WHY DO PEOPLE DO BUSINESS ON THE INTERNET?

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What is the internet all about?

The Internet Is Primarily About Information! You use the Internet to gather information. People use the Internet as a research tool prior to making a purchase. This hunger for information is going to be your key to making real money online. To make money from the internet you only need to know how to profit from people's universal need for information and position yourself in the marketplace as an information provider. Information is the number one product for the Internet. The demand for information far exceeds any other “item” you could sell.

Why do people do business on the Internet?  What can owning an Internet business do for you? The internet ultimately gives you freedom. An Internet business gives you more freedom of choice in:

·        How you spend your time

·        How you express your unique talents and interests

·        How much you are able to earn

However, earning money online is easy when you understand how to choose the right market, how to target products for that market, and how to convert prospects into customers.

We're in a unique point in history where almost anyone can have their own business.

The reason for this is that the cost, or barriers, to entry in the Internet business is amazingly low. In traditional business, you might have to spend several thousand dollars just to get started. This is out of reach for the average person.

But, It Takes Your Mindset And Action…

The promise I'm making you here is a two-way street. Your willingness to learn and action will be crucial factors in your success. Are you really ready to run a successful business? Do you have the right mindset?

Hear these: Before you create your own information products, it is easiest to learn the business by acting as a “middle-person” between the buyers and sellers of information.

The Easiest And Most Immediate Way To Start Is With Affiliate Marketing.

What Then Is “AFFILIATE MARKETING”?

Affiliate marketing is the ultimate “middle person's” business model. This is because you've none of the usual extra work and expense involved in being a seller. In affiliate marketing, all you have to do is make the introduction. Connect the buyer to the seller. As soon as that relationship is “formalized” through an actual sale, you get paid.

Affiliate marketing is a 'pay-for-performance' advertising model. As an affiliate, what you're really doing is advertising for the merchant you are affiliated with.

Therefore, an affiliate marketer establishes a trusting relationship with potential buyers by providing them with quality information.

How Affiliate Marketing Started

Affiliate Marketing is traceable to Amazon.com who pioneered a new advertising model called 'affiliate marketing'. Their goal was to bust through the limitations of traditional advertising, and unleash a flood of traffic unlike anything an Internet business of their size had ever seen before.

The new affiliate marketing model they created relied on the power of networking.

In other words, they created their own networks of individual advertisers, called “Affiliates”, who would be paid for each sale generated by new visitors they brought in.

The method worked so well that an entirely new field of professional was born called, “Affiliate Marketers”.

Thousands of new affiliates, and affiliate networks, sprang up across the web. Affiliate Marketing is now considered a business model in and of itself, and not just an advertising model.

It thus became easy for people to make serious incomes referring sales to merchants. Thereby making fortunes by helping to sell other people's products. Who wouldn't want a piece of that action? Just by sitting at home with or without a computer connected to the internet you refer clients/customers to Merchants (Sellers and Business People) and you make consistent commissions there from.

How Affiliate Marketing Works, And Why It Works

In order to get more traffic and sales, a merchant can start what is known as an “Affiliate Program”. Thus, Affiliate Program is the 'structure' under which the merchant will provide support and incentive to the affiliates who join the program.

When you register and join this program, you’ll be given an “Affiliate link”. This link is unique to that individual affiliate, and all visitors referred by the affiliate through that link are tracked and credited to the affiliate.

When a visitor clicks through an affiliate link and purchases something, the affiliate who referred that visitor gets credit for the sale and gets paid a commission.

Therefore, once you have the link, you can start using it on your own website, in e-mails marketing via autoresponders, on Facebook adverts, on Twitter adverts, in Google Ad words ads, and so on. The link will take the visitor to the merchant's sales page, while crediting you with the referral if a sale is made.

The reason affiliate programs works so well is because of the incentive provided to affiliates, and the cost-effectiveness provided to the merchant.

The affiliate wants to earn money. The merchant wants to save money, and he does, because he doesn't have to pay the affiliate anything until a sale is made.

This is different from traditional advertising, where you have to pay up front for visitors and have no guarantee of sales.

So, the relationship between an affiliate and a merchant is really a win-win situation. For the affiliate, especially, there's no limit on income. As an affiliate, you can earn as much money as you are able to generate in commissions.

This is unlike a regular job where you have a fixed salary our hourly wage. If you were to refer $100,000 (N16, 000,000) in sales as an affiliate on one product, and if your commission is 50%, then you get $50,000 (N8, 000, 000).

It doesn't matter how long it took you to do it or even whether you do it month after month. You control your own financial destiny all the way.

How Do I Start An Affiliate Marketing Business Of My Own?

