Category Archives: Money and Business

I have heard of many cases of people who got turned on to podcasting. Podcasting for your business can be a great idea not only to promote your company, but also to do something interesting. Imagine how many people drive to work every single day. Many of them are bored to tears not listening to anything while driving. For many people, however, listening to podcasts can be a great way to pass the time. If you do not feel like creating your own podcasts, you can at least listen to some podcasts created by some other business people. I am sure that you will find something useful if you spend some time looking for it.

Most people I know do not like their jobs. Only a handful of people actually like what they do. It would be difficult to find people who are passionate about what they do. Once you find such people, you can at least know that liking your job is indeed possible. One way to like your job is to have a home business. The thing about home businesses is that you can choose to do whatever you like. The only challenge is choosing a product or service that is going to sell. You will make money from your home business only if there is a demand for your particular products or services.

Everybody knows that a businessman needs business cards to conduct business. If you try to compare various ways to promote a business, you will discover that business cards are indeed one of the cheapest ways to promote a business. The question is how to distribute business cards. Probably one of the most obvious situations is after closing a deal or when you just made a sale. What is the right amount of business cards to hand out? It is at least seven or eight. One business card is not usually enough to make a difference. You need to give a person more than one so that the person will have enough of them to give to other people if an opportunity arises.

Good online reputation can be very useful when it comes to business relations, or even when it comes to our daily lives. Is it possible to manage our online reputation? It seems that it is, but the price is $88 per month. I am talking here about a tool that scours millions of blogs, news sites, images, and videos for you to track your name, company brands, industry trends, and news about your competitors. This tool allows you to search for any keyword or keywords, and makes it possible for you to indicate with what words you want your keywords coupled. It also allows you to specify which words to exclude. The results can be saved and emailed to anyone. Having said that, I do not really see the reason to pay so much money for this tool, but companies that are interested in their reputation will probably benefit from it a lot.
Anyway, I wonder if the company that I am discussing was able to detect that I wrote this post about them. If they care about their reputation, I am sure that they are monitoring who is writing about them and what this person is writing. It might be fun to check who is writing about me.

Spyware is a very dangerous thing to encounter, especially if work efficiency drops because of it. Spyware can cause pop-up windows or even major data-breach threats. It has been estimated that spyware causes serious network downtime at more than 25% of small and mid-size businesses. This might be in particular very harmful for small business, as the time to resolve a problem caused by an infection takes on average two and a half days. It has been estimated that the cost of dealing with spyware infections amounts to thousands of dollars per year. One would think that with so many anti-spyware programs available, the threat of spyware infections is minimal. However, recent studies show otherwise. The problem is that with every new software created to fight with spyware, spyware creators get smarter. They are capable of creating malware that is very hard to defend against.

I predict that the fight between spyware creators and those who want to prevent spyware from attacking our computers will continue endlessly. That will be the case unless the government will take some action to penalize spyware creators in a stricter way. Until then, we can expect that spyware will continue to attack our computers, and we have to be skilled enough to recognize it. If you want to be protected from spyware then you should have at least two different anti-spyware programs installed on your computer. Spyware is a real threat and we should acknowledge that.

Many people are looking for ways to make some extra money. In such a case it is definitely a good idea to have multiple streams of income. That is why I thought that I should give you some ideas how to achieve that goal. Here is a list of common ways webmasters earn money:
� Selling ad space. This is a good idea for larger websites with many visitors. You will probably not earn a lot if you have very few visitors. That is why this may only be an option for more popular websites.
� Product sales. This depends how good you are at selling and marketing. You will need to convince your visitors that the products you sell are worth buying. If you put some work into SEO, then those Internet users who search for some products using search engines might stumble on your website.
� Pay-Per-Click Ads. If you integrate your ads in a clever way, this will maximize your income. It is probably the most popular way to get extra cash. Of course, you may need to blend in the ads properly and have a lot of traffic to earn a lot of money.
� Affiliate programs. Many people are making a lot of money with affiliate programs. Of course, how much you earn will depend on your marketing skills.
The order I listed different ways to earn money is random, and what will be the main source of your income depends on your abilities, interests, and probably the niche of your blog.

When it comes to businesses, all of them want to have as many customers as possible. They have many methods of looking for and obtaining new customers, but unfortunately some of them forget about one thing. They forget about the importance of customer retention. I am sure that many of us encountered customer service that was not helpful at all or perhaps even rude. Companies like this forget that it takes ten times more money to obtain a new customer rather than to just keep a current customer happy. Consumers are not that demanding but they are not going to allow business to mistreat them. If you are a business owner, make sure you pay special care to customer service and make sure that you appreciate all of your customers.