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Joomla V WordPress – NO – Joomla Luv’s WordPress
Jul 5th
Since Content Management Systems became popular there have always been two camps those who prefer Joomla! which is more far more powerful system, rich in features and has a mass following of developers for extentions as well as some serious users including companies like MTV and those who prefer a WordPress a simpler, less complex system that has power but is less techie to use.
Joomla! is not really designed for blogging although it does have a basic blog functionality built in. WordPress on the other hand is designed for blogging but falls down when it comes to simple systems for membership and carts. Before everyone gets upset, we’re not saying WordPress cannot do these things , it can just not as well as Joomla!
Joomla! V WordPress or is it!
So thus begins the debate begins for the pros and cons of both systems and while both systems have merit, this post is about neither. However this post looks to see if these two excellent systems can work alongside each other.
For those acustom to both systems you will know that the two systems can co-exist alongside each other one in the main portion of your site with the other as an extension of this i.e. www.theinternetbusinesscoach.co.uk being Joomla! and www.theinternetbusinesscoach.co.uk/blog being WordPress.
Both systems in the example are in use (actually both are like this in real life for us )but what if you could use the power of Joomla! alongside the flexiblity and ease of use of WordPress – I mean instead of installing both systems seperately and running them seperately you could actually use them as one system, one set of updates, one menu etc.
Interesting prospect right – well a company has made this a reality. CorePHP released an extension for Joomla called WordPress+Joomla that will allow both systems to work together. THe basics of this new system is it is a build on extension for Joomla! 1.5 native that uses a fully loaded version of WordPress that they have managed to integrate so that if you were looking at the backend you might mistake it for a standard WordPress admin page.
Every function with the exception of permalinks, which are coded in, are the same as in a stand alone installation works as it would normally do in WordPress. They have even added a few other new bits of functionality like adding or remove blog title on a per-blog basis, ability to add or remove the sidebar – this is a site-wide option, different options for CSS style sheets – also a site-wide option, enable or disable automatic role syncing with Joomla! – a site-wide option, show or hide the author’s name in posts on a per-blog basis and they have even ported over many of the most popular plugins.
The new system will allow you to define your site design in such a way that it can be either Joomla! or WordPress or a mixture of both i.e. a WordPress home page but with module placement for arranging the page whilst still allowing you to have your blog rolls, tags etc.
You then get Joomla! options which allow you to start an online community, membership subscriptions or publish an online magazine or offer registered users an area to publish their own blogs. All in all this new extension is quite a big development in the debate for and against, infact to an extent it makes the debate moot as the two clearly can function as one allowing the power and flexiblilty, ease of use and simplicity of either to be incorporated into one.
On the downside categories still need to be synced individually, not a major issue if static content is handled by Joomla! and constant changing posts is handled by WordPress. Personally the biggest drawback would be the lack of extensions for WordPress at this time, which may put a lot of people off using it, this will change as with all things, if you are a developer or dabbler then this will not be an issue for you. Currently the main plugins avaiable are the all important SEO-All-In-One, Akismet, Lightbox and Sociable.
WordPress+Joomla MU is developed by corePHP and costs $79.95 a year which is via a subscription. You can find more information at CorePhp.
‘Webinars – Can Be An Effective Marketing Tool’
Jun 9th
Webinars Can Be An Effective Way To Promote Your Small Business
Before adopting any promotional strategy for a product, a lot of data collection isdone to understand how a customer perceives the product and its promotion. The objective of any promotional campaign is grab the attention of a potential customer and in the most effective manner so that it attracts them to ultimately buy the product.
There are a number of different media used for promotion like print media, online media, radio, television etc. And accordingly the promotional message can be visual, audio, a combination of audio and video or a dynamic audio-visual combination in an interactive mode. A method of dynamic audio visual is a webinar. Webinars are an under utilised method of promotion in the online advertisement arena.
In simple words, a webinar is a presentation which can be used to tell people about your product in the form of visuals with audios, online with an audience watching. Research has shown that a person retains information more effectively if they watch it as well as listen to it. That is why webinars are a very useful tool. In fact, their ability to reach a large number of people makes them an amazing online medium to promote your product.
The success of a webinar depends upon the message conveyed through it and the manner in which it is communicated. Some basics can help you build a successful webinar as not all methods of webinar work. Below are a few guidelines for you if you decide to use webinars, the information is for both products and services as both can be promoted via webinar.
‘Guide and not teach’
Before making a presentation through a webinar, the target audience must be carefully selected and invited. It is advisable to have an informed audience who is genuinely interested in your product. Because your audience is well informed, you must refrain from making a sales pitch in front of them. Instead, you should respect their previous knowledge and guide them in such a way that they are impressed by your product through their own judgment. That way, you don’t teach them about a new product but you guide them using their prior knowledge to naturally allow them to see your product as the one to buy.
