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Is It Ever Too Late To Start A Business [INFOGRAPHIC]

starting a businessRecent research by Dunn & Bradstreet shows some interesting results about entrepreneurship and starting a business.

having started my first business aged 24, I found it interesting to see the results of the survey and the links between age and entrepreneurship.

Although the media is jam packed with stories about young start ups, almost teenage bedroom billionaires and multimillionaire twenty-some-things, this infographic shows some interesting statistics related to starting a business and how age affect the start up groups associated with success and failure.

Age and drive

While we all think you have to start young, the fact is, most founders are middle aged when starting a business. I think that shows that real life experience, and the drive of having a family to support can sometimes make you all the more successful and can bring something ‘extra’ to the table. While age isn’t the most important factor of entrepreneurship, I think it could affect the type of business you start and the risks you take associated with your start up. For example, a young, budding entrepreneur, just out of college may not see the risks opening up ahead, whereas someone older and more experienced in the same industry could have alarm bells ringing at the first hurdle and possibly bail out.

A massive 98% of those surveyed showed lack of ability or willingness to take risks, alsong with 93% saying they do not have the time to devote to a new venture, indicating that a certain stage in life is more suitable to starting something great.

Is it ever too late?

Well, I say hell no! There are enough successful entrepreneurs out there starting a business later in life, and taking the risks normally associated with the young and single.

I think age personifies us. We draw on our experiences and use them to help us choose a path more wisely and ultimately lead the way to creating change with real meaning.

Important Start Up Requirements

Courage

Sure, you have to be brave! Often, starting a business is a step into the unknown, and for most, is entirely working outside the familiarity of their comfort zone. Be brave, be bold, get noticed!

Perseverance

If at first you don’t succeed… Of course there will be failures along the way, and only your ability to get back up and try, try again will make you and your start up business a real success. No waiting in the wings for something to happen, get out there and stick to the end goal whichever way you can!

Ambition

Having the drive and the motivation to reach your wildest dreams is definitely important when starting a business.  Aim big, and ensure everything you do is a step closer to winning.

Understanding

Having great understanding is powerful, and making sure you have the correct skills and are equipped with the right tools is essential to start up success. Taking your results, analysing them and knowing how to build on them for the future is key to the survival of any business.

Innovation

Whether it’s reinventing what you already have or creating heavy demand for something new, being ready to accept challenges and innovate to succeed is very important. New ways to market and innovative products are the key to outstripping the competition.

 

Source: Dun & Bradstreet

What do you think? Is it ever to late when starting a business? Does big business only belong to the young and ambittious? Please comment below.

October 29, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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10 Ideas For When Business Is Quiet

Does Your Business Suffer In The Slow Times?

A recent conversation with a business owner I am consulting with said he was finding it difficult to fill his staffs time when the company was quiet, and he found it frustrating that he was paying wages for what seemed like no return.

The Big Question

‘What Should I Do When Business Is Quiet?’

We all suffer quiet periods from time to time throughout the year. It’s difficult to avoid in business, and very common. It is very easy to take the day off, let the staff play in the office, but a little careful planning and a rainy day to-do list can help you make money and save money!

Quiet Times Can Be Good

Here are 10 things you can do when business is a little quieter than usual, making the most of your time and that of your staff!

  1. Get in touch with regular customers with new offers and promotions
  2. Create an email newsletter
  3. Start a new blog for your business
  4. Carry out essential refurbishments and maintenance
  5. Attend a local networking event or join a local business network
  6. Research new outlets for your products or services
  7. Update your marketing plan
  8. Re-organise the office
  9. Brush up on your existing skills or learn new ones
  10. Start a cost cutting exercise by getting new quotes and comparing. Save, Save, Save!

What Do You Do When Things Are Quiet?

Please leave a comment below and share your ideas for quiet times in your  business.

Brava Lifestyle – a client led resource for the office fit-out and refurbishment market place with an enviable reputation for service, can help you with essential refurbishments and office maintenance.

