Online selling is very different from selling in person. You’re convincing someone to make the purchase on their own time. Bore them, fail to make the case, and they’re gone, off your site. You may be able to slow them down with a popup window, but you can’t stop...
There’s something nice about getting into a good routine with your online business. You know what needs to be done and how to do it. You know about what response you’ll get for the work you do. But are you still taking new risks? Are you experimenting with new...
If you’ve worked online long at all, you’ve seen plenty of hype. It probably made deciding what you wanted to do to earn a living online that much more difficult. All those images of wealth, all the people claiming their massive success was a matter of months from poverty,...
Marketing is a major part of any business. If you don’t market, you don’t make sales. But calling it marketing may keep you in the wrong frame of mind. The word “marketing” puts you in the frame of mind of bringing customers to your business. More of a sales-y...
Making a home business successful is hard. There are some things you can control, mostly what you do yourself or hire someone to do for you, and other things that you cannot control. It’s really easy to focus on the parts you can’t directly control, forgetting that the things...