Entrepreneur Sanity Guide: How to simplify and organize your home office when You’re Drowning

Today I start a new habit and this habit is to help me simplify and organize my workload while improving my productivity and efficiency during the day. I am not an early riser so my new habit involves making an effort to wake up at a time that is structured rather than any time is fine. As freaky as it sounds I managed to wake up at 5:45 a.m. today. This is the first time I have managed to stick to the early rising routine for the day. I’ve actually tried various variations to organizing my day and some have

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[ More ] September 1st, 2010 | 4 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Writing a Practical Business Plan allows you to beat your competition hands down

Lately we have gone through the exercises that allowed us to seriously review whether Entrepreneurship is something we want to focus on? Some of us are hell bent on creating a small business. We later went through the review process of the risks involved in setting up a business. Now it’s time to put a business plan in action to make our small business successful. A lot of entrepreneurs go through this torture of over complicating business plans, I was in this boat too so for all

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[ More ] August 30th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Starting a small business and wondering if it involves higher risks?

I am thrilled with the response I received via email last night around my post Are You really a Small Business Entrepreneur. Based on your feedback I shall focus my energy around researching topics such as:

Business startup idea’s

Entrepreneurship

Business processes required to run your small business to break even

Ways to market your small business through social media marketing and search engine trends

Business startup bootstrapping techniques

Image Credit: @boetter Thank you once again for the support and for regularly providing feedback to me.

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[ More ] August 26th, 2010 | 2 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Are You really a Small Business Entrepreneur? Review and be clear about what this involves before jumping into entrepreneurship

As a small business entrepreneur if this is your first initiative then please take some time to review your options before you get right stuck into it. When I started my first business it failed and it failed miserably, now when I look back all I can say was that I was naive and unaware of how to run like a successful entrepreneur. Over time i relearned and programmed myself to tackle situations differently. Now that i have learnt a few techniques, I have now come to a point where i want to give back what I have learnt

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Tags: entrepreneur, Entrepreneurship, how to start a small business, small business ideas, startup

[ More ] August 24th, 2010 | 5 Comments | Posted in Digital News |

How to increase blog traffic – the best attention worthy tips

So you have a setup your blog for your business, you have started posting content, doing the basics of researching keywords and adding the right keywords to your titles and posts but no one is reading the blog. Hey you are not alone, I am sailing with you in a similar boat. You see all the big shots have mastered the art of blog promotion but you and I need to learn how to promote blogs online too. It’s no point being stuck with the occasional 10 or 20 people stumbling across your blog. Now as a startup

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Tags: blog, blog traffic, blogging, blogging guide, how to start a blog, increase blog traffic, online blogging, search engine, social media marketing, social media strategy

[ More ] August 21st, 2010 | No Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

How keywords in my Post Title and Blog Posts got me noticed

Content is king they say but using keywords, understanding the keyword methods will make sure you are on the road of being king. Today search is a part and parcel of our daily lives, it gets tougher and tougher to compete in the Information world. How do you plan reaching your readers if you have not done your keywords research for Post Titles and Blog Posts? There are always two sides to a story. So how to choose keywords, is a million dollar question. If you asked me about keywords and optimisation a year ago i would be like ya i

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Tags: blogging, blogging guide, choosing keywords, how to, keyword methods, keywords, online blogging, planning, search engine

[ More ] August 19th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

I want a blog which platform should i choose and what’s my next step?

So you have finally made the decision to go with a blog for your startup. That's great . Now you may have additional questions such as:

Where do i start?

How do i go about it?

Which blogging platform should i choose?

Do i need to buy a domain or can i register for a free blog and upgrade when traffic picks up?

Image Credits: liewcf Well today we cover these questions along with with a short implementation plan that you may find useful to follow should you wish to go ahead. The most important task that you need to remember is not

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[ More ] August 18th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Is a Blog right for you and your business?

This week i want to tackle the topic about blogging for my readers. The reason i write this post is because i have now received emails from at least 10 of my reader buddies asking me various questions on the blogging topic. I have answered these questions via email but last night when archiving my emails i realized that i could have a post series tackling the basics steps within the blogging world. Please note there are bloggers out there who are extremely gifted and have learnt the ins and outs of blogging. They are masters in their own right

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[ More ] August 17th, 2010 | 3 Comments | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

How to write a blog post that helps your readers

In today's social media world, blogging has picked up as another tool that we should use to keep our content fresh and appealing. There was a time I wished that the whole world would love my writing style but alas it was a painful process of understanding and rethinking the process of how to capture my audience in a nice way. I want to share with you a few ideas on how to write great blog posts. I have recently understood this theory and was able to experiment this on my own blog. The first thing

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[ More ] August 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment | Posted in Digital News, Web Business Life Strategy |

Top 10 Social media mistakes that you can fix over time

How many times have you tried to go about doing social media just to realize that you are not getting the results you deserve. I have been there too and it's frustrating at times. Now instead of giving up, let's look at ways we can get out of this mess. I hope the social mistakes listed below provide some insights for your social media presence. Let's get started Social media mistake 1 : They told you to connect and you did, but they were the wrong connections: Ok who has not been down this road. Lots of

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