Are You Cut Out For Online Marketing?
by on June 9, 2009
in EZ Wealth Solution, Marketing Tips
If you’re looking to make money online, there are a few things you should consider. Hopefully, after reading this post, you’ll know if this field is for you or not.
Unfortunately, everyone is not cut out for online marketing. Many people have this idea that you can join any get rich quick scheme, place a few ads on the internet and then start raking in huge amounts of cash. It doesn’t work that way and I’m here to make that very clear to you.
Here are a few questions you should ask yourself before getting too involved in the online home based business industry.
1.) Do you give up easily?
Just like any other business, most people do not become instant success stories overnight. It takes some time and effort on your part to make money in this industry. If you join an online business opportunity and quit shortly after, this industry is more than likely not for you.
2.) Are you willing to put in the work to market your business effectively?
This involves advertising your business which usually involves promoting a website or affiliate link. To make money online, your website has to be seen by many people. Everyone who sees your website or business opportunity will not buy from you or join your MLM opportunity either, but you must get it out there.
3.) Are you willing to follow up with your prospects?
If you can commit to steps 1 and 2, you will generate prospects for your business, but to convert those prospects over to sales or signups, you must follow up with them effectively. This involves effective email advertising or follow up by phone. Statistics show that people who follow up by phone effectivley will have much higher results than those who don’t. Thanks to online marketing, follow up by phone is becoming a thing of the past. Many systems incorporate system mailers or auto-responders that will allow you to easily follow up with your prospects on auto-pilot. There will always be some needed manual intervention on your part. Whatever the case may be, you must be willing to take advantage of the tools to contact your prospects.
4.) Are you willing to learn new things?
I’ve come across more than a few people who get irritated when they learn that they actually have to work in this industry. This may involve learning a little html, setting up auto-responders, copying and pasting text, setting up payment processors to accept payments and other things. As the new tools are being developed as you read this which will simplify how home businesses are ran, it’s still good to step up to the plate and learn as much as you can. You don’t have to be a brain, but the people who are willing to learn will more about the tools available to them will have much better results.
If you are lazy, give up easily, complain a lot, point the finger when things don’t go your way and are not an active person, you may want to step away from this industry. I guess much of my success is because of the fact that I’ve never had to overcome any of these issues. I’ve come across many people just like this too. You can find these people really quick too. Just do a search for any popular MLM business and you’ll find post or articles written by many people who blame the company for them not making any money. What gets me is these same people will write articles that hit the top of the search engines. If they would had only used their time and effort writing article to promote their business, they may have had more success.
You must also figure out how much money you want to make. Do you mind getting paid once a month or would you like to get your earnings instantly? Most MLM companies pay out commissions on a monthly basis. MLM companies also have compensations plans that usually give you a smaller cut of the money than they’ll receive. For this reason, making a lot of money in MLM can be very difficult because you’ll have to recruit a lot of people to earn the big bucks. For this reason, you may want to promote your own products or service.
This way, you can get access to your money a lot sooner.
It took me a while, but I am slowly drifting away from MLM. I’ve built nice sized down-lines, but the money is just not all that great. This is due to bringing in lazy people who don’t work or quit really fast. I’m now focusing on ways to earn larger sums of money instantly. It’s nice to wake up in the morning and see that I’ve earned 2 $97 payments and a few $47 payments over night. Most people will never make half of that in MLM period. My earnings are directly proportional to what I do. I don’t rely on the company or others to pay me money. I make it happen myself. I have not been hardened by MLM. It has helped me to understand what I really need to focus on.
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Take care,
Sean Grimes
I love reading your blogs Sean cause you are a down to earth guy and tell it like it should be the TRUTH!!
God Bless
Steve24
Thanks Steve.
I really appreciate the comments.