Small Business Ideas

A payroll-outsource company is constantly upgrading and improving their ability to provide the best service for you. They upgrade their software and systems on a regular basis. They of course have to keep up with the changes in the law of all 15,000 plus payroll-taxing entities as they happen. A payroll outsourcing company must be able to print out any updated form as needed or they will have to do it by hand. This is a chore they do not want to undertake with many clients to complete them for.

When you use a payroll company to process your payroll, you reduce the number of checks that you write substantially. This not only lowers your accounting costs by reducing the size and complexity of your bank reconciliation; it can also reduce your banking fees. It reduces the checks that can fall in to the hands of check fraud specialists. Check fraud is the largest dollar value crime in the country year after year. The Nilson Report indicates that check fraud exceeds $20 billion dollars a year and the American Bankers Association recently stated that check fraud losses are growing by 25% per year. Payroll processing companies hire specialists to consult about reducing fraud. A good outsourcing company should be able to discuss numerous devices that they use to protect themselves and their clients from fraud.

By outsourcing your payroll with a paperless payroll system you increase your privacy immensely. The only information available is password protected in your computer. If you need to print anything, you print only what you need and destroy it when you are done. No reams of paper, stacks of books, and files for unwelcome eyes to pry through. No huge stack of files to maintain for the government if they decided they want to look at the last four, five or whatever years of payroll.

A truly professional payroll outsource provider will have CPAs on staff that you can consult with.  When you have a complex or unique question about payroll you don’t want a clerk you want a professional.  When the IRS sends a notice you don’t want to be told by your payroll provider to talk to your CPA, if he were up to date on payroll, he would be doing it.  A CPA at a payroll company deals with the tax aspects of payroll on a daily basis.  He should be able to address your concerns and questions and help keep you out of trouble with the IRS.

Today we’re going to teach you how to take a general category and break it down into a profitable niche market and then we’re going to show you how to find your most targeted keywords for that niche market.  First of all we’re not here to dog those who are currently showing you how to find a niche market, using Google or EBay are clever ways to find possible niches and it’s a lot better than guessing— for assuming what people are looking for or want by guessing is just pure folly.  However, through our research, Pam and I have found out that only half of the equation is being given and the other half of the equation that isn’t being given is the use of a keyword lookup tool.

Let’s go to Keyword Discovery (http://www.keyworddiscovery.com/search.html), they’re just one of the free tools  out there that we like, there are many others this is just one of them.  Now, we’ll go down to the keyword box and type in a general keyword that we want, we’ll just go with “boots.” Then go down to the authorization box and fill in the letters and numbers shown, making note that it is case sensitive.  Then hit enter or press Search.

So we’re going to use “boots,” so let’s see if we can find a niche for that keyword.  Let’s go over to Google, and in the Google search we’ll type in “boots” to see the competition is.  Okay, on the right hand side, “boots” has a competition of 155,000,000.  Now 155 million is huge, that’s a big number.  So, we’re going to want to try to narrow this down a little bit, to see if we can find a bit better of a niche.

We want to see what the competition is.  So, in other words, no matter what your key term is and how many searches per month, if the competition number is just out of the water, like a billion, you know you have a huge competition there and it is probably better to find a different type of niche, a different type of subject, or different information to sell.

So, we have “ugg boots” but let’s try and tighten that up a little bit better because we know that will work for a niche because it’s right around the one million mark and it does have a high search per month number.  But, if we were going to use “ugg boots”  let’s decide what kind of keywords we could put in our website for search engine optimization.  Now we have our niche, let’s find the most targeted keywords for that niche.

It brings up a result with a much better competition bracket with only 238,000 for that key term.  See how we’re narrowing it down into a niche, into getting the right eyeballs to your site?  If you’re selling “ugg boots” you don’t want people looking for “cowboy boots” coming to your site because that’s not what they’re looking for.  You want people that are looking for “ugg boots” to come to your site—get the right eyeballs coming to your site—because if they’re looking for “ugg boots,” especially “ugg boots size 8” and you’re store is on the first page, which can be accomplished with our methods, they’re going to click on you and they’re going to buy from you.

Now, just for curiosities sake, let’s see what one other keyword is bringing—“cheap ugg boots” is third on the list and it has 1,241 hits per month and it’s just about three different from the “ugg boots size 8” key term which had 1,244.  So, let’s go find out it’s competition on Google.  A search result for “cheap ugg boots” brings up 116,000, so your competition is in half.  This number is half of the other search which had 238,000.  Even though the searches for those key terms are almost identical, there’s just about three searches difference , but your competition has been reduced by half.  So, you know that your “cheap ugg boots” is going to be one of your top keywords, plus it will help get the right eyeballs to your site.  These are both very good.