Office Wife

Spend the day at the beach if you want, go on a vacation, or take an extra long lunch break with your kids at the park! It’s no secret that working from home gives entrepreneurs the freedom to choose their own hours, avoid commuting each day, and have the potential to make more income than a “9 to 5” job. But one of the greatest risks with operating an online business is that your income can greatly fluctuate, especially if you are unfamiliar with search engine optimization. When there’s not enough time or expertise to market your business online, outsourcing is the very best option! Contracting out SEO experts brings you the best of both worlds:

• No training to worry about which keeps you doing what you do best
• High-quality services that are guaranteed to promote your business

First, let’s look at one major expense of running an online business: search engine optimization. You may all of the motivation in the world to learn what you can about good SEO and how to get your site to the top of the search engine rankings. But managing this takes you away from running your business. However, with outsourcing you eliminate the learning curve involved in getting up to speed with link building, social networking, and keyword optimization. Your team of qualified SEO people can handle it efficiently, effectively, and with the best results because that’s what they’re good at! Look for providers that have had years of experience (and the positive feedback to prove it) so you’re sure they provide superior services to their clients.

The next advantage to outsourcing is that you can choose exactly the services you need to build your traffic. Take, for example, an online store with 3 employees: the owner, his wife, and a stock person. The owner of this company may be an expert at establishing vendor relations and controlling the financial aspects of the business, while his wife handles customer service and their stock person packs and ships the products out. But how about marketing their business online? With an online-based outsourcing service, SEO professionals are standing by to provide these valuable services. People like SEO marketing experts, social media professionals, and webmasters can be hired “by-the-project” or on an on-going basis.

When an SEO professional is needed to get more exposure for your Web site, why not outsource? You’ll gain the best reward for running an online business… more traffic to your site and more sales! With outsourcing, no matter what type of SEO improvements you need, you can hire the same quality services without having to hire your employees in-house. Now, your business can be even more profitable from home while outsourced SEO specialists are working hard for you from the comfort of their homes!

About the author: Nicole Munoz is the owner of Start Ranking Now.

She is an SEO Outsourcing, Link Building, and Social Media Expert. She also conducts SEO training in San Diego to other entrepreneurs and Internet marketing professionals.

This is an update on my progress with my social networking site, so far it is a learning process and taking more time than I imagined. Whew.

The plan:

Upload the software, done.

Personalize it to fit what my goals are, in progress.

Personalize the legal documents, in progress.

Domain Name, not sure what name to use, got any ideas? Perhaps a contest will work, what do you think?

Content for users, collecting some great stuff on marketing and other valuable products. So far so good.

Open the doors? Yeah, a little longer.

The goal is to provide you with resources for what ever you decide to do whether you are building a business or just want to socialize.

It will happen. I have not gotten alright with the state of my financial situation. Nor the regurgitated content I keep getting asked to buy. Progress is slow but sure, I cannot wait until I get this part of the job done.

So that is where I am right now, will keep you updated on my progress.

There is not much I do not find easy, fairly simple and intriguing. I developed an attitude of intrigue early in life, where everything is a mystery to be solved. I search for the clues and solve the riddle. With the wealth of resources available through the internet I am busy researching and compiling. Especially with completing my college degree, learning how to ferret out the resources to write a successful thesis has been a real challenge.

Now I have taken on the skill of writing as my new challenge.

Not that I have not been a good writer, good is not great. Nor is it always an acceptable level for some of the more demanding sites. Since I am not the sort of person who can read directions and the get to work, I have had to do more research to gain an understanding of the style being asked for. Learning to write the way journalists do at Associated Press has been a terrific opportunity. Especially since I do not write generally the way I prefer to read, which I have found very interesting.

School has demanded explanations, so the usual 30 word paragraph does not cut it. Yet writing for content on the web means learning how to write succinctly, being as concise as possible. A contrast in writing styles. Switching gears to ensure that my articles are accepted and then back to ensure that my teachers are grading me on the high side. Both of which I must say appeals to my ego. Rejections do not.

My particular learning style is a read, view examples and then do, a mimic type style. One that cuts the learning time for me to near nothing. For instance you can set me in front of a new piece of software and come back fifteen minutes later and I can teach you how to get around it and master it. Browsing is the best teacher for me. I fall asleep otherwise.

Now here is my point, learning to conduct business on line is not that easy, at least not for me. I have had to delve into many an article, search out examples and then find my style. Finding examples is not easy, you have to pay high prices for them. So I became a freebie junkie, searching for the best content for no money, that is not easy. The other avenue is to earn my way to a particular item, that has worked I must say. It takes some time, but I get there. My library is extensive, I did not realize how much until I decided to clean out some old discs. I found eBooks from six years ago. Some authors I am enamored with, others I cannot wrap my brain around what they are saying.

I will be listing a few titles here and there, check the side bar, some are already listed in the training and business opportunity, with one I really need to earn to get. So help a sister out, will ya. LOL

The path is a terrific one to follow, just not that free of clutter. For someone such as myself finding the way in the mire is not always a clear path. I do come with baggage. Old beliefs that have interfered with developing new ways of thinking. I sometimes wonder if I am an odd duck in the pond or if there is anyone else out there who has difficulty with getting through the information and making sense out of it. Not something I have asked openly or admitted.

It is one thing to read a book and get inspired, very much another to implement the steps on a consistent basis. I had a friend who use to tease me about being ADD (attention deficit disorder), I have to be doing something all the time and then there are times when I have a difficult time focusing on one task at a time. I am a great multitasker most of the time.

This is my journey, I do hope you find something to help you and know that you are not alone on this journey. It takes dedication, commitment and overcoming fear to walk the path less traveled. If it is adventure you seek, then this is it.

I look forward to hearing from you.