Category: Grow a Home Business

    Free Website Promotion…Why Not?

    Can you ever avail of free website promotion? Is that even feasible?

    Of course yes! Nowadays, your baby website can amass huge traffic in no time thanks to free website promotion.

    How does this free website promotion go anyway? What are things to be done?

    1. Enlist your website.

    Look for the hottest Internet directories and enlist your site there. This is the easiest and most effective free website promotion tactic. Start with this step and the rest of the good things will follow.

    The easiest way to find free website directories is to search in Google for “free website directories” in quotes.

    There are many including lists of directories in their article for example “Free Directory Submissions 2018″

    Just don’t forget to prep your website and make it all spruced up for a higher chance to get accepted in your directory of choice.

    2. Know your forums.

    One reason why forums are created is for free website promotion for everyone. Log in, post actively, let them know about your site in every post and you attract instant visitors right there.

    3. Write a press release.

    Release your writing prowess and start up a press release that advertises your site! This is a free website promotion tactic that you can do anytime. Type a brief paragraph or two and email it to your friends, colleagues, internet e-zines, newspapers and other media and massive traffic will come to you pronto!

    4. Be friendly online.

    Free website promotion means you need to be friendly to other webmasters. Why, you ask? So they can link you immediately! Establish contacts and never tire of link requests and exchanges.

    5. Write an article.

    Say, your website is about your travel agency. Write an article about the perks of traveling or the hottest travel spots in the world. On the concluding paragraph, mention your website in passing. This article works as an advertorial and doubles as a free website promotion approach.

    6. Just let the whole world know about your site.

    What is free website promotion without the word of mouth? Insert your website, its URL and features in daily conversations and let the good news spread from one mouth to another!

    7. Make a banner ad.

    Make a banner ad for your site and ask another webmaster to do the same for his site. Then swap!

    8. Take up a free website promotion course online.

    Yes, there are free website promotion tutorials. But don’t you know that you can actually take a free website promotion course that can help you out further? Part of the free website promotion program is signing up for newsletters.

    When you make a website, you need not pay anything to promote it. You just read it — there is such a thing as free website promotion!

    For more on advertising your home-based business website join The Business of At Home Business here!

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    Writing Content for your Business

    The content of your site tells a whole lot about your website. They will basically describe what your site is about and also tell people what your site has to offer. Articles and website content makes a whole lot of difference in your site because they can catch the attention of your website visitors and keep them in there.

    With good website content you get the benefit of clearly depicting what it is you want to share with people. Also, good content and articles can lead people to your site. With more traffic, you get to earn more from your site making it profitable. A sites success, be it for profit or not, is the number of the flow of traffic in your site.

    SEO Enhanced Website

    So how does good content and great articles get you traffic? Well, many search engines rely on the keyword and keyword phrases of a site to put it in their results list. If your content contains a good number of keywords and keywords phrases, it may be chosen to be a part of the top listed sites in the search result pages.

    But before you think of just plastering your site with all the keywords and keyword phrases it could hold, search engines also filter out that abuse. You must have good well written articles that incorporate the keywords and keyword phrases properly in their content and articles.

    There are many of those who cannot afford the time to write their own website contents and articles. While writing content and articles specifically designed for the internet may take some getting used to and some researching and learning, there are many writers that can be found all over the world who could do it for you.

    Outsourcing your Web Content

    Many of us do not have the time to learn web content writing and article writing designed for the internet. There are writers who have great experience in doing this and charge only a minimal fee for such work. Writers like this can be regarded as experts in this style of writing and can greatly help your website to get that coveted spot in the search engine rankings.

    Other than getting your site in the web results page of search engines, they can also provide your site with meaningful articles and content that can impress your website visitors and entice others to view your site. Every website could use the extra traffic website visitors could invite.

    Outsourcing your Writing in Your Business

    Then there are those who need papers to be done either for their school or office work. Top writers around the world are very knowledgeable and do extreme researching to get a job done right. They are also very adept in many writing styles that are needed to best suit the client’s need.

