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The Passion That Drives Your Business

The Passion That Drives Your Business

“Nothing is as important as passion. No matter what you want to do with your life, be passionate.” -Jon Bon Jovi

Businesses are the world’s most hidden love stories. The ones that endure over the long term are those businesses, whether online or brick and mortal, that are the great loves of the owner’s lives.

How often has it been said that you are married to that business or that business is your baby?

This is why businesses fail for the same reason that marriages fail. They fail because the ones involved are just going through the motions. They are phoning it in rather than committing to doing their very best each and every day. This is the case of once you have him or her you start to take them for granted. They or in this case your business will always be there, but just like in any other type of relationship it is a thing that evolves over time. You have to adjust day by day. Adding new elements and removing those that hinder growth.



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For the last few months I have taken my online business for granted. The websites like this one I have hardly touched. I allowed them to run on autopilot. That was part of the original design and I am proud to say that they were able to survive on their own and send money home each week, but they have not grown. Like any other relationship only with care and attention can growth continue.

Today I would like for you to take a few minutes to look at your business. Try to be honest with yourself. Answer the hard question and accept the answers that come back. Are you and your business in a thriving loving relationship or is the relationship on the rocks?


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Business, Hustling Harder

Business, Hustling Harder

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.


The Entrepreneur’s Vision

The Entrepreneur’s Vision

“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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Doing Business After Ebay

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.

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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.


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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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Online Business, Store Fronts

“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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Good Business In Not About Luck

Business Is Not About Luck

 

“Luck is what happens  when preparation meets opportunity.”-Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Maybe you have heard it said or even thought it yourself, If I get lucky my business will make more money.


Luck is what we make for ourselves. Luck is not magic. Luck is being prepared for that moment when hard work and planning meets with opportunity. We do not stumble over new business. We do not have new and loyal customers fall into our laps. Those new customers to our online businesses are something that we have planned for. We found ways to reach them and better yet got our existing customers to bring them in for us. We have provided great services which the existing customer has told others about. We have supplied world-class goods which the existing customer has told others about. When the new customer arrived to our store front we were ready to greet them. Ready to provide what they needed and sometimes what they did not know that they needed. You  held onto their basic information after the first transaction and then found ways to market to them over time and by doing this you created a repeat customer.

What I am telling you is not something new. It is something that the experience of others have taught us all over time. You are going to have to work hard, but before this you are going to have to learn how to work smart. Wasted effort is worst than no effort at all. Wasted efforts kills time and time is the one thing that can never be replaced.

To grow your online business you are going to have to learn new methods. You are going to do some trial and error testing and then you are going to put into action what you have learned. The hardest part of this is just making up your mind to do it. Every great achievement in life usually begins with a simple choice made.

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