HOW TO CHOOSE A COMPANY THAT WILL STILL BE AROUND AT PAYDAY!Written by Judy Thompson
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Are products consumable? Will purchaser be back to buy more of same products? Non-consumable products may be good products, but will involve a lot more selling skills. Is timing right for products? For example, people today are looking for ways to feel better, look younger and lose weight, using good nutrition products. Thus, a nutrition company that offers well-researched products, products that can help people improve their lives, could be a good choice. III. Is promoter of opportunity telling you that you won’t have to work to make money? While it certainly is possible for you to be one of lucky people who receive enough “spillover” to make a little money in some programs, don’t you count on it! In most cases, you will have to do some work to receive an income. After all, you are joining a business opportunity. Expect to work it like a business. Internet businesses, however, do generally enable you to work part-time from comfort of your own home, choose your own hours, and invest whatever money you are comfortable with. So, maybe you have found several opportunities that seem to meet our “stable company” requirements as described in this article. The company has good, consumable products and has been in business for a few years. Additional points to consider before making your selection have to do with kind of help and support you will get. Does company offer training, business tools, and good leads to help you? Will your prospective enroller be around to help you? Write or call this person who says that he or she wants to be your sponsor, and ask some questions. Choosing best business opportunity is a decision you want to make wisely. Once you choose right business for yourself, you will continue to have many offers from people who want you to join their “hot, new deal.” Don’t join them. Take time to learn everything you can about your new company and its products before you even consider anything else! Jumping around from opportunity to opportunity leads to failure. To succeed with any business requires focus. The more confidence you have that you chose best business for yourself, better chance you will have for success!

Judy Thompson is a former teacher and an experienced network marketer. She promotes a nutrition company that has an automated support system. For details, go to: http://automaticbuilder.com/333015895/?source=sya205
| | The Ecommerce Business PlanWritten by Ray Yee
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- Search engine optimization. Optimizing your website for high search engine results on google, yahoo and msn, is a powerful way of getting large volumes of traffic at low cost. However, you have to put in a lot of effort for a long period of time, as top rankings do not appear overnight. There are two factors for search engine optimization: On-page or Off-page optimization. On-page optimization involves tweaking page title, header and meta tags to include website keywords. It also involves scattering keywords throughout page to improve site relevancy. Off-page optimization, on other hand, is much more important than on-page. It involves soliciting links from relevant websites. The more websites that link to your site, and higher importance/relevance of website linking to yours, higher your website will be ranked on search engines. Google places a very strong emphasis on this. - Pay-per-click (PPC) Search Engines. This requires you to pay a sum of money for every visitor that clicks through search engine to your website. The higher amount you pay, higher your website will be ranked on PPC search engine. The basis for profiting with this marketing tool is by bidding less than amount that each visitor to your website is worth. Overture is definitely market leader for pay-per-click search engines. 4) Competitive Analysis. In this section, you have to analyze strengths and weaknesses of your competitors, and factors that will differentiate your products or services from your competitors. You have to analyze your competitors and record what makes them so successful, and also weaknesses you can capitalize on to get an edge in market. For example, competitors may not be using email marketing effectively to promote products to customers. You can capitalize on this by using newsletters more intensively, establishing your credibility as an industry expert. To differentiate an online Drop Ship business, it is more viable to provide a reliable service from your website. This usually means providing a wealth of tips, articles and information for your visitors. This will attract them to continuously return to your website for latest tips and resources that will benefit them. Fast response to their email queries and also fast shipping are also good services you can provide. 5) The financial projection section. In this section you can project profit-loss statements and cash flow statements for your business. The profit-loss statement records monthly profit/loss realized over months, while cash flow statement records difference between revenue and expenditure over months. The costs for an online Drop Ship business will include: - One-time costs for software like shopping cart software, email marketing software, and also search engine optimization software. - Recurring costs for wholesale price of products, web hosting fees, a proportion of revenue paid to your third party credit card merchant to process your payments, and also internet marketing costs. This section will be useful for you to gauge how your Drop Ship business performs according to your expectations. In conclusion, business plans do not only apply to real-world businesses, but are equally critical to online businesses as well. They serve as blueprints of companies and also as strong calls to action for aspiring internet entrepreneurs to achieve their success in ecommerce. *You are welcome to reprint this article as long as you include Author’s resource box with article and entire article remains unchanged.

About the Author: Ray Yee is the founder and president of Dropshipperscentral, a website which provides a wealth of informative articles, tips and resources on everything you’ll ever need to know about setting up a Drop Ship Business and marketing it. Click here for the Wholesale Drop Ship Directory from http://www.dropshipperscentral.com
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