    Many writers around the world charge a minimal fee depending on the type of writing job needed and the number of words needed in the content. Usually, a two hundred fifty worded article would cost from 4 to 8 dollars depending on the writers experience and ability. This is a small price to pay for having a content rich site or for a well researched and written paper.

    Finding a Good Writer

    There are also many sites that can offer you these services with their team of well trained and experienced writers. They offer many writing services to cover any writing needs. A writer can be based anywhere in the world and are guaranteed to offer good contents and articles. Each one are doubly checked, edited and proofread so that you would get your money’s worth.

    Finding a good writer or a site that offers these kinds of services is simply done by searching for them in search engines. Type down your keyword or keyword phrase (e.g. Content Writers, Article Writers) and you will see a long list of sites that offer these services.

    The services site include:

    Upwork.com

    Freelancer.com 

    The top sites would probably be the best since they have done a good job of keeping their content at a high quality to get them high rankings. But you may also want to shop around and read some of their sample work to get an idea of how much it will cost you.

    Writing content is a skill that can reflect well your business or not reflect well if the content is less than grammatically correct or it is not easy to read. So, make sure you get samples of someone’s work from them before you hire them to write your content. They should be able to give you a $ per page or $ per 1000 words rate so you can budget your money for outsourcing some writing.

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    To Have Systems in your Business

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    Welcome. This is Jane Gardner.

    And today we’re going to go looking at the systems you can put in your business to save you time and money making you more productive, get more sales and get more leads to have a great business so let’s get started.

    As you know I’m Jane Gardner and we’re talking about systems today. I know that sounds very boring to most people but systems in your business will allow you to have the time to get more sales and also lets you have more time with your family and friends to get yourself a lifestyle business.

    So we’re going to be talking about the five systems that you need to have in an online business today as well as offline business of course. So we’re going to be looking at first off making yourself a hub on the internet or a hub in your business where you can be found so that would be your web site and how to set up a system so that your web site is the location that people can come to and they can find out who you are as well as obviously sign up for anything you have or you can get sales as well as get engagement.

    So your web site is a system that is built for you to collect it.

    So you have a lead system as well that’s set up for you so that you can collect leads without having to be there day and night. It’s collecting leads for you because you set up a system that does it.

    You can set up a system for engagement whether it’s on social media or on the internet. Making sure you keep connected with your customers that you have or keeping connected and following up with your clients that you have.

    There’s a system for you to have sales. How to set up a system for your sales so that you have some automation so that you’re not always having to do it from scratch every day slowing you down, losing focus, not progressing as quickly as you want.

    Having a system for your sales so you can go out, and people can interact with your sales system whether or not you’re there or whether or not you’re open as far as being out there, can work for you day or night.

    As well you need a payment system set up so that it’s automatic and will collect any payments for you and release any products or services that you’re going to be have with your customer or client.

    So that’s when it can also work for you day and night. Well, of course previously without the internet your day of business was nine to five or all every seven days a week. For us, it was usually 8:00 in the morning till about 6:00 at night. So right now it is seven days a week because this is when we’re available. But if you get your business onto the Internet of course with the difference in the hours all over the world you can actually go and do business as long as you have some automation and use systems so that you could collect a sale or two in the morning while you’re asleep from someone over in England who’s found your product to be something that they want. So I know this isn’t something that you think very important in your business and it’s certainly not very exciting to have systems but these systems in your business will allow you to make more sales and get more engagement and collect more leads and of course process more payments and have a website that is interacting with your customers and clients so they get to know like and trust you.

    So your systems and your business are almost the most critical thing in your business because it gives you the time to collect more leads; to follow up more often with your clients; to have more time for yourself rather than having to work all day in your business.

    You all have systems in your business that will help you to organize and make you more productive and give you the free time that you need in order to be successful in your business.

    So my approach may be starting with offline business like I mentioned in your home business and some of the systems that you can put into your offline home business now and ignore the internet next week. Anyway, we are trying to because ,of course, in offline business can work just as well on the Internet as online.

    You have five systems in your business.

    Do you have a lead system to collect leads?

