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Digital Transformation is Here

METHOD HOW to Have Less of a Hassle Getting a Specific Short Term Strategy for Your Business

Having a clear cut, simple and effective METHOD HOW to do something can help you tremendously when it applies to taking a business or marketing step for your USA Online Business. Traditionally the way that information is gathered to then put into a strategy, is created by doing lot of research which includes things like reading eBooks. The problem with eBooks though is that you can have literally hundreds of pages to read when all you really want is to develop a methodology for taking a step forward with your company.

And sadly, you can very easily end up after having read hundreds of pages, without the knowledge you needed. Sometimes people get video courses on the web, and again that can potentially backfire also, after watching the hour long course but never uncovering what you are looking for. How about about search engines? Is that a good way to find a METHOD HOW to do something?

A lot of the time you don’t know what you don’t know and try to make a kind of patchwork quilt of a result. Taking notes while you search for answers can be frustrating and confusing. With lot of time spent earnestly and then to be left with a lot of ideas that often contradict each other is not dependable either. what about just watching online videos found at the various sites that specialize in it.

Often times videos are just repurposing of blog post and other written content so that it has many of the same problems that searching online can take you: nowhere. So what are you supposed to do? If you are someone who had a very negative impact on their business during the Pandemic, due to needing to provided services to customers in-person. If you are reading this then chances are you are trying to get at least some of your business on the web.

Options for taking your business from in-person to online include one on one appointments via streaming video or possibly eCommerce or other substitutes online for what you currently do in-person. The idea being of course if something should happen again like COVID you will have a digital arsenal so that you can do much of what you do on the internet. As a result of these kinds of issues for businesses getting their hands on information that is simple, clear, fast, easy and effective can be difficult to find.

That is why we are currently involved with putting together a website called METHOD HOW which does just what its name seems to imply which is to be able to find a METHOD HOW to do something, that you can then use to accomplish your goal. Although very early in its process, the individuals working on putting together the METHOD HOW site, are doing so because they are committed to putting together an approach where USA Online Businesses like yours can go to get a step by step secret strategy in just ten steps.

In other words a strategy for just about anything in business for which you need a METHOD HOW to do it. Currently the “METHOD HOW Report” is up and running and has been for the last couple of months. We bring this up because the METHOD HOW Report each week does a preview of that week’s METHOD HOW Strategy. That way you can know weekly if there is anything interesting to you that can help you make your business better.

A side note is that the METHOD HOW Report took over the “USA Make a Difference” Newsletter which they had been doing for a couple of years. Prior to them there were a couple other names for the weekly email publication. We sometimes are asked can you subscribe to the METHOD HOW Report and our response is not at this point. This newsletter has not been accepting any other subscribers other than those who are already subscribed.

This has been the case for nearly two years. Why? Because there have been a lot of beta projects that if you read the newsletter over time you would understand, but not if you just joined. The current subscribers to the METHOD HOW Report are very loyal and we pride ourselves on rarely getting unsubscribes. We believe this to be that our subscribers can tell we care and are committed to bringing them innovation of what they can do with their business or even life.

So what now? The recommendation is to check in on the https://methodhow.com METHOD HOW site now and again. At this point there is no actual website, just a “Coming Soon” page. When the site is ready to launch and it is given the green light, one of the areas that will be designated to provide information on when there might be a chance to subscribe. Thank you for reading and be sure to check the site. The site should go live in a about a month!

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Digital Transformation is Here

To Go Digital or Not to Go Digital

Not that Long Ago they Were Not Here

Digital devices and apps are impacting the lives of many. And this process of induction has gone at an unbelievable pace. It was not that long ago that when I would be riding to a New York destination in the subway, no one else was doing much of anything except for maybe reading or listening to music an so on. But now in a subway, everyone is doing some kind of digital interaction with their phones.

Thumbs up for the Digital Process

USA Online Business is onboard with latest thoughts from the Blog Coalition along with my site friend Home Business eCommerce. According to eCommerce reports online digital education in the form of video courses, eBooks and the like, the numbers are building at an incredible rate.

Digital is Vital

Both USA Online Business and Home Business ecommerce, know and understand the importance of digital, hence they recommend that at least some part of an entrepreneur’s business should be transformed into being more digital friendly. It is important as a business to not always have to rely on in-person customers. The Pandemic closed down so many businesses that relied on in-person interaction. And with no in-person customers, many businesses had to shut down.

To Digital or Not to Digital

You need to take hold of digital regardless of the madness that is happening in our great country

Some Businesses Thrived During the Pandemic

But if you are still here it means that you are at least remotely (pardon the pun) thinking about how digital might help you. And one of the best “Plan Bs” is making certain that at least you have a part of your business able to function online. This was a life saver for businesses who anticipated the problems with losing in-person customers and carried them over into the digital domain during the Pandemic using eCommerce and such.

