B250 Web Business Creation Blog - Joseph Steadman

The how to quantify and compare spreadsheet examples where extremely helpful this week as we evaluated new products and determined which wholesaler would be a good fit for our web business. I especially enjoyed looking at new wholesalers and found the Alibaba.com site even more interesting then Amazon.com when in comes to products and pricing. I even showed this site to a customer I have been working with who is the limousine business and was looking for some good marking giveaways. The drop ship and affiliate marketing were also a good lesson which gave me some new insight about best practices and didn’t realize there where so many companies out there that would drip ship and take care of the customer. I knew that a few could do it but not as many as that are out there now. This was really a productive week and taught me a lot about the click and mortar business. I have been doing business coaching and it always seems like the right topic at the right time comes up which is the perfec...

The google Adwords, keywords search was one of the most meaningful lessons this week because it taught me how to expose the traffic patterns and competitive nature of information on the internet. I am constantly trying to research key elements of the internet and needed to learn the tools which modern businesses require to make decisions about marketing. In addition to the search tool, the article found at digitalenterprise ( http://digitalenterprise.org/models/models.html#Brokerage) felt very relevant to me because it helped me to see all the different kinds of business models and how they interact with their customers. Many times, just knowing what to call it opens the doors to specific information that will relevant to that specific business model. The article we read on brainstorming business ideas found at bizthoughts (http://bizthoughts.mikelee.org/brainstorming-business-ideas.html) was very thought provoking for me. The Market-First method seemed like the most satisfying bec...