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Making Money On The Web.
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Your home business online opportunity can be profitable in many ways. I will tell you how from my own business experiences.
When I started thinking about e-business, building a web site, and the home business online opportunity, I was worried.
The marketing hype around e-commerce and the Internet and all its promises sounded good, but there was no proof that these promises would help me make money.
In fact, I was not entirely convinced that decent money could be made from the Internet and a home business online opportunity.
Well, I'm pleased to say that if you do things properly, there's plenty of money out there.
Read this STEP 3.1 and learn how.
If so many people can manage to build a money making site part time, people who don't know much about the Internet and even less about the technical backgrounds, YOU can too.
First, listen to Chris Anderson when he talks about the power of free in marketing. The idea of free is very important in online business. Imagine your home business online opportunity and your online customer. Your customer won't buy until he knows what your product or service is and what it does. And often the best and only way to know is to use your product or service. According to Seth Godin... "For some products (like music) using them once and owning them are very close to the same thing. Hence, free. You can view that as a problem or you can see it as an opportunity. Up to you."
Listen to Chris Anderson...
My Topic
In 2004, I decided to start a pilot and generate online income by building a web site around "Alaska fishing". A site exclusively for people who are preparing for their Alaska fishing vacation.
Why this topic? Because travel sites are in demand, and as a Dutch guy from Europe, I am willing to find out more about Alaska.
So I decided to start building an e-business around being THE expert information-provider for the niche of Alaska fishing vacations.
In 2004, the idea was that for the targeted visitors who surf on my site, I will become someone they can trust, someone to keep them current, someone to follow, someone with answers.
And by publishing an e-zine, I will further cement credibility and a loyal following.
Today, I use the site only for my eYouniversity teachings and classes.
You can visit the site at www.alaska-fishing-vacation-advisor.com. The site has more than 30 pages of content and I continue to publish new information now and then.
In my eYou teachings I'll explain that this travel site is more than just a hobby... as a Netpreneur you are in "business".
So your home business online opportunity must turn a profit. So once I have a substantial number of visitors to my Alaska fishing vacation web site, I can begin to convert this traffic into dollars by introducing two or three income streams.
Add Thousands Of Dollars Per Month To Your Primary Income
Here's how...
1) Start with selling advertising
Basically, I will place Google ads on my Alaska site. For every ad clicked, I receive money (a share of what Google receives from the advertiser).
These ads could deliver a base of more than $1,000 per month.
Google uses its technology to determine the content of each of my site's web pages. It then delivers ads that are contextually relevant to my audience.
2) Sales commissions
I can also earn income from my home business online opportunity by generating sales for other people.
I get a commission every time I send a customer to another web site, for example the site of an owner of a fishing lodge in Anchorage, or the site of a tour operator selling flights to Alaska.
I will join carefully selected affiliate programs that fit my niche. All I have to do is refer my targeted visitors to non-competing, complementary merchants/vendors with generous affiliate compensation programs.
3) Finder fee
I could also blend in one or two finder's fee relationships.
It's possible to earn thousands and thousands of dollars in finder fees through fishing boat sales and car rentals by local agents that I recommend.
I can add additional pay-per-click, pay-per-lead, pay-per-sale, or
pay-per-month income through referrals to local tour operators, inns, rental cars, fishing tours, etc.
Even More Revenue Streams
More ideas?
Yes, of course. As my Alaska fishing vacation site grows, I can add even more revenue streams for my home business online opportunity.
4) Selling e-books
I can publish an e-book related to my niche. I can write an e-book with proven tips to get the best preparation for your Alaska fishing vacation.
And what about...
5) Opening an e-store
... with my own fishing maps, rods, fishing hats, glasses, fly boxes, flies, and fishing gloves.
So... there's plenty of potential for more. Multiple income streams for my home business online opportunity will add up to a strong, stable income from my site.
OK. That's about my Alaska fishing site and the ideas I can implement.
But what about YOUR site and the income potential your home business online opportunity has?
Let's take a look at some other options to earn money from your site.
Also read Kevin Kelly's (Opens new window) eight ways of making something worth charging for. Useful information for strengthening your monetization strategy!
Your Biggest Earner?
While there are an infinite number of possible small businesses and niches, your home business online opportunity (or concept for a business) might fit into one of the following types of business.
