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Being Stuck at home through no fault of your own and forced to be isolated eventually becomes no fun. If you are fed up of watching films and re-runs and feel that each day is getting longer and more monotonous, why not start a blog or set a website which you can monetise. Having a second income will tide you over whilst your twidling your thumbs waiting for the lockdown to be lifted.
I have just listed some new domain names that came in today on my other blog: https://ukdomainbrokers.ukwebsitedesigners.co.uk/?p=875 but you can browse our extended market of very valuable exact match searchable keyword domain names by visiting: https://cymrumarketing.com/keyworddomains.html Consider starting a dropshipping business where you do not have to handle the inventory and all you need to do is just list the inventory and do a little bit of work (about 1 -2 hours per day).
We will teach you how to dropship from the comfort of your home and we are currently offering free web design, marketing and seo for the first 3 months and offering to lease any domain name of your choosing providing it is available after a free consultation from us.
You do not have to lay out one single penny and we will start you off.
So what are you waiting for?, do some research on what you want to do, make notes and contact us.
What ever you circumstances may be, whether you are a traditional bricks and mortar business selling products and services and have had to transition to working from home, or perhaps you have been recently been laid off here are some hints and tips to get you through these troubling times.
I will first cover traditional businesses that bricks and mortar, i.e shops and offices.
I covered 5 out of the how to in 7 easy steps in another blog I run: https://ukdomainbrokers.ukwebsitedesigners.co.uk/?p=866
I spoke about setting up an office in your home and how to enable chat online a must for businesses that want to interact with their customers on demand and how to set up online appointment scheduling a video meetings. I also mentioned about e-commerce and payment gateways.
If you are a shop or an office you should follow my 7 easy steps.
Set up an office space in your home where you will not be disturbed
Set up online chat www.talk.to (free)
Set up online appointment scheduling www.reservio.com (free)
Set up video conference calls www.8×8.com (free)
Set up payment gateways www.stripe.comwww.gocardless.comwww.esrow.com (all free).
Work the same hours as if you would do normally and speak to your staff and teams by having morning meetings.
Sort out your finances look to see about Government grants to help you pay your staff.
Unemployed or Redundant
For people who have been made redundant or about to loose their jobs I have listed some ideas you can start to do freelancing, obviously most businesses need websites so that people can find you. You can also list your work with directories but for immediate effect a website/blog is the fast way of generating traffic. If you just lost your job the most important things you need to do is 1) Sign On. 2) Contact all your creditors and inform them of late payments or ask to have your payments deferred. Most Creditors are going to be very understanding including banks.
Article Writing
Graphic Design
Proofreading
Editing
Online Research
Programming
Copywriting
Transcription
Translation
Data Entry
Spreadsheet Work
Virtual Personal Assistant
Data Analysis
If you are stuck for ideas just send me a message and I will send you a full list of work you can do with little or no contact with other people.
I wiill aslo be covering how businesses such as electricians, driving instructors etc can get through these difficult times in another post. I believe that staying positive and optimistic will help us conquer this economic disaster.
If however you are out of work and do not want to set up your own business and would rather work for someone then this will be slightly more difficult considering the current climate we are in.
How about if you volunteer your services, businesses will be crying out for people to help them bring in business. You will stand a better chance of being hired and your position to be made permanent.
Finally if your stuck at home and boredom is setting in, why not turn your hobby into a business, if your arty you can sell your stuff on www.etsy.com or start writing a book (everyone has a story to tell) or make a photobook of all your cherished memories. There are dozens upon dozens of ideas you can do with your free time.
Remember people with low self esteems, as long as you stay safe and follow the rules and keep yourself busy we will all get through this and if any of my readers just want to have a chat or advice of any kind just message me in the comments below. It does not have to be about business.
***I will only respond to people the genuinely need to have a chat and not anything of the adult nature or dating as your comments will be deleted.
Also one last thing if you need legal advice and are in the Cardiff, Wales area I recommend this firm of solicitors.
In light of all redundancies due to the Coronavirus Covid-19, we will help you get back on your feet.
Start an online business today.
We will help with business planning and will give you all the advice you need to get you on the right path. Our offer includes an e-commerce store.
It is not all doom and gloom you could become your own boss tomorrow.
** Most importantly stay safe and remember to isolate. Now that I have planted a seed it is up to you to do some research and do something online that will give you an income.
***All these jobs can be done online or remotely, with minimal or no contact with people. Some businesses obviously have to have some sort of experience or training but others limit to your creativity.
If you have a passion and drive you can be anyone you want to be, all you need to do is reach for the stars. Some jobs may take a while to generate business and we have advice how you can overcome your shortfall in order to still be able to live and pay your bills. We too have been familiar with life changing events that can be obstactles, yet we have found ways to overcome them.
Business Ideas.
Accounting or Bookkeeping,
Animator/illustrator,
Antique Dealer (Buy antiques online and Sell online),
Artist (Painting, Drawing),
App Developer,
Author, (write fiction or childrens books or write books for other people, you could even be a copywriter),
Baking / Cooking (Make handmade confectionary, bake cakes, cup-cakes and brownies, specialist pies or make homemade jams – you could even make your own beauty products),
Blogger/Vlogger, (You can be an affiliate marketer whilst writing or videoing, tutorials or testing products).
