When starting an Internet business, unless you are already self employed, you will most probably find problems ensue with regard to your own discipline. This article coves a few cheap and easy solutions to ensure the transition is as pain free as possible.
We’ll assume that you have not been self employed before as you now start up in your own Internet Business. One thing that is likely to happen is that you will start to put off the more onerous aspects of the job - by onerous, you may find that even those tasks which you once found enjoyable become rather a trial when you have to take full responsibility for their completion, come rain or shine.
The idea is to aim for consistency. I would recommend that your goals are quite easily achievable in the first instance. This is for three reasons.
1. You will become demotivated if you fail badly.
2. If you achieve comfortably in the first week what you have set out to do (a projection ) on paper, you can then record your actual achievement and use it as a guide for the following week’s goals. Remember, if your goals are too ambitions, you will feel too exhausted to even bother to get stuck back in.
3. Having an achievable plan allows you to project how much output you will be able to achieve. This will provide some assessment fodder ( as I call it ) for the next few weeks.
I will go into assessment a little bit because this is how you are going to analyse your routine and so give you a chance of providing the information you will need to project the future course of your business. Let’s imagine you have come up with a projected hour a day to cover each of the following tasks over the course of a week:
1. Write article.
2. Renew free classified advertisements.
3. Revise and upload article.
4. Create new Google Ads campaign.
5.Deal with e mails and book keeping.
6.Re set goals for next week and any other bits nod bobs.
7. Day off - very important this!
Write each tasks down the side of a spread sheet and place a column after each one entitled - Projected Time and then one for Actual Time. Complete the projected and at the end of each day, fill in the actual time taken. After the first week, re set the goals which, hopefully, can now be more realistically set for the next week.
Just a word of warning here - I should try to set your hour per day at the same time as you will then automatically begin to switch in to working mode without even realising it. You want this state to become automatic so that you spend more time doing and less procrastinating about it!
This simple plan will allow you to become consistent very quickly when starting an Internet business. This is because you will find out what you can do comfortably ( not what everyone else thinks you should or shouldn’t be doing ) as well as providing you with a realistic vision of what is achievable. This will enable you to extend your goal setting to include such aspects as projected incomes and outcomes amongst other things. It will also allow you to aim for your maximum potential output level per hours worked whilst keeping the consistency which is so important to your new venture.
If you're interested in learning more about starting an Internet business and the training required, please watch the video on my website that shows how I found a company that can provide you with both.
www.hilaryahughes.com
Saturday 27 June 2009
Thursday 25 June 2009
The Holy Grail of Starting An Internet Business - Driving Traffic
When starting your Internet business, did you - or do you - struggle to drive traffic to your site? Driving traffic is rather like producing a cash flow in any business - without it, you are doomed ( trust me ). This article is designed to educate people on choosing a marketing and distribution method as opposed to actual content. Despite what you may hear from all the experts out there, and there are lots of them, I always say that there is not right or wrong way to do this. As long as it woks for you, then that’s fine.
There are two things to consider and the first one is how are you going to create this cash flow? Secondly, how are you going to do it in bulk? In other words, how you intend to leverage the Internet to maximise your gains. For the first part, you must choose a method of delivery with which you are comfortable and confident. I am assuming you have enough passion for your product already and that you are now ready to make a massive boost to your sales.
I mentioned confidence and comfort. Quite honestly, if you are comfortable sitting in front of a camera and subsequently, the next Internet star - I am not, by the way - then it will portray a sense of knowledge and experience to your audience. This is good news because people want someone who knows what they are doing before they will part with their cash. As confidence portrays success, you will then be on to a winner. An Internet Business is no different in this respect to an off line business.
The main three ways to attract business via the Internet are video, article or Google Adwords marketing. I use article marketing - perhaps because I had already had paid article work before I became involved in Internet marketing - but have also delved into the other two.