Pick yours.
6) Service business
Are you a trainer, an accountant, a copy-writer, a plumbing contractor, or a professional consultant?
No matter who you are or what you do, offer your service online and build a client-base online.
Don't build a poorly designed "circa 1997" brochure site that no one visits. And don't post your specific service to one of the many online forums or market places.
Neither of these two practices gets the job done effectively and efficiently.
In order to sell your service online, you first need to establish a relationship with your visitors. Your web site and newsletter must build trust and credibility.
There are too many sales pitches out there!
It is only after a relationship is established that prospects will begin to respond.
7) Hard goods creator or seller
You want to sell hard goods on the Internet?
Don’t be one of these online storekeepers who... put their store up, get their merchant account... and die.
First focus on information and building trust. Build traffic to your site, and then collect the money.
8) Existing online business
Do you already have a web site?
Is your site pulling in the kind of targeted traffic required for your business to thrive? Because without traffic, your web business is dead.
Funnel substantial volumes of targeted traffic to your existing business site and drive sales.
This eYou site tells you how you can do that for a tiny fraction of the cost of your primary site. So read the 7 step proven income opportunity system.
9) Network marketers
Imagine... your site builds 100 visitors per day. That is the equivalent of you making a daily presentation to 100 people offline.
Don't build a blatant sales pitch... a web site that sells the opportunity and the products, and a site that asks for a name, an e-mail address, and a phone number.
There's nothing online that annoys web surfers more than a blatant sales pitch, especially if it turns out to be a network marketing opportunity.
There is a widespread bias against the network marketing distribution model, so the approach needs to be a patient, quality one. Not a Get-Rich-Quick one.
10) Local offline business
As a local offline business (a restaurant, a local manufacturer) you can use your site to grow your business locally, build trust and deepen relationships with existing local customers.
Develop a solid web site, generate some targeted traffic, and convert that traffic into business.
To Sum It Up...
Doesn’t your situation match one of the above businesses?
Are you a stay-at-home spouse, a photographer with collections of
e-photos, a sales agent, a Net auction seller, a web professional, a retired person, a student who needs money for college, or do you have a 9-5 that you despise?
You can all make money online from your home business online opportunity.
I promised you on the home page that the eYou 7-step proven income opportunity system works. This is real. No Get-Rich-Quick here.
Take what you know from work experience, hobbies, passions, or family and convert that into business and income.
Build a site, an online business that you will be proud to call yours.
Still not sure about the viability of the home business online opportunity? Check out the case studies in STEP 5. It works!
Combine High Tech With High Touch
If you go online, it is important that you also think about the "Touch Factor".
As more and more people go online and transact their daily business through the Internet and web sites, the need for person-to-person conversation and support only increases.
Experts call this the "High Tech, High Touch" paradox.
As technology accelerates, so will the need for friendly attention of human beings.
Your site will do a major job in educating your visitors about new products and services (content distribution).
But, automation has built-in limitations. The Internet is a passive medium.
Anytime your visitor encounters something on your site that challenges his or her view of the world, he or she can turn to another page, or click the "BACK" button on his Internet browser.
A person-to-person conversation is virtually the only way we actively learn, take in and start to consider brand new information about a completely new way of doing something.
Therefore, if you go online, also think about the offline strategies in your niche and safeguard the "Touch Factor".
Your Agenda For Going Online
1. The key to creating your quick start program for going online is reviewing your current (business) activities, hobbies, passions against the different strategies for your home business online opportunity presented in STEP 3.1.
So, work on polishing your online business ideas.
2. Decide which strategy would best support and complement your business and home business online opportunity.
3. And start planning how you will implement your online ideas and different revenue streams.
Advance To STEP 3.2
Hey, that brings you to the end of STEP 3.1. Phew!
You have learned about some online income models that can build to thousands of dollars per month for your home business online opportunity.
Now it's time to combine your home business online opportunity with new trends you can capitalize on. This is the topic of STEP 3.2.
What is eYouniversity? (eYou)
eYouniversity is an online business incubator. The goal of eYouniversity is to support the online entrepreneurial process, helping to increase performance and profit levels for innovative small online businesses. You can learn more about eYouniversity (eYou) on the About This Site page... the story behind eYou and successful home businesses on the Web.
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