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The Internet Business Guide

Ten Tips for Choosing the Right Internet Business

1. Don’t quit your day job – Since there are no guarantees in life, it doesn’t make sense to quit your day job until your internet business has proved it can replace the income your day job provides. Even then, you may want to keep your day job.

2. Understand that internet businesses fail – As proven by the dot com collapse, there is nothing ‘magical’ about having a business on the internet that guarantees success. In fact, most attempts at creating profitable businesses on the internet have failed. Even the big companies that have poured billions into their internet businesses have seen the majority of their efforts fail.

Don’t let this discourage you – just understand that failure is more frequent than success.

3. Establish your working parameters – Before you start evaluating different internet businesses, clearly establish your working parameters. Define how many hours a day, week, or month you are willing to work on the business. Define how much money you can afford to invest in start up costs. Define how many employees (if any), you are willing to take on and manage – (it was 2 years before I took on a part time member of staff), and define your exit strategy.

It is a good idea to discuss these parameters with your spouse or family partners before you set them in stone. Their input is important to your success.

4. Define your goals – Define what you want to accomplish with your internet business. How much income must the business generate before it is a success? How much a day, a week, a month, a year?

The amount of income you desire directly impacts which business models you choose.

5. Review the business models that have proven successful on the internet – The recent shakeout on the internet has left only a relatively few businesses standing. By looking at the survivors, we can see that a few business models seem to work well on the internet, while others have little chance of success.

Those business models that work well include:

* Subscription sites – charging a membership or subscription fee in return for providing access to a web site

* Applications on tap – charging a fee to use a product or service on the net

* Specialised software – developing and marketing specialized software to fit the special needs of higher end customers

* Support services – offering products, tools, templates, training on how to improve internet businesses

* eBay sales – selling items on eBay, either your own products, or working as an eBay Trading Assistant helping others sell their items.

The common denominator in all the above business models is the product is information or service based, and is delivered over the web. Choose a business model built on this and you have a much better chance of success.

6. Avoid business models that are failure prone – The massive failure of so many well-funded internet business ventures has shown the following business models should be avoided:

* Any business model that involves the physical delivery of products with minimal profit margins. Don’t try to sell dog food, groceries, furniture, or other widely available products via the net.

* Any business model that puts you in direct competition with Tesco, Amazon, Dell, or eBay. These larger companies can do it better, they can buy products cheaper, they have deeper pockets, and can sell at a loss longer than you can. The only way to win – don’t compete with them.

* Any business model where you buy wholesale, and try to sell retail. The margins are too slim, too much volume is required to make a profit. (If in doubt, ask Amazon.)

For the best chance of success choose a business model where you create or own the product you sell, the product is delivered digitally, you have little direct competition, customers can order online, and a single copy of the same product can be sold many times.

7. Evaluate your goals and parameters against each of the successful business models – Since it will be you who actually has to spend the hours working on your internet business, it should be you who decides which of the business models mentioned above best fit your time, talent, and desires. Some business models will produce lower incomes, but will require less work. While others will require much more work, but can produce much higher income.

Be sure to take into account how you might become a ‘prisoner of your own success’ if you choose a business model that requires your full time attention as your business grows.

8. Don’t overlook the obvious – You may already have the skills, expertise, inside knowledge, or niche hobby interest that could be the basis for a great internet business. For example, if you have several years experience running a bed & breakfast, then you might want to consider offering an internet based information product for those wanting to open their own bed & breakfast (a newsletter, a subscription web site, a buy/sell service, etc.)

9. Be careful who you take advice from – There are a lot of people offering advice on the subject of creating a successful online business. The only problem – the vast majority of these people haven’t had any success in creating or running their own online business. Most just jump into the advice or ‘guru’ business because it seems like an easy thing to do.

If you want to rely on gurus to lead you down the path, be sure they’ve been down the path themselves.

