My Online Business Strategy

Online Business Strategy Productivity Tips

Filed under MOBS Tips, My Online Business Strategy by peter on August 17, 2010 at 12:41 pm {no comments}

When you are creating an online business site or any of the associated activities around it like writing articles, creating videos, creating backlinks etc, you really do need to stay focused on the task.

I’d like to share with you my top online business productivity tips I use when creating and promoting my online business sites.

1. Avoiding Distractions

Getting distracted is probably the number one reason for losing focus and not achieving any real results for your online business at the end of the day.

It can be quite hard to avoid constant distractions like emails, instant messaging and phone calls, so my tip is to turn them off while you are working.

Closing your email is a great help as it is very hard to resist reading your emails as they come in. It doesn’t take too long before you are side tracked from working on your site and end up doing something else that really isn’t important or could wait until later on.

Instant messaging is even more of a distraction than email as it is more intrusive. If you use something like Skype, either close it down or at the very least change your status to “Do not disturb” or “offline”.

With a cellphone, either turn it off, or put it into silent mode and check if any calls or text messages were received after you have finished your tasks.

2. Make a List

I know this tip isn’t unique and probably pretty obvious, but it really does help.

Whether you use a paper diary or an electronic form like an iPhone or spreadsheet, it doesn’t really matter so long as you can see the list and mark off the items.

One thing though is you have to be realistic about what tasks you can achieve. There’s no point in writing that you’ll create ten MOBS sites by the end of the day as that’s not achievable. You are best to breakdown the tasks into good bite sized chunks as you’ll be able to complete them and feel better about marking them of the list.

3. Limit Your Research

While you do need to do research for any My Online Business Strategy website, you can waste a lot of time with things that aren’t really relevant.

Make sure you limit your research to the niches and keywords related to your My Online Business Strategy site.

It’s very easy to over analyze your MOBS site, so you are better off concentrating on the content rather than all the latest SEO and WordPress tips.

4. A Little Bit is Better Than Nothing

Sure there are going to be days when working on your online business strategy sites is going to be hard. Some days you can be very tired or busy with other things going on, that you find it’s difficult to get the energy to knock off any of your tasks on your list.

However, even if you can squeeze in a few minutes of commenting on blogs or creating some social bookmarks, it will benefit your site and you’ll feel better than you managed to at least achieve something productive for your online business strategy success.

Free Report

Filed under My Online Business Strategy, Reports by peter on June 30, 2010 at 11:28 pm {one comment}

WordPress is a fantastic tool for quickly creating websites for all types of online businesses. WordPress is the platform of choice for my online business sites.

As you can probably guess, this site is built using WordPress.

Apart from ease of use and extreme flexibility, WordPress makes it so simple to set up an online business site in a very short time. In fact, I was able to build this site from scratch in less than 15 minutes! That includes:

Registering the myonlinebusiness.info domain name
Configuring my web hosting account to use the new domain
Installing WordPress
Configuring WordPress and installing plugins

Now, I’m willing to share the exact process I used to build this site in a special FREE report that you can download by just entering your email on the right hand side. This special online business strategy report details all the steps and has plenty of screenshots to make the process very easy.

I’m sure you’ll find this report very valuable and I welcome any feedback you have regarding the report.

Things To Watch Out For When Starting In Online Marketing

Filed under My Online Business Strategy by peter on May 24, 2010 at 10:14 am {one comment}

Starting Out In Online Marketing

When you are first starting out in the the world of Internet Marketing, it can be an extremely daunting experience as there are literally thousands of various training courses and products to choose from. It is very easy to end up spending a lot of money chasing all the numerous quick rich schemes.

Even when you have ordered a training course, you might find that you quickly get information overload and that the training course doesn’t deliver on its hype.

It is very important that you have a good online business strategy early on in the process, so that you don’t make too many mistakes along the way to being established as an internet marketer. One very important aspect of your internet marketing strategy is to know what things you should avoid.

What Things Should You Watch Out For?

1. Unrealistic Claims. Some products claim you can generate thousands of dollars with a few minutes work. The old adage that says “if something seems to good to be true, then it probably is”, certainly applies here. Whilst there might be the rare product where you can get lucky and possibly generate some dollars immediately, the majority of those systems usually rely on passing trends and therefore are not sustainable in the medium to long term.

2. Countless upsells. There are lots of products on the market that will claim to be comprehensive systems, but when you purchase them, you’re offered “once in a lifetime offers” for additional products. You should ask yourself, if the main product is so great, why are you needing each one of these additional products?

3. No support. The thing you don’t want when you’ve paid out your hard earned dollars is to be left in the lurch without support. Regardless of how great a product is, you really want to make sure that it has some type of guarantee of support in the event you come across any issues or have any concerns.

4. Good reputation. You simply can not survive for very long in the world of internet marketing if you have a bad reputation. The word quickly spreads if there are lots of disgruntled clients. It pays to do a little background research first.

So what points should you consider?

1. Someone who”s been around for a while and has developed a first-rate reputation. You won’t survive too long in the Internet website marketing world if you continue ripping off or providing below average products to your consumers, so the majority of online marketers that have been around for a time are there for good reason.

2. Previous products. Normally, this is the best indication as to how much you can trust the individual and/or product they’re selling. If they have delivered a very good product in the past that customers ended up being really satisfied with, then there is a very good likelihood their other products will probably be every bit as good.

So just think, when you are starting off with your online business strategy, you should really handle it like a regular business strategy and do some planning and research before committing any money. By using a combination of due diligence, analysis and a reliable source of information, you should be able to create your own online business strategy to ensure great success.