Marketing a business can be fun, exciting and creative. It can also be very frustrating and expensive if one doesn’t know what outcome they are looking for or how to evaluate cost effective methods of marketing.
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Marketing a business can be fun, exciting and creative. It can also be very frustrating and expensive if one doesn’t know what outcome they are looking for or how to evaluate cost effective methods of marketing.
Over the years people have come to know me for my unique ability to develop low cost and no cost strategies to market and promote a business, product or service.
Strategies that have realized incredible returns.
Some of my successes have included:
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I don’t share this to impress anyone, rather to impress upon you when using the right strategies for your market, you can realize some incredible results.
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“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty-pound ought and six, result misery”.
These words from Charles Dickens popular novel David Copper Field summarize frugality accurately.
In a layman’s term frugality is thriftiness or the quality of being economical with available resources.
Adapting frugality is more than just a habit, in fact it is a mindset. While saying that, it is a mindset which can be adapted with practice and patience.
It is especially important for those who are in the process of paying down debt. The mathematics of frugality are straightforward as every dime you save can go to paying down your debt.
This in turn means that you can pay down your debt much faster and be done with it much quicker.
There are numerous ways in which you can adapt frugality and be more sensible with how you spend your resources.
1. Creating a 30-Day purchase list; Impulse buying can prove very costly but it can be curbed. One way of doing that is to create a 30-day buying list.
If you want to buy something other than a true necessity (medicine, food) just put it on the list with the date you want to purchase it. The rule is not to buy anything (apart from necessities) for 30 days after purchasing that item.
2. Carpooling or taking the bus; Carpooling is a major money saver, plus it helps you to socialize more. Find a friend or a neighbor who lives and works in the same vicinity as yours.
our rides will be more joyous and economical. If carpooling does not work, simply take a bus and enjoy a stress-free ride to work.
3. Quit smoking; Apart from being bad for health smoking is a money vampire. On an average, a smoker loses close to $1500+/- in an year (Depending on habits).
In monetary terms smoking is a two-ended spear. It hurts the smoker in the present (monetary cost of purchasing tobacco) and in the future when the smoker must deal with the additional health costs.
Quit smoking and live a simpler and healthier life.
As mentioned earlier, frugality is a mindset therefore starting with a few of these habits will enlighten up your mind. You will start seeing room for frugality in every aspect of your life.
The shift in your view will help you save even more money. This is good news for your debt payment ambitions because it means that you are well on your way to pay down your debt more quickly.
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Before making the decision to embark on an Internet marketing campaign you should carefully consider your target audience.
The Internet is used widely around the world but whether or not members of your target audience are likely to utilize the Internet to research or purchase the products or services you sell is not guaranteed…
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This is an extremely difficult question to answer because there are so many complex factors involved. Specifically they techniques you employ in your Internet marketing campaign as well as the execution of these techniques can determine whether or not Internet marketing will work for your business.
Additionally, the likelihood of your target audience using the Internet and responding to your marketing efforts should also be considered into the equation. This article will outline the potential for success in an Internet marketing campaign.
Before making the decision to embark on an Internet marketing campaign you should carefully consider your target audience. The Internet is used widely around the world but whether or not members of your target audience are likely to utilize the Internet to research or purchase the products or services you sell is not guaranteed.
This is significant because investing a great deal of time, effort and money into Internet marketing when your target audience is not likely to respond to these efforts is not worthwhile.
Conducting market research can do a great deal to help you determine whether or not you should invest in an Internet marketing campaign for your business. This step is very important because it will give you a good indication of whether or not you should even begin marketing your business on the Internet.
Hiring a firm specializing in market research is recommended because they can conduct this research quickly and efficiently and will likely gain a great deal of valuable information as a result of their research efforts. If they determine your business can benefit from an Internet marketing campaign, it is time to start thinking about how you want to advertise your business online.
