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Starting A Real Brink and Morter Shop

Alex — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:12:34 +0000

About two months ago I took on a part time job. It was a quick way to save some money to start a new business. With my online business still making money and it does not need much attention the extra income from the job can be saved. There are some big goals that I have set for myself. The true entrepreneurial dream was for a real world business. With the cost of starting a real world business in a brink and mortar shop this dream had been placed on hold. As I realized that I am not getting any younger I started to dream up some ideas and get a plan in motion. The first step is to write a business plan and have a road map of where I want this business to go. Once I have set the goal I need to do all the legal work to make this a real business. The math I crunched brought me to a grand total of $35,000 to get started. This is the amount of money I need to pay rent and stock the business. As a new start up I will try to do all the work myself or ask some friends for help. The addition of employees would cost way to much for the first few month of business. As I grow the business I will add employees, but first I need to just get this thing going. The idea is to keep the business a bare as possible till I can prove that it will make money and then grow from there. There are many more steps to setting up a real world business. It makes my online business look so simple. With my online business it was very easy to set up and maintain with little effort. If anything I want to learn from taking this dream and turning it into reality. If I fail then I now know what I will need to set up another real world business. Many people say that the economy is tough and that I will lose my shirt, but that can be said about any type of business. The fact is that even in the worst economic times new business have been started and succeed. Now its my time to make a go of it. The fun part is that I am going to document my effort and share it on this blog as I move forward. Since the first step is getting the funding it might take a little longer before I can make and real headway in my effort.

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Alex — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 15:11:45 +0000

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The only thing you do not get out of the box is the right template. The templates or themes are very basic, you need to search online for better looking themes. With so many themes to pick all I wanted was one theme that I could use for all my sites.

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Alex — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 14:54:25 +0000

Disqus Comments

Alex — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:27:19 +0000

Anyone with a Word Press blog knows how frustrating it can be with all the spam comments. Today I installed Disqus comment management service. This is a free plug in for Word Press that can manage your comments. With many features and the ability to filter spam comments. It’s nice to not have to worry about comments and have a free service to handle everything. The plug in was very easy to install and to get it working properly. If you want a great comment management system for Word Press visit www.disqus.com and please if you have a comment you can try Disqus for yourself. One other great thing is the ability to share the commnet with a users Twitter or Facebook account.

New WordPress Updates

Alex — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:19:30 +0000

The last few weeks have been crazy with WordPress updates. The first one I did almost killed my blog. Since then I have made sure to turn plug-ins off. This seems to help and the upgrades have been working properly.

Every time I do an update I feel like the blog is going to get corrupted. If you are not backing up your database you should before any WordPress update. It’s better to be safe then sorry. Let’s hope this is the end of updates for awhile.

WordPress 2.8 Almost Killed This Blog

Alex — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:40:44 +0000

It was a tense few moments today as I tired to upgrade to WordPress 2.8 and was horrified to not being able to get back to my admin. The upgrade seemed to have worked, and then tragedy struck. There was a fatal error message. I thought I had lost everything on this blog. What a nightmare to have to relocate everything from Google cache pages or to re-write the whole site. If anything I learned today to back up your WordPress database and to make sure you check the WordPress site for any known issues. Very happy to have the site back up and avoid all the hassles of having to re-do this site.

Update old sites

Alex — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 17:08:48 +0000

As an affiliate marketer you tend to set up sites for all sorts of offers. Then some do not turn out to be that hot and you forget about the site. Once in awhile one of these sites bring in a sale, but not much to the bills. This week I will go through some of the sites that have not performed and see if I can make any changes that might increase sales. There are some sites that I can change completely and get a new offer that might be better then what is there now. There will be some sites that when they come up for renewal I will not renew. Just want to clean things up a bit and squeeze some extra sales from some of this sites.

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WordPress Marketing for Affiliates

Alex — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 02:59:24 +0000

As many of the seasoned affiliate marketers know WordPress is king. If you are building sites to promote your affiliate offers, then WordPress is the easiest way to get going. With just a little tweaking you can set up a very nice looking site with little effort. Ever since I started to use WordPress I have seen my affiliate income go up. There is something about a blog that the average consumer can related with. There are some amazing themes that you can use to make your site fit into what every you are promoting. If you have not used WordPress to build affiliate offer sites, play around with WordPress you can do wonders without much experience. The best part is that you can install the software very easily through most ISP’s. Look around and you will find amazing plug-ins that let you add so much function to your sites. If you want to make more money online learn how to use WordPress and how to customize it to your needs. Once you learn you are on your way to affiliate success.

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New Theme For Vendingmatic

Alex — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 15:03:02 +0000

It started a few weeks ago with a search for a new theme. The previous them on Vendingmatic was practical, but felt a little tight. The posts were also a little difficult to read in the color that the theme had set. Looking at this new them it feels clean with no clutter and it makes reading better. Looking at adding a few more features, but for now hope you will find this a better theme and continue to read this blog.

Slow Start for 2009

Alex — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 17:54:22 +0000

The first week of the year is always slow. It gave me a chance to get caught up on the ugly side of online marketing. Since I did not have much income to worry about last week, I updated many of my sites. There are also some new sites I want to have up in time for the various holidays coming up through out the year. The second week of January you start to see more traffic and conversion rates start to go up. Let’s hope that traffic picks up and people get back into their spending mode.