Position Position Position – The secret to success online

When you saw this heading you possibly thought of real estate or search engine placement. While this is very applicable to these two systems I want to take you a little deeper into the concept of positioning yourself for success online. Position is really a life skill with its own set of stratergies and skills. Position: A place or location. A strategic area occupied by members of a force. An advantageous place or location. A point of view or attitude on a certain question. Sports. The area for which a particular player is responsible. The arrangement of the pieces or cards at any particular time in a game such as chess, checkers, or bridge.

Over the past seven years I have been involved in Internet Marketing. The first five as part time and the last two years full time. Many people asked how I made the graduation from part time to full time and the answer is always positioning. The Concept of Positioning. If you have played or watched sports at any time you will know that positioning is the key to winning or loosing. In football you need to be in position to accept the ball if you are going score. The same applies to your life and business. My basketball coach always told me that I needed to put all my effort to get into the right position and once I got there I could have a rest. I think you would know .... he lied.

Once you get into position there is no rest as you then have to maintain that position. Positioning is a skill that can be developed: It is very important to do your homework because positioning is a skill that is developed by training and studying. It is not a haphazard occurance. Last year I was looking at a new business I could start up online so I looked at what was growing and developing. In doing this I found that baby boomers are an economic force in the community and that they like gadgets, technology, investments because they are rapidly approaching retirement and health for a similar reason. I also found that streaming audio was becoming something that people wanted to use on websites without the need for special servers, a lot of technical ability etc.

In fact in my research it was the fastest growing multimedia tool people were looking for. So I went out and found a product I could develop to position myself in the middle of this growing market. Hence was born MP3 Sound Stream that allows anybody to add streaming audio to their website easily and simply. Positioning for life. I know that we are mainly talking about business in this article however if you do not also use positioning in your everyday life then it will not flow over into your business. Success is a mixture of both personal and business strategies and this is why so many people when they come into large sums of money loose it within five years and are back to where they started if not worse off.

They had not positioned themselves in life to handle the pressures and responsibility of there new found wealth. This is possibly why many people who start working for themselves also do not make much more than they did in their job. They never re-positioned themselves. Summary As I mentioned before positioning is a skill you can develop.

1. Find out what position you want or are capable of attaining.

One of my friends is a great sales person. He sells welders and turns over millions of dollars selling this equipment. A few years ago the company he worked for decided that it would be better for him to train a lot of other sales people so they could do even more. It turned out that the company actually sold less with more sales people because the positioning of my friend to train people was not in his ability. The company actually went backwards so they repositioned him back into sales and re took the market lead again. His position was sales not training.

2. Take action and hold on.

In an instant society we are all looking for the quick fix however we all appreciate those who can maintain a solid position. I belong to an online MLM company and for 4 years nothing much happened however I knew that it was positioned for success. Today it is growing in leaps and bounds. Unfortunately some of my friends left a little too early and have missed out on the benefits of holding on. If you believe in what you are doing do not give up.

3. You don’t have to make millions to succeed online.

The concept of positioning is really all about strategies. Remember the old saying how do you eat an elephant. A bite at a time. Positioning is the same. You do it a bit at a time. First you learn then you apply. Then you learn some more and then you apply what you have learnt. By being consistent you will see it start to pay off. Finally let me tell you one last story. While I was writing this article my son was watching a documentary on the salmon in Canada that migrate up river to lay their eggs.

Some of the scenes where they would jump up waterfalls bashing against the rocks to get to their final destination impressed me. The point is they would either make it or die trying. Now there are people who are going to make out that becoming successful online is easy and both you and I know this is a lie. Just like the coach who told me I could rest once I got into position. The fact is it will take hard work and there will be casualties however if you are determined to succeed you will have a better chance of success. Some people will just find this all too hard so my advice to you is take the easy road and don’t start. by: Quentin Brown

7 Reasons You Should Be Using The World Wide Web To Leverage Your Local Business

More and more, potential customers are not letting their "fingers do the walking." To find what they need, they are using their fingers to click at Google, Yahoo! or MSN . If you do not have a website – you are loosing them before you even have a change to tell them about your product or service. Think of a Web site as multiple, full-page Yellow Page ads that gets 100 times more results for your local business. Cover every business category and geographic region for a fraction of the cost of a single Yellow Pages ad. A Web site that works is the most cost-and-time efficient way to:

1. Build loyal lifetime customers

2. Grow Your Client Base

3. Build Trust With Potential Customers

4. Get the Jump on Competitors

5. Develop and Stay "Top of Mind"

6. Extend Your Reach - Attract new local (and global!) customers

7. Diversify: Open up new revenue streams. But where do you start? Well, you need to register a domain name, host your new site, build the site pages, submit your site to the directories and them promote it.

You’ll need other people to link to your site and you’d want to send your customers emails. Perhaps most important of all you’d need to know how many people are visiting your site and how many of those are buying from you. It might seem like a lot at first glance and it can be, but not if you choose a company that gives you all the tools, in one place, with a straightforward, integrated, step-by-step process to support you every step of the way. Site Build It! (SBI!) is the only product in the world that combines site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing and that makes it easy for you to build a professional, popular, and profitable business. You don’t need any technical experience (html, ftp, etc.) either, they handle all that for you.

