Tuesday, February 19, 2013

6 Online Biz Strategies To Help You Start Making Money Faster

What a knucklehead!

When I first started online, I had no idea what this online biz stuff was all about. With almost 25 years in sales, marketing and business management, how hard could it be, right?

With an entrepreneurial spirit and absolutely no idea what I wanted to be when I grew up, I dove right in.

First, I tried an eBay store. That was a whole lot of work with very little profit. I just didn’t enjoy it.

Next was the pre-fab SMC drop ship estore thing.  Drop shipping is where a wholesale warehouse company sells a ready-made store full of their products.  You sell their products and make a very small profit and the company ships the goods.  No stocking of inventory and no shipping hassles, however unless you are selling a butt load of products, the profit margin is pretty low.

Then I jumped into network marketing selling a nutritional product that I still use,  really love and believe in. I wasn’t comfortable promoting a network marketing product. It just wasn’t a good fit for me and frankly it cost me an arm and a leg. I went in the hole $7,000 with that one! 

By this time I’d been at it a couple of years and was getting nowhere fast and making NO money. 

Finally I had to admit that I needed help. My offline business and marketing experience just wasn’t helping me much online. I had no technical skills and needed to get an education to learn how to build a business and market it online.

My education journey began…

I learned and learned and learned – and learned some more. By this time I was so fearful and my confidence so low that I wasn’t implementing what I was learning. I had developed a poverty mentality.  And Oy! the money I spent and the time I wasted. 

What if you know now what I didn’t know then?

Here are six strategies you can use in your online biz to start making money quicker:


Read more:

http://thehappypreneur.com/6-online-biz-strategies-to-help-you-start-making-money-fast/

 

With love and blessings, 

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Celene Harrelson helps you take the training wheels off of your business, so you can ride like the wind! TheHappypreneur.com 

Monday, February 11, 2013

Inbound Marketing Vs. Outbound Marketing – The Way The Guru’s Got Rich Won’t Work For You

Inbound marketing is the way to go.


You can’t achieve internet success today they way the good ol’ boys did it. 

If you play by the same rules and use the same tactics that the internet marketing Gurus of years gone by did to achieve internet success, you are doomed!  Back in the day, (over 5-7 years ago ;) the online big shots did things differently. People responded differently.  That’s all changed since the dawn of Social Media.  Gone are the days of blasting links and hard sell. I thought I’d share an interesting infographic I found  on Jon Loomer’s blog on Inbound Marketing Vs. Outbound Marketing.  

So what the heck is Inbound Marketing?

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http://thehappypreneur.com/inbound-marketing-outbound-marketing/

 

With love and blessings,

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Celene Harrelson helps you take the training wheels off of your business, so you can ride like the wind! TheHappypreneur.com

Wednesday, February 6, 2013

Technophobes Just Chill Out – Your Making Your Online Biz Way Too Hard

My words of wisdom from one technophobe to another… just chill!

When taking your offline business online or when starting a new internet business, the technology can be daunting.  Actually it can totally freak you out. It did me.  

When I first started online, I knew nothing about technology.  I could check my email and use MS Works.  That was it. I can remember how my shoulders hurt from being hunched over my keyboard for 14 hours a day, muscles all tight because I was stressed trying to figure out how to get a grip on all the technology needed to build my online biz.  I made it so much harder than it had to be.   I tried to figure it all out on my own, watching YouTube videos and doing Google searches til I was blue in the face to find the answers and still the tech stuff kicked my...

Read more:

http://thehappypreneur.com/technophobes-chill-making-online-biz-hard/

 

With love and blessings,

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Celene Harrelson helps you take the training wheels off of your business, so you can ride like the wind! TheHappypreneur.com