Hi and welcome everyone!
It's indeed great to welcome you to my new blog, "eSuccess Notes".
This blog is dedicated to providing home based newbie entrepreneurs with ideas and tools to help start, run and grow successful online businesses. Our cardinal belief here is that you have the potential within to do whatever you put your mind to do. Yes, this blog is not about giving you "hand outs". You may have become familiar with the phrase "we would do it for you" so you don't need to do anything. But beyond that eSuccess Notes wants to provide you with the tools that will help you build your own business and not another's.
As my first post to this blog I want to give you a little peep into my early years on the net. Yes, the first few years of my online business.
I want to here try and present to you the person who will be running this blog so that you can easily relate my experiences with yours and decide if you are really in the right place. I know because we are all different in our various ways, I don't expect my experiences to be exactly the same with yours. But that notwithstanding I expect you to learn from my experiences.
Then, it was not a smooth ride!
When I first got started on the net it was a big challenge for me. There was so much to learn. Infact at the time I knew close to nothing about computers. And the internet was a big mystery to me.
There was this feeling of awe as I surf the net. The beautiful web designs, the mystery of writing some codes and producing those facinating displays were all really a wonder to me. I know you may not have felt the same. But come to think of it, here is some thirty-plus youngman coming into the world of computers for the first time. What else do you expect?
Ok, it maybe funny now but then it was no fun for me. The aura and awe the internet had on me was something I can still some how relate to today. Today it might not really be the feeling of mystery about webdesign, javascript codes and the rest. But how the internet had brought the whole world into a much close-nitted city square where everyone can have access to the most up-to-date information on just about everything!
The internet in just a few years has changed how business is done!
Then when started online my primary focus was how to make money on the net. Don't get me wrong. I had always wanted my own business but never did because of some few hinderances here and there. And here comes a means that offered me the opportunity of starting no matter how low my initial capital.
And what more this also offered me not just some local business but a business reaching to lands I never dreamt of! It was fascinating. And I simply 'fell' in love with the internet!
But back then, there were not very many good internet marketing teachers, and there were certainly no "instant businesses" that you could just buy and start running right away.
The truth is, I had to do everything from scratch. Come to think of it to build my first online business I had to learn to do a whole lot of stuff! My situation was compounded because I was on a shoestring budget! I had no choice but to learn these tasks:
- Graphic design
- Website maintenance
- Sales copywriting
- Email promo creation
- Installing scripts
- Getting back end sales
- Customer service
And much much more!
This was a problem for many who wanted then to start their own business online. They couldn't do it and they ended giving up because it was just too much work. Of course right now there are many turn-key businesses that you could easily plug into and you have your business up and running. But the frustration then was nothing but challenging.
So do you still need to master these stuff to make money on the net today? Of course yes. If you're just starting from scratch and want to do it like me then you must needs get a grip on these things.
However, things are much better today than then. There are a whole lot of coaching programs, teaching aids and tools that you can pick up on the net that will help you jump start your online business. No matter the type of business you aim to start on the net, there is some training program for it. Do a google search and you will be amazed. I know the frustration you will face will be which one do you choose!
But choose you must! So you need not shy away from it!
After about 2years (not counting the years of trial and error trying to figure out what works and what does not - and of course giving up to start again) of doing business online, I can authoritatively inform you that to make money online all you need is:
- Good content for your website
- A good product to sell (one that people actually want)
- Sales copy to sell people on your product
- A list building system
- And traffic to your site so you can make sales
I know each of those things are a lot of work to create from scratch. But if you can get a good training program you would have half the time of your enjoying the gains of marketing on the net. So as much as I ask you to stay with me on this blog as I share with you the knowledge I have picked up these few years I also encourage you to go out there and pick yourself a good internet marketing coach - because I don't claim to be some guru or master in these things.
Besides, I will also ask you as a home based business entrepreneur marketing on the net to get involved with the International Association of Home Business entrepreneurs. As a member of this association you'll have exclusive access to an unparalleled, one-of-a-kind business-building arsenal of your own...complete with a constant flow of the fresh, pertinent information and advice you need to succeed--all collected, culled, researched, and reviewed for you in one easy-to-access package!
You can may check out the International Association of Home Business today.
All the best,
O.C Irobogo
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