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Posted on 03.13.06 by Admin @ 2:20 am
Keys To Starting Your Online Business by Dan Farrell Working at home has been a dream of many that goes back many years. Staying at home and enjoying watching the kids grow up is a goal worth fighting for. Let’s take a look into making a living or part time living from the comfort of your home. You owe it to yourself to gain the freedom a home business can offer. In the past, there have been multi-level marketing plans to sell everything from vitamins to soap. There have been mail order catalog opportunities. Many tried buying and selling real estate. Each of these opportunities made many people a lot of money, but each of them also cost many people more money. More people have spent money than have made money in every business venture. The problem is many inexperienced people get into money making schemes after attending a meeting somewhere. The offer may be legitimate, but most people fail in business. According to the US Small Business Administration, over 50% of small businesses fail in the first year and 95% fail with the first five years. That is a scary statistic. The stats for online businesses is even more scary, up 90% of new online businesses fail within the first 6 months! With some careful thought and planning you can avoid being one of those stats. Make sure you are doing this not just to make money but because it is a passion or at least something you really enjoy. If you are creative, a people person, self-motivated and have a stable home life, i.e., marriage, and support then go for it! If you are wise and find a person who’s done it, and is successful plus willing to help you then those factors alone will almost guarantee your success online. So, what is the answer for the average person who does not want to lose their savings and even their home equity in a business? Start building a “digital business” online. Create a website that generates its income without you needing to invest in inventory or even lease a building to house your business. Then create two or ten more websites generating income for you. You may not know how to create a website today. It is an easily learned skill. There is software you can buy or download FREE that will help you. There are tutorials on making a website profitable. You can do this. Once you have a website online you can put other people’s advertising on your site and be paid when someone buys one of their products. This is called affiliate marketing. If this was my baby toys webpage and I mentioned a great baby toy with a link to my advertiser’s toy page you might go there and buy the toy. If you did, I would get a commission. You could also put ads on your pages that only require someone to click on the ad for you to be paid. Again, if you were on my baby toy page and an ad talks about a toy. You click on the ad to go see it and I am paid for you clicking on the ad. The advertiser feels their sales page is compelling enough for them to sell enough of that toy to cover their cost of the clicks that got you there. Some advertisers do not require you to buy the product when you click on an ad, but you will not be paid unless you fill out their application. This is usually seen on sites like insurance sites or loan application sites. You do not have to get a policy or take out a loan for me to be paid. When you fill out the form, I qualify for my commission for sending you to the advertiser. These are typically the ways a beginning website entrepreneur starts generating income on the Internet. Once you understand that part of internet marketing, you may move on to selling your own digital products. A digital product is one that can be downloaded from your website. You can sell your own ebook you wrote yourself or an ebook you purchased and have the rights to sell online. If you are a programmer, you can sell you own computer program from your site. You could also sell someone else’s program that you purchased the rights to sell. Notice that not all of the above ideas require you to invest in a lot of inventory. Even the products are FREE if you create them yourself. Not everything you are doing so far requires a large investment of your hard earned money. It does require a large investment of your time. All of the material you need to create a website can be found FREE online if you do not want to purchase some popular program. Your only expense SHOULD be a domain of your own, such as yourdomain.com. You can get FREE hosting from various places but for your moneymaking venture, this is not advised. For a small investment, you too can be PRESIDENT OF YOUR OWN COMPANY. Maybe the statistics are the same for success online as they are in other businesses, but this is a chance to find out without losing the farm doing it. The reason most online / home based businesses fail or never make any money, is because of the lack of a plan. As with a brick and mortar, offline, business you have to know where you want to go, how you will get there and when. The old saying, “those who fail to plan, plan to fail” has never been more true than building an online business. Dan Farrell is the owner of Newbie’s Guide To Online Fortunes where you receive Niche Market and Ebook Ideas as well as the basic steps to creating a profitable online business. Start An Online Business Filed under: Affiliate Programs and Contextual Ads Comments: None |
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Posted on 03.13.06 by Admin @ 2:18 am
