Starting An Online Business

Written by Terri Seymour


If you are thinking about starting an online business, there are a few things you need to ask yourself first.

Can I dedicate myself to this business?

Contrary to what a lot of ads tell you, there is no get rich quick business. If you start an online business, you will be putting in hours each day to make that business successful. You will need to be very dedicated to that business to succeed. Weeks, months, or even years could go by before you start making any money. Make sure you are ready for that kind of commitment before you start your business.

What kind of business do I want?

What are you interested in? Make sure you pick a business that you will be passionate about. Making your business a success will take time, perseverance, passion and a lot of work.

What do I want to accomplish with this business?

Make sure you know exactly what you want to do with your business. Write out your business plans and goals. This will help you to realize what you want to do with your business and how you want to do it.

After you have answered these questions and written out your plans and goals, you will then have a lot to learn about building and maintaining websites, promoting your business, computers, and much more.

There are numerous resources onrepparttar web that you can utilize for this purpose.

Building a website:

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The TAO of the Internet Entrepreneur

Written by Muhammad Nasser


The word Tao meansrepparttar Way.

The Tao ofrepparttar 117864 Internet Entrepreneur seeks equal exchange. Ifrepparttar 117865 exchange between you and your customer is not equal it Will not be valid even if you get away with fooling or short changing The customer. Inrepparttar 117866 end it will come back to haunt you.

It is said thatrepparttar 117867 man of calling succeeds without quarreling. So it is with engagingrepparttar 117868 markets ofrepparttar 117869 Internet. It is possible to do business and succeed without alienating many potential customers.

The Internet is like any other large market in that you can not attack it all at once......... you must be patient with it.

Anything can and is sold onrepparttar 117870 Internet from sex to sealing wax,repparttar 117871 Internet has become likerepparttar 117872 Winchester Rifle of old, a great equalizer for small businesses eager to extend themselves torepparttar 117873 whole ofrepparttar 117874 world. Likerepparttar 117875 Winchester, treatrepparttar 117876 Internet with respect andrepparttar 117877 will take care of you.

What is meant by Treatrepparttar 117878 with respect and it will take care of you. Simply this. This is first and foremost a network of networks of People.

Dealing with these persons viarepparttar 117879 net is almostrepparttar 117880 same as in person.

There are some simple guidelines I have developed from my experience in marketing and my studies of philosophy that you may find useful, like any would-be teacher I cannot teach yourepparttar 117881 Tao ofrepparttar 117882 Entrepreneur but onlyrepparttar 117883 way torepparttar 117884 Tao. So here it is.

Above all, The Tao ofrepparttar 117885 Entrepreneur is to Do what is necessary regardless of what others think and to do what must be done regardless ofrepparttar 117886 effect on others.

This dual notion may seem out of step withrepparttar 117887 spirit of Netique and selling protocols but it is not. The business of business is making money. If you go in to commerce with any other ideas in mind you are certain to fail.

1 .Be patient withrepparttar 117888 Internet and with yourself

Many people think they are going to throw up some web pages, put Together a package of reports or products they got from some vendor , Send out a billion Email messages and just wait forrepparttar 117889 checks to start Flying in.

Often what happens is a whole lot of nothing or worse, you get a mountain of hate mail for sending unsolicited Email until your ISP shuts you down.

2. Live inrepparttar 117890 Real world, not your own.

There are no get rich-quick schemes onrepparttar 117891 that work includingrepparttar 117892 ones YOU create for yourself. Approachrepparttar 117893 net like you would a potential mate. After all you andrepparttar 117894 net are going to be together for a long time.

Spend time gaining a deep, genuine knowledge ofrepparttar 117895 Markets, customers and products before you enterrepparttar 117896 fray.

* Find or create a unique product to offer. * Read up aboutrepparttar 117897 experiences of other marketers. * Learn aboutrepparttar 117898 latest bulk mailing programs and their Proper use. * Don't insult peoples intelligence with bogus offers of easy millions over night or Even a month or two, building an business takes many years of continuous Effort to be successful. You have to work years to be an overnight success!! * Avoid superlative language in your offers, speak plain and simple, keeprepparttar 117899 language of At a fifth grade level. * Talk TO your potential buyers not AT them with too much glitz. * Take as much time to attend to little things as big things in your business . Spell checking your text is just as important as how flashy you want your web site!

3. Thus also isrepparttar 117900 man of calling, He creates forrepparttar 117901 body and not forrepparttar 117902 eyes!

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