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Starting as a online newbie around 1996, I spent lots of money chasing the latest and greatest fads until I found out a lot were scams. .Back then, the internet was the like Wild West. I settled down and started to learn what I needed to know. About this time, I came to the conclusion that I was learning an awful lot about the ins and outs of running an online business. My preferred way of learning was to bust right in and start as fast as I could. If I didn't get something the first time, it would usually piss me off when I tried to apply the knowledge and it didn't work the first time. My Beautiful Wife would always ask me if I read the directions (for ANYTHING) - I'd always reply hell no. In my defense, I know this is a "guy thing", but when your bacon is on the line you'd better get it right. Now, I love computers and making money online and I'm self taught as far as designing websites, SEO, internet and affiliate marketing, domains, hosting, list building, etc. About a year ago my Wife suggested: well-, You know a lot about this stuff, maybe you should be sharing it. We talked about writing e-books that I could charge for, but after a gentle prodding ;) I figured it would be better to share knowledge and help people just for the goodness that comes from it. That's how this blog was born.

How to set up a Website

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, free advertising, Free Traffic, Home Based Business, hosting, keywords, Online Income, online website builder, Professional Results, search engines, Squeeze Page, Success

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Published on: January 8, 2012

If you have a few minutes to spare, I’d like to show you how to set up a new website, optimize it to bring in an income and some of the tools I use. This is a basic step by step guideline and will work with setting up a simple site. If you know what the site will be about, skip down to website editors.

If you’re building a new site to put Adsense on or sell Clickbank or other product, you’ll need a simple, straightforward site. This post should fill the bill.

The best way I think to explain this process is like a recipe. You buy a bunch of ingredients at the grocery store and until you mix them all together and bake them, you don’t have a finished product. This process is the recipe and the steps are the ingredients.

Say you’re selling picnic tables and want a website to sell them. Here’s how to proceed.

First, you’ll need a domain name with the words picnic table in it. You’ll need to do a little research to find out what domains are available. Simply go to a site like Go Daddy, which sells domain names and use their domain search tool . Almost always, the exact name you want won’t be available so just pick something with a picnic table variation in it and go ahead and buy it.

Second, you’re going to need a company like Host Gator to show your new site to the world. Pick a plan that’s only what you need. If you’re only going to show a single site, go with the most inexpensive plan. If you’ll be hosting more than one site you’ll obviously need to kick the plan up a notch or two.

The third ingredient you’ll need is a website editor. Fortunately if you go with Host Gator or some of the other popular companies for your hosting, they offer a free site builder that’s included in your hosting plan. They also have website templates you can use for your picnic table site. If you don’t like the site builder they offer, there are lots of free website builders you can use. I did a quick search on Google just before I started this post – this is the first page they have for “free website design software”.

Fourth, you will have to be to point your new picnic table domain to your hosting company. For instructions on how to do this just go to my previous post “How to set up a blog” and take a look at the second paragraph on nameservers.

Ok. Let’s take a quick look at where we are with our recipe and maybe grab a cup of coffee. If you’re completely new to all this you may be grabbing an adult beverage ;-)

After you’ve completed all the above, you’re done with the ingredients for your recipe. Now we’re moving on to the seasoning. Just as with the recipe, your website will be pretty bland if you don’t add your seasonings. The seasonings for your new site are the keywords. Now, you’ll be heading over to use the free Google Keywords tool. to find some relevant keywords for your new site. Go to my previous post “Making money from home isn’t as hard as it used to be” for info on how to use this tool. Look for a high volume of searches for different words and ideally low competition. Click the box for each keyword you want to save and download them to a file – about 10 good keywords will do. For my keyword work, I use something called Market Samurai which has so many options to find promising keywords it’s amazing. If you want to use this tool free for 7 days to try it, there’s a link on the right side.

All you have to do now is “season” your new website with your keywords. How? Simply sprinkle some of the keywords you’ve uncovered into the text – especially the titles of your site when you’re building it. Don’t overdo it and don’t make it sound crazy. Just a pinch here and a dash there so the text or story sounds natural, flows well and makes the search engines know your site is relevant to picnic tables.

