I am very impressed to come across a very powerful concept on
how to choose a niche market. What is a niche? A niche is a
special area of demand for a product or services. To be
successful in your online business, you will have to focus on
the area of business that interest many people and the demand
for such product or services must be high. Some of the reason
why many new businesses fail is because they are focusing on the
area where there is no great public interest at the time. Before
any one will venture into the business arena, the concept of
niche must be understood and digested.
How can you find a niche market? I came across this simple but
effective way of finding niches. To find a niche the first place
to look is Clickbank. Clickbank is a market place where product
and services are listed in the order of sales. So immediately
you will be able to see which product and services are in high
demand. Feel free to browse round clickbank . I will suggest you
find about five such product or services.
After completing the first stage, you will take the five chosen
products or services through to the second stage. This stage is
called the survey of the shotgun splatter. What does this mean?
For a product or service to pass a shotgun splatter test, it
must have many related a products and services. This is
important because it will be very easy for you to expand your
business in the future to those other related products and
services. You have to think and write down as many related
business you can do in each of the five niches you have earlier
chosen through clickbank.
Take three niches with highest shotgun splatter possibility into
the next stage of the process. This stage involves the analysis
of average sales price per niche. Our aim here is to find the
average sales price in the three remaining niches. To do this
pick one niche out of the three and finds about five websites
that sell product or services in the niche. Find the average
sale price by adding all the sales prices on the five website
together and divide the sum by five. The result will give you
the average sale price in that niche. Do the same for the
remaining two niches.
Now you can choose out of the three niches the one with the
highest average sales price. This is because you will likely
make more money selling product with higher sale price assuming
volume and profit margin remain the same.
I hope this will help you towards realising your dream of been a
successful online business owner.
Wishing you a successful online business
Dare Ijagbemi
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While web pages are designed and developed on a single computer, they must be transferred to a server, or host, so that they are available to the rest of the world over the Internet. A host is simply a computer that has a constant, high speed connection to the Internet. Hosting companies rent space on these machines. Depending on your needs, a hosting plan can cost anywhere between $5 and $200 per month.
There are different hosting offers depending on the type, the size and the popularity of the site.
The different types of Web hosting services are :
Free hosting
Free web hosting is a service which provides users with the ability to store web sites and media on the Internet for no cost. While there is no monetary cost for the user, some hosts requires the user to place advertisements or links on the web site which is being hosted for free.
Shared hosting
The best choice is shared server hosting for normal websites and smaller ecommerce websites. Your site is located on one of the 1Webcorp.com’s Web Servers. It is the equivalent of leasing office space. A certain portion of the building is yours, with your name on the door, and you can rely on the building manager (1Webcorp.Com) for security, maintenance, and facilities management. This is called “shared” hosting because your home page has its own domain name (www.yoursite.xxx).
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Also known as dedicated server. This type of hosting allows a webmaster to rent an entire server. This server is not shared with anybody. This is more flexible than shared hosting (see below), as webmasters have full control over the server, including choice of operating system, hardware, etc. Administration, however, is still handled by the hosting company. Disk Space - Refers to an amount of space on a web server’s hard drive. …
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Over the coming week, I hope to lead you on a journey of discovery and adventure. Briefly taking a glimpse into a past so horrid. Of haunting tales and ghastly ends that awaited so many of her most famous occupants. Firing your imagination, so that you will delve deeper into her history for yourselves.
During her long and illustrious 900 years, The Tower of London has developed into one of the most haunted places in Britain. She has been home to beheadings and murders, torture and hangings, as well as being a prison to Queens and Nobles alike.
Thomas A. Becket is “the first reported sighting of a ghost at the Tower of London.”
During the construction on the Inner Curtain Wall in the 13th century, Thomas appeared apparently unhappy about the construction, and it is said he reduced the wall to rubble with a strike of his cross. Henry III’s grandfather was responsible for the death of Thomas Becket, so Henry III wasted no time building a chapel in the Tower of London, naming it for the archbishop.
This must have pleased Thomas’ ghost because there were no further interruptions during the construction of the wall.
The Bloody Tower was the scene of the infamous disappearance of the two princes; Edward V (12) and Richard Duke of York (10), who are thought to have been murdered in 1483 on the probable command of the Duke of Gloucestershire, who was to be crowned Richard the III.
According to one story, guards in the late 15th century, who were passing the Bloody Tower, spotted the shadows of two small figures gliding down the stairs still wearing the white night shirts they had on the night they disappeared.
