Internet Entrepreneurship at its Best (or Check Out This Cool New Site): Part 1

Feeling overwhelmed by the internet? Did CobbCC1′s post make your head spin? Are you trying to make a significant purchase but feel buried under a mountain of product reviews that all seem to contradict each other? If the answer to any of these questions is YES, try visiting: JustBuyThisOne.

This new site takes into account millions of reviews from Reevoo and condenses them into a single product recommendation for your price range. There are eleven different categories of products, from vacuum cleaners to laptops and each with multiple price ranges. The site is simple to use and easy to navigate. It even includes Room Service which is their guarantee that if you don’t love their recommended product, they’ll take care of returning it, refunding you, and replacing your product with a better one. For free.

It’s a European website so all the price quotes are in pounds but you can easily take the recommended product and plug it in on Amazon to get it in the US of A. So next time you need a new electric kettle, go to this site to help you get the best bang for your buck in the shortest amount of time.

Take a look at the company explained in 60 seconds:

What is this new Policy Shift?

Google recently announced that they are going to be eliminating a significant number of their privacy policies across their different services to make way for a single new privacy policy. This policy states that on March 1 of this year Google will begin integrating information from each of their different web services in order to develop a profile for each user. Google states that these profiles will be used to “tailor” search results and provide advertisements that each user will find more relevant. If you aren’t already worried about this policy, you should be.

Who Should Care and Why?

Just about everyone. Anyone who uses any form of Google web service (i.e. YouTube, Gmail, Google+, and Google’s search engine) and enjoys some level of privacy. The new policy becomes much more frightening in conjunction with the fourth privacy principle of the Google company philosophy:

People have different privacy concerns and needs. To best serve the full range of our users, Google strives to offer them meaningful and fine-grained choices over the use of their personal information. We believe personal information should not be held hostage and we are committed to building products that let users export their personal information to other services. We don’t sell users’ personal information.

This means that as of March 1, any online activity that you perform with some degree anonymity using one of Google’s services will be public knowledge that is associated with your name, your face, and your phone number. This should be particularly off-putting to android phone users whose real-time location, Google Wallet data, and much more will also be available.

The Take-Away Message?

So what can you do? Not much really. There’s no way to opt out of this debacle. If you plan on continuing to use Google’s web services, you’ll simply have to submit to these policies and the fact that all personal information you share or indicate with them being available to anyone who cares enough to know. Ultimately you’ll just need to reevaluate using Google’s services instead of their alternatives. Time to break out the pros & cons charts again!

Ok so you want to start an online business. That’s awesome. But what are you supposed to do??

Of course you’ll need to do all of the annoying paperwork for setting up a business with the government, but we won’t get into that here. What’s next? You have an idea, you have product/service, and you’ve created your company and registered it with the government… but you need something else… A WEBSITE!

Now I realize create a website is a seemingly expensive, frustrating, and time-consuming ordeal. But that’s not true! Sure, you can hire a web developer (like me! email: dabonz413@gmail.com). Although I don’t charge much, if you choose the wrong developer it can cost thousands of dollars! But a start-up online business can’t usually afford that. There’s a better way: WordPress!

WordPress is an online content management system, that anyone can use! It provides a simple, clean, & user-friendly interface for creating your website. There is a learning curve since it’s a new system, but it can be learned and you never have to learn a programming language like HTML.

Stay tuned for Part 2 of this article, right here on internet-entrepreneurship.com!

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Internet Entrepreneurship has been my first experience with internet business and web design, and I cannot tell you how much I have enjoyed it. It’s amazing to me what goes on behind the scenes with Google, or any website on the internet. I’ve never taken a class that I have been so interested in what I am learning.

When you think about the Internet and how you could possibly run a business with it, it seems so overwhelming.

As you learn more about how the Internet works, you can put the puzzle pieces together and eventually build your own website. Our class uses WordPress, which allows you to build a site without knowing anything about coding. Here comes the fun part.

So you just built this website for your band, and you think it’s so awesome that the whole world should see it. Since you don’t have thousands of dollars to blow on advertisements, you need to know SEO. SEO, or search engine optimization, is a way to have high organic ranking for a website without spending any money. Ways of optimizing include keyword research, links, content, etc.

Now that your band is famous and half of the people on the planet have heard you, it’s time to monetize the site. Plugins can help you to organize sales, so you won’t have to do paperwork for the millions of records your selling. Post in your blog that you are looking for companies that would be interested in posting relevant advertisements on your site. Make a deal with them, such as $.20 per click goes to you.

Your site is now complete and you spend less than an hour of maintenance on it every day. All you do now is sit back, relax, make lots of money, and thank Mr. Sweet for teaching you how to make it in the billion dollar industry of Internet Entrepreneursip.

This company is an internet based job search company which makes jobs available to the public and makes their site available for companies to post jobs.

It also gives in-depth tips to help people apply for jobs including;  10 cover letter don’ts, seven deadly sins for new hires, and behavioral interview tips.

Monster.com also allows you to post your resume on their site where businesses can come to the site and look at them. This could be helpful for someone who is just coming out of college to post their resume and then continue to work on their studies.

They also have a search for people to find their specific community, such as for military, teachers, or fine arts.

Monster.com seems like a great internet resource for people and companies to join together and communicate on what the companies want and allows individuals to pick what companies they want.

In my previous Post Challenges of Starting a new website Part 1.  I talked about my new website My Weekend Trip Planner and how difficult it is to get your website discovered.  It is very difficult to get that initial traffic to the sight especially because SEO is really hurt by the fact that the site is so new. It is important to build the traffic to your site at least initially through other sources then just search engine.  These ways can be things like word or mouth or paid advertisements.  One of the ways I have found that works the best is social media.  Social media is extremely important especially for discovering a website.  You need to use social media to create a buzz for example on My Weekend Trip Planner when I launched the site I changed my status on Facebook to announce the launch of my new site.  I also tweeted it.  I received 30 visits from that in 4 hours.  This is perfect example of you can use social media to tell people about your site hopefully they will then tell their friends and the result can be viral.  This will then increase the likely hood people liking to you and before you know have a powerful website.