Archive | December, 2019

If you are interested in starting a business, or taking over one, you face a daunting task that carries a level of risk and excitement not possible in the ’employee’ world.

If the financial independence of self-employment appeals to you – no boss, no income limits as to time and wage, and the ability to let your personal drive determine your compensation – then you will no doubt be eagerly going over the many options available to release you from your current job.

However, the rush of financial excitement must be tempered by the necessary cost of time, money and effort in properly setting yourself up independently.

Despite income claims made by business opportunity companies, or competing businesses, you must be ready to accept the reality of not seeing personal income for several months – or even years.

Starting a self-employed business on the side, while keeping regular employment as your financial security, is a wise method of ensuring your income.

Another option is to have substantial savings that permit you the freedom to pursue your dreams unencumbered with other employment. However, the savings must also be capable of carrying the costs of developing a business along with providing for your material needs.

Do you also recognize the time that is required in starting your own business? In some ways it is almost unnecessary to bring up the point since your passion will likely drive you to spend many hours in your pursuits. If you have other obligations; family, job, social etc. then you will have to consider if you CAN devote the time needed to get your business off the ground.

Having discussed both money and time, you must recognize that there is much more effort extended BEFORE a business is profitable than at any other time in your business. Yes, once you are getting work and are satisfied with the income level you may be very busy indeed but you will then be compensated for it. When you are still cultivating your business – marketing, doing free jobs, searching for clients and customers – you may not be seeing any income, or a very meager one, which makes your EFFORTS seem immense.

Do not falter! If you come to the point when you are working your hardest and doing everything your business requires but still not seeing monetary results, you may hit a psychological wall. This is where truly entrepreneurial individuals see an obstacle to overcome as opposed to a dead-end to their hard work. Passion for their work and the strong desire to work for themselves overcomes any perceived barriers and moves them to keep going and ultimately becoming very successful.

By persevering you will certainly see the fine fruits of your labors and prove to yourself and others that the benefits of self-employment far outweigh the mediocre status quo of the typical worker’s daily grind.

You might have heard from others that Facebook marketing is able to boost your business. It is easy to get started using this tool. This article outlines all you should know to present a successful campaign on Facebook.

Decide why you want to have a Facebook page. As with other kinds of marketing to maximize the returns for the business, you must understand why you’re marketing in the fist place. You also need to define your marketing goals and create a corresponding marketing strategy. You must create your Facebook page with your marketing strategy in mind.

Add Facebook sharing buttons on your website. Most blog platforms will automatically integrate these elements but you can easily find the code needed to add these buttons by visiting your Facebook settings. These buttons are a great way to encourage your readers to share your content while reminding them about your Facebook campaign.

Use the custom tabs on Facebook for greater efficiency. With these tabs, your Facebook page’s information will be more organized, which ultimately helps your business. For instance, if you have a contest going, a tab for that can be included.

It is important to have a lot of followers when using Facebook as a marketing tool. This means that you shouldn’t waste time really marketing services, products or offering promotions until at least 5,000 followers are achieved. Once you hit that threshold, you’ll see that your conversion rate heads skyward.

Look into a Facebook advertisement to sell your product. They can be customized to target folks of given ages or gender categories. If you have a budget, do as much as you want. There isn’t a commitment, either. Your ad can be stopped at any time.

Never buy Facebook fans to make you look bigger than you are. It may be tempting to throw down some cash to buy your way in to big fan numbers, but it never turns out the way you want. Those hallow fans bring nothing to the table, and people who are in the business can see through this tactic in a heartbeat. It’s never worth it.

Do not forget to put contact information on your business’s Facebook page. This should include the same of your business, your phone number and the address of your business. If a person is interested in what they see on your Facebook page, it’s crucial that they have your contact information to learn more.

Post regularly on your Facebook page. Don’t just create your business page, make several posts the first day, and then stop posting for several months. Not keeping your page updated frequently shows your audience that you don’t care that much. If you need this Facebook page for your business, then stick to some kind of posting schedule.

