by asail | Feb 29, 2016 | Business
By Kourtney Hunt | Submitted On February 15, 2016
What do you love doing during your leisure time? Which are your hobbies? Did you know that you can turn those hobbies into a business idea? There is nothing nicer than venturing into a business which is related to something that you love and you have passion for. It does not matter what your hobbies are. All you need is a good financial plan, hard work and patience.
According to Rachna D. Jain, the founder of business coaching firm “Excel with Ease Coaching” in Columbia, most successful entrepreneurs are the ones who have a passion for the work they do. Off course starting a business of your own has its own benefits. For instance, you are the ultimate authority in the business meaning you drive all business processes including marketing, pricing and production. You are also in a position to take financial risks hence turning every day’s challenges into new opportunities.
Listed below is a list of business ideas which can be related to your hobby and which you can start a business with.
1. Consultant. Consulting services have a wide range depending on what your passion is. If you have a passion for beauty and cosmetics, hair styling you can make a good beauty consultant. If you love travelling you know of the best places to travel for holidays, honeymoons and many other events making you a travel consultant.
2. Electronics repair. Some people have a passion for learning how machines and alliances work. This makes them conversant with most machines like televisions, computers and many others. You can turn such a passion into a business by repairing machines.
3. Pet breeder. Many people are fond of being around domestic animals like dogs, cats or horses. They know how to feed and train them making that a good business start up.
4. Planning events. If you love having fun, you know what it takes to make an engaging event like a wedding or a birthday party.
5. Coaching. Football or golf fanatics can make good coaches of such games.
6. Home inspection. Most women love furnishing their homes with the latest items in the market hence they know of every new house item in the market. Real estate owners can grant you contracts of inspecting their homes.
7. Interior design. If painting and drawing are your hobbies you already have a good start. Make good drawings and market yourself on the social media outlets like You tube.
8. Jewellery making. You only need your hands to make nice and attractive jewels and you earn yourself a living.
9. Marketing. Some people are good at their word of mouth making them good influencers and brand advocates.
10. Music lessons. Playing guitar, keyboard and singing are some people’s hobbies. You can train people on such music related lessons and make a good business.
Remember, turning your hobby into a business requires some research. Beware of the principles of business before venturing into one. Once you turn your hobby into business be cautious! You are no longer doing the hobby for enjoyment but to earn a living. Make it a habit of learning new things about your hobby-turned-business to avoid burn outs.
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by asail | Oct 25, 2015 | Business, Search Engine optimization
By Dan H Grijzenhout | Submitted On October 17, 2015
It had been quite a while since I had gone through some of the Google tutorials that I used to watch when I was first getting started with building an online business presence so I decided to go back into these and nose around a bit and I was startled with what I had found.
Despite all my work recently trying to understand SEO, keyword searching, building backlinks, building more website content and doing a myriad of other things all in the name of building organic traffic, I found the traffic had not been growing like I thought it should be doing so I decided to go back to basics and that meant taking another look at Google itself, which brought me back to some of their tutorials.
I quite literally stumbled upon their “Google Console” tool which I hadn’t looked at in close to a year and I found it by going to my browser and initiating the “site: (and then your full site domain name)” command which is a quick method of looking at your own website’s page names and descriptions with a view to improving on your text for them.
I reacquainted myself with the Google Console tool and was totally startled to find just how much I had fallen off the wagon with respect to running a clean website as Google would view it. Google by the way is motivated by its advertisers to present quality websites to its consumers so they are regularly surfing our sites and recording things that they notice which we need to be fixing up to remain high in their search engine rankings. You may have great content, terrific SEO keywords and descriptions in place, lots of quality backlinks etc., but if your site is not “Clean” they just won’t be seeing you.
The Google Console application by the way, is found in the “webmaster directory section of the Google website – you can also find it under the “Google Tools” selection if you are using Chrome as a browser. Before you can start using the tool, you will need to open it for the first time and copy the “SPF – TXT” record link they will give you and then go to where you have registered your domain and paste it into your.txt record line attached to your domain. Then you will need to go back to the tool and verify your ownership of the domain (just a button click to complete this step). Once done, you will probably need to wait about 24 hours or so to give Google a chance to run its queries against your site so it can start recording for you within your console what your site errors are.
So here is what I was startled to find out about that needed to be repaired.
First, I had 14 error 404’s where links were still going to pages that did not exist any longer.
I had several “Duplicate Record” Description/Meta Tag errors where I had copied old pages to create new pages and had not remembered to change the Meta data on the new pages. Google does not like duplicate pages with the same Meta data in place.
There were several web pages where I had become lazy and had not filled out complete descriptions in the Meta data area.
