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Online Business Ideas for Not Looking Foolish

Read this carefully and follow these online business ideas or you may look foolish online.

If you say your an SEO expert and have only ONE webpage that anyone knows of then um sorry your NOT an expert.

If you say your a Social Media Consultant but you don’t respond to people on social medias like Twitter or even via email (the first social media) then your NOT an expert.

If your email autoresponders involve sending affiliate links EVERYDAY since the person signed up. Your NOT an email marketing expert.

If you say your a GURU (as in the definition meaning leader) yet encourage your customers (students) to do the exact same thing. In other words do any and everything else BUT LEAD. Then your NOT an expert or leader in your field.

Just because I hum a song doesn’t make me a vocalist even if I am good

And just because I strum a guitar doesn’t make me a guitarist. Just because I use clippers to trim my beard doesn’t make me a barber. Just because you create a website doesn’t make you an internet marketer. I will repeat that in bold again. Just because you create a website doesn’t make you an internet marketer.

So what makes a vocalist, guitarist, barber, and of course internet marketer? The right to claim those positions is based by what you repeatedly and consistently DO. Remember the KIEARC method? The R and C in that acronym stand for repetition and consistency.

Now here is the next question you should be asking yourself.

What makes a great vocalist, guitarist, barber, and of course internet marketer? The right to claim that title is based by what you repeatedly and consistently DO WELL.

If your going to constantly blog about something you better make sure you good at it. “But Darren how do I know if I have talent?”

That’s easy, talent is what strangers consistently complement you on. Strangers who complement you for no reason don’t have an invested interest in telling you the truth.

The truth of your talent needs to meet the reality of your love. From there it is a matter of a Google search to find the money in your niche.

The smartest online business ideas I have ever seen involve establishing a consistent time frame. And in the meantime honestly say to visitors that you “advise” people. Also explain what that means by clarifying your level of knowledge.

Look at it like this: a third grader shouldn’t say they are a college graduate

But to the preschool to 2nd grade kids that 3rd grader is a God (laughing). Just let your visitors know what level your on. Believe me the experienced people will already know anyway. Lets use me for instance, I am quick to tell people I know about PPC (pay par click strategies) but I am NOT an expert. But some of the things I could share with newbies would blow their minds. On the flip side I am a Social Media Master who is always working to perfect my skills.

You could learn a million courses, but that only makes you an SEO learner. And if you actually do it (work on SEO) for a little while. Then that makes you a SEO practitioner. But it is actually doing it for yourself that will make others notice. Though I don’t believe you need to follow the 10,000-Hour Rule to be an expert like in Malcolm Gladwells hit book Outliers.

However, you do need to establish a time frame of consistency. Don’t think about how long. Like the 3rd grader teach the lower grades and communicate honestly to them your skill level. Then focus on getting through those higher grades towards college. And on the journey realize that if you do not follow through you will look like an amateur. After all when is the last time you heard a 2nd year ice skater call themselves a Gold Medal Olympian?

The Funniest Benefits of Hot Online Business Ideas

This is an article that spawned from my post here explaining in detail how I actually home up with headlines and content for my site. So I figured why not actually write one of these online business ideas for articles here?

The following are some really funny things that actually happened. When I created these posts they actually went viral. Remember writing with a plan is definitely a good thing but sometimes a spontaneous article here or there can go far.

The Steve Jobs “incident” :The first funny thing that ever happened was years ago I wrote a very short post that asked Is Jerry Yang at Yahoo The New Steve Jobs at Apple? The next thing you know the fake Steve Jobs did a short post about me titled This headline made me puke. This was my FIRST big link from another blog. And at the time I was on vacation with my wife in San Antonio. When I checked my stats low and behold I had like 4000 hits in ONE day (laughing). What you don’t see in this article is that they called everything but a child of God. I guess he lost the comment section when he changed servers. Now at first I was insulted of course but after some thought I was like “cooooll” after all how many times does a legendary blog link to you?

The Scratch Your Butt and Sniff “Incident”: Another thing I did was to make fun of all of the “get paid 1 Million Dollars online business ideas”. So I wrote Get Paid 1 Million Dollars to Scratch Your Butt and Sniff. And before my permalinks changed thus turning my tweetmeme to zero I had like 100 something retweets. I even talk about it in a guest post I wrote here.

I created twitterhug and it went viral: Again don’t judge by dumb old tweetmeme who zeroed out ALL of my retweet records after I changed my permalink structure. But before that I had a lot of retweets plus it still is viral today look on twitter. People I don’t even know (some I don’t want to know LOL) are using that around the world.

The benefits of all three is that of course I received a combined 50,000 in traffic . But another under the radar fact is that these posts led to business via purchases (yes I asked customers what brought them to me).

You never know who is watching.