For many different reasons people find themselves out of work, whether by layoff, termination or retirement. Looking for another job in a tight job market can be an exercise in futility and many times, you may just want a part-time job to help fill in the gaps of time. Why not take what you learned over the years and offer your services as a freelancer?
Whether it is writing, designing or consulting, there is a growing base of companies that need help, but cannot afford to hire a full-time person. They also may not need full-time help and can use an extra hand, or mind, during seasonal explosions in business. Retired executives are in demand as management consultants to help fledgling businesses learn from professionals who have been there and done that.
If you give it enough thought, there will be hidden talents that you used in your previous jobs that can be beneficial to another company, even if on a limited basis. This can be especially helpful for someone who recently retired and may just want a reason to get out of house. Or, if it’s raining and they can’t play golf.
Previous retail managers, for example may be able to help with store sets or with inventory control. Depending on their strengths in their previous work history, they can put those strengths as a consultant to new retailers. Small operations tend to shoot from the hip when looking at their product mix and an experienced operations or merchandising manager can offer them help to improve per-visit sales by their customers. Not everyone who owns or operates a retail outlet, or even an internet store, has the marketing savvy needed to increase customer sales.
Getting customers into the store can be another possibility for a former ad executive, or even someone who work in the advertising department of the local newspaper. If you have experience designing prints ads, many companies may be able to use your experience on a contact basis. When they a new ad, you can put it together for them, get paid for your work and move on to the next contract customer.
In the age of the internet, freelance writers are always in demand to produce crisp, clean copy for web sites and sales letters for online retailers. Persons with a graphics background may be able to pick up a little extra work designing web sites, and even more if they understand the language to get them on the internet.
Everyone develops experience of some sort when they work and taking stock of your experience asset can be a plus in finding work, or even
tarting your own home-based business.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
Tuesday, December 25, 2007
Promoting Your Site
Do you feel that you have a product or service that others will love to
have? Perhaps having an online website is a great way to advertise your personal business. This will help others to know what products and services that you offer are, and how these products can improve their daily lives.
One of the easiest and most effective ways of promoting your website is to advertise it on several search engines. A search engine scans your website for meta tags or keywords that are related to a searchers request. Using several different key words can help more searchers hit upon your site. Applying to several search engines will increase the number of onlookers to your site, as this is the type of online searching that is used most frequently. Advertising your site online opens your site to customers at all hours of the day and night. People all over the world can browse your site and purchase items, even while you are asleep.
Printing business cards that include all of the necessary information, including your website can also draw in new clients. Shopping online is a growing trend and you do not want to be left out. Giving out business cards to potential clients or even leaving them at places such as public bulletin boards in nearby shopping centers. It may also help to include your web address to your office stationary and fliers. If this is not an option, you can print small labels on your home computer and add them to various advertisements that you send out.
Add your web address as a tag line on your emails too, so that people you come into contact with will have the option to browse your site. You may want to consider paying to have links to your site, posted on other web sites. These sites should be ones that are related to your business, but not sites that are competition to your site. Email the site that you would like to have a link from, and explain that you would like to be considered for placing an ad on their site. You may be asked to pay a small monthly fee for the link to your site, but it can be well worth it if it increases traffic to your web site, and helps to increase the financial stability of your business.
Do not forget to advertise in local area newspapers also and include your website in the ad. Many potential customers may be interested in your company, but are not sure exactly what types of products and services that you provide. Letting them browse your site before they contact you can cut down on the time that you spend on those that are not interested in what you have to sell, and allows you to focus on those that are interested in your products.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
have? Perhaps having an online website is a great way to advertise your personal business. This will help others to know what products and services that you offer are, and how these products can improve their daily lives.
One of the easiest and most effective ways of promoting your website is to advertise it on several search engines. A search engine scans your website for meta tags or keywords that are related to a searchers request. Using several different key words can help more searchers hit upon your site. Applying to several search engines will increase the number of onlookers to your site, as this is the type of online searching that is used most frequently. Advertising your site online opens your site to customers at all hours of the day and night. People all over the world can browse your site and purchase items, even while you are asleep.
Printing business cards that include all of the necessary information, including your website can also draw in new clients. Shopping online is a growing trend and you do not want to be left out. Giving out business cards to potential clients or even leaving them at places such as public bulletin boards in nearby shopping centers. It may also help to include your web address to your office stationary and fliers. If this is not an option, you can print small labels on your home computer and add them to various advertisements that you send out.
