 Seven things I wish I'd known before starting a business. Hey, are you thinking about starting a business online? You wanna make some money online? Big bucks. Well, you gotta follow some rules. And I wish I'd known all these rules, but in this video, I'm gonna share them with you so that you could be successful online and we're starting right now. Hey, I'm JR Fisher, welcome to my channel. I appreciate you stopping by and checking out the videos. I really do. All you gotta do though, if you wanna see more of them, is hit the subscribe button down there. Don't forget to hit subscribe button and there's a bell that's gonna pop up. It's gonna look just like this. Bring the bell, turn on all notifications. When you do that, I'll be able to notify you every single time I do a new video. I go live, you'll be in front of the line, you'll be part of the Fisher family. You want that, it's pretty cool. Now I've been selling online since 2009, quite a long time now and I've learned a lot along the way, but I've also sold millions of dollars worth of digital and physical products and on this channel, what I do is I share with you all those tips, tricks and techniques that are gonna help you make money online also. So let's get started. You know, I gotta tell you, when I first started my working career, I was told to go to school. I was told to maybe go get a college degree, which I did and get out and get a great job, work for a company, get a gold watch and retire and I did all of those steps pretty much. I did go to college, I got out and there were no jobs. I think I was bartending at the time and I was teaching at a business college and I eventually worked my way into sales and doing something like that, but the thing I realized as my career went on was that I really wasn't happy. I wasn't happy working for somebody else. I saw mistakes they were making, I saw things I thought they were doing wrong and I wanted to have my own time. I wanted to work for myself. So I started my online business and there were certain things I didn't know, certain things I didn't know because I had some years working behind me, but what I wanna do is share with you in this video things that can really help you out when you're starting your business online. So if you're ready, let's get going and don't forget also, I have a course below. It's a $97 course, you can get it absolutely free. It's click and learn, no credit card required. The first thing I wanna tell you is networking and relationships matter. They matter a lot, okay? That's the first thing. And when I first started my business, I pretty much worked on my own. I didn't really talk to other people. I may talk to some other businesses that were selling our products because we had survival food, but I never really went out and networked. I never really went to any digital marketing things. And once I started doing that, I started meeting a lot more people. And it wasn't really the people, but some of the methods that they were doing that I didn't know about that really, really helped my business. And if I hadn't done that, I think my business would have faltered and I wouldn't have made near as much money. But since I met with all these people and I networked with these people, I was able to stay on top of what's new in the market and the ways to market and different ways to make money. So yeah, I'd say the first thing I would tell you is that relationships really do matter. The next thing is working more hours doesn't help you exceed, but working on the right things do. That's number two. And what I mean by that, I remember when my sales went down a little bit, we had a warehouse in Poway, California, and I didn't know what to do. I didn't know what to work on. I didn't know whether to make videos. I didn't know whether to run ads. I was starting to run some banner ads and they were just a total waste of money. And I didn't know what to do. So the next thing I'm gonna tell you is that figure out what really works. And I can't tell you for your business, but you could research it. I started researching some of my competitors and what they were doing and how they were selling things and what they were doing for marketing. And that really helped me a lot. But what happened was I started working on the right things instead of the wrong things. In the beginning, I was working all day long on things that really didn't do anything to help my business. It wasn't that I wasn't working hard. I just wasn't doing the right things. I remember telling my wife, I was like, I don't even know what to work on. You know, if I knew what to work on, I would go do that. I don't have a clue what to work on. And eventually I did figure that out and that all worked out. But the thing is you gotta be working on the right thing. Working hard is not gonna get you there if you're working on the wrong thing. The next thing I'll tell you is follow one course until you hit success. Now, what I mean by that is there's a lot of ways to be successful online. You could do sales funnels. You can run ads. You can do sales pages. You can, I don't know, do social media. You can do tweets. You can do videos. You can do whatever. But in all those ways, you can be successful. So I would tell you to look for the one that is gonna work for you. And the best way to do that is find some competitors that are really good at whatever that is. Maybe it's sales funnels. Maybe it's doing giveaways. You know, maybe it's social media or videos. Find out what they're doing and start working on that. And don't quit that thing until you're successful at it. I remember I started email marketing in the beginning and I was terrible at it. I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to write. I didn't know what to put my emails. But I worked at it. And I met people who were sending out emails and who were getting good results and how they were doing it. And all the interactions within sales funnels, and I learned all that stuff. And it started working for me. So a lot