Your job as a business person begins and ends with the word competition.

You are competing with every other business in your chosen field. Sitting around and waiting for things to happen is the worst thing that you can do. You must always be engaged and proactive. Picture yourself in a row boat on a raging river. Would you sit back and trust the currents to take you where ever they were racing toward or would you hold fast to the oars and row with all that you had in you every time that you sensed trouble?

Have you been sitting back and hoping that things would come your way?

Have you been trusting to luck?

I got news for you. There is no such thing as luck. You make your own luck. The businesses that thrive do not do this because they are luckier than the rest. They thrive because they are run by men and women who constantly adjust and adapt to whatever situation that the new day presents.

You are going to have to learn how to out hustle the competition. To grow your business you are going to have to do try new things and be willing to fail. We grow and change by constantly trying new ways to approach the problems that confront us each and every day.

What I want you to do today is to examine your business. Figure out what you are doing well and what you could do better. Come up with a plan to correct your weakest areas and move as quickly as possible to make those corrections.
Does this sound hard?
Easy or difficult does not matter because in the end we do what we must do to not only survive, but to thrive. Good luck with your online business and take a moment to like this post on stumbleupon.

-Business and growing jobs is about taking risk, sometimes failing, sometimes succeeding, but always striving. It is about dreams. Usually, it doesn’t work out exactly as you might have imagined. Steve Jobs was fired at Apple. He came back and changed the world.- Mitt Romney

I would add to that quote that Steve Jobs was an employee when he got fired. Apple was his creation, but instead of being in total control of it he allowed others a piece of the action. This cost him a job the was given back to him and once he took control again he made Apple his business. Something that he was in control of and could steer in the direction that he wished.

If you have a job then your boss is in charge of your future and the direction of your life.

I built this website for those who wanted a business. Your business can exist along side your job.

Once it starts to generate more income than your job does on a monthly basis it is time to consider putting that job behind you and becoming a full time business person.

This site was designed to help the online business person to build and then grow their business. I looked at doing this through by taking many roads. You can grow it by finding new supply lines. You can grow it by building a customer base and then learning how to retain those customers. You can grow it employing other to help you. I have tried to introduce services and to readers and to show them what these services can do for them. Some have taken my advice and others have dismissed it. Today we will begin again. Starting today this site will go back to basics.

We are going to grow a business.

The goal of this growth is to make money.

The goal of making money is to achieve financial freedom.

“Chase the vision, not the money, the money will end up following you.” —Tony Hsieh, Zappos CEO

You have a vision of the business that you wish to create. You know what it is that it is suppose to do. How it is suppose to do this and how quickly it is suppose to do this. You know what this business, whether it is an online business or brick and mortar, is suppose to provide as a return on the investment of your time and effort.

This is the difference between being someone who goes out to buy a business and an Entrepreneur. The entrepreneur is someone who is pursuing a dream or a burning desire rather than a pay check.

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The entrepreneur is a world changer. Perhaps you will not end up changing the entire world, but you can change your world. You can become the person that you have always believed that you would become through the creation of your business.

The form and scope of that business is going to be largely up to you. Bill Gates dreamed up microsoft. Harland Sanders had a unique recipe for fried chicken that has become the chain now know as KFC. The shape that your dream will take is in your hands.

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Today will be a quick talk about ebay.

Most, if not all of us, began life as an online seller at Amazon or Ebay. I learned a great deal there and I have to admit that if not for their business practices I might not have ever grown as an online business person. I might have stayed there, happily selling. Believing that I was actually in business for myself rather than being nothing more than an employee of the company.

So many of us who have moved on to build our own online businesses have done so because of ebay suspensions or restrictions. I wish I knew what I know known when I started. I am going to offer you guys a few pieces of advice and it your take this advance then you will be prepared for the day that ebay or Amazon changes the rules and you become a victim of these changes.

First thing that you need to do is learn to keep proper records. Keep the names addresses and emails of every single customer who purchases from you. This is list building.

Secondly you need to build yourself a website. A website that mirrors Amazon or Ebay. A website that features all the items or services that you have to offer. This website is your actual business and your job from that point on is to feed it new customers and to do everything possible to retain the existing customers.

The third thing that you must do is to grow your business through adding new products and services to your business. The best way to do this is to visit sites like liquidation.com, government auction.org and varies wholesale overseas sites such as lightinthebox.com.

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“Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower.”
– Steve Jobs

Sooner or later every one of us who own and operate an online business is going to have to deal with opening our own store front. Some of us have store fronts open at over a dozen online sites. You could have one at Ebay, Amazon, Ecrater, Ebid, and any number of others. I have one on more than one facebook page and a few of my blogs. Store fronts are important. You would not open a brick and mortar store without including a counter and a register so why would do so with your online store.

How do you add a store front or checkout to your own website or blog?

The answer is that you can do it by adding a simple buy now button from paypal or you could do something more permanent and something that would offer your customers many different options to pay for your item and/or service. The best business practice is to allow your customer to pay you any way that they wish. Some want to use the debit or credit card. Many people have issues with paypal. Frozen accounts and restrictions have left them in search of other methods to pay for online items. Installing one of the top online checkout systems to your site would be the best way to go. Try some of them out until you find the one that suits your needs the best. Many of them offer free trials.

