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What you need to know before you start!

Being an entrepreneur is very appealing but not everyone can become one.  One of the quickest and easiest ways to become a successful entrepreneur is by working at home through a home-based entrepreneur business.

Firstly, you need to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses.  Aside from the evaluation process, you must know how to plan, organize, staff and control. As an entrepreneur these are your responsibilities. In order to be successful you must be able to work alone and remember as the boss all business decisions will be made by you.

There are always business problems and risks. Risks go hand in hand with any business undertaking.  However, you can reduce the risks by choosing the best home-based entrepreneur business that will work for you.

Entrepreneurs are known to be self-starters.  Organizing your time is a difficult task but of utmost importance. This is your business and you are responsible for it at all times.

The next thing to consider is that you may encounter demanding customers, moody vendors, and an unreliable staff.  Running an online business is all about your attitude and character.  As mentioned earlier, entrepreneurs are risk-takers, self-starters, and know how to deal with different kinds of people.

Decision making is another trait that a successful entrepreneur should posses. Some situations are filled with pressures but despite the pressures, you still need to make an informed and wise decision.

To be an effective online business entrepreneur,  you must have lots of energy and superior work ethic.  Owning an online business may mean working late hours and on weekends.  However, you must not be pressured of your tasks. View them as challenges and strive even harder. Your efforts will be rewarded once you see the profits rolling in.

If you know the responsibilities of an entrepreneur, then you can assess if you can become successful in an online business. Working at home through a home-based entrepreneur business requires dedication and hard work. You must be able to monitor your finances, tasks, inventory, work schedules, and many others.

Good luck and may your chosen home-based business become a success.

Thinks Big. Act. Make Your Business Dreams Come True!

HelenaZ
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Entrepreneurship is defined as exhibiting one’s vision, taking action, and pursuing that vision as a goal.  This means getting your butt out of that couch, doing something spectacular rather than being a couch potato. Here are some attitudes an entrepreneur should positively have:

Optimism – is the propensity to look at the bright side of any situation and expect the best possible outcome.  Optimism is powerfully motivational and is one of the cornerstones of success.

Creativity – is thinking outside the box. Do you have the power or ability to invent something unique or to see things from another perspective?

Stability – either physical, mental, social or emotional, a leader must possess a stable life which means you can handle tough situations during tough times

Charismatic – The potential to be a charismatic leader is within you.  A good entrepreneur must have magic glistening in his eyes and convey enchanting words to get hold of that convincing power no one care or dare resist.

Risk-taker – as someone beginning his own dream. Are you prepared to engage in exciting, risky pursuits? When opportunity strikes nothing must hold you back.

Energetic – suggests sustained enthusiastic activity. Do whatever it takes and your enthusiasm never diminishes.

Time bound – an entrepreneur is always on the top of every innovation.  By looking at your past, you can predict your future.

Beginners have to stay positive about their endeavors.  You must be very observant of what your environment lacks and needs.

Think Big. Act. Make Your Dreams Come True!

HelenaZ
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I like to take this opportunity to tell you more about Claude and me.

Why tell you more about us? We had a heated discussion about how to build trust!

I want to send you emails, Claude said “NO WAYS!”

So the mystery remains! How do we build TRUST? Because that is what this opportunity is all about! In order for us to help you we need YOU to interact with us and to trust us.

I can make a story up at how good and wonderful we are, but that is not US!!

I call Claude “mister nice guy.” I have never ever met somebody so totally absorb in his work and dedicated to help other people. You just have to experience this to understand what I’m talking about. So Please call Claude if you want some serious help! You absolutely won’t regret it! Ooooohh not just now – he is taking a well deserved break for a few days!

Now me I’m completely the opposite. As an artistic soul I’m intrigue with the possibilities the net is offering. I do have different offline businesses but they are not any more challenging enough. The biggest draw back of the net (for me) is the fact that I cannot see the person I’m dealing with.

To talk to, to listen to and see the person I’m dealing with, I can make an assessment of this person’s needs and preferences. Not so with an online business – one is dealing with a blank screen, a dark void.

