Wednesday, August 23, 2017

5 Signs You’re Meant To Be An Entrepreneur

  1. You don’t complain – you change.

You know the type: they’re always complaining about a different problem in their life every single day of the week, but never offer an alternative solution.

Those are the type of people who won’t succeed as entrepreneurs.

But you aren’t one of them. When you come across a huge problem in your life, you figure out ways to bypass those problems, or fix them entirely. You know pure complaints don’t lead to gold, but only waste your time and take your mental attitude down a few levels.

That’s a sure sign you’re a purebred entrepreneur.

Take Elon Musk for example: he wanted to create a simpler, easier way to transfer money – so he made PayPal. He wanted to turn the world toward cleaner energy solutions and drive an electric car that didn’t suck – so he created Tesla. He wanted to find a cheaper, more efficient way of getting humans into space – so he created SpaceX.

Instead of complaining about the issues of the world, Elon actively seeks solutions.

  1. Pure, unkindled passion.

Passion is a staple in every entrepreneur; you just can’t survive the long work weeks, lack of funding, and heavy stress that comes associated with starting your own business without it.

But, you can’t just be passionate about something. There are tons of people in the world who are passionate about things. Even worse, there are people who become enraged with passion so intense that they burn out in a matter of days.

This can’t be you.

If you want to not only succeed, but thrive doing it, you have to be consistently passionate about whatever it is you’re trying to accomplish. Motivation is fleeting. Passion – for you as an entrepreneur – must be undying.

Take Sara Blakely as an example: she began her billion dollar business, Spanx, while she was working a full time sales job selling fax machines door-to-door. So, after a grueling, hot day of rejection and meager commissions, Sara would continue selling people on her prototypes at night.

Not only that, but she couldn’t afford to pay a patent lawyer, so she taught herself how to write her own from a textbook she bought at Barnes & Nobles. She would drive from Georgia to North Carolina at night, with no sleep, and pitch to factory mills where she would meet nothing but rejection. Until, finally, she found an investor.

There’s only one thing that keeps someone striving for their goal like that: passion.

  1. You aren’t happy without competition.

As an entrepreneur, you’re going to go through some of the toughest, strenuous times of your life when you first start.

But, you’re going to love it.

You’ll love it because you know things in life don’t come easy. That’s especially true in a capitalist economy, where trade flourishes from pure competition. You’ll always be looking out for the next player on the block, and you’ll always find a way to beat them – because a competitive nature is what’s going to get you to the top and keep you there.

  1. You’re an independent soul.

There are people who need to be guided on how to start a project, and then there are people like you.

Entrepreneurs don’t wait on data and testing and long guides on how to create the next greatest product. Mostly because, well, nobody has created some of the products that you’ll create.

That’s why you have to be a self-starter.

Even if you aren’t creating a new revolutionary product, you have to be an individual who doesn’t put things off but rather jumps neck deep into the market and starts hashing out their business. That’s the key, here: you have to be someone who isn’t afraid to start.

When J.K. Rowling was living off welfare and struggling to take care of her child as a single mother, she didn’t piddle around waiting for a bestseller to fall in her lap.

No, she sat herself down at her keyboard, and started.

  1. You don’t think inside boxes.

There are always linear solutions to problems, and sometimes those are the solutions that haven’t been thought out, yet. But most of the time a revolutionary invention, or form of marketing, isn’t thought of by following linear paths.

As an entrepreneur, you have to be proficient at looking at the world through an objective, outside lense.

Look to Google as evidence for this: there were already tons of search engines on the internet before Google was born. Sergey Brin looked at the internet, and their poor search engines, and thought of a new way to index search results via backlinks. This was revolutionary, and completely rocked the digital world with an idea that was formed by looking at a problem with an outside view.

Whatever it is that you’re planning on creating – even if it’s already been done – you have to find a way to approach it from outside of the box.

That’s how entrepreneurs turn millionaires.

 

These are only some of the dominant traits found in entrepreneurs, and is by no means a defining list.

