Four Things You Must Do For Online Business Success © By Jinger Jarrett 2003Starting a business online can be one of
easiest things you can do. It doesn't take much money, and with all of
free software available, it is very easy to automate every aspect of your business.
Once you start to market, things can change very quickly. The Internet is like
Wild, Wild, West. There's no structure to
organization of
Net, and if you don't give your customers a way to find you, you won't make any money from your business.
Although you will find that there are as many "guru" opinions on how to market your business online, as there are gurus, there are four methods than can help you to increase your profits very quickly and mainly involve investing your time.
1. Write articles. You may think that you are not a writer, but if you are starting a small business, and you plan to do everything yourself, eventually you will have to do some writing.
Writing articles can be as simple as creating a list of items and then adding detail to each one.
You can also write step-by-step instructions on how to do things. This technique will work with just about any type of business because internet surfers are always looking for information on how to do something.
2. Create an optin list. The one thing that all of
"gurus" agree on is that you must have a list. Although you can purchase leads, if you currently don't have a list of your own, to get
most targeted traffic, you need to build a list of your own.
You can do this by adding a subscription box to your website. You can offer product updates, short articles or reviews, information on trends in your field, or any other valuable information you think your customers can use.