How would you go about selling a website idea to a web developer or entrepreneur?
I’ve got an idea for a website that I think is practical and will work out. Problem is that I don’t know the first thing about starting a website or even starting a business. Also, I don’t have the time considering I have a career and a family. So I’m just wondering if there are ways to sell your ideas to web designers or entrepreneurs.
Home Based Business Entrepreneur Ideas
Entrepreneur Ideas
How can you establish a business without leaving the comforts of your home and do so with just a small capital? The answer is simple and it’s right in front of you. Think for everyone else. Act for everyone else. If they can’t do it, do it for them.
But how would you do it? To know the specifics, take time to attend seminars and workshops for more information and how to gather tips on starting a business. If you don’t want to spend your money on the first suggestion, there’s always an alternative. You could drop by the library within your community and read books regarding management and business. Well at least, that’s free. You just have to be part of the community. Or better yet, use the internet for various researches.
Home based entrepreneurs benefit vastly on having their business right at their doorstep. It extinguishes the agony and trouble of being stuck in heavy traffic and being late. Travel time would take at least thirty seconds from your bedroom to your home office. No dress code required.
You could come to your office on your pajamas, no one cares, and you”re the boss. Family time is not compromised. You are the boss of your own company. Best of all, self-discipline is practiced.
Here are 3 of the best suggestions for gearing up your home business:
1. Garage Sale – ‘the old and perhaps the new”
Sure you have clothes that are used only once. Those that your mother gave you when you were three but you wore them only once cause you never liked it. Remember? That’s right. Sell it on Monday.
Sign board announcement: Kid’s stuff on sale! Your husband loves sports but that was 5 years ago. Again, sell it on Tuesday. Hunt down those baseball cards and sports gears he kept in his closet.
Sign board announcement: Sports stuff on sale! Now are you having a clearer picture of what I’m trying to paint? You could sell different kinds of stuff on different days. That would make your garage a bit more interesting.
2. Food for Thought – “Sweet. Spicy. Sour.”
Cooking can be very consuming. But if your hands were made for it, then try the catering business. Supply food for gatherings like parties, anniversaries, meetings, etc. If you”re also good with pastries, then convert your garage or a part of your house into a mini cafe.
Set up a relaxing ambience that would suit and entice customers to hang around. Give them a reason to stay. A good cup of coffee, light music, and a satisfying bite of their favorite blueberry cheesecake would definitely work up an appetite to keep them coming back for more.
3. Clean it, Scrub it – “From top to bottom”
Having an obsessive-compulsive type of personality can be an advantage and it can be put into good use. Aside from imposing cleanliness within your own vicinity, other people’s house might need it as well. In a generation where time is of the essence, workaholics fail to maintain an organized environment.
That’s where you come in. Advertise your services to those people who badly need grooming. Emphasize that when the environment is healthy, the client is healthy as well.
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Basic Math – Does your entreprenur understand basic math?
You have heard the various sagas of how we are teaching our children to read. Our enlightened colleagues with the various letters are their names have come up a variety of alternatives to learning basic phonics. Yet we see a decline in the reading ability of our high school graduates.
I was recently introduced to an excellent video on the “new” math being taught in some of our public schools. M.J. McDermott, a meteorologist, does an excellent job of comparing some of the new with the old.
Make sure you entrepreneur understand math basics!
An Entrepreneur at Work
I have been learning lots over the last several months and have much to share.
However, I watch a couple of key Internet Marketers. One is Brad Fallon. He is an SEO expert and has a successful membership site. Brad is also an entrepreneur and just came out with a new website and I recommed you go check it out:
MyIQMall
This is a very interesting concept and has the potential to be huge but BEST OF ALL….
IT IS FREE!!
This is going to be a great affiliate marketing tool!
It is a great way for exposure for your product and find free info.
It will just take a few minutes of your time to set up an account and get started.
(I think I need to work in a video on this…:o)….)
Go get out MyIQMall.com now and I’ll give you more info later,
Wanting you to succeed,
Linda
PS You can see my profile at:http://www.freeiq.com/lindajoseph
Entrepreneurs – How to Get Started
Thinking like an entrepreneur is not an easy thing to do. Most of us have been raised in traditional institutions and are trained at being good employees.