The thing about entrepreneurs is, even if you found a way to categorize all of their traits in simple lists, they’ll still find some way to break expectations and shatter your perceived image of them.

That’s what entrepreneurs do; they change the status quo.

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Tuesday, August 22, 2017

Creating A Successful Blog For Your Design Services: A Beginners Guide

If you’re a designer, you probably already have a website set up. If not, don’t sweat it – I have a few webinars to walk you through the process of setting up your first website. For the sake of this article, though, I’m going to assume you’ve already got your website ready to go.

I’m going to be real honest with you here so that you aren’t shitting your pants later on down the road when you see the sheer size of the market you’re about to enter; There are a ton of design blogs out there.

Don’t let that discourage you, though. I wouldn’t spend the time creating a piece about how to run a successful design blog if I didn’t think it was very possible.

Why do you need to blog as a designer?

There a lot of reasons you need to start blogging as a designer, but I can narrow it down to two primary ones:

1. Blogging helps designers market their services.

That may come off as odd since design is a highly visual practice, but blogging doesn’t deal only with words. Many designers post pictures of some of the work they’ve done – aside from the things already featured on their portfolio – and talk about the process that it took them to get there.

This is hugely effective from a self-marketing standpoint. You get to visually broadcast your work so your clients not only get a taste of the final product, but also the meticulous hours and thought that goes into it. The more clients know about your quality of work, the better.

2. Blogs are a great way to interact with other designers.

Designers are a creative breed, and it’s not a secret that creatives have a high tendency to be introverts. Blogging is a great way to not only break that shell a little bit, but it also helps you reach other designers across the world who you wouldn’t be able to talk to otherwise.

Online, the designer community is wildly active, so take advantage of the feedback, inspiration, and teaching moments that’ll arise from your design blog.

My 6 steps to creating a successful design blog:

1. Read, read, read, read.

Spend a ton of time reading other design blogs. By reading other designers’ blogs, you’ll get a firm grasp on what designers are already doing, how they’re approaching the medium, and the functions of it all. This’ll also help you start to work out where you can fit in the online designing world.

2. Find your niche.

Like I said, there are thousands of design blogs out there already, and new ones are just being created daily.

Your design blog can’t just be another design blog – you have to have a carefully thought-out niche in mind. This is a key marketing strategy in most forms of digital marketing: find a unique angle surrounding design and repurpose that angle for your blog.

For example, don’t create a blog that focuses on design as a whole – you won’t get far. Instead, create a blog about architectural design for major cities. That will generate some seriously targeted traffic, and put your name on the block as the go-to authority for that niche.

3. Market your blog as a valuable resource.

This isn’t going to be a blog about your random thoughts, experiences, and rants that go on in your head. In order for this blog to turn into a revenue/client-generating medium, you’ve got to market the hell out of it as the go-to resource for valuable content.

You need to be writing articles that inspire, persuade, and teach your audience about your craft, then hit social media hard with self-promotion. Don’t just shamelessly promote, though – promote your help. That’s what your blog is going to provide, and that’s what will draw people to it.

4. Use social media to connect with your audience.

Every successful blog has social platforms that they use to directly connect with their audience. It’s free, it’s immediate, and it’s personal. You can promote your content, lead discussions, handle issues – all with immediate, branded touches.

Your blog can be the greatest thing on earth, but it doesn’t mean a thing if nobody can find you. Make sure you’re following like-minded people and tastefully promoting your content with the value of it in mind.

5. Create golden content.

You don’t have to be a modern-day Hemingway or anything, but you do have to create interesting, valuable content. You’re a designer, so your strengths lie in the aesthetics of things – that’s fine. But, we aren’t talking about pure pictures, here. You have to create content that people are going to take time out of their day to click through and read.

At the end of it all, just ask yourself: is this something I’d personally click on and read all the way through?

If not – don’t post it.

