A Home Based Business Idea…

You know that you don’t need a gun and a balaclava to be noticed. You just need to be smarter.

How to get Your Business Noticed is an article written by Peter Tarrida del Marmol http://www.auctionearnings.com

But I have refined it to bring out the main points:

How to get Your Business Noticed.

Peter says… You need to optimize your site… But as fast as you ‘optimize’ your site, Google and the others have moved the goalposts, meaning you have to keep optimizing over and over again.

I would say… Optimize it once, then move on to greater projects…

Peter says… Most people in the world are not users of the Internet. The vast majority of people who you want to reach don’t use the Internet.

I would say… Pursuing both online and offline marketing should be normal in the course of business. There’s enough people online to make your business phenomenally successful. Once you’ve got the system down and money rolls in, then start looking at offline advertising and marketing methods.

Peter says… Some of the best Internet marketers make most of their sales ‘offline’. They sell their books, CD-ROMs and so on at seminars, workshops and conferences. Indeed, for many ‘Internet marketers’ these ‘offline’ sales represent the bulk of their income.

So what do these facts tell us? They show us that ‘offline’ promotion is more important than online promotion. You may be able to optimize your web site to get high rankings in a search engine. But that doesn’t mean you’ll reach the vast majority of people who could buy your product or use your information.

This was confirmed recently by one study that showed most people go to an Internet address (URL) after having read it in a newspaper or magazine, been given it by a friend or colleague, or having heard it being mentioned by someone speaking at a meeting or on TV…

You can get many people visiting your web site, even if you are not ranked highly by the search engines. You can do this in two main ways:

1. Write articles for use in regular publications – newspapers, magazines and so on. Always include your URL in the article and you’ll get millions of people to notice your web site address.

2. Speak at every opportunity. Make presentations to business clubs, chambers of commerce, local societies – Every time you speak, announce your web site address.

Although these are the two principal ways of gaining offline publicity for your web site, also remember business stationery, posters, car stickers and so on. The more your web site address is visible outside the web, the more visitors you will get…

Peter Tarrida del Mármol is a spanish online and offline marketer. To read more articles go to: http://www.auctionearnings.com

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Check out how this girl sells her cafepress products.. a fascinating home based business idea/potential…

She says “So, I’ve decided to set up a little challenge for myself and to both blog and write articles on it over the next month. The idea is to try to setup some type of business in my free time and see if I can start to turn a profit in a 30 day period. That shouldn’t be too hard, since I’m also going to limit myself to spending zero cash out of pocket. That means that any sales at all will be profit.”

I knew that any old store was unlikely to have a chance at making a profit without some real marketing dollars behind it, so I decided to focus on a highly niche market that didn’t have a lot of competition, but that could attract some viral marketing and attention. As a breast feeding advocate that has exclusively pumped for a full year, I had spent enough time in online message boards and sites to know that there was a solid base of women out there that would have an interest in unique shirts that helped them share their views with the world.

See how one can use online shops (free to setup and host products) such as CafePress , plus use a bit of marketing savvy and research to bring customers… She knew her target market… knew what they wanted… looked for what problems they were having… then provided a solution…

A super home based business idea.

What markets do you know? What are you good at? What can you talk about for long periods of time without even thinking about it?

Make haste…

“You put the word out that you’re
already the leader and, lo and behold,
it’s just what you become.”
- Mark Victor Hansen

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More Home Based Business Ideas…

I thought the Business Idea Factory offered an encouraging prize.

And we know how good (motivational) it is to read about how other people take ideas and make them into winners.

Hence the Enter the “Win $100″ contest.

This is what I got from their website…

If you have a business idea article that you think is unique, submit it now and you could win up to $100.

Write up a couple of paragraphs using the current articles as guidelines and submit them today! You could be the next member to win $100.

Go for it..!

What is the the Business Idea Factory?

Basically it’s a member’s only, subscription website that incorporates great business ideas, articles, start up manuals, teleconferences and recordings…

They say…

We provide members with ideas and resources to get them started on their way to financial independence. These are business ideas from real life – no MLM, pyramid schemes, etc. are even entertained here. Our resources are constantly updated to provide our members with an ever churning factory of business ideas.

To read the articles and the stories you’ll need to join up as a member ($29.99 per month). But inspirational, idea-based success stories move mountains… that’s what I think… no obstacles can stand in the way…

… A superb home based business idea… or two, could come to fruition from other people’s ideas…

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Does affiliate marketing interest you?
Then read on…

YES – You Really Can…

Make Your Internet Fortune as an Affiliate Marketer!

The Business Lyceum

J. F (Jim) Straw says… “How You Really Can … Make Your Internet Fortune As An Affiliate Marketer!” isn’t just a chronicle of what I have done. It doesn’t just tell you “what” you should do … it explains in detail “HOW” to do it.