“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
– John D. Rockefeller

Running an online business is like running any other business it is about trial and error. If we are not trying new things then we are not trying hard enough.
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People First, Good For Business

-“In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents. ” – Alexandre Dumas

People are the single most important factory in whether your business thrives or fails. If you are running your business all by yourself then the state of it is all down to you.

Understand that these people, whether they are customers or employees, are not your friends. Take it a step further. If you are the only employee you cannot afford to be friends with you during business hours. Be harder on yourself than you ever would on someone who you are writing a check to each week. People are your problem and the solution to that problem. Understanding people and the rolls that they are to play in your business is part one of building a great business.

Becoming a people person is good for business. Understanding the part that people play in your business is great for business.

How do you become a people person? Two things you must do. Tell the truth. Expect the truth. Always tell your customers and your employees the truth. Truth builds trust and trust builds loyalty. Loyalty both from those who work for you and those who do business with you. Expecting the truth is the first step to always receiving the truth. Once people understand that truth is the number one currency in your existence they will begin to deal in it. If they see your business, your products or services as valuable they will have no real choice. Consider people and their importance to you and your business both in the short term and the long term.

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Tell The World About Your Business, Press Releases

Tell The World About Your Business

There is more to running an online business than just building a website and filling it with items and information. Your business is only as strong as the following that it can generate.

You need others to know about your business and the brand that you are trying to build. You need your customers to tell future customers about the business. You need the world to know that you exist.

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There are thousands of way to do this.

Today I would like to suggest to one one of the most cost effective ways to get the world out about your online business.

You can do it through press releases.

You do not have to have a degree in journalism to do this yourself. Once you learn the basic format of a press release you can knock one off in less than an hour the first time around. You can hire others to write them for you. You can get this done at the site Fiverr for five dollars. There are free services to release them along with great pay services. What you choice to use will largely depend upon what it is that you need the release to achieve and how many people that you wish to reach with the press release.

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Press releases are a very powerful tool and over time they will become a part of your overall marketing plan.

Online Business Is A Marathon

If you are familiar with marathons then you know that no one has ever gotten out of bed one morning decided that they were going to be a marathon runner and a day later they are not only running in one, but completing it.

Twenty six miles.

Think about that.

It takes months if not years to build your body up to the point where you can run one of these events from start to finish.

Running a successful business is no different. You have to build your endurance levels. When learning to run you expect that pain and set backs will be part of the territory. Why would it be any different for those of you who wish to run a business?

The day will come, after weeks or even months, when you are running your business smoothly. You are now one amongst many racing toward the finish line. You are a member of the pack and you will finish the races sooner or later. Winning it is of course something that you have never taken seriously. People from all over the world are competing with you. How could you ever hope to beat them.

You can, because you must.

Winning is why races are run. You are here now because you want to improve. You want a bit of inspiration. You want to hear that the finish line is the property of no one. The trophy does not have a name on it before the race is won.

Your online business can be the biggest and the best on earth. The size of your business and the impact that it will have on your life is up to you. The winner of this race is largely a choice that you will make with the decisions you make and the daily effort that you are willing to put forth.

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The Business of Decision Making

-Tom Hanks’ Character in You Got Mail. “The whole purpose of places like Starbucks is for people with no decision-making ability whatsoever to make six decisions just to buy one cup of coffee. So people who don’t know what the hell they’re doing or who on earth they are can, for only $2.95, get not just a cup of coffee but an absolutely defining sense of self.”-

Not everyone can make a decision and that is why not everyone can own and operate their own business. You have a business. You were able to make that one decision that has led to many more decisions that got you to the point where you are now.
The question is, “What happens next?”

This question comes up more times than we can count during a given day. We make so many decisions that we have reached a point where we only notice the big ones. I am here to argue that no one decision is any bigger than another. That every decision we make is equally important.

A so-called small decision can lead you to the thing that will change the life of your business forever. The difference between those who make it and those who look back to an opportunity where they could have made it usually comes down to deciding whether or not to take a risk and it is not usually a great financial risk. The risk is usually in time spend and trust me I know how precious time is in the life of a business person. The second risk is in committing to a learning curve.

The reason that you are here reading this is that you are ready to be talking into making a decision and I am not going to try to do that. Instead I am going to suggest that you backtrack and look at recent opportunities that you bypassed.

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Low Cost Social Marketing

Face it, social marketing is become more and more a part of the online business world. You may not be good at it, but you are going to have to do a little of it or else your business is going to suffer.

Normal I would recommend using an online service that promotes your business through email marketing. Today I am going to look at something easier and you can do yourself. It is sort of set up and go.

The thing that I am going to talk about today is called Onlywire. It is a one stop shop of sorts that redistributes your content online. It does this be connecting all of your social media platforms. You post on any of them and then it is re-posted on all of them.

Why would you want to do this?

First it allows you to personally reach more people.

Second it will boost your SEO. This re-posting gives you back links and back links rise your google page ranks. The higher you are ranked the more visitors you will receive.

I have always tried to be a do it myself kind of guy and if you are the same then this Onlywire can be a big part of doing it mostly yourself. You are doing the work and all that Onlywire does is turbo charge how fast it gets out there and around the web. It had done wonders for my websites. I run eleven separate websites and blogs and there is no way I could promote them all without a tool like Onlywire. Also the cost of using it can be as low as about seven dollars a month. And you can try it for the first month for absolutely free and unlike many services they really do mean free trial.

Today I would like you to visit Onlywire and give it a try.

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