How to Build an Online Business
So you're now ready to get into business online, but you have no idea
how to build an online business? You're in luck! Jimmy D. Brown
tackles that topic below!
The REAL Secret to Building A High-Profit Internet Business
By Jimmy D. Brown
My wife laughs every time she sees me doing it.
At least once or twice every week, I’ll be at my desk (or at the
dining room table) with my Franklin Covey planner open and a stack
of laminated checklists in hand.
“What are you doing, honey?” she calls, already knowing the answer.
“I’m planning”, I reply with a smile.
She laughs and I get back to work.
She laughs because she swears I spend half of my time “planning”. But,
if you ask me how I’m able to get as much work done as I do in only
3 hours a day, I’ll point to a black Franklin Covey planner with
about a dozen laminated checklists inside.
Building an Internet business is easy. Seriously. I’m not saying that
it’s not complicated, because it is. I’m just saying that it’s easy
to accomplish if you just have a system in place.
There’s very little in this world that can’t be accomplished with the
right set of action steps in front of you.
Today, I’m going to give you such a system for building your Internet
business. There are only 4 steps...
1. Decide What You Want To Do. Do you want to run an eBayŽ business?
Be an affiliate marketer? Buy and sell reprint rights? Get involved
in niche marketing? While all of those things will likely find their
way into your plan in time, you gotta begin with one thing at a
time.
My recommendation: Choose a “broad” topic you are interested in and
begin building a list of folks interested in that topic.
2. Determine A Weekly Action Plan. After you decide what you want to
do, it’s time to determine how to get it done. What I do is this: I
create a weekly set of action steps. That is,I have a set of things
I do on Monday, on Tuesday and so forth. Decide how many hours (as
little as ONE) you want to work each day and schedule yourself a
reasonable amount of things to get done in that time frame. Repeat
this process week after week.
My recommendation: Begin writing ezine articles to promote your list
... and affiliate programs. It’s the easiest way to get free traffic
and build your list at the same time.
3. Devote Yourself To Staying On Schedule. The important thing here is
to stick to it. The easiest way that I know of to make certain you
develop discipline in your schedule is to NOT set unrealistic
expectations. Give yourself ample time to do each day’s action step
- don’t overschedule. Look for progress along the way to celebrate.
Reward yourself when you’ve reached a milestone. And, remember,
you’re GROWING a business. Just like physical growth, it takes time
... it WILL happen if you remain committed.
My recommendation: Weave in simple activities related to the
following categories - List building (ezine articles), product
creation conduct interviews or hire ghostwriters), site development
(making your site convert more visitors into buyers) and education
(continuing to learn new ways to grow your business)
4. Develop Additional Shortcuts. As you get better and better at
working with your lists, creating products and tweaking your site,
you'll want to continue to improve your business with new ideas,
strategies, tools and resources. The key is simple: never stop
learning!
Visit forums. Read articles. Download reports. Identify sites and
resources that CONTRIBUTE to your success in educating you. You want
faster results, bigger increases, automated processes, and other
ways to get more accomplished and more profit, with less work
involved.
Everything depends on your developing a plan and sticking to it.
And that is the REAL secret to building a high-profit Internet
business!
Jimmy D. Brown is the owner of the “List And Traffic” membership
site, teaching thousands of internet business owners specific things
they can do every week to multiply profits.
For video training, weekly updated content and printable
checklist “systems” for growing your business,
drop by
ListAndTraffic.com
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