They stood silently, hand in hand, before fading back into the stones of the Bloody Tower.
These figures were identified as the ghosts of the two princes. In 1674 workmen found a chest that contained the skeletons of two young children, they were thought to be the remains of the princess, and were given a royal burial not long afterwards.
The story of the little princes is still to this day a heartbreaking story. They are “among the most poignant ghosts” in the Tower of London.
The most persistent ghost in The Tower of London is the ghost of Queen Anne Boleyn.
The King, Henry VIII, after learning the baby she carried for nine months was a boy and still born, accused by her of infidelity.
She was taken to TOWER GREEN and was beheaded on May 19, 1536.
Queen Anne appears near the Queen’s House, close to the site where her execution was carried out. She can be seen leading a ghostly procession of Lords and Ladies down the aisle of the Chapel Royal of St. Peter ad Vincula.
She floats down the aisle to her final resting place. Queen Anne is buried under the Chapel’s altar. Her headless body has also been seen walking the corridors of the Tower.
Sir Walter Raleigh lived quite comfortable compared to others who were imprisoned within the walls of the Bloody Tower.
His “rooms” are still furnished as they were in the 16th century, and can be seen when visiting the Tower today.
He was executed by James I, and has been seen looking exactly as he does in his portrait hanging in the Bloody Tower.
I hope you have enjoyed Pt1 to The Ghosts of The Tower of London. In Pt2 we discover what happend to Catherine Howard and Lady Jane Grey as well as the Horrific end to the Countess of Salisbury.
If these tales have brought your imagination back to life and you want to discover more ghostly and gruesome stories of times past. Then pay a visit to my Haunted Castles page where you can find out about the grisly goings on at Windsor Castle or read about the Heroic tale of the Two Brothers of Berry Pomeroy Castle in Devon.
Best wishes and have a great day!
A Guide to Castles of Europe was born from childhood dreams and aspirations. It is my hope to educate and stimulate you into exploring these castles for yourselves.
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Vitamin C may be the most famous vitamin. Tens of thousands of British sailors were dying of the disease scurvy until they began taking limes and other citrus fruit along on voyages. The vitamin C in the citrus prevented the disease. Vitamin C also works as an anti-oxidant and supports the synthesis of collagen, which helps keep the skin healthy and youthful. A good way to get some daily vitamin C is to drink a glass of orange juice with breakfast.
Vitamin D is famous for saving children from the bone disease called rickets. This vitamin was so important to health it was added to milk. All milk products are now enriched with Vitamin D and the disease of rickets has been eradicated. This vitamin is important to maintain strong bones and joints.
Vitamin B became well known when it was discovered to stop the disease beriberi. Vitamin B actually includes a complex of the vitamins thiamine (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), folic acid (B9), cyanocobalamin (B12) pantothetic acid, choline and biotin. B vitamins help the body to breakdown carbohydrates. Choline is thought to help with fat metabolism. Vegetarians may not get enough of the B vitamins since they don’t eat meat, and may want to take a multi-vitamin supplement.
Vitamin A is believed to help your membranes including your eyes. This may be why folklore has said to eat carrots for good eyesight. Carrots have beta-carotene in them, which your body converts to Vitamin A as needed. Vitamin A supports healthy cells, immune function, growth hormone and healing.
Vitamin E is believed to support the heart, skin, hair, muscles, nerves and joints. It is a natural anti-oxidant. This vitamin was discovered when laboratory rats were not given a balanced diet. They were only fed one kind of food at a time. It was found that they could stay alive but could not breed. The missing factor was Vitamin E. It was named after “E” for Eros because a lack of this vitamin caused a lack of the ability to breed. This doesn’t mean Vitamin E is an aphrodisiac of any kind. It simply shows that a lack of this important vitamin can cause health problems.
Vitamin K is known for helping blood to clot properly. Some patients receive this vitamin prior to surgery to help with this function. A doctor should always be consulted prior to taking Vitamin K by anyone who is on anti-coagulant medications of any kind.
Medical studies continue to find new vitamin information every year, and new ways in which vitamins contribute to our health. The best way to get vitamins is through a balanced diet. Many people also like to take a daily multi-vitamin and mineral complex just to be sure their diet is not missing any important nutrients.
Monica Nelson writes helpful articles for consumers about a variety of health topics including nutritional supplements, weightloss products, bodybuilding supplements, amino acids, minerals and herbal supplements.
In any major sale, a prospect makes a predictable series of buying decisions that lead up to the final purchasing decision. The first and most important of these is: “Do I ‘buy’ the salesperson?” This decision is always made before the prospect will seriously consider other factors such as product features or price.
