Will You Be An Internet Success Story

Written by Raymond Johnston Jr


by Raymond Johnston Jr.

The internet has completely changedrepparttar business world. It has changedrepparttar 121991 whole concept of how to be successful in a home business. It has also providedrepparttar 121992 opportunity for many to give uprepparttar 121993 9 to 5 world and seek their dream onrepparttar 121994 internet. Some have made this transition seem easy and others continue to struggle.

Have you been thinking about making this change? Do you have what it takes to make this a successful move? Let's take a look at a few ofrepparttar 121995 things that ultimately decide who makesrepparttar 121996 grade and who goes down withrepparttar 121997 ship.

1. Work at something you enjoy. There is nothing quite like enjoying your job. It puts a whole new perspective onrepparttar 121998 world. If you like what you do, working becomes a pleasure instead of a chore. Some of you are probably thinking, yeah right, work is not something to enjoy but rather just a pain that we have to endure.

If you decide to work from home, pick out something that you will enjoy. If you don't enjoy what you are doing, it will becomerepparttar 121999 same pain asrepparttar 122000 job you have now. You may enjoy it at first, just because you are home or just because it is new. That will wear off and when it does, you had better be doing something that you enjoy or you will be one ofrepparttar 122001 passengers onrepparttar 122002 sinking ship.

2. You must be disciplined. It is very easy to start wandering when you are working onrepparttar 122003 net. The internet is full of fun and interesting things and it is very easy to find yourself surfing or looking at something totally unrelated to your work.

An email arrives that looks interesting and you decide to go check it out. Fifteen or twenty minutes later, you all at once realize that you were working.

When I first started working onrepparttar 122004 internet, I found that it was taking hours to do a forty-five minute job. Use your work time wisely. I have interests that I like to explore but I have learned to do that at other times. When I go to work, I concentrate on working. I have cut my work time down tremendously since I impimented this technique.

13 Tips To Help Make Your Website More Successful

Written by Raymond Johnston Jr


by Raymond Johnston Jr.

I was looking around at some websites to see what things I liked and disliked about them. There is no doubt that there are things that attract people and there are things that totally turn people off.

I have made a list of 13 tips that can help make your website more successful. Most of them are simple but quite effective at making your site more user friendly.

1. Make your site simple - With all ofrepparttar bells and whistles available, too many people are trying to see how impressive they can make their websites. They may be attractive but unless your goal is to win a contest for best site, impressing people with glitter will not make sales.

2. Make sure your site loads quickly - You do not have long to grab your customer's attention. Make sure that you at least get a fair shot at grabbing his attention. If your site takes too long to load, you will lose a lot of potential customers without even giving your site a chance.

3. Don't have too many items on one page - You do not want to confuse your visitors. You want to make sure that they understand th purpose of your site. Too many items on one page can make this difficult for some. Don't takerepparttar 121990 chance. Make all of your pages simple.

4. Make sure every page lings to home page - It is much easier for your visitors to navigate if all of your pages link back torepparttar 121991 home page. You will not lose as many potential customers if you make your site easier to navigate.

5. Get your own domain name - Free servers are great for some things but trying to gain credibility in a business is not one of them. It is well worthrepparttar 121992 price to get your own domain.

6. Make sure your hosting service offers full support - You want your service to have CGI access and offer secure ordering. This is a place that you don't want to go for cheap. Make sure your service offersrepparttar 121993 things you need before you choose and save a lot of headaches downrepparttar 121994 road.

7. Offer as many options for ordering as possible - The more options you provide for ordering,repparttar 121995 fewer cutomers you will lose. You should have a secure order form on your site. Offeringrepparttar 121996 options to order by phone, fax and by regular mail can also increaserepparttar 121997 number who will order.

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