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Friday 26th March We went to Ferneham Hall in Fareham to see the Home Coming Tour by The Soldiers. The show put on by The Soldiers was great. They are not the most fantastic musical talent going IMHO, however they were fun, lively, their backing group was great and the songs were all well known. The venue was absolutely packed out, most of them silver-tops like ourselves! But even had I

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Starting a Small Business In a Recession Is this brilliant or barmy? It totally depends what kind of business you want to start. The Times Says Brilliant – If You Are Business-Like. Lauren Tompson in The Times, last Saturday, discussed the fact that many people being laid off in the current recession are using their redundancy money to set up their own small business.  People are finding that

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Writing Plans Can Be Hazardous to Your Business Online When writing business plans, or any sort of plans, make sure yours work. People like me (coaches, advisers and consultants) are always telling people like you (potential and actual e-ntrepreneurs©) to "dream big and set great goals". We are always encouraging you to create a vision of what you want to achieve as a person or in terms of

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Working at home to build an online business is hard. We would like to make the process easier for our friends out there with this gift of free applications and really useful stuff. Everyone likes free gifts (is there any other sort?). And we were determined to find as many useful gifts for our friends who run or would like to run small online businesses.   Well, it is that time of year after all

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Laura makes my life happier! Laura is a dear friend of mine, who makes my life happier every so often by sending me emails that sum up life.  The contents of her most recent one (and I think the best ever) is below.  I do love receiving them.  Read this and you are bound to be cheered up.  Thanks Laura, for being my friend, for sending these things though I don't send similar ones back, and

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Seniors - Add to Your Pension While Working From Home. Have you ever wondered if you could make money online? You can – and with very little investment. If you need to boost your pension, are over 50 or a senior citizen and have some time available, you need to read this. How has the credit crunch affected you?  If you are like me, the stock market has left many of our savings in a laughable

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Online Literacy - A 'Must Have' Skill for Starting Your Small Online Business Everyone used to be educated in the 3Rs.  Reading, wRiting and 'Rithmetic once upon a time was enough to get you a job for life. But there is no such thing as a job for life today.  So what can you do to prepare yourself for our dramatically changed conditions? Today a 4th skill is required if you want to be sure of

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Learn How To Start A Business Online. Create so much trust customers will roll in by making sure 3 vital factors are in place: transparency, trust and security. Transparency Up to 50% of your customers will be contemplating buying online for the first time. Let's imagine that Joe is in this position on your site right now. If you want to make the most of this opportunity, it is vital that you

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Internet Business Set up Can be Haphazard Follow progress on my internet business which teaches others how to start their small business online. For those of you who have not visited us before, I am putting together an online business.  The business will teach others to do th sane using ebooks, online courses, video, audio and offline seminars.  Our goals is to help get 1,000 small business up

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A few years ago the answer to that question might have been no!  But things are changing and changing fast. According to recent research done by Forrester Research which compared the results of 2009 with those of 2008: 42% of retailers increased their visitor to order conversion rate in the first half of the year. In 2008 web sales grew 18% compared to 2007. 50% of online retailers surveyed

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Well, for a start I have very little to spend, so that closes the discussion down a bit. But my ISP (Internet Service Provider or the folk who host my website in this case) offer a service where I can set up a fairly instant website, with very little knowledge of these things and.... Robert is your Mother's Masculine Sibling. Hmm... can it really be that simple? Well of course not. So far I

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Malcolm Coles: Carter Ruck’s new attempt to gag Parliament Posted using ShareThis

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Marketing for the small internet business is more important than for the large business.  You as business owner or marketer have to understand your customers if you are going to help them buy your products or services. Look here to get more information about how to find your perfect niche. If you are marketing to Millenials (i.e. anyone born between 1982 and 2000) you really need to check out

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Make Money Online  Double your profits by putting your offline business online.  Read here for free information on putting your business online Put Your Business Online You have your own offline business and you would like to expand. Going online has many advantages and disadvantages: What are the Pros and Cons? Pros You don't have to get new premises. It gives you access to a world-wide

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Make Money Online from Home No capital?  No problem.  Read here for free information on 4 cheap ways you can earn money online working from home. Starting your online business, rather than going the Affiliate or Drop Shipping route  means you take responsibility for the whole thing. You create the product, bring it to the market, deliver, organise finance etc etc.  That is you have to:Come up

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Make Money Online. No Capital? No Problem. Read here for free information on 4 cheap ways you can earn money online working from home.  Drop ShippingDrop shipping is a great method for getting involved in e commerce and work from home without having to invest your own and your family's life savings. Drop shipping is more like a standard business than being an affiliate. It gives you the

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No Money? No Problem Make money online from home. Read for 4 free different ways you can earn money online. Affiliate Marketing The first thing I should say is that if you want a free short introductory course to Affiliate Marketing, get it here. Amazon is credited with creating the affiliate market and since most people are familiar with Amazon, I will use them as an example to explain the

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Generate Ideas for Successful Online Businesses Set up in industries guaranteed to be successful in the future.  That is one way of future-proofing your small online business.  But how can you do that? I have mentioned before that passion is vital when you set out to make money online.  But passion must be tempered with judgement. In this case judgement means being really careful about choosing

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Find the Right Niche to Make Money Online Anyone can make any amount of money they chose online, as long as they chose the right niche. What is a Niche? A niche is a tiny, usually specialised corner of a market.  For example, there is a market for Jewellery. Within that there are markets for precious jewellery and costume jewellery. There are markets for Celtic, Indian and Chinese jewellery to

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Job Squaring Gets the Small Busines Online In my first blog I talked about the huge number of tasks there are when you are starting a new online business. It is harder for the new E-ntrepreneur to keep up with her/himself than to marshal bees in a flower-field. It is therefore vital to be organised, systematic and methodical. You can’t rely on multi-tasking even if you are a mother. As a person

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Get the Small Business Online with Job Squaring Yahoo….It worked. In previous blogs I talked about the new E-ntrepreneur marshalling bees. ‘It is therefore’, I stated somewhat pompously, ‘vital, when managing a business start up, to be organised, systematic and methodical’. My trouble is, like a lot of you, I’m not.  Organised, systematic and methodical I mean. Not by nature anyway. So I have

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Your Online Business Needs Your Brain  Setting up and running an internet business requires an E-ntrepreneur to do so many different things it is not funny.  In fact it can be terrifying.   It can't be done unless your mind is working for you and not against you.  And that means setting great goals and sticking to them! Setting great goals is more complicated than just saying "I want to own an

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STARTING YOUR OWN SMALL BUSINESS IS HARD “Start online business; rip my own fingernails off” Do you remember that great advert where a little girl is asked by her sister “which do you prefer? Chips or Daddy”. This as a plate of luscious French fries is placed in front of her by her mother. Staring dreamily at the plate she intones “Chips, Daddy... chips, Daddy” as she tries to make this

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People Have Lost Their Pensions, Savings and the Value from their Property The dream of retiring at 60 or 65 has disappeared along with the savings of many because of the financial carcrash they call the recession.  For these people, the vision of the 'golden years' has been wrenched out of foucus and replaced by the nightmare of permanent trolley clearing or shelf stacking. A survey by the CBI

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If it is true that you can't teach an old dog new tricks I am in trouble.  Arthritic, smelly, fur falling out all over the place and four-legged I might not be, but transister radios were cool when I was a teenager.  Yup, I am that old - I can even vaguely remember the Beatles the first time round! I am comfortable with the world wide web, I know how to use most of the programmes on my computer;

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