Walk Don't Run - UK Home Business And Beyond

It may sound easy to start up a brand new home business, but it does need more thought than you may believe, before you start.

How many advertisements do you see in the various home business magazines that give you the impression that you can start your own business and then become a big, money making, success straight away? Earning money from running your own home business is, of course, possible as you can see people doing it all the time. Some are very well run family businesses while others are simple, one task, jobs that bring in a small extra income to fill a gap. However, most people who think that the 'get rich quick' theme is easy to achieve are soon brought down to earth with a bang when they try the new business opportunity and find that it soon all falls apart and they end up losing any investments made. They often try again and again but, still, it all ends up being a waste of time and money. But it needn't be just as long as they don't try to run before they can walk, so to speak. Trying to earn an extra income by running your own business is a two-fold task. Firstly, you must learn how to RUN a business, that being, a business of any kind.

Expecting to win over customers when you're clearly only offering something that is available from any other person, who's not really an official business either (but paid a commission for 'selling' a product) is foolhardy. Secondly, you need to learn how to sell the particular product or service that you've chosen to get involved with. I could give the same product to two totally different people and one could be a roaring success with it while the other a total failure - why?, it's the same product. It's all down to how you promote your business and how you run it. Everything from your filing system to customer service is paramount to how successful you'll become in business. The successful person will know all about planning ahead and projections. Knowing what results they are likely to get all makes good business sense. You must have a business plan. The person who fails will blindly start that major mail shot with absolutely no idea of what to expect. After spending hundreds of pounds on it, it's only when no replies are received that they realise that their mail shot has been yet another failure. The successful person will deal with a customer complaint in such a way that the customer will go away happy with the outcome and deal with the same business again. The unsuccessful person will lose that customer forever because they didn't know how to deal with it over the telephone. Big sales come to the guy who promotes his product by way of that flyer that has been designed to sell the goods and win over customers every day in a continuous flow. Nothing like this happens to the guy who puts out the third generation photocopy of the misspelled, grammatically incorrect, mess of a flyer that he's just sent out.

First you need to learn how to run a business, then sort out your product. How quickly do you turn around an order?, Do you present your paperwork professionally or on scrap paper?, Do you honour guarantees?, Do you know how the law stands on distance selling?, What is your follow up procedure for 'back end' sales?, How are you on 'link selling'?, Are you paying the right amount of tax and National Insurance?, Have you got a Data Protection Act number? - do you really need one?. There are many questions that you need to ask yourself when deciding to work from home, running your own business. For example, if you keep customer details on file, You MUST register with the Data Protection office so they know who you are. When you sell ANY product through mail order to people living anywhere in the UK they are entitled to a full refund if they are not happy with what you have sold them - for any reason, within the first seven days - The law states this under the distance selling rules.

You'll find that all those successful in selling any product or service are good at running a business, that's without anything to do with the product or service in question. However, look at the failures, and you'll find that they don't know the first thing about running a business. 85% of those starting a new business fail within the first two years - don't be one of them.

Martyn Brown: 20+ years involved in home business and the Internet. Has edited newsletters and magazines since 1985. For a free, downloadable, work from home magazine, visit: http://www.WorkingHoursMagazine.co.uk

Honest?? I Doubt It!

My last few days I have spent doing a bit more in depth research on Affiliate marketing and techniques. I am really beginning to wonder!!

Is there really anybody making honest money on the Internet?
Can you make money from promoting Click bank companies?
Is everyone that is making money, just convincing everyone else there is money to be made from on the Internet?

It seems everything I find is another add:

"Don't be scammed again! Buy our product instead!!!!"


Is there really any honest programs?

I am definitely beginning to doubt it...

Week 2 my new Online Job

Well,
Its time to review!! I'm now in my second week of working my new Internet Job and maybe its not all it cracked up to be... The amount of stuff I have learnt about the Internet in the last week is phenomenal! How do you trust anyone on the Internet?

So many emails saying make thousand here and there! You know, I don't really care if I don't make thousands! I just want to be able to make a living and not have to work 8 hours a day everyday at the computer..

So far no more sales through my Click bank account even though I have now got Five Click bank companies that I am listing! With a fairly diverse range from tattoo to Music downloads I've tried to get a large scope to target every user. I plan to try five new businesses this week, maybe it's just trial and error!

I am beginning to think that maybe this is not the way to go. Is there some secret I don't know? Is there something that someones not telling me or do I just need to persist...

NO FEAR ..I am still committed! I have been at my computer everyday bar one, listing and signing up and blogging with sites and forums... Maybe persistence is the key after all!

If nothing else I am finding some really good products for myself. Like one of my click bank companies is a Satellite TV to PC. I can now get over 4000 top quality stations direct to my PC or Laptop Free. As an English only speaker in a country where 98% of the population speaks Hungarian I had a bit of a problem with watching TV as ALL the TV stations are in Hungarian!!

Hang on, this is starting to sound like an ad, sorry that was not my intention, oh well, I guess if you want to check it out you can go here:
http://krisbiz.satsoft.hop.clickbank.net/

So back to the issue at hand...
Am I making progress?? Well not yet!!!! But I'm gonna stick it out for a bit longer!
I don't want to be one of those scammed suckers!

Check back soon for my next update....

If you have any ideas or thoughts or if you have been through this.. I would really like to hear your feedback..