In order to start an affiliate marketing business and get your own “Affiliate link”, you will need to sign up with an affiliateprogram,

First, go to the affiliate, sign up page here: http://bit.ly/1hkTc8q

Follow the prompts, enter your choicest username, e-mail address, phone number, password, and any other relevant information they may require from you (Remember that you’re now doing a genuine and international business of your own, thus, you need to safeguard the details of your business for future references and consequent login in into the merchants website and making withdrawals).

Upgrade your account by making the necessary payment. Then, you’ll have access to further trainings on Affiliate marketing, Information Marketing, internet Marketing, Bulk SMS business, Importation Business, Online Directory Business, and many other related via ABSOLUTELY FREE e-books, hard copy books, manuals, videos, audios, webinars, seminars, international conferences, e-mail marketing, etc

What To Do Next?

When you get your Affiliate Link, by registering, upgrading (By making the necessary payment), and officially becoming a member of http://bit.ly/1hkTc8q, you’ll need to cloak your affiliate link through any of these websites: www.tinyurl.com or www.bit.ly

Note: Cloaking your link makes the person you’re sending your link to, either through text message (SMS), e-mail, word-of-mouth, fliers, posters, flex banners, Facebook ads, Twitter ads, or any other social media marketing devise, not to boycott your link and register under another marketer’s link or directly to the website of the merchant.

Congratulations! You’re now an Affiliate Marketer. In the next edition of my posts on this blog, I shall be unveiling other additional ways of marketing your Affiliate Link. See you next time!!!

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Under 18 Entrepreneurs: Lets start Your Own Service Based Business Online

by Tamal Anwar on Thursday, November 17, 2011

Hi young entrepreneurs, you always wanted to start your own business online, or at least wanted to earn some money online. With this guide you will learn the ways to start your very own service based business online and start making money offering your services. Now I will recommend you to start your business online -why?

Building A Business Online Costs Less

Yes of course it costs less comparing to an actual business; your website can be your office, just like it is for me. All you need is a domain name and a web hosting service. Additionally you might need some help to design your website or write content for the site. After that you are ready to start your very own online business.

Building An Online Business is Easy

To start online you don’t have to take an office space for rent, buy furniture nor hiring employees. If you are doing everything online, then you will need some good knowledge over websites and the internet. In today’s web you don’t have to learn code for building websites. If you are able to publish pages and connect with your customers, you can run your very own business online.

Step by Step: How to start & run your own business online

Brainstorm a Business Plan: It starts with a plan. Determine what you are going to offer, such as piano lessons, yoga classes or you are going to sell a product. Set how you will offer that service and how you will going to make profit.

Setup your Website: Buy your domain, get web hosting and setup your website. You have to build your site and fill it up with content. You can also get help to design your site by outsourcing some other designer or a writer to help you in the process.

Promote your Business Site in Social Media: Use facebook, twitter and all other social media sites to promote your site and service. You can also write a blog which will help you further market your services.

Advertise: Just because it’s a business and it will make you money, it means you should also spend some money on advertisements such as PPC, paid reviews, banner ads and text links. If you are offering a service to your local area, you can use traditional methods of ads as newspaper, posters or classifieds.

Set real goals and achieve them: Set smaller targets such as earning $XXXX per month or serving X number of clients each month. It will help you overcome and set bigger goals for upcoming months.

Take notes of what worked and what didn’t and you will soon be improving your services. You will learn how to handle clients and work + build a good reputation online.

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Start your Business in Smaller Scale

It is the best tip, start with less. After you get to know the market, you can expand it. If you fail, you will lose less money. For most startups, they have less money to invest so starting with small becomes the only option available -the risk will be less!

Start the Business as a Long Term Investment

When you start something, you won’t see immediate results. It may take months to see interested clients or potential customers coming through, so let’s be patient. In the while you connect with other people in your field to get some work. You can talk with your friends online, connect with a community or create your work portfolio. You can also do some charity work where you are not taking any money for your services but it will result to get some new connections and reputation.

Take Help from Marketplaces

Getting started on your own is a tough job so you can get work from other well established sites. If you are a designer, you can get work from odesk or elance to get work. If you are selling a product, then you can find some sites that will help you get customers for exchange of the profit share.

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How to Make Money With Your Smartphone

by Tamal Anwar on Monday, September 2, 2013

Do you want to make money using your mobile? In this post you can learn how to use your smart phone to generate extra income, allowing you to make money from anywhere, at anytime.
Today’s mobile devices offer great entrepreneurial prospects and these tips are designed to help get you started on your journey:

1. Build an app

Building an app isn’t as complicated or as advanced as it sounds. If you or some of your friends have technical skills you can easily think up a clever idea and create an app that you can monetise and sell on the Android market. If your app is downloaded 10 000 times and you charge $.0.50 for each download, you can make $5000.