Add your web address as a tag line on your emails too, so that people you come into contact with will have the option to browse your site. You may want to consider paying to have links to your site, posted on other web sites. These sites should be ones that are related to your business, but not sites that are competition to your site. Email the site that you would like to have a link from, and explain that you would like to be considered for placing an ad on their site. You may be asked to pay a small monthly fee for the link to your site, but it can be well worth it if it increases traffic to your web site, and helps to increase the financial stability of your business.
Do not forget to advertise in local area newspapers also and include your website in the ad. Many potential customers may be interested in your company, but are not sure exactly what types of products and services that you provide. Letting them browse your site before they contact you can cut down on the time that you spend on those that are not interested in what you have to sell, and allows you to focus on those that are interested in your products.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
The Mechanics Of The Sale
To be a successful salesman in any field, one must understand the
psychological principles that go into making a sale. Without an
understanding of what makes people buy what they buy, and eschew what
they don’t want, we can never hope to be more than a journeyman seller.
Here are some things to consider as you enter the sales profession. These
lessons are not just about sales, however. They relate to everything we do
as human beings. How we interact with others, how we can gain influence
over people. It’s not magic tricks. It’s just simple psychology.
When we buy something, there are a few steps we go through in every
transaction. To begin with, we have to desire something. We have to feel
some need, or want for the item in question. Without this initial interest, we
merely pass along, leaving an item on the shelf, or on the car lot, or in the
hands of the salesperson. A person must have an initial interest to even
consider making a sale to them. Of course, this interest can be generated,
but it is better if there is a certain amount of motivation there from the
beginning.
Cold calling is one of the least successful business practices,
and for good reason. Yes, a skilled cold caller can make a living simply
through the law of averages. But a person with a desirable product, a
person with a product that draws people in–at least a little–will find a much
easier road.
After we experience that initial interest, we then make a decision to purchase
the item in question. This is not a final decision, but rather a warm up
decision, and it can change, depending on the price and commitment to the
product. Yes, we feel this is something we want or need, but there are still
some questions. At this point, we may look to our friends, family, or
business associates to reassure us that the purchase is a wise one. We may
choose to heed or disregard that advice, but it is important that we seek it.
Finally, after making the purchase, we want to feel some sort of reassurance
afterwards. This is where many salesman falter. They don’t follow up if they
don’t feel there is any further sales opportunity with the customer. This can
leave the customer feeling alienated, and even as if they’ve been taken. In
most states, there are laws that give the customer a certain window of time
during which they can change their mind on a purchase. If you as the
salesperson do not follow up with your customer, the chances are that
much greater that they will back out, leaving all of that hard work you did to
make the sale out in the yard to rust.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
psychological principles that go into making a sale. Without an
understanding of what makes people buy what they buy, and eschew what
they don’t want, we can never hope to be more than a journeyman seller.
Here are some things to consider as you enter the sales profession. These
lessons are not just about sales, however. They relate to everything we do
as human beings. How we interact with others, how we can gain influence
over people. It’s not magic tricks. It’s just simple psychology.
When we buy something, there are a few steps we go through in every
transaction. To begin with, we have to desire something. We have to feel
some need, or want for the item in question. Without this initial interest, we
merely pass along, leaving an item on the shelf, or on the car lot, or in the
hands of the salesperson. A person must have an initial interest to even
consider making a sale to them. Of course, this interest can be generated,
but it is better if there is a certain amount of motivation there from the
beginning.
Cold calling is one of the least successful business practices,
and for good reason. Yes, a skilled cold caller can make a living simply
through the law of averages. But a person with a desirable product, a
person with a product that draws people in–at least a little–will find a much
easier road.
After we experience that initial interest, we then make a decision to purchase
the item in question. This is not a final decision, but rather a warm up
decision, and it can change, depending on the price and commitment to the
product. Yes, we feel this is something we want or need, but there are still
some questions. At this point, we may look to our friends, family, or
business associates to reassure us that the purchase is a wise one. We may
choose to heed or disregard that advice, but it is important that we seek it.
