By Jean Cannon
Some of the most daunting things about getting started with an online business is simply knowing where to start, how to find clients and how much it is going to cost.
The first step is to work out what you really love doing or buying and spend time talking to your friends and searching on the internet to find out how many other people share your passion. Whatever you are passionate about is what you will do best. You will make time to fit it in because you enjoy it. So this is where you start. You need to find something people want that you enjoy. And extending this research and joining Facebook, Twitter and other social networking groups will help you find your clients.
The next step is to break what you do into simple bite sized steps that you can email to clients. You may well decide to ask your Facebook and Twitter friends as well as your offline friends if they would like to get a tip of the week about your passion, the build this up into a regular newsletter. Once you have a list of interested people you can start to sell your product.
You will need a website an auto responder system and a means of collecting money but this can be kept low cost by avoiding the bells and whistles.
Your website tells people what you do and to get started a simple 3 page site then asks people to opt in for more information and your free tips of newsletter on one page, which leads to a longer page (really pages) giving real value and letting people know how you can help them and asking them to take an action like phoning or faxing for more information, buying a low priced product or sometimes even asking them to buy your high priced product or service. The third page is a thank you page. Three pages are not expensive but you need to do your research carefully on what people actually want to buy rather than what you want to sell.
You will need an auto responder system and this is another thing that start up home business people worry about. If you simply think of them as a means of sending a series of emails automatically to deliver your product or your tips and information, they are easily demystified. These can be quite low priced and a simple payment system like PayPal can be adequate to start making money online with a home based business.
An important step can be to find someone who is able to explain things that confuse you in a non "geeky" way so that you are not confused by the jargon that some internet users love.
I do hope that this article has helped demystify the biggest obstacles preventing you from effectively leveraging your skills and hobbies so that you can make money from home doing something that you really enjoy.
Jean Cannon runs an award winning online business as an energy and sustainability management consultant working with clients around the world.
As Online Jeanie she now also shares her skills in starting and running a profitable online business with her four module internet training program available from http://www.onlinejeanie.com
Jean is an expert at turning effective offline products and services into digital products and training programs and is generous in the extent that she shares this expertise. She also offers a Special Report "Discover How to Turn Your Business Or Idea Into An Online Business."
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