First Steps to Starting a Business

Written by Hamoon Arbabi


Q: I'm ready to start my business. What do I do now? A: OK, you've got your business idea. You're fired up—ready to quitrepparttar rat race and be your own boss. What do you do now? The first thing you need to do is decide onrepparttar 136258 goals for your business. What do you personally want to get out of it? How many hours do you want to work? How many employees do you want to have? How much money do you want to make? The idea here is to get as clear a vision as possible of what your business will look like when it is established so you'll know what needs to be done to get there. For a very clear step-by-step method to do this, I highly recommend a program called E-Myth. Next, dorepparttar 136259 math. So many people—including me—have learnedrepparttar 136260 hard way thatrepparttar 136261 business they created is not capable of meetingrepparttar 136262 goals they set for themselves. To help avoid this problem, do some market research to determine how much you'll be able to charge for your product or service and what volume you'll be able to sell. Think about how many hours you'll be able to work in a day and get a rough idea ofrepparttar 136263 maximum amount you could make. Once you have rough estimates for those figures, you can decide ifrepparttar 136264 money you could make orrepparttar 136265 time you need to put in will be worthrepparttar 136266 effort. You'd be surprised at how many people spend years working in a business that is just not capable of becoming what they hoped it would, even if everything went perfectly. Many new entrepreneurs think success is all about developing a great product or service, but actually it's all about selling it. Before you spend tons of time and money developing your product, make a prototype or develop a clear and concise description of what it will be, and do some market research. Figure out who your prospective customers will be, and go talk to them! Ask questions. Find out what they'll pay. Consider their feedback and modify your design accordingly. Look at other companies that are selling similar products or services. Find out what they charge, how they market and what their competitive advantage is. Go into their stores and watch their customers. Find out what they are doing and why, and how customers respond. Once you think you have a clear understanding of whatrepparttar 136267 market wants, then move ahead with your product or develop your service.

No Marketing, No Promoting, Huge Potential Profits

Written by Rick Barnett


Internet business opportunities come in many flavors and varieties. Most of them require some form of promotion in order to generate any income.

This is where many website owners seem to falter, and many never recover.

This article is not about marketing for websites, it is about ways to avoid having to market your website. This requires a carefully thought out plan, one that is a much outsiderepparttar box thinking as anything else.

To start, we select a basic opportunity that runs itself. There are such opportunities out there, and they can be characterized by a complete internal system of marketing and promotion. One such example is Empowerism. It features a built-in autoresponder and opt-in email lead program, and provides basic marketing of your website without any help from you.

This program can be allowed to run, with your only requirement being to feed it $19.95 every month. However,repparttar 136257 thing that makes Empowerism a great opportunity isrepparttar 136258 RSVP and MVP programs it offers. These programs allow you to make money without doing anything except feeding them some seed money.

The Empowerism website does a good job of explaining these programs, so I won't attempt to do that here. My point is that to buildrepparttar 136259 perfect web business without marketing, you have to start with an automated component.

Empowerism will allow you to build a fortune slowly. In our perfect business plan, we will use it to generate seed capital forrepparttar 136260 second part of our business. You may have another Internet business that can be used to generate this capital - it does not matter where it comes from, although havingrepparttar 136261 ability to regenerate income again and again is an advantage that we can use inrepparttar 136262 second part of our business to help it grow.

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