Stay tuned for more information when we are back in Perth tomorrow morning.

These boys are sons to an Aussie internet marketer and they are a chip off the old block. On their latest visit to Streaky Bay, South Australia, they filmed a YouTube video to promote their daddy’s book Year Of The Affiliate.

Internet Marketing Kids In Streaky Bay

Check the kids out in this video. It’s short and sweet and to the point – from the beach in Streaky Bay.

These Aussie kids are leaning the ropes from Dad. His upcoming internet marketing event around Australia are called Smart Online Profit Systems and they are literally booked out.

The great thing about watching kids is that they are natural. They mean what they say and they do it good. You can check out the book these Aussie kids are promoting at Year Of The Affiliate

• Work helps pay my way and provides financial freedom to express myself and my ideas.
• My business ideas are pretty sustainable, but I don’t have any real current business, only opportunities.
• I can follow these opportunities and see what becomes of them without leaving my current job.
• My job also provides training, which will be beneficial in future careers.

So, I should get my head around staying. And make something of my time off! I’m not going anywhere, even if it seems like a waste of time (sometimes)… there is real benefit in staying. So I will.

• would you expect to be asked to remove references that may be viewed negatively?
• would you expect to be fired?
• would you expect that negative aspects might be addressed?
• would you look at your feelings and think about what your indirect criticisms really mean?

This was what was going through my head yesterday… if someone was working in my company, I wouldn’t stand for public criticism… but if it was my company, I’d hope that the issues would be addressed internally first.

I am the technical director at NZfusion, where I maintain a relaxed blog about technologies that we are involved in as a fledgling startup and other things of interest to me. But I find that wordpress.com has a solid community atmosphere that many of the other blogging platforms lack, so I’ve decided to maintain this blog and hopefully develop a wider network through it.

If you would be interested in posting on this site occassionally, let me know. Otherwise thanks for reading.

In my opinion, here is a list of pointers that will save you headaches later.

a. Be clear about what you are selling.

Spend as much time as you need to define and clarify what you are selling. From the gettgo, come up with a 15 second elevator pitch. This will come handy later on. If you need professional help to come up with a pitch, companies like – 15secondpitch can help. This is a great resource to help you discover who you are, what your company does, and what others perceive of you and your verbal and written messages.

b. Come up with Mission, Vision, and Objective statements for your venture.

Mission, Vision, and Objectives – They may all look the same at first glance, but they reflect different rationale.

The mission statement represents the underlying operating philosophy and the values of the company – ‘The mission at Company ABC is to provide a reliable, yet affordable XYZ technology for residential customers.’

The Vision statement represents a long term plan – that provides a direction to make significant impact – ‘Our vision at company ABC is to become a global niche leader in XYZ technology by the year 2009.’

The Objective represent definitive goals for different purposes within the company. Peter Drucker first popularized the term “management by objective” in his 1954 book ‘The Practice of Management’. Objectives can be set in all domains (services, sales, R&D, human resources, finance) – ‘The main objective of company ABC is to understand the target market, to implement the most optimized form of logistics, to include a series of efficient fulfillment processes and to provide an unmatched form of customer service.’

c. Be honest with your Strengths and Weaknesses.

You can conduct a simple SWOT analysis on your venture. SWOT stands for Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats. Create four quadrants and fill up with honest lists of answers. This simple test allows you to assess your compatibility with the venture that you are getting into. This test will also indicate opportunities, threats and barriers to entry that exist in your vertical market.

d. Conduct a thorough research on your vertical market.
Leverage on new Internet research tools to conduct comprehensive studies. At every stage of your research, be open to adopt new directions based on your findings.

e. Make sure there is a real opportunity.
or move on to a different venture.

f. Make sure your product or service addresses pain point (s).

This goes back to the point (a). Understand and address your customer needs.

g. Conduct a thorough research on your competitors.

Create a matrix and conduct a thorough competitive analysis. See what your competitors are offering.

h. Make sure your product or service addresses pain point (s) better than your competitors.
Its all right if your competitors got in the market before you did. But, focus on doing things little bit differently that you address the customer needs, pain points better than them.

i. Be realistic with the revenue projections.

Don’t fall for cliches like – ‘According to Forrestor’s research, our market will be $ X billion by ___’, ‘We will drop our product in China and we will make billions.’ There is nothing wrong with wanting to become another Google or Microsoft, but make sure you have unique product or services. If you have a patent on your innovation, that helps. If you already have an angel investor on board, that gives you credibility. If you have a veteran management team in place, thats going to help you a lot! Always be ready to explain to lenders and Venture Capitalists how you are going to reach the big numbers – and never ever use cliched answers.

j. Surround yourself with people smarter than you. Do not be afraid to ask for help.

Always reach out to people smarter than you. Big ideas take right people to bring them to life. You want to do things smartly and not give your idea away, but at the same time you need to be open to sharing with right people. One rule of thumb is – it is better to team up with people with complimenting skill sets. If you are an engineer, you don’t need another engineer to support your point of view. You need a professional sales partner to sell your product, and a sharp finance guy to keep the numbers in order.

k.. Seize the opportunity to scale up – quick.

Big deals don’t happen on their own. Big deals happen because of right people, right product, right momentum in the market among many possible variations. If you have everything in order and luck is in your favor, seize the opportunity to scale up – and do it quick! Otherwise, good entrepreneurs know when to pack up their bags and move on to another opportunity. I advise entrepreneurs to get out of business if the venture doesn’t take off within two years.

More to follow on this topic. I can be reached via my blog 4entrepreneur.net

My mainline business for the past 3 years has been marketing of a wealth homestudy program by 21st Century Academy here in Australia. I have been mangaging 8 or 9 blogs lately and it is quite a task. I must admit I struggle for ideas at times. 99 Bloggers is a refreshing concept and I hope to introduce a few good ideas to this blogging community soon.

My main passion is about Lifestyle, Motivation and the ability to communicate successfully. I have written a book called Mindset Mastery which is a Free download from my seanrasmussen.com website. That is by the way a Non-Monetized Blog. This means, you will struggle to find any ways of parting with money on that website (and there are no ads either).

All the best to the 99 Bloggers Community. Blog Away!

Sean Rasmussen
99 Bloggers Guest Author
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I don’t want to bore you with what is www.advertlets.com and how you can earn money from them. You may like to pay them a visit if you want to know more about them.

 Issue here is that bloggers were unable to access their webpage with disconnection error. And all pages and sites that has their advertising codes installed were redirected to a placeholder page. These made the bloggers lose time and money and of course visits to their pages.

Advertlets has since apologies to the public and sent out emails to all advertlets members regarding this issue. The problem actually lies in a complication in the renewal process that has caused Advertlets.com domain to expire. Resolution of the problem has also been identified.

So what can we learn from this issue. Normally when you signed up with a Domain registrar, you will have the option to either renew manually or have an auto-renewal by their system. Depending on the domain registrar, notifications will be sent out before the manual renewal process. If no actions are taken, the domain name will be held for another 30 – 90 days. If still no actions are taken, you can kiss goodbye to that name or register it again if you are lucky.

If you are really serious about business on the internet, make it a auto-renewal one or if possible, buy it on a long term (example – 3 years). You will still be able to cancel the registration even if auto-renewal is on.