October 23, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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Starting Your Own Business? Win a FREE Ticket To My Interactive Worskhop

starting your own businessStarting your own business? Or even growing your current business? I’m giving away a free ticket to my interactive workshop on November 17th valued at £295

Starting your own business can be a scary thing for anyone, especially when there are so many things to consider to make it a success from the get go. That is why I am putting together an interactive workshop (the first of many) to help you get you off to a flying start for 2013.

In just 8 hours you will have a solid strategy to
starting your own business GUARANTEED!

Are you fed up networking, attending events and business shows and coming out more confused and overwhelmed than ever? Is the idea of or planning or growing your current business a little overwhelming to say the least?

You need to write a business plan, you need to map out your marketing strategies, you need a social strategy – and that’s just the start. It’s all these different elements to consider that can put people off even getting started.

With this in mind I’ve got together with some of the  greatest business teachers to give you an amazing day that will change the future of starting your own business forever. With our combined experience and proven strategies, we’ll take you from A-Z with your business plan and you’ll leave with a new sense of direction and focus.

Thee is no hiding the fact that our economy is suffering and 2012 has been another tough year for business and career opportunities alike. But its not all bad news. Opportunities for starting your own business and growing businesses have never been higher. Some of the worlds most successful companies were built during world recessions. This is your chance to be one of the businesses that are thriving.

The investment for my workshop is £295 and we’ll give you over £500 of free gifts vouchers and discounts for you and starting your own business. But even if you have already got a business and you need to grow it, I can help you with that too. This is possibly the best investment you’ll make in your business all year!

But I’m also giving you the chance to WIN a ticket by just entering your details HERE – starting your own business has never been easier!

Make that commitment to yourself today to do everything you can to make your plans a reality. Once you say yes to yourself, the rest falls in to place. I wish you the best of luck with your entry and look forward to meeting you in person if you decide to join us in my starting your own business workshop.

 

October 8, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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How To Build A Business Blog In Just 40 Minutes [Infographic]

The 40 Minute Business Blog

“Blogs Will Change Your Business. Look past the yakkers, hobbyists, and political mobs. Your customers and rivals are figuring blogs out. Our advice: Catch up…or catch you later” Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Building a Business Blog is today’s essential way of communicating with your customers. Over the past few months, I have been helping small business owners get their business blog up and running and have been surprised to see that many web design companies are quoting hundreds of pounds to add a blog to their existing website, and even more to maintain it! The good news is, there is no need to pay hundreds for a blog to be installed. WordPress is a free, easy to use and / or install platform from which to launch your business blog.

See the Infographic below this post for your 40 minute guide to building a business blog.

What A Business Blog Will Do For You…

  • Build Consumer awareness
  • Brand Loyalty
  • Increase consumer engagement
  • Attract more visitors to your site
  • Allow your Company voice to be heard
  • Keep customers informed
  • Allows shareable content to be produced regularly
  • Increase search engine visibility

What Topics To Cover On Your Business Blog

  • A list of helpful pointers
  • Visual posts – great use of imagery and diagrams
  • A reader survey
  • Ask for product opinions
  • Interviews – related industry experts
  • The ‘how to’ post
  • Your latest promotions

Notes:

WordPress offer free blog hosting on their platform WordPress.com

If you already have your own hosting and domain name, you can go to WordPress.org and download the files needed to install. I suggest you installit on: http://www.yourdomain.com/blog

Read this low down, and then use the infographic to guide you through installling WordPress and setting up your business blog on your site.

July 11, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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Cookies Regulations and the New EU Cookie Law

There are lots of half told stories around the internet giving various advice concerning the new EU Cookie regulations for website owners.

I have to say, I am not entirely sure of the complete in’s and outs of it all, but I found a useful guide on the ICO website, and thought I would share the details below.

There are fines set for businesses guilty of non-compliance, or a breach. So really, we need to be looking at how to tackle the new rules and guidelines with little fuss.

