Free-Reprint Article Written by: Clinton Douglas IV See Terms of Reprint Below.
***************************************************************** * * This email is being delivered directly to members of the group: * * [email protected] * ***************************************************************** We have moved our TERMS OF REPRINT to the end of the article. Be certain to read our TERMS OF REPRINT and honor our TERMS OF REPRINT when you use this article. Thank you. This article has been distributed by: http://Article-Distribution.com Helpful Link: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act - Overview http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/dmca1.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------- Article Title: ============== The Shocking Truth About How To Start An Internet Business......Part 1 Article Description: ==================== Do you have a hot new idea or must-have product? Are you ready to take the dive and start your own e-business? While not overnight, thousands of e-business start-ups have become massive success stories in the past few years. The Internet is a prime entrepreneurial environment, fostering creativity. But even Google, Amazon, MySpace, Flickr and NetFlix had to start somewhere, and that somewhere is probably just where you are right now. Additional Article Information: =============================== 714 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: 2008-01-17 10:12:00 Written By: Clinton Douglas IV Copyright: 2008, All Rights Reserved Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] For more free-reprint articles by Clinton Douglas IV, please visit: http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/clinton-douglas-iv.html ============================================= Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters: ============================================= If you use this article on your website or in your ezine, We Want To Know About It. Use the following URL to let us know where you have used this article, and we will include a link to your website on thePhantomWriters.com: http://thephantomwriters.com/notify.php?id=5622&p=load HTML Copy-and-Paste and TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of Article Are Available at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/d/shocking-truth-part-1.shtml#get_code --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Shocking Truth About How To Start An Internet Business......Part 1 Copyright (c) 2008 Vasrue.com, All Rights Reserved Written by: Clinton Douglas IV Vasrue Travel http://travel.Vasrue.com Do you have a hot new idea or must-have product? Are you ready to take the dive and start your own e-business? While not overnight, thousands of e-business start-ups have become massive success stories in the past few years. The Internet is a prime entrepreneurial environment, fostering creativity. But even Google, Amazon, MySpace, Flickr and NetFlix had to start somewhere, and that somewhere is probably just where you are right now. Most entrepreneurs find that starting a web business can be daunting. Where do you start? How do you get the word out? Where can you acquire funding? "The first three years are the most trying," states one entrepreneur. "Not only are you faced with planning along with heavy sales and marketing efforts just to get your name out, but you often lack a sustainable budget to do so." Patience and planning are the key to surviving your first three years - and beyond. Vasrue's five part article series on starting your own e-business (of which this is part one) will explore the basics of launching an online business, show you the key steps to take and challenges to consider. This informative series includes: 1. Determining Your Brand and Niche. Brainstorm a unique business trait to form the foundation for your company's brand. 2. Defining Your Audience: Get in your customer's shoes, so you're better able to advertise to them. 3. Setting Your Business Structure: Understand the benefits of corporations, partnerships and sole-proprietorships, and ensure proactive tax compliance. 4. Developing a Sales, Marketing and Business Plan: Understand the importance of planning, and critical plans you should set into action. 5. Creating a Realistic Budget: Don't spend $1,000 on a new desk. Allocate money where you see the strongest ROI. 6. Finding Funding: Start-ups have many avenues to take for capital - from mom and dad to venture capital partners. 7. Finding People: Determine your values as a company first, then hire staff based on these core beliefs. 8. Planning and Building Your Online Storefront: Organize your website before you hire a designer to ensure everything fits and navigation is smooth. 