An Internet Entrepreneur’s Blog

If you are looking for WordPress themes that you want to use as a content management system and one which allows you to easily update sites, then look no further, here is one right here at InternetMarketingBlogs.

The good thing about the templates on that site is that it allows you to enhance your sales pages with WordPress’s search engine optimisation features already built in.

Also, if you want no frills ready made landing pages for your products, these free templates can just do that for you.

-ishykiel-

A lot of people nowadays want to start an online business and get out of the rat race. If you are one ofthem, I think the best thing to do right now is to educate yourself as fast as possible on the details and specifics of how to start an online business.

One great place to start my friends is at MarketingTips. It offers some of the best free information on starting an online business and contains videos and podcast for you to start your learning process and get in on the internet business wave.

-Ishykiel-

One of the most valuable ways to improve on anything, be it your business, your work, your relationships or whatever is to get some feedback to the people who matter most to you. We live in a social world and sometimes we might feel that what we think is the most important than what everyone else thinks. But, we also need to understand that we need to improve in order to survive. If we do not improve the things that we do, we might just be ditched on the side for something that is even better than we can offer.

Hence, I would recommend that you take a look at PollDaddy.com. This site offers you a way for you to get some feedback from the people who matter most to you; your visitors to your site.

One thing that I like most about polldaddy is the fact that it is simple to use and flexible. It allows me to customise the style of the polls to match the website design and also it has some cool skins that you can choose from or even customize one on your own in CSS.

Whatever it is , it offers something that I find truly useful. That is; the ability to gather feedback from people who are the most important to me, you guys who read my blog.

-Ishykiel-

If you ever dreamt of having your own magazine, do head down to ISSUU. You will be surpised by the cool features that they offer.

I use to spend quite an amount of money, I think about a hundred dollars to purchase a page flipping software that could allow me to have an online magazine. But with issuu, I think you don’t have to do that anymore. Just sign up for an account and get yourself your very own page flipping flash magazine. Now, ain’t that real cool?

Issuu’s tagline is “Read the World, Publish the World”. I like that simplicity and I feel that the world is really getting smaller as we are all so interconnected. Try looking through some of the magazines on Issuu and you will be surprised to find some really good and interesting information that might just make you want to visit a faraway place of some kind.

-Ishykiel-

Have you ever thought to yourself that you would like to have a podcast of your own without the hassle of actually going thorugh the process of recording your voice, having the podcast edited and all that smush.

I for sure thought that the above is a big hassle and wouldn’t want any piece of that. Well, at least until now. 

Introducing Odiogo. It uses a media-shifting technology which expands the reach of your content from text to audio. It will enable you to transforms news sites and blog posts into high quality, near human quality audio files that will allow your readers and now listeners to readily download and play the file anywhere, anytime, on any device of their choice. Now, ain’t that cool and powerful?

By turning your readers into listeners, you are basically transforming your once text only blog into a high quality, ad-supporting broadcast that can really allow you to reach more audience than ever before. Want to know the benefits that odiogo gives you? Here are the details below:

• Automatic podcast generation
• “Near-human” quality text-to-speech
• Listen Button feature deployed in next to no time for WordPress, Blogger,TypePad, BlogEngine.NET and Terapadplatforms
• Detailed download statistics
• Make money from embedded ads

Vector graphics are increasingly being used and made by t-shirt designers and web designers alike. I use vector graphics extensively in my web projects. Iluustrator and Photoshop are two tools in my design arsenal and I use them regularly to design logos and other design elements that I need for my web projects.

I guess, I am someone who would rather design stuff on my own than outsource it to other designers. I like the feeling of having creative ownership over my projects as it gives me a certains ense of fulfilment and allows me to engine up the creative juices in my head a bit.

However, if you are not so inclined towards doing graphics on your own and woul rather outsource it to a graphic designer or buy something off the shelve, don’t fret, I happened to know a graphic design house that sells vector graphics right out of the box.

They are the people at GoMedia. They provide a multitude of services but I am particularly impressed by their Arsenal range of vector graphics in a box. Damn, the graphic design of the boxes itself looks delicious enough to eat, I tell you.

