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Pursing the Entrepreneurial Dream

A couple of years ago, I decide that my pursuit of climbing the corporate ladder was fruitless. It wasn't for me...not what I wanted. I craved freedom. I've learned a lot about becoming an entrepreneur, and I'll share what I've learned with you. Getting control of your life again isn't a pipe dream. Financial, professional, and creative freedom can be yours.

Upcoming Article: SEO Copywriting

I’m starting on a new article that should be of interest to anyone who has a business-oriented presence on the web. SEO copywriting is very important in today’s online market. There are just too many things competing for attention. Your site has to stand out. One of the ways you do that is with a little bit of SEO copywriting.

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. 23 Jul 08 | Business, Marketing, Internet Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)

Want to Start Your Own Ecommerce Shop?

If you want to jump in the business of ecommerce, opening up an online shop might be the thing for you. Many successful (and a few flat-out rich) internet entrepreneurs got their start selling goods online. Some started with eBay, while others opened up a shop that catered to a niche they really like.

Think it’s too hard to start an online shop? Think it will cost too much money or take up too much of your time? I’d be lying if I were to say those questions were without merit. The truth is, it can be expensive, it can be hard, and it can take more time than there is in a day to get the job done.

But it doesn’t have to be that way. I’ve been selling goods online successfully for a while now. I started out really, really, really small, and have grown from there. Here’s what’s great about my experience: I started my business with $250. And almost half of that went to the cost of incorporating! So if you don’t have much money, you can still start your own ecommerce business.

The key to starting an ecommerce business with little investment capital is dropshipping. Dropshipping is simply offering goods for sale that you don’t store at your location. Once a customer places an order, you ship it to them directly from the wholesaler’s warehouse. People have been doing it successfully for years, and some have made millions at it. If you want to start your own internet shop, you should seriously consider dropshipping. You’ll be able to start a retail shop without having to carry inventory.

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. 09 Apr 08 | Business, Internet Marketing, Business Opportunity | Read on | Comments (0)

Making New Plans for the Coming Year

I’ve been quite busy lately, working, Christmas shopping, and whining about how much I need a vacation. The vacation is coming soon, but it’s only a week, which is 1/600 of the actual vacation I need.

Let’s see what that actually is, since the number 600 just popped into my head while typing. Well, that’s 11.54 years, which is a mighty fine vacation if you ask me!

I digress. I’ve got some plans for the coming year… Money-making plans. Business ventures — maybe adventures is a better choice of word. I won’t tell you all about them right now. Instead, I’ll tell you about them as I implement them. Let’s just say that my current ventures are making money, but could be making more, and I’ve got some ideas to tap into other markets as well.

Some may say that if I do too many things, nothing will be good. Whereas that might have been true in the dark ages, we have the internet now. My plans will work out something like this: Create machine, plug machine into internet, let internet do the actual work while I maintain machine. Maintaining a few machines isn’t really much work, and will add some variety to what could be an otherwise bland week. So you see, it’s not really spreading my focus out thin, so that nothing gets enough attention. It’s just creating machines that make money while I rest. Sure, I’ve got to maintain them, but that’s no big deal. I’ll keep my machine count down to a manageable level and everything will be fine.

Making money on the internet isn’t really hard, but it’s not easy either. I would say that it’s somewhere in the middle. I’ve definitely had some false starts and bad ideas, but I’m getting the hang of this now.

. 10 Dec 07 | Business, Marketing, Goals, Internet Marketing | Read on | Comments (0)