Following up on your potential -or future- clients is only way to succeed.

Stay in touch with your audience, and ask them to sign up to your mailing list in return for something free.

Tip: You can give your new subscribers a free report you wrote about subject of your experience.

Remember that your opt-in list is your gold mine. Always provide your subscribers with interesting value in your mailings, so they will see you as an expert and start trusting you.

Gaining trust from your prospects is essential and will make your web business successful!

4) Set up an affiliate program

If you sell your own product, this is best way to skyrocket your income. Offer your resellers a fair commission, like 40-50% on every sale they make.

Be sure to offer all necessary ad copy, banners and buttons, and make it easy to let them sign up.

Tip: You can -just like I did- use Clickbank to set up your affiliate program. It's very simple, and you can have everything set up for you in only a few minutes. Click below to learn more: http://www.clickbank.com

5) Don't bet on only 1 horse

Once your business has taken off, you should find and sell other products that match with your own product. A great way to do this is to set up a joint venture with another business owner.

Try to find web sites that match your target and swap links, exchange ads in your newsletters, etc...

Never be afraid to co-operate with your competitors. You will soon learn that both of you will benefit from a joint venture.

Tip: Don't be afraid to ask others for help. Everyone had to learn somewhere, and most people will be happy to help you with your problem or share their experiences.

These are only a few steps to consider, but when you follow these basic rules, I'm confident that your on line adventure will succeed!

Good luck!

Instead, I think these are useful questions:

a) If you include time it takes to set up and mess with computer, will it actually speed up your work enough to save you time? If so, how much time per day, per week, per month, or per year? (For this question, you do have to decide what relevant time period is -- "per day," "per week," "per month," or "per year.") b) Multiply number of hours you just came up with by your hourly worth. Now you know how much computer is worth to you. So just compare how much computer is worth (to you) to actual selling price of computer.

Please don't say, "Well, sure, *you* can afford it!" I'm telling you kind of decision-making that got me to where I can afford it ... more than once.

And I'm not trying to get you to buy a computer. That's not point at all.

Apply same process to online marketing. For example "Is *net* profit from advertising with XYZ more or less than my hourly worth for time I spend creating and placing that advertising?" If answer is "yes," then do it even if you think you can't afford it. If answer is "no," then don't do it even if you do make net profit.

One last example:

It takes you an hour to clean something. A maid does it in an hour --or less!-- and better. Yet maid only charges [whatever] per hour, while you hourly worth is [such and such]. The maid *will* be less. Now, spend that hour earning more than maid charges!

Which reminds me ...

Step Two.

I suggest you limit number of categories you personally participate in to two: a) things you do to make money; and b) sleep, recreation, and things you enjoy, that make your life worth living.

(Ideally, "things you do to make money" should fall under "things you enjoy.")

Get rid of everything else!