.
The once proud owner of the website knew nothing about browser
compatibility and was in absolute horror and embarrassment at what
everyone was looking at. She was dumfounded and could offer no
explanation for what was happening.
WYSIWYG editors, by their very nature, do
nothing to instruct the user in good coding techniques and practices.
They are not equipped to cope with image optimization issues, nor do
they recommend the most appropriate mark-up for any particular bit of
text. As a result WYSIWYG editors usually generate HTML code that is
bloated, illogical and can be invalid, according to internet standards.
A few of the problems one can face with a
WYSIWYG editor are:
Excess code that leads to longer download
times.
Proprietary code that only works in some
browsers.
Invalid code that may only render as intended
in some browsers.
Illogical code that only "looks good" in some
browsing environments.
Unstructured code that is neither optimized
for search engines, nor accessible in various browsing environments.
Obsolete, hard-coded styling that makes every
page look different as well as causes maintenance headaches.
I have, in the past, taken a page created with
a WYSIWYG editor, I won’t say which one, and reproduced the exact same
page with 1/3 the amount of code that was generated by the editor. That
means 2/3’rds of the code generated by the WYSIWYG editor was not
required for the web page.
An inexperienced user, desiring a particular
layout, does not know the proper methods to position and space different
elements on a page and usually resorts to what one might call, brute
force techniques such as repeatedly pressing the spacebar or return key.
This only makes a bad situation worse. It is like putting a square peg
in a round hole, if you hit it with enough force it will go in, but you
loose some of it.
Lack of image optimization merely adds to the
download and rendering issues. If you are using graphics within your
website and I don’t know many that don’t, then you better learn how to
work in a good graphics program. You will need to learn about image
optimization and image slicing.
There are a lot of things to consider when
creating a website and the use of a WYSIWYG editor is only a small slice
of the pie. I have seen where images that were 1000 pixels by 1000
pixels were placed on a page, but displayed at 100 x 100 pixels, or the
same hold true in reverse and you then get this huge pixelated image
that looks just awful. In the case of downsizing the image, the image
"attributes" where changed, but the large image still had to load, even
though it was only displaying at 100 x 100 pixels. Have you ever seen a
website that just hangs there wanting to load an image or multiple
images, this is one of the reasons why. A browser loads the different
components of a webpage in a particular order. Normally a browser will
start to load each image as soon as it encounters it in the html file,
and there is no control over the order in which multiple images are
loaded. There are some other considerations that come into play here,
some are more technical than others, but a simple one might be if you
were loading a banner from another website, as might be the case with an
affiliate banner, and that website was experiencing problems or slow
load speeds, it will affect your page loading while the browser waits
for the banner to be delivered. If it takes to long, then most people
with either close the browser, or hit the back button.
Layout, graphics, navigation, copywriting, the
list of considerations is endless. Websites are funny creatures and they
take on a life of their own. Starting out as you intend to finish is
always a good plan of action. I am not saying that one cannot use a
WYSIWYG editor to create a quality website, but you need to learn a lot
about how they work and how to manipulate them. Did you know that if you
bought Dreamweaver and signed up for the Dreamweaver University library
they offer, you could spend close to $800.00 USD, and then you still
have to learn everything and hope that you not be in over your head. I
do not know how long it would take to learn everything but while you are
learning, some others are already establishing their presence on the web
and working towards generating a profit.
So the whole point here is be careful and make
the right decision before you waste a lot of time and money. There is
one extra precaution I would like to offer and that is with web site
authoring tools that come with a hosting account. I have seen in the
past where someone signed up with a service and created their website,
after about a year they decided that the website was off line more than
it was on line and they sought out a new host. They liked the features
that were offered by the new host and did some research before deciding
to pack up and move to the new server. they checked on up time and
server response times. Well they packed up the site and moved only to
find the code that the on line authoring tool generated would only
render on the server it was created on. The website was proprietary to
that particular hosts server and would not work on any other host. In
the end it was a years worth of work gone, and the client had no
knowledge on how to rebuild that years work. Was it fair or ethical, no,
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Web Logs, Blogs and the Art of Blogging
The ongoing growth of Blogs and RSS feeds |
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Podcasting - is this lillypad tossing for toads?
We see the
commercials on TV, hear them on the radio, read them
in newspapers and flyers and see the images and
product on the internet and in stores.
iPod. A little device that
can store more audio than you can listen to in a
week or more. A system that has an mp3 player
software and a database to organize all recorded
content.
There are other devices
that do this also but, iPod is the recognized name
for most.
Why do I bring this up?
Podcasting.
I am going to share some
material from Wikipedia on this subject since there
is so much on this topic.
Before I do, I will
mention this. Podcasting is not just for iPods.
Blogs and RSS are becoming more useful and
integrated with podcasting and software is available
for you to play podcasts right on your computer.
Ok, from Wikipedia:
"Podcasting is a blanket
term used to describe a collection of technologies
for automatically distributing audio and video
programs over the internet via a publish and
subscribe model. Podcasting enables independent
producers to create self-published, syndicated
"radio shows," and gives broadcast radio or
television programs a new distribution method.