However, if you would want to learn how to make your own software box graphics or your very own E-book cover, there is no one is stopping you my friend. In fact, you might attain a greater sense of personal satisafaction if you could produce your own graphics.

-Ishykiel-

Single word domain names are so rare that you would need to get it from someone who already has it, usually for a big sum of money before you can even dream of getting those single word domains. 

The domain name trade is a huge business going by the prices of the domain names being traded. Hundreds of thousands of dollars are changing hands between domain name sellers and domain name buyers.

It is not surprising then, that some people became millionaires by just trading domain names!

You might not like what these people are doing but who can stop the workings of a free market? When there are sellers and there are buyers, thats where the money flows.

Let me give you guys some links that might just get you started on this domain game. Head over to DNForum and NamePros guys!

-Ishykiel-

Yes. You can make a living buying and selling websites. Its sounds cool right? Buying a website for pennies and flipping it for a tidy profit. It may sound like a nifty idea but if you really want to go into the at of buying and selling websites, you need to knwo a thing or thing about the intricacies of this industry.

Buying and selling websites is no different than buying and selling businesses. A business that can rake in the profits, month in and month out and with increasing profit margins is definitely an easy business to buy into. You wouldn’t want to buy a money losing business and one that has gotten itself into all sorts of problems that might just get you scrambling for a business dictionary just to understand the whole drama.

So, what kind of sites would you be looking for for a good flipping deal?

These are some of the characteristics that you might wanna look out for when buying a website:

1. The website has matured for sometime - A site that has been around for quite some time, maybe at least for 6 months to a year. 

2. The website that you are looking to buy has high unique views and unique visits per month.

3. The website that you are looking to buy  has content that is hard to find and is unique in its own way.

4. The website that you are looking to buy has a monetisation model that generates a monthly income. 

5. The website that you are looking to buy has a sizable pagerank.

The list can go on but the above are some of the things that you can look out for when buying websites. 

What then do website traders do when they have bought these sites? 

Like buying a property, website buyers or website flippers if you would like to call them such, “improve” on their property. Some improve the design of these sites. Some add more functionalities. Some go to the extent of redesigning the whole site and bringing it up to a whole new level altogether.

It would be much easier to sell a site if you could actually prove how much the site has earned over the last 6 months or so. Any statistic that can add up the value of the site can be given to prospective buyers.

Two sites that I recommend that would allow you to buy and sell websites are; SitePoint and DigitalPoint.

You might wanna check the forums before doing any transaction. 

Cheers!

-Ishykiel-

I have always wondered how one can actually install a blogger template to suits one owns taste and flavour. I feel that the in the box templates of blogger to be too darn …ugly. Well, maybe its just that I have been exposed too often to those templates. 

Also, I wonder why anyone would want to use the same templates that everyone else is using if you could actually get newer and more exciting templates from other sites such as this and this. 

The template offerings for blogger sites is just so humongous that I sometimes wonder which template I should use. I am just spoiled for choice I guess. 

After choosing the cool template for your blogger blog, you might be wondering how you could install that template on your site. No worries, it should be easy for just about anyone with a computer and a broadband connection. For more good information, head down to Isnaini’s site. 

-Ishykiel-

I stumbled upon a site that had some pretty good content on how you can grow a small business. The 3 main things mentioned in the guide is:

• Position and Plan 
• Create an Identity
• Spread the Word 

Position and Plan. Every business startup needs this. If you don’t position yourself well and in a market that is simple overcrowded, you might just sink amongst all that noise. You need to plan, because if you don’t plan, you might again sink in the abyss of the tasks and chores that you need to accomplish. 

Creating an identity is important too. Your customers need to separate you from the rest and it will be to your advantage if the name and the brand that signifies your business is easy to remember and unique. It will be an added advantage if you provide superb products and services and people remember you and your business by that characteristic alone.

Spread the word to as many people as possible. Let people know that you exist. A good product is as good as how much people knows it exist and how they perceive it to be. So, don’t hesitate to let people in on your business and what you have to offer. Try to make it your product and service as compelling to buy as possible. Keep it simple for them to buy and give them a good positive experience all around. They will come back for more and maybe help you spread a word or two.

Wanna know more and in greater detail, head down to SmallFuel.

-Ishykiel-