Your Online Business – Real Opportunity Versus Fake Opportunity
How many friends have approached you with excitement bubbling out of every pore in their body.
“…… you’ve GOT to take a look at this online business!!!!” All you’ve got to do is get TWO people who want to earn $1000 a week! You know two people don’t you!?!? Then they get two people into their online business, and THEY get two people and it just explodes and pretty soon you don’t have to do ANYTHING and you can quit your job and do nothing!!”
Your gut instinct tells you this online business sounds unbelieveably good (you don’t know how right you are) but you sign up anyway. With that comes a monthly autoship of $100-$300, but who cares? Pretty soon you’ll be making three times that in a week!
6 months later, you’re disillusioned, your online business is severely in the red from your once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity and you’ve only signed up 6 people into your business and 5 have left as quick as they came.
Been there, done that … I’m slightly ashamed to say, except I didn’t even sign up anywhere near 6 people in my online business!!
What is opportunity? How do you recognise it? What separates reality from fake? When does that gut instinct tell you it’s real?
What most people don’t realise is that all the things they’ve been taught for their online business do work to a degree. It’s just that most of us will NEVER master the skills required to do them effectively. That is what separates real opportunity from fake opportunity, now listen carefully;
* REAL opportunity is something YOU can do.
* FAKE opportunity is something a very talented, skilled person with an amazing skillset can do … you can’t right now, or rather, not you until you’ve spent years mastering those skills.
Some of the things people try and make money through an online business are;
* writing their own ebook and selling it online.
* network marketing, travel, health, fuel, and more health…
* selling other peoples products as an affiliate marketer.
* stuffing envelopes (don’t even go there)
* selling things on ebay.
* creating a product and selling it online, eg: a boardgame etc…
* and many other minors
Here’s the other side of the online business coin;
* there are thousands of ebooks out there, great ebooks that aren’t being sold because the writer doesn’t have the marketing knowledge to do so.
* 98% of network marketers fail due to been taught a system which the companies KNOW doesn’t work, but it sounds much easier than REAL network marketing.
* 95% of affiliate sales are made by 5% of the affiliate market, a staggering 95% failure rate.
* Money from envelopes? You’re kidding right?
* A recent survey showed that over half of the 3,500 products surveyed on ebay had no bids on them at all! Only 175 items out of the 3,500 had more than 1 bid on them. Not as hot as what people make it out to be is it?
* creating physical products takes thousands of dollars in design, production costs, advertising, you have to have reasonable capital to even THINK this is a good road to travel down.
I’ve written writing ebooks, I’ve been involved in network marketing, I’ve tried being an affiliate marketer, stuffing envelopes, selling on ebay, never tried creating my own product though, knew that would be too expensive.
NONE of those online businesses worked.
Why?
Because each of those online businesses required SKILLS. Skills that take YEARS to master, and those that have mastered them become extremely wealthy. I’ve spent well over $20,000 on courses and some of the top training courses around and learnt ALOT! But what I eventually realised was the time taken to master these skills is immense!
The fact of the matter is that most people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s don’t have the TIME or the MENTAL ENERGY to sit down and learn how to write a sales letter that people just HAVE to buy off if they read it. That takes YEARS to learn and many more years to master.
Many many people are ALMOST successful, because they are good, they are brilliant, they are talented, but they just fall short. The reason why is they CANNOT get other people to do what they do in their online business. Not happening…
The vast majority of people don’t have the required skills to be successful, skills like; * knowing where and how to find the right prospects.
* writing great sales letters that make your prospects foam at the mouth to get to your product.
* designing a website that ‘draws’ a person into wanting to know more.
* setting up autoresponder emails, sequences, and timings.
* closing people on your product, knowing what to say when they say no, or are not sure it they want to buy it.
* knowing how to upload information onto websites.
* buying and registering domain names, then setting up killer websites under that specific domain.
* Writing articles, press releases, and blogging effectively.
* the expensive and ever-changing Pay Per Click Advertising.
* where do I stop?
The time taken to learn all these skills is incredible, the cost … more than a little, and the effort … huge!
People don’t know how to do ALL those things I just listed! A select few do, and they reap the golden rewards. But for joe and joette average – no way!
People are different, some people can do some things really well, others they fail at miserably. A great webdesigner is often TERRIBLE at selling things. A great salesperson has NO CLUE how to set up an autoresponder sequence. Your online business requires ALL of those skills.
What would work best for people is a system! This system would do EVERYTHING that I’ve talked about, it would free you up to just point people in the direction of it through techniques that are simple, proven and effective. This system would need to have a good track record. It would have to have statistics and conversion rates backing it up, and it would need to do everything by itself.
It would need:
* great sales letters.
* fascinating and informative websites.
* a masterful follow up system.
* a way to close people without being pushy or using cunning sales tactics.
* an easy system of attracting people to these websites and sales letters that doesn’t involve talking to people or hassling your friends and family.
