Online Business Guide

Why Bill Gates is the richest man in the world? Is he more intelligence and creative then Steve Job? I don’t think so, personally I think Steve Job is much smarter than Bill Gates, but how come Bill Gates is richer and more successful?

The secret is Bill Gates was able to see the future and had a vision, i.e. putting a PC in everybody desktop! When he first started Microsoft, he was only a young computer nerd, but his company overtook all computer giants in the world within a short time!. His company is still the leader in the IT world,though fast closing up by other new comers in the IT world, especially in the world of Internet. Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Amazon meteoric rise in the corporate world is because they are able to create a new trend! The young CEOs become instant billionaire within a short span of time, unlike the traditional billionaires.

Another brilliant example is Google. Larry Page and Sergi Brin have the vision of “making all the world’s information ‘universally accessible and useful(The Economist, cited in Wikipedia). Google is the most popular search engine now, out performed many of its predecessors such as Lycos,  AltaVista, and Excite and present competitors such as Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com and more. It also captured more than 60% of the the online advertising market share since 2008(Wikipedia).

The latest outstanding example is none other than Mark Zuckerberg , the King of the Social Media, whose vision of connecting everybody in the world has created the largest community in the virtual world, it has more than 5 billions active users now. His success has made him the man of the year for TIME magazine.

So if you want to be rich, you need to create a trend. In the Internet world, the task has become easier.

With the advent of the Internet and the World Wide Web, not only big and not so big companies are making big bucks by marketing and selling their products and services through the virtual world, many individuals are able to make enough money to supplement their incomes from their salary by having a personal website. On top of that, many of them even get rich or at least make a living out of it. So, believe me, having a personal website can be very lucrative, if you know how to make use of it.A lot of people with a personal website can generate a few hundred to a few thousand dollars (US currency) a month.

To be able to generate substantial income from a personal web site, the first thing you must do is to pay attention to the contents of your web site. You must make sure that your contents are interesting and rich enough to be able to attract a lot of visitors and also able to retain most of them. In this way, your website will be able to bring you good profit based on economy of scale.

In order to create good contents; you must decide your web site’s topic or theme. You should work on something you are good at. For instance, you can do something about programming, sports and games, travel, books review, astronomy, health, education, any hobby, and etc. Next, do some research by reading books, journal, info from the Internet and etc. Follow by designing a framework for your contents; get the main topic and subtopics properly arranged. After that you can start writing your contents.

Secondly, you must design an attractive template for all your web pages. You should also ensure it is easy for the users to navigate around various sections of your web site. You can use GUI-based webpage development programs such as MS Frontpage, Macromedia Dreamweaver and etc to accomplish the above tasks. Besides, you should also learn some basics of HTML so that you can customize your web pages better.

After you have done all your web pages, you must get your web site hosted by a reliable web hosting company so that it will be available online 24 hours a day. Although you need to pay a nominal fee of something like US80, it is worth the investment and normally you can earn it back in days. Lastly, you must update your web site regularly

Traditional small and micro businesses usually find it difficult to expand their businesses beyond the local market due to lack of money and resources. Their businesses are further affected with the proliferation of the conglomerates into almost every sector of the consumer market, and that makes them barely survive on their niche market. For example, small grocery stores will have to compete with hypermarkets such as Wal-Mart Supercenter in the US, Tesco of the UK and Carrefour of France, and many such stores have to wrap up to avoid further loss. The future seems gloom for these small businesses. Fortunately, the advent of the Internet has brought new hopes to the small businesses!

The world of the Internet represents an immensely big virtual market, and by taking your small business, your niche market will expand many folds because of its global magnitude. As your market expands, you will be able to generate much more revenues and grow your business unimaginable of before, and you will survive and strive even with the onslaught of the conglomerates. The beauty of the online business or popularly known as e-commerce is that you will spend much less money in setting a virtual shopping mall than traditional brick and mortal business. If you are selling on ebay, you don’t even have to set up your own store, all you have to do is to set up an account with ebay. Besides, many personal websites are making tons of money only selling advertisement by joining Google’s Adsense or sell digital products for download and let paypal handled credit card payment. Most of these personal websites don’t need spend much money on overheads, many just need to pay hosting fees, what they are selling is knowledge and information, and this is what we call k-economy! So, every small business should take its business online not only to continue to survive but to expand its business in the extended virtual market.

Nowadays everybody is talking about mobile apps, those cool little applications designed to run on mobile devices such as cellphones. The best part is anybody can participate in creating the applications and have the potential to earn big income if the applications become popular.

For example, if you design a mobile apps for iphone and it is approved by Apple and get listed on the AppStore, and let say you charge $1 per download,you will earn $100,000 if you get 100,000 downloads!

You can learn how to create mobile apps from the following link:

http://phonegap.com

Good luck!

Creativity is important in building a successful business, whether offline or online. It is the new ideas that allow you to create products and services that are different from your competitors.

What do you mean by creativity? It means creating something completely new, or making connections where none existed before.For example, Steve Jobs and Steve Woznak invented Apple computer in 1976, also the first PC. And they went on to build a multi-billion dollars business. Apple computer is still one of the leaders in laptops and PCs. There are countless other examples. One of the great stories is about Clarence B. Darrow, who made a connection between poor people ad people who could imagine that they are rich to invent the Monopoly game.

In the Internet world, many people have created successful online businesses using their creativity. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon.com, Yahoo! are some of the leaders. If you want to make money in the online world, you have to think of new ideas and create something based on these ideas, and market them to the online world. Because of the global nature of the online wold, even a niche market is immensely huge, it is big enough for everyone to make a good living out of it, if only you know how to do it.

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This is the ONE- STOP CENTER to guide you along in your online business venture.

Whether you are about to begin your online business venture or you have been in it for sometime now, you are welcome to use our guide to get a head-start in your business or to propel your online business to a greater height.

The main objective of our  online business guide is to provide necessary knowledge, skills as well as resources to help you achieve success in your online business venture.

This is also a place for you to network with other netrepreneurs so that you can gain more ideas as well as opportunities that can assist you in expanding  your online business.