One of the things I encourage people to do when they start out online is to quickly create a plan of what they want to achieve. A vision for your business is better, but not everyone is ready for a vision. Even a plan for the next six months will help you to focus on what you want to get done.
The internet offers an opportunity to reach a wide market if you are effective, and your shop never has to close. It will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to anyone that chooses to visit.
Not only is the potential for customers huge, but the number of areas you can focus on online is also huge, and whilst I will not be covering them all in this article I wanted to give you a flavor of some of the things you can do.
Affiliate Marketing – This involves you selling the products of a supplier. Its one of the more popular things to do when you start out online because you dont need your own product, and many affiliates dont own their own website.
When you sell goods on behalf of a supplier they give you a commission based fee which varies but can be anything from 5% to 75% of the total cost of the product.
It makes for a great start because...