Starting,Home,Business,amp,#58 DIY Starting A Home Business: Are You Lost?

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There are so many ways to run a home business and so manypeople telling which way is the right way, sometimes youjust get lost. Here are some simple suggestions thatcontinue to help me build my home business.----------Suggestion #1----------I'm a big fan of pay per click advertising. And GoogleAdWords is my favorite PPC search engine. The reason issimply that I can often get lots of traffic for areasonable price.Too many people think that free traffic through searchengine optimization is the only way to go. Andalternatively, too many people think that PPC traffic isthe only way to go.Well, there's nothing wrong with using both. By all means,if you can get free traffic from search engines, then doit. Nothing beats that. But you probably won't get allthe traffic you could get that way. There will probablystill be relevant keywords for which you're not gettingtraffic.PPC advertising will let you get traffic for any keywordsthat are relevant to what you're advertising. And if Ican pay someone $1 and they'll pay me more than $1 inreturn, then I consider that to be a good deal.Download a free copy of my Google AdWords Checklist. Ifyou're not already a PPC wizard, then it will help youstreamline your PPC strategy. And I continue to updateit.http://www.dave-brown.com/rawc.htmlOnce you have a Google AdWords campaign that's makingmoney, then you'll probably want to try it out on otherPPC search engines. Sometimes it will work out, and othertimes it won't. But it's worth spending a few bucks togive it a shot.Kanoodle is one of fastest growing smaller PPC searchengines (Google and Overture are the two big ones). Theyaren't competing with Google, but they're gaining groundand adding more features to their system. I think they'reworth checking out. In fact, I have used them myself.If you're ready to branch out, then you can get $5 ofclicks from Kanoodle at absolutely no cost. You can trythem out before you even get out your wallet. Just clickthe link below to give 'em a whirl.http://www.dave-brown.com/rkanoodle.html----------Suggestion #2----------The biggest obstacle for me in doing business online hasbeen, and probably always will be, coming up with ideasfor what to do. What can I offer people that they will bewilling to pay me for? That's always the question on mymind. As time goes on, I come up with more and moreanswers, but it's never easy.And I know that this is the major problem that many otherpeople face because I'm constantly hearing people talkabout it.Perhaps the thing that's helped me answer this questionthe most is going to conferences and seminars. I thinkI've benefited from this more than anything else I'vespent money on.Conferences help because each speaker usually talks for anhour or more about something that they do. Granted,sometimes a speaker just pitches you for an hour. Butusually a speaker offers at least one good idea. But thisis probably the least important aspect of conferences.Conferences help because you actually have the opportunityto talk with the speakers and ask them questions. Youmight have to be persistent to get your chance at a largeconference. But if you have specific questions, these areusually the people to answer them.Conferences help because you have the opportunity to speakwith all of the other attendees. Sometimes this might be25 people, and sometimes it might be several hundred.These are good people to talk with. They paid good moneyto be there, so they're probably pretty serious about whatthey do. You can learn from them. You can come up withnew ideas by talking with them. Sometimes you can evenform a profitable partnership.Conferences help because you get to meet people who aredoing what you want to do. Assuming you haven't hit thebig time yet, you'll meet people at conferences who have.And you'll find out that it really is possible. Andthey're just regular people like you. There's nothing moremotivating.Conferences help because they get your brain going inoverdrive. Without exception, every time I come home froma conference, I have 1001 thoughts racing through myhead. It's often the time that I come up with my bestideas. I can't explain exactly why this happens, but theatmosphere just does it to you.Of course, not everyone should attend a conference. Ibelieve you have to be in the right frame of mind. Youhave to be eager to succeed and hungry for ideas. Ifthat's not where you are right now, then right now is notthe right time.But there are plenty of conferences continually happening,so you'll always have the chance when you're ready.----------Suggestion #3----------Still on the topic of coming up with profitable ideas,there are less expensive ways than attending conferences.Something that never fails to get my mind going is amembership site that I've subscribed to for probably ninemonths or so. Corey Rudl's Secrets To Their Success.http://www.dave-brown.com/rstts.htmlIn case you're not familiar with it, Corey interviewspeople who have achieved success online, and he poststhese very extensive interviews to the site. Two newinterviews each month. But you also get access to all ofthe previous interviews, and there are tons of them.Honestly, I still haven't read them all as long as I'vebeen a member.This is one of the very best sites where you can see justhow many different ways people are doing business online.There are people doing things that you would neverimagine. And when I read these interviews, I always startthinking about things that I probably wouldn't have everthought of otherwise.So if you want to expand your thinking, then check it out.http://www.dave-brown.com/rstts.htmlIf you're serious about building a successful businessonline but you're still having trouble getting off thelaunching pad, then you should have at least one more goodidea now than you did 10 minutes ago. Article Tags: Help Because