What Does It Take To Be An Effective Internet Entrepreneur?

First, let’s take a look at how we should define an Internet Entrepreneur:

In a blunt, meaningless definition -  it is to get your “behind” off the couch and away from the TV, pursuing an online presence in an effort to enhance your financial situation. Sitting around feeling bad about your situation and doing absolutely nothing about it, is definitely not part of the equation to being successful.

Internet Entrepreneurship is about exhibiting your vision, focusing on faith and action in unity, and pursuing your vision as a goal to be achieved as a service to reality.  The following are characteristics of an Internet Entrepreneur:

Optimism – being optimistic is having the ability to see things in a positive way not allowing circumstances that would hinder your progress. You will no doubt encounter some difficult situations along the way, how you deal with these situations depends on your belief in what you are doing and/or your knowledge of how to overcome these difficult situations.

Creativity – “Thinking Outside Of The Box” – expanding your thinking beyond the ordinary thoughts or circumstances through fine research and collection of relative information.

Stability – As a business owner you are normally perceived as a leader to others therefore from a physical, mental, social , emotional point of view it is imperative you possess stability in your life which often means you can handle difficult situations through tough times.

Charismatic – You can communicate with different cultures. A good entrepreneur should be able to make prospective clients feel at ease and not feel intimidated by their presence. Yes, you own your own business but that in no way makes you better than others, like or unlike.

Risk-Taker – Ah, yes this is the big one, you have a dream, now you must be able to be stern and have the nerve to take a leap of faith not being afraid to take chances when opportunity strikes. Now we are no way meaning careless leaps of faith, this doesn’t excuse the need for research. Facts will only take you so far, the next turmoil to overcome is your inner turmoil – your ability to go with your gut feeling after careful research.

Energetic – your drive to get to the finish line must be at its highest level as you willneed to work long hours and you will have to make personal sacrifices along the way.

Once again we are not saying to be foolish in your actions – your family is important and as an entrepreneur there has to be a give and take. Your family will respect your position when it comes to deadlines as you need to respect their position in needing you to be present at certain intervals throughout the day.

To be an effective internet entrepreneur you must be aware you need to remain positive about your endeavors, be observant of what your environment lacks and needs. You will have added weight to your shoulders with the increasing responsibility of the day to day operations.

Remember to always think big, Act and make your business dreams come true.

Regards,

Carl Tambeau
Founder of Pro Marketing Resource

Do You Need To Know How To Write a Business Plan? Part 2 of 4

There’s the million dollar question, maybe you do need to know How to Write A Business Plan and maybe it really doesn’t matter – only you can answer that question. Here’s the thing, no matter, how you feel about the very subject, it doesn’t really matter what “you” think BUT what does matter, is what “your readers” think.

If they enjoy the content you are posting and if the knowledge you share is working for them, then yes you will have followers. BUT if things aren’t being kept up to date, your content doesn’t make sense, you aren’t in it for the right reason, your business plan is not being worked, then followers “will” go elsewhere – bottom line.

How do you know if things are progressing as you would like:

You need to go back to your original plan

see what your projections were

what your intentions were

where did you expect to be at this point in time

Wait a minute – You do have a business plan? Right?

NO PLAN – so how did you record your revenue projections, your intentions, where you want to be by now. You Say – “I never thought of that”. or – “My plan was to work my butt off and see where things end up” – Great Strategy – NOT!

Come on people, you now know what makes you tick because we already covered that in the previous reports. You need to know what you will do with all of your interest and passions as well as all the research you did on your niche. By now you should know:

who your target market is

what they are buying in your niche

demographically where they are.

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Have You Completed Your Internet Business Plan?

If you haven’t completed or even started your Internet Business Plan we can help you here. Throughout the next week we will be reviewing the key components to Internet Marketing which are directly related to your business plan.

During the first few days we will be paying particular attention to “The Plan”.

The Plan starts with one thought. The thought starts with you. You started the thought because there is something in your life you want or need:

• Financial Freedom
• Time with Your Family
• Special Trips
• To be an independent professional
• A New Truck, Car or Van
• Everyday to be like a day at the Spa
• A New Wardrobe or maybe New Shoes (perhaps both)
• Basically whatever your heart desires which is morale and legal

The magic question is how can you get whatever your heart desires?