6. Make sure your site’s design reflects your own professionalism aesthetics.

Yes, the blog is about your content – but what kind of audience is going to respect what you have to say as a designer if the very design of your blog is sub par? We judge books by their covers, let’s be honest. Make sure yours is clean, fresh, and visually appealing to even the most meticulous designer’s scrutiny.

 

It’s going to take some time to start generating real, definable results from your blog – that’s why so many people give up after a short period of time.

But, you aren’t like most people.

Stick to your chops, create original content frequently, and blast social media channels with your value; your designing service website will become a massive powerhouse within your niche in no time.

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Monday, August 21, 2017

Affiliate Marketing Lingo: A Crash Course

This is a quick primer to review before I post my in-depth articles on creating successful affiliate blogs.

First things first – you’ve got to know what the hell I’m talking about before we get down to the nitty-gritty of affiliate blogging. There’s a ton of lingo that may seem way too confusing if you aren’t familiar with it all.

So, here’s your guide to refer back to as you read on.

ACRONYMS

CPC

This stands for Cost Per Click – it usually refers to the budget of a digital ad campaign where there is a clickable link involved. The CPC is how much it actually cost you (or your client) to get that single click.

CPL

This stands for Cost Per Lead – this is a payment model used by merchants just seeking to get any kind of lead, whether that be email addresses, site registrations, or even completed surveys.

CTR

This is your Click Through Rate – use this to determine how many clicks you’re getting on a particular ad, email, or even your website’s landing page.

PPC

This is another payment model used by merchants where a bid is set (usually estimated by the desired CPC) and payment is only required when a link is actually clicked.

ROAS

Return On Ad Spend – this is a stone-cold metric used to determine exactly how much revenue is generated per dollar spent on advertising. This does not take into account leads, social shares, or anything else besides dollar amounts.

ROI

Return On Investment – here’s where you can include the value gained from social shares, email open rates, and brand awareness; basically, the entire return of investment in advertising including all things physical and metaphysical.

BASIC TERMS

Affiliate Agreement

When you get your first ‘OK’ from a merchant to be apart of their affiliate program, you’ll get a copy of one of these. It’s basically just an outline of what’s expected by both parties from the agreement, and the legalities of both parties involved.

Affiliate Links

This is your money maker. It’s a special URL given to you by the merchant that you’ll drop in your blogs for your audience to click. That specific URL is trackable, which means the merchant is able to see where the customer came from – which is how you get your money.

Affiliate Networks

Usually, you’ll interact with these guys – not the actual merchants of the products you’re selling. These are third party companies that handle all of the affiliate linking, tracking, and paying to bloggers like you. They just take the load off of the actual merchants, and help get more exposure of their products by recruiting bloggers.

Some good examples are companies like ClickBank, Amazon Associates, and Commission Junction.

Charge Backs

This’ll happen when your readers click an affiliate link, go to the merchant’s site, buy a product, then cancel or return the item. When that happens, you’ll get charged back for however much you were originally paid by the merchant, since the purchase didn’t actually get finalized.

This can also happen in CPL programs if your merchants determine that some of the leads paid for are fraudulent.

Click Fraud

There are a ton of automated bots that crawl the internet – as a result, sometimes PPC campaigns receive fake clicks, which is called click fraud. These kind of clicks shouldn’t ever be paid for, since those clicks will never result in conversions.

Commission

This is the predetermined amount you’ll be paid by merchants, based off of their desired outcomes.

Conversions

When you get a lead, the desired outcome is to get them to convert into a full-blown customer by buying a product/service. Conversions will typically be your main source of income.

Cookies

Cookies are used pretty much everywhere across the internet, but have direct implications in your affiliate blogging.

A cookie is a piece of text inserted into your web browser when you visit a site, that assigns you with a certain user ID. Sites usually use it to identify you as a repeat visitor, or to track which items you’re clicking on to recommend other similar ones to you.

As an affiliate, cookies become useful in the event that one of your readers will click on your link, go to the merchant site, and exit the browser. But, if they visit the site again and convert in a certain timeframe, you’ll still be attributed to the purchase.