Again, seeking the help of professionals can be an extremely worthwhile investment. If you are not well versed in the industry of Internet marketing, hiring a firm with a great deal of expertise in this industry can be very helpful.
They can assist you by consulting with you to determine which marketing strategies will be most effective, designing advertisements for your campaign, helping you to orchestrate your Internet marketing campaign and evaluating the results of marketing efforts to determine which strategies are working and which are not.
The potential for success with an Internet marketing campaign is virtually limitless. The success you enjoy is only limited by your ability to promote your products and services and execute effective marketing strategies. Some of the marketing strategies you may wish to employ may include optimizing your website for relevant search terms, placing links to your website judiciously on the Internet, writing and publishing e-newsletters and utilizing affiliates to promote your website.
Search engine optimization (SEO) is one of the most important aspects of any Internet marketing campaign. SEO is so important because it dictates the ranking of your website on popular search engines.
Internet users value these results and are not likely to seek out websites which do not rank well with search engines. Conversely, high ranking websites can enjoy a great deal of increased website traffic as a result of these rankings.
Inbound links to your website are also important in Internet marketing. Inbound links are links on other websites which direct users to your website. These links are important in an Internet marketing campaign.
First of all many search engines factor inbound links into their ranking algorithms which means inbound links can result in higher search engines rankings. Also, these links can be used directly by website users to access your website. This means you can gain traffic directly from these links.
Another way to enjoy a successful Internet marketing campaign is to orchestrate an affiliate marketing campaign. Affiliates are essentially website owners who place a banner ad on their website to direct traffic to your website.
Typically, affiliates are only compensated when the advertisement on their website produces a desired effect such as enticing the users to click through the advertisement, resulting in a sale or resulting in another action such as filling out a survey or registering with your website. Affiliate marketing can not only be highly effective but it is also cost effective because you only pay the affiliates when they produce results.
Most young entrepreneurs around us today have created for themselves an offline venture which can fetch them some little money and with this the have utilize their idea and skills.
For you to become a successful entrepreneur your passion most speak for you and not just the way you rush to get the money daily.
For you to earn more you need to add more value to their life just like the way you fuel your machinery you will surely benefit from it that is how your idea works too.
Earning additional income simply mean creating another source of earning money daily it could be anything but it must be what you love more.
Over the years I have love the online business that fetch me some little money to my offline and this online activity that fetch me some money is blogging.
Although blogging is not the only business that can fetch you more we have other reliable business to get involve and you won’t regret it.
logging can be defined as the process of updating g you web blog daily just like a dairy or an, arena where your visitors can come and read some useful content.
Blogging has been the big money niche online over the years and does not require much stress or coding. Most people get frustrated of blogging because the fail to understand how it work.
You need to be consistent and also your articles must be unique for your reader to read daily
5 Top Things Baby Boomers Must Do Before Starting a Home Based Business
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Leaving the security of a job with established 401(k) plans, health insurance or other benefits can create a real tug of war for baby boomers who want to pursue their dreams of owning their own business
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5 Top Things Baby Boomers Must Do Before Starting a Home Business
Leaving the security of a job with an established 401(k) plan, health insurance or other benefits can create a real tug of war for baby boomers who want to pursue their dreams of owning their own business.
Analyze Your Exit Strategy
At the time of this writing, the youngest of the baby boomers are turning 42 and the oldest are turning 60. No matter where you fall into this group, analyzing and preparing your exit strategy from your job will be crucial to your long-term success as a home business entrepreneur.
Do you have adequate savings? If you’re married, will you be able to participate in your spouse’s health insurance?
Create a Financial Plan
How much is your salary now? What are your fixed, variable and frivilous expenses? Creating a solid plan so that you and your family will know exactly what the financial picture will be until your business gets off the ground and starts generating revenue.
Choosing a Business Model and Legal Entity
There are several business models to choose from; home party plans, consulting, and affiliate marketing to name a few.
