Business Ideas for the Entrepreneur

Business Ideas for the Entrepreneur

Many individuals nowadays prefer to have a home-based job rather than working eight hours each day in the office. Some people are also into franchising; this may sound good but if you want to become a successful entrepreneur, you don’t have to focus entirely on franchising. You should consider other business ideas that you can venture into.

Research can be carried out with ease these days, thanks to the power of the internet. If you conduct your search online, you can find other business ideas that you can use as an entrepreneur. Beginners will benefit a lot from the information they can find online about business ideas.

Because of the many business ideas you can find online, you will often find it hard to choose the ones you like. It’s easy to choose if you use your instincts. For instance, if one business idea feels right, take note of it but if you have second thoughts about another idea, disregard it.

As an entrepreneur, you should investigate further by gathering as much information as possible about the business ideas. True enough, franchise is absolutely a great idea. By choosing this business alternative, you can be the boss of your own business and you can earn unlimited income.

However, according to experts, franchise and other internet businesses promise the same business opportunities. It will all differ on how you handle the business.

Not all individuals who desire to own a business can achieve this goal. You see, being an entrepreneur is hard. There are a lot of factors to consider before you decide to become an entrepreneur. Even if you have the capital to finance the business undertaking, you can’t be sure that it can give you high profits in the future especially if you don’t know how to handle certain business situations.

First and foremost, you must be able to work alone. Once you’re an entrepreneur, you’re already self-employed. It would also be best if you can have the support of your loved ones.

Here is a very good example. As mentioned earlier, further investigation is needed to evaluate the business ideas that you have in your hands. Starting a business from scratch requires a lot of work. Suppose the business that you’re about to put up is also available in franchise, which business idea will you choose?

For the smart entrepreneurs, they will already go for franchising because it requires less work. An established business undertaking is less expensive and less risky. But before you make a final decision, you must be able to weigh all the advantages as well as disadvantages. This is an essential part of choosing the best business idea.

Once you’ve chosen the right business idea, you can spring it into action. Soon enough, you will gain the financial benefits that you’re dreaming of. Whether you choose to start your own business or go for franchising, the most important thing is to develop goodwill. All the actions of the entrepreneur must be focused in attaining all the objectives of the business.

If you want to become an entrepreneur, you must research all the business ideas that you can get online. The internet can help you a lot. Also, don’t forget to develop the needed traits and skills as an entrepreneur.

You can get many resources through the internet or you can talk to an established entrepreneur so that you will have an idea on what you’re about to undertake.

Here’s to making PLR profitable again

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Do you find yourself thinking these very things:

It’s too costly!

With most PLR sites, you don’t get to see what’s really inside until you pay.  Sure, a lot of the sites offer money back guarantees but, is it worth the hassle?  For those who are just starting out – the budget is tight – is it not?  You have to be super careful of where every single dime goes.  Is sinking your hard earned cash into worthless PLR sites time and time again until you find that perfect fit worth it?  (Sidenote:  If the site you’re interested in does not offer a money back guarantee – keep on moving!)

It’s too time consuming!

Having to research each and every site available becomes a huge time waster (because they’re all the best, right?).  Time consuming tasks such as these are also considered just another form of being too costly and as they should be. Why?  Because time is a precious commodity.  Time is money.

Too much junk!
Let’s face it.  There are just too many crappy PLR sites available these days.  Everyone and their sister is throwing together a PLR site.  A lot of which just end up being the same regurgitated crap you find everywhere else.  How much time and money is it going to take to find the one that’s actually worth it and perfect for you?  Unfortunately for you, the answer to that could be too much.

Which one is the best?

Each PLR site wants to be the best and completely unique from every other one available.  Of course this is a good thing for you.  The better the service, the more money you’re going to make.  But how does one know which one offers the best benefits and bonuses?

I want one niche – not twenty!

How many PLR sites have you seen offer content in ten different niches?  How about twenty, fifty, more niches?  Depending on what you’re looking for in specific, some of these PLR sites offer entirely too much content from too many different niches.  During the first month you might get lucky and receive content for your specific niche but then you might have to wait three or four months in between till they cycle through all the different niches they offer till you get the content you need again.

Any of this sound familiar?

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Day 2 And Counting

Day Two Report
Money made today $0
Hours spent working on Internet 8
Hits to Blog yesterday 6 Here it is day two. I started this morning about 8:00 am EST. I got this blog and the blog at http://bofirebear.blogspot.com/ up and running today.

The first blog post went up yesterday and so far there have been 6 hits on the two blogs. This is a start from scratch and see what happens situation.

Here is how I spent most of my day.