2. Fill in surveys

You can sign up to participate in paid-for surveys and earn money on the go by answering some questions. In addition to earning money for completing surveys there are also sites that request product reviews and supply you with a sample. This is an added bonus as you can save in other areas.

3. Play games on the go

If you are a blackjack pro or very lucky at slots a site like iPhoneCasino.co.nz offers great jackpot opportunities that you can take advantage of. Mobile casino sites also offer player bonuses for deposits and loyalty so if you are a regular player you will be rewarded.

4. Become a field agent

There are ways you can make money simply by going shopping or scanning barcodes. Several different smart phone apps pay subscribers to be mystery shoppers, to check prices or even explore neighbourhoods. This is an exceptionally smart way to earn if you are regularly on the move.

5. Twitter

There are a multitude of ways you can make money using Twitter and your smart phone gives you access to this social media platform 24/7. If you have a large group of followers you can use this to your advantage and sell products, promote services and sell sponsored updates.
The bottom line is that anyone with a smart phone can earn an extra income. A little bit of innovative and creative thinking will help get you started and the money making potential is endless.
Have you made money with your smart phone? What’s your favorite method? Please share your tips!

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How to Brand Your Blog – A Complete Guide

by Tamal Anwar on Thursday, August 25, 2011

Blogging is not about setting up a blog, write some articles, promote and make some money, its all about the brand and the main profit will come in the long run.

Before you read more from this article, please answer this question:
Do you just want to check out blogging and want to do it as a hobby? or
Do you want to make a profitable business for the long run?
If you choose the second option, that means you want to build a better blog and to have benefits for the long run, this article is for you. One of the strong things about any industry is the brand. You can make a great and better blog just by branding it.

Branding a blog is the thing that makes people never forget about it. People will always come to read more from it and they link out and write about it. Read this guide on how you can brand your blog,

What is a blog brand?

Brand is not a logo, not a title, not a domain or not a design. Its a strategy. It’s a way, a style, a culture. Actually brands create trust and makes people remember them. Take a look at this video,
Video: What is branding
Some popular blog brands are ProBlogger, CopyBlogger, JohnChow, DoshDosh. These bloggers have succeeded to make a brand and people are motivated with the brands.

Why branding your blog?

Simply look around at the offline industry. Do you want to buy from ‘A soft drink company’ or from, ‘CocaCola?’ Do you trust ‘Good shoes for you’ or ‘Nike?’ Do you search with ‘Search.com’ or with ‘Google?’ The answer is simple, brand is an asset of your business and it also applies on your blog. Branding your blog can take your blog to a higher level.

Brands are catchy

What is more memorable? ‘BlogKori‘ or ‘A blog about blogging?’ Most of the people will remember your blog because of the brand. To make something memorable, you have to catch your reader’s attention. Your brand could be the thing which took the attention and which will make them come back again and again.
Here are some steps you can take to brand your blog easily,

Choose a catchy name

Chose a name for your blog, a word or a set of words like, ‘Wall Street Journal.’ Make your brand unique and that means about the domain too. Keep the domain and the blog name same. Like BlogKori, blogkori.com. Set a name which is easy to remember and easy to spell. Make it as short as you can.

Choose the design and logo

Set a good blog design and create a matching logo of your blog. You can create your own logo with an image editor or you can also hire a designer. If you are using a free blog template, customize it with your personal touch.

Create a niche for your blog

Set a theme of your blog and write on the main topic of your blog. Write on the basic theme/ topic of your blog and don’t try to put everything on it. Writing on one topic makes a blog, a niche and will help you to brand your blog easily.

Socialize your blog

If you use some social websites like twitter, facebook, myspace, you can create your blog’s page/ group on those sites. Facebook allows you to create a page (get 1000 likes) and a group about anything, twitter helps you to create a micro blog (Get 1000 followers). Link to your blog from the social pages and it will help you to brand your blog.

Make your blog unique

There may be thousands of blogs on the same topic you write and may be lots of brands, so what makes you unique? Give a reason to your readers to stay on your blog. Provide lots of cool and informative articles to read. Create a series of articles about your topic and give lots of surprises.

Viral promotion

There are lots of things could be given away for free insted of nice articles. People likes free stuff. Create a nice podcast on a topic or create a great video stream and post it on YouTube. Create software and give it away for free. You can also create great quality ebooks and give away to your readers. Make sure you put your blog’s name on those things and see how the promotion goes viral. I have created ebooks from my blog posts and given away for free.