The ICO Website says;

Our latest guidance (May 2012) sets out the changes to the cookies law and explains the steps you need to take to ensure you comply. The updated guidance provides additional information around the issue of implied consent:

  • Implied consent is a valid form of consent and can be used in the context of compliance with the revised rules on cookies.
  • If you are relying on implied consent you need to be satisfied that your users understand that their actions will result in cookies being set. Without this understanding you do not have their informed consent.
  • You should not rely on the fact that users might have read a privacy policy that is perhaps hard to find or difficult to understand.
  • In some circumstances, for example where you are collecting sensitive personal data such as health information, you might feel that explicit consent is more appropriate.

Download the ICO cookies guidance (pdf)

There is also a UK chamber of commerce download here

Source: Cookies Regulations and the New EU Cookie Law – ICO.

I have tackled my responsibilities by installing ‘Cookie Control’ Plugin for WordPress. You can download a copy from WordPress here

 

June 15, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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10 Free Local Search Directories For Your Business

How Your Business Can ‘Go Local’ – Instantly!

Getting your customers to see your business online can be really difficult. You’re open for business, but how do you get the word out there Quickly, Effectively & For Free? – The answer lies in Free Local Search Directories.

If you’ve just started your business, you really can’t go wrong. You will need as much online exposure as you can get in the early days, and these free business listing resources will be just what you need to spread your Company details.

There are literally hundreds of Local search directories. I have collected 10 of my favourites below:

  • Google Maps (free)
  • Microsoft Live (Bing)  (free)
  • Yahoo! Local (free)
  • AskCity (free)
  • SuperPages (paid)
  • Yelp (free)
  • Citysearch (free)
  • Local.com (free)
  • AOL Local Search (free)
  • Thomson Local (free)

Some of these sites require you to sign up with them so you may access your business details.

Listing your business on these websites and including (where permitted) a link back to your website will help boost your SEO, drive traffic to your website and will result in Online presence on a bigger scale.

If you have a  new business, it is essential that you register with them and claim your business listing, as it can show almost instantly compared to the waiting game you may have to play with your main website.

TIPS:

Always include ‘keywords’ for your products or services as well as your company name and locations. This will increase the targeted traffic you receive from people searching in your area and can also increase your company presence in listings shown on mobile searches.

Prepare a standard ‘About Us’ paragraph in advance to claiming your listing, so you remeber to include all the important points about your business. Make sure you describe your Products, Services and your company Mission Statement.

Lure your target market with your USP and even create special offers for customers who mention your listings when they contact you. This is a great way of monitoring your traffic sources and will help you decide whether to purchase a paid advert from one of the providers.

So, if you’ve just launched your business or website, and you are looking for that ‘extra’ local traffic to ramp up Brand awareness and sales, get claiming right away!

Have you found Local Business listings have helped your business? Are there any important ones I have missed? Join the conversation below.

June 12, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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10 Awesome Business Tools That Will Save You Time!

Get Your Business Organized With These 10 Tools

One of the most important things in business is to be organized. Whether it is online collaboration or an efficient email marketing campaign, all of us need a few quirky tools which will make life easier for us. Below I have gathered some of the most wonderful applications that you can use to run your business in a hassle-free manner while saving yourself your valuable time.

1) File Storage

Almost always sharing of files like documents, pictures, videos and any other type of media is a pain .Most of the times email does the job when we need to transfer a document or two but when it comes to sharing folders and updating files we have to look for something else:Dropbox is your answer.

Dropbox comes in both forms -free and paid. It is the best way to easily store, sync and share files online. Keeping a backup of small as large files and sharing has never been easier. All it takes is to create a folder where you can share folders and save it in your email address. Dropbox gives you 2GB of free space initially, but it also gives you an extra 250MB for each referral.  You get 2GB of free memory to start, but for every referral you get 250MB extra. Also, if you sign up using this referral link you get 250MB extra. Dropbox makes it easy to keep your files in order and synced in order to have access to them at all times. They even have mobile apps!

