October 27, 2009
November 2009 Issue
A complimentary publication of
Top-Web-Entrepreneurs-Plan-It.Com
Critical Data Mining
Proven Process
Enhanced by Web 2.0 Capability
Build Sound Businesses
The big news this month is that the power of Web 2.0 is no longer exclusively available to multi-million dollar Web entrepreneurs.
Web 2.0 business building power
is now accessible to small business owners
and ... within existing budgets!
In This Issue
The Essential Business Data
The Logic Of Sound Business
A Proven Business Building Solution
My Personal Experience
Getting A New Most Welcome Helping Hand - SBI! 2.0
Total Control Over Your Business Future
This month's newsletter intends to help you solve the problem of acquiring the reliable and critical data upon which you can safely build a business, from the ground up, on a micro budget, never overextending your capabilities or resources.
Information alone is not enough, even if it is reliable.
You must use a proven business building method.
Then feed it the business critical information it needs to help you build a viable business with it.
With proper research and planning, you will even be able to solve problems that you would otherwise never have thought of! ... the kind of problems that other businesses discover too late to remedy, and fail because of that.
After reading this newsletter, and followed my recommendation to further investigate the proven business building solution I will offer, you will be in a position to research, plan and do what you have to do to build and grow your business ... and stay out of trouble!
The Essential Business Data
You're in business when you can reliably, beforehand, ...
Identify the planning methodology best suited for your intended business. More on this below.
Identify the real demand for the "XYZ" you plan to offer.
Identify the real competition.
Identify how to make your offering unique.
Identify how you will let the world (... or local town) know ... without spending for advertising.
Identify how you will get enough people interested in what you offer to make your business profitable.
Identify how you will earn the trust of your prospective customers.
Identify how you will monetize every aspect of your business.
Identify how you will manage growth.
Identify how you will proceed to make the most out of the business critical information gathered above!
After having completed the above, you will have a viable plan ready to put into action!
The Logic Of Sound Business
You are either in business ... or you are not.
If you want to be in business, the only acceptable "in between" state is when you are actually planning your business venture.
The first question that you must answer is:
"Is there a real demand for the product and/or service that I want to offer"?
Logical question to ask. But how do you find out and be reasonably confident that you have found a reliable answer?
Many have fallen into the usual trap: "Well, every business selling XYZs that I know of seems to be doing all right".
How do you know? Have you seen their books?
Of course not.
Besides, how will you stand out and rise above the competition?
The bad news is that you don't have the foggiest idea if the market you are planning to tap is ... temporary, rising, mature, declining.
You think you do but, trust me, you don't.
You must find out!
A Proven Business Building Solution
The good news is that there is a safe and reliable way to find out if there is a market for your "XYZ"! I have been using a business building process since 2005. It's comprehensive and above all, proven. And it does not cost thousands of dollars to produce reliable results, either. Far, far from it.
What if you find out that there is not enough demand for your "XYZ"!
Check mate?
No, not necessarily.
There is usually something that you already know well, or know how to do well, for which there is a big enough demand to build a business upon.
Trust me. You do. Everyone has something others are willing to pay to get. Usually, it will be information they need to arrive at an informed decision.
In fact, you will generally not be able to sell a product or service without, first, generously giving away the critical decision-making information.
What is this information that people are actively looking for? How can you find out?
The business building process for small business that I use virtually ensures that you do not leave any stone unturned.
You are guided through the necessary steps to identify everything in your accumulated experience and know-how that can be usefully brought to bear in support of your chosen business venture.
No other business process or course does that!
As a result of this in-depth introspection, many aspiring entrepreneurs discover that they have to trade their first intended goal for a more accessible and profitable one. A new business direction, tailor made for them.
How can that happen?
My Personal Experience With
SBI! 2.0 The Business Building Process
As you are guided through the data mining process looking for demand, you will sometimes be fortunate enough to uncover markets that are "under tapped", or even barely tapped at all!
I experienced this happy unexpected outcome while investigating ways to diversify my business.
I discovered that there is a definite demand for my particular experience in meteorology.
I created Weather-in-Canada-Observer.com to meet that demand. Out of all those who were looking for the info I have to offer during the past 12 months, 76,403 individuals landed on my site and generated revenue. Best of all, the number of people who find my site keeps increasing!
I also discovered that there is a real demand for basic information on ham radio. A hobby, of all things! Well I dug into my experience as a ham radio operator - my call sign is VE2DPE.
I created HamRadioSecrets.com to meet that demand. That site has already been visited by 12,844 individuals since the beginning of the year ... and those visitors have generated income. At the rate my traffic has been increasing, I expect visits to exceed 30,000 this year ... and continue to rise at an accelerated rate because...
I am now using an improved version of the business building process I have been using since 2005.
SBI! Version 2.0.
Getting A New Most Welcome Helping Hand
SBI! 2.0 is the only business building process that I recommend to aspiring small business owners and existing small business owners.
Because, with SBI! 2.0 your potential customers actively participate in the growth of your business ... by contributing extra solid building blocks!
People already eagerly (not intentionally) participate in the growth of Twitter®, Facebook®, eBay®, YouTube®, Flikr®. They use these platforms to express themselves, build social networks, get recognition - worldwide - in ways that were not possible before.
SBI! 2.0 is Web 2.0 for the rest of us ... small business owners.
SBI! 2.0 lets you, the small business owner, offer a platform to like-minded individuals - your web site visitors - to willingly and eagerly express themselves... and share a real audience: yours!
Instead of remaining anonymous among millions of others on Facebook® or Twitter® you can give them the visibility they deserve on your business Web site.
Instead of remaining anonymous among millions of other blogs hosted on Wordpress® or Typepad® or Blogger® you can give them the visibility they deserve on your Web business platform.
You allow them the opportunity to express themselves and actively contribute to the growth of your business ... instead of that of Twitter®, Facebook® Wordpress® Typepad® Blogger® and the like!
Total Control Over Your Business Future
With SBI 2.0, you are always in control and only publish your visitors' contribution when it helps enhance the core of already useful information on your business Web site.
SBI! 2.0 gives you total control over your business viability and growth.
It's all business.
Guaranteed.
As editor and webmaster I publish this newsletter monthly to help promote entrepreneurship on the web.
I sincerely hope that you have found this e-zine informative.
Best regards,
Claude Jollet B.Sc.A.
Applied Knowledge Entrepreneur
Top-Web-Entrepreneurs-Plan-It.Com
"From the idea to the bottom line. My business is in the black by design!"