Saturday, 10 March 2012

How to Start an Online Business For Beginners

If you are trying to figure out how to start an online business, I bet you are a little overwhelmed. So to narrow down the topic of an online business, I have decided to focus on three types of the cheapest and easiest online businesses.

Affiliate Marketing
Creating Ebooks
Membership Sites


Affiliate Marketing:

Affiliate marketing basically means selling other people's products online for a commission. Affiliate marketing is the quickest and cheapest way to start an online business. There is no inventory to keep, no order fulfillment, and no customer service to deal with.

You can become an affiliate marketer of almost anything. From digital products, to computers, to clothing, and many more items. All you need to do is find a product or service that you believe in and want to promote.

This is how it works. You will sign up for an affiliate program with a company that has created products or offers a service you want to promote. Once you sign up on their website, then they will give you a special affiliate link that is only unique to you. Once you have that link, you can start promoting the product or service on your website or blog, in an email, or even on Facebook, Twitter, and other social networking sites.

Write An Ebook:

An ebbok is an electronic book that you download to your computer. You can read it directly from your computer or print it out. The great thing about ebooks is...you don't have to wait for them to be shipped. You receive them instantly. And people LOVE instant information!

You can create an ebook for next to nothing and sell it for 100% profit!

There are different ways you can create ebooks:

Brain storm and research your topic
Hold a teleseminar: Have somebody interview you, have the interview transcribed, and then turn it into an ebook.
Blog posts: If you have a blog that covers a certain subject, you can turn your posts into an ebook.

Type your ebook into a word document, then convert it to a PDF.

Membership Site:

A membership site is a website that provides information or services to those people who register and pay to be a member.

Most membership sites bill their members on a monthly basis. Once someone signs up as a member, depending on the owner's set up, they are automatically billed each month. Those who sign up to become members have access to member's only information provided by the site owner on a regular basis.

Types Of Membership Sites:

Ongoing: Every month members will pay you for the content in your site. With this type of membership site, you will add content on a regular basis.)

Fixed Term: This type of membership site will last for a specified amount of time. It could last for 3 months, 6 months, 12 months, etc. This is a great way to present lessons into manageable chunks. You could actually turn your ebook into a fixed term membership site.

Membership sites are great because it is residual income. Meaning: recurring monthly payments.

Learning how to start an online business can be a bit overwhelming at first. Narrow down which type of online business sounds best for you, research your topic, and then start learning. Take it one step at a time. Before you know it, you will have an online business up and running.

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Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Want To Earn Money Whilst Having Fun?

If you enjoy having fun whilst making money then this might be just what you are looking for. You can play games for free and play against your friends. You can even make it your business and make a lot of money if thats what you want. I think its a great idea.

Sometimes we get so focused on work and forget about the fun. Enjoy.
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Tuesday, 28 February 2012

A Nice Way To Get You Started WAZZUB

WAZZUB, the world's first PROFIT SHARING PHENOMENON is going VIRAL!

The WAZZUB FAMILY is growing faster than any other Project ever did.On average EVERY FEW SECONDS we welcome A NEW MEMBER
and it is going FASTER AND FASTER.


+++ FREE FOREVER +++ NOTHING TO DOWNLOAD +++ NO JOB TO DO +++
It's a fact: companies like Google or Facebook earn BILLIONS OF $$$ every quarter just because we, the Internet users use their services. It is time to understand, that we “the users” decide who is earning the big money. WAZZUB is the first truly global community that pays us “the users”, just for choosing them as our homepage.
It's so easy: the more users that join the WAZZUB Family for free, the more money we “the users” will earn!
Example: If you invite just 5 people to join for free and they do the same 5 generations deep, you could earn about $4,000 every month PASSIVELY for life, doing NOTHING different than you already do everyday.
What if everyone invited just 10 people? That amount would EXPLODE to: $111,110 every month. There is NO limit!
The more people you invite the more money you'll earn. Period!
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Tuesday, 21 February 2012

Starting an Online Business - Ins and Outs of Your Venture

Internet or online business is a field that has gained a lot of publicity recently. There are great opportunities waiting for all kinds of people, no matter what industry they represent. There's just one question to answer: how to begin? Starting an online business is not that difficult, yet it can be challenging if you don't have some of the basic elements in place.

Nowadays, the point of entry is much easier to reach as new entrepreneurs can start their businesses from a small corner of their homes, having only a computer and an internet connection. This big change from physical to virtual gives a good advantage for wealth seekers to reach multitudes of people with very little effort. It is because of this new resource that starting an online business endeavor is an attractive choice for people searching new ventures.

When starting an online business, one must first be familiar with the internet itself and its business applications. This includes things like doing market research, conducting competition analysis, understanding how various web tools work, and becoming aware of the culture and trend of the internet as a marketplace.