In the podcasting model,
the publisher publishes a list of programs in a
special format, known as a "feed", on the web. A
user who wants to see or hear the podcast subscribes
to the feed in special "podcatching" software (a
type of aggregator), which periodically checks the
feed and automatically downloads new programs as
they become available. Typically, the podcatching
software also transfers the program to a desktop or
portable media player.
Most podcatching software
facilitates copying podcasts to portable music
players. Any digital audio player or computer with
audio-playing software can play podcasts. From the
earliest RSS-enclosure tests in 2000-2001, feeds
have been used to deliver video files as well as
audio. By 2005 some aggregators and mobile devices
could receive and play video, but the "podcast" name
remained most associated with audio.
"Podcasting" is a
portmanteau that combines the words "broadcasting"
and "iPod." The term can be misleading since neither
podcasting nor listening to podcasts requires an
iPod or any portable player, and no broadcasting is
required.
Aware of that misleading
association from the beginning, some writers have
suggested alternative names or reinterpretations of
the letters "p-o-d", without winning much of a
following.[1] One little-used alternative is
"blogcasting", which implies content based on, or
similar in format to, blogs. Another is
"audioblogging." "
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I'll cover in the next
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how this can be beneficial to your business.
To technology and success.
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Can It Be True?
That even with the Age of Technology Business is Still About
Relationships.
Are we finally finding out it still requires good
traditional business etiquette and ethics to gain huge
rewards.
That in deed though the Internet was to be the super highway
to wealth and early retirement.
That many are finding that it is still all about the many
years of relationship
building and earned trust built with others.
That it is more needed today than at any other time due to
the great doors to the world that the internet has opened to
have a successful business both on the web or off.
With the advent of the PC it has caused a somewhat false
sense of anonymity and many have fallen into that trap and a
lack luster regard for traditional business protocols.
Relationships in all areas of life are still required and
essential to truly take your life and business to the next
level.
It has been said many times that people buy from people they
know and trust.
Then why is it that so many have gotten away from the idea
that they don’t have to be bound by the many years of proven
success.
With all the hype and twice the lack of integrity.
We see thousands upon thousands of businesses that fail to
honor these laws of tried and tested wealth principals of
building relationships, with their customers that are based
upon personal service and their repeat business at the
center of them.
If we take a closer look at the truly large organizations
then we begin to see the trends that have always prevailed.
These really huge companies have continued or gotten back to
the personal relationship building skills that are required
to create and maintain client loyalty and burgeoning repeat
sales.
People are always looking for an easier way to do things,
and that is true.
However, some things never change and those in particular
are the needs for feeling important to those we do business
with and most definitely valued to say the least.
I have personally seen several great ideas truly ruined
because those that were involved placed greed for the all
mighty dollar above all else.
In doing this they have hurt a lot of innocent people and in
some cases destroyed their lives.
While all they had to do was slow down and respect the laws
of business that had been tried and tested for centuries.
The Primary Business Rule is.
The Customer is King and Queen and if you are not treating
them as Royalty and cultivating a relationship someone else
will and soon you have no business at all.
I once read a sign in a store and thought it awesome. It has
stuck in my mind to this day.
“Through these doors walks the most precious people on Earth
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They are our Customers.
They are not here to serve us but rather to be served with
respect and great joy.
They are a not a burden nor do they take to much time.
They are the only reason we are here.
So let it be your motto that “How may I help you?” is not a
thing we say but that we show by our attitudes and actions
with these the Greatest People on Earth Our Customers.
They should always look forward to visiting us often and
feel like they are a part of our family, our lives and
always valued here.
It was signed by some one you may all know the late Sam
Walton of Wal-Mart .
It was posted on the door coming out of the employees area
and in their locker room and break room In Bentonville,
Arkansas.
That is all for this time I will say so long for now and
remember that relationships lead to trust and great returns
when we understand why they exist and how to use them.
For those interested Dr King operates a Totally
Complimentary to Join Website were He presents Weekly
Tele-seminars each Wednesday at 7:30 PM CST combined with
live Mentoring and Coaching of the group as a whole.
Success Training Seminars with the Greatest Mentors and
Coaches of all times on Saturday Evenings at 6:00 PM CST
from the massive Vault Of Success University that has a 24/7
access to more than 50 of the greatest of all time.
Last week the guests all were taken back to the great Earl
Nightingales teachings called “Lead the Field” and the
seminar planned for 1 hour was still going strong two and a
half hours later due to the overwhelming discussion that
followed and Dr King being the truly caring servant he is to
all those present.
His daily Mentoring and Coaching of many to Find and Awaken
the Winner in each of themselves and to share it with all
they meet in life to reach for their dreams and desires has
had life changing results for those that follow him.
Many who have attended have said if you have not been you
have just got to go one time and you will return again and
again trying not to miss a single offering of this wise and
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Here is the link below
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