Finally, after making the purchase, we want to feel some sort of reassurance
afterwards. This is where many salesman falter. They don’t follow up if they
don’t feel there is any further sales opportunity with the customer. This can
leave the customer feeling alienated, and even as if they’ve been taken. In
most states, there are laws that give the customer a certain window of time
during which they can change their mind on a purchase. If you as the
salesperson do not follow up with your customer, the chances are that
much greater that they will back out, leaving all of that hard work you did to
make the sale out in the yard to rust.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
Get Started Today
This article will focus on the hardest aspect of any business venture: Getting started.
I have tried to pinpoint the reason(s) that keep regular folks like you and me from owning their own home based business. I had a long list prior to starting my first business Specialty Home Repair, llc. The questions I had were: How do I get customers? How can I make it without a weekly paycheck? What happens if I can't make it? Will I be a failure? Where will I get the money to get going? If you have considered starting your own business, you probably had the same thoughts and concerns. If you want to start your own home based business but can't quite get over the hump, you are more than likely not doing it for any or all of those reasons.
The main obstacle to overcome is belief. Do you believe you can? Do you believe you have the tools to make it? Do you believe you can deal with the pressures that accompany owing a business? If you don't believe you will not make it. You can stop reading this article now. But before you go, here's one more question, don't you already deal with a ton of pressures at your current job? I spent 23 years in the corporate world before I became a business owner and there was plenty of pressure. Pressure from clients and customers, pressure from upper management and shareholders, pressure from within the organization, pressure to fit in and the list goes on and on and on. If there's going to be pressure anyway, why not be in control of your own destiny? Once I started thinking in those terms my energy level rose, my sense of purpose became more focused and I started enjoying life a whole lot more. My point is this: you are probably better equipped to handle the pressure of owning a home based business than you realize. Believe.
The best advice I could give anybody would be to make an educated decision and GET STARTED TODAY. Whether you need to spend time researching, planning, budgeting, advertising, making a commitment, whatever, DO IT TODAY. If you simply apply the energy that it takes to answer all of the concerns you might have to actually doing something about it you will be amazed at how things move along.
Here are my hopes for you the reader and any potential business owner. I hope you believe in yourself. I hope you become so determined to change your situation that nothing stops you. I hope you realize that there are unlimited opportunities in today's marketplace. I hope you find one that gives you more self-fulfillment than you can imagine. I hope you get started today.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
You may publish this article as long as it is published in its entirety including about the author.
I have tried to pinpoint the reason(s) that keep regular folks like you and me from owning their own home based business. I had a long list prior to starting my first business Specialty Home Repair, llc. The questions I had were: How do I get customers? How can I make it without a weekly paycheck? What happens if I can't make it? Will I be a failure? Where will I get the money to get going? If you have considered starting your own business, you probably had the same thoughts and concerns. If you want to start your own home based business but can't quite get over the hump, you are more than likely not doing it for any or all of those reasons.
The main obstacle to overcome is belief. Do you believe you can? Do you believe you have the tools to make it? Do you believe you can deal with the pressures that accompany owing a business? If you don't believe you will not make it. You can stop reading this article now. But before you go, here's one more question, don't you already deal with a ton of pressures at your current job? I spent 23 years in the corporate world before I became a business owner and there was plenty of pressure. Pressure from clients and customers, pressure from upper management and shareholders, pressure from within the organization, pressure to fit in and the list goes on and on and on. If there's going to be pressure anyway, why not be in control of your own destiny? Once I started thinking in those terms my energy level rose, my sense of purpose became more focused and I started enjoying life a whole lot more. My point is this: you are probably better equipped to handle the pressure of owning a home based business than you realize. Believe.
The best advice I could give anybody would be to make an educated decision and GET STARTED TODAY. Whether you need to spend time researching, planning, budgeting, advertising, making a commitment, whatever, DO IT TODAY. If you simply apply the energy that it takes to answer all of the concerns you might have to actually doing something about it you will be amazed at how things move along.
Here are my hopes for you the reader and any potential business owner. I hope you believe in yourself. I hope you become so determined to change your situation that nothing stops you. I hope you realize that there are unlimited opportunities in today's marketplace. I hope you find one that gives you more self-fulfillment than you can imagine. I hope you get started today.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. While you're there, download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
You may publish this article as long as it is published in its entirety including about the author.