Cookie Stuffing

DON’T EVER DO THIS.

This is a scamming practice that involves “stuffing” artificial cookies of your affiliate link into a user’s computer. So, when that user eventually goes to a site to buy, your fake cookies will technically associate the purchase with your link, and you’ll get paid.

Except, you probably won’t get paid – you’ll just get banned for life.

First Click

When a reader clicks your link and goes to the merchant site and doesn’t make a purchase, you are still considered the source of the first click. This means that if they then go onto another blog, and click an affiliate link to that same merchant, you still get paid for it, since you were the first to generate the lead.

Last Click

Just the opposite of what’s mentioned above – if your link is clicked by a customer who already has visited the site from another affiliate, you won’t get paid if they convert because of the First Click.

Payment Threshold

Most merchants won’t actually pay you by the click – they’ll only send you a lump sum once you reach a predetermined amount called the payment threshold. This prevents millions of micro-transactions occurring between the merchant and their affiliates every day.

Super Affiliates

These are the legendary people you read about that cash out with million dollar blogs. Super affiliates are the top-generating affiliates of a program, and usually generate about 80% of the merchant’s sales for that program.

Tracking Code

This is the code that is attached at the end of your affiliate URL that allows your merchant to track the click-throughs and attribute your blog with the sale.

Here’s an example: www.amazon.com/?ID=UNIQUEID 

White Labeling

White labeling occurs when a merchant allows an affiliate (you) to sell their product under their own brand without mentioning the actual merchant. For instance, if you were selling wallets from the WalletCompany on your blog called ZingaWallets, and they allowed you to white label, you could sell WalletCompany’s wallets and market them as ZingaWallets without ever having to mention that you’re actually selling someone else’s products.

These are just the basics of affiliate marketing lingo, but they should cover pretty much everything you’ll come across.

If you have any questions for other words/terms, just let me know in the comments and I’ll help get you up to speed.

Don’t miss out on my Affiliate Blogging series – you’ll get loads of helpful info on setting up and successfully running your own income-generating blog daily – so subscribe to my email list to get ahead of the competition.

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Sunday, August 20, 2017

The Freelancing Lifestyle – A Primer For My Services Series

I’m about to start rolling out my guides on how to tailor your blog to the many forms of revenue generation – this is a primer for my “Services” blogging series, all of which deal with freelancers looking to drive some attention and clientele to their site.

Freelancing: Waking up whenever the hell you want (so long as you’re getting your work done), working from wherever you want, earning a killing, and still having time for the simple things in life.

It’s not all fun and games, however. You still have to fight for your work and work hard to find clients in the beginning – an entrepreneurial spirit is a must-have.

Once you’ve got a client-base and a steady source of business, though, freelancing is the ultimate employment channel.

But, just how good is the freelancing life? I’ve compiled a short list of the major perks that come hand-in-hand with the decision to work for yourself.

You Earn Every Cent to The Dollar

One of the biggest rationales made in the decision to leave a job in favor of freelancing is the ability to actually earn every cent of value you provide.

In a company, when a bid is made to a client for your services, the bid includes overhead costs (management, technology, leasing value, etc.). So, you may be providing $2,000 worth in design services – but you’re only actually getting a third of that.

When you’re freelancing, you can still bid for overhead costs. The difference? You keep every cent of it. There’s no dividing funds among management and no trickle down in capital. Every bit is yours.

You Make Your Hours

Sure, you’ll still have deadlines.

But, you can choose to meet those deadlines in whatever fashion you choose. Kids have a field day? No problem. Start work at 6p.m. You got invited to go on a camping trip in the middle of the workweek? Go! You can work from your laptop at night.

That’s the main allure of freelancing. You choose when you work, how you work, and where you work.

Work/Life Balance

Get this: Only 29% of freelancers work a full 40-hour workweek (which is crazy, considering my next point).

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That means more time for your spouse, more time for that novel you’ve been writing, more time for exercise…. More time for living.

