Hope Sells – and Fear Sells Too!
I enjoyed reading John’s post I Don’t Believe In The Big Bad Swine Flu on Business Opportunities and Ideas yesterday, because ever since shortly after the Swine Flu pandemic was first mooted in the news I have been convinced the whole thing has been overplayed. In the above mentioned article John cites the Fox News [...]
How Not To Present a Business
When setting yourself up in business it isn’t long before you face the task of presenting your business your potential customers. You have to present your business in a way that will inspire others to want to buy goods or services from you rather than from your competitors. Recently I received an email from someone [...]
Advantages of Online Business
The advantages of online business are several. By online business I mean business conducted over the internet using the web or email – and although email plays a part, I’m assuming the main front for the business will be a web site. Looking at the advantages of online business, it becomes quite easy to see [...]
Web Affiliate Marketing
Affiliate marketing is the process by which an affiliate refers a (potential) customer to a merchant, and if the customer subsequently buys from the merchant, the affiliate gets a commission. This is nothing new and web affiliate marketing – a very common mechanism via which money can be made from a web site – is [...]
A Positive Customer Experience
You see a lot written about bad customer service and bad customer experiences in general. It’s nearly Christmas, or I feel like relating a more positive customer experience and I feel like being upbeat for a change! I’m actually writing this article in my local Starbucks, and while was waiting for my coffee just now, [...]
Using a Letting Agent
Following on from my article entitled House Letting, in this article I plan to talk about letting agents and the kind of services they provide to a landlord. When I was a landlord I didn’t actually use a letting agent, as it turned out. I was luck enough to end up with a tenant I [...]
House Letting
House letting is a well known means of generating passive income. Actually the income is not one hundred percent passive because the house will at some point need the attention of the landlord – even if it’s only the annual gas check and other bits of maintenance, but I digress. Most of the time, assuming [...]
Ways to Make Money From Property
Property investing is, I reckon, one of those evergreen areas in which to look for a business opportunity. The value of property may rise and fall, but the long term trend has always been upward so far. Compare the price of any house today with what it was twenty years ago. Currently we’re experiencing a [...]
What Is Online Marketing?
Online marketing is one of those general terms that you hear mentioned a lot these days. It is also one of those terms that for several reasons can confuse, not least because of the amount of hype (even mystique) surrounding it. So, what is online marketing? In this article I will take an “in a [...]
Hello
Hello and welcome to my business opportunities notebook blog. I’ve been running a software development company now for the past twelve years. During that time I have also been in the property business, having been a landlord for a couple of years. Naturally, software and property are two areas of business that particularly interest me, [...]