In starting an online
business I have found there are 5 absolute essentials you need to get your
online business going.
The only 5 things you need to start an online business is a burning desire to succeed, a website/blog, a product or service to offer on your website, traffic to your website, and lastly an email opt in with an autoresponder.
In this article I will discuss each one more in depth:
Absolute Essential 1) - A
BURNING DESIRE
This is the number one
essential you need to start your online business. Why? Because without a burning desire you can read everything you
get your hands on and learn everything you can about starting an online business,
but if you don't have that burning desire to change your current situation you
will never get started.
I have known about how
simple (I didn't say easy) it is to create an online business for quite some
time. I even went to college and got a
degree for web design so I could work from home, have my own business, be free
and make better money.
But even though I went on to
get my degree I still searched out employers to rely on. Employers that I would sell for and make small
commissions, and always struggle to survive while I watched them prosper and
grow.
In the back of my mind I
knew what I should be doing. But that
burning desire just wasn't there. I
guess I wasn't broke enough, or I was ok just making enough to get by.
It wasn't until I lost my
job of roughly 15 years that I finally realized what I must do. As I thought more and more about how this
company let me go after 15 years of making them a lot of money, as I got
angrier, and as my financial situation grew worse my desire to never work for
anyone again grew to a burning desire.
My desire to take control of not only my life, and income, but my time
as well.
Without that burning desire
you will just take my information and put it away in the back of your mind for
another day. If you are missing this
element at this time I suggest you refrain from going any further and come back
another time.
How do you get this burning
desire you may ask. Well some people are
just born with it. They have that
burning desire to succeed from day one.
However some of us; maybe most of us something has to happen to spark
that burning desire. Sometimes it takes
us losing a job and realizing that no matter how long you work for someone your
never really secure. Maybe some it's
just being tired of living paycheck to paycheck and wanting more out of
life. Whatever the reason; without that
burning desire to succeed you will fail.
Because it's that burning
desire that gives us the confidence in knowing that no matter what. We will not fail. So if you have that burning desire to change
your life, to succeed without failure, to change your life and make more money than
you ever dreamed of, read on.
Absolute Essential 2) - A
WEBSITE/BLOG
You need a website or a
blog. Without one you have no place to
sell your product, or offer your service.
You have no place to direct people to your offer. It is an absolute essential.
The nice thing is however,
is the cost to set up a website is very minimal. Hosting and domain names are super
cheap. There are also free blogs you can
set up that cost you nothing. So even if
you don't have a few dollars to host a website on a hosting company like GoDaddy
you can set up a free account on places like Blogger.
And websites are very easy to create. Most are set up so anyone can create a simple
website. And if that still discourages
you. I'm a web designer. I can always lend you a hand.
Absolute Essential 3) - A
PRODUCT AND/OR SERVICE TO OFFER ON YOUR SITE
I offer a service and products,
but if you have no marketable skills or service you can offer on your site affiliate products may be the way you want to go. There are hundreds if
not thousands of products you can offer that pay nice commissions. Some are even recurring where you can get
paid every month as long as someone keeps their subscription going.
This can add up to huge sums of money. There are affiliate programs everywhere where
companies or creators are willing to pay 50 -100% commission if someone
purchases a product from your site. And
the beauty of this model is your store front is open 24/7 to virtually everyone
in the world.
I used to sell to one person
at a time. The power of the Internet
allows us to reach thousands, tens of thousands of people. The potential amounts of money you can make
are staggering.
Absolute Essential 4) -
CUSTOMERS (TRAFFIC)
Customers referred on the
Internet as traffic. It is the life
blood of your business. No traffic no
sales. Entire books have been written
just on how to get traffic. Remember
when I said earlier that this was simple?
The process is simple. It's
inexpensive to start, and simple to get things in place. But it does require work and patience. This is where the burning desire to succeed
steps in. Because if you don't have that
burning desire you will get frustrated an quit before you ever gave your
business a chance.
In today's society we want
everything now. And there are plenty of
YouTube videos telling you how to make $200, $300, $500 a day. And they make it sound like you're going to
do it tomorrow. Some will even say
that. We'll I'm here to tell you it
doesn't work like that.
Your not just going to put a
link on your new site and think people are just going to flock to your offer. You must get traffic. Now you're probably wondering "how do I
get traffic to my new site". Well
my friend there are lots of ways to get traffic to your site that I will not go
into in this article. But I will be
doing future posts and videos on just how to get that traffic so get on my mailing list and get notified when I post new content or videos on my YouTube.
Absolute Essential 5) -
EMAIL OPT IN AND AUTO RESPONDER
So just like a regular brick
and motor business. Not everyone is
going to buy the first time you introduce them to your product or service. You need a way to reach them if they leave
without buying. So having your visitors
fill out an opt-in form is essential to your business. Sometimes it take people time to think it
over. And if you have the ability to email
them through auto responders it gives you another chance to offer your service
or product and create a relationship with your customer.
Email marketing customers is
one of the best investments you can make in your new business. I use GetResponse. They offer nice landing pages and opt in
forms that are easy to create and get up and running. You may have heard this before but the money
truly is in your list. And the larger
you can make your list the more customers you have to promote your offers too.
In conclusion; the Internet
works exponentially. You set up a
website, promote a product and/or service, and drive traffic to it. The more traffic you can drive to your offers
the better your chances of success.
And what makes this simple
is you can put in just a few hours a day, and over time with your efforts of
fine tuning your site, adding more products, creating content, driving more
traffic your income will grow exponentially and there is no ceiling to how much
you can make because your reaching potentially thousands of people twenty-four
hours a day, 7 days a week. Like I said;
it's simple, not easy.
If your not where you want to be financially in your life I strongly recommend you take action. It doesn't cost a lot to get started and your ROI is better than anything you will ever do. And the best part... You are no longer trading time (time you can never get back) for money.
I hope you got value out of this article. If so post a comment below. I'd love to hear from you.
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