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Welcome Back to Your Life – Outsourcing and the Entrepreneur
When’s the last time you took a vacation? Can you remember the last time you actually stopped working to eat lunch or God forbid, took a sick day? Do you remember your kids’ names?Ok, maybe that last one is a bit extreme, but let’s face it, as entrepreneurs, there is little time left for life outside of work. Yes, to be successful in starting your own business, you must be driven, even obsessed at times, but at what cost?We lose sleep. We lose time with friends and families. We most certainly sacrifice such frivolities as hobbies, exercise,

you offer)? What kind of visual theme do you want? What kind of graphics and pictures should you include? Make these decisions before actually designing your site. (3 hours)

Leverage Your Time & Talent to Help More People & Make More Money
When I first went into business for myself five years ago as a marketing and public relations consultant, I struggled with setting my fees. Even though I had been making a good salary working for someone else in this capacity, at first I found it difficult to set my fees at what they truly were worth (plus the added 20%-30% for overhead for being an sole proprietor!).Then I learned about "dollarizing" (a topic for another article) and about looking at the results that I was creating for my clients. I also had to build my confidence and comfortabi

While it seems that everyone and his dog (or cat) has a website, there a plenty of people out there that never got around to creating one, even though they could profit from it. Many people feel that they are not technically gifted enough, and that building a website would cost too much time or money.

The following, therefore, is not for the seasoned web designer, but for all those artists, crafters, freelancers and small business owners who want a website, but have all thoses excuses why they have not managed to get one yet.

What if you could set up your own website in one weekend, without having to engage in any HTML programming? Here is how:

1. Get a host. Your website has to be hosted somewhere. The options are free website communities (such as http://www.tripod.lycos.com/ or http://geocities.yahoo.com/), your own ISP (internet service provider), which might offer you a personal website, or a paid host (of which there many, you can find a list of popular hosts at http://www.websitehostdirectory.com/). I would stay away from the free offers, as these include ads and do not provide you with a professional image (though both Tripod and Geocities also offer paid ad-free options, sometimes with your own domain name) (1 hour)

2.Get a domain name. This is optional, but having a URL such as www.zebrabreeder.com (which was still available as I wrote this article:-) is more memorable than www.geocities.com/zebrabreeder. The other advantage is that you can take your domain name with you, if you ever switch ISPs. Just be warned that many of the “good” and obvious names have already been taken, so you have to show some creativity. You can find a list of domain name registrars at http://www.internic.net/alpha.html. The easiest way would be to buy your domain name and web hosting from the same company, and there are many sites that offer all these services, such as www.godaddy.com. (1 hour)

3.Decide on a layout. Once you registered a domain and obtained a host, it is time to think about the layout of your site. Get some pen and paper and started drawing. What do you want on your homepage (which should be named index.html)? How many sub-pages will there be (for example for various goods or services you offer)? What kind of visual theme do you want? What kind of graphics and pictures should you include? Make these decisions before actually designing your site. (3 hours)

Call Center Marketing Services
A call center provides various marketing services to its clientele. These services include telemarketing, order collection, customer care, and other customer service options. Usually the call centers are specialized in terms of offering their services in a multilingual capacity, depending on the needs of the client.There are various types of marketing services that a call center can provide. The first step is when they take the lead and call potential customers to determine whether or not they may be interested in buying their services and product

r own website in one weekend, without having to engage in any HTML programming? Here is how:

E-commerce and Merchant Accounts - A Primer for Small Businesses
So you’ve got this idea to sell online and you’re going to make zillions. Maybe you want to see if your idea is going to be the next wireless mousetrap. What do you do now? Well there’s a huge amount to cipher through and marketing is anathema to productivity, especially when it comes to the internet. This high-level article should answer some of the basic process questions that are asked by clients who are just starting to sell online. I will save detail about SSL certificates, server configurations and encrypted data for another article. Here’s the s

onal image (though both Tripod and Geocities also offer paid ad-free options, sometimes with your own domain name) (1 hour)

Make Money Fast Affiliate Program
The most common question asked by most new affiliates is which affiliate program they can make money from fast.The idea is that if they can identify an affiliate program from which they can make money from fast, then the road to success should be much easier. The problem with this thinking is that it does not quite work out like this in the real world. Although there are affiliate programs that people make a lot of money from on a monthly basis (actually easily over $100 000) the truth is that to get to such a level of earning income, it requires

domain name registrars at http://www.internic.net/alpha.html. The easiest way would be to buy your domain name and web hosting from the same company, and there are many sites that offer all these services, such as www.godaddy.com. (1 hour)

Create and Sell Your Own Info Products on eBay
If you are looking for the perfect eBay business you have found it. For good reason, information products are among the hottest categories right now on eBay. There are hundreds of eBay sellers currently making a full time living just selling information products. Here's why you need to be one of them.You can run your business from anywhere…You can set your eBay auctions to begin and end any time that you want. After your auction ends, your customer pays and the product is automatically delivered to them by instant download. It's truly "auto

you offer)? What kind of visual theme do you want? What kind of graphics and pictures should you include? Make these decisions before actually designing your site. (3 hours)

4.Design your site. Many of the hosts mentioned in step 1 offer tools that let you choose pre-made designs and just fill in your own information. This makes it very easy, but may also restrict what you can do. Another way would be to use Netscape Composer, which is a free tool and part of Netscape 7.2 (you can download it at (http://browser.netscape.com/ns8/download/archive.jsp). Composer lets you use a word-processor like interface and contains a nifty “Publish” function to upload your pages. Of course you can also buy programs such as MS FrontPage. Your website will not win any design awards, but it will get your information out. (8 hours)

5.Check your site. Before uploading it, you should check spelling and grammar and see that every page has at least a link back to your homepage. (1 hour)

6.Upload your page. Now you actually have to get your content to the web. Your host will have information on how to do this. You basically need a destination, a username and a password to upload the files. (30 minutes)

7.Publicize your website. Do not expect people to rush to your website. How would they even know about it? There are many services that will submit your website to “hundreds” of directories for a fee, but you can submit it yourself (for free) to the ones that really matter: http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request Add your URL to the signature line of your outgoing e-mails, put it on your business card and on all other business-related communications. (30 minutes)

8.Don’t let you site go stale. Remember that content is king. You can start your website in a short time, but you have to keep adding to it. Why not write an article in an area of your expertise? Use the expertise you have in your field to make your website unique. Remember, fresh content will help search engines find you and will induce visitors to come back to your site.

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