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Do you have what it takes to succeed in business?

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I’ve done a lot of things in my life and one of them was run my own small business.

Yes, I used to be a jeweler in the jewelery trade. I won’t get into all the details of what I did right now, but I will say that there was some things I knew about running a business on my own and a lot of things that I didn’t know.

I knew my trade. I knew how to make my customers happy. Yet I didn’t know how to market myself or my business properly.

I’m certain that will more knowledge and perhaps some guidance I could have been much more successful at my business and as a result I would have made a profit.

That’s where a company such as Disrupted Horizon, the Business 3.0 Consultancy comes in.

They say:

1% of businesses know how to know what they don’t know
4% of businesses know what they don’t know
95% of businesses don’t know what they don’t know

I think I might have fallen into the 4% category with my business.

If you run a small business what percentile do you fall into?

Disruptive Horizon was created to help small businesses understand the future. How technology might change the way they do things and what direction they need to focus their business plan on now to succeed in the future.

If you were to choose to do a business consultation with Disruptive Horizon they would try to come up with some creative ideas that would maximize your future earning and companies growth opportunities.

Don’t get left behind. Visit the Disruptive Horizon site today to see what they do and take their Business 3.0 health check quiz.





Veering off topic

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I’ve been getting quite a few offers to write articles for people. I’m pleased about that, but some of the offers just don’t match my sites. I just finished writing a real estate related post on my gardening (home and garden but more garden) blog and it ticked me off.

I should have refused the offer but I hemmed and hawed about it for several days and by the time I decided to do something about it the offer was about five days old so I felt guilty and ended up accepting it. I totally regret taking it though since it really doesn’t suit that blog at all.

I’m trying to really focus some of my blogs so, even though I know some of them are popular with advertisers, I’m going to have to try to fine tune what I write about on some of them from now on.

Do you find yourself veering off topic on some of your blogs occasionally? If you’ve done this you know exactly what I mean and you know it’s kind of difficult to get back on track again, but if you want to keep the readers that you’ve been trying to build up you have to stick to your guns and stay on topic.

Changing advertising trends?

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It seems that over the last few days I’ve been on a writing frenzy. I can’t keep up.

I’m not complaining. By no means am I complaining at all. It’s just that I keep getting link requests, article requests, offers to send me samples, and private offers from big affiliate companies. I’m quite happy that all of this is happening, but it’s hitting all at once. How’s a girl to adjust???

Since the work has been coming to me I’ve barely been looking for work in my usual paid blogging haunts. They’ve been a little slow lately anyway which makes all the private offers I’ve been getting all the more surprising.

Perhaps internet advertising trends are changing?

Has anyone else noticed an increase in private offers? Surely a few of you must be getting some new action as well.

Create a Squidoo lens to promote your site

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Hey, have you joined Squidoo yet? It’s another great way to promote your website or blog. You can also make some money while you are at it.

Squidoo isn’t a social network and it isn’t a web directory. It’s a site where you can make a lens for your website or if you don’t have a website you can make a lens about whatever you are interested in – hobbies, politics, religion … anything.

I bet your wondering what a lens is? Well, to keep it simple, think of a lens as a resume for your website. You can sign up with squidoo and make a basic lens in as little as five to ten minutes.

What I’ve done for this blog was to just make a preliminary lens. I added a short description of the site. Then, using the RSS feed module I added this sites feed to the lens, and a subscription link for my feedburner feed for this site.

When I have a bit more time I’ll add a small image of the blog in the description area and perhaps expand the description. Then I’ll perhaps add the flickr module so that I can show off some of my photos.

I’ll also be sure to add modules for Amazon, Ebay and a few of the other affiliate modules that can be added to Squidoo lens. You see if you set up affiliate modules and choose items that compliment your site if anyone who visits your lens clicks on any of the items or even better makes a purchase you’ll share in the profits with Squidoo.

If you visit the lens I created for this site you’ll see that it still needs a lot of work but it’s off to a good start. The lens that I made for my gardening blog on the other hand is perhaps almost finished. Take a peek at the As the Garden Grows Lens to see what you can do when you add in several of the available modules.

You can add YouTube video, photos, similar links and many other things … basically there’s no limit to what you can add. You could even treat your lens like a blog and update it regularly by changing information or writing a new post in the text module area every once in a while.

Check it out. Oh and if you do decide to sign up I’d appreciate it if you’d click on one of the Squidoo links above, or this one as I’ll make $5 for referring you!

Keeping track of my finances

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As many of you know I earn my income through my websites. Whether it’s posts on my blogs, selling text links in my sidebars, affiliates, Google adsense or whatever else of the many things I do to earn an income.

Do you know how hard it is the keep track of everything? It’s not like I’m getting paid once a month by most of these companies. No .. I’ve actually got money coming in daily.

So I think I need to get some kind of financial reporting software. It would help me keep track of my income daily, weekly and monthly and if I found the right software it might even help when it comes times to create statements for tax purposes.

I’ve got to look into this further.

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