After your site has been up for a week or two, Google and the search engines will have had a chance to crawl it and you can start to check your traffic with Alexa. Sign up for a free Alexa account and you can check your traffic stats by just adding a snippet of code to your website. So how do you add this snippet to your site so Alexa can find it?

That’s for another blog post!

How to Really Get Things Accomplished!

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, Home Based Business, Network Marketing, Online Income, Success, Work from home business opportunity

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Published on: January 1, 2012

What’s the #1 obstacle when you are running an online business?

Distraction

When you have an online task you’re trying to complete, just stay focused. I know you’ve heard it before but I’ll repeat it again. Have you ever went online to look something up or had a simple task to do and went off on a tangent? I know I have. It usually happens when I’m searching for something and another idea pops into my head. I’ll just take a minute to check this out and get right back to what I was doing. A half hour later, I’m asking myself “now where was I”?

The web is a vast storehouse of everything you can think of and everything you’ve probably never thought of and it’s easy to get sidetracked. This happens to everyone, not just you. It even happens to seasoned internet marketers. So what’s the solution to get the things done you need to do? Write them down.

It may seem kind of simple, but keep a small pad and pencil right there by the computer and write a short list before you even go online of what you need to do. This will keep you focused and get the task done. If, like me, something pops into your head just write it down and take care of it after the task at hand.

Procrastination

Don’t confuse distraction with procrastination. That’s a whole different animal. Procrastination usually happens with a big task you need to get accomplished. A few months ago I had a huge business task I needed to get done and actually found myself an hour later cleaning out my computer and internet files and hadn’t even started the task. Now THAT’S procrastination!

For a larger job, you’ll need a tablet and not a pad! How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time. Before even beginning, jot down the steps you’re going to need to take to start on the project. Work a bit at a time and before you know it a good portion will be done.

The last large project I can remember I had to do was setting up this blog. So many things to consider, like installing the script on the server, the format, the audience, the sidebar, widgets, plugins and everything else I’d need. I actually put it off for weeks, setting it up in my head and doing the list. One bite at a time – and it started to take shape.

The Distraction - Make a short list of what you need to do that day or that session and cross them off as completed.

The Elephant - Come up with that great idea, develop it, write down the steps, put each step into action, keep looking at the overall picture to make sure all the parts are fitting until it’s done.

These two simple things should help you get much more accomplished in a shorter amount of time.

What do you have on tap for 2012?

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: .ws, affiliate marketing, Facebook, free advertising, Global Domains Int., Home Based Business

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Published on: December 31, 2011

Almost everyone will be making a New Year’s resolution to end a habit they’ve acquired. Some will be successful; some won’t, as it goes every year. A few will endeavor to make a positive change to their life and be adding a thing or two to their life.

How about you? Will you be staying with the same old things or trying to improve a few things if you can?

If you’re thinking about starting a business in the comfort of your home there are many advantages. I mean, you can’t beat the commute. I usually grab a cup of coffee and hit the home office. My morning commute is about 30 feet. On the way, I look out the window in winter and thank God that I’m not wasting gas, watching a line of cars right behind me and wondering how much of a chain reaction there would be if I had to stop quickly . There are also numerous tax advantages that come with running a home business.

Welcome to my first annual New Year’s blog post!

I’ve been checking home businesses to bring you the best. The newest I’ve found is called Fresh Store Builder. You’ve probably heard of Amazon.com? This is a script that’s the brainchild of a guy named Carey Baird – a programmer from the United Kingdom. You buy the script, upload it to your web host and you can build an unlimited number of Amazon stores and sell anything you wish.

I’ve been playing around with it for a couple months and it’s amazing. If you do your homework and find what people are buying on Amazon.com, you can make a pretty decent income. Simply by building a few stores, you now have multiple streams of income – and FSB includes something called auto populate. Set up new categories, click the auto populate button and this thing goes off to Amazon.com and populates your categories with Amazon products ready to sell and even includes your own shopping cart so people can buy what they want and checkout right from your store. Genius! It’s absolutely worth a look if you’re thinking of starting your own home business.

