10 Steps To Starting Your Own Profitable Web Business
1.Find a hot niche market
"Research what your market wants before you create any products.
oUse Google keywords and other online research tools e.g. Yahoo
oListen to your market "" read newsletters, join forums, etc.
oTune in to the latest buzz "" what are people talking about, what"s in the press, topical issues on TV, radio. Look at e-zines
"Check out what your competitors are doing
2.Create a product that gives your market what it wants
"Written product (e-book, newsletter, blog)
"Video product
"MP3 audios
"Interview experts
"FAQs and "Top Ten Tips"
"Package different formats together for a higher price, e.g. MP3 download, plus transcript of the interview
3.Create a powerful and compelling sales message
"Keep it simple. Your offer and reason for buying (pain it will ease or problem it will solve) must be apparent. And only ever have one call to action on your sales page.
"Use audio and video to get your message across
"Look at many other sales letters to see how others are promoting theirs.
"Keep a file of attention grabbing headlines, styles and copy ideas that grab you and make you want to buy.
"AIDA "" Attention, Interest, Desire, Action
"Key parts are Headline (offer something for FREE, use curiousity, benefits, ask questions
"USP "" what is your unique selling proposition? What is better about your product than the competition, why should anyone buy it? Do you have a unique niche? Or fill a certain gap in the market?
"Test different messages and see which ones work best (google analytics)
"Offer bonuses, discounts and special offers
"Evidence "" use testimonials "" offer some copies of your product for free in exchange for a written testimonial you can use on your website
"Offer a money-back guarantee
"p.s. Don"t forget the p.s. The second most read part of the sales letter after the headline
4.Create a customer database
"Affiliate marketing
"Mailing lists of the experts you interview (offer them the rights to sell the interviews)
"Offer your product to newsletter editors with profit share if they promote to their subscribers. You keep any prospects or customers for your own database.
5.Design a simple website that converts prospects into buyers
"Weebly.com
"Bigpixie.com
"Hostgator/wordpress/artisteer
"Outsource through Elance and scriptlance
There are three basic steps to creating a web-page:
a)Register a domain name (123reg.com)
b)Secure hosting space on a server (hostgator)
c)Create your pages (Wordpress, bixpixie, weebly)
6.Drive traffic to your website
"PPC advertising (Google, Facebook, Yahoo)
"SEO (using pertinent keywords in your content which is picked up by the search engines)
"Newsletters
"Blogging
"Social networking sites (Facebook, twitter, LinkedIn etc.)
"Ezine articles (www.ezinearticles.com, Articledashboard.com, GoArticles, com)
7.Use email to turn even more people into customers
"Aweber
"Constant contact
"Zoho
"Offer free tips, free trial to your membership programme, free video revealing the #1 secret to..., special time-limited offers
8. The money"s in the database
"Offer something for free
"Bundle products together
"One Time Offer (OTO)
"Upsell
"Membership programs
"Create more of your most popular products (boating 2)
"Communicate with your list regularly but without always selling to them
"Provide at least three links to your sales page in the email
"Create an offer on your website that makes visitors want to give you their name and email (squeeze page)
9.Recruit an army of people to sell your product for you
"Set up an affiliate programme "" joint venture with 50:50 profits e.g.
"Clickbank.com, Paypal.com, Amazon.com
"Create marketing tools for your affiliates
"Tell everyone you meet what you do
10.Final tips and success strategies
"Take action today "" even if you don"t know everything, haven"t got everything figured out and things aren"t perfect you can still make money online. Get your product and website ready and start marketing. You can tweak as you go along.
"Keep your ultimate goal in mind at all times
"Be specific, be clear on what you"re trying to achieve, and keep taking action towards your goal.
"Take one step at a time "" just do something (The Slight Edge principle)
"Spend time on your internet business every day
"Keep learning and stay abreast of new marketing strategies. The internet marketing world is a fast moving one.
by: womenswaytowealth
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