Your goal for Facebook marketing is to increase the sale of your products. To keep you on track, set short term sales goals. Getting people to become a fan is a good thing, but ultimately, you want sales. If you’re not gleaning business, your strategy needs readjusting.

Cross-promote your Facebook page among the other social media sites in which you are active. Social media is much more than just Facebook, so make sure those on other networks are aware of your presence on the other social media networks. They may not realize that there’s a big conversation going on where they can get more involved!

You should be less hesitant about plunging into Facebook marketing now that you have read this piece. Log on to your Facebook and start using these tips right away. You will begin attracting more customer attention the sooner you get going with your efforts. Get started now!

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You might be thinking that you are not qualified to coach anybody on anything. After all, what kind of an expert are you to be telling others how to run their business or their life, right? Actually, the odds are you couldn’t be more wrong. I’ll show you WHY and HOW…

When we think of coaching, we think of it on a grand scale. For example, helping someone to turn their entire life around, or to start and run a brand new business from scratch.

But those are just two types of coaching and not what we’ll be talking about here.

When you get into online marketing, what is one of the first pieces of advice that you receive? To choose a particular niche, and then narrow that niche down to a profitable target market you can help.

Coaching can work the same way. Instead of trying to be all things to all people, or to teach someone every facet and nuance of starting a business from scratch, why not coach them on that one thing you are very, very good at?

Maybe you’re excellent at writing, or at getting ghost writing assignments. Maybe you are terrific at website building, or at SEO, or at getting traffic.

Or maybe your specialty has nothing to do with online marketing, but instead you are a master at meditation, or organizing your life, or at prioritizing or dealing with ADHD. There are infinite possibilities. And if you think about it for just a moment, you will realize that you are really, really good at a certain something that others want to learn.

It’s by getting so specific that you can become a very successful coach starting right now.

Maybe you are a master at deciphering a holy book. Or you are amazing at helping people over 50 lose weight and get fit. Maybe you’re terrific at helping people find their sense of direction in life and discovering what they are meant to do. Or perhaps you can help someone present their business in a way that makes it stand apart from all others. The list is endless.

What skills do you have? Do you want to share them with others? Would you enjoy honing those skills even more as you teach them? Because when you become a coach, a side benefit is you become even more skilled and proficient on your subject. You get better and better at teaching it. And thus you can charge more and more as you progress and as you get positive testimonials from your clients.

Getting back to the online marketing realm, forget about trying to coach a new marketer into building their 6 figure business and instead focus on just one aspect, such as adding 1,000 subscribers a week to their list, or on creating amazing content, or on using social media to become a star in their niche.

There are tremendous gaps in the coaching realm, and if you can fill one of those gaps you can get more clients than you can even handle.

To do: Once you have chosen your coaching niche, you might create a simple information product on the topic that sells for a low price of perhaps $10 or $25. Then offer your coaching as the upsell.

Write guest posts and do interviews to talk about your specialty. Give lots of good info, but make it clear that if they don’t want to go it alone, you can coach them, too. Spread the word and those folks who need your coaching will step up to claim a spot before they all disappear.

Since the actual coaching can be done through Skype and email, you can coach anyone anywhere in the world.

And once you get really good at teaching your specialty, then you can create a big ticket course that teaches everything you would teach a coaching client. You can then sell this course for $100 to $1,000 as a alternative to your coaching services.

Don’t dismiss this concept thinking that you have nothing to offer. Worse case scenario, you might need to bone up on your skill before you start coaching. But one week of concentrated study can make you more of an expert on your topic than 99.9% of the people on the planet.

You can do this. You can become a coach. And it’s as simple as doing what every good marketer does – finding your specialty that appeals to a small but zealous segment of the market who want what you offer.

▶️ You must take ACTION! Be deliberate, calculated, and decisive.