Another great candidate for your own at-home business is Global Domains International. You can pick from 10 different websites they supply to you or design your own with the GDI site builder in a few minutes. They pay you when you generate signups, which is pretty easy to do and they deposit your commission money into your PayPal account on the 15^th of each month. You set your own payment threshold and tell them when to pay you.

Another of the easiest ways I can give you to make money is something called Wom Vegas or Word-Of-Mouth Vegas. With this home business you can earn different incomes in about a hundred different ways with everything they offer. A short list of income generators include cell phone ads, promotions in your own city, banner sales, contests – everything you can imagine that you can do online and get paid for (well, almost everything ;-)). Timothy Drobnick came up with this site and keeps dreaming up new ways to help you make money almost daily and using this, it’s kind of fun to make money and doesn’t even feel like work. He’ll answer any support questions you may have usually within minutes of asking.

All three of these home businesses are the quickest ways I’ve found this year to make an income online. And I’ve checked lots of work at home ways to make money.

So what’s it going to be for 2012? You can do the easy secure thing and go to your job, know exactly how much you’ll be taking home next week, next month and next year. Or, you can go in a different direction, start one of these and maybe you'll really surprise yourself when checking your sales and find you made much more than you expected last week? I know the way I’m going to be making my income in 2012.

And I absolutely love the commute!

Advertising Your Online Business

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: affiliate marketing, Copywriting, free advertising, Home Based Business, targeted traffic

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Published on: December 9, 2011

Truly, there are about as many ways to advertise as you can imagine. On the Advertising Page of this blog, I’ve listed some of the methods I use which I feel are some of the best. Don’t forget about offline advertising for a home business either. A few years ago, I actually printed flyers and posted them around stores and Laundromats where I live, generally where people have a few minutes to read them. Another good offline method that works is having a couple magnetic signs made up to put on your vehicle. Sometimes this last way is good for the simple reason that people will actually stop and talk to you if they’re interested.

Of course the most efficient way to advertise is online and I’ll say it again. If you want to signup people or sell anything online, learn how to copy write. It’s the single best skill you can learn. If you can move people with your words alone you’ll be successful in whatever you do online. On the other hand if your ad stinks, doesn’t flow well or misspelled, you’re not going very far no matter how much you spend for advertising. I like the free advertising methods best. If you have more time than money consider traffic exchanges. You just add the web address of whatever you want to advertise and surf to look at other people’s sites to earn credits for your sites. It’s easy but very b-o-r-i-n-g.

Another good way to advertise is using a site like List Joe. You can sign up free, let them send you emails (use a junk email account for this) and just click on the credit link. You’ll have to look at the site for 20 seconds to receive credit. Again, easy but not quite as boring. You can then send your advertisement to their list that people will read – or you hope they will. With List Joe you can also check the open rate of your ads. Again, copy writing is the key. I look at it in steps. If it’s a good ad they 1) have to open it, 2) actually look at your site or offer and 3) if you’re REALLY lucky (or GOOD), you’ll actually get some conversions (sales).

I’ve saved the best-or worst, depending on your experience with Google, which is their AdWords network. Like it or not, Google is the big Kahuna and if you have more money than time you can try this. Sign up for an Adwords account-you’ll have to put in a credit card – and go to it. You’ll only get a 3 line ad so make it count! Now and then, Google will offer you $100 for free advertising to start as a new customer. This can take a few days to use up or a few hours, depending on the click amount you set. You can get visitors to whatever you’re advertising almost immediately but check your advertising balance daily or even hourly until you get the hang of it and especially if you’re using their “welcome $100 balance”. If that runs out you guessed it, they will start charging your card.

Well, that's the long and short of the advertising game but then I've only scratched the surface. I'll be adding more software titles and short descriptions for them to the advertising page in a short while. These are some of the things I'm trying out & testing now. If they're good and worth a mention they'll make the blog.

Learning WordPress

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, keywords, Professional Results, search engines, Success, wordpress

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Published on: November 27, 2011

First, a little history. I started PaulTouranjoe.com on April 20, 2011. I knew nothing at all about starting or running a blog and absolutely nothing about WordPress, aside from the fact it was the platform most professionals use.

