Online entrepreneurship seems so divorced from the real world at times that we sometimes forget basic tenants of good business practice. By using the same rules that would fit any traditional business, the odds of success are greatly increased.
Here are some general rules of business that carry over into the online world:
While building traffic and notoriety for your web identity may take a lot of your time and energy, it’s important to dedicate some effort to security. Few steps are as easy to keeping your assets secure as a strong password.
A post in Eches Blog does a good job of outlining the increasing strength of password crackers and the need for a more secure passwords.
Branding is essential to getting your blog off the ground. Sure a catchy name doesn’t meant everything (obviously, since my name isn’t catchy), but it does help build an identity and rapport with your readers.
Although your domain name is important, it’s not easy to get a good one. Thanks to the millions of people that have staked their claim to that internet real estate already, ingenuity is the name of the game.
Getting your website/blog off the ground may seem daunting, and it can be. But once you’ve done it, everything else is gravy. Here is roadmap to get you off the ground if you are trying to figure out where to start.
Decide on your topic: Pretty straightforward, but you have to make sure you know enough about it and can get enough content. It’s also pretty important it’s something you are interested in, but a lot of people forget this.
Sometimes I feel a little gullible for thinking there is money to be made online by people such as myself. There are too many snake oil salesmen out there telling too many fantastical tales about how to be rich.
That doesn’t mean you can’t make some money, and it doesn’t mean that it has to be a lot work to do so.
There are now more websites about making quick money online than there are people alive.
Well, it’s not really official, but it’s something I like to say to sound authoritative.
I guess this site is another drop in the bucket. I, like most of the people that will find their way onto my site, was wooed by the sirens song of internet profits. Through diligent research, I found it wasn’t all it was cracked up to be. You know what they say, (insert pithy cliché here).
