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BASICS OF STARTING YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS Launching an online business can seem either simple or simply harrowing, depending on your perception of the internet. Depending on your internet savvy, launching your online business will be either easy or you will need more help and guidance. There are basically 10 steps you need to follow to initiate, cultivate and launch your internet business. 1. MOTIVATION AND GOAL SETTING By reading this article we can assume that you have already thought about starting your online business and therefore the motivation exists. But, are you ready to invest the time and money needed to realize your vision? You have to have the right mindset and a list of goals that you plan to accomplish, step-by-step. First you have to gather the support of those who will be closely involved with you in your endeavour. In most cases the people most influenced by this decision of yours is your spouse and/or children when working solo from home. Starting an online business is not for the faint hearted and a lot of work and dedication needs to be put in before you start to see results. The problem we have in South Africa is that most Affiliate programs are designed for the overseas market and are difficult to employ in South Africa. Therefore, I am not going to waste time on affiliate sites etc. If you want to start an online business you must start something that will appeal to the South African market. Therefore you need to do market research. Seeing as you are planning to start an online business, you need to do online market research. The places where you can do this research is: E-bay (Even though this is an American site, you will get valuable information about what people are looking for) Google Trends (We either hate or love Google, but you need Google for any online business) Amazon Movers and Shakers (A great way to establish popular products) Keywords (These are the words that searchers use to find a product or service) After you’ve done your market research you can start with your business plan. It doesn’t mean if you want to start an online business, you don’t need a business plan. This is usually where most people go wrong! Aspiring Online Entrepreneurs that an online business does not need the same attention to detail that a brick and mortar business needs. But the reality is that it might need more attention initially and will demand a lot of study and learning if this is a new avenue for you. Your Online-Business Plan The business plan is placed under the motivation part of this book, because it will keep you motivated when you feel down and want to pull your hair out and when you start wondering why you started this business in the first place. Setting your goals: 1. Make sure the goal you are working for is something you really want, not just something that sounds good. On the internet, your growth rate can be much quicker than with a brick and mortar business because your audience is global and not restricted to your immediate area. Just make sure that you are equipped to service a global market. People using the internet are people who want instant gratification and are not usually willing to wait because you are unable to deliver. 2. IDEAS FOR INTERNET BUSINESSES These are only ideas of what I’ve seen and have thought about starting. You can add any ideas. Internet is not discriminatory. You can sell/promote anything you wish. 2.1 Property – Yes there are a lot of property websites. But maybe you can offer something different than what they are offering. Have a look here: These are only a few ideas. I’m sure there are a lot of other ideas out there. Let your imagination loose and think of something you might be interested in. Chances are that if you are interested, there are other people interested in the very same. 3. TIME MANAGEMENT I cannot stress this too much!! When I started with the internet, I spent hours and hours on it, achieving absolutely nothing. I spent my time on forums, social sites etc and then one day I just decided that if I wanted to get somewhere, I should start somewhere. Starting an online business is a big learning curve. And it is not so complicated as everyone would want you to believe. You do not need to know HTML, Java, PhP or MySQL at all. You can make use of people who know these languages. I know you might think that it will be expensive, but it needn’t be like that! You can visit http://www.filing4africa.com and see what they have to offer. Filing4africa.com is a South African Site made with South Africans in mind. Our packages are more than affordable and you can be sure of after sales service. Hosting packages start from as little as R39.00 per month and the setup of a basic website as little as R1500.00 Why am I putting this at time management? TIME IS MONEY! You want to start an online business. You do not want to create the tools to start an online business. You can spend your time on doing further research and getting your content ready for your site. Make use of the people out there who already have the expertise. Apply your expertise to your business. You must make sure that by the time your website is launched, that you are familiar with how it works and that your backup plan is in place. If you are planning to do this part time, make sure that your online business is fully automatic. You don’t want to lose clients because of their impatience. Ask your web developer to set up auto responders on your website. People want feed back, and they want it yesterday. Make sure that you check your e-mails every day and answer each one of them promptly. I have found that in South Africa, companies who do have websites, don’t bother to answer online queries. And that is defeating the purpose of a website. Your website is the welcome mat to your business!! If you are planning to do your online business on a full time basis, you need to set out time for research, upgrading your site and keeping abreast of new things in your niche market. Do not stay behind, because if you do, no one will visit your online business. And all your efforts will be wasted. Having an online business gives you the freedom to work in your pj’s and in your bed. No matter where you work from, it is important that you reply, research and keep your customers happy! 