I learned everything I needed to know blog-wise from April until now. When I first started this blog it was ranked around 24.5 million of all sites and blogs worldwide. Today, I’m ranked around 1.8 million worldwide and 150,000 or so in the United States. This didn’t happen by accident. It took a lot of hard work – and I don’t intend to stop there. Set your sights high and achieve them.

How did this blog go so far, so fast? First, this blog never stays static and unmoving. I’m always adding new content and it’s good content. It takes a lot of research for these posts and that leads to another thing- which is the content itself. It’s what people can use, can help them and they can learn from. The hardest thing for me to learn was how to put content in the sidebar. I use Adobe Dreamweaver CS4 for my website design work. Believe me, that has no importance here. To make images and text end up where you want them and are centered, you have to write in code. My background with Dreamweaver helped some with the code but this is still a horse of a different color and I had to learn it. It makes me appreciate people that work on blogs for a living that much more.

There are some things that make life easier with a WordPress blog, mainly plug-ins. There are literally thousands and you can go crazy here but don’t. Just use the ones you need. The ones I like are:

1. Add This Social Bookmarking Widget – allows people to add you to their favorite social site.

2. All in One SEO Pack – Lets you add your post title, description and toss in a few keywords that help you with the search engines.

3. Dean's FCKEditor For WordPress- uses a text editor like Microsoft Word for your posts.

4. Jetpack by WordPress.com- gives you a few different tools you can use to make your blogging life easier, too much to explain here.

5. Smart Affiliate Links – shortens, cloaks and tracks your affiliate links and makes them presentable.

6. WP Super Cache – caches your blog quickly which means quicker page loading for your readers. I get a lots of comments wondering how I make PaulTouranjoe.com literally pop onto your browser. This is how.

You can always disable any plug-ins if you want to turn them off. They’ll stay in your back office area until you enable them again or remove them completely. Once you start to see all WordPress offers you’ll realize why the pros use it. As for learning WordPress, you can select any area on the main sidebar then click help in the top right corner. This will bring you to the help area of the page you’re on and that’s how I learned it quickly. I much rather learn “hands-on” while I’m working than read a bunch of text.

Another great resource is the WordPress documentation itself which you can find at WordPress.org. You’ll also find the plug-ins I mentioned above and themes (the design for your blog) here. There’s also other people’s WordPress sites in the Showcase area where people submit their blogs and people pick their favorites – way cool, and it will give you an idea of how you can push the limits of the WordPress platform when you really know what you’re doing. Get your domain name, get it hosted so you own it and join the fun. But never start a blog and just ignore it. If you’re not going to work on it wait until you have the time to devote to it. When you do, see just how far you can take it. Maybe we’ll see your blog on the WordPress showcase!

There’s one other tip I’d like to share with you before I leave the blog for today. I get lots of compliments on my writing – thank you – and here’s the way you do it. Write like you’re talking to your best friend instead of people you don’t know. When you think about it, your readers are the friends you’ll meet through your blog.

Next up — Advertising

How to set up a blog

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, Home Based Business, Online Income, Professional Results, setting goals

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Published on: November 21, 2011

Before we start to install your WordPress blog, you’ll have to change the nameservers for your new domain to whichever ISP (Hosting Company)
you’re using. Sounds complicated – it’s not. I use Go Daddy to register my domains and Host Gator to host them, so I’ll use these for our example.

Sign into both your domain company and hosting company. On Go Daddy, click on “my products” on the left panel and go to the domain manager. Click on your domain to bring it up, then on the top panel, click nameservers > set nameservers. Click the last option "I have specific nameservers for my domains" radio button. Go to C-Panel hosting and scroll all the way down to the bottom left to find your nameservers, copy the first one and paste into the Go Daddy nameservers box. Do the same with the second one and click OK. You’ll see a message it will take from an hour to several. It usually takes about an hour for the changes to take effect. Your new domain is now being transferred and will point to your hosting company. Go get a cup of coffee or an adult beverage.