So PLEASE, I invite you to contact us. We are ordinary people with the desire to help others.  Tell us about your difficulties and desires, your love and pain, your losses and your gain.  Let us help you, start your business and the rest of your life on solid principles.  LETS TALK!!!

There is NO such thing as instant success and the success on the net is all about learning new innovative ways to better yourself and your business!

Let the joy of what you’re doing overflow into positive energy.

Think Big. Act. Make Your Business Dreams Come True

Helenaz

Skype: hzwarts

We had sign ups, the system is working well and everything is looking rosy.

Now the hard work starts with all the marketing.  As part of our marketing strategy we just launched a whole bunch of new banners. There are now 12 banners of all shapes and sizes.  Below is a few to give you a taste of the new stuff.

Also to our great joy we have to share with you the following: We start with an Alexa Ranking of 3 000 000 and today our ranking has already dropped to 814 000. That was an absolute joy this morning when we check the rankings and got this absolutely fantastic surprise.

That is just to show that the WordPress Sales Page is really doing its job. No question about it! Here are the stats for the past 5 days Just remember we have done no advertising on this sales page because it is our sample.

Here is the link: SalesPage
Hits (without bots): Hits 300; Unique visits 53; Hits (bots) Hits 39; Unique visits 10;

Now this one is the one we use in advertising and these stats are for only 3 DAYS! Here is the link: Business. Hits (without bots) Hits 858;  Unique visits 729;  Hits (bots) Hits 223;  Unique visits 26

As you can see it is absolutely amazing!!

You need to ask yourself the question.

“Can I afford not to have this sales page?”

Think Big. Act. Make Your Dreams Come True

HelenaZ
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Twitter: helenazwarts
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We have just discovered an amazing Web Site Design Course.  Are you sick and tired of endlessly searching the Internet for codes the professionals use for special effects?

Look No Further…
Web Design Mastery is quickly becoming the “Bible” for anyone
interested in professional web site design…

If you’re marketing a product or service on the Internet, a professional looking website is an absolute essential part of your success.

Although learning HTML is the first step, you’ll find that most HTML tutorials only provide you with very basic information. You’re then forced to spend countless hours trying to achieve a certain design and locate special effect codes.

Until Now… Web Design Mastery is a complete Internet Marketers Reference Guide.  Not only will you learn how to design a professional website, but you’ll also learn in the easiest possible fashion — with hundreds of copy & paste codes.

Inside, you’ll discover…

Web Design Mastery - Main Volume An Internet marketer’s copy & paste reference guide. This ebook provides you with a complete step by step guide to designing a professional website.

WebMaster’s Reference Charts Five reference charts to assist you in designing your website:

Section 1:  HTML Chart – Commonly used HTML codes, including names, tags and examples.

Section 2:  CSS Chart – CSS properties including background, border, classification, font, margin, padding and text.

Section 3:  Color Chart – 216 Safe color chart containing each
color, the hexadecimal values and the RGB (Red, Green, Blue) Values.

Section 4:  Symbols Chart – Special characters and symbols that can be used within your HTML.

Section 5:  Troubleshooting Chart – Common web development
problems including graphics, text, tables, HTML, forms, JavaScript and CGI Scripts.

Advanced Web Design Step by step tutorials that will take you through the entire design process of a sample web page template:

Section 1: Web Page Template Design – A six part, step by step guide to designing a web page template.

Section 2: Image Dicing / Manipulating – A step by step tutorial that will assist you in dicing and manipulating images.

Section 3: Image Rollovers – A step by step tutorial to assist you in creating image rollover effects.

Section 4: Advanced Tables / Codes – Several example tables and codes that can be used to spice up your web page.

Section 5: Email Forms/Opt-In Lists – A tutorial to assist you in developing an opt-in list, publication and form.

This is really the ultimate design software… A detailed and easy way to become a master in web design, without tears and without a tedious and long learning curve.

Think Big. Act. Make Your Dreams Come True

Helenaz

Skype: hzwarts

SEO is basically about two things: links and content.

If you can get a lot of both, then you’re all set. Again, it will be a huge help if you have original content.

