Being an Online Business Person is About Choices

        Being An Online Business Person is About Choices

-We all have to decide how we are going to fail.. by not going far enough or by going too far.-Sumner Redstone

    Everything that we achieve or do not achieve comes down to one thing and that is the choices that we make. Do we get out of bed today or stay there. Do we go to work or go and hang out somewhere? Do we try again when we have failed or do we give up.

    There are any number of choices that we make each and every day of our lives that will affect how we live for months or years to come. Choices are what business is really all about.

    
    Some believe that success is a matter of luck. These people have no idea of what it really takes to be a success. It really comes down to the chances that we take and the choices that we make.

    The easiest choice that most people make is to stand pat, to stay where they are and continue to do what they are doing. Hoping in the back of their mind that some how some way it will turn around on its own. I made a choice to create this blog. You made a choice to come here and read it today. This choice can have no impact on your life or a grand impact if you decide to make a second choice. To act on one of the suggestions that you find here. To alter the way that you have done business. To try something like email marketing or to build your own website. I have two websites and by this time next year I hope to have ten of them. Why? Because I like to pile more things on my plate? No. It is because they generate income. They make money and I wish to make more money. I wish to grow and expand my business in every area that I can. Perhaps you wish to do the same thing.

Perhaps you are just starting out and are struggling with the right way to turn?

    That way will be a choice that only you can make. I can suggest possible choices, but in the end you will be the one making those choices and I suggest that you keep making those choices. The more you make, the easier it will be to make the next one. Becoming a great online business person is not gonna happen overnight, but is there any field of endeavor
that you can think of where it happens overnight. Good luck with your online business, remember to stumble us on stumbleupon, add us to your google plus and get back to work.

The Online Business Person, What's Your Line

            Online Business Person, What’s Your Line


-I  believe the true road to preeminent success in any line is to make yourself master of that line. - Andrew Carnegie

    What is your line of work?

    What type of online business person are you?

    Do you know?

    If so do you know it well enough to be considered an expert at that particular line of business?.

    I have run an online retail store for over five years. I would consider myself an expert at running and building this type of business. I find myself unable to shut up when asked questions about selling on Amazon or Ebay. I did it until I decided their fee structure was too much to pay for the cost of doing business and moved on to building my own websites.  That said I understand the rules of those sites so well now that I can teach in less than an hour anyone how to become a powerseller. How to make a few thousand a month on Ebay. How to and when to set the best price to sell items on Amazon.

    In a way that all feels like another life, but it was not so long ago. I became an expert at selling things and the next logical step was to do that for myself. To take all the risk and reap all of the rewards. My question for you is “What are you an expert at?” If you market plumbing supplies, do you know this line inside and out? If you sell office chairs can you answer any and all questions without reaching for a manual?


    The better that you know your line the more money that your online business is likely to generate. If your business is not doing well perhaps it is because you have not mastered your line of work.

    Take some time and consider this. It is not the end of the world if you are not an expert at what you do. You have time. You can learn or you can switch to something that you know better. The first business that you design or build does not have to be the last. The worst thing that can possibly happen is that, due to success, you get stuck in a line of business that you do not enjoy and do not know very well. You will eventually get bored, angry or quit.

    Okay, that is it for this post. I would like to thank you guys for sticking around and coming back again and again. The blog is growing at such a rate that I would like to offer an invitation to those of you who wish to write a guest post. There are some of you who may think that I am wrong about something. There are others who have a topic that they wish to share, but do not have time to run a blog themselves. The guidelines are simple, 200 to 1,000 words on any business related subject. Just leave a comment that you wish to offer a post and I will contact you.

    Okay guys, time to get back to work.

Running an Online Business Part 1

        The Online Business Person, Sales Part 1
      
-“Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.”-



    Running an online business is sometimes like running the hurdles. There will always be something in the way of your success. Are you willing to let it stand in your way or do you push forward anyway?

    Let’s look at these obstacles, these hurdles.

    Your customer has no money or not enough to make a sale possible. That is okay, this happens all the time. You should not allow a possible customer to walk away without making a connection that can be accessed at a later time when a sale can be achieved. Treat them as if they are just as valuable as the customer who is prepared to make a purchase today. In many way they are. They are part of your future customer base. Get to know as much about them as you can. Get their names and email addresses so that you can maintain contact. So that you can send them future offers. If people feel welcome. If they feel valued they will eventually do business with you or recommend you to others.