10. Listen to your heart and your head – Get involved with those businesses that make you happy and give you a reason to get up each morning. Avoid the ‘sounds too good to be true’ pitches, and the ‘I wouldn’t do this, but I really need the money’ excuses. Keep your priorities straight – family, health, spirit, community, and then, business.

One final tip – often it is a lot easier to get into a business than it is to get out of it.

Choose your business with as much diligence as you would choose a wife or husband. Because in the long run you may end up spending as much time with your business as you do with your spouse!

The DO’s

• Add value to other people in whatever you do.

When you e-mail your subscribers don’t just sell them anything but give them the information they need such as reports, tips, clips from YouTube, etc.

• Research for your product.

You need to select the product that is needed by people, has a tremendous impact on people’s lives, give you high commission and create a residual income (you can make a one-time sale and get paid repeatedly). Only great products can last in this competitive market.

• Have the willingness to learn.

You need to learn from the masters who have succeeded so that you shorten your learning curve. Having a journal in what you do and how the responses are allows you to learn from your own experience.

• Promote your product effectively.

You need to find both paid advertisements such as Pay Per Click as well as free advertisements such as joining forums, traffic exchanges, answering Yahoo Answers and joining 43 Things.

• Treat your internet business as a business.

Just like an offline business, you need to be professional with when building a home internet business, such as in answering enquiry. You need to keep your integrity intact. You need to keep your promises. Even though you can’t see your customers’ face, they are people just like you on the other side of the line.

• Focus on one business at the time.

Although it is tempting to explore every opportunity to earn money in the internet, it is highly recommended as a newbie that you focus on one business while you are building a home internet business and make sure it creates steady income before you venture to other businesses.

• Have a clear goal.

Since it is a business and not a hobby, you need to have a clear goal of how much is your targeted income. Then, while building a home internet business, you need to set aside a budget for the expenses of your product. If you don’t budget your advertisement and expenses, it will add an unnecessary stress when you see overcharges in your credit cards.

The DON’Ts

• Don’t believe every deal in the internet.

It is sad but true that there are scams in the internet. Research your product by seeing it in Google how much people advertise for it and asking around in forums to find out more about a product before you buy it.

• Don’t fall into a false belief that internet business is easy money.

Although there are more and more millionaires in the internet, they admit that it is a hard work to succeed in building a home internet business. It requires determination, persistence and patience. Most of the time, you cannot see the immediate results. However, if you keep building your home internet business consistently, you will be rewarded. Find out more.

• Don’t think you know everything.

Internet business is a growing business in which you need to keep up-to-date with the market trends and the needs of your niche market. You must put aside some money for your personal development that will help you bring your internet business to the next level. You can attend seminar, conference or buy products to keep learning.

• Don’t be complacent with what you have.

Once you see the money coming into your account and you start to smile, you need to remember that you still have to maintain your customers and improve your business.

• Don’t think that you can see the money this month.

We recommend that you keep your day job while you start building a home internet business. It takes a while before you can see the pay cheque substantial to pay for your bills. Please do not just quit your job and jump into building a home internet business unless you have enough saving to sustain you for the next few months.

• Don’t be an army.

Ultimately, you need to have your own product if you want to be a millionaire. Being an affiliate (someone who sells other people’s products) is a good starting point as a newbie to give you experience in building a home internet business. But you have to strive to become the chief of the armies.

• Don’t be tempted to try everything.

There are many interesting products and methods of making money in the internet. You must, however, remember the power of focus. If you put a magnifying glass on top of a piece of paper and you put that under the sun, the paper will burn because the sun focuses its heat. You will succeed in whatever your mind focuses on. Find what you are interested in and it is easier to start from there.

When you learn the DOs and DON’Ts in building a home internet business, it gives you insight of what you need to do and to avoid. Start here.

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So, what’s standing in your way of making money in your own Internet business is your lack of knowledge about how to get your business online, and not having access to all the tools you need to get your business on the Internet.

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