Broker (Domain, Finance or Insurance get a commission for each product you sell),
Business/Marketing Consultant,
Buying and Selling (Dropship),
Career Coach,
Cleaning (Offices or Windows),
Comedian (Start your own channel and market yourself),
Course Creator,
Crafter,
Customer or Tech Support,
Delivery,
Dietician,
Direct Sales,
Dog Walker,
Editing or Proofreading (Editing Photos & Videos and reading work for errors),
Errand Runner,
Event Planner,
Freelance Photographer,
Freelance Web/Graphic Designer,
Freelance Writer,
Furniture Upcycling (Refurbish Furniture),
Gig Services,
Hauling,
Home Sitter,
Home Staging (For Property Sales),
Jewellery Designer,
Landscaper,
Life Coach,
Make Money with Your Garden (Grow Profitable Plants),
Meal Planner,
Mentor,
Menu/Recipe Planner,
Motivational Speaker,
Pet Sitter,
Personal Shopper,
Professional Speaker (Create your own video channel),
Repairs ,
Social Media Consultant,
Transcriber,
Translator,
Tutor (Private Lessons Online),
Virtual Assistant,
Voice-Over Specialist
**Read this article below, also seeing as you have plenty of time on your hands, you could learn a new language or learn a craft afterall knowledge is your wealth at the end of the day.
***The possibilities are endless, all you need is a little imagination and the world is your oyster.
ONE.COM The hosting company for website and domain names. No I am not putting them on a pedestal to market them as being the best hosting company on the planet on the contrary I am putting them on a pedestal for being one of the worst. I cannot say they are the worst as there could be worse hosting companies out there.
Instead I will just highlight how they have added an extra fee for renewing domain names. So if you are in the business of buying and selling domain names you will know that DNS Domain Administration comes part and parcel of the package of renewing domain names as without a DNS system one cannot alter DNS Records or forward domain names.
So a .CO.UK Domain Renewal on any other registrars website costs £10 plus vat but this company ONE.COM are charging for the domain name renewal and also the DNS administration system as you can see below:
This is a scam if I ever I saw one and the customers they have most probably do not know that DNS comes as default with a Domain Name and should not be charged as an add on.
I would avoid ONE.com like the plague, all they have been is problem after problem from the start and God knows what nightmare stories their ex-customers would have to say given half the chance.
Slowly but surely they will end up loosing me as a customer. Customer services were no better basically saying if I did not like it, to take a running jump, I would call their bluff but I cannot afford one of the domain names going into migration over to another registrar as that would mess up one of my clients websites, which I cannot afford to do right now, considering ONE.com lost his blog (it just disappeared off the face of the www) not so long ago.
TotalNightmare Company!
28/02/20 Addendum
As you are aware I am down sizing my portfolio with one.com and am moving over to another hosting provider.
Upon checking a particular website today the contact page was off centre.
This means when I published it the other day they must have re-published my site (even though they claim they NEVER do).
So today I spend my valuable time talking to these idiots again and they admit that they had done a bug fix the other day which may have caused one of my codes to be none responsive.
If my site was working fine the other day and you do a bug fix and it is not working fine today you should reimburse me and you fix the problem without blaming everyone else on the planet bar yourselves.
This is NOT the first time they have done this and then tried blaming the consumer.
I am livid to say the least and hope and pray my client does not see the unresponsive page, they only lost his blog and could not retrieve off their server. I am amazed that they have any business.
…….since writing my post earlier they found that it was not a bug fix but something else which the technician should have spotted before creating a ticket and I did not get an apology, says it all…..
Before you start remember if you are using a brokerage site always sign a commission agreement up front. A contract saves on any misunderstanding further down the line.
I will give you an example of one such business later on that refused to sign a commission agreement and told me to keep things under radar as he did not want the publicity only to sing it from the roof tops on a popular business social media platform. This in turn minimised who I could then approach as this person was connected with the majority of my connections. Anyone seeing this would eliminate the middle man or in my case middle woman and deal with him directly. He said he was once offered $350K but he turned it down loosing that opportunity for good and now he is asking £345K for the same business. Sometimes you have to evaluate if it is a good thing to pass up on a high figure due to greed and then have to wait many years for another opportunity to come by.
Looking at his website he claims he has ex amount of members subscription sign ups which is good as an email list and you know what they say “the money is in the list”. However he has never showed me proof of this. He also states he has thousands of visitors coming to his site every month and again I have no proof of this either. I did do a SEO audit report on his site and found many errors. Looking at his site I would not spend more than a hundred dollars on it but obviously it is his domain name that holds the key as well as his email list and his traffic.
So my first thoughts are why did he not sign a commission agreement it was not exclusive to me, he could have still approached other domain brokers. Secondly under the Anti-terrorism, Crime and Security Act 2001 http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2001/24/contents any individual or business must perform due diligence for transactions over £1,000 hence this is a red flag to me that he refused to sign the agreement as this would have been the start of a carbon footprint or digital trail, which maybe means he has less favourable motives to not signing a contract.
So my work that I have done for him to date has gone down the pan even though this domain name was unique and has equity which is an advantage.
But for people who fail to be transparent I will not work with them and have told him so in not so many words this morning to a reply to a message he sent me.
At the moment I am still keeping quiet about the domain name and business modal that this person has for sale as I want to see if he replies to me for being sly.
If he did not want to pay a commission then he should not have approached me and just done outbound marketing himself, but due to health reasons he had not this, so what was the change of heart?
24/02/20 Since writing this blog post yesterday the person has come back to me to say he has does not care for due diligence formalities and the reason he posted on “Linkedin” was to test the water. For people who do not want to perform due diligence raises a red flag.
This person says he has over 20 years experience yesterday but today he says he has over 50 years experience is a lie as the internet has not been around that long for the public. He went on to say he has sold domains all over the world well good for him but a law is a law and you cannot argue with a law.
I am not going to promote his domain name or business if he does not want to play ball, I have more to risk than he does and if he does not care about consequences or formalities, a simple word of mouth gentlemen’s agreement will not do. I was going to promote the domain full blast but because of his reluctance to sign an agreement tells me he has something to hide.
I have done gentlemen’s agreements before and have found them to be not solid, so I will not do them now. Trust no one. Why should I trust him?, I do not know him?
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