Learn To Earn For Yourself
October 4th, 2007 Filed under: Uncategorized — Small Home Business AuthorWhat does it take to close an internet sale? What products should I sale? How long will it take to make my first sale? How do I get people to buy from my website? How do I get set up with the ability to accept credit cards? Should I get my own e-commerce store? Most people starting a new business online will ask these, or similar, questions only to find that there is often several different answers from which to choose. Often, with none of the answers really being pertinent to the questions being asked.
Here are the answers to the above questions, short and sweet with a horribly bitter after taste.
To close an internet sale it takes money, time, patience and loads of hard, time consuming, soul crushing, anxiety inducing, work. Simply put.
You should sale anything you are passionate about, if you want true success. However, if you just want to make a few dollars quickly…sale anything that can be sold. You will barely make a living, if you earn even close to that much, and you will likely never be happy with what you are doing. It will take as long to make your first sale as it takes to learn what you are doing. Sometimes people get lucky and make a few sales right off the bat. These people are few and far between.
You get people to buy from your website by finding a way to get them to your website and developing trust with them. Whether that trust comes from your voice, your image, your website, etc…, doesn’t matter. What matters is they trust you enough to purchase from you. If they do not trust you, you will not earn their money.
There are several ways in which to accept credit cards. The easiest way is to purchase a turn key website that is already set up to deal with credit cards and other forms of payments. Another way is to contract with a company that deals in credit cards. (This is not recommended as they are sharks and will feed on you until you have learned your lesson and are losing a large majority of your profits to them.) Or, you can search online for the easiest, and most cost efficient, way for you to accept credit cards. Getting your own e-commerce store is often expensive and you will still have to drive traffic to your store once you have it. I wouldn’t recommend an e-commerce store. You earn money with them, but they take a lot of money to run. Advertising is not cheap!
The best way to do business online is to learn the information yourself. There is a huge learning curve, but once you know…you know! At that point you can earn all you want using “your own” knowledge! Plus, you do not have to pay someone else a portion of your profits to use their knowledge.
Take the time to learn to earn for yourself. Everything you can buy on the internet can also be found for free on the internet, in one form or another. All it takes is the time and the effort to learn. If you are not willing to put in the time and the effort to learn than you should forget about earning online and move on to something else. Also, just because you pay someone for their knowledge does not mean you will know what to do with it, and there is an additional charge for that information in almost every case.
So, learn to earn for yourself and you will control your life and your financial situation. You can be fired from a job or retire and hope you are paid what you are supposed to get, or you can make your own retirement and get what you want! Plus, you can never be fired! There are ways to earn online that are profitable and relatively easy. I will mention a few for you to research. Drop-shipping is very profitable and very easy to do, but a little harder to set up than a turn key site. Plus, if the drop-shipping company makes a mistake it is your name and reputation on the line, not theirs. Look for my article on drop-shipping to find out more.
Also, there are two programs, one worth its weight in gold – I know this from experience, and the other still in pre-launch status. Be sure to check them out! Good luck and “Learn to Earn” for yourself!