Even though this is a great question, the answer is far from being a one liner, there are so many variables to consider:

The first one is you:

1. What are Your Passions and Interests?
2. What Knowledge do you have in Your Subject?
3. How Committed are you to learning and building your online business?
4. What Time Sacrifices are you willing to make?
5. How Deep is Your Desire to Learning and Building Your Internet Business?
6. Where Do You See Yourself by the End Of 2009? 2010? 2011?

If you are new to the Internet Community then you will soon realize an online presence has nothing to do with location. It has everything to do with your content:

• The Niche You Choose
• The Content You Write
• How You Speak To Your Audience
• What Words Are Your Prospective Customers using to find information in your niche? (Keywords or Keyword phrases)
• Who is Your Target Market?
• What are they buying?

Before you go any further you need to answer all of the questions presented here. Yes there are a lot of questions to consider so lets start with the questions about you and then we will move into the questions related to content.

Before creating your Internet Business Plan you need to search your heart to understand what has moved you to your current desire to create an online presence. No amount of teaching or instructions will help you to be successful unless you are passionate about the product or service you are building you business on.

For today we will stop here and tomorrow lets review the questions on content.

 

Regards,

Carl Tambeau
Founder of Pro Marketing Resource
Founder of Healing Music Emporium

 

What Is The Real Purpose of Your Internet Business Plan? Part 9 of 9

We have arrived at the final page in our 9 part series.

Is there one particular purpose your Internet Business Plan serves?

Your Internet Business Plan is not about one thing, it is a plan with a series of carefully thought out steps.

Each step serves a purpose to an end result. You may have the most professional looking business plan, compared to everyone else in your group.

One very important factor will stand out in the end, irregardless of looks and fancy wording – and that is your Business Success.

The whole purpose of the Internet Business Plan is not so you can show off your graphics talents or writing skills (these are important), it is all about the success of your business.

How accurate was your research when analyzing related markets?

How well did you research:
your competition
your product or service
your start up costs

If you have done the best possible work on your plan, now you need to put it into action.

Setup weekly, monthly, quarterly review meetings so you can analyze your progress. During these reviews you need to determine an action plan:

Keep following the plan if everything is ok
Fine tune a few tasks to optimize results
Edit your plan to refocus as maybe something isn’t working

Whatever the action is, continue to follow your plan for the year. At the end of the year you will start your Internet Business Plan for the next year.

We hope you have a great day

This is Carl Tambeau
founder of pro marketing resource.com

Do You Know The Importance of Private Label Content? Part 8 of 9

Are you aware of how vitally important and valuable Private Label Content is to your online business? In fact, content can do more to build your business and profits than just about any other resource or service available.

The numbers of ways in which you can use materials from Private Label Content to make money online are almost as varied and infinite as the Internet itself.

Following is a list of just 5 key ways that content can help build your traffic, subscribers, and customers starting today!…

1. Boost your search engine ranking and daily visitor count by posting keyword rich articles and content on your web-site. For example, if your business involves offering products and services related to fitness, posting fitness related articles and content will attract unlimited prospective customers on a regular basis!

2. Generate double or even triple the number of newsletter subscribers you do currently, simply by offering content in the form of “special reports” or manuals as bonuses for subscribing to your publication. People love freebies, so give them what they want and watch as your results increase! Read more

Did You Include Competitive Analysis in Your Internet Business Plan? Part 6 of 9

Now that you’ve decided to market your business on the Internet, you will need a competitive analysis included in your Internet Business Plan (IBP).

The Internet is a very competitive community, therefore knowing your competition is more important than ever.

It is important to understand what your competition is doing and what their traffic stats are.

How are they getting all that traffic?

What keywords are they using to attract attention?

Where is the traffic coming from?

There are tools available that will give you the stats on keywords, used by your competition. During your research this will give you an idea of what results to expect when marketing, using related keywords and keyword phrases.One service that offers such research information is Hexatrack.com – go here and sign up to a limited free account and review the videos to get a better understanding of how this service can help your business.

