Your,First,Year,Doing,Business DIY Your First Year Doing Business Online. What you need to do t

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I've been doing business profitably online since 1994. Back then things were very difficult. Software wasprimitive, prospects were few, and many of them startedtheir conversations with, "So, what is that Internetthang anyway?"Yep, things were difficult.However in a way I was lucky, because back then NOBODYknew what they were doing. We were all green together.You could make mistakes without slitting your throat.As a result, I learned by experience, the greatest, most severe, teacher of all.Since 1994 I have seen literally thousands of peoplefail online... and I have watched others, the smartones, prosper, right up to and including the grim daysof online business consolation still upon us.Having been an acute observer of the cyberscene now forso many years, I've got a very good idea what it takes toprofitably get through your first year of seriouslydoing business online, the annus horribilis!-- Get SeriousThe first trick is to GET SERIOUS. The sad truth is thatthe entire Internet culture has encouraged levity,superficiality, and lack of seriousness. It shows. Thousands, maybe millions, of people are trying todo business online -- but too many approach thesubject with a lack of responsibility that absolutelyensures poor results. The rate of online business failure for newbies isstaggering, but the truth is most bring it on themselvesby failing to understand that the Internet is not a toy.It's a business -- and a demanding one at that, open7 days a week, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year -- andinsisting that you do business accordingly. Too manypeople, looking only at the undeniable businessefficiencies of the 'net, don't have sufficientunderstanding of what an online business demands interms of shere commitment. Do you?-- Sell ValueLet's face it. Too many people online sell crap.If that's you, you've missed a fundamental point aboutbusiness success in general and online business successin particular: you'll never get rich selling shoddyToo many online "business" people have a fundamentalmisconception about the Internet. They reckon that ifthey sell enough people whatever they've got, then THEYcan take their pile and go home, singing all the wayto the bank. That theory is absolutely wrong.The people online who are making the money now and whowill make the money tomorrow are those who sellVALUE!I know. We at Worldprofit at http://www.worldprofit.comare one of them. We've taken a back bedroom business inwintry Edmonton, Canada and turned it into a multi-million dollar cash cow. How? By working harder, longer,smarter than our competitiors and by keeping the businessfirmly based on one fundamental fact: PEOPLE WANT ANDWILL BUY VALUE! Want to see another value site? Click herehttp://www.heintzmanfarms.comThis is a guy who has turned "Dakota flax" into Dakotagold and is whistling a happy tune all the way to theteller's line.He sells VALUE! People go to get a free sample. Theylike the product. They buy the product. They run out ofthe product. They buy some more of the product. And so,Rumpelstiltskin like, the proprietor turns flax into gold.-- Get the tools you need. Don't try to run yourbusiness without them. You wouldn't try to build a house with your bare handswould you? Yet tons of people worldwide are trying tobuild an online business without the tools they need.What are these key tools?* a domain. A domain is cyber real estate that you ownand can develop for life. Want to see an example of adomain that's gone from NOTHING to being one of the mostvaluable properties online? Go to http://www.worldprofit.comWe've been working to improve this domain propertysince 1994. Scarcely a day goes by but we're adding,changing, modifying, improving. That's what you do whenyou're an owner: YOU IMPROVE FOR YOUR OWN BENEFIT. Are you doing this now? Or are you trying to get bywith some cheesy free or self-replicating site? Lotsof people have discovered that was a dim idea whenthey woke up to find that the company they got theirsite from had evaporated in the cyber meltdown. Bottomline: if you want to prosper online, own your domain.* a listserver. A listserver enables you to send outunlimited NON-SPAM email to any given list. Want tosee listservers in action? Go to http://www.worldprofit.com/ezinesEach newsletter published by Worldprofit (and thereare many now) has its own list and consequently itsown listserver.Some lists we email to daily (even TWICE a day);others we email to once a week (never less.) Theimportant thing is that when you're using a listserver,you're using the smartest tool for getting yourmessage out to the people you want to reach. Best ofall, the price is just pennies a day! Incredible!I've been using listservers for years and have, inthe process, emailed literally TENS OF MILLIONS ofpages of information to people worldwide. It's onemajor reason why Worldprofit didn't stay in a backbedroom and why it owns its own building today!