Even with the truckload of information available on how to start and grow your online business success, there is a very common challenge that you may have – what are the first couple of steps I take to get things rolling?Â
You know that you need a website of some kind, maybe a blog, and you may even have a few ideas about what you would like to offer to your marketplace – but when it comes to what do I do FIRST, the process can seem overwhelming.
Assuming you have some ideas on what markets you MAY want to tackle, what are the first two things you need to do right away?
 The key now is to
1) Get started communicating with your market and
2) Research the marketplace and see what types and topics of information products (books, ebooks, courses, seminars, etc…) are already selling in this area so that you can use proven buying activity to help direct and refine your decision of what products you could charge for.Â
I would take these first steps…
1. Spend a day or two looking at Amazon.com and uncover books that fit some of the topics you have in mind – in this case, finding competition is a GOOD thing – it mean there is more opportunity to sell things into that market. When you click on any book within Amazon and scroll down the screen you will see a “Sales Rank” that gives you an idea of how well that book is selling. Lowest rank means the best sellers – so finding books below a rank of 100,000 or so means that it is selling. Why is that important? Just as we often by several books on topics we are interested in…so to do others which means that if we find a topic that is already selling well, chances are we can make a similar book on that topic of our own and sell it well too.Â
Visit Clicbank Marketplace and search under the different categories to see if there are ebooks that are selling well (same idea as with Amazon)
The purpose with all of this is to find some topics that you know are selling online that can help guide your choice of either products you want to resell (and make 40-60% commissions through an affiliate program) or products that you want to have created for you.Â
2. Setup your own website and blog. This all starts with
a) Having an idea of what your blog will be called
b) Signing up with a webhost where you can put up your first website – many have simple blog installs included these days.Â
My choice is this affordable webhost – they are a top notch webhost, easy to use, have great support and have a 2-3 step WordPress install that can help you get a blog setup within about 30-minutes.
Once you have your blog setup, then you can begin posting daily on topics of interest to you – that will generate traffic to your site and begin to build a following that you can turn into buying customers as you find/create products to sell online.
These simple 2-steps will go a long way to getting you started in the right direction.Â
I also recommend you join InfoMarketer’sZone as soon as you can – this site includes some terrific video tutorials, tools, templates and advice on all aspects of building your online marketing business including many shortcuts and “insider” techniques. InfoMarketer’sZone also has a fully interactive private mentor’s forum where you can get answers to questions as you build and grow your business – you’ll never be stuck again!
