My Online Business Adventure

There are many reasons why people choose to or even have to stay at home during the day, and with the growth of the internet it is now easy to start a home business for those who want to or need to stay at home. However, starting a business is the easy bit. If you want to know how to make money staying at home, read on.

You will need the following.

1. A product.   This does not have to be your own product and it does not have to be a physical thing.  A service is also a product.  A product is anything that you have the right to sell.    If you can make something, you can sell that, if you have a skill, you can sell that.  Or you  can sell other people’s products through affiliate marketing.

2.  An internet presence.  This can be in the form of a website, a web page or a landing page.  This is not necessarily the point of sale.  Most often the most effective way of marketing your product is to get the contact information of your visitors and then send them information (see below).  A website is the best way of doing this, but many affiliate marketing programs provide you with web pages and landing pages, and some will even provide your own website.  On all of these you will need  links for capturing your visitors’ contact details, or to a sales page.

3. An autoresponder.  When your visitors provide their email addresses, this information needs to be automatically sent to an autoresponder which will send out your newsletters for you.   I use GetResponse which is very easy to use, but there are plenty of others if you want to shop around.

You will need to set up a series of 5-10 messages that will be sent to your subscribers on a regular basis, and will build your authority and trustworthiness.  You may not even want to mention your product in the first two or three messages; instead, you are providing them with useful information or advice that will give you credibility.  When you do come to mention your product, they will be more ready to buy.

4. A Blog.  Blogging is one of the most important aspects of internet marketing.  It attracts traffic to your website or pages and gives helps to build your authority on your given subject.  You can also direct your autoresponder subscribers to your blog so they are getting extra value. 

These are the most important things you need to get started.  Once you have established your product, a website or page, an autoresponder and a blog, you need to consistently work on them.

You need to work on getting traffic to your website through optimizing your website using keywords, getting backlinks by getting your website linked on other sites, using pay-per-click advertising, blogging and article writing, social bookmarking, posting in forums and free and paid-for advertising.

If you are serious about running a home business, the process given above is essential if you are to succeed with an online business. 

With affiliate marketing the process can be a lot easier because you don’t have to create a product yourself - and with most good companies you will get free training  in how to make money staying at home with an online business.

See below for home business opportunities:

Ros Bott

Financial Freedom Online 

Tags: affiliate marketing, home business opportunities, how to make money staying at home, starting a business

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