4. SITE STRUCTURE Think back and try to remember a store where you do not like to shop. The reason most probably was “the lack of structure”. And so it will be with your site. Your site needs to have a logical structure. Your customers must find it easy to navigate your site. The basics things your site needs are: 4.1 Homepage (landing page) – this page is the welcome mat of your site. Important information and ticklers should be placed here. It is better if you write the info of these pages yourself. You know your business way better than any one else. Your web developer can upload the info for you. All graphics should be optimized for web use. Customers do not want to wait for a page to load. I have found that if I struggle to get a page to load, I do not return to that site. Basic tips: • Do not use too many colours and weird fonts. People do not take sites seriously when they are over decorated. Try not to make use of “free sites”. These sites are riddled with advertisements and are very irritating to your customer and more important, will distract their attention and lead them away from your site. 5. CONSTRUCTIVE CONTENT Content is not just there to educate your customer. No, it must be used in such a way that your customer will be convinced to use your service or buy your product. Put testimonials on your homepage. Many browsers like to see what a difference your service/product made in other peoples’ lives. When you work on your content, work with the 5 W’s Who: Who will benefit from the product/service. Who are you? Your content will play an important role in your search engine placement. Therefore you will have to learn to write for search engines. This is where keywords become important for Search Engine Optimization. If you are making use of a web developer, you don’t need to worry about this. Content is not just confined to your website! Email marketing is a very important part of your online business. The content to your customers should be professional with a balanced blend of relationship building, soft sell and hard sell copy. Off course you cannot send out emails if you do not have any emails to send to. That is why you need to have a “subscribe to our newsletter” opt in function on your site. No site should be without such a tool! 6. SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMISATION The more know term for this is SEO. SEO is very important to you online business. In addition to previous tools mentioned, there are several other tools you can make use of. Steps in SEO 6.1 Get the right keywords (You can help your web developer by brainstorming keywords for your online business here: http://adwords.googlecom/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox So how will you do all this if you are not a web developer? You must make sure that your web developer gives you a step-by-step guide on how to add fresh content to your site. Therefore it is better to make use of a content management system on your website than a normal HTML site. HTML sites have to be changes and reloaded every time you want to add something to your site. With a content management system you will be able to post new news from the backend and it will be published in your frontend which is your actual website. With a content management system, you can retain control over the content of your site. This is very important as you are in the end the one that has to market your online business. 7. ADVERTISING ISSUES Without advertising your online business doesn’t stand a chance! And because it is an online business, it doesn’t mean you only have to do online marketing. Successful marketing starts offline!! The other day I met a wedding dress designer at a networking event. I asked him if he had a website for his business. He replied that he did, but never got any business from it. By asking a few more questions I realized that he hasn’t marketed his website in any way. And he could not understand why he should! Many people believe that the internet is some magic wand that creates customers for you! Do not be fooled! You cannot launch a website and then sit back and wait for customers to “accidentally” discover your online business! You HAVE to put out the word that your website exists! And this is how you do it: 7.1 Advertise in local media and make sure your website domain name is shown prominently. Online marketing Online marketing can be divided into two categories namely, free and paid. If you have time and no money – go the free way. If you have money and no time you can visit this link and have it done for you: http://filing4africa.com/virtualbiz/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=23&Itemid=46 The free way. This method is very time consuming but definitely worth the trouble. Here are some links where you can add your site for free! http://www.klerksdorphost.co.za Off course it is easier to secure a client than actually keeping a