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Being an American Entrepreneur Changes?

Yianni Stamas on the New Business Type – Startup Introverts – and Special Rewards

Recently Clarified a Bit What is Required to Become a Beta Tester

Recently Clarified a Bit What is Required to Become a Beta Tester
Historically introverts have not been thought of as people who would be good at business. The reason for this is that people, incorrectly, believe you have to be a pumped-up extravert to be successful in business. This, while introverts are wrongly seen as being too shy to be effective at being a Startup Introvert. And because of there being these kinds of misconceptions we are opening the doors and letting in Startup Introverts be Beta Testers of the introvert strategies for success.

The Gentleman Who is the First to be Called a “Startup Introvert,” has Apparently Found a New Way for Introverts to Succeed!

Strategies for success? Yes. Especially for Startup Introverts? Precisely. The concept behind the Startup Introvert project is that introverts have some advantages in a business world of extraverts. These insights are being used to generate a series of strategies for those considered mild mannered and socially awkward. This new exploration is going to open a Method How” introverts will be able to succeed at a higher level via the “Method How Report” and the “Introvert Strategies” with a new one each week!

Learn About the Startup Introvert “Promotional Tool” that Has Been Proven to Work!

At the current time, if you are a Startup Introvert and have had hardships, your business might qualify for receiving a strategy beta tester status. If you get this, it means that you will have access to weekly business introvert strategies, each one with a different purpose and outcome. But this will only be possible if the newsletter opens the door again. Please note that if the decision is made to let new subscribers in, you must either be a Startup Introvert with a current business, or an introvert who has been trying to start a company but has been facing challenges including COVID, Inflation, Violence, Blockchain Supply, and so on. We reserve the right to cancel memberships if you are discovered to be an extravert. The testing has to do with seeing if negativity can be turned around through using the strategies.

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Being an American Entrepreneur

USA Online Business Remembers that Business Can be Fun and Very SIMPLE

USA Online Business is a Business Model that if Solved Can Make a Big Difference in Your Life

Think about that guy. He blasted in a rocket to a kind of “space” with his brother and others. And he also developed an online business that sells virtually (pun intended) everything you could think of and does so online. There is much to learn from his story. The concept from his story that we are going to grab from his way of doing things in which vendors within his site are themselves driving much of the traffic used.

Collaboration

We are currently, in collaboration with other “USA” sites, devising a blueprint plan on how to succeed with your online small business. There are a lot of folks who think you get a SAAS solution for eCommerce, then start to sell things to people, driving traffic to it through your social media.

Strategy Needed

Not a bad strategy, but to be as successful as possible, needed is a mechanism, an aspect of your business model, that does a lot of it for you. Imagine having a site where people pay you to be a part promoting it, because they have a store or something on your site and want to get customers, everything sold you get a percentage and soi on and so forth

Comprehensive

If you are already in business mode with your business, meaning it already exists and you are a small business owner, a good focus initially is marketing in a comprehensive manner.

Thinking Back

If I think back on successful business ventures I have started, one thing they all had in common was that the actual overview or action steps were short in length and literally, if I was to write them down, one in particular I just thought about was simply 5 stages. Simple is the hardest thing for this chaotic human, but when I finally am, there are usually rewards.

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Is there a Way to Promote Your Online or Offline Business in a Manner that Fills You and Your New and Loyal Customers with Happiness?

“To be happy, or not to be happy, that is the question.”

Being happy is not an easy state of being for many of us to achieve. And we are told by self-help gurus and well-intentioned friends and family members that you cannot try to become happier because it is not a destination, it is a state of “being.” Although it is not so clear how to “Be,” it does appear to have something to do with peace, quiet of mind as well as the ever-important feeling of gratitude for who you are and for people and things in your life. They often go on to say that happiness is not something you can pursue, even though the pursuit of it was vouched for in that American document from years ago.

But Let Us Look at the Context of this Moment in Time

We live in a world in which Americans and our allies are currently trapped in a country they do not want to be, as well as there are fires out of control in the U.S., storms, hurricanes, flooding and the Covid Variant Delta. And in two short days it will be the anniversary of one of the most horrific events ever both in actuality as well as symbolically, and one of great loss. Our hearts, thoughts and prayers to all the families and friends who have lost loved ones. And for those who are worried about the present and the future.

Not at this Time

This is not the right time for some messages but is spot on for the content of of communications. We ask that today and over the next few days that you tell the ones you love that you do, as well as pass along your own unique message of hope and compassion to as many people as you can.

