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Top small business ideas – outsource to build your business

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Whilst you continue to be a one person business, you are self employed, selling your own time.  If you are looking for a top small business idea, start outsourcing to other people and start leveraging and building a business.

Outsourcing is the key!  Online you can find anybody to do anything at a highly competitive price.  I have outsourced most functions of my business to other people.  Good people around the world will be ecstatic to work for you for between USD $2 – $10 per hour but as usual you get what you pay for.

When you find the right person (which is not hard), you will find that they are well qualified, very efficient and meet deadlines, most of the time with a 24-hour turnaround.  They also follow up and do it all with friendly cooperation.

Offline recruitment agencies may still be necessary for high end recruitment where the position is senior or supervisory, hands on and face to face, but for lower level work, technical work, specialist skills, online work where working remotely is fine, recruitment agencies will become obsolete unless they move their businesses online and become outsourcing hubs.

One of the advantages of growing your business online is that everything you need night and day is available from outsourced talent.  Just some of these functions are:

  • Virtual Secretary / assistant
  • Administration
  • Content / article writing
  • Sales page / landing page writing
  • Website updating
  • Keyword research
  • Blogging
  • Image management
  • Link building
  • Affiliate marketing
  • Social network marketing
  • Forum marketing

Work goes on for you while you sleep and you will slash your overheads.

If you would like to know more about how to build your online business contact me at gary@garyweigh.com and visit http://www.garyweigh.com/blog/business-startup

If you would like to read some ground breaking articles on Aiki-management visit my Aikido Secrets site at http://www.aikido-secrets-to-calm-success.com

Until next time!

Gary

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Starting up your own business – get up close and personal

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Lunchtime up close and personal at Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto Japan

If you are starting up your own business, it is not enough to simply open the doors and assume that customers will somehow find out about it and start buying.  Although you may have the best top small business idea, it just doesn’t work that way.

Those who do realize that you exist will often have some concerns about your newness.  They may not take you seriously.  Will you survive?  Will you be around for a long time?  Do you know what you’re doing?  Will you do the job properly?  Are you trustworthy?

Time in the market may speak volumes about your tenacity and long term intentions however you can’t afford to wait months or years before people are happy to give you a go.  You need to short cut that process so that customers develop faith within your time frame and start buying early.

So it is not a time for you to wait for people to come you.  Your business strategy implementation must include ‘customer attracting’ strategies need to be active rather than passive and personal rather than impersonal.

The assumption that all internet marketing strategies are impersonal while all bricks and mortar businesses are personal is a fallacy.  Everyone knows of at least one bricks and mortar business that has less personality and customer interest than the bricks that houses it, just as there are plenty of online businesses with personality that focus on building quality relationships with their customers.

With the incredible growth of online social networking, the internet is fast changing its impersonal image.  So if you want to get up close and personal on the internet, think about sending out your messages in multimedia – words, pictures, video and audio.  For example:

Consider an interactive blog platform instead of the traditional static billboard in cyber space

  • Become an authority site by writing and posting original articles on your site and then distributing them to other relevant sites and article sites that may pick them up
  • Reach out to the vast YouTube audience by making and uploading your own video content.  All you need is a camcorder.
  • Think about imaginative pre-sale promotion, consistent post-sale follow up and account maintenance activity.  It works just as well online.

If you are starting up your own business and you are looking for more top small business ideas then stay tuned.

If you seek startup advice or a powerful online business presence when starting up your own business visit http://garyweigh.com/business-startup

Until next time!

Gary

Starting up your own business – waiting for that one top small business idea

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A busy fruit shop business at the famous Pike Place markets in Seattle, Washington, USA

If you wait around trying to think up that one top small business idea that will transform your life and make you lots of money, then you will probably be still waiting around in 10 years time.   

Inventing a new mousetrap is not the way.  However, becoming a mouse expert, and solving mouse related problems in a humane and environmentally friendly way is a concept with much brighter prospects, if of course mice are your thing. 

There are plenty of opportunities around that will make you lots of money.  It’s a matter of choosing what’s right for you.  So follow your interests, do some thorough research, find the demand and get going.

The fact is that not all ideas and opportunities will interest you.  If that is the case, then you will probably find it hard to get out of bed each day to go to work.   You will not make money if you don’t apply yourself.

The process of choosing ideas to start a small business is not unlike making decisions in years gone by about what you wanted to be when you left school.  Some school leavers just know.  They want to be a doctor, a lawyer or join the police … or whatever it is. 

Other people aren’t as specific as that.  All they know is that they want an office based job, or one where they are outdoors; or one that involves meeting people; one that involves working with their mind; or one that involves working with their hands.   Others still can only define what they want to be in terms of what they don’t want to be.

Think about your strengths and your interests.  What are you good at both at work and away from work?  What kinds of things really fire your interest?  What do you do with your leisure time?  What gets you talking passionately from the heart? What engages you in an interesting conversation?  The answer is in there somewhere.

Starting up your own business doesn’t mean that you have to invent a new gadget.  You only have to sell people what they want, regardless of how many other competitors there are.  Your ideas to start a small business could involve ways to improve an existing product or service or an innovative ways to combine products and services.

It doesn’t take much to create a business edge.  Your top small business idea might be as simple as building a reputation as being an expert, being trustworthy, being on time, or being friendly.  Consumers are not fools but they are generally easily pleased with ethics, politeness and good value for money (please don’t confuse at with cheap).

 Until next time!

Gary