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Stage 1 Getting Started: Things to Think About
There are many options for getting started with an online business, such as simply becoming an affiliate selling other people's products on a commission basis; purchasing a 'turnkey' solution, where you buy into a ready-made business then see what you can make of it; or the best way - which is having your own ebusiness selling your own products or services and reaping the benefits of online selling.
The internet is full of web sites with no credibility whatsoever - they have no details about who they are, where they operate from, no terms and conditions for doing business with them, no privacy policies, and many other issues which deter internet users from making a purchase. If you want people to trust you enough to want to purchase from you - get it right. Set up your ebusiness by adopting all the good practices, rules, regulations and customer care principles that you would normally adopt for an offline business.
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Articles to help you
Getting online is Smart Business
What is your Personal Criteria for Ebusiness?
Next, Your Ideal Business Criteria
Basic Skills you Need
Laying the Foundations for a Credible Ebusiness
Avoid Ebusiness Plan Mistakes
Finding the right Niche
Create Your Business Plan
We Can do it All for You
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Articles to help you
We have compiled a series of articles and information for you to provide an overview of online business. The more you learn and read, the easier it gets, even if someone else does the work for you or provides you with ebusiness services; you still need to be aware of what's going on. Delegate wherever you can, but don't abdicate!
Getting Online is Smart Business
Operating an online business is a phenomenal opportunity available to a lone person or a large company. You can work from home or anywhere in the world to reach global markets, 24/7 - and all you need is the use of a computer and access to the internet. Compare that to regular offline business, with expensive premises, overheads, staff, and trading limited to normal opening hours. Being online is the best way for smart business owners in the 21st century.
Even local services such as restaurants, hairdressers, car repair, local stores, etc, can increase their customer base and income by around 30% by having a website and sending out a regular newsletter with special offers or promotions to keep their customers returning to their premises.
 Learn more about Internet Marketing - with or without a website
What is Your Personal Criteria for Ebusiness?
It is vital that you identify your personal criteria before starting up your own business, and identify what is important to you and what you want from life. Lifestyle, health, friends, family, place of work, and liking what you do, are all major factors which impact on choosing a business that suits you. Once you determine your personal criteria, you will be able to hone in on your ideal internet business criteria and set your goals to achieve the business you want.
Next, Your Ideal Business Criteria
What would be your Ideal Business Criteria? Do you have a wish list for the perfect business? If your Personal Criteria included a desire to control your own destiny, have a 'portable' business, create a new lifestyle, whilst selling your products and services all around the world - think internet.
Operating an internet business has so many benefits and provides phenomenal opportunities for anyone to go into business - people who may never have considered themselves as entrepreneurs or business people. Look at this list of advantages for operating an internet business then compare it to an offline business.
Basic Skills You Need
To maintain control of your ebusiness and thrive in the 'eworld', you will need to become familiar with the basic tools and information distribution equipment of the times, and obtain certain basic skills to become an Electronically Literate Person (ELP).
Laying the Foundations for a Credible Ebusiness
Setting up an online business with good foundations and instant credibility means following solid business practices as you would with an offline business. Credibility comes with incorporation and compliance with legal and regulatory issues within the country you operate. You will need to have a business plan, marketing plan and strategies, accountant, register for sales tax if you anticipate lots of sales, and reliable equipment with a fast internet connection, amongst other requirements related to your business.
Avoid Ebusiness Plan Mistakes Before You Start
Avoid ebusiness plan mistakes by learning from the mistakes others have made, and continue to make. When you create your business plan, this needs to be geared towards ebusiness (or ecommerce) and this is where aspiring 'netpreneurs' go wrong. Over 90% of websites on the internet don't make a penny, for a multitude of reasons. You can avoid the same mistakes by knowing what they do wrong, and give yourself a head start on most of your competitors.
Finding the Right Niche
Major Search Engines continuously refine their algorithms and provide more sophisticated search facilities to enable their users to find what they want from the keywords they type, and much emphasis is placed on relevant content results. Wise ebusiness owners now concentrate on providing niche (theme or one-topic) websites for high search engine ranking and increase the opportunity of obtaining free traffic from search engines.
We offer a complete website service creating business niches that generate tremendous profits, you can read about niche marketing secrets, and the principles of niche marketing for today's business.
Create Your Business Plan
It is essential that you write a business plan with the contents matching your personal and business criteria, as well as your ebusiness goals. This will enable you to look ahead, allocate resources, focus on key points, and prepare for problems and opportunities. Your plan is not only for starting a new business or securing investments or funding, but also vital for running a business to optimize growth and development according to priorities.
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First the Outline Business Plan
Your could start with an outline business plan which includes a summary, mission statement, keys to success, market analysis, and break-even analysis. This will initially identify if there is a business worth pursuing. But that would not be sufficient as a working document.
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Then the Full Business Plan
A full business plan should include a standard set of elements that include such items as a description of the company, details of the product or service, target market, market share forecasts, management details and structure, and financial analysis. It should also include a marketing plan. |
Business plan formats vary with each specific business. Using software can save you lots of time and help you write a better business plan. The fastest and easiest way to write a successful plan is to find a sample related to your intended business, to give you an idea of format, structure and content used by a similar business.
We recommend the business plan software used by the Wall Street Journal and Yahoo Small Business, the #1 rated "Business Plan Pro". It creates the structure of your plan, walks you through the planning process with an EasyPlan Wizard®, checks your results, and contains over 500 sample plans to help you get started and use as examples. Business Plan Pro saves you days of writing and research.
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| Stages of Development - Where you are now |
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