Internet entrepreneur Nnamdi Onwuka may have a solution to any personal economic crisis: www.SuccessFinanceSolutions.com, a website showcasing the best home business opportunities.Now could be the best time to start a home business, Nnamdi says. Even those who are not personally affected by the bad economy can benefit by starting a home business and bringing in extra money.
The site features the best home businesses found on the internet today. Each of the businesses was developed by an internet marketing expert and has undergone an intense screening process to ensure they are legitimate. With more and more scams showing up on-line, people have to use extra caution, Nnambi says, which is why it is so important that entrepreneurs invest only in legitimate businesses.
“Most of the businesses featured on my site involve affiliate marketing,” Nnambi states. “These are not get rich schemes, but good, solid businesses that have been making ordinary people money for years. They are business that will work if the entrepreneurs work hard to make them a success.”
The businesses include a free traffic-generating website that can be up and ready to bring in several streams of income in just 24 hours. Nnambi urges anyone looking to invest in an online business to be careful and not believe anyone who says you can get rich doing nothing.
Education is the key, he says, which is why he is offering several free educational resources on his site to help the entrepreneur make the most of their new business. Nnambi is offering visitors to the site a free subscription to his daily newsletter, Home Business Tips. The newsletter, a $147 value, comes via e-mail for a year and is packed with the latest tips and strategies for making your home business a success.
Also available for free is the 325-page e-book, “Dotcomology – The Science of Making Money Online” by Home Biz Guy Stone Evans, a well-known internet marketing expert. The book is filled with informative articles to help anyone make money on-line.
Website Features Best On-line Home Business Ideas
Anyone looking to start an online home business should first go to www.CMBWealth.com to see which businesses are truly the best options for them.
Why? According to website developer and home business expert C. Mark Babcock, it’s because only his website lists the best internet-based businesses available today.
“People don’t have money to throw away nowadays, which is why it is so important to do your homework before investing in any on-line business,” Mark states. “I’ve put together a website that, quite simply, lists the only businesses that I’ve found out there that really make money.”
All the businesses featured on the site have been developed by some of the best marketing and business minds in the industry. They’ve all been put through an intense screening process to ensure they not only are legitimate business opportunities, but also will make money. All the businesses on the site have been making ordinary people money for years.
One of the keys is a traffic-generating website that is free with the businesses and is completely customizable. In just 24 hours, anyone can have their own website up and running and ready to bring in several streams of income. Many of the businesses involve affiliate marketing, one of the easiest and best ways to make money on-line.
In addition to the proven businesses listed on the site, Mark also has several educational resources, many of which are free to visitors to the site. One such educational resource is “Dotcomology – The Science of Making Money Online” by Home Biz Guy Stone Evans. The 325-page e-book is free to download from the site and is an excellent guide to home professionals at any level of expertise.
Mark also has a daily newsletter, Home Business Tips, which is free to subscribers. The newsletter, a $147 value, comes via e-mail for a year and is packed with the latest tips and strategies for making money on-line.
Why? According to website developer and home business expert C. Mark Babcock, it’s because only his website lists the best internet-based businesses available today.
“People don’t have money to throw away nowadays, which is why it is so important to do your homework before investing in any on-line business,” Mark states. “I’ve put together a website that, quite simply, lists the only businesses that I’ve found out there that really make money.”
All the businesses featured on the site have been developed by some of the best marketing and business minds in the industry. They’ve all been put through an intense screening process to ensure they not only are legitimate business opportunities, but also will make money. All the businesses on the site have been making ordinary people money for years.
One of the keys is a traffic-generating website that is free with the businesses and is completely customizable. In just 24 hours, anyone can have their own website up and running and ready to bring in several streams of income. Many of the businesses involve affiliate marketing, one of the easiest and best ways to make money on-line.
In addition to the proven businesses listed on the site, Mark also has several educational resources, many of which are free to visitors to the site. One such educational resource is “Dotcomology – The Science of Making Money Online” by Home Biz Guy Stone Evans. The 325-page e-book is free to download from the site and is an excellent guide to home professionals at any level of expertise.
Mark also has a daily newsletter, Home Business Tips, which is free to subscribers. The newsletter, a $147 value, comes via e-mail for a year and is packed with the latest tips and strategies for making money on-line.
11 tips on starting an online business
By:Sunil
1. Pick and register a domain name:
Choose a simple name - perhaps your company's name - to identify your business. Decide if you want the name to end with .com, .com.sg or .sg extension.
The latter two identify your business as a local one. If you want a global audience, pick .com
You can also choose to register all three permutations to deter cyber-squatting, where someone can take your company's name and register it.
Registration fees vary and there is an annual fee for maintaining the name. To find out more about domain-name registration, visit the Singapore Network Information Centre (SGNIC) at www.sgnic.sg
2. Design a website: This allows you to hook and interact with customers with appealing images, spiffy text and user-friendly navigation.
Hire a photographer to shoot products if you are planning a retail store, or yield profile shots for those offering services.
Have a rough idea of what the website should look like and hire a company to custom-design it.
Look into having a shopping cart that allows you to secure customer information. Add a chat interface for immediate online communication instead of sending e-mail and waiting for replies.
Depending on the number of webpages your site has, and the use of animation and music, be prepared to spend $1,000 to $4,000 to create one.