How do you get good quality inbound links? The best linking strategy is this:  find some sort of portal where you can put up content, and link back to your site after writing an article.

Use your best keyword when linking back to your site. Don’t just say, “For more info, click here.” Use a keyword phrase, for example, if your site was on red racing cars… “A good site for information on red racing cars.”

Here are some examples of sites you could use to post content with backlinks.

A Squidoo lens;  A blogger;  A hub on Hubpages.com;  An article on ezinearticles.com,  goarticles.com,  Gather.com;  MySpace blog

Don’t just post links to your homepage;  if you have a blog,  link to specific posts as well as your main bog URL.  If you own a multi-page website,  link to relevant subpages off the homepage.

Now posting content with back links on those sites alone could get you through a whole SEO career, so don’t take this part lightly. Putting up content on these sites also serves a double purpose, you can get a lot of direct incoming traffic form these links.

If people like your article or portal, then they’ll click through your links, and it won’t be just search engine spiders coming through.

Look at blogs related to the topic your site is on. This way, you can stay up to date on your topic, you can see what other people think, and best of all, you can comment on their blogs with a link to your site.  It’s a bad idea to just put up a comment with a link to your site;  that’s spam.  But if you take the time to just skim a post and write a comment addressing the post with a link at the end, people appreciate that, and sometimes they’ll even check out your blog (always a bonus).

If you want to rank for a certain term, make sure you mention that keyword at least a few pages on the page you’re trying to rank in the search engines.  Also, try to use that keyword, or a variant, when linking back to the page.

And that is basically a very broad overview about seo, but in essence it all stays the same. Unique, quality content and good relevant links to your site.

HelenaZ
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I assuming you know nothing about internet marketing, traffic building, SEO, and social marketing. This should provide you with ample material and information to begin and boost traffic to your site.

Why Do People Even Come to Your Site?
The internet is a truly amazing technology. It allows us to share information with others, and, more importantly, to make money from the comfort of home.  But before you can make any money, you’re going to need people to come to your site; traffic.

If you’re new to building traffic, it may seem like a really big & confusing world.  It’s hard to know where to start, and even if you have been trying to build traffic for a long time, you will probably always looking for more ways to increase the numbers.

Generating masses of traffic really isn’t a magical thing that only a few people know how to do. The formula for traffic Generation is: Unique, Quality content + Lots of Hard Work = Lots of Quality Traffic

One thing that can’t be stress enough is the need for quality content.  This is the most important point to traffic generation.  If something is interesting, unique, and informative, people will want to read it..

People are looking for information, and you give them what they’re looking for, then all you have to do is get the word out about your content, and people will come.  If you have a unique and quality product, all you have to do is tell people about that and they’ll be happy to buy.

The Two Basic Traffic Sources of the Internet. These are the search engines, and the social sites. These two methods of traffic generation are becoming more and more integrated.

Search engines rank sites according to content and links.  Social sites give out TONS of links.  It’s a pretty simple conclusion that social sites are a major benefit to SEO.

Now, on to some specific strategies for building traffic via SEO, and more importantly, Social Sites.

Social Sites Strategies

If you really know nothing about social sites, it can be very hard to know where to even begin, let alone WHAT to begin. The world of social sites is exploding at an exponential rate.

(1)     Invest in the future. Here is my long term investment strategy: become an authority on small, relatively new sites. Why? Because the internet and the number of people who use social sites is expanding so quickly, in a year or two,  small sites have the potential to be as big as stumble upon, digg, del.icio.us, and reddit are now.
(2)     Build a large network of friends. The best strategy in social sites is to build a large network of friends. Once you build a network of friends, you have your authority spread out through a site; you essentially have roots that help you to grow the tree of traffic to your site.  Generally, the more friends you have, the more internal links you have planted somewhere in the site,  giving you more authority in the eyes of the site.
(3)     How do you get your stuff shared or bookmarked? You give people good content.
Here are 5 things that people tend to bookmark or share: -

Funny or disgusting. Your average internet surfer is probably looking for a way to pass the time. People like to laugh, and they like to be grossed out.  If you give him entertainment, he’ll support you. Truly useful information. If you offer useful, fresh information to someone, he will appreciate that and support you.                         Bashing people, brand-names, and companies. People can get very emotional about companies or websites or people they dislike. Get people to identify with your article.
Controversial topics. People can get very emotional, and will many times support something just because they feel strongly about it.
Breaking news. News stories that are the first to tell about a major event that people care about also go up very fast in bookmarking and sharing sites.
(4)     If you have good content, how can you get people to find it? The nice thing about the social sharing sites is that they are viral. If one person likes it, they’ll tell his two friends, who will then tell their two friends… etc. etc.