How to set up a blog:

I’ll be using Host Gator’s C-Panel because that’s what I use and it’s the easiest to install a Word Press blog. By the way, when you set up a blog DON’T choose a free platform like Blogger and the like. It could potentially wipe out years of your work if someone doesn’t like your posts and takes your blog down.

Buy a blog domain and host it on C-Panel or another USP so you own your blog. Always use WordPress for your blog because it’s professional and is the gold standard for blogging. Google and the other search engines love WordPress Blogs.

Sign in to your C-Panel back office, scroll down to Domains and click on “Addon domains”. Type in your new domain name and hit enter. This will automatically fill in the subdomain and document root. You'll know the script likes it because you'll see green checkmarks. Choose a password and click on “Add Domain”. This will add your new domain to the system. Then scroll down to Fantastico DeLuxe and click on that puppy, and on the left panel, select “WordPress”. This will bring up a new install screen. Click “new installation” then select the domain you just added to the system (if it’s not already there) from the drop down menu, leave the next box blank so the new installation installs in the root directory.

Under that, in the admin access data, you’ll need to choose a user name and password to log into your WordPress administration area to work on your blog. Fill these in and WRITE THEM DOWN. In the last area just fill in the admin e-mail (your email address) so you’ll get an email from C-Panel with all your installation information as well as any problems that may occur down the road. Lastly, type in your site name and click install WordPress.

If everything goes well, your new blog will be installed on your server in a few seconds and you’ll get a message you’re hunkey- dorey. If not, just delete the incomplete installation and start over. Take your time and start again. You really won’t screw anything up if you just try to install the WordPress script and delete it until you get it right. If you have a problem installing just remove the installation and start over until it installs. Remember, you're learning valuable information as well as installing your WordPress script.

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Setting up an Online Business – Hosting

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: Home Based Business, Landing Page, List Building, search engines

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Published on: November 19, 2011

After getting a domain name, the next thing you’ll need is a good ISP or internet service provider. The most important things I look at are reliability, price, customer service and an easy to use control panel that gives you everything you need to attend to an online business.

When I first began my online businesses back in 2006, I purchased hosting that was suggested to me through a program I joined. The Company was good, but when I started getting into private label rights products, I found I couldn’t upload the products to the server due to their security settings. I needed an ISP that would let me do this. I found a great ISP named Host Gator after my research, and they offer everything I need. Host Gator also is the ISP about 99% of online marketers use.

If you’re going to run a blog, Host Gator has a script (Fantastico DeLuxe) that will automatically set up a Word Press blog in a few seconds without having to upload all the files and fussing around. Paul Touranjoe.com was set up this way and it couldn’t have been easier. I’ve had no problems since I started the blog back in April.

What sold me was Host Gator’s ease of use, low cost and customer service. They even have a drop down menu on the sidebar so you can select a particular website you own and check the traffic and many other neat things too numerous to mention here. I have a few websites hosted with them as well as this blog.

Whichever hosting company you go with, make sure they have good customer service, so when you have a problem or question they’ll help you solve it quickly – even if you call at 2 am like I usually do. Strike a good balance between low cost and features because with ISP’s you really do get what you pay for. And remember, it’s a good idea to get your hosting from a different company than you registered your domain with.

Pick a good ISP first, like Host Gator for years of trouble free service and support.

Next up — Setting up a blog

Setting up an online business the right way

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: Home Based Business, Online Income, Professional Results, search engines, Success

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Published on: November 16, 2011

I've been asked constantly how to set up an internet business so Google and the rest of the search engines find the site, how to choose and register a domain name, how to pick the best (and cheapest) hosting and the like.

I've decided to make each a series of blog posts starting at the first step – choosing a domain name right through setting up your business and advertising it successfully. If you do each one of these steps correctly, you should end up with a viable successful business or blog.

Throughout, I'll sprinkle each post with links to go directly to what I'm talking about and I'll set each link to open as _blank, which means the link will open in a new page or tab so you can stay right here on the blog. See? You've learned something already!

