First How I Got Into The Home-Based Business Industry!
By Chadrack at 11 September, 2008, 5:45 pm
Hi and welcome everyone!
It’s indeed great to welcome you to “The Marketing Mouse”. This blog is dedicated to providing home based newbie entrepreneurs with ideas and tools to help start, run and grow a successful online business from the comfort of your home.
My cardinal belief is everyone of us have the potential within to do whatever we put our minds to do.
Get this straight, this blog is not about giving you “hand outs”. You may have become familiar with the phrase “we would do it for you” so you don’t need to do anything. But beyond that I hope to provide you with the tools that will help you build your own business and not another’s.
As I enjoin you to step out with me into this great journey, I want to first of all give you a little peep into my early years on the net. Yes, the first few years of running my own business online.
What I want to do is present to you the person who will be running this blog so that you can easily relate my experiences with yours and decide if you are really in the right place. I know because we are all different in our various ways, I don’t expect my experiences to be exactly the same with yours. But that notwithstanding I expect you to learn from my experiences.
Believe Me It Wasn’t A Smooth Ride Then!
When I first got started on the net it was a big challenge for me. There was so much to learn. The truth was that at the time I knew close to nothing about computers. And the internet was a big mystery to me.
There was this feeling of awe as I surf the net. The beautiful web designs, the mystery of writing some codes and producing those fascinating displays were all really a wonder to me. I know you may not have felt the same. But come to think of it, here is some thirty-plus youngman coming into the world of computers for the first time. What else do you expect?
Ok, it maybe funny now but then it was no fun for me. The aura and awe the internet had on me was something I can still feel today.
Of course, that feeling today may not really be the feeling of the mystery about webdesign, javascript codes and the rest. But how the internet had brought the whole world into a much close-knitted city square where everyone can have access to the most up-to-date information on just about everything!
The Internet In Just A Few Years Has Changed How Business Is Done!
Then, my primary focus was how to use the internet to build and run my own business. This was the greatest attraction for me. Whenever I logon to the web all my focus was to know more about making money using the internet.
Don’t get me wrong. I had always wanted my own business but never did because of some few hindrances here and there. And here comes a
means that offered me the opportunity of starting no matter how low my
initial capital was.
And what more this also offered me not just some local business but a
business reaching to lands I never dreamed of! It was fascinating. And I
simply ‘fell’ in love with the internet!
But back then, there were not very many good internet marketing teachers, and there were certainly no “instant businesses” that you could just buy and start running right away.
The truth is, I had to do everything from scratch. Come to think of it to build my first online business I had to learn to do a whole lot of stuff! My situation was compounded because I was on a shoestring budget! I had no choice but to learn these tasks:
- Graphic design
- Website maintenance
- Sales copywriting
- Email promo creation
- Installing scripts
- Getting back end sales
- Customer service
And much much more!
This was a problem for many who wanted then to start their own business online. They couldn’t do it and they ended giving up because it was just too much work. Of course right now there are many turn-key businesses that you could easily plug into and you have your business up and running. But the frustration then was nothing but challenging.
You may be wondering if you still need to master these stuff to make money on the net today. Of course you’ll need to. Especially if you’re just starting from scratch and want to do it like me then you must needs get a grip on these things.
However, things are much better today than then. There are a whole lot
of coaching programs, teaching aids and tools that you can pick up on
the net that will help you jump start your online business. No matter the type of business you aim to start on the net, there is some training program for it. Do a google search and you will be amazed. I know the frustration you will face will be which one do you choose!
But Choose You Must! So You Need Not Shy Away From It!
After about 2years (not counting the years of trial and error trying to figure out what works and what does not – and of course giving up to start again) of doing business online, I can authoritatively inform you that to make money online all you need is:
- Good content for your website
- A good product to sell (one that people actually want)
- Sales copy to sell people on your product
- A list building system
- And traffic to your site so you can make sales
I know each of those things are a lot of work to create from scratch. But if you can get a good training program you would have half the time of your enjoying the gains of marketing on the net. So as I strive to fulfill the purpose of this site, I will be sharing the successes I’m having in my online home business, the failures (of course you should know that there are definitely plenty of them!) and various methods which will help you on your journey which you might not have otherwise been able to see.
One great tip I will offer you today is if your intention is to work from home as a home-based business entrepreneur then get involved with the International Association of Home Business entrepreneurs. As a member of this association you’ll have exclusive access to an unparalleled, one-of-a-kind business-building arsenal of your own … complete with a constant flow of the fresh, pertinent information and advice you need to succeed — all collected, culled, researched, and reviewed for you in one easy-to-access package!
I will definitely be revealing some insider knowledge about the The International Association of Home Business Entrepreneurs in the days ahead. But for now you may want to check out this great home business resource. Personally, I’ve learned a lot of useful strategies using this resource. I hope you do too.
Remember we’re here to succeed together. You can help make this possible by your contributions through your comments and suggestions. I desire that this site will be a proof to the fact that if you’re willing to always keep striving forward no matter what the odds, if you’ll always get back up when you have been knocked down and if you’ll keep making progress for what you believe is right, then success is sure!
Please bookmark this site, subscribe to the RSS feed at the top of the right hand corner, enter your email address, add it to your favorite reader (just something that lets you remember this site) as I know you will learn a lot from what I have to present here.
All the best,
Your friend,
O.C Irobogo
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