Archive for the ‘Business Start Ups’ Category
Article Marketing and Targeted Website Traffic
July 5th, 2010 by Rob
Does article marketing work to drive targeted website traffic? How expensive is it (if you outsource) compared to other traffic sources?
Tags: Internet Marketing, Making Money Online, search engine optimization
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Transforming an “Ordinary” Business to an Extraordinary Moneymaking Machine
June 27th, 2010 by Rob
One of the key lessons from Dan Kennedy’s “How to Make Millions With Your Ideas” is that it is very difficult to make money from as-yet-unseen, revolutionary products or services. After all, how do you even know that a real market exists for your new idea? A more low risk alternative is to make an […]
Tags: Business Ideas, Business Research, Business Strategy, existing ideas, generating business ideas
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Small Business Ideas and Consumer Trends
June 21st, 2010 by Rob
In addition to trendwatching.com I have recently been using a number of other resources to identify emerging consumer and business trends. springwise, coolbusinessideas and killerstartups utilise “spotters” around the globe to provide daily updates on recent business startups. The latter site is focused on internet businesses. I’ve added these sites into my Google Reader (still […]
Tags: Business Ideas, existing ideas, generating business ideas, Startups
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Quit The Day Job
June 15th, 2010 by Rob
Out for a drink last night with my friend Jason who has just quit his lucrative job in financial services and is moving to the countryside to start up in the holiday rentals business. This has left me asking “Is there something in the water?” as this is the latest of 5 acquaintances that have […]
Tags: quit the day job
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Small Business Failure – The Number One Reason
June 11th, 2010 by Rob
The majority of small business failures stem from one fatal assumption:
Tags: Business Strategy, small business failure
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5 Tips On Generating Free Advertising For Your Business
June 5th, 2010 by Rob
When I learnt that Steve Clarke had generated over $2.5m of free editorial coverage for his company in the United States I decided I couldn’t miss out on his recent conference call on how to achieve this…
Tags: free advertising, marketing
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Affiliate Marketing – Can You Make A Lot Of Money?
May 26th, 2010 by Rob
I’ve been looking into online affiliate marketing recently. For the uninitiated, this means earning commission for promoting other people’s products. A common form of the system works like this: 1. You perform market research in various “micro-niches” (e.g., miniature radio controlled helicopters, wedding cakes etc) by analysing what people are searching for online (various “keyword […]
Tags: Internet Marketing, start me up, Startups
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Business Ideas – Have You Experienced This?
May 22nd, 2010 by Rob
I had a business idea a few years ago to build an e-commerce website selling the goods and services of small businesses that make jewellery, home ware, beauty products, etc.
Tags: Business Research, Ideas I didn't action
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Startups – Keeping The Business On Track
May 17th, 2010 by Rob
According to the Financial Times this business start up has had 10,000 registrations in the first 2 months! It appears many aren’t wholly satisfied with their jobs in the City.
Tags: Business Plan, Business Strategy, Mission Creep, Startups
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