Consider yourself lucky if you have an Internet business of your own. I should say consider yourself lucky if you are treating it like a real business. Unfortunately many people aren't.
Here are a few tips to follow if you want to have a real business and not a hobby.
1. Real businesses do whatever it takes to keep their doors open. Let me give you an example.
I recently ran an offer to enroll some new distributors into my network marketing business. This was a special offer I chose to run exclusively for new people who were not already in my business.
I simply wanted to help my wife and I get to the next level in the compensation plan. We offered to help any new person get paid members in the following month so the actual cost of opening their own network marketing business would quickly be recouped.
We did this to entice new people to get off the fence and join us. Real businesses run special offers all of the time to increase sales.
I was surprised that I had existing distributors email me and complain that the same offer wasn't available to them. Some of them had even joined our network marketing business five months ago and and had never even sponsored one person.
If you went and bought a big screen TV three months ago for certain price, and the retail outlet now had it on sale for a lower price today, you would not be able to call them and complain about the price you paid.
A real business runs specials at different time of the year for their own reasons. The same thing should be true for your online business.
2. Real businesses budget a certain percentage of their gross for advertising and marketing. Most online business owners cut corners on Internet promotion and many hope to be successful by doing nothing more than 100% free advertising.
This may have worked in the past, but today there are too many competitors in each niche to expect to run a profitable online business without spending any money on advertising. If you are not spending money to keep your Internet business open you can ultimately expect it to fail.
3. Real businesses have set hours that their front doors are open and they work hard to run a profitable business. Most Internet business owners work whenever they feel like it and often times they do not even work when they think they are working.
It's very easy to fall in the trap of being online and thinking you are working when in reality you are not. Changing the color of your website again, surfing the Internet looking at new opportunities, downloading iTunes, chatting with your best friend, and so on, is not really working.
In the end only you can decide if you want to run your Internet business like a real business. The rewards ahead for a profitable Internet business are many, but only for those who choose to take their online business seriously.
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