There were a few pages where the Meta tags did not match up with the page titles and descriptions – this again as a result of copying new pages from old ones and forgetting to update the Meta tags or the descriptions or the titles – in any event, they were out of synch.
Google now places a big emphasis on your webpages being friendly to mobile devices in order for your site to be seen as being clean. This was a new requirement from when I had first started building this site so a number of the pages were not “Responsive Design” compliant – 19 pages in fact. This is fixable. The first thing you have to do is ensure that every one of your pages contains a line of code it the meta area of its header information that configures your “Viewport” – and that is how Google describes the error it gives you the message “Viewport Not Configured”. Search Google help for Viewport Meta code and you can get to the instructions for inserting this code along with the code string itself.
Font to small: There were 4 webpages with font set too small to work properly on mobile devices.
Touch Elements to Close: There were several webpages that had buttons installed too closely to be easily and separately usable on a mobile device – they would overlap on that platform so they needed to be spaced further apart.
Flash Usage error: The site still been using some older “Adobe Flash Player” scripts that had to be deleted in about a dozen places. Apparently, Google does not like how the older Flash players work on mobile platforms – there are issues on some of them so they would like you to abandon your older flash players on your webpages in favor of newer technologies.
So bottom line here is that the website is in process of becoming fully “righteous” again with Google and I should get there in the next day or so and would hope to see the search results start to pick up again. All these months I have been regularly working on the site to improve it, I have also been sloppy at times and/or just didn’t realize that I was doing some things wrong and as a result, was hurting the Google rankings.
So a word to the wise, get setup with Google Console and get your site righteous with them to see your viewing numbers go up. And they will know you are working on these tasks and I suspect you will be rewarded accordingly because as you fix items, you can hit buttons within the console to say the item was fixed and you can retest pages for the mobile platform errors so you can see what you need to do page by page to get them compliant as well. Once righteous, you can focus on your SEO again and really start to rack up the viewing numbers and the sales.
Dan has lived a successful entrepreneurial career for over 30 years. He has been a consultant, entrepreneur, systems architect and developer, investor and business owner and is now using this knowledge to create a series of “no charge to the consumer” videos and articles in an attempt to help others pursuing entrepreneurial business endeavors of their own.
You can find more on Dan’s publications via his website at howtoguru.club and you can view his Blog site at howto-guru.com/Home.php/blog/
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by asail | Jul 10, 2015 | blog, Business
By Robert Dokhani | Submitted On June 30, 2015
“You have inherited $1,000,000 from a government institution in Nigeria and your personal details are required so that the transfer may be completed. You must act now.” I’m sure all of us have received this email at least a dozen times. Or how about the one where you receive a mailer (or text message) stating that your email address (or phone number) has won a huge sum of money in an overseas lottery and all the so-called “contest officials” need is a small amount of money to release your winnings?
While the boom of the internet has been beneficial in many ways, it is also made us extremely vulnerable to a world of manipulative and unscrupulous elements. And no matter how careful you think you are, it isn’t long before you find yourself the victim of some sort of con or financial theft.
Now, this is not to say that there aren’t any legitimate online businesses. From setting up websites to writing your own blog, there are many ways for retirees, part-timers, the disabled and even the illiterate to earn decent money over the internet. Service platforms such as Freelancer, Odesk, and others have created and offer good avenues for regular income. Likewise, well-established affiliate programs offer great opportunity to earn money online.
Yet, the web is full of predators just waiting to scam you out of your hard-earned money. One of the main reasons for this, of course, is the complete anonymity afforded by the internet. Another is the naivety of the people. Simply saying, “That would never happen to me” is not enough, because, the reality is that we are all vulnerable in some way or the other. If you’re not careful enough, you could find yourself the unfortunate victim of an internet scam.
Awareness is thus the key. Remember that old adage, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch”? No one wants to just give out money. There’s always a catch. If an offer sounds too good to be true, it probably is. Scammers rely on an inherent quality we all have – greed (not called one of the seven deadly sins for nothing). They exploit desperate situations, earn your trust and take undue advantage.
Some scammers rely on your generosity of heart. Also called the “stranded traveler” phishing scam, this is where you receive an email from a friend saying that he/she was mugged while travelling overseas and lost all his/her credit cards and money. There is an urgent plea requesting you to wire some money to pay for the hotel and the trip back home. Always be wary of such requests and confirm with your friend or his/her family the veracity of such claims. You would be surprised to learn that over 3 million people in the UK fall victim to such rip-offs each year.
But aren’t we partly to blame for falling for these hare-brained schemes? Are we just being caught off-guard? Or our curiosity and our need for making easy money without doing any of the hard work getting the better of us? Whatever the reason, just remember that the next time you receive an email offering you money, don’t even spend time reading it, just hit that delete button as fast as you can.
