You have been suspended by Ebay or Amazon. You are shocked and do not know what to do.
How did this happen you ask?
The answer is that it happened and will continue to have to others like you because they missed the same thing that you missed. You missed the fact that you do not own the platform. You were sold a lie that you bought into. The lie was that the online business that you were building belonged to you. That you could support yourself and your family with the earnings from this magical online business. The amazing thing was that it worked like that for a while. Charlie Brown got to kick the football time and time again and then all of a sudden the dream ended and you are reading this.

How do I get back on the ship that threw me off you are wondering.
I would rather not help you to do that.
You could do that for a while,but it will happen again. Why be a sharecropper when you can own the farm. I know that all of your working life has prepared you for working for a paycheck. That working for someone else (a Boss) is all that you know. If you want to break away from that and become the one who is truly in charge then we can continue.
When you say my business wouldn’t it be nice if that was actually true.

Today I would like you to come up with a name for your own business. Your website that will earning you much more than you ever did on Ebay or Amazon. Make it a nice and easy to remember name that you can condense into a website name and a domain name. Then you are going to purchase the domain name and build a website.
Today come up with a domain name like Amazon and Ebay did and tomorrow you will build a website to call your own.
Thank you for visiting this site and good luck with your website.

Low Cost Ways to Get your Online Store Ready for Business

Setting up your online store doesn’t need to cost you an arm and a leg. While professional web design can be a great option, it’s also very expensive. Luckily, there are a number of great options available that will still provide you with that great looking website that has everything you need for your business to be successful, including mobile optimization and eCommerce. Plus, these more affordable web hosting options also allow you to more frequently change your website design until you find the perfect image for your brand and a structure that fits your customer base.

It all starts with finding the right web host. Many companies, such as HostGator, provide web hosting in conjunction with a great deal to pick up the perfect domain name for your website. This allows you take care of two birds with one stone -and for one inexpensive charge. Other larger web hosts, such as GoDaddy, even go a step further and provide you with the option of having them design your website and online store, at any time, for a small additional charge.

Once you have your domain purchased, web hosting covered, and your website up and running, you are well on your way to seeing your dreams of having your own online store come true. From there, you just need to develop your product and service base and engage in effective marketing.

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-Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect.- Mark Twain

During the course of your business career you may build a team or many teams to help you to achieve your goals, but you will always be a solo performer. To alter that quote from the Godfather, it is personal and it is strictly business. You must look at your business as being all about you. Your drive, your dream, your determination to achieve you goals against what real does amount to the entire world. It may not be that way, but you have to look at it that way.

Running a business is a choice. This choice is made by a single person.
The type of business that it is was a choice made in the end by one person. Yes you may had asked others for input. you may have done a great deal of market research before coming to a decision, but in the end your business was a solo creation.
How you run your online business is also a series of day to day and moment by moment choices. Once you accept that it, for better or worst like a marriage, will always come down to your commitment to the business and the course that you have charted for it you will be well on your way be being a success business person.
Enjoy this time in your life. Going from building a business to having a successful one is where most of the fun occurs. Do not focus on the destination, focus on the good times that happen along the way. That is part of the reason why you wanted to be your own boss. Why you started your own online business.

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-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.

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.

Below is a quick video on press releases.

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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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Business, Changing Your ways

Business, Changing Your Ways

-You can’t do today’s job with yesterday’s methods and be in business tomorrow.-

We must change and constantly alter the way that we do business to stay ahead of the competition. While always being aware that the competition is not just those who we are aware of, but those who are just starting out. They have probably looked at business such as yours and have entered the marketplace with new ideas and a willingness to exploit all the new business technologies that are available.

The problem with running a business that has been around for a while is that the greatest obstacle to change is success. If you have enjoyed a little success then you will be the one most reluctant to change.

I understand, why change something that is working for something that may or may not work better? Why employ the use of new marketing tools?

The answer to this is obvious. They work. Marketing techniques like social marketing and email marketing work. Email marketing returns over twenty-five to one on every dollar invested. Social marketing is a fantastic way of growing your business and building a brand name. Getting to know a customer on a one to one basis can really help your business over the long-term. When you really know a customer and stay in constant contact with a customer they become yours. Your customer, a customer who will advertise your business by telling others about your business. Telling about the qualities of your goods and services.

If this is not happening with your business then you need to make some changes. Go back to the beginning. Look at the business that you wanted to run and then examine how close you have come to building that business. What changed? Where did your go off course and why?

What good choices did you make and what wrong turns did you take?

Business, where it is brick and mortar or an online business, is about growth and change. Look at your business as a living thing and if a living thing is not constantly growing and changing then it is dying.

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