9. Launching Your Plan and Building Momentum: Revisit your business and marketing plans annually, fine-tuning and updating for your changing business landscape. Whether you've dreamed of working from home, being your own boss, setting your own hours, becoming one of the many eBay entrepreneurial success stories or simply promoting a remarkable idea, the next few weeks are certain to bring valuable insight. Stay tuned and leave your inhibitions at the door. Determining Your Brand and Niche It doesn't matter how many clothing stores, gadget distributors or gizmo providers are in your market, you can still differentiate your product or service from the next and create a powerful brand that people are drawn to time and time again. Develop a winning strategy. Branding is just as important online as it is off. A brand says who you are, what you stand for, what your core values are and where you're going. It infiltrates into everything you do from this point forward. Your brand includes your logo, mascot, corporate colors, uniforms, sales tactics, marketing visuals, copy and advertising methods. It's a unique business differentiator which sets the tone for your image, your name and your corporate culture. It's a conscious and subconscious message companies give off. For instance, if you compare two major computer companies - IBM and Apple - you'll notice that not all computers are created equally. While Big Blue's image is corporate and conservative, Apple radiates a more progressive and edgy appeal. But how do companies differentiate themselves - and how can you? In the start-up phase of ebusiness development, it's important to brainstorm a brand, set this plan on paper and into action. Companies like Ben & Jerry's focus on the environment, and they've developed not only a product mission, but an economic and social mission as well. McDonald's brand is youth-oriented, from its hip "I'm Lovin' It" commercials to dear old Ronald the clown. Geico, yet another online insurance solution, promises to save you money - a ton of money. Once established, everything your company does should reinforce this single point - your brand message. Customers hear it, remember it and go to you over and over again to acquire it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Clinton Douglas IV, teaches people about Internet Home Business: http://www.clintondouglasiv.com Get his FREE Special Report "How To Make More Money In Only 30 Days Starting From Scratch" By Sending a Blank Email ==> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit his website at: http://online-empire.vasrue.com/How-To-Start-Your-Online-Business_F.html --- END ARTICLE --- Get HTML or TEXT Copy-and-Paste Versions Of This Article at: http://thePhantomWriters.com/free_content/db/d/shocking-truth-part-1.shtml#get_code ..................................... TERMS OF REPRINT - Publication Rules (Last Updated: May 11, 2006) Our TERMS OF REPRINT are fully enforcable under the terms of: The Digital Millennium Copyright Act http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c105:H.R.2281.ENR: ..................................... *** Digital Reprint Rights *** * If you publish this article in a website/forum/blog, You Must Set All URL's or Mailto Addresses in the body of the article AND in the Author's Resource Box as Hyperlinks (clickable links). * Links must remain in the form that we published them. Clean links should point to the Author's links without redirects having been inserted into the copy. * You are not allowed to Change or Delete any Words or Links in the Article or Resource Box. Paragraph breaks must be retained with articles. You can change where the paragraph breaks fall, but you cannot eliminate all paragraph breaks as some have chosen to do. * Email Distribution of this article Must be done through Opt-in Email Only. No Unsolicited Commercial Email. * You Are Allowed to format the layout of the article for proper display of the article in your website or in your ezine, so long as you can maintain the author's interests within the article. * You may not use sentences from this article as an input for any software that steals sentences from others in order to build an article with software. The copyright on this article applies to the "WHOLE" article. *** Author Notification *** We ask that you notify the author of publication of his or her work. Clinton Douglas IV can be reached at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Print Publication Reprint Rights *** If you desire to publish this article in a PRINT publication, you must contact the author directly for Print Permission at: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ..................................... If you need help converting this text article for proper hyperlinked placement in your webpage, please use this free tool: http://thephantomwriters.com/link-builder.pl ===================================================================== ABOUT THIS ARTICLE SUBMISSION http://thePhantomWriters.com is a paid article distribution service. thePhantomWriters.com and Article-Distribution.com are owned and operated by Bill Platt of Stillwater, Oklahoma USA. The content of this article is solely the property and opinion of its author, Clinton Douglas IV http://travel.Vasrue.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --------------------------------------------------------------------- *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To have your article appear in this distribution list, you must absolutely be a client of thePhantomWriters. We offer a paid article distribution service, and this is one of the more than 60 groups where we submit our client articles. To learn more about our program, visit: http://thePhantomWriters.com/x.pl/tpw/index.htm Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thePhantomWriters/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thePhantomWriters/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