Be personal and share your goals

One thing can boost your brand and that is your personality. Make your own ‘About’ page and describe about the person behind this blog. Who you are, where you from and what is the blog about? Why this blog belongs and what your readers will find reading this blog? Give your readers a way to connect with you like a contact form or an email address and reveal yourself. When I started I branded myself as the brand apart from BlogKori. Now my name “Tamal Anwar” and my blog are equally popular on the internet.

Stay active on what you do

Be active with recent things going on the internet and world. I’m not telling you to blog about everything you heard. Just keep your knowledge on recent happenings; communicate and discuss with people on social Media. Update your blog regularly(at least 2 times a week) and your interested readers will come back again.

Network and spread your content

Connect and communicate with your readers ask for their help to promote your site. If they have blog in the same topic you blog, be a guest writer and write some articles for that blog. This is a great way to spread your content. You can also ask your friends to link your site and could also ask them to blog about your latest article.

Be patient, it takes time

Brand means authority and it takes time to build a brand. It takes time to build up a blog brand and everyday you have to put little pieces together to make it better. Don’t take my suggestion as the fast forward way to the success and have your patience. Build your blog with lots of great articles, readers, followers and you can make a living with a blog.

How are you branding your blog?

I want to learn more about branding and the ways to make a blog more informative. Please leave your informative suggestions about branding as a comment on this post. Please tell me about your blog and how you are branding it?

BUSINESS WITHOUT MINDSET IS MADNESS WITHOUT KNOWING

Dear, 

I believe you now know what the foundation and pursuit of Sudden Wealth Creation. But, it takes a transformed mentality to have a transformed destiny. Until your mentality changes, your manifestation might be questionable.

Those who have their mentality transformed positively are those whose destinies enjoy a speedy turnaround. Your mindset determines your month-pay. Salary is a function of mindset, not hard work alone. Little wonder why those who work the hardest, are those who earn the least pay.

Have you cared to ask yourself why a bank manager receives more than the summation of the cleaners’ salaries? Hear this: It takes your mind and your hand to be prosperous on earth. Grace precedes greatness.

Until your mentality changes, your poverty remains celebrated. It takes the mind to have people mind you. Until you’re transformed inwardly, you can’t achieve anything outwardly.

You must think big to achieve big things. You must think great to be great in life. You must think success to have success in life. Whatever you can’t think, you can’t achieve. It takes your thought to activate the manifestation of what you want in life. Thoughts vibrate the frequency of achievement and connect the cables of life success to it for actualization.

“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he” (Prov. 23:7). Your success or failure rate today is not far from your thoughts of yesterday. Nothing just happens. The law of cause and effect determines all things on earth, even in heaven. God is a God of order. He respects your desires. He grants your thoughts. So, if you constantly think failure, He has no other option than to allow the devil take over. But, when your faith says yes, He can’t say No, except if what you want from Him, at that moment could lead to your destruction.

Just as you can’t give your 5 years old child your car keys to drive your car at that age, same way, God can’t deliver what He knows could lead to your destruction, even if you cry out your eyeballs. That is why the more spiritually mature you become, the more of His blessings you possess. Do you want to achieve sudden wealth creation? Then, grow spiritually! Stop being a baby!

Every action is caused. The first step to taking action, positive or negative, is the mind (Thought). You can’t be richer than your anticipations. Haven’t you read the book of Genesis 13: 14-15? Whatever you see is what you receive in life. If you can’t see it, then, you can’t have it. That is the law. It takes seeing to possess. To be successful in life, think success. To be out of sickness and diseases, think a healthy and peaceful life. To be out of poverty, see only prosperity and think about it. Celebrate prosperous people, associate with them, behave like them, and soonest, you’ll become like them.

How To Transform Your Mind

The mind houses the greatest wonders on earth. It is a gift from God. It must be stirred up.

To stir it up, the following must be observed:

1. The Word: The Word contains the World you want. The Bible is the Word of God. It is God in writing (John 1:1-3; John 6:63). The Word activates your mentality. It shows you the real picture of your personality. Until you locate innovation from the Word, you’re not permitted to create anything that will last.

Every innovation that is anchored on the Word outlasts the innovator. Any music that is milked from the Word normally outlasts the person that sang it. You need to see from the Word to make impact on earth. The wonders of God embedded in the Word of God stirs up your mind to produce.

Go for the Word. Be loaded with it and soonest, you’ll be glad you did. I’m a living testimony. The Word has completely transformed my mentality from poverty to prosperity, from sicknesses and diseases to a sickness and disease-free life for close to a decade now.

