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5 Planning Concepts Before Starting Your Business

December 22nd, 2009

5 Planning Concepts Before Starting Your Business photoEveryone want to have a own business. Sometimes people do a random action without thinking first.Which causes their business can be survive in long time

Before entering into any business I recommend you always prepare a business plan so you have a roadmap to get you on the right path. Here are five areas to consider before going into business:

1. Something You Are Passionate About
The starting point of any ideal business is, was, and will ever be passion. What are you truly passionate about? What do you love so much that you’d do it for free?

2. Specific Market ‘Super Niche”
Find a super niche in which your business can be exclusive to your target audience. The difference between a niche and super niche is further defining the needs of your target audience. For example a niche is: A eco friendly clothing company. An example of a super niche is an eco friendly clothing company just for new born babies.

3. Low Start-Up Cost
Having a low start-up cost means you can use your own money to start the business and then bootstrap business growth out of business income. You won’t have the cost of financing weighing you down, plus you don’t have to worry about pleasing investors.

4. Low Fixed Costs
There are two types of costs in a business: direct (or cost of goods) and indirect (fixed costs). Direct costs are the type of costs that occur when you sell the product or service. If you didn’t have any customers, you wouldn’t have this cost.

5. Deep Funnel
Picture a vertical funnel-wide at the top, narrow at the bottom. The top of your funnel is where your prospective clients enter. They get a great taste of your business (information, special introductory offer, trial period, etc.) for free or very inexpensively. Once they’ve experienced the value you deliver they can buy from you an increasingly richer and richer selection of products or services.

Paypal, Online Payments

December 4th, 2009

Paypal, Online Payments photoPaypal has quickly and easily become one of the most common used forms of online payments on the internet today. Paypal is a website that allow consumers, businesses, and sellers to unite and make it an easier method of payment for a variety of services, products, and memberships. Paypal has over 100 million accounts with their service and there must be a reason why.

Paypal makes everything just a little easier when it comes to selling your products or services online. For example, many online gaming portals such as POGO or Spogg have opted to include paypal as a form of payment for their gaming communities. This saves a lot of time and hassle for a variety of people. One specific advantage to Paypal is the fact that your customers will not have to enter their credit card numbers over and over again along with all of their information. Paypal conveniently and safely stores all this information, which means your customers will only have to choose the Paypal option, log in and approve the amount you are charging.

Other advantages for sellers is the fact they have free tools for use with eBay, accepting credit cards, merchant solutions and gateways, simplified shipping and tracking, sellers protection, and low and affordable fees. For your customers, Paypal allows them to send money from 55 countries throughout the world in many different types of currencies. Speaking of currencies Paypal allows those purchasing items from the another country to convert their currency into that of the sellers, making things much easier on both ends.

Paypal offers four different solutions for merchants using their services. These solutions include:

• Standard Payments
• Pro Payments
• Email Payments
• Addition payments

Standard Payments

The standard payment option allows you to accept payments from your website with Paypal, even if your customers do not have an account. With this option there is no approval needed, shopping cart is not required, no commitment, no fees regarding startup, cancellation, or monthly. Additionally, you also have the option of accepting credit cards over the phone, fax, or in person for an additionally monthly fee.

Payments Pro

This option is an all-in-one feature, which allows you, for a low cost to get the features that merchant accounts and gateways offer, your customers have the ability to pay for items purchased from you right on your website, and your customers have the ability to pay you by way of fax, mail, in person, or telephone. Paypal offers a shopping cart that you can use with their services for free.