Learn From the Best Online Businesses
Starting a business online is becoming more and more popular, especially in the current financial climate. The best online businesses have owners who are highly motivated and have both short term and long term goals.
Some of the best online businesses are run by people with degrees in business. They may have gone to school knowing they wanted to pursue business or they might have had another career field in mind that required a business background. However, many internet businesses have been started by people with no business background at all, which gives the general public a good chance of starting their own successful business online.
You can learn many lessons from the creators of these online businesses. By studying how they started their business and the steps they took to increase traffic to their websites we all can benefit, and use the knowledge to grow our own online businesses.
Some examples of successful businesses include Google, Myspace, and Youtube. Each of these websites was made with the idea of servicing people. Google gives millions of internet users all over the world a way to search the internet for their any term they are looking for. Google has grown with the times since it started as well and has increased its user experience by constantly updating the agorithm of search and finding new sites. Additionally they have offered users other options for their internet needs such as Gmail, Google Docs, Gtalk, and Google News.
By watching Google grow they show a perfect example of constantly expanding to increase the happiness of their audience, with this of course comes more people who love to use Google and become loyal to it, this shows us why it is the biggest search engine available, with the best sense of growth.
Myspace was started by one person who wanted to network with friends and family and share their life online with them. By that one person sharing their idea and website with people his own idea he has been able to inspire millions to share their lives online as well. Everyone seems to be connected in their extended network, and people can share as much or as little of themselves with their friends and family online. From pictures to videos to their favorite songs, Myspace gives people individuality in the online world.
Another one of the best online businesses is Youtube. The founders of YouTube created this site to provide the ability for visitors from all around the world to easily share their favorite videos. People could easily make a video and upload it to share with millions. You could show some of your individuality, you could teach others, or even promote your website. Many people all around the world loved the idea of being able to make and share their own vides. You can find entertaining videos, music videos, news videos and documentaries created by users on YouTube.
Everyone of these sites had a long term plan and invested time and money into their business to become successful. By studying their business styles and the time and money they invested we can all learn a bit more about starting our own business online.
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November 8th, 2009 at 4:38 am
Good Work
November 8th, 2009 at 4:39 am
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November 8th, 2009 at 5:21 am
If you are planning to do it big, it may be good idea to hire someone. But you may try it yourself with ecommerce scripts.
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November 8th, 2009 at 5:39 am
Try this site:
searchenginewatch.com
That's a good place to start, so you won't make any mistakes when first making your web site.
There's lots of ways to advertise your site, from paying to asking for reciprocal links for free…but watch out for the "link farms" where you can sign up for reciprocal links and they take yours…google will not be happy.
Don't pay for search engine submission…do it yourself to only three search engines: yahoo, google and msn. All the little search engines will crawl the big guys with time. With google it may take up to six months before they recognize your site…so when you get your site, enter it into google.
Make sure your keywords match your content on each page you have on your site. meta keywords.
I've also found htmlgoodies real helpful to make yourself a site. Don't go for the "What you see is what you get" Template sites: wysiwyg If too many people have that same templet, google thinks of your site as being "spam" site.
Hmmm…well that's enough for today…you've got lots to learn.
Wish you the best.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:34 pm
If you want a good taste of what business is about, you might want to try business simulation online. There’s an online business simulation site called the Informatist ( http://www.informatist.net/), which will allow you to get your feet wet. It’s free-just sign on and start playing. You can find more via the source link below.
November 8th, 2009 at 8:54 pm
Love Your Channel
November 8th, 2009 at 11:57 pm
is this an ad? i dont get what your saying
November 9th, 2009 at 2:29 pm
BUSINESS is not learnt from schools or websites, its learnt by doing. its only the management that is learnt.
November 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Good idea to learn about business, as many med school students never have a chance to learn about it. There’s an online business simulation site called the Informatist ( http://www.informatist.net/ ), which allows you to go online and work in a business simulation. It will help you to better understand business interactions.
November 9th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
November 10th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Awesome
November 11th, 2009 at 6:44 am
it's perfectly legal and i recommend that you do it if you are a capable web designer. you don't need teacher certification to be a tutor, you only need to be an expert in your subject area. i advise against joining a tutoring website. the pay is ridiculously low and you could make 2 or 3 times more as an independent tutor.
Good luck!
November 11th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
When you're looking at working from home there's basically two choices. You'll either be working for a company, or working for yourself. I'm not sure how you'd work for a normal company from home but I'm sure most people working online work for themselves anyway.
There's a lot of ways of making money online but most of them are scams or make next to no money. Don't even bother looking into things like
rebate processing (just a scam usually or next to no money)
multi-level-marketing, (only the original seller makes money)
the paypal send a dollar pyramid schemes, (pretty sure it's actually illegal)
surveys, (scam, you pay to sign up and they hardly send you any surveys)blogging, (legit, but you'll only end up making $5/month or spamming yahoo answers with links to ur blog lol)
or data entry. (kinda legit but you have to pay to sign up then usually never get work)
The more legit ways of making money online are affiliate marketing, or things like selling on ebay or selling stuff outsite ebay.
I've been working at home for 3 years and I still run across new ways to make money online. Most of them aren't very profitable though. Anything you do to make money online is going to take a lot of work. The work's not always hard, but it's pretty much always time-consuming.
Finding a legitimate way to work at home isn't hard. There's plenty of places you can pay for the information. One of the really hard things about working at home is staying focused. You'd be surprised how hard it is to just sit down and work at home infront of your computer for hours on end. There's some days I hardly make $50 because I just can't focus and other days if I'm having a really good day and working hard I'll make as much as $300. Like anything in life, you get what you put into it.
One of the biggest things that's helped me is to not reinvent the wheel lol. See what other people are doing to make money online and just copy them.