Thursday, July 23, 2009
How To Choose A Work At Home Business That Is Right For You
With so many people losing their jobs in today’s economy, many people are starting new businesses from home. These businesses range from lawn maintenance to Internet marketing. You want or need to start a business from home, but how do you choose one that is right for you, for your family needs, and which one will reap the most benefits? Below are some things you need to consider before starting a work at home business.
What’s your passion?
Passion is what drives you to something and makes you reach your goals. How do you know what you’re passionate about? Think about what touches you emotionally; do relationships or humanitarian needs move you to emotion? Maybe pets are your passion; other specific passions might be children, teenagers, fashion, teaching, music, reading, writing, poetry, nature…the list can go on and on.
The idea is to start thinking about what really drives you. Once you know that, then you can begin thinking about which work at home business would be a good fit for you.
What’s a good fit for your lifestyle?
To determine what type of work at home business would be a good fit for you, you need to consider your involvement with other organizations, your personal schedule, your family and their schedules, how much money you need to make, and how soon you need to start making money. In addition, you must consider start up costs, how much money you have to invest, and how soon you can get started. You also need to consider where you’ll be happy and feel fulfilled most at doing.
How your personality comes in to play when choosing a work at home business
There are 4 basic personality types: choleric, sanguine, melancholy, and phlegmatic.
Choleric personality types are strong willed, natural born leaders, not detail oriented, good at delegating and being the boss.
Sanguine’s are fun-loving, life of the party, center of attention and tend to be flighty.
Persons with a dominate melancholy personality are list makers, very organized, detail oriented and analytical. The Phlegmatic personality is laid back, easy going, even tempered and a follower.
If you’re choleric, running your own business is probably best for you. You like being the boss and delegating out work just like .
For the sanguine, you need to do something fun, something that will keep you interested and allow you to interact socially with others. Social network marketing may be the perfect job for the Sanguine personality type.
Good businesses for the melancholy persons would be home organization, database maintenance, financial or business analysis-anything that involves analyzing or organization.
Phlegmatic’s need to be in a business that will keep them moving. They also need to have a boss or leader that will give them direction and motivation.
Work at home businesses to choose from
As stated in the beginning of this article, there are thousands upon thousands of work at home businesses to choose from. After following the guidelines above, write down each of the areas covered: your schedule, family schedule, your passion, what type of work would be a good fit for you and your personality type.
Once you have those things narrowed down, only then choosing the right work at home business will take less time, and you most likely won’t end up doing something that’s not right for you.
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Friday, July 17, 2009
How To Drive Massive Traffic To Your Blog
We all know the importance of traffic when it comes to blogging successfuly. Without traffic coming your way, nothing happens. If you've got adsense on your blog, no one will click on then. If you're promoting affiliate products, no one will buy through your link. if you are building a list, no one will sign up. Your blog will look like an old ghost town.
Although google would crawl your sites naturally and possibly send some traffic your way if you've got great, unique contents, you still need to go out there and do a bit of work to get more traffic.
I use social bookmarking sites to promote my blogs. They are free and fun to use. It doesn't take your time either. Those are the reasons why I like it. All you need to do is to post your news on your favourite bookmarking sites as soon as you post them on your blogs. The reasons are numerous but here are the main ones.
You will be getting backlinks to your blogs from established websites with high PR. Also when you break a hot news, people will read your news and in most cases visit your blog to see the other nice stuffs you've got.
So here are the social bookmarking sites that I use that have worked for me in the past.
Digg.com
Del.icio.us
Technorati.com
Twitter.com
Reddit.com
Google Bookmarks
And more.
You need to open an account each with these sites. Once you do that, you can start submitting your news to them. If that sounds like hard work to you, there are some tools online that you can use to submit your post to all the major bookmarking sites with just a click.
Here are a few you can check out.
http://www.ekstreme.com/socializer
http://www.socialmarker.com
http://www.submitbookmark.com
With this neat, little technique, traffic should come your way in no time.
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Sunday, July 12, 2009
5 reasons Facebook is better than Twitter for your business
Facebook is a great choice for marketing your business
In the world of social media marketing, Facebook is king. You hear a lot about Twitter, but comparitively speaking, Facebook represents a much larger and more mature platform for marketing your business. Of course, smart companies will utilize any number of social networking sites to promote their products. But, if you are a small or medium sized business and only have resources to focus on one, you should strongly consider Facebook.
Here are five reasons why Facebook is better than Twitter for promoting your business:
Community / Size
As popular as Twitter has become, Facebook has a vastly larger audience. According to Compete.com, Twitter has a monthly visitor total of about 22 million users. Facebook weighs in at about 122 million users. What's more, Twitter users are more likely to sign up once and never login again. A recent Harvard Business Review study finds that 90% of Twitter's messages are sent by 10% of its users.
Facebook doesn't make as much noise in mainstream news, but it has a much larger and active userbase. The average Facebook user has 200 friends (very important when we talk about the viral nature of how your business can be promoted on Facebook) and actively "fans" product pages.
Analytics
If you decide to sink your time and resources into establishing a presence on a social network (either Facebook or Twitter) you are going to want to make sure you're measuring your return on investment.
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For that, you will need some kind of analytics. While products like Salesforce.com offer tie-in's to Twitter, the service itself (Twitter) doesn't offer any real analytical data on your followers. Facebook pages come with built in analytics that will let you measure how well your page is doing, whether your "fans" like the links, video or imagery you share, how often they take part in conversations you start, as well as a breakdown of the age, sex and regions they live in. Twitter simply doesn't provide this kind of detail.
Viral Promotion
In a sense, social media marketing is about giving your fans a platform to talk about you in a positive way - something Facebook makes seemless. If a fan of your Facebook business page decides to comment on something you've posted, their friends will see that action in their news feed. If your fans mark a photo as something that they "like" then their friends will see that, likewise, if they sign up to attend an event by sending in their RSVP, it shows up for all of their friends to see. In this way, Facebook can make any content viral.
Advertising Platform
Facebook wins here too. Any business owner can create pay per click advertisements on Facebook to promote their business page or events. All you need is a credit card, and you can spend as much (or little) as you want. Facebook will walk you through the process of creating your ad, and through the use of "social actions" you can make your advertisements even more effective by displaying how many friends the person viewing the ad has acted upon each offer. For example, if I RSVP for an event that is being promoted through an ad, then next time my friends see the ad they will see that one of their friends is attending.
There is also a robust targeting feature that comes with advertising on Facebook. Lets say I just want to show an advertisement to people who are of a certain age, live around a certain city and enjoy very specific activities. Because Facebook targeting can key into a person's profile data, advertising there can be hyper targeted.
Facebook Connect API
Finally, Facebook offers web developers the ability to extend their own web sites into the Facebook platform. This is done through the use of Facebook Connect, a series of programming tools that effectively makes a person's Facebook account a "single sign-on" to your web site. It is a very cool technology that is easy to deploy that some top brands have found clever ways of leveraging.
Again, the most savvy internet marketers will find ways to use a mix of social networking sites to get their message out, but Facebook is by far the most mature and largest social network for marketing and advertising. If you are a business owner you should definitely sign up to Facebook and create your own Facebook business page today.
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