Most salespeople devote the majority of their selling time to “pitching” their products or services. Here’s the problem: Whether prospects realize it or not, the first thing they decide is whether they like and trust you. If you bury your prospect beneath a mountain of product features while they are making the salesperson decision, you’re probably in deep trouble.
If prospects make the salesperson decision while you’re droning on about product features, their answer will be “No!” When prospects like and trust you, everything else about the sales process becomes much easier. So how can you sell yourself better? Here are a few ideas:
Demonstrate your interest. Quit trying so hard to be interesting. Be interested instead. Ask questions to learn about the prospect. Don’t talk too much about yourself.
Show that you understand. People have a strong need to feel understood. Ask questions, listen and make sure you understand your prospect’s needs. Restate the prospect’s needs so they know you understand.
Use an organized procedure for sales calls. Action Selling’s step-by-step sales skill procedure keeps you on track and helps you appear methodical, thorough and professional. Your professional approach will sell you.
Prospects ‘buy’ the salesperson during every sales call - or they don’t. The other buying decisions the prospect makes are far more likely to go in your favor when you are effective at selling yourself.
In The Field:
Equity Corporate Housing of Chicago, a division of the largest owner of apartments in the United States, trained and certified their sales groups and executive team on the Action Selling process in 2002. Outstanding results followed, beginning with a 13.5% increase in apartment rentals in the first six months after the training.
But why did Equity choose Action Selling Sales Training in the first place? Because Equity’s regional sales manager first ‘bought’ the salesperson. “The Sales Board training consultant we worked with was outstanding,” she said. “He asked all the right questions and was flexible with what he had to offer. We trusted him and he was honest with us. His knowledge and understanding of our situation was a major reason why we chose Action Selling. He used Action Selling.”
Duane Sparks is chairman and founder of The Sales Board, a Minneapolis-based sales training company that has trained and certified more than 200,000 salespeople in the system and skills of Action Selling. He has personally facilitated more than 300 Action Selling training sessions.
In a 30-year career as a salesperson and sales manager, Duane has sold products ranging from office equipment to insurance. He was the top salesperson at every company he ever worked for. He developed Action Selling Sales Training while owner of one of the largest computer marketers in the United States. Even in the roaring computer business of the 1980’s, his company grew six times faster than the industry norm, differentiating itself not by the products offered but by the way it sold them. Duane founded The Sales Board in 1990 to teach the skills of Action Selling to others.
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Andre Agassi’s crowd where chorusing play! last Sunday, the reason… maybe they wanted him to finish his first-round match against Paul Goldstein. Or, maybe they just hoped they could persuade Agassi back in the match.
Weather wasn’t by his side and then there was the element of frustration, but still Agassi managed to win the first set, 6-4. However, he couldn’t get it together and smashed his racket against the court when he lost the second set 4-6. I think he must have been looking for trouble since he had received already a warning for obscenity.
Before playing the deciding set, Agassi sat along the sidelines, he looked thoughtful looking at the slippery court and analyzing the possibility of not coming back.
Well, he did come back and he pulled through with a 6-2. Two minutes after the third set began, Agassi went to work while Goldstein crushed to the ground, he slid, and Agassi became more frustrated. However, that’s when he returned to the game, he lessened the errors, moved better and used the drop shot to his advantage to close out the match.
The drizzle was a concern to both players, but Agassi continued to press officials about the condition of the surface. He is a very talented player and pulled through regardless of the conditions of adversity and age which doesn’t seem to matter with Agassi…he is still the best.
Cathy Jones writes on sports betting and gambling one of the fastest growing online industries and she is one of the top senior article writers for www.envivosports.com
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Online Casinos, believe it or not might be the best solution for some people. I know some of us including me like to go to Vegas or other places to play in their casinos but this is not possible all the time. For all of us that don’t have the time, Online Casinos is the best solution.
Online Casinos don’t offer you free drinks or free hotel room but it offers you free money, raffles, and more stuff. One of the advantages of playing in Online Casinos is that you can save money on airplane tickets, hotel rooms and if you think about it, you can save that money or use that money to play in the casinos online. Disadvantages of playing in the online casinos are that you don’t get the free drinks while you are playing and that you don’t get to go out to clubs or places like if you go to Vegas.
You are going to find a lot of Online Casinos out there but make sure that you read every casino information including, casino payouts, casino reviews, casino bonuses, casino promotions and make sure you read about the casino you are planning to play so you can see all the stuff that the online casinos have to offer you.
