Lloyd Hester

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When setting up an online business there are a number of things that you need to consider. Most people say that you should setup a website about something that you know about. I disagree, the most important thing in my book is that you can automate everything and that you can run it from anywhere.

Setting up an online business should give you the freedom to go where you want without affecting your business. If you set up a website to sell the bird cages that you make in your garden shed then in my book you defeat the main objective of running an online business. You are tied to your garden shed!!!

If you become an agent for a company that manufactures bird cages and you set up a web site to sell their products for a commission then you have a perfect business. You promote the site and pass all the orders and hassle to the manufacturer. Whether you choose to live in Toronto or Tobago, Manchester or Maui you can run your business.

The same can be said of digital down-loadable products like software or ebooks.

Also try to make it a business that does not take a lot of technical knowledge that will require you to be spending time on emails and support questions. The more that you can outsource and pass to others the better.

With e-books the customer comes to your site and buys the product, they pay through paypal and are then taken to the download page. They then download the book and bobs your uncle. They have what they have ordered and you have the money. All sorted while you are asleep in your comfortable bed or swimming with the kids in the Indian Ocean in my case

So, bare that in mind, if you want to setup a business that will make you money and enable you to enjoy life to the full. Don’t get involved in a business that is going to take up more of your time than you want to give.

When looking for keywords to try and rank for it is important that you take the time to do the proper research.

There are so many keyword tools and guides but very few of them explain a really simple way to research the basic terms that you should concentrate on.

If you know nothing about keyword research then don’t fret, it is really simple but time consuming.

The idea is to find keywords with a high number of searches and a low number of results.

To find out the keywords go to the google keyword tool and type in your main phrase “coffee tables” for example. This will give you a list of related keywords. Then click on the “Approx Avg Search Volume” button to list the terms in descending order. Now take a look and you will quickly see that there is a big difference between “coffee tables” and “coffee table” more than twice the amount of searches for the term coffee table. Also “furniture coffee table” and “furniture coffee tables” nearly 3 times the amount of searches for the term using the singular “table”

Now go to google and type in “coffee table” and note down the results. Then do the same for “coffee tables” look how many more results there are for this term?

The lower the ratio between the results and the number of searches the better. High searches, low number of results equals happy, smiley faces if it is for a term that you want to rank for.

Also, it is worth remembering that sometimes you can find some keywords that maybe don’t have massive monthly search volumes, but if they only have low number of resulting pages you will be able to dominate for these terms easily and quickly.

I am amazed at the amount of people trying to sell how to make money online courses. Yet these so called experts have never made any money online themselves.

They read a book or course, copy it and try to sell it. Promising untold millions, overnight success and give up your day job.

They say copy my formula and you will be rich beyond your wildest dreams.

It is sad actually as they are aiming at those people who really need the money and can least afford to be wasting on these false promises or who really need to make some money. They spend their hard earned cash on one course after another and none of them work.

Whilst there are some great ways to make money online the big problem with is that the sales letter promise the world and are very compelling, they are designed to draw you in and take you through a sales process that will have your drooling and pulling out your wallet as if you are in a trance.

The unfortunate thing is that very few of these courses actually help you make real money online and this is for several reasons.

1. People buy them and do not take any action
2. They follow the process but give up when they reach the first hurdle
3. The course does not tell you how to really make money, they miss out the meat of the strategy and then try to upsell you on a much more expensive course.
4. The stragey that the guru is using works because he has friends with massive lists
5. The guy uses automated systems to really crank up the system and these are not easy to use for the technically challenged, which is most of us trying to make money online.
6. The system just does not work.

There are just so many scams.

The first thing that you need to do if you want to make money online is to look at what you are good at and decide what area of the Internet that you want to make money in.

You can go into blogging, e-commerce, training courses, marketing, trading, eBay and so many other types of businesses. List your strengths , skills and abilities and then choose an Internet business that will suit you.

Don’t read the shiny sales letters and get taken in by the promises of overnight success. It just does not happen like that.

I am amazed at the amount of people trying to sell how to make money online courses. Yet these so called experts have never made any money online themselves.

They read a book or course, copy it and try to sell it and guess what it says?

All you have to do is write and ebook on how to make money online and sell it!! This is like the old envelope address scam that was popular in the 80′s.

There are loads of ways to make money but it is so easy to get carried away with the hype and sale pitch. I knowI bought most of the crap out there. Most of it I already know and could have put it together better myself.

The thing is most of it is really easy to do. It is just about following a system and having a strategy to follow.

I suppose that most people like the idea of working for themselves but not the idea of working by themselves. This is why franchsies work so well.

So the best thing to do is find a group of like minded people and follow one, YES one formula and see it through to conclusion.

There are so many ways to make money and you need to pick one that suits you.

I am creating a free course called the start smart system which will help you choose exactly the business that is right for you.

We will look at all of the different ways to make money and help you choose one that is right for you.

Sign up in the box on the top right and you will be the first to know when it is up and ready to go.

You can check out www.startsmartsystem.com and watch the video.

until next time

It is so important to have a plan to work to.  Now, I don’t mean goals, although these are important in my opinion.

I have learnt this the hard way over many years and the difference, once you learn your lesson is amazing.

if you do not plan your work by creating a list of things to do and following that plan you will be like a ship in the open seas without a compass, or SAT NAV these days!

I also try and do the to do list at the end of the day for the following day.

For some reason I tend to be able to think clearer about what has to be done  for the following day rather than trying to make my list at the start of my day.

If you are going to work online in you own internet business then you need to be as efficient as possible.

Outsourcing is a great way to build your business which you shoul do as soon as posible. However, you will not be able to do it unless you are able to list the job that needs doing in order and in a way that makes sense.

So get into the habit of making a plan and following it and then, when you come to employing your first member of staff you will already be  a step  or two ahead of most people online today.

Make your daily list of all the things that you need to do and then prioritise them and start at the most important. another tip is to start the thing that you least want or like to do. Set yourself a time limit and get stuck in. Try to get as much done in the time you have allowed and don’t get distracted. Focus all of your attention on that task.

You will be suprised at how much more you wll accomplish and before long you will be doing it every day

Making money online and working from home is a dream for a lot of us.

There is a wealth of how to courses available on every different subject you can imagine. Everything from FOREX trading to selling on Ebay.

The problem is that there is so much choice that it is hard to know what is right for you.

People get blinded by the temptation of earning their fortune online, they read the numerous sales letter and get caught up in the hype.

Pressing their buy now button and spending their hard earned cash on a course that fails to meet the promises made.

The biggest problem however, is not the fact that the course fails to deliver, the main problem is that we all have different talents and abilities. Some of us are good at facts and figures, analysing things and paying attention to detail, others are great at ideas or designing but have great difficulty in understanding html or php.

The secret to success is to first work out what you are good at and make your decision based on that not on the compulsive, persuasive sales letters that all sound so simple to copy.

I have spent time searching for something that can help with this decision and there is nothing available.

I have been involved in a number if different businesses over the years and I have always used other people or companies to assist me in tasks that I was not competent at, or did not like to do.

Yet, with my internet business I tended to do everything. This slowed me down no-end and meant that I spent days of wasted time learning things that could easily have been outsourced.

The internet is a minefield and those wishing to get involved need to spend time assessing their skill and ability levels.

Making money online is easy if you spend time doing things you like and are able to do. so beware of the sales letters and choose something that you are good at before you get going.