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How to Survive in an Online Business

Tuesday, September 7th, 2010

If your company does not offer its services/products online, then you’re definitely living in the Stone Age. Businesses today realize that in order to stay competitive, they have to communicate with today’s audience who do business primarily online

Running an online business means that you have a global audience. And having a global audience means that your store is up and running twenty four hours every day and seven days of the week. While your customers from New York might be sleeping, those from Tokyo would surely be awake. Therefore an online business is one that never sleeps. It is one that is always on call by customers. As such, an online business must be manned at all times, keeping a close watch on potential business.

In managing an online business, communication is important. Using email and instant messaging as a form of communication between you and your staff will surely be beneficial. There are also different technologies such as the VoIP that enables you to talk with your business partners and your staff from all over the world quite easily. But since you and your associates live in different time zones it is important to set up a specific time of the day when you can communicate with them about the updates and different issues that your business face today and what they need to do about it. You should make sure that they follow your instruction and schedule strictly.

Meetings are also a must for online businesses. Meetings are where you’ll know the issues hounding your employees and problems that the business is facing. To be able to save on time and effort, online businesses today can meet in an online conference room. This will eradicate the need for physical space and manual preparations.

Another way to survive online is to build up your brand! Yes, brand is important even though you’re on the Internet. Building your brand means providing good products, fast services, and pleasant experiences to your customers. Yes, you’ll definitely want your customers to have pleasant experiences. Remember, word spreads fast on the Internet. If you have one customer who had a not-so-good time in dealing with your online business and spreads the rumor, then chances are your name will be ruined.

Don’t forget that your website is the face of your online business. Surviving in the online world means that your online business must be able to keep up with the latest technology. And in designing your storefront always keep navigation in mind. A potential customer would not want to visit twenty different web pages just to buy a certain product.

Surviving your online business is tough. Everyday, there are thousands of companies going online and millions of individuals setting up an online business. Ultimately, the key is to success in this endeavor is to love what you do. After all, not everyone gets to touch lives in a global scale.

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Online Businesses are Doom to be Fail ? Three Main Reasons

Monday, August 16th, 2010

Many people intent to start an online business because they could see the potential of making money by starting one. The start-up cost is relatively much more cheaper than starting off line business, and it could be started while keeping your day job.

But in reality and from own personal experience few years ago many online businesses fail within the first 3 to 6 months. There are countless reasons, but in reality we could sum them up into three core reasons.

TRAFFIC, TRAFFIC & TRAFFIC

It is same as buying a property, where people always say about location, location and location. In online businesses, traffic is the most important aspect if you want to make money. Lets put it this way, no matter how good is your money making website/blog but if there is no visitors, you will definitely NOT MAKE ANY MONEY.

But if you have a crappy website and somehow you have tons of traffic coming to your site, there are high chances you will make money ( may be not a lot, but there will be some). This is because you are offering people some product/services, and even when many will refuse to buy, there will be always one or two who will be interested. If you have the traffic, then you just have to change or tuned your conversion ratio to give a be better results.

LOST OF INTEREST

It is noticed that many people who go to the Online Business Seminars/Workshop tend to be very fired up at the beginning. They will come home after the seminar and start an online business. However, the internal fire within most of them will fade away (however some will be always in fire – these are the ones will make it) as they could not see their results fast as they wish for. Many of them have this problem because they started an online business model which they do not have interest. Most of them started because they know it could make money, and have seen people making money.

Online business needs passion and interest. You have to treat the business as your real business, and must constantly place in effort to improve it from time to time. In order to place constant effort, many of us need to like what we are doing. If your online business model is at no interest for you, you will tend to let it go easily when things do not go as planned.

NOT GIVING IT TIME TO GROW AND BEING PATIENT

Online business requires time to grow same as off line business. People need to know your website and your product. With millions of websites competing to get visitors, and it is hard for you to be noticed at the beginning. But consistency in maintaining the website/blog will lead to more and more people to notice your website and create repeat visitors. Off course, your website need to have the valuable information for people to keep on coming back in future.

Many people tend to be inpatient with slow progress of their online business, and finally pulling the plug on the business. Any successful online marketer will know that building a successful online business requires time and constant effort to be successful.

CONCLUSION

Therefore, before starting an online business one should understand three fundamental aspects which are identifying business market and models, creating a website/blog if required and making an offer to people by generating traffic to the website/blog.

These fundamental aspects will ensure you have the interest and ability to stay on the business especially at the early stage when many challenges need to be solved before a successful online business will be established. For detail explanation of these 3 fundamental aspects, read on at my website since it will be out of the focus of this article to discuss it here.

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Wallet Friendly Online Business Cards

Saturday, August 14th, 2010

If you want a simple, economical and professional way for spreading the word about your business, opt for a digital business card just as I did.

 

As a kid, I always loved tinkering with bikes and cars and as I grew up, people used to approach me for minor repairs and advice. By the time I entered college, I had a full-fledged business of tinkering with cars and bikes that immensely contributed to my college tuition fees. That was when one my father’s colleagues remarked that I create a business card for my part time job. Easier said than done! Most of my earnings went into my tuition fees and I just could not afford to spend my money on a professional looking paper business card. And once while surfing the Net for simple entrepreneurial tips, I stumbled upon this site called www.thebcard.com – a website that allows people to create their very own digital business card.

 

Creating your paperless business card through the bcard website is a very simple process. You need to sign-up in the website and furnish details that make up your virtual business card such as your name, designation or title, different numbers where people can reach you, your email address and your mailing address and details with respect to your company such as your company name and its website. To make your online business card more professional, you can upload pictures of your company logo or name. You can also upload any picture you want to form the background of the card. Once you enter all these details, just go ahead and save it and voila, your digital business card is ready!

 

Now, the next time you communicate with your contacts, all you need to do is insert this online business card as part of your signature. If you do not want it to be directly present in your email, you can just add it as a link. Anybody who is interested to know more can just click on the link and he or she will view your highly professional digital business card.

 

I created my very own online business card and now it is an essential part of all my professional and personal communications – be it email or chats in forum. Not only have I received more enquiries about my services and fees related to my part-time occupation, I have also received several complements from my friends and clients on the degree of professionalism exhibited by my virtual business card. I cannot thank my stars enough for finding such an easy and non-expensive way of presenting my business and me to the rest of the world.

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