Basics
The first thing you need to do when you start your home based internet businessis decide on your domain name. You should choose a name that is easy to remember and type. It is best to avoid any weird characters or dashes in the domain address. For example you would not want "your-bu$iness.com" but you would want "yourbusiness.com". From the very beginning you need to think about making it easy for prospective customers or affiliates to type and remember your site. There are tons of free searches out there to see if your chosen domain name is already taken. One is instantdomainsearch.com but you can find literally thousands out there. Play around with your ideal domain name and search until you find a combination that is available. That is all there is to it.
Once you have decided on a domain name, you need to research what keywords will bring the most potential customers to your site. Key words are extremely important. Keywords are one component that drives search engine results for Google, Yahoo, MSN and all of the other top engines out there. If you wanted to start a pet business online, you might research the following key words and phrases: pet business, online pet business, pets, online business, dogs online, cats online, etc. We'll discuss ways to choose your keywords in later articles but I would suggest downloading Good Keywords from softnik.com. The program is free and easy to use. Good Keywords will show you how many times a given word or phrase was searched on the internet in the past 30 days. The trick is to find keywords that are in the middle of the search pack. You don't want to compete with keywords that generate 10 million hits a month when you can compete with keywords that fit your business and generate 10 thousand hits a month. More on this in later articles.
OK, you've got a domain name and a good list of keywords. Now you need a solid "Host" for your website. I do not recommend free hosting. You truly get what you pay for when it comes to hosts and this is one area you do not want to scrimp on. Paid hosting sites provide quick response support. If you were like I was, knowing very little about how all of this works, support is one of the key ingredients to building a successful home based internet business.
Next I would highly recommend setting up a free email account with Gmail, Yahoo, MSN or whomever you are comfortable with or maybe already using. This email account would be used exclusively for your online business. Experience tells me it is much easier and more effective managing your business email separately from your personal email. Your online business will generate and receive a large volume of email and it is essential to be able to access and manage that email easily.
So far, so good. We've chosen our domain name, researched and chosen our keywords, decided on a host for our site and set up a dedicated business email address. It's time to take a look at email autoresponders. Very simply, email autoresponders send out an "opt in" email to individuals (leads) who have expressed an interest in owning a home based internet businesses. This is not spam! In fact, all of the autoresponders I use are 100% spam free and, believe me, they monitor it exhaustively. If the person(lead) expressing interest in internet business receives the opt in email and clicks on the confirmation link in the email, it triggers a group of follow up emails that you can write yourself or you can join a program that provides that service. The person can also "opt out" of receiving any more emails by clicking the appropriate link in the email. You can find programs that will write and install your entire email follow up campaign for free. I like that word "free".
Once you get your autoresponder working for you, you can allow your campaign to build a list of "opted in" subscribers that might eventually become customers or affiliates. Keep in mind that we're talking about sending thousands of emails to prospective home based internet business owners each week. Take a look at the number of emails you receive each week. Multiply that by several hundred thousand. It takes time to build a list of prospective customers. The key is in the follow up.
The most interesting aspect of running an online business for me is the hosts, autoresponders, lead companies, etc. that I use will also allow me to make money by advertising their services on my site. This is called "affiliate marketing" and it is huge. So, you are not only a customer of these services that are essential to online business, you now also "sell" their services on your site, even if your site has nothing to do with home based internet business resources. The cool thing is that you can be confident in promoting the performance of the services you are using because you have personal experience with them. Nothing speaks as boldly as personal experience.
This is the basic formula for virtually every online business I have researched and I have digging for legitimate opportunities for 5 years. Don't forget to look for my follow up articles which will explore in depth each of the areas we've covered in this article.
Remember, "Nothing Happens Until You Swing".
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. Download a Free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans on me while you're there.
You may publish this article as long as it is published in its entirety including about the author.
Once you have decided on a domain name, you need to research what keywords will bring the most potential customers to your site. Key words are extremely important. Keywords are one component that drives search engine results for Google, Yahoo, MSN and all of the other top engines out there. If you wanted to start a pet business online, you might research the following key words and phrases: pet business, online pet business, pets, online business, dogs online, cats online, etc. We'll discuss ways to choose your keywords in later articles but I would suggest downloading Good Keywords from softnik.com. The program is free and easy to use. Good Keywords will show you how many times a given word or phrase was searched on the internet in the past 30 days. The trick is to find keywords that are in the middle of the search pack. You don't want to compete with keywords that generate 10 million hits a month when you can compete with keywords that fit your business and generate 10 thousand hits a month. More on this in later articles.