* a sales manager. The longer you're in business online,the more prospects you're going to have -- if youdo things right. The question is: how will you respond toand communicate with these prospects? Sadly, withoutan automated system, you'll be overwhelmed, unableto cope with your leads in any remotely acceptable way.That's where the sales manager comes in.The sales manager developed by Worldprofit enables youto send up to 25 personalized follow-up messages inany given 90 day period to each and every one of yourprospects.As we know, people online are assailed with offers,messages, email, both subscription and spam. They geta thousand dollars worth of offers for every dollar'sworth of spending potential. They end up tuning out.If you're going to succeed online you've got to breakthrough their "blase barrier," letting them know whatyou've got for them and why they should act NOW!That's where the sales manager comes in. It puts you wayahead of the pack, delivering your messages over and overand over and over and over again -- until your prospectreally gets the message and responds. If the prospect isnot longer interested, she can take herself off automatically, without bothering you. Personally, Icouldn't do the large volume of business we do atWorldprofit without a sales manager. You need one, too --if you're serious about online profit.-- You need trafficHave you put in place a CERTAIN traffic-growth system,a system that is going to get you the traffic you need toprofit online?It's all very well and good to have a website. But, asmany have discovered, what's the point if you've got aterrific site -- and no one visits it?At Worldprofit we realized back in 1994 that traffic isking, and we've played our cards accordingly ever since.Towards this end, we developed and have since madeavailable commercially our own BANNER EXCHANGE. You cansee it and insert your banner athttp://www.worldbannerexchange.comYou can buy one at http://www.worldprofit.com Click onTRAFFIC GENERATION.Every day, day in, day out, whether we felt like it ornot, we grew the Exchange -- and showed others how to growtheirs -- until it now feeds itself, generating more andmore site traffic every single day. In other words, weused time to create traffic. It's the same principleinvestors use when they invest at predictable intervalsfor long-term capital growth. And it works! Thanks tothis system, work that we did in 1998, 1999, 2000, etcis STILL paying off in increased traffic today. Can yousay as much?Additionally, we created a system for GuaranteedBanner Exposures, Guaranteed Site Visitors and an aggressivenewsletter (ezine) advertising program. You can findinformation about all of these at http://www.worldrofit.comClick on TRAFFIC GENERATION.Remember,you are not going to profit online if you do not have a PREDICTABLE prospect flow system in place. If you simply drift, you're dead meat. Rest in peace!Start Investing, Keep Investing>From your very first day on the Internet you should startinvesting. Your investments should include* improvements in your existing product line* new product line developments* pension and* personal investments.If you scratch the average online business person, they'retrying for the "big kill," the one application, the onesystem, the one event, the one day that'll make them so richthey'll never have to work again. This is the adolescentapproach to online succes, and it's resulted in a lot ofbadly bruised and disillutioned people.The smarter way is the incremental way, using each and every day to grow a more profitable, more valuable business.Towards this end, you must invest to improve your existinginventory. We live in the age of continual improvements. If you don't improve, you're going to lose the customersyou worked so hard to get; you'll destroy the basis forsustained business growth.Equally, you've got to add new products to your product line.At Worldprofit, we NEVER rest on our laurels. We can'tafford to. People who rest on laurels, are people who willhave nothing else to rest on. Instead, we invest, invest,invest in new products, new applications, new enhancements.General Electric used to say, "Progress is our most importantproduct." At Worldprofit, we couldn't agree more.>From your first dollar made, you should institute aninvestment program. This program should consist of bothpension investments and other personal investments.The smartest people online are those who always play adefensive game. They know that business goes through cycles.Things don't get better every day. They know that hard times and unpredictable events happen to everyone. "Man proposes,God disposes." They plan accordingly.You should be investing in this way at least 10 cents ofevery dollar you get your hands on. If you're not, you'rea gambler, not a business person. As the big guys inVegas know, gamblers always lose in the end.So, As You Going To Get Smart About Online Success, Or AreYou The Next Fatality Waiting To Happen?Back in 1994 when we started Worldprofit, it wasn't clearhow to make real money online. Nobody knew; there wasa lot of trial and error experimentation going on. Inthe process, there were lots of people who failed. Thatwas understandable, given the fact that the technologywas new and successful business models didn't exist.Now, however, there are lots of successful -- and unsuccessful -- cyber business models around. We do knowwhat it takes to profit. We can point to things that'llwork and those which are certain to fail. The problem now is that too many people approaching thetask of profiting online do so without sufficientthought, preparation, commitment, dedication, orrealism. Result: mass (totally predictable) failures. Right now, the odds are you are not making a dime online.If you don't change your tune, that sorry state ofaffairs will continue. If that doesn't bother you,no problem. But if it does, if you insist on success,read this report again, print it and keep it handy.Your first year is going to be difficult; establishinga new business always is. But by following these stepsand by working with us at Worldprofit, it need not bethe annus horribilis it has been for so many who didn'tdo what was necessary to succeed online. Article Tags: First Year, Doing Business, Business Online, Online Business, People Online, Sales Manager, You're Going