2. Meditation: I just told you that you should go for the Word. Be loaded with it. But, it’s not just the Word accumulation that makes for victory over the issues of life. You need to milk what you have acquired and bring out the vital nutrients in it. Meditation upon the Word is the key to retention of the Word and production of the requisite result from it (Joshua 1:8). 

Meditation is the process of digesting the acquired Word (Revelation and Information) which leads to absorption and assimilation of the Word. Meditation is reasoning in the Scriptures. It is thinking through. It could also be seen as pondering on the Word.

It is the process of breaking down and analyzing the Word for absorption (Prov. 24:32).

Hear this: the best time for meditation is the night period (Psalm 16:7; 19:2). The night season is always cool and quiet. It has a greater level of stillness than the day. It is the best time to hear from God. God is not just the God of the day, He is also the God of the night. Little wonder why Jacob encountered Him at night. Jesus used to wake up a great while before dawn to present His program for the day and inquire of the way forward.

3. Prayer: PUSH (Pray Until Something Happens) is no more news. A lot of people are used to this; but, how many have prayed and received results? Hear this: Carrying sophisticated guns to a war is not what Guarantees victory; but, the strategy adopted in the battle is what guarantees victory. A smart and good strategy defeats the opponent and delivers victory cheaply to you. Prayer demands strategies. Stop shooting arrows aimlessly. It does not guarantee result.

The wisdom you need in order to win every battle of life is with the Lord. There is no other source. Ask of Him and He’ll release it to you(Jer. 33:3).

It takes prayer of enquiry to take practical steps in life. Prayer of enquiry also demands a deliberate waiting and listening for God’s response to your enquiry. “Never embark on any project without having obtained heaven’s go-ahead, it’s dangerous” Bishop David O. Oyedepo added. The way to triumph is knowing which way to go.

Also, pray in the Spirit. This is one of the ways to face the unknown. However, make sure you involve your mind as you pray in the Spirit. When praying in the Spirit, there should be a corresponding subject on your mind. That is, that obstacle which has been the object of your worry must be in your mind as you pray in other tongues and as you pray, your faith begins to be built up to stand against it. More Scriptures, eye-openers on that subject, begin to come into your mind and suddenly, you see the situation as it really is, in the eyes of God. Illumination comes into your mind because your spirit, which is doing the praying, communicates with the Spirit and searches deep into the subject and to minister to your mind the way out.

4. Praise and Worship: The greatest responsibility of man on earth is to praise and worship God. These stir up your mind and get it transformed. Get good music, make melody with your mouth unto the Lord; sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs from the Word unto God; worshiping and exalting His name- and the presence of the Lord will descend. When that vital force in your mind is exposed to inspiration, mighty things happen.

 5. Focus: The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light (Matt. 6:22). It is one thing to have a goal and another to focus on achieving that goal.

A lot of people fail in life because they pursue too many things at a time. I have been a victim of lack of focus.

Lack of focus can make you be a failure while people see you as a success. The truth of the matter is that it is only you that knows that you’re poor. Stop being focusless! Be focused in that vision God gave you, concentrate on achieving result and your success is guaranteed.

6. Associate With The Great: He that walketh with the wise shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed (Prov. 13:20). Making friends with the great makes you grow greater. You want to make it in business, how many of your close pals are making it in business? You want to become rich, how many of your friends are  rich?  Who you connect to determines what connects to you. Who you follow determines what follows  you. Iron sharpeneth iron; so a man sharpeneth the countenance of his friend(Prov. 27:17).

7. The Mystery Of The Holy communion: The Holy Communion (the flesh and blood of Jesus Christ) opens our mentality and releases us for innovation and consequent breakthrough (Luke 24:13-32). The Holy Communion is of utmost importance in the life of a believer as it injects the life  force of Jesus into you to stir up your own dormant one. 

See you in the next edition!

FACTORS I CONSIDERED BEFORE STARTING APPLESOFT COMPUTERS Inc:

 VISION

The foundation for business establishment and development is discovery of vision. Until you discover your purpose and the purpose for a business, you remain a struggler in that business.   Until you have vision, you can't create wealth. Until you have vision, you can't create a business.

What then is vision?  Vision is the discovery of purpose. (N.B: Purpose is the reason for a thing. It is that singular assignment that God wants us to accomplish on earth; Jeremiah 1: 5; Galatians 1:15-16). However, the pursuit of vision is Ministry or Business. Until purpose is discovered, vision and consequent manifestation on earth are not in view. Until you identify your own calling, wealth creation and abundance on earth can't be achieved.

How Can I Discover My Purpose on Earth (Vision)?

