The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award

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This Award Category is open to anyone who is NOT in business and wants to start up a new internet business. Entrants are invited to submit ideas for a new website business or online ecommerce business. The winner will receive their own website to start up and run an internet business from home.

The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award
Worth £1,500

If you've been hankering to start up your own internet business, whether it is full time or part time running alongside your job or career, now is the chance to impress our judges with your fabulous ideas.

You will need to be able to demonstrate your Website Business by giving us an idea of how you want to start up and why. How your products or service is unique and innovative, if it is targeted to a niche audience, what type of site you want and how it will fill a need within your audience's community.

You will also need to show why you should win The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award and what impact your new internet business will have on the marketplace. The judges will also need to access your new online business is the most engaging and how you will market this internet business to make it a success.

*Emails and domain included
* Unlimited design changes until design approval
* Flash and logo included

About Lucent Vision
Lucent Vision offers a Pay Monthly site design option, which allows more freedom for small and start up businesses. There is no large up front fee only bitesize payments each month. Couple this with their Pay Per Click campaigns and you are on your way to owning an impressive and functional site - a sure fire way to reach your target audience! See the rull range of website portfolios.

Web Design
The launch of a website is step one in its life and Lucent Vision pride themselves on being there to ensure that site evolution is well supported. They are always available to advise you on the best route to online success, traffic generation and goal conversion. And they build using a range of user friendly cutting edge content management systems that give power, flexibility and scalability to the websites. Read more about their Web Design.

Content Managed
Fresh, up-to-date content and images are important for improved search engine rankings and attracting new customers to your website. That’s why Lucent Vision ensures that every website that they sell has at least one page of changeable copy via a web-based website content management system. See this example of a content managed website.

Finalist Prizes

Worth £300!
Second and Third Prize in The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award will be awarded a free 'Do it Yourself Websites Masterclass worth £150 each from Paula Wynne.

This non-technical user-friendly Masterclass is for businesses that have not yet ventured into websites and want to start their own business and set up a website with an online business.

It is intended for new business owners and managers of smaller businesses who are starting out and want to learn how to set up a web profile and to make use of the internet to market their company, product or service.

Create Online Success, by Doing it Yourself:
• Branding and why it is vital to success
• Sticky Content and how to keep ‘em coming back
• Creating a navigation map and getting the best from a web designer
• How to achieve higher search engine visibility
• Key Performance Indicators

Finalists can also choose between this Masterclass or Paula's other Do it Yourself Training Courses, namely SEO Masterclass or the PR Masterclass, which teaches you how to optimise your do it yourself internet business and how to promote and market your online website business.

Finalist Prizes
And five finalists will receive a copy of Paula Wynne's book 'Create a Successful Website', published in Autumn 2010. Read more about Paula's biog here.

Create A Successful Website ...
is aimed at new business start ups, small businesses and individual business owners who see the benefit of some sound ‘Do It Yourself’ advice.

As a Do It Yourself enthusiast, Paula Wynne shares a set of ‘DIY’ ethics to help you avoid online potholes and guide you into creating a successful online business.

Do it Yourself Websites has extremely comprehensive chapters on keywords and how to use them as well as search engine optimisation (SEO) and how to become Googles No 1 with on page and off page optimisation.

What you’ll learn when you read this book:
* Planning, research and branding
* Free websites, hosted sites and bespoke development
* Finding content and earning revenue
* Keywords and search engine optimisation
* How to become Google's No 1
* Go live and marketing your site.

Jam packed with:
* To Dos
* Pros and Cons
* Bulleted lists
* Checklists
* Questions to ask
* Dos and Don’ts
* Expert’s advise
 
This down to earth book will give you the basics of creating a successful online business or web presence, plus a good foundation in which to direct your online business.

About The Author

After a career as a publicist and marketer, , Paula Wynne is now an award-winning businesswoman, an online entrepreneur, woman's ambassador, speaker and a panelist.

Paula is Co Founder of Remote Employment, a job board that champions remote and home working. And she is the organiser of The Remote Worker Awards, in association with BT Business. 

Workshops:
If you don't want to wait for the book to hit the bookstores and Amazon sales in August 2010, why not sign up for a workshop or masterclass.

Or win a free workshop.

Paula's Business Awards:
* Winner of BT Small Business Week 'Responsible Business Day' Award
* Winner of BT FreshIdeas Events Mentor Competition
* Nominated Top 100 Business in Barclays Trading Places Award
* Runner Up in the Enterprise Challenge in the 2009 Enterprising Women Awards
* Finalist for Best Online Business in Women on their Way Awards

Award Criteria
* Must not already be in business
* Can be a global or UK business idea
* Must demonstrate your business idea and show how it will fill a need within your target audience’s community.
* Must not have a current website for your ideal business

Questions you will need to answer

1. Demonstrate Your Website Business.
* What is your online business idea? What products or service will you be selling?
*When do you intend to start it up and why?
*What is innovative or unique about it?
*Who will your target audience be? Is it country specific or will it be available globally?
*What technology will be used to drive your business?
* What type of site will it be and will it fill a niche? Will it be a networking site, a community, ecommerce, online magazine etc? Give further details.
 
2. Why should you win The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award?
* Why do you and your business deserve to win The Lucent Vision New Internet Business Award?
* What impact will your product or service have on commerce, customers and the marketplace?
*Give a detailed description of why you want to take this idea from concept to the marketplace and what needs it will serve?
* Use this opportunity to show our judges what is unique in your business and how it relates and resonates with your future target audience.
 
3. Your New Website Business in Action.
*Give our judges an idea of how you will follow through with this website to market and publicise your site?
* What is the biggest impact your new online business will have on you, your audience and anyone else in your website community? Please give details of why you feel you have the most engaging business idea.
 *If you had to write a mission statement for your business that would inspire your audience to buy your products or service, what would it say? (Up to 40 words)

Early entrants who are shortlisted as a Semi Finalist will benefit from extra publicity!

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