    Do you have a Web site that’s online so that people can visit you even though you may be asleep? They can come visit your web site and see what you sell or see who you are.

    Do you have a sale system in your business so that it can work while you’re asleep?

    Basically you’re sleeping all the time and you have something to engage with systems on social media or engage with people on email lists.

    Then of course do you have a payment system set up in your business so that you can collect payments from the sales that are made from that leads that you get from the email that you send out etc..? So that’s all going to be talking about on systems Saturday so I hope you’ll find this useful and we’ll talk to you next week.

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    To Grow a Home Business

    Hi this is Jane Gardner and welcome. This is all about growing your home business. And today we’re going to just be talking  about some of those strategies they could have in order to grow your business. As I have mentioned previously, I’m going to be talking about growing your blog doing anything with your home business whether it’s offline or online on the internet.

    So first off, we’re going to be talking about some of the offline strategies of course because these are some of the standard strategies that you have throughout time to grow your business.

    We’re going to be looking at networking and marketing.

    We’re going to be looking at outsourcing and we’re going to be looking at promoting your business in order to create more awareness for your business.

    These are some of the ways that you can grow your home business whether it was 1990 or now. Then we’ll be looking at the Internet and how having the Internet has increased the possibility for you to grow your business. Whether it’s offline or online today you can have a larger Internet international audience for your business and especially if you can do your business in different languages you can have an even larger market. We’ll be looking at your market potential on the internet.

    I can tell you right now there was 3.6 billion people on the Internet and I’m sure by now there’s probably more so I’ll keep you up to date on the number of people that are on the Internet and hanging out where they’re hanging out and how you can grow your home business by going where your market is.

    So we’re going to be looking at some of the new opportunities for you as a business to grow your business. Of course the most important one being of course the opportunities on the Internet but also by looking at partnering with other businesses and creating a collaboration in order to have a larger success and outsourcing. Being able to outsource some of your work, so that you have more time to grow your business rather than working in your business. So we’ll be looking at growth strategies that will help you save time and money in your business. So if we can get your business to grow by 5 percent, 10 percent or 25 percent just getting your business onto the Internet creating awareness for your business on the Internet. Even if you’re an offline business the Internet is important for your business because at all times you have to be able to grow your home business so you have a strong structure and foundation to your business.

    So yeah that’s all we’re looking at and I hope it’ll be useful for you and grow your home business Fridays. Let’s see what should we leave you with today. Think about your own business and what you want to have your business grow at and how you want it to increase by 5 percent. Have a look at your productivity in your business and see how you can be more productive in order to have the time so you can grow your business.

    We’ll be looking at social media. So if you haven’t got yourself a social media account on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter, it’s about time that you did. So we’ll be going over some of the reasons for why you should be getting on on social media even if are a home based business who thinks you don’t cater to people on the Internet. I can certainly show you some businesses that have been successful on Instagram, for example, posting photos of ships. These are ships that are shipping! They have people who actually follow them. So it’s not impossible for you to grow your business with social media and on the Internet. And so we’ll be looking at some of the ways you can do that in the coming months.

    So I hope you’ll join me and subscribe here at boahb.com and will talk to you again next week. I’ll start with the basics. Start with what did we do back in 1990 when we were growing our home business. I had one of the original guerrilla marketing handbook so we were going over some of the simpler ways that you can sell your home business by doing some marketing for it. And if you have already know about that well we might find a few new ones for you on next week.

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    See what other businesses are doing with Livestreaming!

    What’s Trending in Livestreaming Entertainment to learn from for your business

     

    As concerts sell out quickly online, paid livestreaming of concerts has become a way to generate more revenue. With a funny video, Tomorrowland festival which sells out quickly is announcing that this year they will have not 1 but 4 livestreamings of the concert acts.

    With four channels of streaming over the 6 days of the festival, some of Tomorrowland’s biggest sets will be showcased by Tomorrowland announces livestream through a hysterical trailer | We Rave You

     

    To increase their audience Kendal Calling festival has joined up with Twitch livestreaming broadcaster to stream their concert live – no muddy fields to sit in anymore!