Be Born Again: Salvation guarantees manifestation (Matt. 6:33). Until you repent, access to revelations (the hidden secrets of God) is not in view. God is a God of mysteries, little wonder why Jesus Christ came on earth and spoke in mysteries. It takes mysteries to become master. And vision is one of the mysteries that can make you a master on earth. We are created to have dominion on earth (Gen. 1:26-28). Until you are born again, you can't have it. Be born again and you'll become sensitive to the things of the spirit.

Be Filled with the Holy Spirit: Being born again is the foundation for a Christ-like life. But, you must be filled with the Holy Spirit to make impact on earth (Acts 1:8; Acts 2). Have you cared to ask why same Peter that could not stand for Jesus at His death point was able to convert over 3,000 unbelievers when he was endued with the Holy Spirit? It takes the Holy Spirit to access power and manifest purpose on earth. Think about this!

Consciously Ask For It! What you don't desire, you don't deserve. Until you desire a thing, it might not be given (Matt. 7:7-8). Desire for the purpose of God for your life (Vision) is what guarantees your receipt. To discover vision, ask God for it. Ask God in prayer and fasting (Prayer of inquiries).

Go For The Word: The mysteries of God are wrapped up in His Word (The Scripture). Until you locate the right Word for your life, manifestation is not guaranteed (John 6: 63; John 1:1-5; John 1: 14). As you look unto the Word, every darkness, in and around you, will be terminated (John 1:5). However, you can locate the Word by listening to great messages by the spirit of just men made perfect (Great men of God), reading and studying the Bible, reading and studying great Christian books and literature, fellowshipping with others at churches and Home cells and being sensitive to the things of God.

Be Meek: To be meek means to be teachable. It is only the meek that has access to the deep things of God (Vision). Until you're meek, you can't have access to God's vision (Ps. 22: 26; Ps. 25:9; Ps. 37:11; Ps. 147:6).

PURSUE YOUR PASSION

Of a truth, vision is the opposite of ambition. Vision is selfless while ambition is selfish. Vision is from God while ambition is man-made. Vision is revealed by God while ambition is of man.

Thus, vision is from the heart while ambition is from the head. However, a lot of you are seemingly frustrated and stagnated because you have been waiting for God to speak concerning His vision for your life.

You just want Him to say, “My son (or daughter), I have called you to be a shoe manufacturer or a Barrister or a Medical Doctor or a Tomatoes seller…” Yes, it's possible for God to speak that way. But, it's rare!

When you have not heard clearly from God what to do on earth, look inward what is it that you're passionate about. Start doing it. Just do something. It may be a pointer to God's vision for your life. And soonest, you'll see that the vision of God for your life has been fulfilled.

Stop saying, “I'm waiting for God's time!” in ignorance. Otherwise, you'll be grounded. God forbid! Not for you!!!

However, purpose discovered and not pursued is purpose abused. Thank God you have discovered your purpose in life (Vision). However, remember that the pursuit of purpose is the real definition of business or ministry. The only difference between business and ministry is that business is the manifestation of gifts while ministry is the manifestation of callings of God. “The gifts and callings of God are without repentance”.

How To Pursue Your Vision

 There are many steps to vision pursuit. And these are:

Have a Plan: Planning is the first practical step in the pursuit of vision. Failure to plan is planning to fail. Planning sets the pace for setting the extent of a vision, achieving it, and measuring the achieved against the targeted. Until you have a target, you become a target for failure and stagnation. Planning involves goal-setting. A goal moves you into action. It makes you get MAD (Motivated, Aggressive and Determined) in accomplishing a purpose. A life without goal makes you a goat. A life without target makes you the target. Imagine a football match where there is no goal-post, when will the match end? Imagine a race without a targeted ending point, how do you determine the winner? The problem with most people is that they know how to be rich, but, the extent of their richness is never anticipated. For some, “As long as I can eat, pay my children’s school fees, pay rent,...I am okay!”. That is poverty in disguise. Be determined. Know what you actually wanted. Think big. And soonest, you shall be a wonder to your world. God is a God of wonders (Exodus 15:11).

As the year is about to begin, what is your financial goal? How much precisely do you hope to achieve in the next year, five years from now, fifty years from now? Or, do you want to gamble through life just as you have gambled with this year thinking that God was unfaithful to you? If you already have a financial goal, how do you hope to achieve it? What are the definite and concrete practical steps you hope to take to accomplish your financial goal? What marketing strategies do you hope to achieve? How many employees do you hope to bring into the system (if you have any) to act as leverage to your success? Think about these!

Take A Step: Inches make champions. A race of a thousand miles starts with a step. Because you already have a plan, taking definite steps will be easy. I am a living example. Those I have been mentor to, in businesses and NGO (Non-Governmental Organization) startment and running, are witnesses. Taking practical steps for the accomplishment of a vision becomes easy and result-oriented when the plan is on ground and analyzed spiritually and physically. Just one step per time is enough to make you a great success soonest.

