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Date: April 25, 2006 No matter what type of business you are running (or plan to build) you will likely have competition. Most people think competition is a bad thing – and if you try to take on your competition “head on” it probably is. On the other hand, you can use your competition to learn how to service customers in a different way – a “unique” way – that can make you very successful! How Can You Make Your Business Unique" For example, selling home videos. DVD’s, and electronic games is nothing new. And unfortunately for most “mom-and-pop” video stores, Blockbuster came along, and put most of them out of business. So why bother even trying to sell videos and DVD’s, right? Well, it depends. Opening another video store would probably be difficult – having the ability to order 20-30 copies of all the popular videos would probably be too costly for most people. But NetFlix didn’t look at competing directly with Blockbuster. The owners decided to rent the same products, but in a completely different way – online and through the mail. That’s an example of a Unique Selling Proposition! How can you create a USP (Unique Selling Proposition) for your business? Answer the following 5 questions:
If you need help coming up with ideas for the last one – which is the most important question to answer – go out and “shop” your competition:
Then, narrow down your USP into one or two sentences, and do it – with every letter you write, every ad you place, every customer you serve, every plan you make – and include your Unique Selling Proposition. If you can make your business different from the rest – and stand out above the competition – you’ll be well on your way to success! Kris Bickell is the owner of http://www.Hi-Speed-Internet.com, a helpful site for consumers comparing high speed internet services. For information on improving the performance of your conmputer, visit http://www.Hi-Speed-Internet.com, and sign up for the free email course “5 Simple Ways To Increase Your Computer Speed”. © 2006 Hi-Speed-Internet.com Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kris_Bickell Residual Income is a dependable income that keeps coming month after month. You work today and keep getting the benefits of that work for next coming years. Most of the people in the world are holding jobs where they work for someone 8 to 10 hrs a day, at least 5 days a week. That means they work around 40 to 50 hrs a week. They get paid for their work. If they stop working, they do not get paid. This is the kind of income a common man gets working hard for years together. Residual income is a concept they have never really thought of or even considered. Do you know that 8 out of 10 families need two working members just to fulfill their needs? If they start considering residual income opportunities, they would earn not only from their own efforts, but also from other’s efforts. An internet based home business offers great advantages that no other profession can offer. You may get what you desire: good income, freedom, no boss and much more. But, starting an internet home business needs efforts. Especially in the beginning, you need to work for it. You need both time and effort to build your business. Once your business starts building, you will need less time. That is because you will start gaining from other people’s efforts. All you need to do is to build a team of ambitious people like you, to work the same way you are working. To start your internet based home business, you must look at the following: Start up with a Low Budget. Since you are new to internet industry, you will take time to find the right opportunities. It would be better if you follow what other successful internet marketers are already doing. Once you have started your business and learned enough, you can expand your business as per your wishes. You should have your own website, your own Domain name. Your website shows your presence in the Internet Industry. Design your website smartly. Automate your business. You can use auto responders on your site and start your newsletter. Having your own newsletter allows you to capture your website visitors and build your own list. Once you have your own list, you can promote almost any residual income programs involving referral system. Promote your site effectively To sum up, all you need to build your internet home business is to design, develop, automate and promote your own moneymaking website which is ready to pull out residual profits. Copyright © Jagruti Bhimjiani About the Author:
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Dotcomology Is The Science Of Making Money Online: GET IT FREE Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Jagruti_Bhimjiani Many people have realized that they can turn their computer into a money making machine. There are many ways you can make money with your computer. This article will show you several low cost ways to make money on the net. Sell Products or Services Online You can set up an online store to sell a wide variety of products. However, it will cost you few thousands dollars to start an e-store. One way to start an online business with minimum capital is deal with drop ship wholesalers. So how drop shipping works? - A drop ship distributor is a wholesale company that will ship one product directly to your customer. - You don't need to pay for an item unless it is sold. - You don't store any inventory. - You don't package and ship merchandise. - Your customer pays the retail price for the product to you and you pay the cost of the product to the drop ship distributor. The difference is your profit. Drop shipping system makes it affordable for anyone to start an online business due to the benefits it offers. EBay is the best place for you to start selling your products with drop shipping system. One strategy you can try is sell the similar items to the one that have attracted several bids in eBay. For instance, say you have opened an account with a cell phone drop ship dealer and ready to sell cell phone on eBay. You found that a Nokia 8810 cell phone have attracted 7 bids, so what you can try to do is list the similar item immediately with lowest price possible. Of course, there is no guarantee that you will make any money with this strategy. There are many more auction selling ideas you can find from the Internet which can help you make a steady income on eBay. Be a Freelancer There are many freelance job sites consist of a long list of freelance job contracts. These freelance sites usually offer the following jobs: 1) IT jobs (web-design, Jawa, PHP, script-installation, programming, graphic design and so on) 2) Writing & Editing Jobs 3) Administrative support (Data entry) & accounting services. You may join several freelance sites for free and start bidding for the projects and contracts that are right for you. You can also make extra money writing articles and essays. There are places and websites where you can sell your articles and essays for a price anywhere between $5 to 25 per article. Furthermore, there are forums and blogs offer to pay anyone who post message and article to their websites. Be an Affiliate Affiliate makes money online by selling other people's stuff. An affiliate earns commission whenever someone sent by him/her to his/her merchant's website makes a purchase. Clickbank is one of the best places you can find an affiliate program to join because it is the largest e-book store and contains a ton of merchants looking for people to sell their e-books. The main task of affiliates is promote and advertise their merchants' websites (affiliate links). One method to promote affiliate program is advertise on Google. To advertise on Google you'll first need to open a Google AdWords account. You can start advertise on Google immediately after paying $5 account activation fee. Your cost of advertising is calculated in pay-per-click basis. Meaning Google will only charge you whenever someone clicks your text ad. Paid Survey Taking online paid survey at home is an easy way to make money online as you don't need any special skills and knowledge to complete paid survey job. In order to increase the money you can earn, you need to join as many market research and survey companies as possible. However you can't expect how much money you will make monthly because you have no idea when a paid survey invitation will send to your mail box. Thus it is not an ideal way to make a wage but a great way to make some extra income for paying your monthly bills. Alan Liew is the webmaster of online4income.com which provides information, tips and ideas of how to make money online. You can also check out his blog to find out more ways to make money online. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Kum_Cheng_Liew
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