http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog Aimed at helping new or prospective online business owners make key decisions Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:15:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In making a selection from the multitude of home business opportunities available for you to choose from, there are significant advantages of picking some form of online business, rather than going with a more conventional business. We’ve discussed turning a hobby or an interest into a business, and while this may ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/business-start-up/top-home-businesses-is-an-online-business-right-for-you If you’ve been debating the idea of starting a home business, but have no idea of what to do, or where to start, then you’re about normal! You’ll need to do some research about the huge variety of options available, but in order to achieve anything at all you’ll need ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/business-start-up/top-home-businesses-can-you-turn-a-hobby-into-a-business We’ve previously discussed some of the reasons for considering starting a home business; especially those revolving around insecurity in the job-market, world wide. Today we continue along this theme, examining more reasons for deciding to go on your own. It’s extremely important to think these issues through, so that the ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/business-start-up/top-home-businesses-more-reasons-to-consider-starting-your-own-home-business There is a growing trend world-wide for people to choose to work from home for any of a wide range of reasons. Some of us will remember how our parents worked for one company for a lifetime, collected a gold watch after 25 years of service, and retired at sixty-five ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/business-start-up/top-home-businesses-some-good-reasons-to-consider-starting-a-home-business We’ve already discussed setting up and registering a blog-site. You should ideally blog at least twice a week, to keep the content alive and fresh. The search engines thrive on fresh, original content. Perhaps initially write a series of articles about the decision-making you went through, before finally making a ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/helping-you-to-succeed/top-home-businesses-more-tips-about-blogging-to-grow-your-business Blogging is an excellent way to boost your business. If you’re already running an online business, you have a store of useful information about your experiences in getting this far. Blogging is then a way to share your experiences with others. Firstly you need to acquire a blogsite. A quick search ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/helping-you-to-succeed/top-home-businesses-blogging-to-grow-your-business Affiliate marketing programmes have been around for some time now, but remain one of the best ways for almost anyone to make money online. Although scams still abound, it is fairly straightforward to avoid these by looking for a programme that is well presented, and offers real credible products or ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/helping-you-to-succeed/top-home-businesses-benefits-of-joining-an-affiliate-marketing-programme Article writing is undeniably an excellent marketing tool for any online business. We discuss some simple tips and ideas to make the writing and publishing processes as effective as possible. My suggestions are: Write your article in a word document, and pre-format your document to about sixty to sixty-five characters per ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/helping-you-to-succeed/top-home-businesses-more-tips-about-article-writing One of the most effective means of marketing your Website is by writing business related articles. Ordinary people like you and me are more than capable of writing articles about their own experiences. Writing and distributing articles is an extremely effective way of attracting visitors to your site. Don’t believe that ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/helping-you-to-succeed/top-home-businesses-learn-to-write-articles The chances are that if you have a standard, mass-market style website, most visitors will glance at it and quickly move on. Statistics tell us many things about internet users, but amongst the most useful to us as site-owners are the following: 1. They’re looking for information 2. They’re mostly put off by ... http://www.mikeshomebiz.com/blog/helping-you-to-succeed/top-home-businesses-tips-to-get-visitors-to-stay-at-your-site