    Tim Peaks, Calling Out and Glow tent live from the comfort of your home or – for the less hardy festival goer – your tent. This is especially useful since the festival sold out faster than ever back in February and sadly some of the usual faces missed out on their tickets. by Kendal Calling partners with Twitch to livestream festival performances

    Even a mistake in the livestream can cause instant celebrity as the pop group MVP found out when they got 54,000 views in 2 minutes because they were using Wanna One’s group livestream. Imagine what would happen for your business if you got 2000 views in 2 minutes!

    Rookie group MVP accidentally ‘hacks’ Wanna One’s livestream by Rookie group MVP accidentally ‘hacks’ Wanna One’s livestream

     

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    Sports Trends

    Knowing how popular sports are, there is a rush to get livestreaming working on the social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter. There are sports corporations signing agreements with them to broadcast.

    MLB Announces Facebook Will Livestream Games with No Blackout Every Friday by MLB Announces Facebook Will Livestream Games with No Blackout Every Friday

    Twitter had livestreaming of Wimbledon this year on the platform. For those on their phone or tablet waiting in the airport or work, it must be fun but it won’t take over for the mega-screen live broadcast on T.V.

    Twitter’s Livestreaming Sports Lineup Now Includes the Arena Football League by Twitter’s Livestreaming Sports Lineup Now Includes the Arena Football League

    The Milken Institute has a conference on the business of sports with a discussion of live TV and social media streaming services for Wrestlemania or the British Soccer League. “Know their play habits, their watching habits and ..growth of sports fans. “7 year olds know more about UFC growing their fans from the “The Business of Sports” by The Business of Sports on Livestream

    However, livestreaming is become a force for amateur sports as it increases awareness for any sport. I’m sure your local soccer team has family members proudly broadcasting their child’s effort to grandparents! Livestreaming is helping with awareness for all kinds of sports and even funding whether crowdfunding or charitable.  I saw all the other adaptive sports that aren’t being broadcast out there, and that’s why I started ParaSportsLive to bring these sports to everybody,” he said. by NH man launching livestream platform for parasports nationwide | NH1

    You want to check out “Growing your Audience with Livestreaming” here.

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    5 Reasons to have a Blog in your Business

    Marketing – the action of promoting and selling your products or service. 

    5 Reasons why you should  blog in your business?

    1. It is a free marketing tool to use on your website and in social media.
    2. It brings awareness to your Brand as other businesses learn about your company who may want to connect or partner with your business.
    3. It is good to showcase your authority and knowledge about your product or service.
    4. Visitors find a way to connect and enjoy reading about company activities or events.
    5. Most importantly, visitors get to know, like and trust your business as a company they could do business with and they are more likely to find that your business has the solution to their problem.

    Click Here to Get “Blogging for Business Made Easy!”
    You may say you don’t have time to blog on your website about your business but you are letting a free opportunity for you to market to your customers slip away if you don’t! Blogging has become a way to market yourself and your products or services to website visitors and out on social media. People do want to hear what you are all about when they are looking for a solution to their problem. If you are out there blogging and doing social media posts, whether you are a small home business or a large corporation, your words will speak for your business.

    The more insight and peeks behind the scenes you get, the more that people will see you have authority in your field and line of work/service. Why You Need to Stop Waiting and Start Blogging (like TODAY) – SoulScripts
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    Even if your business is a large one, and you’re setting out to create a blog that speaks to your customer base, there are always ways to make it personal. Show that you understand the issues they’re facing and the problems they’re looking to solve. Use your blog posts to demonstrate to your audience that you’re the best solution to those issues and problems.

    Having a voice doesn’t just mean the act of talking or writing. It means having a point of view, being distinctive, and maybe even a little opinionated or controversial. There is a lot of noise on the Internet, and one of the biggest challenges that people face is sifting through all of that noise in order to find the content that’s interesting.

    How are you going to create all the content for your blog?

    According to Neil Patel, if you write 10 ideas per day then by the end of the year, you will have 3650 ideas!

