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Lock-in your username at about.com before it gets taken
http://about.me is about to launch. Make sure you get your username before it gets taken. This will become your Splash Page across the net. Very important for your personal branding.
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Download of the day: on the move for android ... (Geek Sugar via TechNews AM)
Download of the Day: On the Move For Android
Geek Sugar 3 hours ago
We all know how dangerous (not to mention expensive) texting while driving can be. It's quickly becoming the communication of choice among teens and adults alike, but there's definitely a time and place to send your messages - while behind the wheel isn't one of them.
State Farm Insurance agrees and developed its own Android app to deter avid texters from checking their screens while driving. Called On the Move (Free), this app (State Farm has dubbed it a "widget") acts as an auto-reply when you receive a text, alerting the texter that you're driving with a customized message. The good news is you can add more than one customized message and use the app when you're at the movies or at the gym, and automatically tell your friends you'll get back to them later without ever having to pick up your phone. Full story...
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What a great app for our teen drivers! JackieBiz.com
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
How Can a Virtual Business Help Me Survive the Recession?
How Can a Virtual Business Help Me Survive the Recession?
Another question I get all the time is “How Can a Virtual Business Help Me Survive the Recession?"
Unemployment is not letting up, businesses are not hiring. The best way to survive the recession is to take advantage of the economic turmoil and start a business. Not just any business but a virtual business.
The benefits of a virtual business are endless. To mention a few:
- Low cost to entry
- Speed to market
- You can work from home
- You can run your business remotely
- You can hire virtual employees
Therefore the answer is, start a virtual business!
According to Entrepreneur.com, these are the 10 hottest trends to watch for 2010. Not all of them can be set up as 100% percent virtual businesses, but their entire back-office operations can.
Here is the list:
- Economic Turmoil: Results from Challenger, Gray & Christmas' job market index revealed that 8.7 percent of job seekers gained employment by starting their own businesses in second quarter 2009
- Green Power: Thanks to government incentives and changing public sentiment, clean energy is the most popular kid on the green movement block. The stimulus plan poured billions into renewable energy.
- The Senior Market: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the aging-services industry composed of home healthcare, elderly and disabled services and community care facilities for the elderly make up three of the top 10 industries with the fastest employment growth.
- Discount Retail: In 2009, secondhand shops increased revenue by $223.3 million, according to Ibis World.
- Local Businesses: Demand is exploding for locally grown and made a product--which means more support for mom-and-pop stores. The dividend: For every $100 spent at a locally owned business, $68 comes back to the community. Only $43 re-circulates from national chain stores
- Education: Huge numbers of people are going back to school--ducking the bad economy, retraining for new jobs, even reinventing themselves completely
- Parental Outsourcing: Taking care of the kids, scrubbing the toilets, checking in on Mom, helping with homework, coaching Little League--more people than ever are paying professionals to do their domestic chores. The trend even has a name: Parental outsourcing.
- Health and Wellness: Home care was the No. 1 growing industry from 2004 to 2009, averaging yearly increases of more than 7 percent, according to Ibis World. In-home care already employs a staggering 1.33 million people, and revenue is expected to grow beyond $72 billion by 2011.
- Texas: Texas dominated 2009's lists of best relocation destinations, home-building markets and job-creation cities. This very magazine also named Austin one of its own Best Cities for Small Businesses.
- Affordable Alcohol: The alcoholic beverage industry has been growing steadily for the past three years and is expected to reach a record $455 billion in 2009
You can see an example of a real sustainable, successful virtual business (100% virtual and paperless) at groupbenefitagency.com
Anyone can start a virtual business in minutes! You don’t need major start up capital. You don’t need investors. You don’t need to risk months or years trying to break even. You don’t even have to gamble your savings.
Visit Virtual Business Dashboard to get the “20 Insider Secrets for Starting Your Own Virtual Business on a Shoestring” and a video of “The Best Business to Start in This New Economy”
Just visit Virtual Business Dashboard
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Difference Between Starting a Small and a Virtual Business
What’s the Difference Between Starting a Small Business and a Virtual Business?
Another question I get all the time is “What’s the Difference between Starting a Small Business and a Virtual Business?"
The answer is starting a small business requires a large initial investment. For a virtual business all you need is a computer and internet access.
