| There are many people who are looking to | | | | |
| start a business online. Some are simply | | | | For example, if you're selling a product for |
| looking for a way to make a few hundred a | | | | $20, and you want to earn $10,000 each month, |
| month to pay a few bills while others are | | | | you'll need 500 customers. |
| looking for a way to leave their current | | | | |
| jobs. | | | | Will you build a website and buy a domain? |
| | | | Building a website and buying a domain |
| There's so much information online about | | | | demonstrate that you're a professional. |
| making money that you can easily get lost. | | | | |
| Sign up for a few lists of those who offer | | | | Can you learn to write? This really isn't as |
| money making information, you can get | | | | difficult as it sounds. If you plan to market |
| bombarded with messages that simply leave you | | | | your business, and you're starting out on a |
| confused. | | | | shoestring, you'll need to learn how to write |
| | | | your sales materials. |
| If you want to start a business online, then | | | | |
| you need to ask yourself a few questions | | | | If you can afford it, and the writing doesn't |
| first. I would recommend you get a notebook | | | | appeal to you, then outsource it. There are |
| or open a text file on your computer. The | | | | plenty of sites online where you can find |
| work you do with this exercise will really | | | | others to outsource this kind of project to, |
| help you clarify your new business and save | | | | and they're relatively inexpensive. |
| you a lot of time. | | | | |
| | | | How do you plan to market? Your personality |
| Do you want to sell your own products and | | | | and skills are vitally important here. No |
| services, or do you want to sell someone | | | | matter how effective a marketing technique |
| else's? | | | | is, if you won't do it, then the technique is |
| | | | really useless to you. |
| If you don't want to hassle with customer | | | | |
| service, or creating products and services, | | | | This is where your personality comes in. |
| then selling someone else's products for a | | | | Choose marketing techniques that fit with |
| commission might be the ideal situation for | | | | your personality. If you like to write, then |
| you. | | | | articles, press releases, and ebooks may be |
| | | | right for you. If you don't, then you can |
| What are you passionate about? | | | | learn to write ads, or market using pay per |
| | | | click or search engine optimization. |
| This is something that you are deeply | | | | |
| interested in that you could turn into a | | | | Consider your skills too. If you're not a |
| business. We all have something that we're | | | | very good writer, you may need to polish your |
| passionate about we could make money from. | | | | skills. If you don't like marketing, then |
| | | | you'll need to learn. It's not as painful as |
| How much money do you want to make? | | | | you may think. You may still want to consider |
| | | | outsourcing this too if you won't do it |
| It's been said there's really no difference | | | | yourself. In the end, you'll save time and |
| between making $100 and $1,000,000. However, | | | | money instead of driving yourself crazy |
| a certain amount of effort will be required | | | | because you aren't doing it. |
| regardless of how much you decide you want to | | | | |
| make. | | | | Now, once you've written your answers down, |
| | | | it's time to formulate a plan for how you |
| The amount you want to make should be one of | | | | will get each task done. |
| your goals. You should quantify this. | | | | |