2) Save Time And Money!

While Skype is the cheapest way to interact with your customers and online staff, its use just doesn’t end there. It can save you a lot of time and trouble through many of its other features. Remember having scratched your head for hours and having not been able to get a point across to your customer or anyone else…ughhh. Let the Skype file-sharing system do the magic for you. Through this system you can share your screen with another person and you can also see his screen, too. This makes it easy for both of you to understand each others’ point more easily. Moreover, you can share files: documents, pictures, videos etc on Skype and the good news is that there is no limit to the number or size of files.

3) Need a Screenshot or Video of Your Desktop?

Jing allows you to capture images or record video on your computer-after that, you can share them with anyone. This tool can prove more productive to your online conversations by adding to them pictures and videos and making them easier to follow. The “Jing Camera” can capture a window or any region on your computer instantly. After you have saved the image or video you are able to share it all over the Web within o time. You can also highlight a tricky point with different tools like a text box, arrow, highlight, or picture caption. You can instantly share the screenshot or video by simply pasting the link into email, IM or forum post and when a person clicks, he will be able to see it.

4) Want to Get Rid of Paperwork?

So there is that pile of paper lying on the table threatening to take your life? Well, it can’t thanks to Shoeboxed.com. The website enables you to categorize and organize your receipts in a trouble free manner. In the free version you have to scan in or direct your online order receipts into your account and organize them yourself. The company offers different types of paid accounts: Basic, Classic and Express. The Basic account type costs $9.95 per month and is for small businesses having a relatively small volume of receipts.

Shoeboxed.com is an organization that provides a service that categorizes and organizes your receipts in a hassle-free manner. There are several levels of service that the company provides. One is the free version, in which you must scan in or direct your online order receipts into the account and organize them yourself. They also offer Basic, Classic or Express accounts.

The Basic account offers international service for customers with a relatively small volume of receipts to process for a price of $9.95 per month. In this type of account Shoeboxed saves and organizes your receipts for you and also protects your privacy. The price of the Classic account-the most commonly used one- is $19.95 per month. Here in this type of subscription Shoeboxed processes and organizes your receipts as well as sends them back to you in an envelope.

Express account type is their multiple choices and the fastest one. With a price of $59.95 per month, the client is provided with a very efficient service in which entries of receipts are processed in a single day.

Whatever type of business you are running and whatever type of account you subscribe to with, Shoeboxed will certainly save you a lot of time.

5) Better Email?

Gmail is the leader in the new age emailing. Gmail offers lots of free space of over 10000 MB and you can purchase even more storage space. It is more secure as it blocks spam before it can reach your inbox. Moreover, you can automatically separate important emails from the other ones, and just focus on the ones which really matter. Apart from this, Gmail makes it very easy for you to see your messages in context. It has also a built-in chat feature in which you can directly chat with your contacts. Not only chat, you can call any phone in Canada and the USA for free and other countries in very low rates. By encrypting your mail through HTTPS encryption, it is more secure. And all this you can do by using your phone-it doesn’t matter what device it is.

6) Need More Efficient Email Marketing?

In the digital age you need powerful marketing tools – let Aweber do the magic for you. This powerful internet marketing software offers the best solution for your online marketing needs. Its use-friendly interface makes it possible for complete newbie’s to make full use of it. Hundreds of web form templates give you the choice of using a specially designed web form for your particular niche.

The software gives you the freedom of creating an endless number of lists which some of the autoresponders don’t offer. So, you can easily make email lists for your different campaigns in different niches, and later you can create follow-up messages and broadcast emails for all of your lists.

Unlike some of the autoresponder, you are allowed to create unlimited lists. So, no matter how many niches you are in or how many traffic campaigns you are currently running, you create as many lists as you like to collect leads for your business. You will be able to create unlimited follow up messages and broadcast emails for each of your lists.

Aweber also enables you to separate your buyer list from the free email list so that you can treat your buyers with a different special service. Besides this, through its campaign sharing feature you can create the same follow-up messages for different campaigns in different niches.

