30 Day Challenge To Get Your Business Online

[workshop]

There are two fundamental mistakes most people make when they start thinking internet. The first is that it is complicated and expensive. Not so. It is no more complicated than doodling on one great big doodle pad. Secondly they start getting silly. They start worrying about proprietary rights and anyone who might try to nick their idea. What they don't understand is that nothing is ever original. That there are already more people than they will ever know, who are already working on that self same idea. And that they have ever reason to search them out to try to work with them.

I forget who originally came up with the idea that became Google. But it was a couple of students working out of their backyard. Look at what it is today. The key to the internet is others. Others who find whatever it is you are doing. Others with whom you work and who help you to grow your ideas into reality.

I have a workshop site that is already generating a micro-income and I would like to talk to others that might be interested in growing this into a community resource that works for all of us.

[workshop]

Here we have an index of possibilities. Opportunities available to anyone curious enough to open and step through the door. A game that's all about trial, error and experimenting with ideas. A bit like fishing for those who get up early enough.

[workshop]

Hi there, I would like to know if there is a company that can provide dinner for 2 adults every night in Knysna. Due to home circumstances, it becomes quite a strain to have varied, healthy meals. Please respond ASAP. Thank you

- Catering Contacts

There you have it. Something as simple as this. I know of half a dozen people who have started up businesses offering pre-prepared meals. But none of them last. Some even set up expensive web sites. But they still make every excuse they can think of, to duck the question.

I don't understand why. It is so simple!

Google works. It is inexpensive, doesn't take up time you don't have and it is not complicated. What more does a small home run business need? That is besides a measure of common sense. A sense of community perhaps?

[ians]

I have numerous products which i designed manufacture and sell. They are all on hold as i suck and marketing and distribution.

[ians]

My braai cabinet. You spoke of a spit braai, so i thought i would add this pic.

[ians]

I have a mind which doesnt sleep. Check out the cranky woodworker and custom kick boats, just to get an idea. If i could just find someone to market and sell my products.

[workshop]

Message me and let me have an email address. I will put up a page for you, we can work on some text and we then wait. You don't happen to know a caterer or two who do spit braais on call?

[workshop]

I have a mind which doesnt sleep. Check out the cranky woodworker and custom kick boats, just to get an idea. If i could just find someone to market and sell my products.

Google braai cabinets and you should find On the Coals where I have posted the two pictures you put up. Someone looking for a braai cabinet is going to find them. It might not be next week, it might not be next month. It might even take a year or two. But the point is that they will be found.

That is an opportunity. Something that anyone can do.

And what I find exciting is the fact that what we are talking about is a global village. Where anyone becomes everyone. And everyone has a reason to work together with everyone else. Ideas, opportunities and results.

[workshop]

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Something that terrifies most. We get comfortable knowing our boundaries and when you strip those away, most freeze like a startled rabbit in the glare of the hunters spotlight. There is something very comforting about proprietary rights and territorial integrity. Socialism is a very nasty concept.

[Homeandsecure]

Where is the rest of the days

Where is the rest of the days... cant find em

[workshop]

The days just drift by. And we just sit on the brink watching, waiting.

[workshop]

I give in. Can't ignore it any longer. Key word stuffing the meta title is not a best practice. I admit it. It has taken me close on ten years to change the way I have always done these things. But we can't always ignore that there is a need to change.

Google has been very slow to respond to one of the workshop sites I am working on. After making every excuse I could think of, I conceded that maybe things have changed. I took the key words I had primed into a page title, moved them to content and in next to no time there it was bouncing around in the search results I was looking for.

So whilst it is still possible to get a blank page to rank, it is not as easy as it used to be.

[Dave A]

I took the key words I had primed into a page title, moved them to content and in next to no time there it was bouncing around in the search results I was looking for.

It's no use having key words in the title if they're not also in the content

[workshop]

So whilst it is still possible to get a blank page to rank, it is not as easy as it used to be.

Not necessarily. Maybe pointless. But it is possible to get a blank page to rank and that is point made. Far too many people believe a web site is a one shot project that they throw money at. Not so.

It is a process which works so much better if the owner is hands on and prepared to make mistakes.

[workshop]

people think it's magic... but it's not. It's a simple science that anyone can replicate whether or not they have any experience online. The more you read, the more you learn, the better you'll do.

This is where it all started. And the question that is begging to be asked is why it takes so long?