Should I Start My Own Business?

Written by je Dunn


This is probablyrepparttar most over looked basic question that a person considering starting a business should ask himself or herself. You should sit down and make a list ofrepparttar 116624 advantages having your own business would bring, and also what skills do you bring torepparttar 116625 table that makes you think that you can successfully run your own business.

In this section I am going to lay some tough love on you. This is not meant to discourage you just to better prepare you for repparttar 116626 realities that await you when you hang your, “Open For Business” sign. The business world truly is a jungle. Survival ofrepparttar 116627 fittest isrepparttar 116628 law ofrepparttar 116629 land.

There are wolves in sheep’s clothing waiting to prey on inexperienced entrepreneurs at every bend inrepparttar 116630 road. Not to mentionrepparttar 116631 lions, tigers, and bears oh my how can a new business person survive?

Your best weapon to carry when enteringrepparttar 116632 wild, wild world of business is knowledge.

When we decide to start our own business we tent to get all fired up. Our emotions getrepparttar 116633 best of us and we get carried away musingrepparttar 116634 possibilities of our future financial freedom. We are so excited to getrepparttar 116635 project up and running that we start spending money on allrepparttar 116636 things we are going need for our new successful business. Maybe you buy a desk, a computer, get business cards printed, maybe a fax machine, a business phone number, you pay to register your business name and get a federal tax ID number wow!

This is all new cool and exciting but what aboutrepparttar 116637 boring stuff. Things like writing a business plan, researching your niche market, putting your goals down on paper. Yuck!

One ofrepparttar 116638 key elements of a successful small businessperson is repparttar 116639 willingness to dorepparttar 116640 unglamorous tasks that running your own business requires every day. Weather it is making sales calls, writing letters, submitting articles, tracking ad results. These repetitive tasks arerepparttar 116641 backbone of your business.

To run a home business you must be prepared to wear many hats. You will berepparttar 116642 CEO,repparttar 116643 CFO, head of R&D, sales manager, accountant, secretary, and janitor, plus many other titles that are necessary to make it all happen every day. You will be, “The Man” or “The Woman” asrepparttar 116644 case may be.

Viral Marketing

Written by je Dunn


What does viral marketing mean. To market a product in such a way that it may continue to bring in sales intorepparttar future.

The best example of this is affiliate links in an ebook or newsletter. When a newsletter goes out to a marketers opt in mailing list or he gives away a free report or a free ebook inevitably somewhere inrepparttar 116623 content is an affiliate link or a link to another one ofrepparttar 116624 writer’s products.

Is this sneaky? Shouldn’t they tell you up front that they are trying to sell you something? If these thoughts popped into your mind wake up! Who wasrepparttar 116625 one that downloadedrepparttar 116626 free ebook or signed up for that free report or newsletter from an Internet marketer? Just because something is free does not mean it doesn’t have merit and real value.

The author ofrepparttar 116627 freebie is giving away his hard earned knowledge. Most ofrepparttar 116628 timerepparttar 116629 reader is getting very worthwhile information. This is because ifrepparttar 116630 writer doesn’t establish himself as an expert onrepparttar 116631 subject how could he expect you to want to read more of his / her work?

Furthermore it is inrepparttar 116632 author’s best interest to recommend a quality product, because he wants to establish credibility with repparttar 116633 reader. I have learned more from some free products than I have from some ebooks I paid for. I recommend taking advantage of free material. You can learn from it and you can also evaluaterepparttar 116634 author’s communicating skills. If his free stuff is bad there isn’t any reason to pay to read his other books.

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