Online Business Competition Assessment – How To Do It?

Analyzing your business competition is vital part of your business. Competition assessment and analysis helps you to tell the strength of your businesses against your competitors, the weak areas and strong points. It also enables you to become proactive and make first moves to take more of the market.

Competition analysis is a detailed review of business of your rival sites and then you measure yourself against them. In online business, the competition analysis is easier to do than offline and can be performed with minimum tool.

First thing is to  know who are your competitors. These are the websites which compete with keywords of your sites and offer similar products. Not all sites competing for the same keyword would have similar products. Some of them would have different monetization strategies. [Read more...]

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Should You Write An Ebook For Free?

I am yet to write my first ebook. I had been postponing it for quite sometime now for some reasons or other. It is not i schedule even for next one month.

All that I am doing is shuttling between hospital and my home office. I actually enjoy both places. Had it been any other job I would have quit it long time back but being a doctor does give different kind of satisfaction.

But I am aware that I have not produced an ebook and would include this in my next monthly scheduling.

When I entered into internet business in 2003 ( Well! It was more of learning by trial for next two years rather than business) I saw ebooks being published everywhere on the net and being sold on premium prices.

Everyday there would be an email announcing arrival of new secret laden book. [Read more...]

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Your Future-Its Worth Looking Into

Tomorrow is our permanent address
Marshall Mcluhan

I was going through “Business The Report Murdoch Way” by Stuart Crainer. It is a good book about world’s best deal maker. There is a chapter in the book that got my special attention.

The chapter is named “Imagine the Future Continuously”. The author emphasizing how important it is to look into the future and imagine your business accordingly.If you work alone like me, you must be so engrossed in daily chores that spending your time on imagining must not how crossed your mind. [Read more...]

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Slow Pace of Online Business-Are You Surprised!

Collecting put internet is an ultrafast medium, things changes here faster than you can blink.

When done rightly and leveraged well, internet business is known to amass substantial profits within short spam.

But you need to build your business to that level before you can harness it.

Business building till that level requires patience. [Read more...]

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How To Make News To Get More Coverage and Traffic

Early in mid-1990s when internet had just been started for commercial purposes making a news was damn easy.

All you needed to announce that you have a website. It was such a rare event that it itself made enough publicity.

Now the opposite is true, having a website is not a fashion now, it is a norm. [Read more...]

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Most People Are Just Lazy

No offences please! I do not mean that people do not work. Everybody is working for himself/herself within his/her capacity for making a living and paying bills.

When I talk about being lazy, I am pointing to the people who come to web with an intention to make a fortune. You must have heard the phrase I am going to say so many times that you would say I knew it was coming.

95% of people who come to web for making money fail.
While there are many reasons that could be attributed to the failures of those 95% but in nutshell they are guilty of one thing – Inaction.

Most of the people start their websites very enthusiastically but cannot cope with the amount of hard work and input it requires to succeed. [Read more...]

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Falling Behind In Your Marketing Knowledge-Do Not Panic

In a world where things change faster you can say “I understand”, it is not an uncommon phenomenon to lag behind the new advances. Added to this is the hype that comes with every technology. This hype is more pronounced in the marketing world though other niches are catching the trend.

The new guy in the town is hit worst. There is already so much to learn and new thing keep arriving. He is yet in learning phase and things do not seem to work well when it comes to making money.

Somehow the idea sinks in that he might be using the outdated model and gets compounded by the hype that has been created around the new product and technology. [Read more...]

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An Incomplete Guide To Targeted and Not So Targeted Traffic To Your Site

Traffic is lifeblood of your online business. More traffic means more business and higher profits and vice versa. However, within traffic there exists two kinds of traffic subsets.

One is highly focused traffic called targeted traffic. This traffic consist of people who are actively seeking information about the things that your product is related to. This subgroup of traffic yields more conversion in terms of sales and subscriptions. [Read more...]

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Traffic First

Long back when I started my first website on this domain, I committed innumerable mistakes. One of them was not building enough traffic.

I put up a site and started working on building a decent traffic for it.

Everyday I would do something that was to increase the traffic. I wrote articles, I participated in forums, I wrote classifieds.

Traffic started building.

The day came when my blog visitors crossed 400 per day. [Read more...]

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