Higher Earnings

As a freelancer, you’ve got to get real familiar with bidding. You’ll set your rates for certain projects and submit them to the clients. If you bid too high, they can barter you down. Or, you can simply say no. Then, clients who value your work more will pay you higher.

You’ve got to be careful here, though. Don’t get too zealous with the bidding system and set your rates to ungodly levels. That’ll be sure to drive all of your clients away.

A good rule of thumb is: If you’re being asked to take on too many clients at once, you should probably increase your rates by 20%. If your client-base is bone dry, though, you should do the opposite. You’ll eventually find the sweet spot.

compensation

The average US freelancer earns 45% more than your average employee, too. Pretty phenomenal, considering all of the other perks that come with the job.

You Control the Project

This is the pinnacle of creative freedom. Sure, you still have to appease to the client, but no Creative Director or higher-up will have a say in your work. This could potentially be perceived as negative – there isn’t anyone to correct the mistakes you may not be able to see.

However, yet again, an entrepreneurial mindset is needed to be a freelancer. With that comes a nearly obsessive need for perfection.

As a freelancer, you’re given the freedom to think outside of corporate barriers and office politics.

Also, you won’t be subject to some of the boring projects you would have to complete in a corporate setting – You choose which projects to take on.

Several Methods of Income

You can’t survive without a solid portfolio of clients to provide you with work. That’s the great thing about freelancing – You aren’t relying on one client, or waiting for that potential corporate layoff.

You’ll always have the added security of a plethora of clientele, so long as you keep your effort levels high and quality of work impeccable. One client decides to shrug you off? Forget about it. You’ve got plenty more to keep you busy, and another spot open for another client.

Paradise or McDonald’s

Work where you want. You don’t need to check in with a boss, or clock into a time sheet.

You’ll be a member of the laptop lifestyle. Free to travel where you want, work with clients across the globe, and live a life completely void of locational ties. Work in paradise, or use McDonald’s WIFI – It’s up to you how and where you live.

Self-Generating

Here’s where the entrepreneurial mindset comes back into play. With that obsessive attention to detail and perfection comes a desirable, high quality of work. When you submit projects to first-time client’s, they’re likely to want to transition into a long-term work relationship.

This is especially true if you’re working with an agency representative or a startup. Sometimes agencies like to outsource their workload to qualified freelancers in order to balance their capabilities and meet deadlines. These types of clients are very keen to long relationships, and you’d do well to give the highest quality of work you can provide.

A Foot in the Door

For some people that test the waters by freelancing, it turns out to be a sour lifestyle. For whatever reason it may be, it just isn’t right for them. They may need more structure, more oversight, etc.

That’s just fine – Because now they have a portfolio good enough to get their foot in the door of a physical job opening in a corporate office. Not only does freelancing put you into contact with hundreds of business owners, but that work you’ve done for them can now be used as leverage to land job positions.

But, that’s only in the unlikely event that you decide the luxuries of freelancing aren’t for you.

Happiness

Cliché, but true.

Your overall levels of happiness will rise dramatically from the transition into a freelancing career. How could it not? All of the points made above are testaments to this. More freedom, more financial capabilities, more time for life.

Being a freelancer does have drawbacks. Things like self-employment taxes, health care, and the initial lull in work when you start are some factors that need to be taken account for.

But, once you accommodate those factors into the lifestyle, freelancing is a dream for entrepreneurial-minded individuals with the talent that business owners are looking for.

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Saturday, August 19, 2017

Entrepreneurs & Day Jobs – How Did They Find The Time?

There are success stories on both sides of the spectrum – entrepreneurs who dropped out of their school or day job to pursue their vision, and entrepreneurs who built their business on the side, while still working or studying full-time.

There are plenty of stories out there revolving around the greats and their methods of success. Elon Musk, Bill Gates, and Richard Branson; dropouts turned billionaires.

But, what about the ones who decided to stick it out in a full-time job or university, while keeping their vision and building their businesses on the side? Today, I’m going to look at 4 of those entrepreneurs and how they managed to find the time to create billion-dollar companies while taking on full-time work.