3. Find a Web-hosting company: You need to store your webpage content on servers rented out by Web-hosting companies. They will transmit your webpages over the Internet when someone types in your domain name.
The SGNIC site has a list of partners offering such services but there are also international ones.
Rates can start from $8 a month and go up to $99, depending on the amount of storage and bandwidth space, e-mail accounts, security and support levels. Some firms offer Web-hosting plans bundled with free domain-name registration and e-mail accounts, so shop around for a good deal.
If you are targeting the Singapore market, a local Web host means your page will load faster here as data is not sent across the world from an international server.
4. Blogshop: Alternatively, go small and think about setting up a small blogshop on free blog sites like LiveJournal (www.livejournal.com).
It may not be the most professional-looking, as all you do is post a picture or thread, and hope to have visitors, but you can always upgrade to a proper website when things take off.
While it is possible to host your own website using a home broadband connection, the bandwidth may not be able to support high visitor traffic.
A Web-hosting company also provides dedicated technical support in case your website cannot be accessed due to technical faults.
5. Use free software: Save money by using free software. Consider G-mail or any free e-mail service instead of paying for one from local telcos.
Another free offering is Open Office (www.openoffice.org) to create documents and spreadsheets.
Use Internet phone services like Skype for cheap overseas calls.
6. Payment methods: Look into Internet payment options like Pay-Pal (www.paypal.com.sg). For monthly sales under $5,000, it charges 3.4 per cent plus $0.50 per transaction. Rates fall as the amount increases.
Otherwise, use online banking where customers can deposit money directly into your local bank account, even if both of you use different banks.
Setting up credit-card payments is worth considering if payment for your services and items is high and you need secure transactions.
7. Have a physical presence: Consider working with a retailer to showcase your products in a store. Or rent a booth to display items.
For $60 a month, you can rent one from Toy Outpost. Of the 200 booths at its Plaza Singapura shop, half are used by non-toy-related online businesses. About 10 online businesses rent booths solely to deposit items for collection by customers who bought online.
8. Getting funding: Media Development Authority (MDA): The MDA's i.JAM (IDM Jump-start and Mentor) initiative supports research and development efforts in the interactive and digital media sector. Be it Web applications or software learning tools, a qualifying project can get up to $50,000.
Companies must be in R&D and technology (creative, social or business model) and the team should have at least one full-time founder, who holds at least 20 per cent of the project's stake. Visit www.idm.sg/support/support-for-startups/
9. Getting funding: Infocomm Development Authority: To help companies go online, the SME Infocomm Package (SIP) is a bundled package offering hardware applications, website development solutions and broadband support.
The SIP subsidy is available to 5,000 small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) on a first-come- first-served basis. As of last month, more than 1,000 SMEs have applied for it.
The subsidy applies to any SME with at least 30 per cent local ownership, fewer than 200 employees, less than $15 million in fixed assets and no website. Taking on an SIP means your company must develop a website for the business.
For more information, visit www.ida.gov.sg/Infocomm%20Adoption/20070618182747.aspx
10. Getting funding: Spring Singapore: Spring Singapore has two schemes for start-ups.
Companies developing innovative products or processes for a global audience can qualify for the Spring Startup Enterprise Development Scheme (Seeds) equity investment, which matches dollar for dollar what an investor puts into your business, up to $1 million.
Spring Seeds Capital, a subsidiary of Spring Singapore, will also take an equity stake in your company. For more information, visit www.spring.gov.sg/SEEDS.aspx
Under YES! Startups, or Young Entrepreneurs Scheme for Startups, Spring will contribute $4 for every $1 raised by applicants aged 26 and under for their businesses. The maximum grant is $50,000.
Spring will evaluate business proposals based on innovation, feasibility and potential market opportunity. For more information, visit www.spring.gov.sg/yesstartups/
11. Getting funding: Microsoft BizSpark: For IT-related start-ups, Microsoft will provide free software tools. They include Microsoft Visual Studio, used to create graphical user interface applications for websites, and the Microsoft .NET Framework, a programing software for writing applications.
To be eligible, start-ups have to be in the business of software development, be privately held, be in business for less than three years and have less than US$1 million (S$1.5 million) in annual revenue.
Nonprofits Worldwide Find Free Online Help for Donation Thank You Letters
Day or night, nonprofit organizations from Minnesota to Tasmania can now find out how to write better donation thank you letters, and see actual before-and-after samples, free, as online copywriting clinic hosted by US-based donor communications specialist Lisa Sargent goes 'live' on website SOFII.
Stafford Springs, CT (PRWEB) April 7, 2009 -- In a move to help nonprofit organizations worldwide, donor communications specialist Lisa Sargent recently teamed with The Showcase of Fundraising Innovation and Inspiration to host a free copywriting clinic on donation thank you letters for nonprofits--the results of which are now 'live' on SOFII's website as an online showcase of fully annotated, before-and-after thank you letter samples.
"Getting donation thank you letters right represents a huge opportunity for any nonprofit looking to improve donor retention rates," says Sargent. "And donor retention, or keeping your donors, isn't just an issue for charities. It's a growing, global concern for hospitals, universities, charities, foundations, everyone. Here in the U.S., for example, it's estimated that for every six new donors a nonprofit attracts, five current donors stop giving. And since donor loyalty means keeping your donors connected and giving, hopefully for a lifetime, then sending effective, engaging thank you letters is a critical part of that process."
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