▶️ Recognize the Opportunity (The Power of No Opportunity Wasted – N.O.W. )

▶️ Give Yourself Permission To Fail (Fail forward and get closer to your goals and what you are trying to achieve. Either Learn or Earn)

▶️ Embrace The Struggle (Success is a journey)

▶️“Picture” Your Success (Visualize your perfect day)

▶️ Control Your Fear (Successful people have a fear of regret, not failure. You have one shot at life, don’t live in fear of someone else’s dogma)

▶️ Be Willing To Do Whatever It Takes (You have one shot at life)

▶️ Be Willing To Out Work Everyone (This is your dream your fighting for)

▶️ Find And Focus On Your Passion (If you don’t love it then find someone that does)

▶️ Systems, Leverage, Automation, And Processes are how you build a business that gives you freedom (Own a business – not a job!)

▶️ Marketing And Sales Are Everything (You have to know how to create leads and sales. Learn the skills, which you can do here. A business that is not marketing is already dead) It’s not difficult.

▶️ Mentoring & Masterminding (Success is a skill that can be learned. You must put yourself in the right situation)

▶️ Surround Yourself With Success (A rising tide raises all ships. You have to be around people living the life that you desire)

▶️ Stop Listening To Broke People (All of your broke friends do not know what it takes to create success, wealth, or a life by design. Yet, they can have an impact on your outcome)

▶️ Burn Your Boats! (No Plan B success is in one direction and failure in another. Make it black and white. Give yourself no alternative but to move forward). Never Give Up!!!

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To your success! Joseph

Doing good deeds are said to be a reward in itself but if your way of showing kindness is by providing valuable answers to questions in LinkedIn, such actions can also drive targeted traffic to your website.

What is LinkedIn? LinkedIn is similar to a social networking site but with one marked difference and that’s its focus on building a professional network for its users. Simply put, LinkedIn encourage its users to create a network of trusted business contacts. Those that make up their network are referred to as Connections. You can add connections by invitation. Even non-members may be invited.

There are several benefits to enjoy just by joining LinkedIn. Firstly, your connections can help you find mutual acquaintances and arrange for introductions to people you wish to know and who belong to the network of one of your connections. LinkedIn can also be used to find jobs or work opportunities, hire trusted and highly capable individuals, find potential joint venture partners, capitalists, and angel investors, and achieve other business goals.

One key feature of LinkedIn is the LinkedIn Answers. Here, members get to ask and answer each other’s questions. They work similarly with Yahoo! and Google Answers but with just two notable differences. Firstly, most questions in LinkedIn are business-oriented. Secondly, people answering and asking questions can’t hide their identities since they have to be members before they can participate.

Tip #1 Work around the gated access approach by letting people know you through LinkedIn Answers. Because LinkedIn adheres to the EU Safe Harbor Privacy Framework, it does not allow members to contact each other if they don’t have either a pre-existing relationship or without the intervention of a mutual connection.

Thus, you won’t be able to make a request to just any person in the website. While you can send them messages however, this approach is frowned upon by many and considered intrusive. To work around these problems, all you need to do is answer key questions in LinkedIn Answers then wait till your answers are viewed by the right people. Once people become familiar with you, they might even take the initiative and ask for a connection with you.

Tip #2 Focus on providing quality answers rather than aiming for being able to produce the greatest quantity of answers each day. If you answer as many questions as you can in one day and this reflects badly on your responses, people might instead consider you as an irritating spammer rather than the expert you wish to portray yourself as. You need to build other people’s trust in you until they’re convinced of what you’re saying and become interested in visiting your website.

Tip #3 Always check LinkedIn Answers for updates on questions you’ve answered and wish to answer. One day wasted without checking LinkedIn Answers is a valuable amount lost!

Tip #4 When making recommendations, you should always include but never limit them to your website. Make it instead a part of one of the various websites included in your list of recommendations.

Tip #5 Use actual experience to reinforce your answers. In most cases, drawing from personal experience at work will more than do in making you believable and trustworthy. People also tend to like stories better when they learn that it’s true and awe-inspiring.