OK, you've got a domain name and a good list of keywords. Now you need a solid "Host" for your website. I do not recommend free hosting. You truly get what you pay for when it comes to hosts and this is one area you do not want to scrimp on. Paid hosting sites provide quick response support. If you were like I was, knowing very little about how all of this works, support is one of the key ingredients to building a successful home based internet business.
Next I would highly recommend setting up a free email account with Gmail, Yahoo, MSN or whomever you are comfortable with or maybe already using. This email account would be used exclusively for your online business. Experience tells me it is much easier and more effective managing your business email separately from your personal email. Your online business will generate and receive a large volume of email and it is essential to be able to access and manage that email easily.
So far, so good. We've chosen our domain name, researched and chosen our keywords, decided on a host for our site and set up a dedicated business email address. It's time to take a look at email autoresponders. Very simply, email autoresponders send out an "opt in" email to individuals (leads) who have expressed an interest in owning a home based internet businesses. This is not spam! In fact, all of the autoresponders I use are 100% spam free and, believe me, they monitor it exhaustively. If the person(lead) expressing interest in internet business receives the opt in email and clicks on the confirmation link in the email, it triggers a group of follow up emails that you can write yourself or you can join a program that provides that service. The person can also "opt out" of receiving any more emails by clicking the appropriate link in the email. You can find programs that will write and install your entire email follow up campaign for free. I like that word "free".
Once you get your autoresponder working for you, you can allow your campaign to build a list of "opted in" subscribers that might eventually become customers or affiliates. Keep in mind that we're talking about sending thousands of emails to prospective home based internet business owners each week. Take a look at the number of emails you receive each week. Multiply that by several hundred thousand. It takes time to build a list of prospective customers. The key is in the follow up.
The most interesting aspect of running an online business for me is the hosts, autoresponders, lead companies, etc. that I use will also allow me to make money by advertising their services on my site. This is called "affiliate marketing" and it is huge. So, you are not only a customer of these services that are essential to online business, you now also "sell" their services on your site, even if your site has nothing to do with home based internet business resources. The cool thing is that you can be confident in promoting the performance of the services you are using because you have personal experience with them. Nothing speaks as boldly as personal experience.
This is the basic formula for virtually every online business I have researched and I have digging for legitimate opportunities for 5 years. Don't forget to look for my follow up articles which will explore in depth each of the areas we've covered in this article.
Remember, "Nothing Happens Until You Swing".
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. Download a Free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans on me while you're there.
You may publish this article as long as it is published in its entirety including about the author.
Incoming Email Filter - With Benefits
Email management skills are a necessity for successful home based internet businesses. I'm stating the obvious you say. Maybe. Maybe not. I do know that I had to change the way I
thought about my email preferences settings when I started my home based internet business. Deciding which ones to allow through and which ones to actually take the time to read is
more subjective than you might think. How do you find legitimate opportunities without weeding through tons of spam? Is there a system?
Email Marketing
There is no online business that doesn't employ some sort of email campaign. If you want to become a successful home based internet business owner, you must use email marketing,
period. Email marketing is one of the first tools that you can use to drive visitors to your site. Every effective email campaign uses autoresponders to keep the ball rolling. The point is this:
There are legitimate opportunities being sent to thousands of individuals' inboxes everyday. The sad news is the majority get deleted without a second thought. Yet individuals still yearn
to be self-employed, working from home, enjoying life more and feeling a greater sense of accomplishment.
Get Off The Bench
If you want to begin to gather information about becoming a home based internet business owner there's more information available to you than ever before. It's FREE. Don't believe me?
You must have your head in the sand. All it takes to get to know how it's done is your time. You decide if you want to participate. You decide when you want to participate. But you must
decide and good decisions are always made from a solid knowledge base. If you don't know about something, you learn about it. Get off of the bench, get in the game and play.
Find A Niche
One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started this business was getting too much information from too many different sources. My business started to grow when I quit going
after the latest deal and actually spent some time implementing a program of my own. Again, it takes time to build a business. Search the internet for home based internet business, see
what's out there. Find a program that you'd like to try and begin by receiving their free newsletter. I see more good ideas for free ten to one over ones I pay for.