The main reason small businesses requires a large initial investment is because they need items such as desks, furniture, equipment, supplies, phones, credit card processing machines, long term leases, employees, utility deposits, filing cabinets, space for supplies, printing and copying, faxing , paper, toner, storage, payroll taxes, employee benefits and on and on and on.
It is expensive, cumbersome and time consuming to build and maintain a business with a physical setting. Most people who start a brick-and-mortar business need financial backing, either by selling equity to a partner or borrowing funds themselves.
On the other hand, to start a virtual business all you need is a computer and internet access. By creating a virtual business, you can create a professional image. You can operate effectively and efficiently. Most importantly, because the overhead expenses are so low and you do not have the large initial investment; with a virtual business, you will be able to be profitably sooner than your typical brick-and-mortar business.
The benefits of starting, managing and growing a virtual business are endless:
1. You can launch an entire business with little to no money
2. You can convert your brick and mortar into a virtual business and reduce your costs massively. In my case I went from about $25,000 in back office expenses per month, to about $600.
3. You can work from the comfort of your home. I went from working 60-70 hours a week in my physical business, to about 2-hours a day managing my virtual business.
4. You can manage your virtual business remotely. I missed so many field trips! Now, I volunteer at my kid's school
5. You can have employees scattered all over the world. You can find the best of the best and they don't have to live in your town
6. You can digitize and automate. This allows you to build processes and systems at very little cost
7. You can hire virtual assistants and not have to deal with the daily business minutia
By taking your company virtual or starting up a virtual business, you can grow your company as big as you want to. You don’t even need a physical location. In today’s new economy, more and more big corporations are downsizing their workforce to work from home. Having an office in a major corporate park, or a major city is totally and completely irrelevant!
You can see an example of a real sustainable, successful virtual business (100% virtual and paperless) at groupbenefitagency.com
Anyone can start a virtual business in minutes! You don’t need major start up capital. You don’t need investors. You don’t need to risk months or years trying to break even. You don’t even have to gamble your savings.
Visit Virtual Business Dashboard to get the “20 Insider Secrets for Starting Your Own Virtual Business on a Shoestring” and a video of “The Best Business to Start in This New Economy”
Just visit Virtual Business Dashboard
Thursday, May 20, 2010
How Do I Know I Have a Great Product Idea for a Virtual Business?
How Do I Know If I Have a Great Product Idea for a Virtual Business?
The biggest question I get all the time is “How Do I Know If I Have a Great Product Idea for a Virtual Business?"
The answer is: Do a FREE online market research that can pinpoint if you have a credible, sustainable and profitable product or service idea. The same market research can help you re-position an existing product or service in a different profitable niche market. Once you have identified a profitable niche, start selling it through a virtual business, even if you have a physical office. It is difficult to succeed in today’s market without a web presence.
The beauty of starting a virtual business, if implemented properly, is that you do not have to guess if your product or idea will fly. Thanks to the advance of technology, there are analytical tools out there that will allow you to do extremely sophisticated market research in little time. You can do today, in just a couple of hours, what big corporations used to spend months and thousands of dollars getting the same results that today takes you only a few minutes at zero cost.
The great thing about these tools is that most of them are free or have free trials. This gives you enough time to do proper research and see if your product will be profitable for you. If after you completed the research, you see your product is not a feasible idea, then the same analytical tools can show what other products or services you should start concentrating your efforts on to increase your chances of success.
Additional reasons I prefer a virtual business are:
- You don’t need to set up a storefront to succeed
- You will save time by streamlining your business systems
- You will save money by digitizing all your back office processes
This means you can wok from any place, at any time, at any pace. All you need is a computer and internet access to get you going.
The benefits of starting, managing and growing a virtual business are endless:
- You can take advantage of cutting edge technology, readily available for free
- You can reap mega profits just like big corporations do.
- Your competition will not stand a chance. While they are trying to figure out what happened, you will have already dominated your niche market.
You can see an example of a real sustainable, successful virtual business (100% virtual and paperless) at groupbenefitagency.com
Anyone can start a virtual business in minutes! You don’t need major start up capital. You don’t need investors. You don’t need to risk months or years trying to break even. You don’t even have to gamble your savings.
Visit Virtual Business Dashboard to get the “20 Insider Secrets for Starting Your Own Virtual Business on a Shoestring” and a video of “The Best Business to Start in This New Economy”
Just visit Virtual Business Dashboard
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