Your Questions About How To Do Share Business Online
Joseph asks…
What are some creative ways to advertise an online business?
besides the usual, Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter. What are some cool and unique ways to advertise an online business.
Description of Business: a website where you upload all your photos and they then can be shared, in one click, to ALL of your social networking sites.
the question is how do we advertise this?
sorry i did forget to post the link of what we are.
myweboo.com
Jere answers:
PPC advertising is very powerful and cost efficient compared to other media. PPC can get very expensive if you don’t know what you are doing. PPC is extremely targeted, you can target geographic, demographic or you can narrow down and target particular city or town.
William asks…
how to do online trading business with shares?
Jere answers:
Each year Barron’s does a survey of online brokers. The link is in the source section. You should be able to find a good online broker that will meet your investment/trading goals. I personally use ThinkOrSwim, owned by TD Ameritrade, and highly recommend them.
Betty asks…
Where can I find customers for my online photography business?
Hello everyone! I am new to the online advertising and selling markets, and I want to know how to get my name out there. I thought I would start here, so that I can share my art, and maybe someone in Answers will like my work! But the main question is how to successfully my products on the web.
My photography is featured on www.dawnraines.com, a website hand crafted by myself. That’s another thing, I don’t want to hire someone or a corporation to do the marketing for me, I want to do it all myself.
Thanks for your help in advance!
Jere answers:
Have you tried posting your services on Craigslist? It’s free and they have a massive amount of visitors to the site.
That is where I looked for a make up person for my upcoming wedding.
Hope this helps, good luck!
Linda asks…
Is opening an online business hard?
Right now, my best friend and I want to go into an online business. We just made this decision last month. We are currently in the planning stage of what online business to get into.
Can you share some advices if you are in the online business? Is $30,000-40,000 enough? More then enugh? Too short?
What are some stress on online business compare to opening a store? Can you share me how to create our website? And does it cost a lot of money for the website?
Sorry for too many questions. Any advice on online business 101 would be great. Know any good book about it? LOL thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
Jere answers:
The hardest part about opening any on-line store or business is getting people to actually find you, then actually trust you. I’m going at this as in you’re going to start a retail type online shop.. Although maybe that’s not what you’re wanting to do.
You’re competing with other already well established huge stores. Like if you’re selling say umbrellas.. Why would someone buy from you a virtual unknown when they can get the same umbrella from Amazon, Ebay, Walmart… Etc.
Not that your store wouldn’t be just as good, or priced competitively.. It’s just the way people think. You’ll spend more time trying to drive your site traffic over anything else. You’ll need to differentiate your store from all the others.. Make it unique somehow.
Second you’ll have to find a supplier where you can get your merchandise that’s quality and at good prices so you can be competitive.
The website itself is the easy part. 30-40K would get you an amazingly sweet setup! You can open an online storefront anywhere from free (if you want to do it yourself) to sky’s the limit depending on what you need. I’ve built many a eCommerce site and for something fairly simple I charge about $250… Although that’s extremely cheap. Some of the stores have taken off, some have not. Mostly depending on the store owners advertising and such.
If I were you, before dumping any serious money into it, I’d do a lot of research regarding how you’re going to market yourself, where you can get your products, what kind of product you’re going to sell, who you’re going to sell said products to, how will you find them… Etc.
Have a solid plan you know will work and stick to it. Then worry about the actual storefront. And don’t be shy about spending on advertising.. Opening an on-line business is NOT easy. It will take more work that you think.
Sharon asks…
How can I share files online?
I am setting up a small business with 4 guys. We want to put and access files online, just like a company intranet (because we’re not all in the same location). What I’d like to do is be able to create a folder with a directory structure, and “easily” upload any type of file there (with some password security), and let the other guys access, modify, upload, etc. files as well.
Google Docs is ok, but I can’t upload picture files, etc. And I find Google Docs and Spreadsheets to be less powerful than Word.
Best case scenario is that i can simply double-click the files and open them directly, modify them, and close them/save them. Kind of like they’re located on a company server.
… oh, and I want it to be free.
Thanks, but drop.io doesn’t quit do what I need. I want to permanently put files into one place (a server) which me and other people can privately access the files/folders and open them easily, edit them, and save them.
Google Docs is close, and we’ll use that for now. But when you save files there (.docx, .pdf, etc), they’re converted to Google’s internal representation. I want them to be saved as the original format.
Jere answers:
Try
http://drop.io/
Make sure to view the video given on their page to get a quick overview of it’s functionalities.
It allows real-time editing of files, password protection and all the tools you need. Best of all, it’s free.
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