Thursday, March 10, 2011

Work from home ideas for students and housewives

There are many places on the web with information about work from home jobs. I have been there and done that. I got success in few and failiures in many others. I have created a blog which is dedicated to direct people to the right place for legitimate sources of work from home jobs. For information about work from home jobs and businesses, visit :
http://smartearner112.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Online Web Store - Your way of selling things

Planning to start an online web store? Want to sell items online? Then read on…

In this article I will provide you tips on how to make a successful online store.
In this world of competition, Success lies in providing the buyer a great customer service. We will first talk about a physical store. In a store, a customer comes in, walks through the store and finds out items which are of his/her use, picks up the item to watch it carefully. The color, the size, the dimensions, the weight, the price etc are the factors which he/she notices.
A good online store should have the ability to project all these details about an item online. It should upload a photo of the actual item. The photo should have high resolution and the customer should be able to magnify it. The online store should provide a brief description about the item. It should include minute details like color, make, weight, size. It should give a point by point comparison with other similar products in the market.
You must provide a clear pricing to the customer. No prices should be hidden. You must tell him the actual price, the discount, the shipping charge, the net worth etc.
You must tell the customer whether the item is in Stock or will be shipped on demand. Additionally, sale information of the item should be available in the website. The store should have an online customer service. The customer should be allowed to ask any question about the product and a quick reply should appear. This can be accomplished by providing a chatting facility in the Online Store. The Customer service links in the website should be large and clearly visible and be present on almost all the pages of the website.
The Customer feel good factor is of ultimate importance. You should provide an ‘About Us’ section. It should contain you Privacy Statement and your policies. Along with that it should contain your affiliation and proof of your Registration.
To make the customer feel better, provide previous customer testimonials in Testimonials section. If previous customers allow, Provide their contact number or address.
You may need a section like FAQs where o you can clarify potential doubts and questions. Customers may have Questions like your return-back policies, shipping prices, insurance charges, guarantee etc. You can answer them all in a FAQ format.
Never show the products which are sold. Do not show them photos of the products which are sold. It annoys the customer. You can instead put a section called ‘coming soon’ and in that section you can put the items which have been sold and will be available in store soon.
Do not forget to add new contents to your website regularly. This will give a good impression on the returning users. They will find it a happening place and your sale will increase. If you have a Date tag or current references tag, be sure you change them frequently so that you save yourself from giving a perception to others that nobody is visiting your site.

Monday, August 17, 2009

Stringless connection : Laptops to connect to the globe.

Its hard to imagine our live without net connection today. Internet is similar to lifeline today and provides us the necessary interface to the outside world.
Internet connects us with each other making the world flatter.
It helps us share knowledge and interact with each other. Laptops and desktops of various companies are available and growing in numbers world wide.
Laptops allow us to access our data anywhere. Also internet can be accessed using a USB or wireless connection or connecting to a Wi-Fi zone nearby.
Laptop Connect uses Telstra Next G wireless broadband modems. We get a speed of around 1GB of data each week with excess usage charged.
The memory available now-a-days is increasing with the price for it decreasing. Hence the constraint in making sense from the huge amount of data available today. Hence we need to make intelligent systems which find the information relevant to us from the vast resource of data dumped on the net. Also with the growing use of Internet and more number of users, we need to apply security checks and provide the information only to the user who is reliable and correct to receive it.

Build your Buisness - Build Independence.

Tired of your 40 hours per week job? Want to leave your cubicle forever? Want freedom from everyday’s pressure and tension that your Boss creates around? Want to run away from your office’s boring and monotonous work forever? If yes, then this article is only for you.

Since you want to earn extra, you will need some other source of income which is totally independent of the source you currently have. So you need to research a bit and find out various sources of possible income. The income should be equal to or more than your current income, only then you are at the luxury of saying adieu to your boss. Finding another good paying job in the similar field is not going to help you double your income. It will no doubt give you a fair hike. But doubling the income? Not possible. There are various stages in one’s life. This is that stage where you want to earn lots of money. Probably down the years, your priorities will change. Money may step down in the priorities list. So this is the right time when you should capitalize on your burning desire to start a new venture keeping hold of your current income stream (if you want). Focus your energy in forming your business rather than serving other’s business.

There is bound to be something in you which is useful to others. Nobody in this world is useless. Its only a matter of some research that you need to do about yourself. There are things which you know and also you know that you are not good at them. But there things at which you are the best but the problem is that you do not know what are they. For example, I did not know that there is a concept of online money making also. So I did not give it a try until a year ago. I started taking interest in that and now I make a handsome income online. I know that I am best at online money making. If I want I can start an online mentoring service also on the basis of 1 year of research that I did on the internet. I can guide people to earn money on the internet and make more money for myself.

So, you have a product in you. But you be unaware. So the idea of doing a business without monetory investments is to explore your-self. Try to find out something in you which can be useful to others. When you find something like that, find out potential customers. Then figure out instruments and methods you would use to sell you product.

Its very important that you make a plan. You should plan enough before acting. You should have a strategy. It will boost in confidence in you. And you have the confidence in you, nobody can stop you from converting your dream to reality.

You have now discovered the product within you. You have found out your potential customer base. Also you have figured out a strategy to sell and market. You have a plan and a deadline. Now is the time to go into minute details. Take a look at how much money you have to invest in your venture. Like most of the new startups you also may not have sufficient bank balance to fuel your project or business.

