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Dave Adamczyk and his son Tyler are both avid athletes. Dave went to college on a football scholarship and has been a fan every since. Tyler is a professional baseball player, pitching for the St. Louis Cardinal’s AAA team the Johnson City Cardinals.
So a site named “FlamingBaseball.com” just made sense.
Starting out as a hobby, the site made over $145,000 in sales its first year. Dave expects that to double that number this year.
How successful is your online business? Are you achieving the monetary rewards that you’d hoped to achieve when you set up your Web site?
If not, you may have fallen prey to one of five common misconceptions to achieving success with an online business.
Misconception #1: If you put up a Web site, people will come. Regretfully, this is far from the truth. Competition is fierce on the Internet, and you must learn how to compete in order to have a successful online business. Putting up a Web site is the first step, but doing nothing more will ensure your site’s failure.
Copyright law goes back to the founding fathers who, in order “to promote the progress of science and useful arts” in Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution, secured for authors, artists and inventors the exclusive right to their work for 28 years. In 1909, the Copyright Act allowed that after 28 years, protection could be renewed for another 28 years. In 1978, the law was revised to provide protection until 50 years after the creator’s death. The 1978 law also extended previous unexpired copyrights for another 47 years.
Imagine picking up 2 competing product catalogs with 2 different messages on the cover.
The first one says: “Let us tell you how much our products cost.”
The other one says: “Let us TEACH you the most effective ways to be attractive to the opposite sex.”
If you automatically decide you’ll read the second one and throw the other into the trash, then you would’ve proven one of the best business strategies to be true: In order to become a successful seller, you have to be a teacher, too.
I’ve been hearing a lot of horror stories lately about people spending a lot of money on advertising that gets them no sales. If you’re going through this I have a few tips that may help you out.
First of all, do free advertising and make money from that before you start spending a lot on advertising. This should be a no-brainer, but I guess it’s not for a lot of folks. Yes, it takes money to make money, but be smart about it for crying out loud. Have a budget and only spend what you can afford. There are better things like “how to” information to invest your cash in before you blindly buy ad space. Get educated, then spend.
When small businesses fail, the wreckage is often assigned to undercapitalization, among other mistakes. Seldom is failure attributed to a lack of effective communications that might have modified the behavior of sales prospects in a positive way, thus averting bankruptcy.
In my view, raising money for new businesses is a skill best left to others, but smart, aggressive communications is not. As the entrepreneur, you cannot rely on your financing source to create the broad public exposure your business needs if it is to survive. Ideally from Day 1, you must take the lead in this vital effort accepting the fact that good results come only after careful planning and implementation of a realistic and workable public relations strategy.
If you’re just starting out on the Internet, learning how to market your web site and products is an essential part of your success. However, this is an area in which many new Internet entrepreneurs struggle.
After receiving the same questions numerous times, I have devised a list of the most frequently asked Internet marketing questions.
Question: “Is it true that people are making millions on internet?”
More and more writers are piling onto the web to offer you their expert writing services. But are they really experts?
Here’s how to tell if the copywriter or content writer you’re considering has the “write” stuff:
1. What credentials do they bring to the job? Find out if they have an appropriate background like journalism, advertising or public relations.
If you are involved in any small or home-based business, the secrets of success discovered over a century ago by an Italian economist, Vilfredo Pareto, will skyrocket your sales and profits.
Winners and losers
Identify which of your products or services are winners and which are losers.
Sure, making money online with tons of traffic is easy.
But what if you don’t have much traffic? What if profits trickle in slowly because you aren’t getting the hits? Is it still possible to make a good income online, even when your having trouble getting traffic to your website?