How To Write Effective Internet Ads That Pull Responses by Daegan Smith It can be an exciting feeling to have your first ad placed on a directory listing, website, or email. You may have labored hours upon hours of time, money, and sweat to iron out the detail and create the ultimate internet ad. Everything is now set up and ready to the go. All you have to do is step back and wait for the responses to come trickling in. But they don’t. And this may cause confusion on your part. “Didn’t I make the best business design? Employed the best copywriter? Polished every word of each polished sentence?” Make the best offer the user could possibly hear of? Unfortunately, even that effort might not be enough. To create ad that pull responses you have to understand a few thing that make these ads successful. You may have what it takes to be a truly effective Internet Ad writer. And all you will need is a few tweaks to make your skill optimal. To get your readers to respond, you must first put yourself in there shoes: 1. Most of the Ads That Consumers Receive go to the Spam Box. To be effective in your ads, you must make your ads look legitimate. Exert every effort to differentiate your ad from those annoying spam whose only purpose is to fill your trash bin. Make your ad look professional. Use professional-grade writing and professional-looking graphics. Your readers, especially those who will encounter your business for the first time, develop an impression of the quality of your company based on the quality of the advertisements they present. If the production values of your advertisements are low, the users will have a generally low esteem for your company. If money is not the question, you may hire professional creative services to help develop an ideal advertising campaign on the internet. If this not in the budget you will want to recruit cheap, but talented labor. Study the various professional ads you see on the internet and learn from them. 2. The Headline is the Key Most people decide whether to look further into an ad at the end of the headline. So the headline may be the deciding factor whether your ad is successful or not. Make your headlines tell the user what he or she will benefit from your product from the get-go. Don’t fool or mislead him. Use the headline and the graphics that support this headline grab the user’s attention. Use important keywords in the headline. Studies show that there are keywords that attract different people according to their needs and aspirations. Studying what these keywords are is vital to creating successful a response generating ads. You are dealing with different people on the internet; focus your efforts on tagging those who are most likely to buy your products. Study them and their tendencies, and write advertisements that address them personally. 3. Lead Them Home Some ads fail because they forget to guide the reader towards their website, business location, or to a response form. Even the best ads fail if there is no means for the user to respond. If there is no trail for the user to follow, he or she will most likely go away. Always make sure the user is not left in the dark. Make your response forms as easy and as informative as possible. Try to get only the essential elements needed for a response. Don’t flood him or her with too many questions. This may annoy users enough to stop any response they were planning to accomplish. Your response form should be informative and engaging. If possible, try to contact them personally through email. Studies show that a personal touch among online ads make users come back for more. Remember that marketing is all about people and relationships with customers. Closing Always be on the look out for exciting and innovative ways to put up advertising on the internet. Remember that the internet holds so much possibility for online marketing. Online advertisements are part of this. If you put in the effort to reach out to your potential customers to address their needs, you may find yourself with an online business that is truly successful and interesting. Daegan Smith is the leader of the fastest growing team of successful home business enterpernuers on the net. Find out how we’re creating financial freedom all across the globe and how to get in on the action FREE at http://www.comlev.net Filed under: Other Programs Comments: None |
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Posted on 12.14.05 by Admin @ 2:05 am
Thinking of starting an online business? by Tony Pollitt Where do you start when you’ve been thinking of creating an online business? The truth is there isn’t a short cut to quick success. Anyone or any company offering this sort of advice is usually looking for some sort of financial gain somewhere along the way. Ignore all the get rich quick schemes! Once you have decided to ignore dubious schemes then it’s time to get down to business. You may be tempted to pay a web design company to design a fancy website for you or maybe you have a friend who say’s, “I can design websites, I’ll make one for you and it will be ready for the week-end”. Stop right there! Anyone with a great deal of commitment can succeed with an online website selling products online. So what should you do first? Number 1. Decide what you are going to sell. Think about this hard as this could contribute to the difference between success and failure. Number 2. Find a number of reliable suppliers for your chosen product. Don’t just rely on one supplier. Number 3. Choose and download a free website editor such as Firstpage 2000, not to be confused with Microsoft Frontpage. Use the editor to practice learning HTML, it’s not hard to learn but it’s a very important part of control over your website and overall online business. Number 4. Learn everything you can about Search Engine Optimisation until you feel comfortable about publishing your website. Search Engine Optimisation is the key to generating traffic to your website. Number 5. Find a good quality web hosting company which also provide stats. This is important as you need to know who’s visiting your website, how they found you and where they have originated from. Number 6. Your website must take secure online payments. This is essential otherwise around 80% of your customers will leave your site once they realise that you don’t provide this facility. WorldPay or a ‘free to set up’ payment company such as Paypal provide this service. Number 7. An easy to install and easy to use shopping basket programme is recommended. This is a basic guide to getting started with your online business. It’s widely thought that 95% of online businesses don’t make any money. By hard work and commitment you’ll be in the niche 5% who do. Tony Pollitt is the director of Duvetsonline which, since it’s creation in April 2005, has rapidly grown into a thriving online business. Duvets Online Filed under: Other Programs Comments: None |
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