Hear this: When God asked me to write, I knew that millions of readers would be touched because I am a big thinker. I penned down the plan and strategies for marketing this article online. On sitting down, I wrote the first letter and before I knew it, the manuscript became ready for publishing same day, the next day it was already published.

Just take the first step NOW!

ABILITY AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

 Do you have the experience required for the business? Do you have the ability/ can you make it? All these and many other related questions you will ask yourself before going into the business.

EXTENT OF GOVERNMENT REGULATION

 Is the government’s “eye” always in the business? What are the laws established by the government or any other statutory board, for or against that type of business? To what extent does the government regulate it

EXPANSION POSSIBILITIES

 Does the potential business have any room for expansion? How long will it take to expand more? These and other related questions should be considered before one goes into business.

EASE OR DIFFICULTIES OF THE POTENTIAL BUSINESS

Is the potential business easy or difficult to establish and mange/ How easy or difficult is it? If difficult, how can one handle the difficulty? These and other related questions should be considered and answers given to them before one ventures into business.

CAPITAL REQUIREMENT

The amount of capital needed for the kind of business you want to venture into must be considered. how much do you have? How much does the business require? Can you raise the capital? If not, how does you hope to achieve this target?

See in the next edition!!! I love you!!!

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HOW I STARTED MY FIRST INFORMATION MARKETING BUSINESS WITH LESS THAN $5 (N1,000) AND HOW YOU TOO CAN!

Congratulations! I believe you've been following this blog for a while now? I am aware of the fact that you're either poor and have been looking for a way out. Or, you're seemingly comfortable but want to add more knowledge to what you already know. Or, you're rich and influential but feel like reading something. Which ever group you belong to, this article will add value to your life. Don't close this window until you get to the last point.

I am today known as Author Gabriel C. Onyekawa. People say that I'm a blogger, an entrepreneur, personal development coach, ideation expert, trainer, consultant, Pastor, Author and Publisher. But, that is the sweeter part of the story!

I was seemingly a nobody, struggling through life for survival. I was among those who had the poor call them poor. I was in the class of the nobodies. I was living in the jungle parts of life. I was not recognized by the rich. I never blamed the rich either. Tell me, who will like to befriend a poor person? The first salutation a poor man gets is the salutation of pity. And because they are always pitied that is why they end up in the pit of life.But, I was among the poor then!

But today the story is different! Imagine what the Lord has done in my life in just few months! Is it the possessions He gave me that money can't buy. I am today recognized as the rich and wealthy by all standards. I might not go into details but those that knew me then can testify of the sudden unimaginable difference now! It's awesome! In fact, It's EXCEEDING GRACE at work!!!

HOW I STARTED APPLESOFT COMPUTERS WITH LESS THAN N1,000

Just like most graduates, I passed out from the compulsory NYSC scheme in Kebbi State, Nigeria in the year 2006. But, the good news was that I knew I was not going to look for any job (Just Over Broke). I hitherto used the one year of redundancy and fun which had led many to frustration and stagnation after youth service to prepare myself for the years ahead.

I developed some business plans for what I wanted to accomplish in life, starting immediately after my passing out. I did some viability and feasibility studies. I enrolled for NIM-NYSC program, took the examination and cleared my papers. I started traveling to places speaking for free, even to my senior colleagues at the NYSC period. I was like a demigod to many because they had to nick-name me, "The youngest Prof" and "The Youngest Dangote". I was the talk of the city of Kebbi State. The Imam of the land welcomed me. The Military Generals in Zuru Zone sent for me and welcomed me. The Magistrates of their courts saluted me. The Igbo organization made me their Secretary, even as a Corper. I was a king among kings. A man among men. I was actually prepared for the wider world. But, something was missing!

I never knew that money was a pre-requisite for manifesting vision to a global standard. I stepped out of the camp seemingly confused on how to raise the requisite capital for my first business venture: A Computer Training School. 

But, I needed to start somewhere! I enrolled for a computer training program immediate I stepped my foot in Aba. The cost of the training was N2,000 then. I started training on System Analysis (Computer Engineering). Which lasted for two (2) months.

I graduated from that school (Name withheld) as a half-baked computer operator. Imagine a Diploma Certificate holder in Computer Engineering who could not shut down a PC. It was not funny! I pretended that all was well when I knew that I was as good as an average confused man. But, I had to trudge on.