Remember while I was doing all the things below I spent a good bit of time going, “Now how am I supposed to do that.” My generation didn’t have computers when we were growing. Yes, the wheel had been invented when I was young and there were no dinosaurs alive so don’t go there.

Anyway I started out the morning spending about an hour reading. Most of the time was spent reading a free blog http://www.problogger.net/31-days/ by Darren Rowse. He is not one of the original gentlemen who sent me emails talking about making money on the Internet but he seems to have good information on his blog. This free site is supposed to help me have a better blog in 31 days. I will keep track to see how that goes. I am going to try to implement at least one suggestion he recommends each day and I will list the suggestion used on the website each day.

Now I am not patient enough to read everything before I get started, so after about an hour of reading websites and e-books I was off and working.

With high hopes I started off working with http://feedburner.com According to the site it will help me get free traffic to my blogs and to give me some neat tools to handle RSS subscriptions. I can also send updates by email without using an autoresponder using this site.  I will investigate tomorrow if I have access to the people who sign up or not.  If not I will not use this service.  Update tomorrow.  Wasn’t easy to figure out everything and I lost time but that was to be expected on the first day.

One of the cool things I did was making sure that I had free Share This button from http://sharethis.com on the blogs so that people could easily send the blog to someone else. It seemed like a pretty cool little gadget and easy to set up. I was impressed and believe it will bring additional free traffic. It was easier then feedburner to work with. I even added it to my personal website http://turtlebowbear.com

Myy adsense ads are now on the blogs. After I added them I wished I had read this page first. http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/24/adsense-optimization-tips-buzzmachine/ It would have saved me some time and I would have placed the ads in the right location the first time. According to the site ad placement is very important.  So there I went backtracking to redo the ads.

So the blog is up, I am on twitter a social site like Tweetmyblog suggested. I was ready to use the free software I downloaded from there which would automatically post to twitter for me.  I found out that you can not use the free software on a blog that WordPress host. You know one of those we will host it for you free WordPress blogs. You can only use the software if you host your own blog using WordPress. I didn’t see that in the fine print. Okay got to figure out how to work around that tomorrow or go ahead and set up a blog on one of my sites. Hmmmm!!!!!!

This evening I am going to send out emails to Michael Cobb, James Grandstaff, Mike Dillard, Derrick Van Dyke, Bob Jenkins, John Merrick, Soren Jordansen, Guido Nussbaum, and Alex Goad. Remember them? Those are the ones we talked about yesterday that said they could show me how to make money on the Internet. Now I know these men are busy making six figures and may not have time to answer the emails personally, but someone in their organization should at least answer. Tomorrow I will post a copy of the email I send to them and I will keep you updated on if they answer or not.

So here it is the afternoon of day two and progress has been made.

The websites I worked with today are:

http://botip.wordpress.com

http://bofirebear.blogspot.com/

http://www.problogger.net/31-days/

http://feedburner.com

http://sharethis.com

http://www.problogger.net/archives/2005/08/24/adsense-optimization-tips-buzzmachine/

http://www.tweetmyblog.com/

The adventure continues tomorrow.

Is It True Are The Internet Gurus Lying

Hello everyone let me tell you a little bit about what is going on here. I am going to find out if they are lying or telling the truth.

Who am I

I am semi-retired, ornery, grouchy 57 year old, feller and I keep getting these emails in my inbox telling me how successful I can be on the Internet. Now I have had some success in other businesses over the years. I ran my own business for years and made money off the Internet so I know money can be made off the Internet.

I have had a lot of fun and met a lot of wonderful people over the years over the World Wide Web but I am not riding around in a limo yet so I haven’t figured out how to make money on the Internet. Shoot, I am still riding around in my old 1995 Mazda pickup. We still have to watch how we spend our month each month or we will have to much month at the end of the money.

A couple of years ago I tried to get a business going on the Internet. Like most people I made a couple of dollars, and I mean a couple. I spent a lot of time working on web pages, clicking on free traffic sites, running free classified ads, using free autoresponders and other time consuming things like most of you. I tracked my ads, I used a free headline checker to be sure they were powerful and much more. I also spent a ton of money joining websites, buying e-books, buying software, and yes most of that is still taking up space on the hard drive.

Most of you know what became of that. If I was making 6 figures a year like the people sending me emails then I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this blog.

Whose is sending the emails

I keep getting emails from Michael Cobb, James Grandstaff, Mike Dillard, Derrick Van Dyke, Bob Jenkins, John Merrick, Soren Jordansen and others. Those were just a few of the emails from this morning August 25, 2008.

I haven’t been doing anything on the Internet other then keeping up our personal website, Turtlebowbear.com for over a year. I have not been asking for free newsletters, signing up for money making websites, asking for information on business opportunities or any of those things but the emails keep coming.

