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Getting Started, Part 1

Getting Started, Part 1

I forgot that some of you are here for the first time. That some of you do not have your business off the ground yet. You are just getting started.

Do not worry, it is not that difficult to start an online business or service. You do it the way most things are done, one step at a time. You figure out what you want your business to do for you and what it will take for that business to provide this.

If it is a regular cash flow or long term security it will be up to this business to do that for you.

You are going to need a base of operations. Some place to hang up an open for business sign. Online we do this at an existing website or at our own website. If you are starting out I would suggest that you use sites like Ebay or Amazon or Ebid to learn the basics. And then move on to building your own site.

Why do I need a site of my own?

Because it is yours. You own it. You can not be removed from it or fired from it or suspended from it. You can not have the rules change on you because you set the rules of operation there. You will not have to pay sellers fees at your own site. You will not have to compete with others undercutting your prices at your own site.

How do I build my own site? They are difficult to put together. I can barely turn on a my computer.

I understand. It took me almost two years to learn all that I needed to learn before I built this site. Now I teach others. You can visit the DIY section of this site and follow the tutorials there. It is so much easier than you think.

If not you could always try the service below. They can do it for you and offer 24 hour 7 day a week help with any and all questions that may come up.

Again, why do I need my own site if I am going to run an online business or store?

The final answer is freedom. You will be free to make it or fail on your own. You will be free to grow at your own pace and control your own future. Freedom is always worth what ever it takes to achieve it.

Good luck and remember us on stumbleupon and Google plus.

It’s About the Work

Going about it Olde School

You can do it the old fashion way. That way is just to go out and do it. Trial and error. You will make mistakes. You will fail more than you succeed.

You will want to quit a few dozen times if you are lucky, but at the end of the day if you are willing to grind it out you might make it.

Yes, that is what I just said. You might make it. I will not promise you that you will make it because no one except God can do that. All I can say that if you keep trying and keep learning as you go you will be giving yourself a great chance at success. You most likely will reach your goals if you keep moving forward. The one promise that I can make you is that if you do nothing and wait for the business that you wanted and the freedom that you desire to fall into your lap it will never happen. In the real world you have to hustle for it. You have to do the grunt work. You have to make it happen.

My site is designed to offer you advice on how to supply your online business and if you need it how to DIY your own website. This is a site and not a magic shop. If you want to make your dreams come true you are going to have to wake up and get to work on them.

Good luck with your website and or online business. If you find information provided here of some use to you remember to mention this site to a friend. Stumble us on Stumbleupon, add us to your google plus and if an advertiser has something of interest to you please visit them. They help to pay for the existence of this site.

Thank you for visiting. Have a nice day.

The Lone Road We Walk

The Lone Road

There are going to be times when we as business people will have to wall alone. Usually this is because we have no choice. In an idea world we are all surround by positive and uplifting people, but the real world is populated by frightened naysayers. Voice that will whisper if you are lucky and shout if you are not that you can not do it. Or perhaps you can do it, but today in not the time and the way you are going about it is not the way. These are the voice of those who know everything and have accomplished next to nothing. Give them all the attention that they deserve. I would suggest five seconds and forget about them.

At the end of the day you are responsible for how your business runs. Do not get me wrong, these same voices will be the first ones to speak up when things are going well. They will want to share the good times, but not the struggles. The road will at times seem too long. It will be bitter and it will seem as if it goes round and round in circles. But do not give up. Failure is not the end unless you allow to be. If you are willing to learn from that failure you can grow stronger and accomplish all of your business dreams.

This online business or store that you have decided to run was never going to be a walk in the park. Some part of you always knew that it would be a long road, but that part also knew that you would persist and make it to the end. If you have not made it yet have a little fate, you are closer than you think.

Good luck guys and get back to work.

Your Go To Players

What Makes Your Business Tick?

We are in the middle of the summer movie season and the film industry has a certain way of doing business. They build their industry around what is called tent poles films. If everything else fails the profit that these movies bring in will keep the massive studios going. They are The Avengers, Spiderman, Men in Black, Batman and the Pixar films. These tent pole movies are their go to products.

What are your tent pole items? What are your go to products? What makes your online store tick? What keeps your online business afloat even when everything else is going bad?

Burger King has its Whopper and MacDonald’s has its french fries. Your business has it’s what?

Do you make most of your money from Ebay or Amazon and you just throw a bunch of stuff up for sale and hope for the best or do you go with a plan. I would suggest that if you want to support your family you come up with a plan and find a go to item. Your circus is coming to town and what is the one-act that you know will make the audience scream and gasp? What can you count on?

If you do not have that go to item where can you go to get it?
That is mostly up to you. I have some resources that I use. Some that work for me, but I can only suggest things. You will have to decide for yourself.