Choosing a Domain Name:

Many people don't realize it, but the fact is that names on the internet really matter. Choosing a domain name requires a lot of thought and planning before you even begin your site or blog. You should always choose a domain name that identifies your business or product and is easy to remember. Many people type only partial names into the search engine field so if you have a decent domain name the search engines should be able to find it.

Simply put, domain names matter! The best way I can explain it is like this. If you invited your family or friends to your house and they’ve never been there, the only way they’ll find it is if you give them your home address. It’s the same with domain names.

A domain name provides your website an Internet address. Under the Domain Name System DNS, domain names are composed of four elements – a server prefix, a domain name, a domain suffix and a country code (optional). For instance, www.mysite.com is an example of a domain name where ‘www’ is the server prefix, ‘mysite’ is the domain name and ‘com’ is the domain suffix. The country code can be .US for the United States or .CA for Canada for instance.

‘Dot-com’ is an example of a top level domain extension. Some ‘Internet Service Providers’, ISPs and Web Hosts offer bargain-rate domain services for the domain and their hosting, that essentially makes a domain name an extension of theirs. For example, if the ISP is something like ‘wehostyou’, then the resulting domain name could be www.wehostyou/mysite.com Not bad advertising for them as well as you. Watch out for this. A great rule of thumb is never buy hosting with the same company you registered your domain with.

A company like Go Daddy is best for finding and registering your domain name. Generally, they also have the cheapest prices. You can get a ‘Dot-com’ domain for under $10. After signing up for a free account, just follow the step by step directions to register your domain. It's just like shopping – cart and everything.

When registering your own domain name, make sure that the extension name looks like a professional one. Dot-com domains are the most professional looking and also the most expensive. Most of the best or obvious domain names are already taken, but variations on a good domain name are always available.

Use your noodle and think about what business or product you’ll be involved with and pick a domain that identifies this and remember to keep it easy to remember so your family and your customers can easily find you.

Next Up — Hosting

Ever Thought About Running Your Own Internet Business?

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

Tags: achievement, Copywriting, Home Based Business, Online Income, Professional Results, Work from home business opportunity

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Published on: October 25, 2011

What's the best online business for You?

People running successful businesses from home are just like you with one difference. They've opted to break out of the "worker" mold and into the "owner" mold. They've chosen to think outside the box and if you ask any of them, they are happier than if they were working for someone else. There are as many different niches for a business as there are people that run them.

You can even start an at home business in something you're familiar with such as an online data entry. Nothing says you have to leave home for this either – you can start a data entry job and stay home. When you sit down and think about it, the possibilities are endless.

If you want to keep within the structure of a company and complete "projects", take a look at freelance sites like Freelancer.com or if you're technically oriented, a company like eZdia.com. These companies let you upload your resume and complete a profile which lets prospective employers find you. Depending on your profile, experience and projects completed successfully, employers can hire you for their projects. They can leave a comment telling others how well you handled their project.

Be advised though that the competition for these projects are fierce and you can expect to run into a catch 22 when just starting out. Employers are looking for experienced people but it's difficult to get hired if you have no experience. It isn't impossible to get hired, but you should be aware of this before you go this route. After a few successful projects you're on your way. Remember also that employers want their project completed in a certain time frame. If something comes up where you can't have the project done on time, let the employer know! These companies usually put a monetary amount from the employer into escrow and release it when a percent of the project is completed, and the total amount when finished.

If you're new, and want to conduct business completely on your own, try starting out with something like an affiliate business where you just have to promote someone else's product (such as Click Bank) to create an income. Running an online business completely on your own is very rewarding and can be very profitable. An easy way to see how successful online marketers do this is simply find them by doing a search and subscribe to their newsletters. About 10 should do it. See how they structure their newsletter, what and how they advertise and especially how they write it. Does it make you want to click on the link they're advertising?

People are usually afraid to leave the comfort of a job and their take home pay and they are uncertain about making a mistake that can doom their new business. For each of these "problems" there is but one answer – learning. For the former, prepare yourself by finding out and learning what a successful business owner does, right down to how they pay themselves and pay their taxes and expenses. For the later, every successful business decision you make will build on your success, embolden you and make you more comfortable next time.