‘Set clear objectives and goals’
As seen above, the audience must be guided to your product. In order to accomplish this, you must also be able to relate their problems to your product as the solution. In order to do this you must start with understanding the existing problems and the needs of your customers. It should be clear cut that what you offer is what they need and this and only this must set the objectives and goals for your webinar. A clear definition of the objectives that need to be met is crucial for a good webinar.
‘Relate to customers’
Once the objective is set, then the content is developed. If you can make the audience relate their needs to your offering, then you are in a winning situation. The whole presentation must focus on gentle persuading them that the solution you are offering is precisely what they are looking for. In the process, you must respect the prior knowledge of the customers by align your objectives with their interests, do not be over pushy in the content or start to make it a sales pitch, rememberto be informative, authoritive on that particuliar problem and friendly, if the audience feel you speak from authority the natural tendancy is to listen and take onboard what is being said so that they end up purchasing from you. If they feel it is a sales pitch they will not bother – you were warned 
There are a lot of online service providers for webinars like-On24, Citrix gotoWebinar, and Cisco WebEx; choose the right service provider depending on your needs and budget, trial them first if you can, as many now do a free trial period. Webinars have great potential to raise your company profile and also help sell your product. Like all marketing strategies, it must be implemented in the right way for it to work so your business can take advantage of such an effective tool.
Approach to Running a Successful Business
Jun 5th
Business Success
‘First Step-Vision Statement’
A vision is a statement should reflect your future ambition for the business. It represents the very ‘purpose’ of the existence of your business, which stand irrespective of your competition. A vision statement sets a ‘mission’ for your company, which is the target set to accomplish your vision. Apart from the mission, there are some core values and principles which you stand by, these values must be also incorporated in the vision statement.
‘Identify Strategies’
If a vision statement is your business’ guide stick then identify the strategies is the next natural process that you will adopt to move forward towards your vision by fulfilling your ‘purpose’ and achieving your ‘mission’ guided by your ‘values’. You define strategies keeping in mind the competitive scenario and other business environment factors like economic policies of the government. You must create short term as well as long term strategies and measure their impact from time to time to fine tune them, all these strategies must be evaluated and fine tuned.
‘Sustained Business Runs on Revenue’
A business runs by the revenue it earns. Thus, you need to have avcloser look at your financials which consists of your balance sheet and Profit & Loss statement. Accordingly you need to build a ‘revenue model’, which represents your financial baseline along with the forecast of future revenues. On the whole, it indicates your current income sources and the future earnings. The forecast of future earnings is done by analysing the past trends and your plans for future growth.
‘Growing Your Business’
Your business consists of various stakeholders who are affected by and who affect the business directly or indirectly. These stakeholders are mainly- business owner, the business corporation and the external entities like tax authorities. Your endeavour is to grow your business as well as satisfying these stakeholders. Also, the business must be financially sound and free from debts or other liabilities. Thus, the business assets must be protected legally as well as financially.
‘Marketing and Sales’
The crucial part of any business’ success or fail hinges on its ‘marketing’. It is an important function of any business as it is the one which help gain visiblity for your product allowing lit to be sold in the marketplace. Marketing encompasses the process of promotion of your product among your target segment of customers by positioning your product in such a way that they perceive some value in it. You can use various offline tools like Newsletters and PR activities; or online tools like social Media and webpages for promotion. The marketing strategy helps captures the customers’ needs, by convincing them that your product will satisfy their need or desire and also will utimately help close the deal by selling them the product and realising the revenue.
‘Continuing the good work’
Once the business starts generating revenue, you have to make sure that you keep going and measuring what works and removing what does not. Apart from the revenue and resources, you must focus on your team. You must understand that your employees are one of your most important assets. As a leader you should keep them motivated so that they stay committed to helping your business grow. You have to instil motivation by providing them focus, setting a purpose, encouraging team spirit and by recognising their efforts and rewarding them. As a leader, you should exemplify yourself by demonstrating character, capacity, credibility, courage and clear communication among you team. All of these things are needed to help your business become and stay successful.
Positive Thinking in the Business World
Nov 17th
According to a noted psychologist, most people do not reach their goals because of mental barriers which have become a stronghold, rather than learning a new technique. Hence you have got to deal with your approach when trying to meet your goal. The best part is that these powerful notions are applicable to entrepreneurs at all levels, teams, employers, and functions within a business framework, and have been tailored to appeal to groups of all faiths.
Here is how Positive Thinking will have an impact in your business:
- Constantly making the most excellent choice.
- Optimizing accomplishments, situations and results.
- Make the most of relationships with most favorable communications.
- Supply the highest quality of services and products.
- Collaborate optimally, and partner with the best in class.
- Maximize business tactics, organizational culture, resources, opportunities, profits, and growth.
Positive Thinking as a belief has incredible influence, for achieving our purpose. It is appropriate in different fields, but particularly in business and has substantial influence on people’s lives.