If you are not sure which is for you - ask yourself the following questions:
1. Do I have an analytical mind?
2.Am I a bit of a showman?
3.Do I communicate well through writing and enjoy reading?
Choose whichever you are strongest in and I would suggest you start small and monitor your success by tracking your links. Once you have found something you enjoy that has moderate success, then you need to start doing it really big and, thus, use the leverage of the Internet. There are companies that will submit your video, for e.g. to thousands of sites. I use a firm called Article Marketer who, for a set fee, allows you to submit as many articles as you wish every month, whereupon they send it to round about a thousand sites within twenty four hours. This is using leverage.
In summary, when you get to the part of your Internet business that deals with driving traffic make sure you choose a marketing method about which you are confident and feel comfortable and then find a way which will allow you to use the leverage power of the Internet. In summary, when you get to the part of your Internet business that deals with driving traffic make sure you choose a marketing method about which you are confident and feel comfortable and then find a way which will allow you to use the leverage power of the Internet. This will enable you to achieve a high traffic flow when starting your Internet business.
There are two things to consider and the first one is how are you going to create this cash flow? Secondly, how are you going to do it in bulk? In other words, how you intend to leverage the Internet to maximise your gains. For the first part, you must choose a method of delivery with which you are comfortable and confident. I am assuming you have enough passion for your product already and that you are now ready to make a massive boost to your sales.
I mentioned confidence and comfort. Quite honestly, if you are comfortable sitting in front of a camera and subsequently, the next Internet star - I am not, by the way - then it will portray a sense of knowledge and experience to your audience. This is good news because people want someone who knows what they are doing before they will part with their cash. As confidence portrays success, you will then be on to a winner. An Internet Business is no different in this respect to an off line business.
The main three ways to attract business via the Internet are video, article or Google Adwords marketing. I use article marketing - perhaps because I had already had paid article work before I became involved in Internet marketing - but have also delved into the other two.
If you are not sure which is for you - ask yourself the following questions:
1. Do I have an analytical mind?
2.Am I a bit of a showman?
3.Do I communicate well through writing and enjoy reading?
Choose whichever you are strongest in and I would suggest you start small and monitor your success by tracking your links. Once you have found something you enjoy that has moderate success, then you need to start doing it really big and, thus, use the leverage of the Internet. There are companies that will submit your video, for e.g. to thousands of sites. I use a firm called Article Marketer who, for a set fee, allows you to submit as many articles as you wish every month, whereupon they send it to round about a thousand sites within twenty four hours. This is using leverage.
In summary, when you get to the part of your Internet business that deals with driving traffic make sure you choose a marketing method about which you are confident and feel comfortable and then find a way which will allow you to use the leverage power of the Internet. In summary, when you get to the part of your Internet business that deals with driving traffic make sure you choose a marketing method about which you are confident and feel comfortable and then find a way which will allow you to use the leverage power of the Internet. This will enable you to achieve a high traffic flow when starting your Internet business.
Thursday 18 June 2009
A few comments about yours truly.
Hi, my name is Hilary Hughes and the reason I created this profile is because I used to be sick and tired of working well up until 9 o’clock in the evenings as a driving instructor. So, after a few false starts ( more of that below ) looking for something vaguely along the lines of mlm, became involved in an Internet Business that actually works!
So, what's special about this profile?
Because I want to meet, network and give back to the other newbie entrepreneurs who are in the same situation - just like I was. And hopefully, my story can help inspire you to discover a better alternative - just like I did. But before I get into all that, let me tell you a little bit about myself.
Coming from Manchester in the U.K., like most people, I ran the gauntlet of appalling jobs, mainly those to do with insurance ( most exciting, I know ) until I set up in business as a driving instructor about 15 years ago.
On the personal side, as a musical person, I don’t think there’s any type I don’t like although I no longer play the piano. Still one to enjoy the outdoors, I like to go out walking in the country - usually with church although I don’t get to play tennis or squash so much these days. Oh yes, I love writing as well.