customer. And usually we don’t keep a customer because our customer service is not up to scratch! I had a surprising call yesterday. I stumbled upon a website in my search for a specific business I would like to start. And I filled in their contact form, not really expecting them to call me. Because I’ve done this numerous times on different sites and never even received a response until yesterday when I received a call from Barcelona. I nearly fell off my chair! And this is exactly what you want. You want to shock your customers by giving them superieur service! Service they expect but don’t really believe they will receive! You must be willing to listen to your customer. South African online business owners have this strange notion that they are invisible and therefore they never need to react. If you don’t react to customer complaints and enquiries, you will become invisible! If your customer has a legitimate complaint you need to thank him first and foremost! Yes, I know it goes against our grain, but in the end, this customer has saved you a lot of embarrassment and future mistakes! And keep your customer updated on how you are fixing the problem. Why is this important? One word – internet! The internet has given the normal off the mill customer the opportunity to lodge complaints on public sites and smear your company. Just visit Facebook or Hellopeter to see what people are really capable of doing! No matter what the situation, you must always be courteous and friendly when dealing with your customers. The biggest ever complaint is “slow response”. Combat this by staying in touch! 9. KEEP ON MARKETING! I know we all feel that one marketing campaign is enough. But is enough ever really enough? You have to keep at it. Spend at lest an hour a day researching new and innovating ideas on how to market your online business. Keep on posting advertisements, and yes, on a daily basis. There are so many places to place online advertisements that even if you do it on a daily basis, you can never deplete the supply of online advertising sites. Thank you customer for using your service or buying your product by sending him/her a special thank you e-mail and follow that up within a week with a newsletter stipulating other product that they might be interested in. This is where your auto responder comes in handy. It sends out an automatic reply to your customer, promptly and on time. What more could you ask for? Send your customers interesting titbits about your service/product by alerting them about articles you’ve come upon. Customers always appreciate this and they will know that you are on the ball and up to date in your industry. This is also a great way of getting fresh content on your website. The e-mails you send about your industry can be placed on your website thus keeping it fresh and up to date at all times. SUMMARY I sincerely hope that you have learnt something about how to start and manage your online business. You can visit http://www.filing4africa.com for more information on various subjects and also our blog at http://www.klerksdorponline.com where you can find other interesting articles about online business. SiteSell Inc. is a privately held Canadian-based company that has become an international provider of a proprietary business-building platform called SBI! (“SBI!”). SBI! has empowered hundreds of thousands of entrepreneurs and small businesses to build Web sites that succeed. SBI! 2.0, the second generation of SiteSell’s flagship product, is a comprehensive, integrated, business-building system. In addition to best-of-the-Web functionality for keyword brainstorming/research and viral traffic building, SBI! 2.0 value-bundles over 70 site building, hosting, and marketing tools, some of which use the system’s proprietary Web 2.0 technology. Headquartered in Montreal, Canada, SiteSell Inc. has been profitable since its inception in 1997. SiteSell Inc. has over 40,000 SBI! customers and is growing rapidly, all through positive word-of-mouth promotion by its customers and its affiliate force. SiteSell Inc.’s affiliate program, the 5 Pillar Program, was launched in 1999 and has 80,000+ partners-in-sales. The 5 Pillar Program has developed a well-respected reputation around the Net for its revenue-sharing approach, innovative marketing tools and extensive affiliate educational resources. The company also publishes resource e-books that are specifically designed to meet the needs of online small businesses. SiteSell’s first publication, “Make Your Site SELL!,” spawned a popular line of “Make Your __ Sell!” titles in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s. Led by Chief Executive Officer Daniel Kornitzer, Founder and Chairman of the Board Ken Evoy and a seasoned management team, SiteSell Inc. contracts 55 professionals worldwide, from the United States, Canada, Australia, Europe, South Africa and South America. SiteSell’s continued growth is based on its guiding set of principles: Overdeliver on customer expectations. As a result of customer success and Ken Evoy’s commitment to “overdelivery,” SiteSell’s customer fanaticism is well-known and is SiteSell’s greatest pride. Evoy regards loyalty as a two-way street and is firm in his resolution to constantly improve SBI! with innovations that keep customers in the Top 3% online. SiteSell has created an innovative model that holds tremendous promise, and which starts with visionary, principled and engaged leadership. The company combines the development of advanced, proprietary technology and healthy business growth, with the goals of community service and environmental friendliness. This gives everyone