They offer phone, chat and email support as well as conduct webinars so that all the queries of the customers are answered and their problems are solved.

7) Mind-mapping

Mindmeister.com –the online mind-mapping application is for all those who want to organize their ideas online. The users can play around with simple or complex mind-maps complete with text, images, tasks etc. The application is entirely browser-based. The site also allows you to download a desktop application so you can work on your mind-maps online. You can not only share your mind-maps with others but also collaborate with others on them. Moreover, you can add ideas can to mind-maps from your desktop, from within a browser, via text-message or email. Apart from this, the application gives you the freedom to export as a Word file, a PDF or an image file. The site offers a special business version which features team collaboration and user management.

 8) Web Conferencing

GoToMeeting  is a flexible web conferencing service that provides good quality as well as performance. The service offers many features like VoIP, multi-browser support and can also be used in different platforms. While offering such features as VoIP, multi-browser support as well as being able to support several different platforms this service remains simple to use. You can simply join a conference by the click of a mouse.

The  company offers a number of  great features GoToMeeting web conferencing does not offer user-polling capabilities, however they do offer a wealth of other great features: You can use PowerPoint slides, give tutorials about software programs and hold real-time class sessions. The service offers a number of real-time delay-free media and multimedia. GoToMeeting makes sure that people interact with one another as if in real-time by enabling them to screen-share rapidly.

Though the service’s video and webcam efficiency is limited but its strong audio feature makes up for that. Your meetings are as secure in GoToMeeting as in your sound-proof conference room, thanks to its use of standard 128-bit AES encryption.

Considering all the goodies, its pricing is very suitable: you can purchase monthly or annual subscriptions. A subscription allows up to 15 attendees per meeting requiring no charges for the any of the users. There is no limit as to the number of meetings you hold.

A flexible pricing formula together with almost all the features you need for an online meeting, GoToMeeting is worth a try!

9) Documentation

For people who don’t use Word or any other word-processing software frequently, Google Docs is the best solution. It is best suited for people who travel a lot or who have to work in collaboration. Google Docs allows you to write and edit word processing documents as long as you have access to the internet. Not only that you can also store your documents online so that you can access them easily when you want to. Therefore, you no longer have to worry about moving about data in movable media.

Google Docs allows you to upload and download documents easily. It supports both Microsoft Word and OpenOffice. Y you can work on a document with others by making it public, or alternatively you can send them a link in email.

10) Online Project Management

Though there are a number of organizing systems like Google Calendar, Stickies etc but the best choice is

HiTask. It is a clean and tidy organizing web application, its drag-and-drop functionality making it very easy and user-friendly.

Unlike other such applications, the tasks can be grouped into separate projects you can easily take care of them. Moreover, you can easily assign tasks to friends and colleagues by dragging and dropping them into their respective icons. Compared to others, its calendaring system is very useful and easy.

The free Basic account is for individual use which gives you a storage space of 50MB and allows you a limit of 10 projects. The Premium type is $4 per month which gives you storage of 1GB and unlimited number of projects. The Business type subscription is $23 per month which is aimed for team use. This account type offers 2.5GB of space and unlimited number of projects. Moreover, in it you can share tasks and projects while in the first two you can only assign tasks. The company also offers 24-hour support for Premium and Business account types.

 Summary

These 10 Business Tools will help your business run smoothly on a day to day business. What Tools do you find invaluable to your business organization?

June 5, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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How To Get Original Blog Content in 10 Minutes

blog contentNeed Blog Content Fast?

Content creation is always difficult for most people, and even the mere thought of writing content gives most of us bloggers block!

If I were to say to you – ‘I’ll draft your article for you, and you can edit it and finish it up…’ – I bet you would start nodding before I even finished the sentence?

Of course you would! who wouldn’t? Doesn’t it sound easier to have a draft to edit? Well, that’s the secret. You can create your own draft, and edit it after!

