July 2007


Might sound like a loaded question, but it’s not meant to be.

In all innocence, you might believe that starting up a business can be done for free and all you have to do is sit back and wait for the money truck to roll up to your door. Well, nice dream to have, but back in the real world, things are not quite so cosy and warm.

Starting a business takes a lot of thought, planning and if you want success – a certain amount of startup capital. Knowing how to start that business and get it off the ground really helps too!

There is a really helpful website that has the whole business startup process refined in a professional and businesslike manner. They’re called Nevada LLC and they help people to start up their own business.

They have an online filing service that covers all 50 states in the US and their website has several pages dedicated to the many aspects of starting up your own business. They can even suggest a business structure for you!

To cap it all off, for those interested in affiliate marketing, they have their own affiliate program that could have the double bind effect of being able to promote the very people who helped you get your business started off in the first place!

If that appeals to you, then you should head over and take a look for yourself.

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

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Having built your brand new website, you stand back and admire your handiwork. Very impressive, if you do say so yourself! It’s got all the charisma and pazzazz to make it skyrocket to the top!

Or that’s what you believe every time you look at your masterpiece.

But being the proud owner of the best website this side of Webmaster of the Year City isn’t going to project you to the top of the charts on its own. You need to do a whole lot more to not only get it up there, but keep it up there too.

This is where you’ll need the help of people who really know how the fickle world of Search Engine Marketing works, because as much as you think you can go it alone and join the front runners in the race, you are in for a rude awakening from that particular dream!

Sure, you can get quite a long way on your own without it costing you very much at all and a fair slice of luck thrown in, but it takes a lot of time and hard, dedicated work on your behalf before you start seeing even modest results.

If you have the luxury of that time and plenty of it to go it alone, along with the patience of a monk, then you won’t need this. But if you want to start seeing results quickly and maximise your new website’s potential, then you may want to have a look at this site:

Edmonton search marketing have a content-rich well informed website that could make all the difference to your online business by offering tailor-made Search Engine Marketing solutions to suit just about every kind of online business.

Have a look for yourself, you may be pleasantly surprised!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

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This is a timely reminder to those of us who write articles for submission to the various online article submission directories and ezines.

Whatever you do, always use articles you have written yourself, or if you do not have those skills and need to outsource to a ghost writer, make sure that the articles you submit are unique and not displayed anywhere else on the internet.

I’m highlighting this point because I myself just ran afoul of “Duplicate Content Syndrome” when I got hold of what I believed to be a brand new PLR package of articles. I submitted one to Ezine Articles after making some changes to the text as the original author’s writing style did not match mine.

Well the upshot of it was that it turned out they were not new and neither were they unique. The editor of Ezine Articles emailed me within a few hours of my submission not only pointing out the fact that I had run afoul of the terms and conditions but also suspending my account with them!

Ouch!

I had to explain what had happened, apologise profusely for my stupid mistake (and it was a stupid mistake because I should have checked the article was ok first) and then delete the offending article from my now precariously sliding on very thin ice account!

Ok, I was lucky. The editor accepted my apology and reinstated my account. But I could very well have lost it through using material that I hadn’t written myself.

Lesson learned!

We all make mistakes from time to time along our haphazard journeys through the intricate windings of this mortal life that some of us devote so much of to the online world. Sometimes our altercations are thankfully forgiven and we are redeemed, sometimes as in the case of Google adsense, we are not.

We know it as the school of hard knocks and the lessons that have to be learned come from our own mistakes, misfortunes and moments of blind stupidity! More often than not we learn from those mistakes and become better people for it.

We’ll still make other mistakes because we’re only human and that’s the way of life, but as long as we learn from those mistakes and don’t keep making them again and again hoping for a different result, then we grow as people and that’s what sets apart from the rest of the animal kingdom.

Ok, point made, I hope.

Bottom line: Don’t submit anything to Ezine Articles unless you wrote it yourself or outsourced it to a trusted ghost writer or bought it as a “Full rights” article from one of the article sites like Constant Content. Not if you want to keep your account active so you can use it to boost traffic to and gain priceless backlinks for your site and your business.

I hope this saves someone else from the hassle I just encountered!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

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That’s not a nice question to ask anyone let alone someone involved in an online venture that isn’t doing very well. Some people will bury their heads in the sand and hope the bad times will go away and the sun will shine once again on their business.

Well, that’s no way to be when the cold hard facts are staring you in the face and you can’t see a way out of the situation.

But there is a way out.

If you’ve never heard of Simpleology or Mark Joyner, don’t worry. Getting to know them could not only turn your fortunes around, but it could be the best business decision you ever made.

Why?

The 7 Day Business Turnaround Kit – that’s why.

This hard hitting, “no holds barred” site tells it like it is and then offers you the solution to turning your business around on a plate. The method employed is not for the “sit back and wait for it to happen” kind of people. You have to take action yourself in order to make it happen. But isn’t that true for any successful business?

So is your answer to the question at the top of this post “YES”?

And are you are prepared to roll up your proverbial sleeves and get your hands dirty in order to not only get it out of trouble, but turn it around so that the money is flowing into your bank account instead of out of it?

Then you need to get to know Mark Joyner.

To do that, your first port of call is The 7 Day Business Turnaround Kit.

You won’t look back!

Terry Didcott
THE HONEST WAY

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