The Lord opened my eyes to see possibilities amidst impossibilities! I woke up one morning, took my birth, knelt down and prayed to God for sustenance of the vision. I stepped out for action! With the only N1,000 in my pocket I started APPLESOFT COMPUTERS. How Did I Achieve That?

Discover this in my next article. Keep reading. Remember to post your your comments and observations at the last part of  article. Subscribe through e-mail for my daily blog posts to be forwarded to you as e-mails.

Business No 4: Information Products:

The term "Information product" is typically associated with educational e-books, audio recordings, or digital video recordings, and, in most cases, a combination of all of the above. 

Information marketing is the gross anticipation of the demands of the market (audience), conceptualizing and packaging solution(s) in form of books, e-books, reports, articles,etc and selling to the seemingly afflicted people at a profit. 

Why Create Information Products?

• Information products are the third world’s greatest money-maker. They provide part-time or full-time income for those who engage in them. They provide consistent residual income for people who are into information product creation and marketing.

• Information products can be created with little or no money.

• Information products can be reproduced in any quantity. Even if you sell a million copies, production costs stay zero.

• With information products, inventory and the problems around keeping an inventory are completely eliminated.

• With information products, shipping costs and problems around shipping are completely eliminated.

• Because it is delivered electronically, the time-lapse between purchase and delivery is negligible.

Hear this: If you really want to start making money “while you sleep” you should seriously consider creating information products and selling them online.

How to Create Information Products

There are many ways of creating information products. However, I have itemized five (5) steps you need to take to achieve this. Hear this:

Step 1: pick your niche

Step 2: build your list

Step 3: create your products

Step 4: build your web sites

Step 5: drive prospects to your order pages

WHAT KIND OF INFORMATION PRODUCTS CAN I MAKE AND SELL?

There are a few simple ways of how to make products to sell on line.

Adobe PDF e-books: The easiest to create, from a technical point of view, is an e-book in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Today, most word processing applications, such as MS Word, have the ability to save your written document in PDF format. 

Audio Recordings: Every computer sold these days has the ability to record audio. So, once you’ve written your e-book, you can simply read it into the computer and your have another version of your info product!

Another source of audio recordings can be a tele-seminar you can host. Typically you host a free tele-seminar as a lead-generation tool, but you can also sell tickets to the tele-seminar to double your efforts: you make money selling the tickets to the live event (which you then record), and then you have the recording to sell to anyone who either couldn’t make it to the live event, or it wasn’t practical for them to attend the live event because of a time-zone difference, e.g. if you’re based in Canada, and some of your audience is in Australia. You can invite industry-recognized experts and interview them, either as a two-way conversation with no audience or a live tele-seminar.

Video Recordings: Using a web cam you can record a video of yourself talking about a subject of your expertise. If you can also mix in slides from a PowerPoint presentation, but to do this you will have to have some video-editing software, such as iMovie, available for the Mac. 

To take video to the next level, you can hire a videographer to record a live seminar or workshop that you host. Make sure you make enough money selling the tickets, so that your video recording and editing costs don’t eat too much of your profits. 

To keep your costs low, consider hiring a student from a local visual arts college. You really don’t need broadcast-quality video for your information product, because it will most likely be watched on a computer screen.

Another option for creating video is screen capture video. Using programs such as Camtasia (available for both Mac and PC), or a less capable but still OK for most uses Voila!

The easiest way I found of creating info products is having a tele-seminar. You invite one or two fellow experts on a subject and you interview them. Most conference call service providers will allow you to record the whole thing, and then you can download it to your computer as an mp3 file, and, presto!, you have your 1st info-product.

To take it to the next level, you can hire a transcriptionist to transcribe the spoken words into a text document, which you can further enhance by editing, adding your affiliate links to services/products mentioned in the interview. There, you have your second info-product.

How to Sell Your Information Products Online

Next, what you need to do is have a shopping cart plugin installed on your WordPress blog. Using your own shopping cart gives you the most flexibility, but requires some technical knowledge.

Add a payment-processor to the blog or website.

Once you have your product created and loaded up to your site, it’s time to promote it. Write blog posts about it on your own site; looks for guest blogging opportunities; post to social media sites such as Linkedin, facebook, etc.

One of the best ways to make more sales is to recruit other people to sell it for you via affiliate network. To create an affiliate program on your WordPress-based blog site I recommend this easy WP affiliate plugin. There are others, but this one is really affordable, and works well.

To Be Continued in the Next Edition!

Note: You can order for my e-book on Information Marketing entitled, "HOW TO WRITE YOUR OWN BOOK AND PUBLISH IT WITHOUT SPENDING A KOBO"

With Love,

Author Gabriel C. Onyekawa

+234 803 933 5121

adnbooks@gmail.com