You need to identify the top 5-10 competitors in your niche and take a look at what they are using for keywords and keyword phrases.

1. When performing a search related to your niche – who are the top 5 websites?
2. What did you use for search criteria?

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Why Complete a Financial Analysis of Your Internet Business? Part 5 of 9

You want an Internet Business to run successfully and bring you a ton of sales. Great!

For argument sake how about we assume you have your entire plan mapped out:

• Audience Analysis
• Marketing Strategy
• Product and Service Plan in place
• Idea of how your website will look

What are we missing?

How will you afford the initial costs?

It is very rare for you to be able to get credit for an online business without an Internet Business Plan and one that has a financial analysis included.

You might ask why?

First of all if you are asking why, you may want to consider reviewing your business again.

How will your business work without capital?

Where will the money come from initially to pay expenses – start up costs?

How much do you need to make to break even, to make a profit? Read more

Do You Want PLR Products as Part of Your Marketing Strategy? Part 4 of 9

Well as you guys no doubt know, to really succeed with our internet marketing careers, we need to have great digital products that convert all of our qualified leads into real, cash-paying customers.

For many people, coming up with products will involve them creating them on their own, or it may involve them commissioning other professionals to do the hard work for them, which makes it difficult to put this marketing strategy to good use.

Chances are though, like most smart internet marketers, you probably want to save a whole lot of time and money.  After all, if you were to create your own e-book for instance, expect to spend tens of hours doing the research you need, and then writing the book itself – and that’s if you’re only semi-decent at writing.

If you’re a good writer, it will still take you hours and hours and if you’re terrible, well, forget it, because your e-book won’t sell! Now, you certainly won’t go wrong by hiring a good writer to create a really good e-book, but think about how much a good writer is going to cost you.

Wouldn’t you rather spend that money on getting visitors to your site so you can make more money?

I’m pretty sure, like me, you’re always looking for ways to save time and money on your internet marketing business.  I’ll easily spend hours each week just reading up on the latest internet marketing happenings and news, in the endless search of improving the way I do business. Read more

Do You Have An Internet Business Plan? Part 1 of 9

Every year you and millions of others might be thinking about New Years Resolutions.

What will be different in 2009?

What changes can we make to improve our personal and/or business lives?

What should we focus on in 2009?

This year Jan 1, 2009 I was pondering over these very questions just as you might have been. I personally don’t buy into New Years Resolutions as they are set for the wrong reasons in my opinion. New Years Resolutions rarely have any higher than a 1% success rate.

For a 99% success rate, you need to build on your previous years results and experiences.

You may be thinking:

• What results?
• What success did you have last year?
• What was the results of those success’s?
• How do I figure out the results?

You need to focus on your success from the previous years and analyze each event so you can understand how those success’s came to be. Once you understand, build on those events and attach some improvement goals to achieve in 2009 and beyond.

What about personal goals?

Do you understand the importance of how personal goals affect your business? Read more

What Are Your Plans With Your Internet Business in 2009?

Welcome to 2009!

May you have good fortunes and great health in 2009.

With 2008 now behind you – it is time to make sure your Business Plan is in place for 2009. Stick around and we can help you get things together to come up with a concrete plan for your Internet Business. Not only will it be something you will be proud of but if you need financing take it to your banker – they will be very impressed with your planning abilities.

Check back January 2 when we plan to start our 9 day series on creating your own Internet Business Plan and You Can Take That To The Bank! Here is a quick overview of what to expect:

1. Goals and objectives for 2009.
2. Who is watching you – lets look at analyzing your readers.
3. Get the word out – Create a Marketing Strategy that works.
4. You can’t run a business with no money – we will analyze your finances.
5. Develop Internet Visibility.
6. We will look at Competition and analysis data related to your competition.
7. What will your website be about – Describe your site.
8. What will you sell – What services will you offer.
9. Site development – lets get the staff together and get things up and running.

Once again Happy New Year and we will see you tomorrow.

Regards,

Carl Tambeau

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