Sunday, December 19, 2010

7 Legitimate Internet Businesses You Can Do, Without Quitting Your Jobs

What would you do if i could show you legitimate businesses that could fetch you millions would you be interested?
I ended the article by suggesting seven legitimate internet businesses you start without quitting your job. If you take your time to study how these businesses works and you are determined to make it, you will soon be generating the type of income that will make you want to quit your job without thinking twice about it.
Those seven businesses are:
• Affiliate Marketing
• Information Marketing
• Online Freelance Writing Business
• Website Design Business
• Domain Registration And Hosting Business
• Blogging Plus Pay Per Click Business
• Resell Right Business

Now let’s start dealing with each one of them. So we start with Affiliate Marketing.
Affiliate Marketing: this is simply getting commissions from promoting other people’s product through a unique URL or Banner. This is done by placing the unique URL on an article or displaying the banner on your website or blog.

The good thing about affiliate marketing is that:
• The product has already been made, so you done need to cracking your head on what to write, all you need to do is to find a product that has high demand and promote it.
• A system that take orders from prospect and deliver the product to buyers automatically are in place. You don’t need worry about issues concerning sales and after sales issues.
• The sales page has been written by professionals and design to ensure sales

However, in other to successfully promote an affiliate product, you will need to drive traffic (traffic means you need lots of people to visit your website) to the product’s sales page.
The more specific traffic you invite to your product sale page, the higher your chances of making more sales. You cannot make sales or be successful in affiliate marketing if you don’t expose your affiliate product to potential buyers.
This is to say that for you to make money on affiliate marketing, you need to drive traffic to your affiliate product sales page.

Article, Thanks - http://achievement.im/10/7-legitimate-internet-businesses-you-can-do-without-quitting-your-jobs/

Saturday, December 11, 2010

10 Things to do daily for entrepreneurs

1. Make a list of people to call up/ follow up with
Every day is an experience for an entrepreneur – specially the start ups. There will be thousands of people to talk to including your customers, suppliers, government agencies, investors and advisers. Start the day with a list of important calls that you have to make for that day – which may be a telephone call (for low priority or non-urgent) to personal meetings where it matters the most. Try to postpone/remove people who are nice to talk to but mean nothing to your business or add no value.
2. Send a sales proposal to a prospective customer
A start up journey is like bicycling – you fall down if you stop peddling. And that peddle is called sales – I personally try to send at least 1 sales proposal (by email, post, etc.) to my prospective customers everyday – irrespective of volume of business expected or possibility of getting business. You can be lucky if your competitor is not doing this daily – who knows you could be the only person approaching the customer!
3. Follow up for any pending payments
If sales is what drives a venture, it is cash that keeps it alive – and any pending payments at an early stage of a company are like cancer – keep following up for your payments diligently. This is more important than making business plans and approaching investors.
4. Speak to your employees
I have always realized that the role of an entrepreneur is to find people smarter than herself, and motivate them to achieve their goals. One of the most important aspects of this is to constantly communicate with your employees, sometimes talking about their professional issues, and other times about general or personal ones. Make it a point to talk to your people daily. I learned this during my stint at Asian Paints, when through daily team-building, dialogues and discussions, we could take up our performance 200% in 1 month.
5. Analyze your performance against your target metrics
As an entrepreneur, we need to balance thinking with action. If we keep running, then no matter how fast we are, if we do not analyze which direction we are headed to, we will not go anywhere. I have seen a very highly successful entrepreneur, who raised his 3rd round of venture capital funding recently, measuring and analyzing his company performance almost on a daily basis. The key metrics could be product development (number of modules ready, lines of code written etc.), page visits to websites, revenue, expenses, customer inquiries etc.
6. Check your bank account
I do not know how many start ups do this, but I get some internal motivation by checking my company accounts daily – it can as well de-motivate you if you are not acting upon how to get the cash in or control the cash out!
7. Remain updated with Google Alerts
In current scenario, there is no time to read newspaper, listen to radio or watch TV but it is always important to stay updated – with what is happening around the world as well as in your business domain. Google alerts is a good way to stay updated, as it gives a summary of news/blogs etc. on your relevant keyword and sends you a mail on the same.
8. Give some time to family/friends
Being an entrepreneur is a rewarding though stressful situation. It is always good to give some time to your family and friends, so that you are refreshed for another day at work. Have a nice time, go out for dinner, watch a movie, or just talk about your lives. You would want someone to share your success with! These are the people who will be the happiest when you come live on TV someday to collect the “Highly successful Entrepreneur” award!
9. Introspect, but do not procrastinate
For 5-10 minutes daily, spend some time thinking about yourself – where did you start, where are you now, where do you want to be – think big! If you introspect, and start thinking that you have grown, that’s the first step towards growth. I have found people being happy with their current status, and never introspected about why they started as an entrepreneur.
10. Make a “To do list”
This is obvious – you cannot do things unless you write them down. Personally, I use my mobile’s task app or memo pad to keep track of things. And then I keep ticking or deleting the task as it is completed.
I am sure that there are lots more to the list, depending on your stage and priorities, and I will be happy to listen and learn from your experiences. I am sure there will be lot of distractions to your work, and some of them very valid that you will have to immediately address, but a disciplined approach will help you take out time for that too.

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

The 3 Principles To Success


1. The first principle that you need to adopt is to be visionary. Do you know what kind of life you want to live? Do you know how much you want to earn? Do you know what you want to accomplish in the future? Knowing what you want is the first step to achieving it. If you do not know what you want to accomplish, how can you tell when you have achieved it? This is exactly what is happening to most people out there. They do not know what they want; as a result, they are living in mediocrity. Do not let this happen to you; be absolutely clear with your dreams and your goals.
2. Next, adopt the habit of focusing in your dreams and your goals. Always think about what you want and do something to achieve them. Always remember this, you are what you think you are. The more you think about your goals, the more likely that you are going to take action to achieve them. The main key here is to program and condition what you want into your subconscious mind. So think and focus on your goals all the time.
3. Finally, believe that you can accomplish it and take action right away. Do you seriously believe that you can become a millionaire? If you do not believe that it is possible for you, you will never go full out and put in 100% commitment. When you truly believe in something, you will tap into your full potential and make things happen. And remember to take action everyday. Make sure you do something that will move you toward your goals each day. This will ensure that you are creating the results you want and are moving in the right direction.