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Common Mistakes to Avoid As an Entrepreneur

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  Common Mistakes to Avoid As an Entrepreneur When starting up a business venture, there are some pitfalls that could be easily avoided if known earlier. If you could avoid these pitfalls, your business is likely to thrive amongst its competitors. Since you are a starter as an entrepreneur, there is need for a guide that could help recognize whether your business would survive all the tough times that would attempt to break or make it.   If you are able to avoid these costly mistakes in the earlier part of your business start-up as an entrepreneur, you have eventually began your entrepreneurship career on a good foundation. But here comes the bigger question. - How can you avoid what you did not know would come? Here are some common mistakes that you could easily avoid as an entrepreneur. 0. Over-spending or Under-spending At the beginning of your career as an entrepreneur, you are challenged with the notion to pump all you can into your business so as to have a standard and well set-u

5 Small Business Ideas for Students

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  5 Small Business Ideas for Students As a student in the university, secondary school or any learning institution, it could be so challenging to read, study, attend classes and at the same time run a small business. There are businesses in the world today that a student can venture into. It is highly displeasing when you ask a student ‘What are you into?’ and all he answers is ‘Nothing’. However, if you are one of such persons that do not know exactly what business to do as a student, there are some lists of five different businesses that you could do to earn you a decent income. 0. Tutoring Do you have an idea of a broad knowledge in academics? I suggest you run a tutorial center for students. There are people out there that would pay for impacting that knowledge of yours to them. Running a tutorial center is not as cost as you may think. With the help of your friends and colleagues you can be able to maintain it successfully. 0. Web Design The niche of web design is part of the most

5 Reasons Why Small Business Fail

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  5 Reasons Why Small Business Fail There are many times we encounter failure or rejection in our lives and career. The failure of a small scaled business is not an exception to this. When this happens, we would need a guide to help us and get us back on track. This is one of the major reasons why some small business starters need an expert guide or someone who is more capable and have been in such field with years of experience. It is also best to ask these sets of expertise for mentorship on how to grow a small scaled business into a larger one. There are numerous underlying reasons why small business could fail. However, I would just discuss the five chief reasons that are responsible for the failure of most small scaled business. 1. No proper prior planning Is it considered safe to just take a flight without knowing how, when and where you would land? That is absolutely wrong. Same thing goes for starting a business. It is not right to start up a business just because most people a

5 Reasons You Need A Website For Your Small Business

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  5 Reasons You Need A Website For Your Small Business The whole world keeps advancing towards globalization. It would be very good if we follow the trend if not, we would go into extinction and no one would know about us again. Even if they do, it would be just the people within our locality. Have you ever considered some celebrities who never had a social media account or rather an online presence? The result of this is that most of their die-hard fans and lovers would barely know the updated details of their lives and career. In essence, if we fail to follow the trend then we would become an outdated and boring person that only few of the world’s population would know about us. This same ideology is highly applicable to running a business brand, product or service. How do we show the world that we are still in relevance if we fail to follow the trend? As it is common said, ‘The trend is your friend’. However, the truth is the trend could be our friend but what happens when we fail t

How to Become a Digital Marketer

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  How to Become a Digital Marketer Are you interested in becoming a digital marketer but you do not know how to start or where to start from?  This article captures the answers to your problems regarding ‘How to become a digital marketer’. Being a digital marketer is not the acquisition of a degree but getting accustomed to a set of skill that is used to promote products, goods or services via online channels. Some of these channels includes, video marketing, affiliate marketing, Search Engine Optimization (SEO) campaigns, Content marketing and the likes of these. Here are ten essential steps to become a digital marketer. 0. Learn the basics of digital marketing This is the first step toward becoming a digital marketer. There is no job in life that you do not require you to learn the basics before practicing it. in essence, you become a digital marketer by practicing what you learned over time.   0. Work as an SEO expert After learning the basics of digital marketing, try as much as po

How to Start a Digital Marketing Firm

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 How to Start a Digital Marketing Firm Starting a digital marketing firm could be one of the hardest things to do as a beginner. However, with a guide you could fix all that is needed to be fixed before finally starting your career as a digital marketer in the industry. Here are some helpful tips that are worth fixing in order to build, start or launch a digital marketing firm. 1. Educate yourself The most important part of the approach is to get educated first. There is no way you can start the digital marketing firm if you do not know anything about the basics of digital marketing and the fundamental tools of digital marketing. Take some courses online, attend webinars, read books and most especially, get a mentor or mentors to educate you based on their experience as a digital marketer.   2. Find your niche As a digital marketer, there is a need to specifically know the area or choose an area of specialization when it comes to your career. This rule applies to all careers in life. -

