Desty Online — Online and Offline Businesses, Online Marketing

Business, at its most basic core, is all about customers.  Simply put, customers have a need and you, as the business, are filling that need.  Whether you see the need and move to fill it, or you bring a product out of left field and suddenly everyone realizes that they have a need they didn’t know [...]

For those of you who have checked out my About Me page, you’ll remember that I mentioned our very first business, an agreement with a candle distributor.  While it was the most profitable business we had in terms of amount of net profit (the eBay selling was the best in terms of investment to returns [...]

Affiliates are, simply, the fastest way to create wealth using blogs.  Notice that I didn’t say easiest, cheapest, or best.  Affiliates are other companies that you enter into an agreement to promote and sell their products.  You’re a salesman, pure and simple.  Well, not so simple.
A straight forward approach to marketing an affiliate is to [...]

Our most successful off-line business is a coffee and various mixes (cakes, dips, chili, etc) distributorship. We currently have 2-3 affiliates working with us and it does a moderate business. Our problem is that while the product is great, in its current state, the business is rather labor intensive. My wife and I book tables [...]