    Again being a successful business person is the art of establishing and maintaining relationships.

    “What if they do not need what my business offers?”

    Most people do not believe that they need insurance or will ever need insurance until the need has burned their home down. Human nature is to avoid acknowledging the need for anything. How hard is it to ask for directions even when you know that you are lost?

    Part of being a good business person is the art of convincing customers that they are human. That they are unaware of a need. That our product, goods or services are something that would make their lives easier or their businesses more profitable.

    Sounds tough?

    It is, but it is also part of the job we do. This is a skill that can be learned. It may take time, but if you focus on it day after day you will get better at it.

    This concludes part one.

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Handling Failure

                You Are going to Fail

“Failure defeats losers, failure inspires winners.”-Robert T. Kiyosaki

    Guys you are going to fail.

    Look to your heroes.

    Pick any sport.

    Failure is part of the territory.

    No one is perfect. No one hits the mark every single time. Only politicians and their delusional cults of personality believe that perfection can be achieved by a person.

    The funny thing about failure is that there will be times when you make the right choice and it still does not work out. You had a good idea. You worked hard on it and for what ever reason it did not produce what you believed that it would. Worst than this is when someone else comes along a few weeks or months later with your same business concept and it works perfectly for them. Sometimes failure is just a matter of timing.

    For what ever reason their will be attempts that do not make it. The public is funny sometimes they just don’t get it or it takes them too long to get it. Someone had the idea for a chain of coffee shops before Starbucks came along. Someone probably imagined a world populated with smart phones before Apple broke through.


    Do you know the story of the movie It’s a Wonderful Life. The public did not take well to it during its first release. It took being shown time and time again on tv before it caught on. It was released during the summer (talk about bad timing). The scary thing is that there may be movies just as good that have never caught on, that never will catch on.

There are products that may change the world, but are gathering dust on a shelve somewhere because the one’s who created them gave in to failure.

    Just because your business model did not work this time around does not mean that it or you are a failure. You are a failure when you give up. You are a failure when you stop trying.

    “How many more times will I have to come up with a business model? How many more times will I have to find a new idea or take a new path?”

    I do not know, but the one thing I know beyond any doubt is that if you accept failure then you will never succeed as a business person. Failure is a day in your life, failure is a page in your book and all you have to do is turn the page.

    My final advice is that if you have failed recently take a breath. Go out and find some inspiration. Watch a movie or a sporting event. Get a book that will encourage you. Go find a magazine and read about people who are succeeding. It will help to remind you of a simple fact.

    What one man can do another man can do.   

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The Better Online Business Person

                The Better Online Business Person

    My goal is to become the best business person that I can. I believe that most of us share this goal. The better we become at the business that we are in then the more that business will return to us.

    At the end of the day we measure the success of our businesses in the term of quality and profit.

    If our business is not of the best of quality how do we improve it?

    If our business is not generating profit, how do we grow it?

    Let us tackle the profit angle first after all this is what I believe most of us are interested in. We can grow our profits first by selling more of what ever it is that we sell or market. We can also add new thing to the inventory of our businesses and or stores.

    We sell more by reaching new customers and by getting our existing customers to come back to us again and again (that is where quality of service will play a part). We can reach new customers by expanding our marketing efforts. While to hold on to our existing customers and to turn them into recurring customers we must identify them and keep in touch with them.

This will involve social networking and developing email and address list.

    I spend the first four years of my life as an online marketer never even considering these factors. I had done business with thousands of customers and had not bothered to maintain a list of them. To keep in contact with them. In other words I had not bother to make these customers my customers. I had not developed relationships. Maybe this was because I am not very good at the social game. I spend hours a day in front of a computer screen because I am not a people person. I found out that this is not a handicap that I could not over come. I found a service that could add me in handling that part of things.
They could handle the social interaction for me so that I could continue to play to my strengths.

    This site below is one such site that could help you do the same. If you feel that growing your business in the social media area is something you wish to look at you should at least pay them a visit. They have great trial offers. If not we will find a way to DIY it.

    Okay that will be it for this first post. I hope to post again soon. Please add us to your google plus, stumble us on stumbleupon and tell a friend. Thank you for visiting. Now please get back to work.