If you need awesome blog content fast, and haven’t even written your first blog post yet, don’t despair. This method will help you write super content, in rapid time, about any subject you choose.

So – onto the method. I use the 10 minute rule, and have used it for quite some time now, not only for blog content, but for any kind of content and copy that I need to write.

Quite often, if I am outsourcing some research, I will provide my assistant with the backbone of an article or a ‘brief’ to help guide them in the right direction and will ask them to use this as the basis for their research.

So. If you would like Sparkling posts to be up on your blog within 7 days, follow this post, and learn how!

Blog Content – The 10 Minute Rule

Writing using the 10 minute rule (I learnt the principle of this  a while back now during a challenge training video from Ed Dale) begins with a pen and paper or a blank text document on your laptop or pc.

Follow these simple steps and become a writing guru.

1. Set Your Timer – there’s a free online countdown timer here online-stopwatch.com

2. Write as naturally and as quickly as you can for a solid 10 minutes. Everything that comes into your head regarding your chosen topic needs to go down right now. Forget what you learnt at school! Don’t worry about spelling. Forget about grammar. Ignore the typos. Don’t focus on making it flow. Writing in this way enables you to explore the full potential of your creativity.

3. When the time is up, close your document on your laptop/pc, close your notebook or journal. Leave it, and don’t write or edit anything. Don’t even think about it again.

4. Tomorrow morning, open your document, notebook or journal. You now have the backbone of your article! Fresh eyes will give you a much better start, and everything will be there on paper for you to go through and edit! Editing something is always so much easier.

It’s funny. I didn’t realise how unproductive I had become before I began using this method for writing. Posts and articles were taking me days to write, and that was after a 2 day brainstorm over post titles!

I realised that when I try to write an article, 80%  of my efforts were going into ‘What shall I title it?’ ‘Does it read right?’ ‘are the paragraphs in the correct place?’ ‘Should I be writing in past or present tense?’ ‘Did I mean there or their?’ ‘Should I capitalize that?’ (which brings me onto another post about the 80/20 rule, but I’ll save that for later…)

So you see, once you have mastered this technique, you can pretty much knock out content to order! This post isn’t just for Blog content – it’s for any kind of content you need to produce! Maybe an essay, a piece of homework, an article, a newspaper ad, a review, a guest post, even a letter. So, go ahead. Set your timer, write free-flow and edit in the morning. Simple!

Are there any methods you find really help you create blog content? Feel free to share them below!

 

April 24, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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What is Outsourcing

People can and do make money outsourcing and hopefully my post will give you an inside look at what is outsourcing, how it really works and what it can do for you.

What is Outsourcing and how can you use it in your business?what is outsourcing

In a nutshell, Outsourcing is hiring workers outside your business to carry out the various tasks you need for your business. Outsourcing is the real key to running an efficient business. Outsourcing is ideal for Internet Marketers, as we have so many projects and ideas running at any given time, and by passing the smaller tasks and projects over, we can free up time and increase our productivity.

Outsourcing can really increase maximum earning potential. By hiring staff / workers, you can streamline your processes and really make sure that every aspect of your business is covered.

If you’re anything like me, the excitement of a new idea can sometimes completely take over existing projects, and you will probably end up with hundreds of micro projects started but not finished.

Outsourcing Tasks

You can Outsource pretty much any aspect of your business.  I have outsourced everything from SEO, Web design, Sales Copy, Data Entry, Graphics, Logo’s, Headers, Banners Articles, and much more… This has helped me focus more on processes, develop my ideas and has given me precious time to really concentrate on the task in hand.

Can having tasks outsourced work for everyone? The simple answer is yes, it can and will definately help you increase your earnings from the point and time you put this method of outsourcing into place.

Is Outsourcing Expensive?