Markus Persson – est. net worth of 1.4 billion

Markus Persson is the legendary creator of Minecraft – the simple, 3-D animated video game that went on to sell to Microsoft for $2.5 billion. He didn’t drop out of college to do it, either. Persson began developing the Minecraft independently as his own personal project while working at King.com, the makers of some pretty famous apps like Candy Crush. He then even went on to change jobs and started working at jAlbum.

He finally launched his game in 2009, and quit his job after sales steadily began expanding to work full time. Persson created the game company Mojang, and went on to sell Minecraft to Microsoft in 2014.

He’s a legend. By creating a visually simple, immensely satisfying sandbox game, Persson became a billionaire with an idea he pursued while working a full-time job. What is his number one recommendation for time management?

“I think that actually beginning to work on something is more important than thinking about it. Just get started – even if it isn’t something big. Start small… If you just sit around planning something and don’t do it, you won’t ever get anywhere – for some, that’s the biggest waste of time. I also think, for me, working on Minecraft was like another job. But, it was also my hobby. Since I was passionate about it, and did Minecraft as a hobby, I made the time, learned faster, and believed in myself.”

Sara Blakely – est. net worth of 1.01 billion

Sara Blakely worked a full-time day job selling fax machines while toying around with her idea of Spanx, briefs/leggings that comfortably helped shape a woman’s appearance. She worked that sales job a total of two years and sold fax machines from 9-5, and Spanx pantyhose by night and weekends. Sara didn’t resign until she was 100% sure that her idea would take off after Oprah Winfrey named Spanx her “favorite product”. She’s now worth an estimated $1.01 billion.

Here’s what Sara has to say about time management:

“Personally, the word time-management is hard for me. I didn’t manage time, I just used more of it. Instead of sleeping, I’d drive back and forth from Atlanta to North Carolina where I would always just encounter a bunch of “no’s.”

Larry Page and Sergey Brin – est. net worth of 35.7 billion and 35 billion

My last two are the founders of one of the most iconic names in technology: Google.

Page and Brin weren’t employed in full-time jobs when they created Google, though. They were in an arguably rougher curriculum – both were current students at Stanford University.

Before they started working on what would soon become Google, Page and Brin met through a Stanford school tour, which Brin had volunteered to guide. They didn’t kick it off well at all, though. They debated on various topics, and thought each other to be strong-opinioned and obnoxious.

The idea behind Google sprang from the necessity of a groundbreaking doctoral thesis. Page knew his career would rest on his thesis, so he spent a long time thinking before coming up with the idea to create a crawler that indexed links throughout the world wide web. Brin was blown away by the idea, so he jumped at the chance to help with the mathematics involved in the project.

The idea behind time management and balancing a work schedule with these two is much different than our first two entrepreneurs listed. Larry Page and Sergey Brin did what most entrepreneurs fail to think about doing – they combined their thesis work (day job) with their vision of creating a business.

Here’s what you need to take away from their story: It’s possible to leverage your day job to build your business.

There are a ton of things you need to avoid so you don’t get fired or sued for “working on company time,” but that doesn’t mean those 8 hours of your day job need to be wasted. For you, in a full-time job, it’s important to take on projects that will give you valuable skills for your new business. You also could have the opportunity to explore untapped markets within your current business’ structure.

Don’t get yourself fired, but don’t let your day job become a place where you go only to get a paycheck – learn from every aspect of it as possible.

While there are several different ways to go about managing your new business while working a day job, there is always one common, universal factor needed to execute it correctly: Passion.

In every one of these examples, these entrepreneurs were driven by an unkillable need to make their visions a reality. Without passion, you’ll never be able to take on the monumental task of creating a successful business. Besides, as the adage goes, if you love what you do, you’ll never work a day in your life.



source https://anthonyaires.com/5211/entrepreneurs-day-jobs-how-did-they-find-the-time/

Friday, August 18, 2017