The Internet is probably the most amazing opportunity the small business person has ever been given. You don’t need a bank loan, big office rent, expensive equipment, and pricey employees.
Even though these things have been necessary to run even the smallest firm in the past, the Internet lets you LOOK and operate like you have all those things for just a few dollars.
Twenty years ago I would have dismissed that statement with a sarcastic, “yeah right!” But today, the Internet, along with automated web sites and outsourced teams of sales people and pro writers, have made owning a BIG business a very simple thing.
Here are the six things you need to really succeed with your own online business:
1. You need a web site. It’s quite possible to make money without a web site, but the number of people doing that are getting fewer by the day. An attractive, hot selling web site will grab visitors and turn them into paying customers. A well-done, well-targeted web site can easily earn several hundred thousand dollars a year, even for the home-based entrepreneur.
2. Get automation working on your site. In the old days, we had to...