How to Start a Home-Based Business in 5 Steps
Being a technical person, one of the things I like to do is analyze search engine data. Today, one of the things I noticed is, “Wow! There are a lot of people looking for information on starting a home-based internet business.”
There are, of course, a million and one answers to the question of, “How do I get started.” In this article, though, I’m going to focus on the process with My Internet Business.
For those of you who don’t know, My Internet Business is the latest brainchild of Darren Gaudry, the multi-millionaire internet marketer who was also behind the super-successful Passport to Wealth. My Internet Business is one of the best home-based businesses on the Internet, and getting started couldn’t be any easier.
The process looks something like this:
- Sign up for My Internet Business. There’s no such thing as a free home-based business. Anything worthwhile is going to require some capital to get started. The good news is, My Internet Business has a package for everyone, with 4 levels to get in, and starts at just $495. This is a high-income business opportunity, and you won’t find a better one cheaper.The sign-up process is easy, requiring you to select which package you want, fill out a simple web form, accept and sign the terms of service, and then enter your payment details. When I signed up, I was pleasantly surprised at how quick and painless the process was. Within 20 minutes of starting, I was up and running!
- Set up your merchant account. My Internet Business doesn’t make your financial decisions for you, but they do make the hard ones easier. Finding a good home business merchant account is no easy task. You’ve got rates to worry about, underwriters to deal with, and so on. With all of the competition out there, how is the novice to know what to do? Well, we’ve negotiated with one of the top global merchant account providers to make it easy for you to be up and running, charging credit cards from anywhere to your very own merchant account within 24 hours. And when I say anywhere, I mean this is a global business… imagine processing payments from customers all over the world and participating in the global economy… from home!
- Configure your marketing site. You don’t have to explain My Internet Business to your prospects… your marketing site does it for you! Each prospect will be able to “take the tour” and learn all about the opportunity, products, compensation plan, training and testimonials. There’s even a business portfolio page where you can insert existing products and services, integrating your My Internet Business with any affiliate and network marketing programs you participate in. This is huge!
- Set up your lead capture page. My Internet Business provides several lead capture pages out of the box. But, the truth is that all of the company’s top earners make their own lead capture pages. This is not a reflection of the quality of My Internet Business’s default capture pages as much as its a testimony to the power of personal branding. By effectively pre-selling yourself and your team before sending your prospects to the tour you’ll experience a much higher conversion rate. In other words, more people will sign up with you if you put more of yourself into your capture pages.
- Use one of many traffic generation methods to funnel leads to your capture page. Here’s a useful metaphor to use when thinking about traffic: traffic is neither created nor destroyed… it is merely directed. People are going to be online, using the Internet, whether they encounter something that brings them to you or not. Those “somethings” that they run into comprise your online footprint, and the bigger it is the better. There are a million ways to increase your footprint, but the main ones are: article marketing, ezine advertising, forum marketing, online classified advertising, pay-per-click advertising, and social network marketing. My Internet Business has training on all of those, and if you have any questions you have the help of your sponsor. Obviously, whatever he or she did to attract you worked, and given that they make money when you succeed they’ll likely be happy to share.
Once the leads start coming into your system, your email autoresponder will follow up with them on a regular basis and keep them engaged. When they’re ready, they click a blue button in your tour to request a call back. At this point, your personal business assistant (a pool of the top-producing people in My Internet Business) will call the prospect, answer their questions, and close them.
Everyone gets paid, and all you had to do was make the commitment and sign up for My Internet Business, set up your merchant account, configure your marketing site and lead capture page, and funnel some traffic into the system.
2 Responses to “How to Start a Home-Based Business in 5 Steps”
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If it’s so great, why do you need me to do it? Why don’t you hire a room full of temp employees and get them to do this for you one day?
The whole point of a business is to develop a team. Rather than hire a bunch of mindless temps to do my bidding, I’d much rather work closely with someone who wants to learn the business, teach them what I know, and set them free.
I have incentive to do this… the compensation plan rewards you for bringing in producers. But, that’s not why I do it. I genuinely enjoy helping people succeed in a home-based business.
More on that in a future article.