Robert Dokhani, founder of Web Insight Seminars ( http://www.webinsight.ca ), has over twenty years of experience as an entrepreneur and business consultant. These days, Robert is ecstatic to give back to the business community through this site and his seminars run globally. Much of the high quality content on this site is completely, no-strings-attached, free. Have a look around – we look forward to seeing you…
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by asail | May 5, 2015 | Business
By Emily J. Jacques | Submitted On April 16, 2015
Would you like to start a business from home? If so, there are many options to choose from. Many people earn a nice side income, and some, a handsome full-time income, by putting their interests and talents to work.
But those who actually make a nice profit with their businesses have not just jumped into something that looked promising and hoped for the best. To establish a successful work-at-home business, you need to learn certain secrets. And the most successful micro-business owners learn this one well:
You need to research the market.
How do you do that? After thinking about what your business might consist of, based on your interests and expertise, you need to first take a look at what your target market is already buying the most of. Go to major online stores and look on the bestseller lists of the categories that fit with your business. Take a look at non-fiction books related to your business idea.
What people are already buying is what you need to be selling.
This sounds counterintuitive. After all, won’t you be in competition with businesses that are already established? To an extent. But when there is a large demand for something, there needs to be more suppliers.
Take shampoo. A lot of companies make shampoo, because it’s something most people use every day. But that doesn’t mean you couldn’t earn a good living selling shampoo. On the contrary, since the product is in such high demand you would find customers a lot more easily than if you were selling wedding garters.
You can also figure out what kind of business might work by going to a bookstore and examine the magazine titles. First, whatever topic that has its own magazine is bound to have some good business ideas hidden therein. Second, glancing at the article teasers on the front cover can give you some ideas about what the target market is interested in.
Want to go into digital self-publishing? You’ll make a lot more money selling romance than junior science books.
Another way to research your market is to find out what problems they are struggling with. Overweight people who want to lose weight struggle with finding a diet that works. Dog lovers may want to know what the healthiest food for their pets is. Mothers of young children are desperate to know how to find peace and relaxation when they feel like they’re being torn in several directions every moment of every day.
To succeed with a work-at-home business, you have to do your research. You need to know what people want, and then figure out how to meet their needs within the context of your business model and unique skill set and talents.
However, diligently researching the market is really only a minor step to succeeding with a work-at-home business. To truly trump the competition, there are nine critical keys you need to know and put into play. Find out what these keys are when you download your FREE copy of my special report, “9 Work-At-Home Keys”, which is available at http://liveyourdreamswithemily.com/keys.
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by asail | Apr 13, 2015 | Business
By Lakeisha B McKnight | Submitted On April 06, 2015
Marjorie Alfus, one of the leading advocates of women in business once said that women business owners are growing and there don’t seem to be any signs that it is slowing down. For several years, she has funded lots of charities and offered lots of grants just so women could make it in the business world. The good news is that her help and the help of all other advocates are now bearing fruit.
Over the past 10 years, the growth of businesses run by women has doubled up. Further studies show that, more or less, the market share is equally divided. Likewise, the same trend is seen worldwide. Women becoming entrepreneurs or “womentrepreneurs” are now becoming widely celebrated because of the jobs they bring and the added value they bring to the economy. How exactly was this accomplished though? Here are some takeaways.
Added Competition
While there has always been competition in the market, the influx of more competitors, both male and female, is a cause for improvements in the various industries. Providers that used to dominate would think of more cost-effective packages in order to retain their customers. Likewise, they would also provide a better range of services given that others would soon compete with their basic offerings.
Better and More Attractive Service
Women have always been better at relationships and the customer-provider relationship is no exemption. Women know what customers want and are quick to realize their needs. That’s why women CEOs are able to package and market services better than their male counterparts. Women leaders are also known to communicate well with their clients.
Vision
The end-goal for entering business is usually money but women are able to see past that. They care about tons of things aside from just positive revenue. Some of these include their employee happiness, other ventures, designing the workplace, collaboration mediums and many more. This heightened corporate vision also enables these women to be well-rounded. Such traits are crucial when managing businesses as they are able to place themselves well in any situation.
Practicality
Yes, women are quite practical. When packaging services to offer, sometimes men tend to fluff it all up with value-added services that they overlook practicality in the long run. Sometimes, understanding the basic and authentic needs of the customer is all that is needed to make a business successful.
The rampant growth of “womentrepreneurs” has clearly made a huge impact on the business world. With more bright minds entering the industry, the world will definitely benefit from it and will bring us an awesome future.
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