at SiteSell a sense of purpose, mission, and care for the customer and the community that is unmatched. On the continent of Africa many have a desire to learn English as a Foreign Language, whether it’s for social reasons, their job, or for family is the ability to be bilingual (Able to speak another language) but due to life’s hectic schedule and lives people hardly ever find the time! Majority of people in the country of Burkina Faso favor the internet and CD’s over other conventional methods to learning languages, in the year two thousand there were 10,000 internet users. Many internet surfers know in the capitol Ouagadougou are learning EFL. Programs such as “English in an hour a day” and a significant few others, really do work but it takes a year longer or more to achieve the basic fluency. The authors could have done a much better job by making the EFL educational program more “newbie friendly”. English as a Second Language lessons are very common around the world. Some students even take online English lessons that include ESL videos with native speakers for teachers. A system that allows you to learn EFL at a faster pace, whether it’s by books, CD’s or internet is what everyone is looking for! Considering that this year the population of BURKINA FASO is 15,264,735 half of which is under fifteen years of age and in school there is a great need for streamlined EFL education. Today, there are approximately 80,000 internet users in Burkina Faso getting some hands on experience with speaking and writing. Internet EFL education is a fantastic way to learn. With 0.5 % of the population of Burkina Faso on the internet you can be sure many are looking for ESL educational websites. You can get all the attention needed and any questions answered simply and quickly on internet based EFL programs, but due to many students work schedules they would normally often have to cancel regular classes and hope to catch up next week but not with the internet. Since the percentage of the population of Burkina Faso that uses the internet is 0.5 % the need for bricks and mortar English as a Foreign Language schools has just gone down dramatically. This is a growth of internet use of 700.0 % from the year 2000 until today! What will the next couple of years hold for EFL students in BURKINA FASO opportunities for a quality English education?
Soon you see an advertisement focused on specific countries you think they have the highest potential of supporting whatever the product on promotion than any other. That is the case with South Africa and Mauritius. Fortunately I have been to both countries and have notices their smoking behaviors. But does it mean they are the extremists in the world in smoking? I have no idea, but I don’t think so.
The last time I was in Cape Town, I didn’t like the habits of smoking visible in all corners of the streets. At the time, even school going children seen on uniforms were smoking freely in town. I also saw this common smoking behavior with adults also. In some of our Swazi communities, it is a taboo to see a lady smoking and somehow I was puzzled to see some in Cape Town. Its surely not an indication of being extreme though.
In Mauritius, the people are nice I must say. Those that smoke, at least those that I saw, respect the society enough to smoke in isolation and somehow are ashamed of their practice. I didn’t think Mauritius to have a challenge is controlling smoking behaviors. Generally, I was impressed at Mauritius and wrote a summary article of my experience under the category ‘tourism’ in my blog.
Yes, the point of this article follows after the advert that promotes electronic cigarette smoker that is targeted to these countries. Like I posted the article ‘The African Money Maker that Works for me’, I have found this promotion in one of these money makers. However, being a scholar myself at UNISA, I have understood the reason behind targeting specific groups of people and put it nicely in the article ‘Double Click Some Business Marketing Tips’.
We are all after money, that’s no secrete. It doesn’t matter the geographical location, religion, beliefs, etc. Hiding behind reselling programmes don’t work anymore because everybody knows the tricks. I have a good recommendation for those photos that are almost crashing your hard drive. They are just valueless and most will get lost when your desk top crashes. Hey, I also have two other suggested free money making ideas for browsers that not necessarily need to have their own website(s). My option will help you make money while backing up your lovely pictures at somebody else’s cost. Clever? Yes! I have done it and have surprised myself to have made a few American dollars while I’m right here in Swaziland. You can do the same too. Listen, I don’t want to take chances but as I say, I have gone down the road before and I knw how easy it is to make money with your photos. If you are skeptic and think I’m up to games with this suggestion, sell me the photos at R 1 each and you will get your money and loose nothing. It doesn’t matter how many you give to me, just that they need to be approved first. I will take the risk and you give me all the rights for your photo. I know there are a lots of camera man out there who end up destroying their photos just because they cant store them anymore. They also see no value in them, but hey, with the lovely African photos we can make money. Just go to my blog and read the article ‘How can you Make FREE Money Online as a Browser’. I’m out to help people be what they’ve always wanted to be. In the blog, yeboyesafrica.com I cover several topics on achieving this goal.
