"How To Start An Online
Business In Five Steps"

By Edward 'Mr Ed' Thorpe

 

"Helping Online Entrepreneurs Since 2001"
 

 

You may have trouble believing you can start an online business in five simple steps when it takes you about seven, or eight steps to just put on your shoes.

Uh, that's why I mostly wear flip-flops down here in sunny Florida, USA! I don't have time for all that pulling and all those shoe lacey things...
 
 

 
 

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But, you're right.

When you start doing them, most things take a whole lot more work, and a lot more attention to detail than they looked like they would. For example: I thought it was simple to operate a checkout/cashout station in stores. Until I did it a few times. I've never been impatient at checkout again!

The same principle applies to starting an Internet marketing business. On the same time, you can factor down the essence of doing business online, into five steps.

The reason for doing so, factoring down, is to help beginners visualize complex undertakings in an orderly, step by step way. Breaking down large tasks into smaller steps, introduces simplicity into the picture. Many novices require this to believe they can succeed. Most of us won't enter uncharted waters unless we have a certain amount of faith in attaining a desired outcome.

Uh, we won't start unless we're reasonably sure we'll succeed.

Naturally, the required amount of faith differs with the person...duh? If you're still with me, you've no doubt figured out I've been telling you to take everything you hear with the proverbial "grain of salt".

Information is mostly a good thing.

But, any information is only as good as it works for your specific situation. Don't trust without testing. And, you probably don't need more information (about learning how to achieve a certain result) until you've made an honest test of the information you already have.

With your permission, one more warning before we get to my Internet business start-up steps...

Don't be bamboozled by anyone. Rely on the grain of salt principle. Test everything out for yourself. Test small and you'll lose small. Bottom Line: "It's always a 'theory' until you personally test it!"

Let's get back on the clock with today's story: You can start your online business in only 5 simple steps...

In order of importance: (presented with a 'grain of salt')

  1. Find a identifiable group of people who are already buying related products and services which have wide enough profit margins to make it worthwhile for you to market to the market. (Yep, market to the market!)
     

  2. Do searches in your favorite search engines and find out where these people hang out and how you can systematically, and repeatedly reach them with your marketing messages.
     

  3. Make a list of the products and services your market is now buying, how they're buying them, the price points, and make a list of whom they're now buying from.
     

  4. Research your chosen target market's present suppliers. Look for ways to take advantage of any weak links in your possible competitors selling processes, in their marketing messages, with their delivery systems, their follow-up methods, their products usability and dependability, etc. Then test and track different tactics to exploit any 'holes' you find.
     

  5. Using your findings from steps 3 & 4, get your marketing message in front of your target market. Your primary message is: how and why your market will benefit immediately because you're filling the 'holes' your competitors are leaving open.

Again, rarely is doing anything as easy as it appears on the surface. Each step does suffer from the "cashier" syndrome example we talked about earlier. There are separate actions, different theories to consider, and to test, before each step's completion. All this takes work. But you can learn how to do step one. Then you can learn how to do step two, etc...

Distilling the overall concept of how to start an Internet marketing business into five steps helped me. Knowing what the steps are, and working through one step at a time, will be much easier than trying to do everything at once.  

But then, you'll never know until you test this information for yourself.

Discover how to complete Step 1 of the above list when you download the free pdf report "How To Find People Who Will Buy Whatever You Want To Sell Them...!"

 

About The Author:

Edward "Mr Ed" Thorpe: publishes the 'Online Beginners Guide' (OBG) a generic business and life principles ezine. Readers agree 'OBG' is "Honest, funny, sincere and different." Subscribe: Send any email to: mailto:A1OBG@aweber.com Visit: http://www.OnlineBeginnersGuide.Com

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Until we talk again, may all your failures be lessons learned, and your success dumbfound your those who know you best...

Peace,

Edward 'Mr Ed' Thorpe

"He who helps the most people - Wins!"

    

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