If you do not have enough money, marketing online is the solution. There are lots of cheap and easily accessible ways to market your product in the web space and through web space on the ground. A variety of courses run in which teachers teach about marketing products online. For a meager amount of fees, they will teach you gems of marketing online. They are into online marketing for years and one you know what they think, what their plans are, what strategy they followed, what mistakes they made, you are actually transferring their experience into yourself. If you are determined to get into business and that also online business then you need not give it a second thought. Just go for it, find your freedom from 9 to 5 monotonous activities, get a good website and a good strategy and a nice product to sell. You will see money flowing in you bank account pretty soon.For more information, visit www.explosive-product-launches.com and www.create-video-product.com

Improve Search Engine Ranking by Blogging

One of the main motives of search engines is to provide the most up to date and the most relevant information to their users.
When a search engine provides information that is of no use to you then it fails to serve its very purpose. Though the search engine brings up articles and documents that are about the topic you want but not what exactly you need then Search Engines become useless. People who use search engines for information always look for the latest information. Also the information should be relevant and useful.
So it becomes obvious that search engines will entertain those sites which have rich content and which are updated regularly. The frequency of updation is monitored by search engines. Those sites which are updated very frequently win the race to the top. One important thing to be done to get noticed by search engine is the keep your content very precise and focused. For example if your website or blog is about travel and tour destinations in India, then it should talk only about those destinations which are in India. It should not have content that talks about travel destination in Asia in general.
Blogging can improve your rank in the search engines. You need to work passionately for it. You need to bring fresh content daily. The content should be useful enough. You need to make sure that:
1) The blog is hosted at your domain – not at general blogging hosts like blogspot.com etc
2) The blog should have useful content and those links which are within the scope of your site.
There is this online journal style that people follow for blogging. But it rarely helps. Such a style will not help your site go up in search engines. This is because the content in online journal is not focused and not relevant too. It may not have keywords entries in the content.
Things of importance here is that your blog should have articles, short stories and tips and review and stuff like that. This is the kind of stuff for which people surf on the internet. If you do not want to include the entire article in the blog, just put a summary of the article and link it to the main article.
Keep updating your blog on a daily basis. You will see the results pretty soon. Pretty soon may be in couple of weeks time you will see that you blog is gaining popularity among search engines. Soon, it will become an entry point for your website. When you find entry point to your website is your blog, it will be an indication that your blog is doing good. This all will happen by updating it religiously.

Wednesday, August 12, 2009

How to make Money from Website?


You want to make a website that can make money for you? Are you aware that there are websites that do not posses anything in their stocks but still sell things and make money?
Yes this is true. To know how? Read on…Bottom of Form

The first and the most important requirement of making money through a website is optimize it for search engines. The site should be well optimized. You might have searched the internet through google and landed upon some site. Similarly few million others might have punched in the same keyword as you did and found themselves on the same site as you are in. Now imagine that the site you landed upon were your site. Imagine the amount of money you could make from it.
There are other kind of websites that do not talk about selling products. They just share some information. They share information about the subject of the website. They have lots of pages, Tons of links, Great readable articles, Good forums where people assemble and discuss. These website earn money by advertizing google. They display google ads on them and when people visiting your website click on these ad, google pays you. The only pain that you had to take was to gather huge, relevant, useful and prompt information about the subject of the website.
Another kind of website is an Affiliate website. Such type of websites also make huge money. The idea is to put some other company’s ad on your website. Unlike google, these company do not pay you just for clicks and views. They will pay when a user is directed to their site from your site and a sale happens. One example of such a site is Amazon.com. Amazon.com allows to put its ads on your site and when someone goes to Amazon’s site by clicking amazon’s ad present on your site and buys something from there, you get the commission.

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

Adwords-Google’s help to let people find your website.

In this article I shall explain you how to make use of the google adwords tool.
You want to do Keyword research? Google Adwords will help you. It is totally free. All beautiful things in this world are free. Adword was designed for people who use pay per click for promotions. But it began to be used to enhance SEO rankings, to pick out domain names, article marketing to monitor other people’s activities on their websites etc.
Since Google adwords is a tool developed by Google its ability to return results is restricted to google’s search engine only. Other search engines have their own tools to do this for them. Will talk about other such tools later on in this series of articles.
As of now, we will talk about the adwords thing- Big G’s innovation. You need to have a gmail account as a prerequisite. A gmail account is not needed to use this tool. It is needed so that you can use other features of google.
Though this can be done using IE also, but I would suggest you to use FireFox. It is safe. It has many features which will make your browsing experience a great and easy one. It helps you open many tabs in one go. You can navigate between the tabs easily.
From google adwords you can get your results in various languages. Also you can generate results in various forms like Phrases or Website content or Descriptive words.
Descriptive Words and Phrases
This is the place where you can find the pharses and keywords that people around the world are using to search something related to a subject.
Webiste content
To do better in a copetition, you need to research your competitors. You need to understand their strategy and accordingly formulate your own. You will see a website that always appears on the top in search results. You should find out which keywords it is using. So just put in its URL in the adwords. Do this not only with the first website in the search results but with entire first page. Playing right with your keywords in the site is of great importance. It is one of the major tactics of SEO. If you own a website, just put in its URL in adwords. Google will provide cool suggestions.
We shall take an example. Type in a word say, “JOB”. Fill in the Captcha, click on the find keywords button and you are done. It will show 70 million searches a month. So you can see that about 70 million people around the globe are searching about this subject. So to get their attention is also a tough job.