Is probably easier than you think. Ponder this – The man who believes himself to be in the taxi business won’t go nearly as far as the man who believes himself to be in the transportation business. What business are you in? Can you diversify your core business? Say you had a residential cleaning business, are you in the business of cleaning or in the business of giving people back their time? If you provide a clean home, perhaps you could provide a home cooked meal? What about a pick up/drop off drycleaning service?  You may be able to introduce additional income streams if you first broaden your business model. Another added benefit to introducing additonal product lines? – when you have multiple product lines with the same customer they are far less likely to leave you. Think about it – do you have a telephone provider and an internet provider or do you have a provider who sells you phone, internet and cable as a package? Hmm…

Oct 28th by Shannon

So you want to be in business for yourself. You need a name, a product or service people want to buy and a way to reach your customers. I don’t think it’s any surprise that in today’s day and age that your strategy must include a website! So… where does one begin?

Instead of approaching the godaddys or register.com Why not try a BlueHost.com – Why? Glad you asked:

1. you need more than just a domain name. you need a domain, a server, email accounts and perhaps software to manage customer databases, send out e-blasts and a lot more.

2. Get in touch with bluehost.com – get your domain name, unlimited server space and a ridiculous amount of email accounts complete with amazing customer service.

3. Ok – now what? Well, you need a virtual storefront. Not a web designer? or maybe you don’t have the funds to put one to work…? try this. Go to wordpress.com and register for a blog. Pick a template, add your pages, content, change a color here or there and voila.

4. Have your domain name you just got from BlueHost.com point to your wordpress blog.

 

5.Set up your website to represent you, your service and how to go about contacting you. Ensure you are maximizing your site by registering key words, turning on comments and…

OR

you could visit www.monstertemplate.com and choose a template from thousands upon thousands and either purchase the template for a web designer to tweak. Or have the site itself tweak it for you at a cost.

For expertise on how to ensure your website is doing everything it can for you – drop me a line at shannon@therenaissanceeffect.com  or let me know what resources you have found that we can add to this section.

Oct 23rd by Shannon