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The beauty of having a website is not the convenience. It’s not
the animated graphics or the lack of overhead. No, the real
beauty of having a website is that it can grow with your
business.
A website is the only calling card that can change as you
change. Grow as you grow. New products, new services or even a
whole new philosophy and look can be applied almost instantly,
giving both new and existing customers an accurate
representation of your company’s direction. But tapping into
this unique little marketing feature requires more than just a
new color scheme. You need to change the way your view your
website.
So many businesses go online with one goal and one goal only:
market their products or services. And that’s fine. That is
after all, why you’re on the web. But give your customers more
than they bargained for and they’ll visit more often. More
visits means more leads which in turn, means more sales. And
that’s the whole point of marketing those products and services,
isn’t it?
As a consumer, I can buy widgets from just about anyone. And
while your price might differ slightly from a competitor’s, the
widgets themselves are likely going to be the same. The selling
point then will be the amount of service I’ll receive and the
best service you can give comes in the form of content.
Good content opens up a whole new aspect of usability to your
website. Informative articles, user manuals and step-by-step
how-to’s are just a few examples of smart website content.
Anyone can sell me that widget. But who can show me how to use
it?
Think this type of service doesn’t matter? Think again. Even
brick-and-mortar businesses are recognizing the advertising
benefits of information and have begun expanding their services
to provide free instruction that compliments their applications.
One look at the home improvement industry and you’ll see what I
mean.
The brilliance of this marketing bonanza is that you don’t have
to be an award-winning author to capitalize on content. There
are freelancers galore ready and willing to write your words or
you can tap into the surplus of free content already out on the
web. But tap you must, before your competitor’s beat you to it.
The bottom line? If you build it, they might come but if you
teach it, they’re more likely to stay.
So you know, roughly, what you want your home business to be.
Before you go any further and start investing, though, you need
to try it out. Here’s how.
Build a Prototype
If you plan to sell physical items, or you’re going to do
something like starting a website or writing software, then you
should build a prototype to see how your idea will work out. A
prototype is a version of your product that is built quickly by
you alone, and serves to show that your idea is feasible in the
real world. If it would be too expensive to build the whole
thing, then just building the new part that differentiates you
from your competitors is good enough.
Show your prototype to a several people, to see what they think.
Are they excited? Would they use it?
Get Some Customers
If your product is relatively low-value, or you’re providing a
service, then it shouldn’t be too much trouble to get a few
customers and do a few dry runs. Give them a generous discount
(you could even do it for free), to make sure that everything
runs smoothly and the customers are satisfied at the end of it.
For example, let’s say you plan to be a landscape gardener from
home. You could borrow the tools, and volunteer to do a garden
for some kind of charity project - this is good, since it means
that you’re doing something nice for charity, but they’re not
paying for perfection, so it’s not that bad if small things go
wrong. You should then go through all the motions as you would
once your business is established, and see what comes out at the
other end.
Here’s another one. Let’s say you’re an Italian living outside
Italy, and you plan to start a home business cooking pasta in
your kitchen and delivering it to customers (you’d be surprised
how many home businesses there are in the catering industry).
You could make a rough draft of a leaflet (with discounted
prices) and deliver it to a small number of homes in the area,
until you get a little response. You could then see if it really
is feasible to make and deliver these things, and whether there
would be any profit in it.
The best dry-runs, though, are the ones where you can get one
client at full price. This generally happens in the kind of
industry where most transactions are business-to-business, and
go through a bidding process. If you’re doing something like
freelance writing or artwork, this can let you take on one ‘job’
without being committed to any more afterwards. If you find it’s
not for you, at least you haven’t lost too much - and if you
love it, then you’re getting valuable experience before you try
to take it full-time.
When you try your business out, make sure to do some kind of
survey - you could hand it to the customer, include it with your
delivery, or even phone up and say that you’re just calling to
make sure everything is alright. Following up this way isn’t
just good for you, it’s also good customer service.
Don’t Rely on Scale
One of the most common things I hear when I tell people to try
out their home business ideas is that a small-scale trial
wouldn’t do the idea justice, since they ‘plan to make money on
scale’.
Never, ever rely solely on scale. You think that supplies will
get magically cheaper if you’re doing ten orders a day instead
of one? Guess again. You think you’re going to save time by
doing lots of orders at once? You might save some, but not as
much as you might think. When you’re trying to see whether your
business is viable, you should always err on the conservative
side - the thinner your margins are, the easier it is for
something unexpected to happen and destroy them altogether.