I also have a nephew nearby who enjoys helping me spend all my hard earned cash…
To tell you the truth, the reason I wasn’t getting round to doing so many things anymore was having gone from a really boring job to self employed ( which has been great ), I no longer had any time to pursue my own interests. Add to that being out on a cold winter’s night - well, when you start to get that little bit older, it just isn’t fun any more. I’m sure you get the gist.
Heck! I was so tired and only really working to pay the bills that I started looking round the Internet to find an alternative, something along the lines of writing for a living or some kind of mlm business seemed the obvious. Sadly, I spent ages writing and paying to publish ad’s that just weren’t working. To say it’s a frustrating scenario is the height of understatement!
Well, all that changed when an acquaintance I was in touch with ( who had experience a similar scenario ) contacted me to say she’d finally cracked it and that she’d earned $100k in her first 6 months! This was running a business on the Internet
It took me a while to pluck up the courage to join but I am now working alongside and getting advice from some of the greatest earners and millionaires in this business. I’m also eating up the training ( a subject really close to my heart having been instructing for so long ). I also know what I was doing wrong when I’ve been involved in those little Get Rich Quick schemes on the Internet that give you no training whatsoever and pretty much say Thank you very much for your cash - but now you’re on your own!!
So, that’s why I created this page. This really changed my life and I would love to network and work with like minded people and really get the word out. So I encourage you to check out my website.
I’d love to hear from you, particularly if you’re keen to learn and work hard to begin with. This isn’t magic and ( although it’s close…) a great effort is needed to make it work.
Hilary. ..
www.hilaryahughes.com
So, what's special about this profile?
Because I want to meet, network and give back to the other newbie entrepreneurs who are in the same situation - just like I was. And hopefully, my story can help inspire you to discover a better alternative - just like I did. But before I get into all that, let me tell you a little bit about myself.
Coming from Manchester in the U.K., like most people, I ran the gauntlet of appalling jobs, mainly those to do with insurance ( most exciting, I know ) until I set up in business as a driving instructor about 15 years ago.
On the personal side, as a musical person, I don’t think there’s any type I don’t like although I no longer play the piano. Still one to enjoy the outdoors, I like to go out walking in the country - usually with church although I don’t get to play tennis or squash so much these days. Oh yes, I love writing as well.
I also have a nephew nearby who enjoys helping me spend all my hard earned cash…
To tell you the truth, the reason I wasn’t getting round to doing so many things anymore was having gone from a really boring job to self employed ( which has been great ), I no longer had any time to pursue my own interests. Add to that being out on a cold winter’s night - well, when you start to get that little bit older, it just isn’t fun any more. I’m sure you get the gist.
Heck! I was so tired and only really working to pay the bills that I started looking round the Internet to find an alternative, something along the lines of writing for a living or some kind of mlm business seemed the obvious. Sadly, I spent ages writing and paying to publish ad’s that just weren’t working. To say it’s a frustrating scenario is the height of understatement!
Well, all that changed when an acquaintance I was in touch with ( who had experience a similar scenario ) contacted me to say she’d finally cracked it and that she’d earned $100k in her first 6 months! This was running a business on the Internet
It took me a while to pluck up the courage to join but I am now working alongside and getting advice from some of the greatest earners and millionaires in this business. I’m also eating up the training ( a subject really close to my heart having been instructing for so long ). I also know what I was doing wrong when I’ve been involved in those little Get Rich Quick schemes on the Internet that give you no training whatsoever and pretty much say Thank you very much for your cash - but now you’re on your own!!
So, that’s why I created this page. This really changed my life and I would love to network and work with like minded people and really get the word out. So I encourage you to check out my website.
I’d love to hear from you, particularly if you’re keen to learn and work hard to begin with. This isn’t magic and ( although it’s close…) a great effort is needed to make it work.
Hilary. ..
www.hilaryahughes.com
Sunday 14 June 2009
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