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An Eight Point Plan To Starting A Successful Online Business
Author : Geoff Hibbert
1. Look for partners who share your interests and your niche,
You may be able to persuade them to enter into joint ventures
with you, share their experiences and you can learn from their
mistakes and successes.
2. Brand your name and business. You must have been dead not to
have heard marketers online and offline extolling the virtues of
branding over the past 5 years. Then advertise your brand you
can easily do this by just writing articles and submitting them
to e-zines or web sites for republishing.
3. Remember to take a little time each and day to brainstorm.
Your ideas are will bethe difference between success and
failure. No ideas no plan no success.
4. Look at the habits and rituals of successful people and
emulate them, they are not successful by accident, they all
planned their success. Once you can see what they are doing do
it yourself only do it more and do it better and bigger.
5. Take risks to improve your business. Advertise and pay for
it, free advertising rarely works, once you get a success
re-invest, trust me on this if you start to spend the profits
from your business to early you will fail. You must re invest
for success. 6. Include emotional words in your advertisements.
Use ones like love, security, relief, freedom, happy,
satisfaction, fun, etc. remember your ad is there to remind a
client of their need for a solution to a problem, once you have
them worried emotionally by the problem hit them with the
solution and a bonus to keep them happy and the money is in your
bank.
7. Visit forums on your topic and ask to review your web site.
You can use the comments you get to improve your web site or you
may turn the reviewer into a customer. Remember they have to
visit to review and if your site is good enough they may buy
when they visit. And if they do now isn't that some sort of
review?
8. Combine a product and service together in a package deal. It
could increase your sales. If you're selling a book, or software
product offer an hour of consulting or training with it, but
make sure that you really know your subject and price your time
in with the product.
Geoff Hibbert 2006
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