CMUThought Community Thought » Blogging Online http://www.cmuthought.com Building a Community One Thought at a Time Sun, 25 Jul 2010 21:17:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Gaining business credit http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/06/gaining-business-credit/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/06/gaining-business-credit/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 05:47:56 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1668 For many small and upstart businesses to succeed in today’s market takes a great marketing plan and money. With the economy still figthing its way back to recovery many banks are requiring more long term business credit in order to lend any sort of capital. There are some great resources on how to find and obtain business credit no matter whether you are a start up or a growing company looking for business capital to fund an expansion of your business.
With many companies online and having the ability to compete globally with little inventory and the right marketing plan having a solid business plan in place and the right market niche can help you succeed where many others fail. It is estimated that most small businesses fail within the first three years of opening their doors and this is mainly due to the inability to manage capital. Many of the small business loans that are available today have so many restrictions and payback time lines that most small business owners don’t even attempt to apply for them. Your local bank may be able to work with you in a small capacity but they are going to want to see results rather quickly and may not be your best source of business capital. IN some of the seminars that are available they will teach you that one of the main ingredients in a successful business is the passion of the owner and the employees. If you can have a high degree of human capital willing to take the journey with you and are engaged in the success of your business then you can certainly beat the odds.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/06/gaining-business-credit/feed/ 0 Being seen at a trade show http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/03/being-seen-at-a-trade-show/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/03/being-seen-at-a-trade-show/#comments Sat, 27 Mar 2010 14:48:24 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1501 If you walk through any consumer or business trade show you will more than likely come out with a bag stuffed with promotional trade show items like marketing pens that help companies keep their name in front of the customer. I have always wondered how many stress balls, golf balls and tubes of chapstick one could use in a lifetime. Some have gotten creative with cardboard display setups where they feature iTunes rewards and other technology gadgets. It is all about the name recognition and branding of the particular product or company. There have even been companies that have their own branded footwear which is an interesting gimmick. Now walking around in a pair of HBO branded slippers is not such a bad idea. This will be a great relaxation after spending all day stuffing my bag with pens, golf balls, and water bottles.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/03/being-seen-at-a-trade-show/feed/ 0 Starting online and growing your market http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/starting-online-and-growing-your-market/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/starting-online-and-growing-your-market/#comments Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:32:17 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1411 There are only two things you need to know about when it comes to making or earning money online. You need to have a way to make money online and you need a way to market it. Some people have great ideas on how to make money, but fail to market it properly. While some people know great marketing techniques, but just don’t have anything to market. So the trick to earning lots of cash online is having an idea, product, service or system that can be marketed to as many people as possible. This is a powerful combination for making money on the computer and bringing these folks together have resulted into some amazing stories. A better term for this process can be called social networking and the sites that offer a setting like this can be helpful to both parties.

I decided to attack the marketing side of things and ask some of the top marketers online today what their secrets are. I wanted to see what they would say; if they could only pick out 1 piece of advice to give folks like you and me and see if we can learn from them. So be sure to check the replies to this blog post and see what that one piece of knowledge is for marketing online. Feel free to share your own knowledge and what is the one thing you would tell others that helped you the most? Can you think of just one thing that sticks out like a soar thumb that has helped you the most? We all want to earn more money online and some of us just want to earn money online. A successful marketer can take just about any product or service and promote it to thousands and thousands of people. Ideas can come from anywhere and some have even been successful by giving away Free Magazine Subscriptions which helps to create long term customers. They are able to use these free subscriptions in order to promote their content and other offers. The more people that see your online promotions will give you the best chances of success. Online success is different for everyone and I’m sure we all have different views on what success means. It doesn’t matter how big or small your goals are for making money online, but it does matter how you promote or market; for you to achieve any goals.

We all have the World Wide Web at our finger tips right now and the way we choose to use it, is up to us. It doesn’t take a genius or any special skills or knowledge to make money online. It just takes dedicated people that are willing to listen and learn and these will be the people that are going to be receiving money from their Pay Pal accounts or getting the checks in the mail. A million and one ways to make extra money online today and no excuses why you shouldn’t be earning money right now from a few of these ways that are available.

To help you get started or to advance you further with your online goals; just bookmark this blog post right now and keep up with the replies that get answered below. I hope dozens of people will share their best idea on how to market better online and we can all have more ideas and suggestions to help us earn more money on the internet. If you feel like you have nothing to offer in a marketing perspective; then feel free to just mention the 1 online idea or system that has made you the most money on the computer.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/starting-online-and-growing-your-market/feed/ 0 Forums on Blogs http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/forums-on-blogs/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/forums-on-blogs/#comments Sun, 21 Feb 2010 05:53:03 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/2007/01/forums-on-blogs/ Your blog and website need traffic and visitors to accomplish your goals. Whether they be financial or personal, getting people to your blog is a must to create a community of readers and customers. At GoBoardz Forums they offer a free forum that allows you to create your own postings and customize with your own pics, avatars, and photobucket widgets.The site is very clean and fast as there are not a lot of fancy graphics and flash animation. Try them for free and start creating your community today. At different blogs online there are now many ways to create your presence.

