5 Mistakes While Finding Your Niche

Finding your niche includes narrowing your target market. [©ayzek at istockphoto.com]

Narrowing your target market is part of finding your niche. © ayzek at istockphoto.com

Finding your niche in business is fundamental to making a profit, but it is also fundamental in connecting with possible partners for joint ventures and other collaborations. Unfortunately, finding your niche is filled with pitfalls.

One of the first

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Thankfulness As a Business Strategy

How does pink bat thinking connect to thankfulness ?

Pink Bat Thinking and Thankfulness

Does “thankfulness” play a part in business success? Yes it’s the US Thanksgiving this week, but seriously, is there a direct link to business success?

Take a look at a movie called Pink Bat.

Then, in the comments below, share your thoughts –

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Do You Dream of Making Money Online?

Having dreams is a good thing and if you dream of making money online you are not alone, that’s for sure!

How is that dream going?

   

The Collaboration Live workshop may be just the thing to transform your dream of making money into a stream of real money. With just a few

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Collaborative List Building | Have You Tried it Yet?

Joint giveaway list building event

Collaborative list building is a fun way to attract people to your business and to generate increased sales of your service or product. It is something that attendees at the Collaboration Live event will learn and have an opportunity to try. Before we get into that, let me define “list building.”

List Building

It

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Sure, Comment on a Blog, But… | Part 3 Don’t Defeat Your Purpose

Do not leave a comment on a blog if it hurts the blogger

So far I have told you why blog commenting is a good practice and then I provided seven tips on how to leave a quality comment on a blog. Today, I want to finish this series with four things you should absolutely not do when you comment on a blog. If you are doing

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Entrepreneurial Traits Are In My Blood

Dad had many entrepreneurial traits

I’ve been thinking today that entrepreneurial traits are probably in my blood. That’s because I’ve been thinking about my father, André Goutal;  today, May 7th, 2011 is his birthday – he would have been 110 years old today.

My Father’s Entrepreneurial Traits

My Dad Came on this Ship, the Rochambeau

Born

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Interesting Conversation Starters While Networking

Interesting conversation starters help create opportunities for listening

The Good Listener

The subject of interesting conversation starters came up during my webinar with Randy Thomas and Susan Berry last week. In the context of attending live events, they suggested asking the person you are meeting something about the conference speaker’s presentation. “What was your take-away from this morning’s speaker,

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Promote Your Blog | Stir Up Some Action With Comments

Promote your site with blog comments

Prime the Pump for Action

People are attracted to action. They slow down to look at an accident. They are drawn to a crowd. They go out of their way to determine the cause of a loud noise.

So what attracts people to your blog site? Action does! Is there a

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The Blizzard of 1880 and Internet Marketing Confusion

Internet marketer confusion

Tired of Snow!

Welcome to the winter of 2011. I just got inside from shoveling a path to the back of the house for an oil delivery. That meant cutting through a mountain of snow left from shoveling the driveway 5 times in the last 5 weeks.

I couldn’t help thinking

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Home Business Newsletters- Not the Best Way to Learn Home Business Information

I am committed to helping my fellow baby boomers as they hit retirement, look at their dwindled resources, and consider the possibility of starting their own business. One of my “helps” is a Newsletter called “Tips for Growing Your OWN Home Business.” Many other home business entrepreneurs are paying it forward also, offering their

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