That would a REAL opportunity because EVERYONE could do it, right? It’s not an opportunity that looks great but the skills required to be successful in it are incredibly difficult to master, that’s a FAKE opportunity, when something is NOT what it appears to be. Don’t be fooled…
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June 12th, 2009 at 5:19 am
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June 12th, 2009 at 6:39 am
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June 12th, 2009 at 10:22 am
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June 12th, 2009 at 5:06 am
You don't have to register with the state. When you are up and running get a business license from the city. It cost less than $200 to start an online business, so you should be able to save that in a week or two…. if not perhaps you are not the type to be success in business?
June 12th, 2009 at 5:19 am
June 12th, 2009 at 3:42 pm
My suggestion is to do some research on the subject before starting. Check with your local Chamber of Commerce, the Secretary of State, the Small Business Administration. Read up on it — go to your local library, check Amazon, etc. Write a business plan — there are plenty of books available on this subject.
Prior to investing your time, money & effort into an online business name, it is strongly advised that comprehensive research be conducted to ensure that the name you're interested in is truly available.
This entails searching the pending & registered Federal and State trademark files as well as the US National Common-Law files. Then, if clear, you can decide if you would like to file for a Federal or a State trademark.
Research is needed to make sure your trade name is legally available, before opening, before expansion, before incorporation or before designing your logo. Similarities in sound, appearance and meaning affect you too!
There are 16+ million trade names in use in the United States. Similar names matter, if close in sound, appearance or meaning. Similar names in related classes, distribution channels and customer matter too. You are affected by Common Law use (14 million), State Trademarks (500,000) and Federal Trademarks (2 million).
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June 13th, 2009 at 1:19 am
Yes, I can help…
I use a step-by-step approach and it works all the time. Here you go:
1) First validate the demand (FREE keyword tool):
Are there people searching for what you want to offer?
https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal
2) Build your website with this FREE tool:
http://www.officialsitebuilder.com/
3) Select a URL and setup Hosting (not FREE but darn cheap and reliable – something like $4 per month…):
http://www.officialsitebuilder.com/domain-checker.php
4) Drive traffic (not FREE but you cannot do without):
https://adwords.google.com/
5) FREE Online Business Creator:
(http://www.sandrosalsi.com/tools/online-business-creator.html)
This is a list of tools and resources I use myself to build and market my websites.
Highly recommended. Hope this helps…
June 13th, 2009 at 8:28 am
Its great to know how to lay out a web page but you first must learn how to sell [Markeing] . It can take you years to learn how.
June 13th, 2009 at 3:32 am
I recommend checking out the SBA, Entrepreneur, The Start Up Journal & Nolo. All 4 are great informational resources for the new/small business owner. I posted links for you in the source box. These 4 sites should get you on your way in terms of what needs to be done (e.g. licenses, permits, taxes, etc.)
Associations may be a good avenue to explore as well. These organizations will address many of the thoughts, questions and concerns you'll inevitably have as well as many you haven't anticipated yet. See the source box for some relevant links.
Research, research, research – this cannot be stressed enough. Read as much as you can about the industry. Here are some book titles that are relevant:
* Too Good to be Threw: The Complete Operations Manual for Resale & Consignment Shops by Kate Holmes
* A Common Sense Entrepreneurial Guide: How to Open & Run a Successful Consignment Shop [DOWNLOAD: PDF] by Nancy L. Nolan
* How to Start and Run an eBay Consignment Business by Skip McGrath
* Specialty Shop Retailing: How to Run Your Own Store Revised by Carol L. Schroeder
There are plenty of free informational resources out there. Check the source box for links to articles.
Hope that helps! I wish you much success & happiness in all your ventures!
June 13th, 2009 at 5:21 pm
you might try to contact an established school and see if you can offer your course through them.
Barnes and Noble has a line of online courses where this might fit.
June 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm
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June 14th, 2009 at 11:05 am
You're looking at becoming an "Affiliate". There are a lot of companies out there that offer this. Just search for "affiliate opportunities" and you should come up with quite a few opportunities, just be careful and read the fine print. I have a few other ideas if your interested feel free to email me
June 14th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
I run 5 websites (none in retail though). I can say that this is a hard question to answer. Clearly, overstock.com will cost more to run than joesglass.com. I personally use bluehost.com for hosting, so my monthly expense is under $10 for all 5 sites (non-retail though…). I see anywhere from 8k to 20k visitors monthly with no speed issues. You should probably look into some e-commerece software solutions like this:
http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/ecommerce/
It looks like their starter package is about $40/month, and its scalable in case your business grows unexpectedly.
June 14th, 2009 at 11:11 pm
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June 15th, 2009 at 8:31 am
I caught a mistake, at about 1:27-1:32 you were talking about the navigation, you said right hand colum and i think you ment left hand colum.
June 15th, 2009 at 2:25 am
two guy's in my town just started a web site. It's actually doing very well for them. It's a yard sale web site. Where people from the town can take pictures and post things for sale ( yard sale prices) and other people in the town can go on the web site and purchase the item. THe guy's who started the site just charge people $8.00 a month to post their items. It's kind of like e-bay but they don't take a percentage of what you make. Here is the web site address, take a look at it.
hollomanyardsales.com