If you need help I would suggest business and or trade magazines. Yeah, actual magazines still exist and in this area they can be very useful. You can read about resources and find out about new developments in your niche. Below is a banner for a service where you can order some free business magazines. Sounds like a waste of time? Two years ago I was sitting in a doctor’s office and I picked up a beat up copy of a website magazine. Two years later I have two websites and seven blogs of my own. I wish that someone had told me about websites and the power of SEO years ago. What I am trying to say is that you will never know until you try it what resource will be the right one for you.

Okay that is it for today. Remember to stumble us on stumbleupon, recommend this site to a friend and try something new for your business. If not each day then at least one new thing a week.

A Winning Business

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.”

Many refer to the world of business as a playing field and those who run the biggest and best businesses on earth call it a battle field. Whether you are playing a game or waging a war the goal has to be the same and that is winning. How are you going to win today. How are you going to accomplish more than the next guy? Why will your customers pick you over the competition?

I believe that as an online business person it comes down to a few basics. They have not changed much since the beginning of time.

Quality of merchandise or service.

How quickly that service or product can be delivered.

The cost of the service or merchandise.

Beyond these three is the Branding of that service or merchandise. How many people know that you and or your service exist? Letting people in on the fact that your business exist is equally as important as the other basics.

“Well I sell on Amazon or I am a Powerseller on Ebay.”

Good for you, but I heard you say Amazon and Ebay. At the end of the day you are working for their business and not the other way around. Hey, I understand. I use to think that way. Now I use Amazon and Ebay as a resource to market and promote my own websites. They exist to act as a portal by which customers are introduced to the services that I offer. I refuse to depend upon them. Those companies could crash and burn, nothing is too big to fail and what if one or both decides to suspend my account or review it. This could put my business on hold for weeks or even months. This has happened to many business due to no fault of their own. A few days without a steady income can damage a small business. A few weeks can destroy it. Having your own website is very important. It is at the end of the day your own brand. My brand is cannonexcel7, I promote it each and everyday. If I treat it well my brand will help me to retire comfortably within the next ten years.

What is the name of your brand? Do you have a website? Would you like to have one. I have provide information at this site on how to DIY your own site. If you are too busy or feel uncomfortable doing it yourself then you could try the services of the company listed below. Click their banner ad and try their trial offer.

Good luck with your online business and remember to stumble us on Stumbleipon and add us to your google plus.

Trying New Things

Our business in life is not to get ahead of others, but to get ahead of ourselves — to break our own records, to outstrip our yesterday by our today.” Stewart B. Johnson

Why try new things?

This argument comes up as often when things are going well as when things are going badly. Why try new things, everything is running smoothly. This is the don’t rock the boat model of running a business.

I understand it and have fallen prey to it far too often. I spent the first half of my career as an online business person specializing in selling media. Hard media in the form of books, dvds and blurays. Anyone who has or still earns a living in this area can tell you that this industry peaked around 2008 or 2009 and it has been in decline since then. The reason for this is advancements in technology. VOD or video on demand and digital downloads of all types of media has impacted those who sell standard media. If you are having trouble understanding this look at the shape that your local news papers are in. The digital world is replacing old media and those of us who were slow to adjust watched our businesses go into decline.

The other side of the rock the boat coin are those who believe that if hey alter course that bad will go to worst. Thinking like that is borderline insanity and will be the death of your business. Change and adapt when things are going both well and do it with a greater sense of urgency when things are going badly.

If your online business is to grow you are going to have to make changes. Find new sources of supply to meet a demand that you are not even aware of yet. You are going to have to find new ways to reach your customers if your business is going to maintain its market share yet alone grow. With each post this month I will offer a link to a company or service that can help your business grow. Visit their sites and try their trial offers. Some may prove to be necessary for your day-to-day operation. Others maybe discarded after a day or two.

I would like you to check out this company, they can help you create and manage forms and emailing list. Why do I need such a company you ask? Well why do the business that do seven or eight figures in business online spend so much time having visitor fill out forms and gathering email addresses? The answer is that it is good for the long-term growth of their business.

Good luck with your online store and or business and remember the number one rule of those who have created a successful business is don’t be afraid to fail. After all how many planes did not take off before the first one did, how many cars did not start and how many phones never rang before someone was able to say “hello no, you
dialed the wrong number.”

Know your Strengths and Weaknesses

The Things We Don’t Know

There is probably one thing that you do not know that you do not know and it is obvious. You do not know your strengths and weaknesses. For the longest time as an online business person I had no clue what if any of my strengths were.

Once I found what they were and were not it allowed me to play to my strengths. I sort of do a check down at the start and end of each day. At the beginning of each day setting the basic goal of focusing my actions toward the areas that I am strongest in and then working on the ones where I discovered weakness. If I could not handle certain parts of the day-to-day operation of my business or if I found myself spending far too much time on an area that I found to be far to difficult then I would hire someone to aid me in that area. At the end of each day I go over all that I have accomplished and left on the table and normally the accomplishments are usually in comfortable areas of strength and the work left on the table are in my weaker areas.

