How to be a good online entrepreneur

1. Read all the books and blue­prints and study all the strategies. This is a

must.

2. Follow all the steps in the books, blue­prints and strategies. Do not

waiver. This is important. Failing to do so is setting yourself up for failure.

4. Make sure you have a logo. Calling yourself an entrepreneur and you

haven’t got a logo? Get real.

5. Consult your friends, family, and everyone on facebook about the

colours you want to use.

6. When writing your blog posts ALWAYS count the words. Too little and

you’ve blown it. Likewise with too few.

7. You must have a picture in every blost post. preferably at the top. If not,

then the middle, but definitely one by the end.

Example of a good image to use in your blog post.

8. Listen to your voice of doubt – that really was a crap blog post wasn’t it?

Delete it. Try again next month.

9. Tweet at 7.37am, 14.46pm and 20:19pm. Exactly! There’s no room for

spontaneity in twitter­land. Time it, schedule it, and get the most bang for

your buck. Hold on! Sorry, I mean DON’T schedule it. Bad things happen

when you schedule tweets. I can’t remember what, but THEY say don’t

schedule so you’d better listen to them.

10. Sound nice, and pleasant, 0pen and friendly. You want aim for as

professional an image as possible to attract the most amount of people to

your business. You can make a joke here and there to show your

personality but remember to keep it tame so you don’t offend anyone.

11. Don’t send out your newsletters more than once a week. Ideally at 8pm

on a Thursday. Can you believe it, I know someone (who I’ll keep

anonymous to save publicly embarrassing her) who sends newsletters

ONCE A DAY (and she doesn’t even CARE what time of day!), and

sometimes (you won’t believe me, but it’s true!) 3 or FOUR times a day.

How she is still in business I have no idea. So DON’T do that for heaven’s

sake!

12. Don’t take too many risks. Limit your risks. Like, a lot. You want to think

about how you can build your business in increments. If you takes risks you

increase the chance of failure – and then you’ll face public ridicule as a big

entrepreneurial flop.

13. Make sure you add these rules to all the other rules you follow too.

ABOUT Karen Strunks is a speaker and

author and helps daring, rebellious,

non­conforming women create a No

Compromise life and business doing

exactly what they love.

Ten years ago she left her ‘cubicle cage’ and made a break for

freedom to follow her passions; from dominatrix, to

photographer, to social media and marketing teacher to today,

empowering women to step away from the norm, break the rules

and follow their passions.

Her work has been featured in print, TV and radio such as The

Guardian, BBC, Radio 4, Time Out NYC, The Telegraph, BBC

Radio Wales, and she has worked with national and international

brands.

Karen regularly speaks at conferences and lectures at

universities on entrepreneurship, and about her story of leaving

the 9­5 to pursue a life less ordinary. Come and join Karen's

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