    The great thing about writing down 10 ideas a day is that you’ll become, as James Altucher says, an idea machine. by Neil Patel’s Guide to Blogging Consistently

    Then if you save an hour before day just to focus on your blog content; it may take you a few days to write 300 -500, words and then a couple of days to add images, proofread and add a call to action then you will have new blog post every week only from one hour a day!

    If you aren’t into writing content but find it easier to do audio then collect your thoughts and jot down the important points you want to make and then get out your microphone and record! Your audience may also be busy and they would enjoy listening to you and your personal thoughts then reading. Who has time!?

    The voice of your blog should be a good fit for the product or service you’re selling. For example, if you are an affiliate marketer for natural health care products, then a writing voice that’s positive and nurturing is almost certain to be more appropriate than a voice that’s “in your face” or that uses risqué humor.

    For more on blogging for your business check out

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    Who Are the Big Players in the Live Stream Market

    Broadcasting in one form or another has been around for a while. But with the roll out of Periscope and Meerkat in early 2015, broadcasting is gaining ground to be one of the biggest developments of the year. By the time you read this, there could be several other companies that jump on board. As of this writing, however, the following are the major players:
    Ustream.com
    Ustream.com has been around since 2007 which makes them an early adopter of the technology. They have pricing plans that are based on what they call viewer hours. Additional viewer hours will be charged for overages. The charges are also based on the amount of cloud storage is used to contain broadcasts. Other features have to do with where you can integrate with including social media and control of where you can embed the broadcast.

    Livestream.com
    Livestream.com is another paid platform, and has features similar to Ustream.com. They offer a basic package the is less than half the price of Ustream. The higher cost packages are lower than Ustream as well. However, the prices that they publish do not give much in the way of what is included. In order to get the cheaper prices, you will need to pay yearly. Otherwise, the month-to-month fees are closer to that of Ustream.

    Periscope
    One of the main reasons that live stream broadcasting has taken off recently could very well be that Periscope (periscope.tv) is offered as a free app for smart devices. It’s also easy to use. Periscope was bought out by Twitter even before it launched. Twitter saw the value of this type of technology and jumped on board. They have never looked back and have been seeing incredible growth in the platform. As Twitter is a social media giant, its online clout is sure to keep this engine running for quite some time.

    There are several other players in the live stream space, with more likely to jump on board as the space grows. It’s hard to know who will gain and keep the highest market share. The key for the players is going to be attracting new viewers and offering the best live stream technology.

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    What is Social Video Marketing

    What Is Social Video Marketing?

    Social video is a new term and it can be complicated to understand. One definition you could use to describe it is: digitized video meant to be shared through social networks. It goes beyond just viral videos to actual interaction between your audience and you.

    Some parts of this definition of social video marketing include:
    Social videos needs to be digitized, or optimized for digital channels.

    Videos that work on television may not work on a tablet or a smart phone.
    Social video also needs to be shareable.

    You’re not just optimizing for the channel, but for the ability to share as well.

    There are many ways to make a social video sharable, from inducing emotions, to using storytelling structures to bring your marketing alive.
    Social videos need to work well with social networking sites. You need to know how to use specific sites to showcase your social video marketing in the best light. Video appears in different ways on different social networks, and each network has a unique audience.

    What works on Facebook may not work on Instagram.

    You may need to have a stock video that you edit and tweak to fit different sites.

    Your audience on Facebook may be more generalized, while your Instagram audience may be mostly mobile and interested in sites and products they can easily view on their smart phone.

    Many people confuse social video with viral video, but they are not exactly the same. Social media videos may not get millions of views and still be a big success. If your company sells a high end software package, a video that shows a behind the scenes look at features of your software may be quite successful with less than a thousand shares, because they are highly targeted shares. And, maybe of that approximately thousand shares, you may have 30 percent buy your software package.
    While a viral video of your cat and his silly antics may get a lot more shares, but is probably not going to sell your product or service. Yes sharing is an important part of social video marketing, but it needs to be the right kind of sharing that is highly targeted and leads to sales.

