Successful by managing an on-line platform or a blog

These days everybody can make a living by doing what he/she loves most. You might not make it to one of those featured on CNN or Today’s Show but you have a good chance to make a good living by doing what you are passionate about. The internet allows you with numerous FREE marketing tools and shareware to achieve your dreams. You can use community platforms like Facebook, MySpace, Friendster to get in touch with peeps and use tools like Twitter, Tumblr, Ping to spread your message out there. All those tools and platforms are out there for FREE and wait for you to get used properly.

Using those tools will not guarantee your success they will just help you to achieve your goals.

First step to become successful in on-line business, you need to evaluate yourself truly and learn everything you possibly can about your passion. There is no way around it and you need to be willing to do what it takes – if you wish to be triumphant. You need to know and find out everything about your passion to become the best because competition is huge out there and only the finest will be successful.

Second step to take is you need to build yourself a nice home, it doesn’t matter if it is an informative blog or an instructive website or simply a community platform, you need to build your home in a way that it suites and serves your idea best around your passion. Your home is where you live and where you bring the peeps you met on the various community parties to hang out while they showed an interest in you or your passion already. The other peeps you met, you need to leave them alone, because you don’t go to parties to pitch everybody or do you want to be the geek. Just leave them alone, they might come later on by themselves by reading your web address on your detailed profile you set-up.

Third step is you need to work hard, hustle and get involved with like minded people. There is no secret. You need to engage into conversations in forums, blogs and in communities where those people are and publish valuable content around your passion by writing on blogs and/or uploading videos and/or pod casts and/or pictures for FREE. Share and give out as much valuable content you can – you will be rewarded with lot of eyeballs that you can monetize, other people will pay it back to you by doing business with you.

This is how it works out there, but make no mistake, it’s a lot of work and requires determination and patience to be victorious at the end.

Now good luck and just do it!

Get your “Personal Assistant” virtually to stay competitive in challenging times.

In today’s world there are so many possibilities offered by the internet to start a new business on-line or to organize your existing business more efficiently.

One way to organize your business more efficiently is to use virtual staffs, which allows you to become more flexible with daily business tasks and manage your business smoothly through difficult times. Hiring and finding qualified staff in transition periods is always a difficult mission and leave you most of the time with fix costs and a certain investment in an adequate working environment, not to speak about the legal obligations once you need to lay-off staff for some reasons.

By hiring virtual staffs which are dedicated 100% to you and your business – it is much easier to handle all these inconveniences. You just provide the qualification profile of the staff you hire and the service provider will take care of it for a small implementation fee per person hired. If you have to fire staff for any reason just a 15 days written notice is needed and no additional cost apply further. The costs are fixed no surprises and a replacements service is assured in case of sickness or vacancy of the regular personal assistant. No hassle and always somebody who will be there for you in case of problems.

Easy administration for every entrepreneur and manager and even more advantageous for the business. No need to have huge offices because people work for you trough the internet at a different location and all this is already included in the monthly fee. No need to invest in an adequate working space (furniture, IT hardware and IT software) with material all this is also provided by the service provider and part of the deal.

This is a method of outsourcing tasks and will help businesses to stay flexible and efficient in challenging economical environments and procure them in the same time an additional advantage by saving substantial amounts of money.

Hiring virtual staff and outsourcing tasks will become more and more an inevitable measure that companies need to take in order to stay flexible and competitive in a global market environment.

What is your opinion on this subject?

What’s the difference between winning and losing?

Living the life you’ve always dreamed of where you are 100% happy or dreading the sound of your alarm clock?

It’s a matter of hustle. A simple decision to work harder than everyone else. We live in a day and age where the cost of entry into business is ZERO. The only thing that matters is sweat equity.

But what motivates a person to hustle?

It’s not a switch that can be turned on or off. It’s not a gift that some are blessed with and others aren’t – it’s the passion for what you’re doing.

I’ve always been someone who has worked hard in everything I did, but most of the time I didn’t enjoy it, I just kept working because I knew that’s what it took to be successful. Until, I got into entrepreneurship. Every morning, I jump out of bed, because I love what I do – I live a fast pace life that is always changing and always pushing me to learn more. I’m passionate, and because of that, I can outwork anyone, anywhere.

Gary Vaynerchuk is the biggest advocate of this – he believes that the key to success is loving what you do. Gary is a prime example of loving what you do, and hustling because of it. So, quit going through the motions and getting discouraged when something doesn’t go your way. That my friends, is the type of shit that embodies a hustler.

Things happen, and when they do… move your keynote from that warm, well lit room, to the streets of where ever you are . . .

The Social Media Revolution

Take a few minutes of your time and think about the Social Media Revolution – it’s worth it, if you want to succeed and stay in business.

Just to give you an inside view how social media marketing work and how to use the tools available - I just wanted to present to you a few short videos to help you grab the massive potential of it. Take a few minutes to take a look at it by just clicking the links:

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gza8dvN8Hkc

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

Social Media is a “Thank You and Support” ecosystem in which you need to give away quality content (video – blog – podcast – etc…) for FREE to draw interest for your brand, your business, your services or your products. The word of mouth in Social Media is so much more effective and powerful then ever before thanks to tools like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Tumblr, Blogger and many more, which could be used for FREE by users to give them a voice.

You need to be aware of the fact that you don’t control the message any more – the users out there control the message and businesses need understand that. The game has changed considerably. So what companies need to realize is that they will just endure in this new ecosystem when they listen, react and communicate with their users and customers out there.

Basically they need to give a shit and care about their users and customers!

More content value you spread out there for FREE through Social Media, more people will talk about it – more feedback for your business will be a result of it, which will be converted positively into brand recognition and increases the potential to monetize.

Content is King - Marketing is Queen and runs the Household

But putting out valuable substance is just not sufficient to be successful, it’s just part of the way – now you need to hustle, spread the word become part of the communities relevant to your business and live in it. Be supportive and help people in those networks and they will pay it back to you multiple times. That’s the key and that's how it is.

Always keep in mind, the first step to be successful – the better your content is, more word of mouth you will obtain out of it, more it will profit your brand and your business.

Small town rules apply in global business now

Due to the social media tools like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, Tumblr and others the world has become closer, a small town ecosystem. For today’s business, small town business rules apply in a globalized business economy.

Everything is connected and everybody knows you, your business and your brand. So I am wondering how this will be handled by existing businesses and brands which aren’t use to care and give a crap about their users.

The rules of 1950’s will become more important when building a business and a brand. So you need to care about your customers and apply some of those rules to stay in business. Think about it.

What are your thoughts about that?