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9/27/06
Internet Business will make me rich - The Myth
Developing a successful business through the internet is not an easy task and a time process. It requires much patience, hard work, commitment, dedication, consistency, powerful strategies, and self-motivation. Your internet business can be a successful one when you market it promptly with sure fire strategies or when you do it correctly without any fraudulent. You have to plan carefully before you extend your business online. Before starting an ebusiness read the following statements...
Discipline: Be keen on time, maintain self-discipline, and take your business very seriously because online business is entirely different from offline.
Self motivation: Motivate yourself; improve your skills by constantly reading books and gathering knowledge related to your business.
Positive Attitude: Attitude is very important to succeed in business. Develop positive attitude. There are number of books available in the market to improve your positive attitude. Positive attitude is all about believing in you to succeed in internet business.
Skills required: The most important skills require is analytical skill, organization skill, negotiation skills, research skills, marketing skills, and technical skills.
Recommended Reading: Internet Riches: The Simple Money-making Secrets of Online Millionaires
How to Use the Internet to Advertise, Promote and Market Your Business or Website with Little or No Money
5 Steps to start an internet business
Step 1: Re-define your goals and objectives
The first step is to redefine your business goals and objectives because you are extending your business online. Online presence will generate a profitable market because internet is an attractive tool to create a buzz to your offline business.
This Step includes
o Define your goals (Fine Tuning your Goals)
o Study your existing business
o Create your whole new system
Step 2: Analysis and Requirements to your business:
Analysis (investigation) is the core part of any business. Before starting up an internet business one has to analyze business based on existing business operation (Offline).
This step includes
- Choose your business model
- Inventory your product
- Requirement Analysis
- Market Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
- Product Delivery Model
Step 3: Website Designing and Development
To make your presence online it is very imperative to have your own website. This process is very critical and care should be taken to design and develop a highly usable website that suits for your industry.
This Step includes…
- Set your website goals and objectives
- Content and site Structuring
- Website Conceptualizing and Prototyping
- Website Designing
- HTML and SEO (On Page Optimization)
- Website Development (Web Application Development)
- E commerce transaction (Online Payment Gateway) – (Payment Structure)
- Website domain and hosting - Affiliate
- Trust Factor – The Important Issue
Marketing website is the most critical yet interesting Step that can facilitate companies to grow in the online market space. Marketing your website is not a one time process; it requires time, effort and money. The following are the steps to be followed…
This Step includes
- Marketing Re-Mix
- Internet and Marketing
- Website Promotion – Growing Inbound Links - Affiliate
- Search Engine Introduction
- Marketing through Search Engine
- Marketing through Directories
- Marketing through Email - Affiliate
- Marketing through Affiliate program (Hiring Affiliates) - Affiliate
- Online Branding and advertising - Affiliate
- Online Advertising Models
- Blogging for Business
- Offline Marketing to drive traffic online
- Measuring Success
Step 5: Legal issues
There are some of legal issues prevailing over the internet. Since there takes lots of scams and spasm you have to very careful. Some the legal issue which can put in trouble.
This Step includes
- Content theft
- Online payment theft
- PPC fraudulent
- Pornography Stuffs
- Search engine penalizing
Step 6: Customer Service
- Happy your customers
- Customer service
- Automate your customer service
- Handling Unhappy Customers
- Create Your Customer Service Policy
9/26/06
Benefits of the Internet Business
There are so many benefits that a business can get when it goes online. Internet is not only a powerful communication but also serves as a great business tool for brand building. Today most of the businesses own a website and you (i.e. your business) should own a one to enjoy a great positive impact in Marketing and Sales process.
I am sure E-business in future will be more competitive than present, so take appropriate steps to accommodate yourself before the crowd falls in...
The following are the benefits of extending business via internet:
Very inexpensive and would reach the new market
Global presence – It works on the principle of 24x7
An effective marketing and communication tool
Very cheap start up cost
Unrestricted options to automate your existing business
You can run your business while you are traveling
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