March 30, 2006

Business Sites

• Information publishers and authors can create their own business sites to promote or sell their publications and books, whether self-published or as a supplement to a publisher's efforts.
  
  
• Contractors can easily use a business site to sell tips and resource lists for saving money and avoiding fraud.
  
  
• Service businesses and professionals, like insurance consultants, realtors, lawyers, plumbers, dentists and many others can use business sites to gently promote their services using testimonials.
  
  
• Hard goods creators/sellers can use a business site to widen their catalogue distribution and provide tips books along with a link to their site to drive additional traffic.
  
  
• For artists, musicians, comics and other entertainers business sites are a simple way to expand their audience and their sales beyond their local area.
  
  
• Students can use business sites for making extra money in the middle of their busy schedules.
  
  
• Communities or groups that want a way to increase their fundraising effectiveness, like seniors groups who could offer a booklet on reducing the expenses unique to people over 65. There are hundreds of possibilities.
  
  
• Home schoolers, who would benefit from a way to train their kids in business skills at a low cost and without them needing to go to work in a place that will get them used to working for a minimum wage.
  
  
• Business sites for local businesses can get more customers in the door. They could easily promote their business and extend their local radius.
  
  
• Hobbyists could turn their hobby into a real business using sites to sell their tips books, video and/or audio tuorials, price guides, etc.
  
  

1. Get a product.
   Obvious. You need something to sell.
   The trick is to make sure it's something YOU are interested in, so that you'll stick with it. And that it's something enough other people are willing to pay enough money for to make sure you can make a good profit from the time you spend creating and marketing it.
   
   
2. Create a sales site.
   You need a place for people to read about your product, and decide if they want to spend the money on it.
   
   
3. Accept payments.
   Once they decide to buy, you need a way for them to give you the money, and a way for you to deliver the goods.
   
   
4. Create sales and affiliates.
   Once you're ready, you need to get people to read your sales letter and order your product. This is where the quick money is. You'll see how to do this easily.
   You also want to be set up so that some of them can sign up as affiliates, which means they'll be selling your product on their sites for a commission. This is where the automatic long-term money is.