The Emails Keep Coming

Today I received an email talking about using Twitter.com along with blogging on blogspot.com and using some software to make a ton of money. They offered to show me how they were able to generate free leads and build a large mailing list free so finally I would make money on the Internet and the best part of it was that it was free.

They were not going to charge me anything for this life changing information. Well maybe not totally free. When I went to download the free stuff each time I was given a one of a kind, only once, never to be seen again offer at an unheard of price, to purchase something else to help me along this path to riches and fame.  It also led to links of other opportunities to use the Internet and they had wonderful unheard of offers and free web tools to help me on to the Golden Brick Road by traveling the Internet.

Me Thinking, Oh That Can Be Dangerous

So I sit thinking, something I tried to avoid early in the morning or at least till after a couple cups of coffee. Anyway I digress. I thought to myself, “Self are they telling the truth about this or is it another time where the ones selling the information on how to get rich are the only ones making money. You know the old saying, “If you want to get rich sell books on how to get rich.” Hmmmmm! I wonder.

Now I love to read, am a writer by trade, know how to build websites, can get around on the web pretty good, am not afraid to try new things, and the number one thing, I am not afraid to put out a little effort. (You noticed I said a little effort) I decided that I would give making money on the Internet with their free tools  one more try with a few rules.

1. I gave my credit card to my wife to hold with explicit instructions that if it involved buying on the Internet for the next six months to not let me have it. She had no objections to that and I do not know the card number by memory. If it involves buying or paying for something I will not pay for it out of my pocket. Zip, zero nada out of my pocket. No buying the one time only, super price, never to be seen again book or program. One thing about that. If the information they sell does what they say it will do then it would be worth the money. That will be another blog at another time once I am making my six figures like they say.

2. If any money comes in from what I was doing I am not going to put more then half of it back in this project. Most people I know that are trying to make a living on the Internet are broke and do not have any money lying around. After a discussion with the IRS this year I am pretty close to being there myself. So my motto is, “If it’s not free don’t go.”

3. Whatever it is that say to do I will do it if?

a. It is not immoral,

b. It does not violate my belief system

c. It will not hurt anyone including me

d. It does not involve taking my clothes off,

e. It will not get me shot

f. It will not send me to jail

4. I will not try to reinvent the wheel and do exactly what they say

a. If they say read it I will read it.

b. If they say post here I will post here.

c. What ever I need to do I will do it with out changing things

5. I will give this my best effort for the next six months. On January 25, 2009 I will have shown others what doesn’t work and I will quit posting to these blogs, (the other one is at botip.wordpress.com) or I will be very happy with some money in my bank account and will have shown others how to make a little money. Now I don’t expect to be a millionaire in six months but I do expect to see progress.

6. I will go into this with a positive attitude believing that it is going to happen. I know that if I go into something believing that it might not work it is guaranteed that it will not so I am not doing that. I am going in with anticipation to see what happens.

7. When I get to where I am making six figures I will not keep sending you emails I will retire and give some one my email list.

Most Important Part

I decided while I was finding out if what these gentlemen say works I was going to keep track of what I was doing. I would write down what programs I was using, where I got them, how much time and effort it took, and if it made me money. Now all this information I was going to put into a blog for other people to see.

I am also going to email each of the gentlemen listed and let them know about this. If they respond I will post there responses. If they do not respond I will also post that. I am going to try to make contact with them or someone in their organization. Whatever happens will be posted.

At this point I believe that everything they say is true and I will go on that assumption for the next six months.

Why am I Doing This

Want the honest answer, money. Yep that is right, to make money.

I am also doing this because I read the ads like other people and see all the nice testimonies. I then go to forums and I see the people who are saying it does not work. I don’t know if the ones who made money worked harder or longer I don’t know if the ones who didn’t make money changed things. I don’t know what happened because the successful and the unsuccessful just tell you the results but don’t tell you how they got there. So I decided to go step by step and keep records of it for others to see.

No I am not being a nice guy and trying to help other outs. I am still being ornery, grouchy and hard headed. If they are not for real I want to know and I want to let others know.

So here I sit ready to start reading and doing what they say. I will go at this believing in what they teach and will follow it step by step. I will fairly document the time I spend and what I do.

So you want to follow along to see if I prove them right or wrong you are welcome to. Subscribe to the RSS feed or go here and sign up for updates by email.

To learn more about me go to turtlebowbear.com/bio.htm.

Okay! Ready! Set! Go! Let the reading begin,

What to know when there is an update.  Send me an email to botip@getresponse.com and I will email you when they are updates.