Here is a sample of their site to help you understand the concept.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/forums-on-blogs/feed/ 0 Get your blog listed http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/get-your-blog-listed/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/get-your-blog-listed/#comments Sun, 14 Feb 2010 02:24:11 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1392 I don’t have anything ground-breaking to share and most advice isn’t ground breaking. It’s focusing on 1 or 2 little things that can make all the difference in the world. I have a process that I will refer to as MOVE. Earning money online is not much different from a regular job and you need to put EFFORT and time in it, just like you would a typical 9-to-5 job that has a 40 hour work week. Try to do a little something every day toward your online earnings or marketing practices. So you really need the EFFORT and that is where I get the E at in MOVE. Using directory submission sites to help expand and grow traffic to your site is a good step. The MO would be MIND OPEN or OPEN MINDED and this just simply means that you’re willing to try something new. Sometimes we talk too much or we are too quick to shoot someone else’s idea down and we never give it a chance to work for us. Try to keep an open mind and even if something doesn’t sound like it would help, you will still want to make a mental note or even give it a small try.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/02/get-your-blog-listed/feed/ 0 Selling solutions online http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/selling-solutions-online/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/selling-solutions-online/#comments Sun, 31 Jan 2010 06:28:46 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1366 The world of online auctions have changed the way that most Americans shop and do price comparisons. eBay has set the bar for finding the fair market value of almost any item that you can imagine. I started selling odds and ends online a few years and thought I was going to make a serious business on it but found the inventory and pricing was so unpredictable that it was tough to see how much I was actually making. Trying to set up my online store I realized there was more to the solution than what I had at my disposal. I looked into various affiliate programs that allow you to sell everything from hosting to the chance to sell merchant account solutions. Again these revenue streams can be significant if you have the traffic. So I am still developing my business solution and slowly growing our customers through blogs and various other traffic sources.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/selling-solutions-online/feed/ 0 Finding the right blinds http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/finding-the-right-blinds/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/finding-the-right-blinds/#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:03:10 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1325 I really like the Vogue Wood blinds they offer and that would look good in my living room. I can get these blinds in different colors like chestnut, natural, pearl, oak, oyster, pearl white, porcelain white, or my favorite the mahogany wood blinds. Blinds have a great way of touching off any room in the home. I like a room that is free from the sunlight and it gives it that cozy effect. Go see which blinds you like the best from Paylessdecor.com. Don’t forget to notice the blinds the next time you’re watching Extreme Makeover and if you see some that you like, now you know where to get them at!

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/finding-the-right-blinds/feed/ 0 Traveling in 2010 http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/traveling-in-2010/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/traveling-in-2010/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 17:47:18 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1290 Christmas has come and gone and now it will be time for people to return home and get ready to go back to work on Monday. It’s always hard to get started again, after you have took some time off of work.I’m just never in the mood or in a hurry to get everything out of my luggage. It is helpful when you forget to unpack some cash that might have been left in your Kipling luggage and you find that weeks later. I guess it’s close to the same feeling when someone wins the lottery. You discover or get money you didn’t know you was going to get or have. So I do like that part, but we all know the hardest part is returning to our jobs. It’s great to see our co-workers again (in most cases) and see how their Christmas went, but it can be difficult to get back in the swing of work. I don’t really think they are anything that makes the process easier, but try to do your actual job as soon as you get there. It will be better if you get back in the swing of things, before you start showing pictures and talking about what you did on your holiday. Don’t worry about it too much, because the next trip will be here before you know it and the whole process starts again!

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2010/01/traveling-in-2010/feed/ 0 Keeping your content fresh http://www.cmuthought.com/2009/12/keeping-your-content-fresh/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2009/12/keeping-your-content-fresh/#comments Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:42:23 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/?p=1244 1 – You Are ‘Forced’ To Keep Your Content FreshBlogs are essentially online diaries. It doesn’t make sense to write in your diary every month or two. Similarly, running a blog itself ‘forces’ you to update it often. And refreshing your blog often makes it more useful to readers and consumers – and by extension, to search engines who are in the business of presenting *their* clients with valuable resources.

2 – Your Blog Is AUTOMATICALLY Optimized For Search Engines

Search engines love fresh content. But that’s not the only way blogs are powerful tools to rank high. Indeed, most blogs are structured to offer a high degree of search engine optimization.

All sections of your blog are linked together. The terms used as link ‘anchors’ are keyword-optimized. Categories can be created to host themed content. Navigating through your blog is intuitive. Archives can be customized, and generate hundreds of pages of content that act as ‘search engine spider bait’.

]]> http://www.cmuthought.com/2009/12/keeping-your-content-fresh/feed/ 0 Your Blog or mine http://www.cmuthought.com/2009/11/your-blog-or-mine/ http://www.cmuthought.com/2009/11/your-blog-or-mine/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:19:34 +0000 admin http://www.cmuthought.com/2007/02/your-blog-or-mine/ For those that have their own blog you can now review my posting and get paid. It is simple and very easy to do and you get paid put via PayPal. There are several premiere consumer media company that compensates those who write about their advertisers on their blogs. For advertisers you can have their network of thousand’s of bloggers help you to create a buzz about your product or service. They provide several affiliate options which can have a great impact on your blog and search engine position. By allowing others to review my posts they get paid and I in turn receive incoming links which search engine spiders love.

I started blogging about a 4 years ago with the hopes to use as an update for members of several of my sites. This was an easy way to get information out to the masses without having to navigate the treacherous waters of email. As people became members of our sites they elected to receive RSS feeds of our blogs and this way they could stay up to date on advertising specials we were running. We expanded this reach by joining companies to write about other companies products and services. The results have been unbelievable as we have captured the attention of more members and our rankings have soared. Companies is always introducing new features and opportunities for those that blog. So why not start your 2010 off with a great new revenue source and review this and other blogs that we have to get your share of the money available.

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