DO YOU NEED AN EXTRA INCOME: START SMALL AS AN ONLINE BUSINESS ENTREPRENEUR

Thinking about starting a business to earn extra income but not sure how to begin? The first step is to find a business idea that you are knowledgeable about, a business venture that goes with your passion, suits your needs, lifestyle and budget. The modern day challenge does not allow for sloppiness when it comes to matter of income generation. The global economy is at the moment witnessing shortfalls here and there, a single source of income is not enough to cater for the never-ending needs and aspirations of the ordinary people and the more reason to engage in extra-activities to augment your salary or current earnings.

I started trying my hands on some online business even before I tendered my resignation letter in 2009, I was into paypal business and some other browsing tweaks at that period, however, being an online entrepreneur is very pleasing but not everyone can become one. One of the fastest and simplest ways to become a successful entrepreneur is by working online either through a home-based entrepreneur business or from your current paid job via your PC, Phones and other internet enabled devices.

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Firstly, you need to evaluate your strengths and weaknesses. After the evaluation, you can now determine if you can manage your own online business. Aside from the evaluation process, you must know how to plan, organize, staff, and control. These are your responsibilities as an entrepreneur. You should be able to work alone because now you're the boss and all business decisions will be made by you.

Some say that online businesses can be run without many problems. Well, they are very wrong because even with an online business, you have to deal with certain business problems and risks. You can't eliminate such risks because that goes hand in hand with any business undertaking, both for online and offline businesses. However, you can reduce the risks that you're bound to deal with in the future by choosing the best home-based entrepreneur business that will work for you.

Entrepreneurs are known to be self-starters. Organizing your time is a difficult task but if you want to run a home-based online business, you should be able to do it. Remember, you don’t have a boss that you can rely on. This is your business and you have to be responsible for it at all times.

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Running your own business would also mean that you have to deal with different kinds of persons. You will surely encounter demanding customers, moody vendors, and an unreliable staff. To become a successful home-based business entrepreneur, you should know how to deal with them individually. You should know the peculiarity of every person that you encounter so that you can address them and the situation correctly.

Running an online business is all about your attitude and character. According to some experts who conducted researches about the characteristics of entrepreneurs, there are certain traits that an entrepreneur should possess. As mentioned earlier, entrepreneurs

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INFORMATION MARKETING: THE MOST PROFITABLE ONLINE BUSINESS

In the last few weeks, I have been privileged to receive so many calls from people who are interested in information about entrepreneurship, small business and start-ups. These requests were attributed to many articles I had published online about starting a business of your own with little or no capital; also, the recent economic downturn has necessitated the search for alternatives to paid employment. Majority of young and the active population makes use of the internet to source for information on virtually anything ranging from “how to”, “what”, “when” of anything imaginable. I won’t be surprised to see people ask Google search engine what President Buhari ate as breakfast. All these centers around information marketing.

When you make a living online, a lot of people won’t understand what it is you do.  Some of them will think you’re nothing more than a spammer - just because you work on the Internet.  You might even run into people who automatically assume you’re into promoting porn, because they think that’s all the Internet is used for! 

You need to be prepared to deal with people like this.  Some of them may even be close friends and family members who are simply ignorant about the various marketing uses for the World Wide Web.

The first thing you need to explain to people is that very few people who work on the Internet are spammers.  Spammers actually make up a very, very small minority of those who make money online. 

If you do any sort of email marketing, you should explain that every single person you send email to have signed up specifically to your newsletter, and clicked a link to confirm that they really want to be on your list. 

Explain to them that subscribing to your newsletter is a lot like signing up for delivery

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