Sites built using SBI! consistently get high traffic, as a recent Alexa.com survey shows. - 62% of SBI! sites fall within the top 3% most popular sites on the Internet - 53% fall within the 2% most popular - 35% fall within the 1% most popular. If you can use e-mail and surf the Web, you can create a professional-looking, traffic-generating, sales-producing site. Real estate agent, landscaper, restaurant owner, health practitioner, artist, alarm system distributor, boutique owner...whoever you are and whatever you do... Site Build It! (SBI!) is the affordable, all-tools-in-one-place solution you need to build and host a Web site that WORKS. There is no better time than now to get your business on the World Wide Web... before you competition does. by: Anita van Wyk

A Real Estate Formula

It was a simple Real Estate formula. The ads ran in our small-town newspaper for years before I realized exactly what was going on. They were always the same: A house for sale with 5% down and payments of 1% of the purchase price. Maybe a three bedroom home for $90,000, for example, with $4,500 down and $900 per month payments.

When a friend started doing the same thing he explained the process to me. It was a way to get a great return on capital, and it was the opposite of buying with no money down. There is no down payment at all when you buy, because you buy for cash.

The Simple Real Estate Formula
You probably know that when you buy for cash, you can often get a much better price. With no financing contingencies in the offer, and the promise of a faster closing, sellers are willing to sell for less. You can offer $95,000, for example, on a house that might be worth $108,000. If you can't get it for less than, say, $99,000, you walk away - there are always other opportunities.
Once you buy the house, you put few thousand into high-return repairs and improvements.

These might include paint, carpet, and maybe asphalt for a dirt driveway. For our example, we'll say you spend $5,000. Let's suppose the house is worth $116,000 now. You're ready for the next important step in this Real Estate formula.

You put it up for sale, targeting buyers who can't get financing easily. You provide the financing. Because you are making it easy for the buyer, you can get more than the $116,000 value for the home - and do it without paying a realtor's commission. Let's say you sell it for 123,000. The buyer needs a down payment of just 5%, or $6,150, and makes monthly payments of $1230 per month. You charge higher interest than the going rates at the banks, of course.

This is a win-win situation. Your buyer is able to buy a home instead of renting, and you get a capital gain of perhaps $16,000 after expenses, plus good interest. Your total rate of return will often be over 20%!

In our town, the first to do this consistently were a father and son team of lawyers. They saved money by doing their own foreclosures when necessary. Once they foreclosed, they raised the price and sold the home all over again.

They made millions. Did you know that if you can get an average return of 18% on your money, you'll turn $75,000 into more than one million dollars in about fifteen years? That's the power of a good Real Estate formula. by: Steve Gillman

Buy if You Expect to Stay Put a Few Years

If you expect to remain for several years However, the smart location offer the flexibility for those who create new jobs. He, no doubt, we are not in a time of economic uncertainty. Jobless claims are rising and sales, and harder than ever to borrow for all purposes, including the purchase of a home. Therefore, it is still useful to buy a house? Here are some ideas: Buying a home is perhaps the concept of long-term investment. Day to buy a house this year and next year will be sold to a large pipe, which lies behind us and will probably remain so for a while.

Therefore, it may not make sense to buy a house when they decided to remain a place for some years. If your situation requires that you be over several years, or if you wait for the opening of employment opportunities elsewhere in the coming years will be better than letting your home. Do not forget to pay your mortgage in the first five years of ownership is almost nothing, and we simply can not all forms of identification for the foreseeable future. Yes, most economists believe that the current malaise will end, but if there is no agreement. And there is a real possibility that your house is worth more than it is today.

One of the disadvantages of real estate is likely to sila high transaction costs. What I mean is that there are significant costs associated with buying and selling of goods which can not be avoided. For example, if you buy a house, it is likely to pay the estate agent and lender and may be inferred. Fees are often thousands of dollars. At least you can contact the seller to pay the costs that are normally included in the price of the house and can not be returned. So, if you sell, we now expect the buyer to view the tab for many of the costs associated with the sale. If your house has appreciated more than it is new, you can send money on the table, only to the sale. The situation is not only financial idiots.

In recent years, buying a home as a tenant not to dumb your cousin who ate the white flesh of the first class. This is not the case today, the freedom of the end of the lease and move the jobs to which it calls the intelligent planning. In addition, because many households can not afford their mortgage payments, many have focused on leasing as a means to supplement their income. So, if you buy, you are very well equipped to rent a nice house where you pay less than the actual cost of ownership. In other words, the owner, in May, in effect, subsidizing the rent. I know that the day came in May when the rent is again less than a sense of the financial move, but it is not the case today.

If you buy, the number of exit strategies. In the best of all, buying a house, which is used for many decades, so that the inevitable development of the family and give you happiness and satisfaction of the track. But if not, and if it happens in the market, sold the house perfectly, if you sell, an alternative approach. In other words, you can rent a house to suspend payments if you do that? It is more realistic to the fall in prices higher than those of the real estate prices with more weight to arguments for the entry of luxury instead of colleagues. > Take advantage of the gaps in the market. Elsewhere in the piece, now you can use cheap prices and the lowest interest rates we have for generations.

If the possession of a sense, then it is time to buy. The concept of value depends on supply and demand, and now has a large amount of "gray duck house from the bank, under pressure to sell, sometimes at discounts of 50 percent or more. If you are willing to invest time and money on cosmetic improvements, you can purchase a whole, but this game is not for the faint of heart. You need patience, a lot of money, time and patience.

The use of professionals in their favor. This is not the time to walk alone on the real estate market. Good research, including the representation of professionals and a lot of patience can lead to non-standard offers. But it is extremely important that you "start to finish" The Game Plan, the advice provided by your agent, your attorney and your lender