You’re cheating yourself if you don’t try out your business
before you start it - you’ll be throwing yourself in at the deep
end, and there won’t be a lifeguard. Trying it out gives you the
opportunity to make your beginner mistakes (there will be a few,
I guarantee it), and to build confidence in yourself and your
business without taking pointlessly large amounts of risk.
Let’s begin by setting some limits. If you’re like me, you like to keep it simple. All we’re doing is collecting email addresses together for our mailing list, so biochemical engineering is out the window. If you’re using Thunderbird (or that MS product), you can send nicely formatted newsletters out and retain all of the other awesome features of your email program so there’s really no need for databases, logins, or pretty much anything else. We’re going to stay far away from anything non-essential.
To keep it simple, I’ll assume you have Dreamweaver or a comparable WYSIWYG composer; however, if you are editing source code you can click here to see an expanded version of this article with source code. Also, I’ve assumed that you have an extremely basic familiarity with PHP. If not, please begin by reading this PHP introduction (for absolute beginners).
There are only 3 steps we’re going to need:
- Put HTML on the page to collect the user’s name and email address.
- Add in a little PHP and (possibly) change a filename.
- Receive and process the emails.
Marching on, we need to put some HTML on our page to let the visitor enter in their name and email address. To do this using Dreamweaver, you’ll need to create a form with the POST method, a text input named visitor_name, a text input named visitor_email, and a submit button.
We now have our excellent mailing list form up and you should check to make sure that it ended up where you planned. At this point, you may need to make another slight change. If the file’s extension is not php, php3, php4, or phtml you should change the file’s extension to php. Now, you will need to be careful here as file extensions are extremely important, so you may lose functionality when you change the file’s extension. If this is the case, look up the extension and find a tutorial for the language.
Take a breather and get ready for step 2. Since this is a PHP tutorial, we’re going to take a closer look at the PHP code used to send us the email. Being a language, we’ll need to learn enough of the PHP vernacular to 1) use the information the user submitted, 2) create the body of the email, and 3) send the email.
The form we created sends 2 pieces of information: visitor_name and visitor_email. When PHP receives them it realizes that someone POSTed some information and to make it easy for you to get ahold of it creates a couple of special “things” you can use to refer to what the user entered: $_POST[’visitor_name’] and $_POST[’visitor_email’]. Why does it call them by funny names? Well the $_POST part assures you that it was information that was submitted by your visitor and not some other PHP somewhere on your page. The part in quotes allows you to pick which piece of information was submitted by your visitor (don’t stress on the brackets - they just separate the two pieces of information).
Great! We now have our visitor’s information, so let’s send it to ourselves. Sending email in PHP almost seems too easy. We just need to modify this line mail(TO, SUBJECT, MESSAGE); by replacing each of the bold capitalized words and adding this inside of PHP tags to our page. Replace TO with your email address in quotes. Replace SUBJECT with the subject you want to appear on the email inside of quotes. In an effort to keep it simple, replace MESSAGE with “{$_POST[’visitor_name’]} at {$_POST[’visitor_email’]} would like to subscribe to your mailing list.” By now, the MESSAGE replacement is probably self-explanatory except for the curly braces. The curly braces just reassure PHP that the information inside of them really does refer to something it should already know (in this case what our visitor submitted).
Now we just need to include our modified line in the HTML page. Here’s the whole modified line (don’t forget the PHP tags!):
mail(”MY EMAIL ADDRESS”,”Newsletter Subscription”,”{$_POST[’visitor_name’]} at {$_POST[’visitor_email’]} would like to subscribe to your mailing list.”);
If you’re a really observant reader, you’re already wondering how PHP knows to wait until someone’s submitted a subscription request. Well, in the example above, it doesn’t. It’s also missing some kind of message to inform your subscriber that their request was successful. Since this is introductory material and already lengthy, I’ll save that explanation for another article. Just follow everything you’ve learned above and use this line of code instead (I’ve bolded my special addition), substituting the success message for one of your own:
if (isset($_POST[’visitor_email’])) { mail(”MY EMAIL ADDRESS”,”Newsletter Subscription”,”{$_POST[’visitor_name’]} at {$_POST[’visitor_email’]} would like to subscribe to your mailing list.”); echo “Subscription Complete. Thank you!”; }
Er, that’s all folks! You’ll start receiving emails which you can then add to a mail list in Thunderbird. To manage unsubscription requests, just have a little note at the end of your mailing list saying to reply to the email to be removed and then edit your mailing list.
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