Here are the main traits for success in positive thinking in the business world:
- Optimism
- Enthusiasm
- Belief
- Integrity
- Courage
- Confidence
- Determination
- Patience
- Calmness
- Focus
The individuals in business have to administer changes, difficulties and challenges, efficiently and successfully. This article is a roadmap to help business get to the source of the problem, internal barriers, bad attitude, being negative, pessimism; that can have an impact on business performance.
A successful resolution begins with spending time and effort to describe the condition broadly and clearly. In short, positive thinking in organizations has benefited in bringing the potential of teams which can help foster high performance, stimulates creativity and helps honest, open, and trusting atmosphere in our business. If you feel this article has helped you please leave your comments on our blog and you will get response from The Internet Business Coach.
How Does A Business Coach Help Your business?
Oct 23rd
How can you know if a Business Coach will help your business? Well, if you are overloaded with work, extending your working hours, making less profit, dealing with too many issues related to your team & managers, or feeling that working in your business is little better than having a job, then you probably need The Internet Business Coach.
Many small businesses do not succeed because of vague vision, improper financial planning, no company goals, failure to establish management system, over dependence on certain individuals, and focusing on the technical aspects more than the strategic aspects of the business.
That is the state of most business owners in today’s economy. As per statistics 80% of all business fails in every 5 years, even though they are run by highly motivated and smart individuals.
The Internet Business Coach brings good news to effectively link the gap between business reality and knowing about business.
Help You Make Enough Profit
If you feel that your business is turning stale, not making enough profit to sustain itself, or if you feel the business is going nowhere, then you can contact The Internet Business Coach has a dedicated team of Experts, that can turn around your business and take it to the next level.
What The Internet Business Coach does is applies the module not to just to one business, but to every single area in the businesses. You can simply apply these steps to any business you own.
You should prepare before-hand a business plan that will help your business break even. Figure out at what time and point you will break even. How many sales until this event occurs? How can you tell if your business intent will be profitable? The honest answer is you cannot. But this uncertainty should not discourage or keep you from researching the business soundness of your idea.
The Step-By-Step Process Of Growing Your Business
You hit the ideal product, but even with advertising and marketing nothing is happening. So do you give up? No. Hire The Internet Business Coach as who is an expert and will be able to help you.
The Internet Business Coach will show you how to market your product and how to find the right target customers. With the right audience you can market your products and/or services correctly. Once you understand the marketing procedures, you can apply them in the future to anything you wish to sell.
Help You Stay Focused
How are you going to fit your business project into your daily commitments? It’s easy to become overwhelmed and lose focus of your business goals. Losing focus will cause you move into inactivity. Action is primary to moving on from where you are now, to where you want to be. The Internet Business Coach will give you the guidance and steps, on what is coming up and how you need to educate things and what you need to do, when you are doing it.
Help You to Excel in Business
When you’re the boss, or if you’ve been in business a long time, you may not have anyone to be accountable to. The Internet Business Coaching team can work with you to set goals, and then hold you accountable to those goals. The best and brightest entrepreneurs have never stopped learning, and preparation time is not wasted time.
But The Internet Business Coach can help show you what and how effective executives do to cut time—and stress—for both themselves and for the teams they lead. By learning how performance and sentiment dilapidate when we work too many hours, and that motivating grouping to spend ever-more hours at work is bad for the bottom line.
Help You Get The Right Team
The people who work for you either build or break your business. Hiring the correct person is crucial but very difficult. Business coaches are experts and professional at developing profiles that identify the qualities and skills needed by an ideal candidate.
Creative teambuilding takes imagination and new innovative methods. Sometimes you, the boss, don’t have a lot of emotional energy left at the end of the day. The Internet Business Coaching module will have plenty of ideas for building a cohesive business team.
When you require contacts or resources for your business, such as treatment capital, investment advice, professional services, or resources to grow your personal library. The Internet Business Coach has a meshwork of playing contacts and knows where to encounter the information you need.
Hiring a business coach could be the best investment you ever make; in your company and in yourself!
Help You To Navigate Changes In The Economy And In The Market.
You know that to grow you require to be learning more, but you don’t even have time to keep up with your industry changes let alone the changes in the global business economy. Business education has moved into a newborn realm, with business mentoring and business coaching taking over from traditional consulting, books and seminars so you get the right information at the right time.
You know that to grow in business you need to be learning more, but don’t even have enough time to keep in pace with industry changes, let alone the changes in the global business economy. Business education has moved into a new realm, with business mentoring and business coaching taking over from traditional consulting, books and seminars so you intend the right aggregation at the right time. If you need a Business Coach or Business Coaching for your Company and Team, please CLICK on our Website, www.theinternetbusinesscoach.co.uk and an Internet Business Coaching Expert will contact you.