First of all, utilize the friends that you have on that given website (this is where having a large network of friends comes in handy).  Send a shout out, or leave a comment somewhere so that your content gets exposed directly on that website.

Next, you’ll want to utilize any social networking sites your a part of (i.e. facebook, MySpace, bebo, etc).  Send a message to your friends and tell them briefly about the site.  It will give you more traffic exposure.

Another thing you should do is make it very easy to bookmark or share your page; put up buttons directly on your page if possible.

And that is a mouthful. Never try to do everything instantly. Build daily and patiently. You will eventually reap the results. Never give up.

HelenaZ
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This is by no means an extensive guide on blogging. It just gives you guidelines on how to start and to generate traffic with your blog to build your business.

As in all ventures you need to do extensive reading and research to become a true master. And that is the path that you want to go, because this business is in your hands. It will be as successful as your effort to make it on the net.

How to Blog:
A blog is an easy way of publishing your thoughts to the web

A Blog consists of a:-
subject or header
subject or body
they usually have comments – a way for readers to respond to what’s been said.
usually they have a time and date

Why Should You Write A Blog?
You might use blogging as you might a photo album, to record your memories.  Or as way of connecting to other people who share the same interests or business goals as you.

Recognition – it is a chance to develop a following and stand out as a subject area expert. 

Employment opportunities – if you love writing it is also a way to build a resume of your writing skills that may lead to other opportunities.

Revenue – there is a very real chance to make money from your online writing.  Either directly through advertising or indirectly through spin-off publications.

For business owners this is absolutely essential.  Search engines favour websites that are updated regularly.  Blogging is a great way to make sure that your content is always fresh. This gives you a much better shot of appearing high in the results of Google search.

WordPress is very popular due to the fact that it has an enormous amount of Open Source.  It comes with free support from its active community, and a huge array of free themes and plugins to enhance your blog with.

“Does your blog have potential?”

Before starting, go out and learn the competition. You have chosen your niche, now go out and visit as many blogs and websites as possible to see if there’s any room left for you. You don’t want to do a blog on something that is already overstocked. You want to create something extra unique.

Make Your Blog Content Stand Out
The title is the most important part of the blog! Why’s that? Your title will either entice a reader to choose your blog above someone else’s. This is the make or break point.

You can think of the title as a label your article in the unlimited virtual library that the Internet is.

Once you have a great title the next thing worth thinking about is what happens when your reader actually arrives at your website.
Find Free or Cheap Images to Use in Your Blog
To spice up the appearance of your blog you need images that will compliment your content.

Dreamstime is one of my favorite places. Have also a look at 123RF. They have some beautiful free images.

Find More Blogging Resources…

Once you have a great looking blog up and running, you might start thinking how you can spruce up your design, start making money from your content, or making sure that you promote your content to as many people as possible.  Here is some useful links.

Promoting Your Blog:
Robin Good’s RSS 55 is a constantly updates list of directories that you can submit the RSS feed of your blog to, further building your readership
Create Easy to Promote Content – Chris Garrett
Read this article on how you can use micro blogging platform Twitter to publicize your blog
“Pinging” by Marjolein Hoekstra explains the concept to “ping” blog directories every time you post to increase your visibility on the web

Monetizing Your Blog – Here is great reads to turn your blog into a commercial enterprise.
Darren Rowse’s – Earn money from your blog
Robin Good’s – How To Make Money With Your Website
Robin and Livia Iacolare’s - Collection of blog monetization options

My hope is that this piece will insire you to great hights and a wonderful online journey.

HelenaZ
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