Why am I doing this? Simple, I got it for free from a webmaster who later decided to kill the link to this particular email. I don’t know why, but I can share it as no agreement was signed not to share the ebook with anyone else. I first learnt about this ebook when I took interest in the one world’s common online auctioneers, eBay. It was there, selling for $ 15. Like all other scams, a note accompanied the ebook ‘the opportunity will only work before December 05’. Whey do I still give it way then? It’s because it may come back to you as a blessed money making opportunity and put up a new deadline for taking action, and I know this is very much like to happen. I detail about this ebook at “You’re only 15 Minutes Away From Becoming a Millionaire!” in my blog. But really, can this idea work? Do I think its good for you? Can it work in your area? Ahha, many banks use it but does it work for individuals. There are certain rules to follow and many of them are not possible to meet for you and me, but this ebook doesn’t detail that.
But to cut the long story short, ‘this is what made me know it wasn’t for me’:
The 15 minutes was for reading the ebook and not making the millions Business ethics are not considered The process is not clear, a lot of back door activity High risk and having immense legal implication More reasons for why I dismiss this ebook are listed in my blog. You can follow this link to learn more.
As I said, the link is dead, but I will make means to send the ebook to you, only if you register at my log so we can have some kind of relationship to make further discussions on this damn scam. Oh how I hate scams! Visit my site for inspiration and money making ideas that work. Lately it seems like everyone has a blog, whether for hydroponic tomato growers, lovers of all things Pomeranian, or aficionados of tango. The yoga world is no exception, and this practice that spent so long in remote mountain caves is now online and accessible for everyone with an internet hook up and a love of all things asana. Blogs can be a beautiful thing. They can give you a sense of community and connection and a valuable source of information at no cost and with very little investment of time. The challenge becomes in separating the gems from, let’s face it, the glass. You hardly have time to squeeze in your practice of yoga, let alone time to search and read and screen the best of the best blogs. No worries! Spirit Voyage has trolled the web, repeated the sun salutations, chanted the “om” and found you ten yoga blogs to follow. You’re certain to find the right style, speed and format that will best support you and your practice from our list. 1) Spirit Voyage www.spiritvoyage.blog.com If we may so ourselves (and we don’t mind if we do), the Spirit Voyage blog is a wonderful resource for all things yoga, chant and Kundalini. Articles range from interviews with sacred chant artists like Snatam Kaur to entries on Kundalini yoga kriyas to balance the chakras to mantras for prosperity. Quality is high, the photos are informative, and there are helpful links to products and websites that might be of interest to the yogic community. 2) Yoga Mint www.yogamint.com This wonderful blog offers bit sized pieces of advice to freshen your day like a little mint. It covers yoga and all things related to the yogic lifestyle. Recent articles include advice on how to wash your hair the yogic way and how food can help your neck! 3) Yoga Journal blogs.yogajournal.com Yoga Journal is always a wonderful resource for any yogi and the blogs online are from members of the yoga world who are sharing yoga with seniors in libraries, their young sons in their living rooms, and themselves in the dark where no one can see them. You’ll learn how very not alone you are if you are still trying to master downward dog and find a friend you’ve never met working on Peacock pose. 4) Elephant Journal www.elephantjournal.com Elephant Journal is hardly a journal. It’s more like an online world that pulls together yoga and yogic living into an elephant sized resource. They aren’t afraid to tackle issues like the environment and even controversial topics like marijuana use for PSTD. 5) I am Woman http://www.kundaliniresearchinstitute.org/iamawoman/blog/ This blog is devoted to Kundalini yoga for women as taught by Yogi Bhajan. In addition to its discussions of Yogi Bhajan’s teachings and Kundalini, it also addresses topics of interest to women around the world, such as genital mutilation in Africa and the passage of the health care bill in the US stipulating that insurance companies cannot raise premiums for women simply for being women. 6) Yoga Like Salt http://yogalikesalt.wordpress.com/ Small town yoga at its best. This well-written and insightful blog is from a small town northern California yoga teacher who taps into the pulse of yoga outside of the big cities and away from famous yoga studios. A recent post eloquently examined whether your backbends could be making you angry. 7) The Everything Yoga Blog http://www.itsallaboutyoga.com/ This blog is about, you guessed it, everything yoga. The writer of this blog enjoys just about every style of yoga and blogs about all of them. Good for book reviews and diet tips as well. The author writes for Spirit Voyage, an online music store that offers different CDs and DVDs for practicing Kundalini Yoga and other yoga forms. It also offers Yoga Mats and Yoga Clothes and other yoga accessories.
