The idea of having no fixed office, should not mean that you do not have any contact with your current or potential customers. Even though contact via email, and other electronic means is going often be sufficient, meeting people in person should still be a part of your routine at least for the customers that [...]
The constant challenge of the having no fixed office is where to successfully promote your business to the largest number of people. Depending on the type of business that you operate there may be a couple of different options that you could pursue.
1. Trade shows and Expos – While this is discounted by some as [...]
Over the past few days i have come to acknowledge, the very large part that the Internet, plays for me. It is almost essentially the life line of my business. I post to my blogs via the internet, i connect with others via the internet, and i do a lot of my reading and research [...]
You can walk down just about any street in any city and pass many different businesses. Some of these businesses are owned by major corporations, some by small businesses and others by individual’s or families. For a large portion of people those businesses being there are a fact of life. They expect them to be [...]
It is something that i have been meaning to work on for some time now, that is a new background for my Twitter profile. If you have not seen it before, i am on Twitter, you can reach me via @no_fixed_office, follow me if you like.
The background that i was using, was a very basic [...]
If there is one thing that i have learnt over the last two month’s is that you should not rely on a single source of traffic. Possibly even more so a single source of traffic that requires your constant attention and input to continue to send a stream of visitors to your website.
I realized that [...]
There are a lot of ways to promote your blog, however one way that is sometimes forgotten is the ways you may be able to use in offline methods. While you may not be able to market to as many people as potentially online, you are taking advantage of another potential avenue for marketing your [...]
One of the biggest problems for people offering products or services traditionally sold via retail stores is that while you may not intend to you are adding an additional barrier to buying. The best way to counter this is at two different points of the same process.
The first point is when you initially are talking [...]
So many products that are being sold these days, are in reality quite the same as other products or services. So really how do you differentiate yourself, especially when you do not have an office and would often be expected to have better prices then your retail competitors who have additional costs.
The best way is [...]
Just in the last day or two working on my blogs, (www.joelbrown.id.au and www.nofixedoffice.com) i realized, that they have been operating a little while now, 15months and 8 months respectively. While in this time i believe that i have probably exceeded some of my expectations, there are also many that i have not reached.
As it [...]