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Prosperity Can Be Yours In Four Steps
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How do you even {start | begin} to involve yourself in {setting up | starting} an internet business if you aren’t an expert? If you only know how to switch your pc on and off and can just about work out how to send and open emails, you don’t have the expertise. Does that mean that you can’t {make a success of yourself | become successful | end up making lots of money} on the world-wide web and have an internet business of your own? {Certainly not! | Not at all! | Far from it!} What you need is guidance in some basic ground-rules!
You will be familiar with the invitations that come through the post and as spam messages inviting you to pay {huge amounts of money | sizeable sums | large amounts of your hard-earned money} to sign up with them and learn to make millions on the internet? The usual hope of the entrepreneurs who market these deals is that a lot of people will sign up; 10% will ask for their money back; 10% may moan about it, but do nothing; 50 or 60% will give up the course half-way through and the remainder will make a little bit of money and lose interest and only 2% will make money. {That 2% | The remaining 2% | The surviving 2%}is the success story you will hear about.
The problem is that many of the techniques being sold on the internet are already {old hat | past their sell-by date | well worn out} when you buy them. The market may well have been pretty much used up and you are left to try to chase a buying public that is already losing interest. That’s not going to make you {rich | wealthy | much money}. What will help you {obtain an income | make a good living}, however, is to follow these basic ground rules. You may not end up a millionaire, but it should make you pull in over $100,000 a year, if you play things right!
I call these rules the ‘Four Steps to Prosperity’ and they are very simple.
FIRST of all, you should {think in terms of achievable targets | aim for a target that is actually achievable | set your sights on reaching a target which is not wildly optimistic}. If you calculate what you need to earn to make $100,000 a year after your outgoings, it works out , very crudely, at $2,000 a week. Do you {expect to | want to | hope to | aim to} enjoy a reasonable quality of life? {If so | If that’s the case | If that’s what you want}, you will not want to work over weekends. Thus, you need to make $400 a day. That’s {a lot | quite a bit | a fair amount}. However, it’s not impossible. It depends upon what you do to attain that level of sales and what it is you are selling, so,
SECOND, you need to consider what {approach to take to selling on the internet | what you intend to do for an online business | business you want to carry on on the internet}. Are you going to try to sell one product or service? That would be very narrow as a business base. Indeed, if you listen to what successful internet entrepreneurs do, they often provide services to people who are trying to make new businesses make money on the internet. The IT specialist doesn’t need to sell lots of courses on how to become a millionaire, does he? He’s like the {guys | men | businessmen} who sold the shovels to the miners in the 1849 Gold Rush in California. They fed the men who panned for gold and dug for it. They charged a hefty {mark-up | extra charge | profit-margin} on everything they sold and, when the prospectors headed home, tails between their legs, the businessmen were going home with gold in the bank.
THIRD, what you need to do, therefore, is to find a niche in the market which isn’t being adequately serviced. You need to spread your bets, just like an experienced gambler. Try to sell twenty or fifty services. If you do, some will do better than others. Some won’t do much and one or two may do well for a while and then drop off. {Thus | Therefore | As a consequence}, you should think of lots of things that people want to buy: how to improve your garden; how to develop a terrific golf drive; how to lose weight; how to get whiter teeth and so on. Once you have {thought of | decided | settled upon} what to do, you need to be able to market these ideas as cheaply as you can, which takes us to the Fourth Step.
FOURTH, you need to be able to design your own websites {for almost nothing | for next to nothing | as cheaply as possible}. Even buy your own domain names as cheaply as you can by testing out options that allow you to pay a small charge for the first year. Try www.one.com for a site that offers you a domain name and hosting for a minimal sum for the first year and then learn how to take control by designing your own website and save the need to pay expensive IT consultants hundreds of dollars for EACH SITE! Once you have your domain name, you can build as many sites as you want. This is a {user-friendly | simple to understand | very straightforward}, short ebook that is packed with illustrations showing screen-shots of every step in designing your own website. What’s more is that it’s written by an ordinary user who won’t snow you with lots of IT slang, so you won’t get lost! It’s at:
http://alturl.com/a8u8x
Article submitted Thursday, December 08, 2011 & read 7 times.
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