A blog, a contraction of the term “Web log“, is a Web site, usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary or descriptions of events in the bloggers life or that they are personally interested in. In BURKINA FASO among teens this is usually about soccer, school and sex. Blog entries are normally displayed with the newest entry at the top of the list. Many of the teachers in the capitol Ouagadougou have their own blogs and encourage students to read them for class home work. Today there are 0.5 % of the population of BURKINA FASO on the internet so most will have encountered blogs. Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. Topical blogs are great for ESL students since they are usually open to the public for reading and writing. Also, publicly posted blogs can be commented on by others. Given the growth of use in the internet use of 700.0 % from the year 2000 to the present there are a lot of young people out there to be writing and commenting on each other’s blogs. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. Blogging as a way to practice English online in Africa is fairly common now but especially in the country of BURKINA FASO. With internet access so available now, literally there is an internet café on every street corner in the capitol Ouagadougou so ESL lessons online are available to the masses now. In the year 2000 there were 10,000 internet users but this year there are 80,000 internet users in BURKINA FASO. This is a prime opportunity for ESL professionals in Ouagadougou especially to get their English as a Second Language students writing in English. The ability for readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most public blog sites have the option for the blog owner to approve comments made on their blog posts before the blog site posts them Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on video blogging ,vlog, which is part of a wider network of social media. Look at YouTube for vlogs and great English as a Second Language video lessons videos . With the advent of video blogging, the word blog has taken on an even looser meaning — that of any bit of media wherein the subject expresses his opinion or simply talks about something. Micro-blogging is another type of blogging, one which consists of blogs with very short posts. This is a great way to get ESL students started since only a sentence or two is produced at a time. It is also a place to practice idioms and slang for English as a Foreign Language students. As of December 2007, a major blog search engine was tracking more than 112 million blogs so even if students in BURKINA FASO can’t think of anything of their own to say there are plenty of places to leave a comment! Out of disappointment, I’m compelled to write this article. I thought I had located the best money maker that pays in Rands, one that is reliable and can pay directly to my account. They claim that they are open to anyone in the world to partake in their promotions. I thought I should get all exited and tell the world about these wonderful guys. They are an affiliate programme that pushed my account and hopes to a very good level of internet success and then something drastic happened. I feel ashamed even to tell that last week I had written an article in my blog aimed at promoting them ‘The African Money Maker that works for me!’
I have in the past lost opportunities by being sensitive and take the negative position at an early stage. I have in the past emailed a publisher telling of my suspicion about his programme and that marked our departure point. I lost it by just suspecting. Therefore, this time around I don’t want to fall victim of the same predicament. I will force myself not to think that these guys put my account on dormant position so that those who followed my advice don’t register as having been referred by me. I chose to be positive and await their response that could come even when I had forgotten about this experience. I therefore detailed an article of how I have attempted to resolve the matter and promise to keep you posted at all time on the outcomes of the matter.
This time I decided to write a soft topic ‘Assumed Affiliate Marketing Technical Complications’. Hope this doesn’t lead me to regret even more why I posted these articles. I’m preparing myself for the worst just as several other internet deals have done in the past.
Feel free to comment on this article and even the other detailed ones in my blog on website business. I know that my experience will help you out somewhere. I started out as a layman and am seeing some success and want to share with you. You are welcome to visit me at yeboyesafrica.com. |
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Yoga Abode http://www.yogaabode.com A wonderful resource for yogis, especially European yogis. Featured poses, interviews with yoga teachers, and much more. 9) Metal Yoga’s Blog http://metalyoga.wordpress.com/ This blog reminds us of what we like about the yoga world. This is the word craft of a metal rocker with long hair, tattoos and great form. Well-written, well-thought and frankly, stereotype shattering. Heavy on yoga theory, this is a wonderful place to read about one man’s journey into the yamas and niyamas of yoga. 10) Peace Love Yoga http://peaceloveyoga.blogspot.com/ A niche blog for the lovers of Ashtanga yoga, this blog has beautiful demonstration videos and lovely photos of travel around Iceland. It reminds us to get up off the mat and take our yoga out into the world. Did we miss anything? Tell us about your favorite yoga blogs! *Editor’s note: Ramdesh failed to mention her own blog No Ordinary Light which is one of the best yogic lifestyle blogs out there 