Quite simply, it doesn’t have to be. Outsourcing comes in all different forms and there are many resources on the internet now to help you find the perfect member of staff.  Sites such as fiverr have revolutionised the process of  sourcing workers for hire, and allows you to dip your toes in and try it out for just five dollars. This is the ideal start to outsourcing your business micro tasks and projects, and I can recommmend it as the best starting point for anyone new to having work outsourced.

Important Things to remember

You must remember that you really need to ask yourself ‘what is Outsourcing?’ and ‘what will I use it for?’ using a third party to carry out tasks for you is no different to employing staff, and you need to be aware that you will need to ensure that you are clear and concise as to what each project entails. Note down the main points clearly, and agree the outcome of the task in hand before you agree to hire. Also bear in mind that many outsource workers are offshore, and there may be language barriers, so hire appropriately if written material is being produced.

Don’t forget to check out Outsourcing Services for over 80 resources you can use for your business. I hope you are more familiar with ‘what is Outsourcing?’ and how it can help your online business.

April 17, 2012by Caroline Baxter
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Niche Marketing

Finding A Nicheniche marketing

Niche marketing is finding a segment of a general market to target your products or services to.

Some of the most successful internet marketers make thousands of dollars every year by identifying niche markets. You can too, but you need to make sure you do some careful research first.

When you’re planning your online strategy, you’ll need to find a niche. This is a laser targeted focus on a segment of a general market. For example, ‘Dog Training’ is a segment of the ‘Pets’ Market.

If you’re new to internet marketing, I’m sure you’re probably stuck on finding a niche. If you are going to be an affiliate marketer, then ‘sub-niches’ or ‘segments’ will be your goldmine, but this really applies to any online business or marketing effort.

Identify A problem within a Market

You’ll need to think about problems that people want solved.

  • How can an overweight person lose weight?
  • What do people who are planning a wedding need?
  • Where can I find Luxury properties to buy?
  • How can I save Money

So, the Niche Marketing formula (and this is important guys, so take note!) is;

Identify A Problem Or Issue (Problem)

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Ensure There Is  A Market (Traffic)

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Identify What Your taget Market Is Looking For (Demand)

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Find A Product or Service To Promote (Solution)

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Present Your Market With Your Solution (Supply)

= Making Money!

I have put together a list of current niche businesses for you, to give you some ideas of popular niche markets and products or services to research as part of your niche marketing strategy.

10 Evergreen Niche Marketing Ideas To Explore

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  1. Health Niche: Weight Loss & Fitness, Anti-aging, Cancer, Dentistry and Orthodontics
  2. Insurance Niche: Car and auto insurance, Health and Medical Insurance
  3. Computers & Internet Niche: Computer Hardware, Computer Repairs, PC and Internet Security, Dedicated Hosting, ISP and Networking, Online Degree, SEO software and tools, Web Development
  4. Banking and Finance Niche: Loans and Mortgage, Credit and Finance, Debt consolidation
  5. Legal representation: Searches for attorney increased the bidding rate for this niche
  6. Digital Photography: digital photography schools, certificate, digital photography education, Careers in photography
  7. Psychotherapy: We can include this category in health, but i think it is best to treat this as a different niche as it gives more adsense revenue as a separate site.
  8. Real Estate: A damn good niche for getting good adsense income. Google pays nice price for clicks on these Real Estate related ads.
  9. Consumer Electronics: Gadgets, Mobiles and many other Electronic devices
  10. Antiques and Collectibles: Another good niche to choose for getting high adsense income.

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Other Popular Niche Marketing Ideas Include;

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  • Affiliate Marketing
  • Blogging
  • SEO
  • Traffic Generation
  • Email Markeing
  • Article Writing
  • Video Marketing
  • List building
  • Work At Home Mom
  • Home Based business
  • Social Media Marketing
  • Facebook
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  • Website Flipping
  • Online Branding
  • PPC Earning
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  • Car/auto Insurance
  • Money Saving Advice

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I hope you have found this useful, get researching and look forward to finding some cash rich niches! Please post any other areas you can think of to research for Niche Marketing.

June 7, 2011by Caroline Baxter
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