Is the thought of running an online business completely overwhelming?
Here’s an article written by one of my favorite online teachers,
Jimmy D. Brown. He works 3 hours/day and has put together more
top-quality, best-selling courses than anyone I know.
After reading this article, be sure to check out
Running A Successful Home Business
to find out Jimmy’s tips for productivity. You can even see pictures
of his home office, which I, personally enjoyed a lot.
Here’s the article. Enjoy!
The Top 3 Money-Making “To Do” Activities
By Jimmy D. Brown
Running A Successful Home Business
I’ve always been impressed with those who can take overwhelming
things and handle them with ease and poise. It never seemed to work
that way for me, until I discovered the secret for tackling those
daunting tasks.
The secret is simple: make things simple!
With just about every major undertaking, things can be simplified
into a handful of “core” components. That makes them manageable.
Manageable fosters productivity simply because I can work on
something that seems accomplishable. And when productivity goes up,
desired results come.
I received the following question from one of my clients…
“If you have to pick, what would you say are the top 2 or 3 things
we should concentrate on? I’ve heard the domain/site(blog) are the
most important, then others say writing info products, others say
lists. For short term and long term investment, what is the most
important things to be working on?”
This client wants things simplified. And rightly so. He knows the
secret to success is getting things down into manageable chunks.
So, what are these core practices for building an internet business?
There are three things - and three things only - that you need to
concentrate on with your business…
1. Offer Development.
You cannot make money online unless you have an OFFER. It’s that
simple. Unless there is some way for income to be generated, you
can’t get paid. End of discussion. Every business is founded upon
a revenue-generating offer. Now, this can either be your own offer
(small reports, ebooks, membership sites, coaching/consulting,
advertising, etc.) or something you promote as an affiliate and
earn revenue for referred sales.
2. List Marketing.
The fortune is in the list. You’ve heard it an untold number of
times in the past, right? Building and profiting from opt-in lists
should be a major priority on your schedule. You need to devote
yourself to attracting new subscribers and then getting all of
your subscribers to spend money with you … by purchasing your
OFFERS (see #1 above).
3. Traffic.
The third and final thing you need to concentrate on is “traffic”.
This includes both traffic GENERATION (getting visitors to a site)
and traffic CONVERSION (getting that traffic to buy). This includes
things like: starting an affiliate program, buying PPC ads,
participating in joint ventures, utilizing viral marketing tools,
raising your visitor value, tweaking your sales pages, etc.
With each of these categories, you have a variety of options to
choose from in directing your attention. It would be foolish for
me to say “grow your affiliate program” as your number # traffic
activity since I don’t know if you even have your own product to
sell. That’s why I don’t recommend specific activities, but rather
three key categories of business-building.
With each of these categories, find 2-3 activities to work on each
week and you should see results in a short amount of time.
I recommend you work on offer development every Monday, list
marketing every Tuesday, and traffic generation every Wednesday.
If you just spend a couple hours each of these days working on
these core parts of your business, sales should come.
In a nutshell -
- Find an offer to promote.
- Setup a list to promote the offer.
- Drive traffic to the list opt-in page.
Keep it simple. Keep it successful.
Jimmy D. Brown is the author of the 65-page “operations manual”,
Homepreneur Habits: How To Run A Successful Home Business. Learn
The Internet Marketer’s Weekly R.O.U.T.I.N.E.(TM) at
Running A Successful Home Business
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