The lesson learned from this is that knowing your strengths and weaknesses makes for a more efficiently run business. It is okay to admit that you can not do everything. As a matter of fact it is better than okay, it is good business. If you are having trouble with handling the marketing of your business or managing email and list then hire a company or service to do this for you. This frees you up to do the things that you do best. Some of us are good at writing and others are great talkers. If you are good at talking or appearing in front of a camera then use that to grow your business. Go on Youtube or get yourself an online radio broadcast or blog broadcast. Remember that at the end of the day the goal is always to be promoting you online store or online business. To always be closing the next deal.

Allow me to close for now. If you find these post or the information that I provide for you’re here useful take a moment to do a social bookmark, whether it is google plus or stumbleupon. Check out some of the companies that I promote on various pages of this site. It is free to click and visit them all. Companies like Gro Social has help many turn their Facebook page into a promotional tool for their businesses after trying and failing on their own to do so and the service known as GetResponse has helped many of those who have visited this site. If you need someone else to act as an auto responder for your business they are great. They can handle newsletters and sign-up forms for you. Building list and email marketing will be an important part of growing your business into something that can not only help you and your family get by, but get ahead.

Some of you have asked questions about my advertisers. I write about other things, but I do not mention much if anything about GetResponse, they have ads on most of my pages and I never tell you anything about them so I thought I would include a quick tutorial on their service. Okay here it is.

Okay that is the sales pitch for today. Get back to work and remember know your strengths and work on improving in the areas where you are weak.

The Online Business Person

The Business Person in You

-“Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell ‘em, ‘Certainly, I can!’ Then get busy and find out how to do it.” Theodore Roosevelt.-

It was not so long ago that you only dreamed about running your own online business. You worked for someone else or perhaps you even still do, but you look at that job as the day job and the online store as the real job. At some point you realized that this was your future.

You were going to be a business person.

Your were going to be your own boss and now here you are. I know that it is frightening at times. After all you are all on your own. It is sink or swim and it is up to you. No one can help you do what must be done each day and even if they could would you really want them to. Part of running your own online business is the freedom that it has given you and if Harry Potter showed up with a magic wand ready to make everything run smoothly most of us would tell him to get a hair cut and hit the bricks. This is a do it yourself operation and that is where the fun is. Those closest to you do not understand that and they never will. If they did understand the joy of running your own business they would be doing it.

I am not here to do your job for you. What I am here to do is offer some advice. I have spent years of trial and error trying to figure out how to get supplies for my online store. Learning how to build my own website. The truth on my journey is that I tried and failed a half-dozen times before maybe I have gotten it right.

I earn a living. I support my family. I have free time to pursue my filmmaking hobby. I want the same for anyone who is willing to put in the time and effort. If you stick around this site and learn a few new things. Visit a site or two that I recommend. Look if you were comfortable where you are you would not be here. So there is room to improve.

-“You must either modify your dreams or magnify your skills.”Jim Rohn-

Profit Is Our Goal

“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”- Thomas Edison

Profit Is Our Goal

Profit is our goal. Profit is why we have started our businesses.
Profit is what will keep us in business.

To buy low and to sell high is what makes the stock market work and it is what will make your online stores thrive.

Profit is not how we keep score. Profit is how we survive. Just like finding water in the desert or finding shelter from a storm profit is what keeps us alive in the world of business.

How do we achieve profit?

Easy to answer.

We buy at a wholesale price and we sale at a retail price.

We buy in bulk when we have to and we turn over what we have purchased as quickly as possible.

The goal of this site is to show you a way to do this.

You have emptied your closets. You have tried flee markets and thrift stores and yard sales and you can not earn enough. You have outlets to sell your items, but you can not get enough of them to earn a living.

At this site you will learn about Liquidations and overseas suppliers and you will sign up at these sites and build an inventory. With this inventory your profits will grow.

Later you will want to create your own website just as those before you have worked at a company for a time, learned the ropes and then moved on to open their own business. You can learn how to do this here. You will learn about hosting and domains and you will start your own site. You will become your own boss and it will be you who determines how much profit you earn.

The choice is yours.

The time is now.

Lets get started.

Here are the keys to my site, go and explore. I promise that there are things here that will help grow your business and perhaps change your lives.

Your online store

Where to Get Things To Sell Online

If you are actually having this problem then that is actually good news. You are now doing well enough with your online store that you are running low on product. Whether you sell at Ebay, Amazon, the few dozen other online marketplaces or even your own website.

You have sold everything from the back of your closet. You have done the thrift store and yard sale tour and now you are stuck. You have a customer base and nothing to offer to them. That is okay, we all reach this point and through trial and error we find a way to move on to the next level. This site is dedicated to helping you eliminate the trial and error.
We will be going over a great deal of options, some of which will work better than others. The right items to sell online will differ from one person to another.

If you are an Ebay or an Amazon seller the items that you need for your store may be night and day. One site is fixed price and the other is Auction. You may be stocking up for your own site or buy items to supply a small home based business.

Read all that is posted here, both by me and comments by others and together we will find the best path to get supplies for your online store.

“Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.” – Nietzsche

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