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Have you recently set up a new business?
Are you considering setting up a new business?
The recession and redundancies have caused a large number of people to start up their own businesses. In an article in today's USA Today it says "...starting a business from scratch or buying a franchise has been the way out for many. Of job seekers who gained employment in the second quarter of 2009, nearly one in 10 — 8.7% — did so by launching their own businesses, according to outplacement firm Challenger Gray & Christmas' quarterly Job Market Index."
Read the USA Today article.
No doubt in the UK, some of those who have been made redundant will have started up their own business too.
If you are considering starting up your own business or you have already, you need to make sure you register a domain name for your business. You also need to make sure you choose the right domain name for your business and you need to choose the right domain name registration provider.
The following couple of articles might be of some assistance to you if you are considering setting up your online business.
Domain Name Registration for your Online Business
How do you choose the right domain provider for your business?
The reason every new business starts with a domain name is because everyone now expects a business to have a website and a company email address and if you don't, you'll get left behind.
So don't leave it to chance, take some time and think about the right name for your business and make sure the domain name to match your business name is available. I would always recommend registering both the .co.uk and the .com variations as a minimum. There are other options too, but these are the 2 most recognised.
Then once you've decided on the name, find a domain name provider and get your domain name/s regsitered.
.... in more ways than one! I am doing the Cardiff Half Marathon on 18th October and raising money for Cancer Research UK. It is such an incredible feeling when someone sponsors me.
Because during these tricky times they have put their hand in their pocket and shared their hard earned cash with me for my cause.
Because I think of all the good it will do.
Cancer Research UK is entirely funded by the public, so they rely on people like me and you to help them continue their life-saving work.
But on the flip side, the other way Fundraising can be "heart warming" is when a non-runner like me has to go out and run 8 miles!!! My heart rate went through the roof today!
This was without any shadow of a doubt the hardest run I have ever done.
You can see details of my workout by clicking here.
The thing people always say about exercise is it's great because it increases the endorphins in your body which put you on a real high.
Today was not one of those endorphin enducing days - I was so shattered after the run that my heart rate was still up at 145 as I lay on the carpet trying to recover. Even after my shower those elusive endorphins didn't show up.
But I am so thrilled that I was able to run 8 miles without stopping! I still can't believe it! In fact, as I write this entry I can feel the first waves of endorphins kicking in. I think I'll sleep well tonight!
You can help support me in this mad cause by sponsoring me. Just click here.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Remember by giving, you are warming my heart in the right way; without me collapsing on the carpet from exhaustion!
Thanks again.
As promised Tony Robbins, a world renowned expert on Leadership Psychology, has released another incredible video.
Imagine this: You're on the run because your home town is right in the path of a hurricane.
...And you've fled to your parents house in the next town over, hoping the storm will pass and everything will be OK.
Now, imagine that on that very same day, you make ONE MILLION DOLLARS ...with nothing but a laptop computer and a spotty internet connection.
Even though this sounds like something from a movie, it actually happened to the person Tony interviews in his new video:
http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/328/john-tony/
The video is free and it should start playing automatically.
I'll post Part 3 later on this week with details of a very rare recording which Tony did back in 1989 called the "5 Keys to Wealth & Happiness".
Tony Robbins, a world renowned expert on Leadership Psychology, has just posted a brand new video for you on his blog and you can watch it here:
http://tonyrobbinstraining.com/320/interview-with-frank-kern-and-john-reese/
In the video, you'll discover:
- The "4-Square" System For Creating Massive Action TODAY.
- The number one thing that's holding you back...and how you can banish it from your life forever.
- The subtle mental shift that millionaires use to get a financial jumpstart.
- A short exercise that destroys your nagging skepticism and builds your momentum to succeed.
It's free for you and should start playing automatically.
It will really get you excited and motivated to begin taking massive action on some of those things you've been stalling on.
I'll post Part 2 later on this week which is a great video of Tony & John discussing John's million dollar day - the day when he launched a new product and took over $1m in sales in less than 24hours!!
I'm off on a 5 mile run today and I spent last night adding a new playlist to my iPod.
- Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
- Rock That Body - Black Eyed Peas
- Party All the Time - Black Eyed Peas
- Single Ladies - Beyoncé
- Lose Yourself - Eminem
- Sandstorm - Darude
- Love Is Gone - Chris Willis, David Guetta & Joachim Garraud
- Turn It on Again - Genesis
- Dodo - Genesis
- Misunderstanding - Genesis
- In the Cage Medley - Genesis
- I See You Baby - Groove Armada
- Ray Of Light - Madonna
- Catch - Kosheen
- Freak Like Me - Sugababes
- Round Round - Sugababes
- In The Middle - Sugababes
- I See Girls - Studio B
- Joyride - Roxette
- How Do You Do! - Roxette
- The Look Roxette - Tourism
- The Real Things - 2 Unlimited
- Encore une Fois - Sash!
- I Like To Move It - Reel 2 Reel
- I Love My Chick - Busta Rhymes ft. Kelis
It's quite a mixture but should keep my legs pumping long enough to get me round!
I've been puffed in to do the Cardiff Half Marathon by a good friend, Martin Gibbs, who's a very good runner and he did the Cardiff Half Marathon last year.
I am just at the end of Week 5 of my training and I remembered Stephen Fry saying that he listens to audio books whilst walking. So I thought I'd do the same on my runs.
I'm a huge advocate of goal setting and positive thinking and so I decided to find some Antony Robbins and Zig Ziglar audio books on iTunes. I've downloaded "Awaken the Giant Within" by Tony Robbins which I read ages ago and it was great last week, to listen to Tony on my runs. It really helps to keep me focused on my runs.
Zig Ziglar is more of an acquired taste as his voice can be a little bit annoying to begin with. I love his stuff now and I've got "Motivation - The key to Accomplishment" and "Secrets of Closing the sale". I've also bought Brian Tracy's "Flight Plan - The Real Secrets of Success".
Finding time to spare to read or listen to these great motivational speakers can be hard, but now I'm running, it's the perfect time!
I've got a 4 mile run to do in the morning and I think I'll take Zig Ziglar with me tomorrow!
www.justgiving.com/formydad2009 - Please support me in my cause.
First day back today from a great holiday in Tenerife. Way too many emails to deal with but I'm feeling very refreshed.
Relaxing by the pool is the perfect time to clear your mind and think of new ideas and get focused.
One of mine is to keep on top of my goal setting. People in the UK aren't generally known as good goal setters. We don't really set goals; we tend to set New Year's Resolutions. The problem with New Year's Resolutions is that you don't really keep an eye on your progress and it's only when you come to the end of the year that you realise, in most cases, that your resolution didn't happen.
Goal setting is a much better idea. Bruce King, one of the UK's leading sales and personal growth specialists, has just published a 4 point guide on Goal Setting:
Goal Setting
You attended a seminar or read a book about goal setting and you were all fired up. You established some exciting and challenging goals and even set a date by when you would achieve them. Everything was going to get so much better from then on. And the days went by and the weeks went by and the months went by - and those goals simply slipped from your mind.
Has that ever happened to you? Regrettably it happens to most people - unless they keep to a formal routine and keep those goals at the forefront of their conscious and subconscious minds, linked together by really strong neuronal pathways. The simplest and most effective way to do this is:
1: Write your goals down in a GOAL BOOK. Collect pictures and photographs which illustrate what your life will be like when you have achieved those goals and paste them in. Read it every day.
2: Keep a daily journal and record everything you did that day that moved you towards achieving your goals and everything else that came to mind that that you could do to make them happen even faster.
3: Carry out a Visualization exercise at least once a day and preferably twice a day for at least twenty minutes. Use my Visualization CD to keep you on track with this. (See Products page)
4: Repeat your affirmations to achieve those goals, out loud and with enthusiasm, at least twenty five times, twice a day.
And the days, and the weeks and the months will go by and one day you will wake up and find all that you had dreamed of is yours.
Your can find out more about Bruce King on his website -
http://www.bruceking.co.uk/development/achievers/indexnew.asp
If anyone is interested in Goal Setting and would like to know more on the subject, please give me a call on 0845 363 1173.
