subject: Make Money On Internet - Beginners Guide To Starting An Online Business [print this page] Below is my list of what you'll need and have to do, to be successful as an online business owner.
1. Have a dream and persistence. If you have not got a dream and the persistence to follow it through then you'll fail, guaranteed.
2. Have a mentor. Find someone who has gained the experience in this field.
3. Look for a hobby, a 'pet' project, something you're enthusiastic about and would do without payment or rewards. If it gets you thrilled, keeps you awake at nights thinking of it, it will provide you with opportunities to make money from it as well.
4. Promote and automate your project website. Once you accomplished step 3 above and your website is up and running, you wish to be able to promote your club site to 'outsiders'. You do not have to get technical and bogged down in programming or writing strings of HTML code. You will find outstanding software available to complete a lot of 'skilled' tasks with the push of a button (both free and commercial products) Promoting your website ought to be your priority from now on. Get as many people to come to the website as you can and automate this activity.
5. As soon as you have enough members and you have an established, loyal group of followers, you can introduce your promotional products and other services which you now wish to sell and make cash from as a business. You'll have to be gentle and do this slowly. You might also find it helpful to have another, separate, commercial site for this purpose and simply lead your members there from your 'signature files' or 'letterheads' you send out as component of your club newsletter.
6. Review the operation of your site, experiment and test the effect of site layout, content, headlines etc. Review and search for opportunities to further automate anything that you can to make your website 'self-sustaining'. If you do this, you ought to be able to have yourself much more free time to actually appreciate your hobby/project and to venture out and search for much more new material (advice, tips and news) that you can send out to your members. Make certain that the time you have freed up by automating your processes, you put back into searching for and supplying fresh content and keep on providing a service for your members and bear in mind that they're members because they share your passion for the hobby and not for your business. Find a gentle balance between that hobby and your commercial interests.
