If you are new to internet marketing or trying to start an online business you might have thought about if you could possibly even afford to start your own business. Well, the good news is, you don't have to spend a lot of money to start your own business online. You can start for as little as your budget allows and there are various ways to go about setting things up for your business at a low cost.
If you already have a product or service you can purchase a domain name for less than $10.00 a year, set up website hosting for less than $10.00 a month, create a website using free software and you can have your business set up for the most part. Of course there are some other details you would need to take care of but as far as cost that's about it. If you don't have a product or service you can create an information product by writing an e-book or course on something you are knowledgeable about. It costs nothing but time to write the information and then you can set up your business from there.
You can also be an affiliate marketer and promote other people's products and services. As an affiliate marketer a lot of the work has already been done for you and you just have to market your affiliate information so customers will go through you to purchase the product. You can purchase a domain name as discussed before in order to create your own unique identity but if you have no budget at all you can just use your affiliate link information to market the offer.
After you have your business set up you are ready to advertise and market your business. You might ask 'How much is this going to cost me?' Again, as with setting up your business you can advertise for as little or as much as your budget allows. There are numerous sources where you can promote your business for free. There are free classified ad sites, you can write articles about your business and post them for free on many different sites, you can set up a blog and have links to your site, free offline marketing strategies and other ways to advertise for free. If you have a little money to use for marketing your business there are a number of ways to do so at low cost.
The main thing is don't let cost get in the way of your dream to be you own boss!
If you are passionate about it, motivated to succeed and willing to take action and work hard there is nothing keeping you from starting your own business online.
If you would like further information about starting a business of your own or have any questions I would be happy to assist you. Please feel free to contact me via the e-mail listed in the 'About Me' section.
Have a Great & Successful Day!
Jason
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Carpe Diem - Seize The Day
I just finished watching Dead Poets Society and if you have never seen it I highly encourage you to watch it. The movie stars Robin Williams as an English professor at an all boys preparatory school in the late 1950's. Williams' character challenges his class to not just conform with the norms of everyday society but to think for themselves and "Seize the day".
I won't go into any more details about the movie, but the main idea I take from it from an internet marketer and business owner point of view is that we have to make the most of each and every day and not settle for ordinary. To be successful we have to see things from a different perspective, have a passion for what we do, have a "not-give-up" attitude and expect the extraordinary. In this fast-paced world we live in we can easily get caught up in the regular patterns and rhythms of society. However, we must stay focused on what we are passionate about and persevere to achieve our objectives.
I challenge you to always approach each and every new day with a positive attitude, expecting the extraordinary!
Carpe Diem, Seize the Day!
Have a Great & Successful Day!
Jason
I won't go into any more details about the movie, but the main idea I take from it from an internet marketer and business owner point of view is that we have to make the most of each and every day and not settle for ordinary. To be successful we have to see things from a different perspective, have a passion for what we do, have a "not-give-up" attitude and expect the extraordinary. In this fast-paced world we live in we can easily get caught up in the regular patterns and rhythms of society. However, we must stay focused on what we are passionate about and persevere to achieve our objectives.
I challenge you to always approach each and every new day with a positive attitude, expecting the extraordinary!
Carpe Diem, Seize the Day!
Have a Great & Successful Day!
Jason
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Do You Want To Make Money Online? Discover How To Avoid Frustration And Guarantee Success!
This is an article I wrote giving some of the basic fundamental things you must know and do in order to have a successful online business:
Making money online is a very real and valid business opportunity. However, it is not something you are going to jump into and then instantly get rich overnight.
There are several things you must know and be prepared for in order to make money with an online business.
First, you must have the right mindset.
You must have confidence in yourself and in what you are doing to be successful in anything in life. Starting an online business is no different. You must start out with a positive attitude and know that you will be successful.
Consider this: I’m sure you know people like I do who are always negative and who expect the worst. In my experience these people are always disappointed and if anything can go wrong it usually does.
Now consider the one thing all of the people who have successful multi-million online businesses have in common: They all started out with confidence knowing they would be successful! They didn’t just try it and hope they might make some money. They committed 100% to their online business and achieved success!
If you are looking just to try it out you will be sure to fail!
Second, you must have focus and a direction for your business.
There are many thousands of business opportunities available online and you can easily become overwhelmed with all the information out there. Everybody is pitching you their business and telling you why their strategy for making money online is better than all the others.
If you go online and start reading every business pitch out there and watching every video telling you what you need to do to start making money online you will:
Making money online is a very real and valid business opportunity. However, it is not something you are going to jump into and then instantly get rich overnight.
There are several things you must know and be prepared for in order to make money with an online business.
First, you must have the right mindset.
You must have confidence in yourself and in what you are doing to be successful in anything in life. Starting an online business is no different. You must start out with a positive attitude and know that you will be successful.
Consider this: I’m sure you know people like I do who are always negative and who expect the worst. In my experience these people are always disappointed and if anything can go wrong it usually does.
Now consider the one thing all of the people who have successful multi-million online businesses have in common: They all started out with confidence knowing they would be successful! They didn’t just try it and hope they might make some money. They committed 100% to their online business and achieved success!
If you are looking just to try it out you will be sure to fail!
Second, you must have focus and a direction for your business.
There are many thousands of business opportunities available online and you can easily become overwhelmed with all the information out there. Everybody is pitching you their business and telling you why their strategy for making money online is better than all the others.
If you go online and start reading every business pitch out there and watching every video telling you what you need to do to start making money online you will:
- Have information overload.
- Take away all the time that you should be focusing on your business.
Yes, you will need to get some direction to be able to market your business and get customers to your site, but the main thing you need to do is decide what valuable product or service you are going to offer your customers and focus on that first.
Note: One way to start an online business is to join an existing program that offers a product or service that you can market and make a portion of the sales. The product or service should be something you are interested in and I advise that if you decide to do this that you do a lot of research before you join a business. Do searches on the internet about the company you are interested in, look through different forums that provide information for online business owners and ask questions of those that are knowledgeable and helpful. Any company you join should have all the tools you need to start and market your business which include your own hosted website with pre-made sales pages and follow up information, marketing tools such as examples of classified ads and e-mails and helpful information of places and ways to market your website.
Third, you must be able to grab your customer’s attention.
The headline of your sales page (where you send the customer first) must compel the customer to continue reading to the main body of the page. The body of the page should provide value and the benefits your customer wants and hold their attention until they get to the “call to action” or the place where they click and say “Yes, I want this!”
This is one thing that the existing programs I mentioned before can help you with if you are just getting started and are not comfortable with writing copy for your website.
If your product or service provides what your customer wants and your sales page shows them that you have what they want you will make money.
Finally, you must take action to market your business!
You can have the best website in the world or the greatest product or service in the world but if you don’t take action and build your business you will not make money. You have to be committed to marketing your business in order to have the customers visit your site.
There are many different marketing methods available both online and offline but you should not try and do all of them at once. There are several things you can do when you are first starting out to market your business that are very simple, don’t take much time and that you can do on a small budget. Much of it you can do for Free!
As you progress in your online business and start making money you can increase your marketing budget and learn more ways to market your business that will increase your profits even more.
The main thing is you Must Do Something! Your business will not build itself.
If you are serious about starting an online business I encourage you to Go For It! You will succeed if you are confident and committed, focus on your goals and on providing a valuable product or service and take the actions necessary to grow your business. The money will follow and you will have the financial freedom that you have always dreamed of.
Have a Great & Successful Day!
Jason
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