The current public and private schools do an a reasonable job of performing this task. If your goal is to be a good employee, then you are probably on the right track.
If you goal is to think outside the box then you need to expose yourself to others who are not blinded by the box. I understand it is not an easy thing to take on. There are days every bone in my body is screaming, “Get back in the box! It is safe in the box.”
I will make the first step easy. Go to the library and check out a copy of “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” by Robert Kiyosaki and read it this week.
Wanting you to succeed,
Linda
Can risk taking and originality be learned?
Classes for would-be entrepreneurs are a hot trend at America’s universities. But can risk taking and originality be learned?
By Patricia B. Gray, FORTUNE Small Business, with additional reporting by Anne Field
March 10, 2006: 11:47 AM EST
NEW YORK (FORTUNE Small Business) – At 21, Diana Reed has already reached the pinnacle of one career. A senior at the University of Iowa, she is the Hawkeye Golden Girl, one of the top twirlers in the Big Ten. Every Saturday during football season, she strutted down the 50-yard line in sequins and Spandex, flinging her baton into the sky before a stadium jammed with tens of thousands of howling football fans.
Besides four hours of baton practice a day, Reed runs Diana’s Golden Twirlers, a for-profit school she started freshman year. One of her squads recently won the state twirling championship. A dual major in dance and business, Reed credits the four classes on entrepreneurship that she has taken at Iowa.
The new campus craze
The number of U.S. universities offering entrepreneurship classes has increased dramatically.
1985 300
1991 1,000
2005 1,992
Source: Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation
“I learned how to think about twirling as a market, not just a sport,” she says. “My career as a competitive twirler may be coming to an end, but I can see there’s almost unlimited potential in the twirling market.”
Diana Reed has caught an entrepreneurial fever that is sweeping the nation’s campuses, as students jam into classes to learn how to launch, finance, and run their own companies.
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Do You Like to Research?
RESEARCHER – . Use your talent to provide research data, technical details and background information for clients who need this type of work. You could provide library research and Internet research. Charge by the hour, page or a flat fee for your efforts.
Can You Type?
Word Processing Services: Learning to type quickly and accurately is a skill every student should learn. However, not everyone is proficient in this skill and would love to have someone type their information for them. Decide whether you would like to type from hand written pages or audio. I see a need for transcribing from audio.
This is a great service to offer. You could offer to take their audio and provide a transcription. Most services charge by the word. You could charge by the page. You could have a basic rate for transcribing and then additional charges for editing. (You could even have different editing categories. You could offer a rough edit and a fine edit. You need to make sure you have the skills to offer different types of services.) You could charge extra for rush jobs.
There are many Internet Marketers who do numerous teleseminars and use transcibers to put the call into a document.
There are authors who are good at speaking their material and could use someone to take their recordings and turn them into a document.
Do a search on transcription services and see what the most services are charging. Is there anything you could do which would make your services unique and more desirable?
PS If you develop this skill and need work, please let me know.
Do You Like Gardening?
Short Business Idea:
MINIATURE GARDENS. Create various types of container gardens for different needs. You could specialize in live plant container gardens for those in the hospital and as entertainment gifts. You could specialize in food producing plants for balconies, decks, and other confined areas. Include care instructions with each product.
Do You Understand Your Computer?
If you understand computers, you can become a computer tutor.
You can go to a client’s home or office and instruct
them to use their equipment and operate their programs.
Advertise your consulting service to prospective buyers of
equipment and programs. Offer a line of shareware programs.
You could specialize in a particular area. There is a need for good spyware. Become an expert on different spyware programs and provide a review of the various products. You could offer to install and update their computers.
You could specialize in retrieving information from disks that crash. Business owners who have not properly backed up their data will pay quite a bit to retrieve their lost info. Then offer consulting on how to properly back up information.
Think about what you like to do.
What are you good at doing?
What do you enjoy doing?
How can you use that knowledge and enjoyment to help others?
Keep thinking differently, Linda