    Unless you are Grumpy Cat, those kitty videos that get millions of views are not likely to make you money.
    Videos are on the rise and are definitely a major trend in marketing. You definitely should add some video to your overall social media marketing plan to help your business grow.

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    WooCommerce Review

    Most of you have heard of WordPress and are already using it for your websites. It is one of the most successful and popular web platforms of all time.

    One of the reasons that WordPress is so popular is because it is extremely flexible. This is where WooCommerce comes into play: instead of outsourcing aspects of your business to different software solutions, why not simply build on what you already use?

    There are many different shopping carts programs that can be used with WordPress, but WooCommerce is the by far the most popular. It was also built with WordPress in mind.

    What You Need to Know about WooCommerce

    The first thing that you need to know about using WooCommerce is that it is a WordPress plugin and not an ecommerce platform. This means that you need to have a WordPress website before you start using it. If you already have a WordPress website, WooCommerce is a good choice. If you do not, it may not be worth it to transfer your site to WordPress just to be able to use the WooCommerce plugin.

    The second thing that you should know is that WooCommerce is a basic shopping cart. Most of the features that might come standard with other ecommerce solutions are available through the use of extensions. While the WooCommerce plugin is free to download, it is the basic version. There are hundreds of free and paid extensions available.

    Positive Features of WooCommerce

    It is free to download and offers a large extension store with prices ranging from $29 to $200
    No programming knowledge is necessary to begin using
    User-friendly
    Interface is intuitive and modern
    One page check out process is offered
    Provides cross selling functionality, up-selling, sales pricing, and built in coupons
    Extensive template and theme store: themes are open source and require a bit of basic coding knowledge in order to customize

    Negative Features of WooCommerce

    Manual product upload: if you have a lot of products you will want to purchase a bulk product load extension which costs around $200
    Does not have sophisticated reporting and marketing solutions that are needed for higher traffic stores
    Requires that you use WordPress

    Overall, if you currently have a WordPress site and are looking for a good shopping cart plugin for ecommerce, WooCommerce is a good choice. It offers an easy-to-integrate solution for most of your online selling needs.

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    Want To Write Content That Grabs And Holds Attention? Here Are Some Content Marketing Tips You Can Use

    Good content packs a solid punch and does wonders for a successful internet marketing strategy. Its value cannot be underrated. No matter what kind of business you are involved in or what kind of concept you are trying to promote, quality content that is informative, useful and articulate is absolutely essential. So how do you create content that packs the right kind of punch? Implement these four tips when you are doing your writing.

    No compromise on quality

    One of the primary objectives of content marketing is to help your brand or your product, list among the top search engine results. To achieve it, you need to incorporate keywords and key phrases into the content. The problem arises when keywords take precedence over the actual content, i.e.: you focus on inserting as many keywords are possible and ignore the quality of the written material.

    What you should know is that with Google’s Penguin and Hummingbird updates, the search engine can now differentiate between content that has quality information to offer and content that is simply spammy or that overuses keywords. The former is more likely to rank better than keyword-intensive text.

    Give adequate attention to headlines

    The first thing that your reader sees is your headline. If it fails to grab their attention, it does not matter how well your article is written or how useful it is to them. Invest enough attention in writing headlines that convey a message, pique the curiosity and draw in the reader to invest more time on the page. A good tip is to convey how the reader will benefit from reading the blog or article or web page. For example, “Want to take YouTube by storm? Here is what to do?”

    Add visual breaks for easy reading

    You may have great content to share, you may even have an attention grabbing headline ready, but unless your content is easy to read, none of them really matter. Visual breaks make it easy to read text and it is simple to add them to any content. Break up the content into logical paragraphs and use subtitles to convey what the reader can learn from each of them. Make use of bullet points when you have a number of arguments to present or many points to list out. They make it easy to communicate the maximum amount of information with the minimum number of words.

    Use direct language

    Using simple, direct language to get your point across to your reader is another often forgotten aspect. Active voice is the best choice for you because it keeps the content uncomplicated and easy to comprehend after a quick glance. Make sure you add call to actions at appropriate intervals and also at the end of the content to inspire your reader to act, at once.

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