You have to make the decision based on your personality and what you are best-suited for. Choosing a legal entity for your business should be discussed with a tax accountant or your attorney. Options are sole proprietor, LLC or Subchapter S- Corp.
Set Business Benchmarks
You wouldn’t travel across the country without a road map, your business is the same. Setting financial and business-building benchmarks will help you to create a focused plan that will help you to reach your success.
Get a Physical
What does getting a physical have to do with your business? Once you leave your job, most likely your health insurance will change and as unfair as it may be, trying to get new health insurance when in your 40’s, 50’s or 60’s can be difficult.
While pursuing your dreams of a home business is something you are probably very passionate about, if you do not have good health to enjoy the rewards of your efforts, then not much else is important.
The baby boomer generation is like no other before it or after it. Technically, we are considered middle-aged, but we are anything but middle-aged in mind, body and spirit.
We know there is more meaning to life than a commute to an unrewarding 9-5 job, but there are also important steps we must take first. Planning and preparing for your home business now will lead to less headache’s later on.
5 Tips To Make Your Home-Based Business Not Appear “Homemade”
One of the toughest obstacles we face when working from home is making it appear that we’re not, in fact, working from home.
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When clients call and there are kids screaming in the background, pets barking and meowing and timers going off for laundry and cooking, it doesn’t appear professional. So, how can we appear more professional?
Tip # 1: Have a clean, professional website with your own domain name.
Do not, under any circumstances, have a “free” website hosted on anoth…
One of the toughest obstacles we face when working from home is making it appear that we’re not, in fact, working from home.
When clients call and there are kids screaming in the background, pets barking and meowing and timers going off for laundry and cooking, it doesn’t appear professional. So, how can we appear more professional?
Do not, under any circumstances, have a “free” website hosted on another domain name with other company’s ads all over the place!
This is one of the biggest no-no’s out there! Decide, instead, that in order to appear professional, you must invest in a professional website.
If you aren’t skilled in web design, hire someone to do it for you or barter with another home-based business owner who does do web design. Choose a domain name that is closely related to your business’s name.
Tip # 2:
Invest in a separate phone line or in a distinctive ring tone for that line.
Most phone companies offer a plan where you can have two or more numbers ringing to one phone line with distinctive rings.
It’s usually better to have a separate phone line in your office, in order to avoid after-hours phone calls from clients. This also enables you to “shut the door” on work when you’re not there. Use a professional voicemail message or answering machine message and check the messages often.
Tip # 3: Think about how to display your business address.
How are you going to display your physical location? There are a few different options available. Most home-based business owners will say that they accept meetings by appointment only, to discourage clients from “dropping in” while they’re still in their jammies and haven’t had their morning coffee yet.
If you don’t want your customers to know you work from home, two other options are using a P.O. Box or attaching a “Suite” number to your address. If you use a P.O. Box, you will have to give your home address out for packages and anything they want to courier to you, but it does provide anonymity and discourages drop-in visitors.
If you attach a suite number to your address in order to make it appear a “business office,” make sure you mention to your postal carrier that you’re running a home-based business and that’s why there’s a different address on there.
Tip # 4: Define your office etiquette rules to your family.
What are the rules going to be for your kids and family members when you’re on the phone or meeting with a client?
Are you going to set a timer so they know when you’ll be available? Are you going to have set office hours and not meet with clients outside of those times? Are you going to have a play space in your office? This is especially important if you’re going to have small kids playing nearby (quietly) while you work.
Tip # 5: Invest in professional-quality promotional products and marketing pieces.
Don’t print off business cards from your printer, unless you have a top-of-the-line printer. Invest in professional-quality business cards and brochures.
If you can, have some letterhead printed up, too, for contracts, letters to prospective clients and any correspondence that is business-related.
If you’re printing promotional products like T-shirts or apparel, coffee mugs, mouse pads, etc., check the quality of the products put out by the printer you wish to use. Don’t just “price-hunt,” look around for the best quality and invest in your business.