All of the books, booklets, reports and articles I’ve read about Internet Marketing had “secrets” to tell me…

but as my Daddy used to say…

“There really aren’t any secrets in this old world. Only things you don’t happen to know right now”

And over the past nearly 50 years in the business arenas of the world, I have added…

“Even after you learn what you didn’t know, it still remains a SECRET until you actually do it successfully.”

Now that I have done it “successfully” … to the tune of a few thousand extra dollars each week in affiliate commissions … I really know “how” it is done.

Over the past 30 years, I have (really) sold over $250 Million worth of products and services — everything from Beauty Supplies to Heavy Equipment … Burglar Alarms to Sleeping Bags … Fishing Lures to Women’s Wigs … Automobiles to Wheelchairs … Seafood to Investment Opportunities … Consulting Services to “How-To” Courses – all by mailorder.

Actually, I thought I knew everything about “direct selling” until I got started on the Internet – but – as John Wooden said…

“It’s what you learn after you know everything that counts.”

Learn more…

The Business Lyceum

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Here’s a great idea that evolved from creative thinking, desperation, and other spicy life elements. Read and study the site… It’s a real time idea that came into fruition, made serious money, and is still making money.

It’s the fabulously named:
www.milliondollarhomepage.com

The site went online in August 2005 and has since taken in over $825,000. (Currently at 866,600) $100.00 will give you a link from a page rank 7 website for at least 5 years.

Here’s what the owner wrote…

What is the idea?

The idea is simple: to try and make $1m (US) by selling 1,000,000 pixels for $1 each. Hence, ‘The Million Dollar Homepage”. The main motivation for doing this is to pay for my degree studies, because I don’t like the idea of graduating with a huge student debt. I know people who are paying off student loans 15-20 years after they graduated. Not a nice thought!

The pixels you buy will be displayed on the homepage permanently. The homepage will not change. Using some of the money I make from the site, I guarantee to keep it online for at least 5 years, but hopefully much longer. I want it to become a kind of internet time capsule. So, in the long run, I believe the pixels will offer good value. You will have a piece of internet history!

Great! Really inspirational…

The publicity it generates brings people looking… curious as we are, we like to know how things work, how people ‘make things happen’, etc. And as we explore the site, what we are doing is exploring the advertisers who bought pixels (advertising space) on this site…

Clever ideas can generate publicity…

What’s your outrageous idea??

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This is what you will turn into if you don’t get savvy with RSS quickly…

Only kidding… I still don’t know everything about it either. If I did, I would have it on this blog So I grabbed this valuable info from the brilliant Site Build It about RSS for your reading pleasure…

An introduction to RSS

If you have no idea what RSS is, if you have no clue about how to use it, it’s the right time to get up to speed. RSS is going to be an important way for you to BOTH increase first-time traffic AND to build repeat traffic.

Longer term, it will also build relationships, so important for converting a “visit” into a “dollar.”

To learn more, please visit…

www.rss.sitesell.com

There’s a ton of info on the Net about RSS. Most of it is too geeky, too much, too irrelevant, too short-term thinking, or just plain wrong. This site is all you need to know. Most importantly…

It outlines the best approach for MOST small businesses, an approach that has been ignored by all the “experts.”

You CAN understand this site even if you have not understood anything else you may have read about RSS up to now.

So start here…

www.rss.sitesell.com

Words thanks to Ken Evoy (President, SiteSell.com)

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A Cool Home Based Business Idea…

What is a baby newspaper business?

An outstanding idea… I would do it myself… but being in Thailand, makes the challenge rather a steep one. If you’re looking for ideas to go with, this one takes the cake. It’ll cost you USD$67.00. I won’t go into super depth about it, suffice to say it involves newspapers, babies and chocolate…

If that sounds of interest to you, you can find out more details here:

Click here for a baby Newspaper business!

Terrance, the dude who offers this product, explains…

“Personalized Baby Newspapers… are actually custom framed announcement keepsake gifts in the likeness of a newspaper. It’s something that can be treasured for years. It captures the exact magical moment someone’s baby arrived and gives all the details that occurred on that special day.“

Your Personalized Baby Newspaper Business Comes With A Ton Of Features!

Here are just a few:

 

• Desk or Wall Sized Versions For The Bedroom

 

• Beautiful Oakwood Frame For Easy Display

 

• Colorful Headlines To Match Any Room

 

• Top “Real News” Headlines That Happened On The Day Of Birth Or Birthday

 

• Details The Top Toys, Top Songs, Top TV Shows Of The Day

 

• The Baby’s Name Is The Headline Story

 

• Option To Place A Picture On Front Page

 

• Custom Made News Story Detailing The Event

 

• Newspapers To Mail To Their Friends And Family

  “Most people who receive it call it the World’s Greatest Birth Announcement. They love it to death. You can do so many things with it…”The sales page gives a more thorough explanation. I personally think it’s one of those ideas that could produce a LOT of ongoing, interesting and profitable work. And remember, it will, like any new project you take on, involve work! You’re up for it, right!?

This very do-able home based business idea gets my full recommendation.

Nothing ventured is nothing gained…

Baby Newspapers!

Let me know what you think…