Your Online Business
Always Give Your Readers and Clients More
Posted by Rhiannon Louise on July 09, 2007
Filed Under Your Online Business
I truly believe that if you want more in life you have to be prepared to give more.
Nowhere is this truer than in online business where you should always give your readers and clients more.
Why? Because if you don’t someone else will! And also because if you do, you will be showing your readers and your clients just how highly you value them and they will be far more likely to come back to you, to recommend you, to trust you and ultimately to ‘buy’ from you – whether you’re selling a product or just asking them to buy into an idea.
Yes, there are always those out there who will take advantage of your generous and giving nature – I remember one such person who once said to me and Andy ‘you’re really nice people but you’ll never have much in life’ - but rest assured people like that will be proven wrong very quickly and what’s more, people like that are never those who have abundance in their lives because they are too concerned with holding on to what little they have rather than opening their arms to allow more into their life…
So how can you give more?
The Great Comment Debate
Posted by Rhiannon Louise on July 03, 2007
Filed Under Your Online Business
The Great Comment Debate - Do You Need Direct Feedback to Every Post You Make?
I’ve just spent a very enjoyable fifteen minutes or so reading through a trail of comments that Brian Clark invited for a post he produced on his CopyBlogger website.
Brian always has comments open on his site and often directly involves himself in the comments and feedback he receives as a result – in fact his comment series usually resemble something of an active forum string as commentators interact with each other and the author of the post.
After chuckling at some of the arguments and misconstrued points that popped out the back of Brian Clark’s post it led me to bring up that age old debate in my mind once again – the great comment debate – i.e., do you need direct feedback to each and every post you make or are you actually courting distraction at best and brown-nosers and forum freaks at worst? (You know the ones – they pick a fight with you no matter how neutral your question or comment.)
In my personal and humble opinion there is a time and a place for switching comments on and that is not on every single post you make.
Has My Business Idea Got Enough Potential?
Posted by Rhiannon Louise on June 29, 2007
Filed Under Your Online Business
Few people wake up one morning with a fully fledged business idea ripe in their minds and of those who perhaps do, fewer still have the means and ability to get their business idea up, running and turning sufficient profit from month one to enable them to give up their day jobs or rest on their financial laurels.
It’s more of a reality that many of us have one or maybe two good ideas in our minds with which we tinker and tweak and attempt to earn a profit in our spare time – but there comes a time when any of us with a half formed business should ask the critical question ‘has my business idea got enough potential?’
It’s a hard question to ask and an even harder one to answer honestly and realistically but it is still a critical question - if you’re starting up a new business venture you need to know whether you’re investing your time wisely, wasting your time pointlessly and whether you will ever be able to rely fully on your ideas financially…which is why you have to determine which if any of your business ideas has enough potential to become a fully fledged successful enterprise.
Focus - Your Key To Online Business Success
Posted by Andy Williamson on June 11, 2007
Filed Under Your Online Business Entrepreneurship Planning Your Business
When I first decided that I’d had more than enough of my job and all that it entailed, I started to look at every possible option and opportunity available from a sandwich bar franchise to unworkable MLM schemes, eventually I decided that the only way to get what I really wanted i.e., a job where I could work from home and a life where I could live anywhere I wanted to, was by using the Internet - and that’s where the decision making process really went into extreme overdrive and the chances of me settling on any one single business idea seemed remote.
If you’re anything like I was when I first started out, in order to move to sustainable profit as quickly as possible you’ll need to be very careful about the incredible amount of noise on the Internet that sets out to capture your attention and consequently takes your focus away from your business. At best you’ll lose a few hours work, at worst the distraction will keep you in a state of perpetual indecisiveness unable to commit long enough to anything for it to work.
One thing that I never really appreciated when I first started working from home was just how much extra discipline it requires - or to put it another way, how much easier it is to allow yourself to be distracted. On top of this new found home based freedom to be distracted, you have the Internet with all its charm and temptation to just click around for a while. It’s so easy to just follow a couple of links on the web and hey, 2 hours have gone and no work has been done! Worse still, you’ve just read about another great way to make money on-line and you’re about to rewrite your business plan for the 4th time this week and it’s only Monday!
Basically you have to start to become immune to the incredible ‘listen to me’ type noise on the Internet - everyone will be telling you that they know the only real way to make money on the Internet - and when you’re starting out this can prove to be a real distraction.
Yet while all this is going on if there ever was a secret to making money on-line it’s this:-
“Don’t allow yourself to get distracted, keep yourself focused on producing one great website focused on a niche or topic that you love and enjoy”
With that single secret firmly in mind your site will start to climb above the others - forget the people who you read about trying to manage 100 sites, don’t feel threatened by them, relax because they can only give their sites 100th of the time that you can give your site.
Dealing with a Deluge of Demanding Email
Posted by Rhiannon Louise on June 05, 2007
Filed Under Your Online Business
You might not know it yet, but you’re about to be inundated with a million requests for direct assistance – some of them genuine, many of them rubbish - you’re going to be offered JVs, partnerships and opportunities - most of them time consuming, almost all of them income imperceptible – and you’re going to be dealing with a deluge of demanding email day in and day out…
Why?
Because you’re building your online empire, you’re putting yourself out there, you’re drawing attention to who you are, what you do and how you do it and there are a million people out there who will try and leech off you, suck you dry, steal your ideas and your time and just a tiny few who will want to directly benefit you and add value to your company.
The problem is, how to sift the gold from the dirt – and it really is an ever increasing problem as your business grows, your time disappears and your patience runs thin.
But fear not, I have a few ideas to help you.
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