In Closing

As you can see, what started out as us revealing a way we are working on to combine marketing with happiness, how not to pursue it but that it is a state of mind you do not consciously search for but picks when it will come to you. The choice to change the focus of this post midway, has made me for one, more happy.

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Changes?

Digitally Transform Your Business

Expand Your Customer Base Nationally or Internationally!

Do you live in the USA and have an online business? Or would you like to take some of the functionality of your business online? Do you not want to have to depend on just getting local customers? When you have an ecommerce or similar digital selling method, you can work with folks nationally or even internationally.

Transitioning to the Digital Domain

Digital transformation of your business has never been easier. The way to do this is to look closely at the problem that your business solves. Once you are clear on this you will be able to come up with ways of achieving this same mission but through digital means.

Implementing Your Digital Products or Services

Chances are that available to you are DIY (Do It Yourself) solutions to going digital. Or you could even hire a digital transformation expert to help you.

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Being an American Entrepreneur

The “USA Online Business” Website Looks at Getting Results from Your Internet Campaigns

It is About Providing Value

First and foremost you must have social media content that is relevant to your target demographic and is considered by them to have value. People want to get value not ads regarding your services.

Your Call to Action

Next you need to create a plan. This plan must include who you are trying to reach, how you are going to reach them (type of social media ads and SEO (Search Engine Optimization) and what you want them to do. In otherwords what is the outcome desired including the call to action?

Always be Learning

Defining your goals is important because in order to have a successful marketing campaign you need to now what it is about and the result you want from it. How do you know where to start? Sometimes research can help, looking via search engines at what others are doing to achieve their promotional goals. This can sometimes result in being inspired and therefore excited about developing and taking action on your own campaign.

Stay Relevant

Needless to say your content should be something that solves a problem that your newsletter audience is interested in. The solving of the client’s problem will help to clarify what the phrase is that you want you want to use in your subject line. You only get one chance to prompt your audience to read your newsletter so you want to make it something relevant and helpful to those who are following you.

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Being an American Entrepreneur

Yianni Stamas Unpacks the Meaning Behind Emmett Kelly Day

Kelly was the First

Emmett Kelly

When I was a 11 years old while living in Amherst (pronounced “Amerst” not “AmHerst) Massachusetts, one of my most favorite things do to was to go to Jones Library and research topics I was interested in. “Magic” was by far my most explored topic, though, a branch of the art of magic is clowning. I would read with great interest about a very special clown named Emmett Kelly.

Tattered Clothing

That is why today is meaningful for me. Emmett Kelly was a pioneer and the first clown to come up with a sad clown persona. He had a frown and was and carried a stick on his shoulder with a bag hanging from it. He also wore slightly tattered clothing.

The Fight

Emmett Kelly created an original and impactful character in the art of clowning. This portrayal was developed during a time when a goofy buffoon with a big painted on smile was the norm. Kelly went right up against this and at first was not taken seriously.

American Ingenuity

I bring up Emmett Kelly’s creation here USA Online Business not only because December 9th is Emmett Kelly Day, but also because this character is a terrific example of innovation and the sometimes challenging process of pushing through expectations to something new. Business owners, I believe, should always be pushing to be one step ahead in their chosen vocation. Thanks Emmet Kelly for being a great example of American ingenuity!

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Being an American Entrepreneur

More on Digital Transformation

Don’t be afraid, Digital Transformation is a good thing and is helpful in effectively combating the shutting down of your business due to things like COVID-19 and so on. If you have the digital elements in place and have been working on it over time, you can switch to going digital if need be. Even going all digital if that is necessary.

The steps are 1, 2 and 3.

  1. What is the problem your business solves?
  2. How can you solve this problem digitally?
  3. Create the digital product or service.

Pretty easy, huh? Actually, not always simple of course, but if you put in the time and effort, you’ll get a valuable result for your company or career For more information check out sites like DIYdigi.com.

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Do Not Fall Prey to the Dangers of Social Media

Get Results

Blog Publicity, eMail Marketing and more can get you results for adding more digital strategies for your business. With all of the digital options today, it is hard to know where to start. In this blog we hope to help you become less frazzled and more versed in what it takes to promote your USA Online Business.

Alternatives to Social

For starters you need to find a source of education that does not focuse on the ills of social media but rather on how there are alternatives to social. Your business marketing can be ever so much more successful if you phase out dangerous social media and seek alternatives.

In the Face of Disaster

A Digital Transformation Method can be the saving grace of your business because the more of your business that becomes dighital, the less likely you will have such a high hill to claim in the face of another Pandemic or disaster. A great place to start is with exploring the website entitle Home Business Achievers.