3 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself Before Making Money Online

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Are you ready to make money online? I only ask as you may be unknowingly unprepared to dive into the online realm. I recently spoke to someone about joining my online team. This individual seemed ready for a change and was eager to get started, but their mindset was totally unprepared for what it would have entailed. This isn't uncommon, I myself had a poor mindset when I first started making money online - I admit it!  Back then, I thought like a scared, broke person before I even started and … [Read more...]

What You Need To Know For An Online Business Expansion

Online Business Expansion

These days, expanding your business couldn't be easier!  Most businesses, from the local, privately owned ones, to the national and international giants, have some type of online business expansion that they are working on to try and reach more people. Bill Gates predicted that by the end of 2002, there would only be two kinds of online businesses - those with an Internet presence and those without any business at all. While he may have been a bit premature with his predictions, the fact … [Read more...]

Top 50 Blogs About Blogging!!!

Blogs about Blogging

I've said it before and I'll say it again - "Blogging is a community!"  We do just as much reading of other people's blogs as we do writing (if not more).  So, following on from the success of the Top 50 Earning Blogs I put together, I thought it would be good to put together an epic list of the top blogs about blogging available online. Both new bloggers and experienced bloggers should find this list useful.  There is a lot of inspirational sites and bloggers here that you can get to know … [Read more...]

Encourage Your Kids to Start Their Own Business Online

Start their own business

One of the nicest things a parent can do for a child is teach them the basics about business by encouraging them to start their own business online. Starting a business, even a small-scale business, can be an excellent learning tool and a great start to bigger and better things. Kids that receive an entrepreneurial education are likely to become confident leaders and live successful lives as they get older. Unfortunately, entrepreneurship is not something commonly taught in most schools. So … [Read more...]

Exploring Global eCommerce Opportunities

Global eCommerce

Britain's economy has endured two recessions since the 2008 financial crisis and contracted again at the end of 2012. The economy is bouncing along the bottom, businesses are holding strong and fighting for profits in a tough and turbulent markets. With further news that the retail rector has seen a fall in sales in January and with sales volumes slipping down to just 0.6% in both monthly and annual terms, the prospect of growth in the UK looks bleak for the retail sector. The UK has one … [Read more...]

Find Freelance Writing Work By Thinking Outside the Box

Find Freelance Writing Work

As a freelance writer, you have nearly unlimited opportunities to find work. After all, every business needs some kind of writing done, whether it is for their website, print campaign, e-mail marketing or even their product packaging. However, for as many opportunities as there are, there seem to be about three freelancers willing to do the work for every job that is out there. When competition for work is so high, you have to think a little more creatively than just searching job boards to … [Read more...]

Clair Trebes Interview – Taking Your Local Business To The Next Level

Clair Trebes

Blogging is becoming much more important for both online and offline businesses.  Many local businesses are having to get online to find new business and raise their profile, particularly now that competition is so fierce on the high street.  I thought that it would be good to chat to someone who was promoting their own local business online, which is why I have lined up a special interview with Clair Trebes! Clair runs her own site ‘ThisIsClairTrebes.com’, as well as managing the … [Read more...]

Get Started! Freelancing On The Rise

Freelancing

Ahhhh, the life of a freelancer. Sipping on Starbucks, while surfing the Internet, sending emails and working on projects on a park bench among the company of singing birds, trees and lots of sunshine. While freelancing does carry some appeal because of the freedom it offers to independent contractors, it's not for everyone. It requires a firm grasp of organization in your financial and professional life. Whether you work in the editing, photography, graphic design or writing industry, having a … [Read more...]

8 Top Tips To Help With eCommerce Website Design

eCommerce Website Design

Each and every one of us has, at one point or another, been on an eCommerce website.  We buy clothes, food, entertainment, furniture, holidays, etc. all via an online shopping portal as it is seen to be easy to do.  It is only easy due to the design of the eCommerce website  that has been used and this design has been carefully planned out to help the consumers. It can be very frustrating when you search for something to buy online, only to find that the website isn't designed very well, … [Read more...]

Who Killed Subscription Commerce (And Is It Really Dead)?

Subscription Commerce

Most people will tell you that subscription commerce is the new non-subscription commerce.  Not many will start at the beginning and talk about the death of this form of marketing.  To be fair to this tried, tested and seriously over-done sales model, it's not actually dead.  Languishing maybe, on life support, but not dead.  Like so many tricks of sales and marketing it has even seen something of a second childhood, thanks to the internet.  There are even some internet marketers who think … [Read more...]