In doing so, it is essential to plan for a good concept, product, services and content. The internet is one fast busy business district, so making the content and concept of the business should mean taking full advantage of its capability. Selling goods to audiences all over the world is often the ultimate goal of many online businesses. Therefore, we should consider an interactive online shopping, a convenient global access, and a perfect showcase for people to obtain information about the company and its products. It is also important to achieve efficient means of communicating with clients and customers.

One of the first pieces of online real estate every entrepreneur needs to have is a website. This basically deals with having a domain and finding a web host. The domain is a unique address on the internet that the business owner chooses. It is usually named after the actual business name of the company (or taken from the product itself) since some customers often type it in the web browser.

The web host, in plain English, is a company that provides you with the service of hosting your website on their servers (nowadays, there's no point in having your own servers sitting in your office). Very often, hosting companies also offer domain registration, which makes the whole undertaking a lot easier because you end up with just one company handling both your domain and your hosting. After you have your domain and hosting set up the next step is to have the website designed.

Despite the fact that this is usually the most expensive part, it is not advisable to design the website yourself if you don't have any knowledge in this field. The safest thing to do is to buy a premium WordPress theme and have it installed on your hosting account.

Once the website is ready there are a couple of things yet to do. One of the most important ones is setting up a payment processing system. Fortunately, this is not that difficult thanks to services like PayPal. It is a highly recommended service due to its popularity around the internet and high safety standards. If you intend to sell digital products it is also advisable to deliver them online via a download link or an email attachment. This makes the whole process a lot quicker, and a customer can enjoy their purchase right away.

Unfortunately the "if you build it they will come" phrase does not apply to online businesses. This means that you have to build the traffic to your website on your own. The purpose is to avoid your website to be wiped out by other websites. In order to don't let that happen you have to learn some basic SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Having your website ranking highly in search engines like Google, Yahoo! and Bing is the best way of attracting a constant stream of new customers.

In order to keep track of the transactions made, it is helpful to install a free and easy traffic analyzing tool such as Google Analytics. The statistics it provides will give you valuable information about what's going on in your business in terms of pure numbers.

Finally, in the business world, online and offline; honesty, credibility and integrity are important values that the consumers always consider. Gaining and keeping their trust is essential for that matter. Let us never forget that success doesn't happen overnight. Starting an online business is never difficult as long as much dedication and hard work is put into it.



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Friday, 10 February 2012

Hello To Members

Hi,
Just thought I would take some time to say hello to all the members. I hope I can help you to do whatever it is you have planned to make money online. Please comment and tell me what is on your mind. Good luck in all you do.
All the best.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

Past Experience in Home Businesses.

Hi Folks,
As I sit at my computer in my cosy spare room I remember a few years ago when I got started in Amway. There are a few of you out there who have probably tried Amway and there still maybe some people still doing it and I have absolutely no regrets about being involved with the company. Infact I met a lot of lovely friendly new people and also bought some fantastic products from them (and sold too, may I add). Good luck if you are still there.

Anyway what I am going to say is that as it was a multi level marketing concept we had to find people willing to get involved wth us. I remember being so fired up about it at the time and I thought everyone MUST get involved. Was I wrong!!!!

It started out with a few friends getting started and we thought this was great. I started to go to people's houses and show THE PLAN as it was called. This was to get everyone together and show them how it worked just as I had been shown. I thought I was great!!!.

We liked the products and we started to sell some of them. They even started to let us sell mobile phones. This was in 1997 though.We got to 12%level and I thought this was even better.

There were a lot of meetings and follow ups and it took quite a lot of your time in the evenings. I remember being out most evenings doing something.

I saw a lot of people come and go (most went) from our group anyway. To cut a long story short we eventually came out of Amway. Whether this was right or wrong I don't know but it felt like a lot of hard work. Perhaps I wasn't focussed enough or had my goals sorted out.Who Knows. Maybe IF eh!!!!

Me sitting here at my desk seems to be a lot easier than going out every night.I dont actually have to be anywhere at a given time. I don't have to sell loads of physical products.It all seems so much easier with the internet.

I have tried a lot of ideas to make money online and also some offline with no success, but when I look back and see how much effort I put in doing Amway, i have to reflect and say if I put as much effort in now I will be successful.

There are a lot of business ideas out there.I know all I have to do is keep doing the things that successful people do and I will become successful.You will to.
Just get a mentor who is WALKING THE WALK. If you do and you follow them and stick with it you WILL become successful too.

Hope you have enjoyed this experience. Please comment and let me know your stories. Let me know how you are going to become successful or maybe you are already (Hope so)!!1

Thanks

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