Podcast of the day #potd

This is for you if you have a business, but you cannot really say that you love what you do, or you’re thinking about starting a business but you haven’t taken the leap yet. Get surprised by how much your fitness and sports training programs have already taught you about business!

Listen in: Dodging the Down-Swings 

Why does your business do what it does? Why will it be successful?

On the last podcast episode I talked about the importance of research and what I want to do is dig deeper into that topic over this and the future episodes, too.

First of all, what are the key areas to research when you want to build a successful business and what kind of questions should you be asking…

Listen to the podcast here.

Best Free Internet Marketing Tools

I figured it’s time to list some of the best free Internet marketing tools out there. As we all know, there’s a LOT to choose from, but these are the ones I think I couldn’t do without – not in any particular order:

Screencast-o-Matic

Create up to 15 minutes screen capture videos with this free software. And it only costs $15 to get rid of the watermark, too!

LastPass

Keeps track of all your passwords, you only need to remember the one to login to LastPass! After saving a website’s username and password, it will autofill the login when you return to a site. Marketer’s best friend!

More great free internet marketing tools here

3 Reasons Why People Unsubscribe to Your Newsletter

Read the article: 24 Benefits of Email Marketing, The Comprehensive Guide

Online Business Step by Step: Need an Idea?

How to develop ideas for info products and services sold online?

In this article I’ll show you it’s not difficult to come up with ideas, whether you already have a business or you only just considering to start one. However, I have to warn you first: before bringing a new information product to the market, you must always determine there’s an actual demand.

When you know there is, there’s no need to wait until you come up with a completely new and unique idea. Pretty much everything has been invented by now, so you just need an angle nobody has thought of before. What you can do is for instance:

1. Improve existing program or product

- See more at: http://www.neathomebusiness.com/online-home-business-1/

Also watch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QP4N-BXhck

3 Reasons You Should Create Your Own Info Products

In one of my previous articles I shared some tips on how to come up with product ideas. What I forgot to mention is this: as a service provider or coach you should seriously consider creating your own products and programs to sell online. Here’s why:

1. Time is limited

Think about this: if your business is all about your expertise and knowledge, you’re only working with clients 1:1, and you’re aiming to sell out all your time, how do you then plan to expand your business? Start working the nightshift, too?

Leveraging is the keyword here my friend. Information products are a great way to leverage your time.

The other two reasons at: http://www.neathomebusiness.com/create-your-own-info-products/

3 Things Your Joint Venture (JV) Partners Are Looking For

Last week I recorded a short Thursday Takeaway video which revealed the fourth reason to create your own info products if you are an author, speaker, blogger, life coach, health coach, professional organizer, virtual assistant, or run any other work from home business and build a presence online.

In other words, use content marketing to get more clients and make money.

That fourth tip was to leverage other people’s connections and reach through running an affiliate program and joint ventures. Those can actually grow your business with a lightning speed if you manage to attract the right partners.

JV is about mutually beneficial relationship: You scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.

Read the whole article at: http://www.neathomebusiness.com/3-things-joint-venture-jv-partners-looking/