Start Now
The longer you wait, the longer it will take for you to reach your goals. Whether you are interested in making an extra few bucks each month or making a real living from home, nothing
happens until you get your feet wet. I played baseball in college and for a short time in the minor leagues and we had a saying around the batting cage, "Nothing happens 'til you swing."
Get the bat off of your shoulder, pick a pitch you like and swing away. Nothing happens until you do.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. Download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
You may publish my article as long as the author information is included.
Email management skills are a necessity for successful home based internet businesses. I'm stating the obvious you say. Maybe. Maybe not. I do know that I had to change the way I
thought about my email preferences settings when I started my home based internet business. Deciding which ones to allow through and which ones to actually take the time to read is
more subjective than you might think. How do you find legitimate opportunities without weeding through tons of spam? Is there a system?
Email Marketing
There is no online business that doesn't employ some sort of email campaign. If you want to become a successful home based internet business owner, you must use email marketing,
period. Email marketing is one of the first tools that you can use to drive visitors to your site. Every effective email campaign uses autoresponders to keep the ball rolling. The point is this:
There are legitimate opportunities being sent to thousands of individuals' inboxes everyday. The sad news is the majority get deleted without a second thought. Yet individuals still yearn
to be self-employed, working from home, enjoying life more and feeling a greater sense of accomplishment.
Get Off The Bench
If you want to begin to gather information about becoming a home based internet business owner there's more information available to you than ever before. It's FREE. Don't believe me?
You must have your head in the sand. All it takes to get to know how it's done is your time. You decide if you want to participate. You decide when you want to participate. But you must
decide and good decisions are always made from a solid knowledge base. If you don't know about something, you learn about it. Get off of the bench, get in the game and play.
Find A Niche
One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started this business was getting too much information from too many different sources. My business started to grow when I quit going
after the latest deal and actually spent some time implementing a program of my own. Again, it takes time to build a business. Search the internet for home based internet business, see
what's out there. Find a program that you'd like to try and begin by receiving their free newsletter. I see more good ideas for free ten to one over ones I pay for.
Start Now
The longer you wait, the longer it will take for you to reach your goals. Whether you are interested in making an extra few bucks each month or making a real living from home, nothing
happens until you get your feet wet. I played baseball in college and for a short time in the minor leagues and we had a saying around the batting cage, "Nothing happens 'til you swing."
Get the bat off of your shoulder, pick a pitch you like and swing away. Nothing happens until you do.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access home based internet business resources. Download a free copy of Dotcomology by Stone Evans.
You may publish my article as long as the author information is included.
Home Based Internet Business Resources - Why Legit E Biz Works
This article will shed some light on legitimate online business while dispelling some of the misconceptions. We’ll discuss emails from nowhere, why you get them and what to do with them. I’ll tell you about the investigations I’ve done into finding a real business opportunity online. We’ll also discuss the key ingredients that allow legitimate online business to prosper. Let’s go.
From Whence Do They Come?
Do you ever wonder why you get all of those emails from who knows where? I did. Once I started investigating I realized that I was generating all of that inbox clutter myself. I also realized it wasn’t such a bad thing if I took the time to find the right business.
You see, if you have EVER and I mean ever expressed an interest in a home based business; either online, through the mail, responding to a survey, etc. you are liable to receive information via email about such businesses. So maybe you can view those emails in a slightly different light.
What Next?
After 5 plus years of investigation I found that all of those emails I was receiving were actually a blessing in disguise. That’s right, a blessing. I’ve always wanted to work from my home, on my terms, on my time and make a legitimate living. Once I started to visit some of the sites in those emails, I discovered several online opportunities that “sounded” great. Sounding great is one thing, putting money in my bank account was quite another. I continued to pour through “emails from nowhere” and I finally realized that there were safe, inexpensive, results-oriented programs out there that were perfect for me. Keep in mind that I didn’t just jump at every opportunity that an email offered.
Misconceptions
Owning an online business is just like owning a real business. Owning an online business is just like owning a real business. Did you read that closely? The BIGGEST mistake that people make is misunderstanding that. It takes time and effort and a little bit of money. The cool thing about online business is that you can get up and running for a fraction of the cost of starting a business in your hometown. The flip side of that coin is that it takes just as much effort. The reason people don’t succeed in online businesses is the same reason they fail opening a service oriented business locally. They aren’t willing to put in the time that is required to make it work.
