On Vacation and Still Making Money

I'm very happy to report that I have had a whole week of vacation and was able to close several deals in the process. I have a laptop and an air card. I have a cell phone and access to an outlet. All and all, I was able to bring my business on vacation with me. It wasn't like I was tied down, but I did get a chance to make several sales. That's why I love being my own boss. Of course, I don't have to tell you that there were many times when I didn't communicate at all with the purchaser. I made the sale just the same. One of the most important things you can do for an online business is to give the customer immediate access to making a payment right when they are interested in a product. Do you have that?

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My Bed Broke!

Oh man, the other day, just before I left on vacation, I woke up to my bed flattening with a crash. I had forgotten that our luggage was holding up the bed on one side, so when I went to sleep that night, I did so with the same expectations as always, that my bed would be just fine in the morning. However, noooo. It was not like that. What a way to wake up. I got one of those adjustable bed frames about a month ago, but procrastination made me have that horrible wake up call. LOL! It was crazy. It happened at a good time though since I was suppose to be waking up early and the alarm had yet to sound.

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I Want to Lose More Weight!

I've been working on my health and fitness now for almost a year and I've lost a good amount of weight, but I want to lose more! I keep hearing this green tea fat burner advertisement on t.v. that is sounding better and better to me. I hear that green tea is an excellent food source for losing weight. Have you tried it? I haven't read up on it, but I wonder what it is in the green tea that makes it good for you. I've heard that black tea is good for stomach ailments, but green tea? It's all over the stores. Maybe I'm just noticing it more, but when I was growing up, I didn't see much about one tea being better than others.

Anyway, the whole point is that I want to Lose more weight. Green tea should help, but more importantly exercise and diet are the key ingredients to losing weight. It'll happen. I'm hoping so anyway. I'm going to make it happen. January is right around the corner. I gotta stop sitting on my rump and get up and out! Gotta run....:-)

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I'm on Vacation!

Are you a workaholic? I don't consider myself one, but having an online business, I must say that it is hard sometimes to separate oneself from work. For the most part, I'm suppose to be on vacation. However, in these hard economic times, when the phone rings, I'm still picking it up. When I get emails asking about products, I'm still answering them. The bottom line is that I'm not really getting a work free vacation. I miss those. I've heard about these "freedom systems" that allow you to have the freedom to do whatever it is you want while your business continues to run. You need workers for that. I'm not there yet, but one day...

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Getting a Flat Screen High Definition TV

You may have been reading my blog and noticed that I recently purchased a flat screen tv. When you buy a flat screen tv with all of the latest and greatest abilities, such as high definition picture and sound, hook ups for HDMI switches and the like, you come to realize that it's not just about the tv, but more likely about what it would take to get the tv to function most effectively. I mean, what's the point of spending all of that money on a new tv with all these functions and at the same time, have no way to use those capabilities. So, when you're buying a high definition tv, remember that you are also going to have to invest a pretty penny every month in other stuff like Directv or Dish Network or cable. That's where you're really going to start spending.

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Want To Build a New Website

Recently, I've been thinking about building a new website. Earlier this year, I told myself that I wasn't going to put up a new website for the coming year. I said I'd clean up my already published sites and work on making them work better for my business as a whole. However, one of the manufacturers that I work with has some new products that I think will be easy to sell.

Considering I strictly work with drop shippers, this happens fairly regularly. On the whole, about every six months or so, we have new products that we can sell. They usually are in line with what the company is already selling, so there is no need to start a whole new website for a whole new product line.

So, it's almost the end of the year and a whole new year is coming in which to make my business better, more grand, more user friendly, more everything or start a new website and divide my focus. Hmmmm.... which would you do?

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While the Markets Tumble...

While the markets tumble all over the world, it is imperative that online business stay at the top of their game. How do we do that? We make sure we are communicating to the public in a way that draws them to our products. I have never been big on advertising for many reasons, one being that I'm not educated enough to do it right without needlessly spending a whole lot of money to get little results. It may not be the right way to do things, but I'd rather do little advertising while I'm learning how to advertise because I simply can't afford the losses.

It would be nice if online businesses could just have one of those complete casserole recipes for how to make things work successfully. In fact, I'm sure there are lots of books and software products out there that purport to offer just that. I have lots of those books and software programs myself. They only work if you use them though and who has the time these days to delve into every little instruction on how to make things work. There never seems to be enough time in the day!

However, one thing I have always thought it good to invest in is great text. Why? Because search engines love it. It is almost like free advertising since, with the right amount of text filled with the appropriate amount of keywords and keyword phrases, this will get you on the front page with search engines. Isn't that where you want to be? Every single product should have search engine friendly descriptions specific to that product. I know this works, because the bulk of my business comes from this and I have been consistently paying myself for over a year now.

It is true that a full time income is still just within my grasp, but with the economy being what it is, I am thankful for the knowledge I have gained to stay afloat. I am hoping it will pull me through. We'll see though, right! Either way, one thing is sure, staying on top of the market even in hard economic times is a challenge. We have to meet the challenge fighting tooth and nail.

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Great Start to the Last Quarter!

I am very concerned about how the economy will effect online sales over the last quarter of the year. I've actually scaled down my expectations to allow for a slow quarter even though things are looking up so far this past week and a half. Today was very slow though.

I was just talking to an acquaintance today who said that the best fields to be in right now are the health field and probably the legal field. Speaking of health, I think it's true. I am constantly hearing about dieting, clean living, new medications on the market, etc. I am constantly coming across diet pill reviews and you know there's a pill for just about every ailment out there.

Anyway, I digress, I'd love to know how you're doing so far this quarter. Please leave a comment below.

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Thank Goodness for the Little Things!

We're finally and already in the last quarter of the year. Wow! Not only are my business taxes due, but I have to make sure my home owner insurance premium has been paid. Don't you love paying bills (said completely tongue in cheek)?

Well, what I'd like to say is that, after completing my numbers for the last quarter, I did actually do a little better than last year. Sales were down, but profits were up. I'm very proud of my little online businesses and, if you have an online business that is succeeding in this day and age, then you should be proud too! Thank goodness for the little things. They all add up!

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Taking a Hit in These Erratic Economic Times?

I have a few websites that as a whole make up the majority of my online business. For the most part, I try very hard to pay attention to all of them, but it isn't always easy. Sometimes I feel like two of them are more like step children or like they have some kind of acne that I have to deal with even though I don't want to. I feel badly about treating those websites that way. I'd like to be able to spend more time creating and making them work to their best potential. The only thing to do in a situation like that is to hire someone to help you or to neglect your other websites.

On top of that, I'm thinking of building two more websites. However, in this struggling economy, I'm already seeing a bit of a hit to my bottom line. I'm actually thinking about how to prepare to be satisfied with the minimum potential instead of the maximum potential. I have to face the facts! I sell things. That's the truth. In order to make money, people have to buy the things I sell. If there is no money, there will be no sales and then I will make no money.

So far, I'm not having to actually face that situation, but I do have to prepare for it. It is in no way at the point where that is inevitable and I'm happy for that. I feel like I'm already in a depression. Nah!!! What am I saying. Things are still good. This past year has seen an increase in sales overall and an increase in our bottom line. If I were a bigger corporation, I'd say that I need to adjust my projected bottom line down a little, but one cannot forecast so stringently in these crazy erratic economic times, can one?

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