How to Write Social Media Ads That Converts

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  How to Write Social Media Ads That Converts The social media is one of the most used platforms of the internet. This is however due to the fact that it is widely used. There are millions of users accessing Facebook, Instagram, Twitter and any social media platforms you could think of. With the aid of the social media, you could connect directly to anywhere in the world.   However, it is of no use if you cannot use the social media as a platform to reach your target audience. Results has proven that the social media is one of the most effective and efficient ways to promote your brand.   If you are a frequent user of social media platforms, you are likely to have come across some adverts that could either serve your needs or the ones that you do not actually need. Do you know that you could spot an advert that does not meet your requirements but on further view on it, it catch your attention. All of a sudden, you begin to see the need to venture in the services, good or products that

5 Skills You Need To Be A Good Digital Marketer

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5 Skills You Need To Be A Good Digital Marketer. Have you ever met people who could convince you to buy something you never need? After they marketed their brand, you eventually see the need to purchase it and you found yourself having something you thought you never needed at the first place. It is not a trick. Neither is it a magic. It is just based on having the good skills that could convince people to purchase your product. Having a good digital marketing skill is a necessity for the growth and expansion of your product or business brand. No matter how excellent your product may be, if there you are not excellent at your marketing skills you are not likely to get people to patronize you. In this content, I would expose you to some skills that would help you to be a good digital marketer, the need for it and how to acquire it. 1. Storytelling skill We live in an era where people people’s attention is focused on their lives and jobs. Unless you could get something else to grab their

Things to Consider Before Choosing a Web Host

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  Things to Consider Before Choosing a Web Host When starting your website, the need for a webhost is essential. This is because the webhost is foundation of every website. Therefore choosing a good webhost that serves you is a key to having a standard website. This must be done with some consideration because a webhost is the building block that your website is based on. Thus, if it fails then your entire website has failed. Here are some factors to consider before choosing a webhost: 1. Define your website needs What are the needs of your website? What type of website do you intend to create? - An e-commerce website, a blog or an online community. This is the first approach towards choosing a webhost. You should ensure to choose a webhosting that is capable of serving the purpose of your website. 2. The reliability of the webhost It makes no sense if your website is built on a webhost that goes off and turns on every now and then. Initially, the essence of getting a webhost at first

Why Your Blog Is Not Ranking On Google

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 Why Your Blog Is Not Ranking On Google After you have created your blog and launch it, you then type your website name in Google to see what your rank is compared to that of your competitors. On the long run, you are not able to find your page on the first ten on the Search Engine Result Page (SERP) or the first search result page. Then you know that something is wrong somewhere and that needs to be fixed for you to attain an efficient result. My aim of writing this article is to show you what could be responsible for your blog not ranking on Google and how to fix them. 1. Do you have a duplicate content on your blog? This is a major factor that Google analyze when ranking websites that has the results that was searched by an internet user. It sorts out the one which is the original and dumps the duplicated one. 2. Does your website have an active online presence? If you want your website to be ranked high on Google, then an active online presence is absolutely needed. Having an onlin

How To Choose A Blog Niche

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 How To Choose A Blog Niche   Have you considered starting a blog? It could be sometimes difficult to choose what topic of interest that your blog would specialize since there are numerous of niches out there.   Therefore, making such decision could be challenging. Based on his words, he could be right. How can one perfectly finish a work that was not well planned from the start? How would you continue after choosing a career that could be hard to maintain? On the long run, if you cannot continue, you would quit and this could mean a waste of time for most people.   Therefore, for your time to be wasted, here are some tips that could guide you in choosing a blog niche rather than doing some random guess work that wastes time, money and energy. First of it all, what is a niche and why do you need to specialize on a particular niche in your blogging career? A niche is a specific and well-defined topic that a blog covers. There are various types of niches in blogging. Some of which includ

Common Mistakes To Avoid As A Blogger

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  Common Mistakes To Avoid As A Blogger    If you have taken the step to start a blog, there are lots of things to learn in order to be successful in your blogging career. It is best to learn from people who have been in the business before you commit some costly mistakes.   Check out 7 mistakes you need to avoid in order to run a successful blog.   1. Not focusing on a specific niche  Before you start a blog one important factor to consider is specializing in a specific niche. If you don't define your niche before you start then you have a problem even before starting.  It is sometimes best to write a blog post titled 'My First Blog Post'. In this post, try to explain to your readers why you are blogging publicly, the purpose of your blog, the values they will get by reading your blog and more specifically why your blog would focus on the niche you have chosen to focus on.  It is a common saying that when the purpose of something is not known, abuse is inevitable. You must