Additionally, how will you ever know all you can accomplish if you're locked into a certain job? You'll never know how many hats you can wear and how good you can do with each one. Running a home business does require dedication, determination and God given "smarts" to some degree. I've found the reasons people don't take the plunge and are afraid to start a business are many, but two come right to the forefront.

One thing is for sure. The possibilities to make an online income today are endless. You can keep your current job (if you're fortunate enough to still have one) and explore new income opportunities and even begin earning online to see if it's what you want to do. With today's technology, there's no good reason you need to commute anywhere except your home office if you don't want to.

You don't have to stay in a 9-5 just because of the job security (which is exactly WHY most people do) or the stark realization you may make a mistake starting an online business (if you're human you will make a mistake – it's NOT the end of the business). Most times people are so worried to try something new they never even attempt it. Know what? Life is too short to do something you don't like or are forced to do something by the time and location constraints someone else sets for you.

My Ideas – Good, Bad and Ugly

by Paul Touranjoe

Categories: Online Business

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Published on: October 8, 2011

Good Ideas:

1. Pay for your business software once and you own it.

A few years ago I had a "regular job" and ran my online businesses part-time. I ran my businesses with the same marketing company for about 4 years. The cost was $19.95 a month, which was reasonable because they had everything the marketer needed all in one back office. Well, the company I worked for in my regular job was losing sales and cutting back and I knew it was only a matter of time for me. I contacted the owner of my online marketing company to let him know my plight and see what would happen when I couldn't pay my marketing fees and if my information would remain on their server.

A month later I lost my job. I had hundreds of affiliate links scattered over the internet and although I had already some links changed over from the marketing company there were still many left to go, many of which my affiliates used to contact me and access training. When I got the email from the marketing company my account was suspended, I still had many links to change over. No worries, the owner told me all my information and links would remain on the server waiting until I came back.

When I went to check some of links I didn't change over yet, imagine my horror when instead of just getting site not found page, there was a red "account suspended" sign from this marketing company! Jeez. All the work over 4 years, my reputation, my affiliates' login and training links.

Nowadays, I pay for software once and own it. I control it instead of paying a monthly fee. You never know when something may happen that has the potential to derail your business… and all your hard work.

Now I keep track of everything in a spreadsheet. I have my blog backlinks, affiliate links,keywords,download links for plr products and product links in there. Everything is available for quick access. If you don't treat it like a business it's a hobby.

2. Learn One New Thing Every Day. At the end of a week you know 7 new things, after a month 31, a year 365. You get the picture. Put everything this time into a log or journal that's searchable. This way you never have to learn it again and it's there any time you need it.

Bad Ideas:

1. Using "naked" affiliate links in your advertising. Even though it's never happened to me, there are people out there just waiting to steal your affiliate link – and your hard-earned commissions. For my advertising purposes I now use Adtrackz. Not only does this software cloak your affiliate links, but you can track your clicks, actions, sales and just about anything else. You put a little snippet of code on your page that accomplishes it. I bought this script once, it's now mine and resides on my server.

2. Stopping by a forum to drop a link back to your site. Bad Idea. You'd be surprised how long people will remember someone who does this and avoid anything having to do with you. Always join the forum, contribute to the thread and let people get to know you. When you make a post, put a link back to your blog or site in your signature file only. Who knows – you may even learn something from the exchange!

Ugly Ideas:

1. Shouting at or engaging in arguing online.
You never, ever win so don't even try. If you're running a business online, never argue with a customer. I'm not saying the customer is always right like the saying goes, but don't even waste your time arguing. You'd be surprised how long people's memories are about someone that does this. Remember the speed of the internet is instantaneous. People can trash you in the time it takes to sneeze.

2. Not helping someone who needs it.
I mean, you were a newbie at one time right? Always help someone when they need it and when you're able. It'll make you feel warm and fuzzy and who knows, they may just remember the person that helped them get started. I know I do. A good rule of thumb is to conduct yourself in the online world the same as you do in the physical world, as if you were face to face with the person.

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