Republished with author’s permission http://jtmoreno.info

Marketing your business is a big job. You need to have techniques and methods that allow you to target your customers and clients in a way that fires them up for what you have to offer. Email marketing can be an excellent tool for your marketing strategy if you know how to use it. Here are some good tips to get you going.

You might need to try following up to your customers with an alert on a price increase. The email could include a link that says to act now in order to avoid this increase. The ending of the message could convince them to click on the link in order to understand all the details.

To help make sure you are sending out a good email marketing message, you need to test it in different formats beforehand. If you are sending out messages that your subscribers cannot read, then you will have unhappy customers who will not be able to view it. So make sure you are not wasting your time and your consumers with emails that will not properly show your message.

Use your email marketing campaign to offer customers a personal perspective of your business. Tell a story about how you got started and why you are passionate about your business while giving them a special promotion or offer. It will build trust in your clients and make them more apt to make a purchase from you.

The emails you send out as part of your marketing campaign should start out with a welcoming, personalized tone. Include the name of the recipient in the subject line and the opening of the message. This will make your customers feel more receptive to your message and be more likely to patronize your business.

Your job is only half finished once you hit the send button for your message. Follow up with any and all available analytic tools you have. Keep an eye out for the effectiveness of your message in terms of response. Follow up on anything that looks like it worked, like tailoring specific offers to sub-segments of your directory.

If you have to send out a long message, like a newsletter, use anchor tags near the top. Your subscriber should immediately see the headlines of the individual components of your message. This lets them jump straight to the ones that interest them instead of scrolling over the rest of it.

Make responding promptly to emails your top priority. If a potential customer reaches out to you through email, you ought to do everything you can to reply to them within one day. Waiting longer may cost you the customer, and they may mention the lack of response to others.

Email marketing can be a great opportunity to reach your clients and customers. If you implement the tips that this article has given you, you are likely to notice that your target market is more satisfied. Use the tips here to create a solid email marketing plan that ultimately raises your profits.

Republished with author’s permission http://jtmoreno.info

Everyone wants traffic to their website. It is not always easy to get more people to visit your site. There are ways to generate the desired traffic. It takes being creative and innovative sometimes; yet here are several ideas that will help.

1. Use Flickr. Social photo sharing drives people to your website. Add good tags to the photos so they attract the members on the site. Write a post in your blog and add the link to the Flickr site. The two sites will work in unison to draw traffic to your site.

2. Join a social bookmarking site. Share your favorite sites with other people sharing the same interests. Include your website. The social sites are like a specific search engine for many people. Add the bookmarks to your blog site to increase your internet traffic. Add interesting links to relevant products that the users are searching for. The more interesting links you have bookmarked the larger your following will become.

3. Start blogging. Join several sites where you comment on the blog posts. Add your URL with posting. Keep in mind you are commenting on your posts so remain focused on the topic since you do not want your posting to be deleted or considered as spam. You want to appear knowledgeable and someone others can trust.

4. Use forum signatures for promotion of your site with a live link. Use topics with great information and link them back to your sties. The more information you provide the readers the more they will rely on you for your new information. They will return repeatedly to read what you are posting.

5. Add widgets, themes, and extension to your site. There are many free additions that will enhance your site. Make your site interesting rather than the typical boring website. Make your site user friendly and exciting. Users want to see and experience new things, give it to them with your site.

6. Use your friends to know your business and have them help spread the word about your website. They can use their personal blogs, websites, and contacts to increase your website traffic.

7. Use industry specific sites to add links and networks with by contacting the websites. Many are willing to join the cause to help your build your website traffic.

8. Expand your exposure by adding podcasts to your site. Include audio and video that is interesting and intriguing.

9. Submit your feed to blog site directories. The feed will drive traffic from another site to your site.

Last but not least:

10. Submit articles to article directories, using the resource box to drive traffic to your site and establish strong backlinks to your site; for the Search Engines.

When you do your traffic building, it is not really about the traffic but offering what the readers want. When you reach out to them with information and products you service a valuable purpose.

Republished with author’s permission http://jtmoreno.info