Archive for the ‘Business Steps’ Category

How difficult can it be choosing a Business Name?

Day 59 – 306 days to go! Choosing a name for your business is important – it is the business name that will determine your brand, audience and more importantly your url for your website or blog. Should you have a domain under your own name, or have a friendlier SEO url? Should you have [...]

5 Tips on selecting a Niche Market

Day 58 – 307 days to go! Topic selection is very important. You need to know what you are going to be promoting, what your aims are, who wants what you are promoting and your potential earnings from that topic. While I cannot tell you what is right or wrong for you, having just been [...]

The starting point: Why find a niche market?

Day 57 – 308 days to go! Every one starting an online business starts at this point: find a niche market that is large enough to support you but has little competition. So why find a niche market? Definition of a niche market: Lets first start with defining what a niche market is. A niche [...]

Next step: Surveying target audience for their needs

Day 10 – 355 days to go! Two days late according to the plan I am working on, but finally ready to launch the two survey sites I have been working on. In the end I thought it was quicker and easier to use surveymonkey.com to set up a site. Reviewing the process so far [...]

Market Research can be boring

Day 6 -359 days to go Okay I have an idea and I am rearing to go, but instead I need to check out its feasibility. There is the questions, the searching, competitors and idea refinement. All this takes time and brings in no income. Especially if you are starting from scratch. Patience is definitely [...]

First steps in going online

Day 5 – 360 days to go I am overwhelmed at all the things I can do – I can get on to groups, write articles, sign up to 20 or even 50 different social media platforms and communities. I can do Youtube, Flickr, Facebook adverts or what about Twitter and then there is SEO [...]

Marketing Research

Day 4 – 361 days to go What did I get up to yesterday that has helped me towards my goal? I listened to two DVDs by Brett McFall on finding a niche market. This is specifically aimed at e-books, but the techniques really apply to all businesses. It is great to have an idea [...]

A summary of online requirements

Your competitor is only one mouse click away.