How mothers can set up a Home Based Internet Business in 2 easy
steps
Despite up to 95% of online businesses failing and mothers not
having a lot of "spare time", setting up and running a Home
Based Internet Business doesn't have to be complex nor expensive
nor time consuming.
And if you've done it right, even failing doesn't need to cost
much in both time and money. Learn from it, get over it and move
on.
You only really fail when you give up!
So are the benefits of Internet Marketing.
The ability to at least set yourself up to be able to sell to a
global audience for next to nothing in next to no time from your
own home gives modern mothers tremendous business leverage both
in time and money.
However cyberspace is vast and if you try to get your head
around the whole Internet galaxy you'll need several years.
I'm assuming you don't have this timeframe so I've listed the 2
key steps mothers should consider, to make a B line for extra
online profits in the comfort of your own home.
Like every marketer online, you'll need something to sell. Don't
worry if right now you've got absolutely no idea what to sell.
It may take several months to hone in on a product.
Now good marketing practices dictate that you first find a
target market then present them with products you believe they'd
want.
If you can follow this principle, that's wonderful but if not,
i.e. you might already have a product and not sure who to market
it to, then don't worry.
An example of this might be that you currently make smocking
items or craft items etc on a regular basis. Perhaps you'd
rather try and sell your (and other's) items instead of letting
them build up in the cupboard.
Once you have a product and hopefully a target market you need
to:
1. Set up your sales system on payapl, ebay, and/or Yahoo and
get your own website.
Once you've found a product and have a good photo and
description, advertise it on ebay and/or Yahoo auctions to test
demand. This will cost you next to nothing so long as you have a
credit card to open a paypal, ebay and/or Yahoo auction account.
Also start studying competitors auctions to gain a perspective
on the state of the market for your type of product.
This immediate and easy method of testing will enable you to
decide whether the product is worth pursuing and at what sales
price.
If you fail to sell the item on ebay (or Yahoo) at a price
you're happy with, due to lack of demand or too much
competition, then seriously consider whether you'll be able to
make sufficient sales through other mediums such as a website.
If you're happy with the results or see future possibilities
then move on and get your own website. A domain name and hosting
can be bought for under $15.
2 Strive for maximum automation and efficiency with your sales
system.
If you're relatively new to computers, save yourself countless
hours of the proverbial learning curve and hire a local computer
techie or geek to come to your house and show you exactly the
following things on your equipment.
a. How to take a good digital photograph of your product and
upload it onto your hard drive. Then learn to upload it from
your hard drive to your server. b. How to open an account with
ebay, yahoo and paypal and how to list an item. Learn or hire
someone who can write good compelling sales copy. Study the copy
of competitors auctions. c. How to create a basic, yet
professionally adequate website and upload the website to a
server. Learn how to make changes on the website then upload
these changes to your server. Make sure when building your
website it is optimized with keywords to rank well with search
engines.
These techie people are plentiful and charge around $25 per hour
and up.
Bypass a long and endless learning curve. Pay for private
tuition in getting your sales system in place, optimzed and
automated quickly.
Once you have your sales system in place and finely tuned for
maximum automation and profit you can continually funnel
products into the system until you have a winner.