When you’re the boss you have to be self-motivated. You have to do it all: Accounting, marketing, follow up, follow up, advertising, etc. Most people want somebody to hand them a program that makes them a zillion dollars without any effort. It’s not out there. If you want to start and grow your online business it takes effort, period.
Why It Works
I own a small construction company and one of our marketing techniques is to offer a finders’fee for any of our customers that recommend us to a friend, co-worker, family whomever, and we sign them up. It is great for them and great for us. They make a little extra money for doing nothing but getting the potential customer in front of us and we get extra business for a fraction of the cost of our annual advertising.
Here’s a question for you. Let’s say you were working on a project in a customer’s back yard and as you were working a neighbor came over and asked you to look at a job at their house. Let’s say you got the job at the neighbor’s house. Now, the customer you were first working with didn’t refer the neighbor to you. In fact, the customer didn’t even know the neighbor talked to you. Should the customer get the finders’ fee? In this situation, no, the customer didn’t have anything to do with us getting the other job other than hiring us to do his job and us being in the right place at the right time to talk to the neighbor.
BUT, in online business, you get the finders’ fee EVERYTIME. That’s the beauty of a legitimate online home-based business. When you put in the time and effort to make your online business work, the system gets the job done for you. And it generally gets it done for pennies on the dollar compared to my construction business.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access internet business resources.
From Whence Do They Come?
Do you ever wonder why you get all of those emails from who knows where? I did. Once I started investigating I realized that I was generating all of that inbox clutter myself. I also realized it wasn’t such a bad thing if I took the time to find the right business.
You see, if you have EVER and I mean ever expressed an interest in a home based business; either online, through the mail, responding to a survey, etc. you are liable to receive information via email about such businesses. So maybe you can view those emails in a slightly different light.
What Next?
After 5 plus years of investigation I found that all of those emails I was receiving were actually a blessing in disguise. That’s right, a blessing. I’ve always wanted to work from my home, on my terms, on my time and make a legitimate living. Once I started to visit some of the sites in those emails, I discovered several online opportunities that “sounded” great. Sounding great is one thing, putting money in my bank account was quite another. I continued to pour through “emails from nowhere” and I finally realized that there were safe, inexpensive, results-oriented programs out there that were perfect for me. Keep in mind that I didn’t just jump at every opportunity that an email offered.
Misconceptions
Owning an online business is just like owning a real business. Owning an online business is just like owning a real business. Did you read that closely? The BIGGEST mistake that people make is misunderstanding that. It takes time and effort and a little bit of money. The cool thing about online business is that you can get up and running for a fraction of the cost of starting a business in your hometown. The flip side of that coin is that it takes just as much effort. The reason people don’t succeed in online businesses is the same reason they fail opening a service oriented business locally. They aren’t willing to put in the time that is required to make it work.
When you’re the boss you have to be self-motivated. You have to do it all: Accounting, marketing, follow up, follow up, advertising, etc. Most people want somebody to hand them a program that makes them a zillion dollars without any effort. It’s not out there. If you want to start and grow your online business it takes effort, period.
Why It Works
I own a small construction company and one of our marketing techniques is to offer a finders’fee for any of our customers that recommend us to a friend, co-worker, family whomever, and we sign them up. It is great for them and great for us. They make a little extra money for doing nothing but getting the potential customer in front of us and we get extra business for a fraction of the cost of our annual advertising.
Here’s a question for you. Let’s say you were working on a project in a customer’s back yard and as you were working a neighbor came over and asked you to look at a job at their house. Let’s say you got the job at the neighbor’s house. Now, the customer you were first working with didn’t refer the neighbor to you. In fact, the customer didn’t even know the neighbor talked to you. Should the customer get the finders’ fee? In this situation, no, the customer didn’t have anything to do with us getting the other job other than hiring us to do his job and us being in the right place at the right time to talk to the neighbor.
BUT, in online business, you get the finders’ fee EVERYTIME. That’s the beauty of a legitimate online home-based business. When you put in the time and effort to make your online business work, the system gets the job done for you. And it generally gets it done for pennies on the dollar compared to my construction business.
Joe Roberts owns theWebResources.com where you can research proven home based internet businesses and access internet business resources.
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