How to Start An Internet Business – Become A Local lnternet Consultant!
If you've been on the internet for a at least a year or two, and you want to make a living selling products or services, you've certainly learned a lot about how to set up websites, blogs, create an adwords account, and maybe even get some web pages listed successfully in the Search Engines.
Well, I have news for you…
You have skills which are very handy to local business owners. Most small business owners work 10 to 12 hours a day, and don't have the time to fiddle with websites get more business via the internet. In fact, the entrepreneurs I've worked with have so little knowledge of the internet, I've had to set up their email accounts on their computer too, as they had no idea how to do it.
I also realize you're now earning per hour as a consultant and the internet dream of sitting on the Bahamas earning $500 a day has now changed. Well, why not do consulting and earn a good additional income whilst building other products and services? Makes a lot of sense to me… does it make sense to you?
What to Packages to Sell to Local Businesess…
Decide what kind of service packages you want to sell to your clients. For example, you can offer either of these two consulting businesses. Either you assist small businesses and private customers by repairing computers and helping them with software problems…
Or if you're good at marketing you can specialize in helping them get traffic via:
- Adwords
- Search Engine Optimization
- Setup Autoresponders
- Write salesletters
- Set up a Lead Generation Blog
- Get Links to their Sites
- Write Email Follow-ups.
If you lack some of the above skills, you can start out and simply work on them and introduce your new skills to your clients later on.
How To Market Yourself to Local Businesses
Start marketing to your local consulting business by opening up 4 or 5 streams of leads simultaneously. This is probably the biggest mistakes I see in small businesses' marketing. The simply rely on only one or two sources of advertising to generate customers. Don't make the same mistake.
Consider these methods simultaneously to get all the customers you need:
1. Make a list of everybody you know who owns a small business or knows small business owners. Really brainstorm and keep expanding this list. And have no fear. Give them your offer with confidence. Also work on finding well-respected people in your community… their influence may work wonders for you.
2. Advertise in Google adwords where you want to gain clients. Adwords allows you to advertise locally. Set up an autoresponder and build a list of local businesses which need your service. A good idea would be to give them a free report or free consulting for signing up.
3. Do a joint venture with computer repair companies or similar businesses who have clients in your target market. You send your clients to them… and they send their clients to you. This could speed up your success tremendously.
4. Join local networking groups which support each others businesses in the local community. Make sure you give free talks about your speciality to help them. This will also get you new customers.
Remember you can also offer your services nationally if you're confident of your capabilities. It's just a matter of taking action. If you're friendly, helpful and competent, you will find customers who love you and will invest money in your consulting and services.
Let me know your thoughts…
Why You'll Profit from A Personal Internet Business Training Program
If you're struggling to get customers and make money online, the solution might be to get a personal coach. Find one that runs an internet business training program customized to your needs. A training program which personally takes a hard look at your your goals, your website, your habits and how you go about making money in your internet business.
Here's a short story. I coach students in a very personal way to succeed with their internet business and search engine marketing. Since my youth I've also been a national class tennis player and coach. The reason I'm telling you this story is… I've never seen a top player in tennis on any other individual sport, which has succeeded big time in a career without personal coaching.
Sure… some might do it in business via trail and error, but most people will go through their entire lives lacking the skills and tools necessary to make a very high income in their careers. And they waste years of time because they don't know exactly what to do.
I've seen this happen a million times while coaching talented tennis players. Almost every single one has serious weaknesses, or strengths they have to quickly improve to move up the rankings fast. Believe me, the only way you can improve a players technique, strength, match strategy etc. is by intensive personal coaching. I can't think of one top sportsman who had no coaching or simply group coaching and became really successful.
Can you?
My point is this. At some stage we all need to learn the skills, tips and details to make it to the top. And the more personal the feedback you get for your business the faster you'll get visitors and make sales. Especially if your coach has done it himself and as excellent coaching skills. It never ceases to amaze me how many years my students have wasted years reading information and doing all kinds of training courses. And never stopped to realize that there's a faster way to learning the skills and getting the results.
Whether you want to learn search engine optimization or basic internet marketing, the speed of your development will depend on how teachable your are, and how good your coach is at teaching you in simple steps. To put it simply, we all need a coach at some point in time.
For example, if you're an affiliate providing your merchant with a few sales a month, and you seem to work day in and day out on your computer without much success, a personal coach will increase your income dramatically if he's already succeed at the affiliate opportunities you're trying to sell.
Or you might be a professional with a management degree certification or studied software video technology. Even though you're highly qualified, you'll probably still lack the business knowledge and resources a skilled coach can teach you.
My favorite method to teach my international students is via articles, video classes and one-on-one telephone and chat sessions. This provides them with a system whereby they get the basic education to get a lot of traffic to their websites and how to build their customer list. Then once they're selling a few products and services, I show them advanced methods to take their business or company to the next level.
The last step is to meet at least weekly and keep them accountable for their actions. I help my clients set action goals for the week and check with them a week later how they're doing…. in fact, we almost always become friends and work on succeeding in their business together.
Now seriously… if you had this kind of personal attention from a classy coach, wouldn't you and your business also improve in leaps and bounds every month?
What are your ideas and views about getting a personal coach to speed up your business success? Let me know by commenting below…