of these things you're gonna try and you're gonna say, well, that one doesn't work. They all work. Okay, they all work. You weren't doing it right. That's the problem. So be a big enough person to realize if other people are doing it, it does work. And if it's not working for you, it's what you're doing that's not working. Not that that way of doing it doesn't work. The next one is don't wait for opportunities to come. Okay, because they may not. They may not. I started going to some digital marketing conventions and meetings and that type of thing. And I met a lot of really cool people, but I always made it a point to let them know about my business and what I was doing. And some of you guys are gonna be embarrassed. You're like, well, I don't wanna tell people about my business. They're gonna think I'm trying to get business. You are trying to get business. Okay, there's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with the fact that you have a business and you have good products, you have good services that you would like to share that business with other people. You should do that, okay? If you're too embarrassed to talk about your own business, what makes you think anybody else is gonna want to? Now here's a huge one. The next one is improve your writing skills. I hated to write in school. I hated to write. I didn't like to read. I didn't like to write. And I told myself, when I got out of school, man, I'm never gonna write anything again. And nothing could be further from the truth. I've written courses. I've written blogs. I've written sales pages. I've written books. I've written, oh my God, I've written so much. But improving my writing skills was vastly helpful to my business because if I improve my writing skills, all of a sudden my emails are gonna be better. I can communicate better. These writing skills, when you're working online, understand the only way you have to convince people online is through video or through text. That's it. Maybe audio. Audio and video are pretty much the same thing. But the bottom line is if you can't write and if you don't have a good command of the English language or Spanish or German or whatever your language is, then you're not gonna do well online because you need to communicate and sell your products and services people through writing, through videos, through audios. You've got to be able to do that. The next thing is always think long-term. Don't think short-term. Don't think the quick buck. If you're selling products online, stand behind those products. If somebody wants a refund, they want their money back, give them their money back. Now, if you have a refund policy that doesn't allow when they're totally against what your refund policy is, I get that. But treat customers right. Treat them respectful. It doesn't matter if they're spending $20 with you or they're spending $2,000 with you. You need to treat them equally because that $20 guy that just spent $20 with you, the next sale may be $2,000. So it's very important to understand that a customer is a customer is a customer. It doesn't matter how much they spend with you. You always want to think long-term. What can you do to make your company look better, make you look better, make your services products look better? Think long-term. The next thing is the best knowledge comes from your own personal experience. You know, you can listen to people tell you how to do things and you say, well, gee, I know this subject matter now. I was a pilot many years ago and they told us how to fly. I mean, they told us how to do it. But until you got into an airplane and you got behind the controls and you tried to land and take off, it was different. It was a different feeling than just reading about it in a book. You can't fly an airplane by just reading a book. You have to physically go out there and do it. And I see so many people who want to sell online, make money online, and they want to hire all these people to do all these things for them. They want to hire people to build the website. They want to hire people to do blogs. They want to hire people to do videos, their ads, everything. And they never really learn anything. And if you don't really learn anything, how are you going to manage people doing these things for you? You can't manage what you don't know. Now, I guess my final thoughts on this is that you have an incredible opportunity nowadays. I mean, it is off the charts incredible. There is so much out there nowadays, so many ways to make money through social media, through ads, through affiliate stuff, through your own products, to coaching. There's just so much you can do. And for you not to take advantage of an internet craze, I mean, what's going to happen to some of you out there, and I hate to say this, but it's the truth. You know, one day you're going to be old and done and your grandchildren are going to say, didn't you see the opportunity online? Hey, grandpa, hey grandma, you didn't realize that people were making millions of dollars online and you stayed in that crappy job? Why would you do that? The whole world is the internet now. Nobody hardly goes to jobs. Why didn't you participate? Participate, okay? The first way you can participate is I have a course down below. It's a $97 course. I'll give it to you free. All you got to do is click and learn, opt in, grab the course, no credit card required. But the point is with the internet now, and it's like you can't even use the excuse of knowledge anymore. I've had people say, well, I don't know how to do this. I don't know how to do that. Type it into the search. You will learn how to do it. Type in, I want to watch videos on how to do SEO. I want to watch videos on how to do affiliate marketing. I want to watch videos on, I sell survival food. Don't type in that when I want any more competition. But type in something that you want to do, what you want to learn, and sit down and start watching videos. Get off Netflix, okay? I like Netflix, but I don't watch Netflix all day long. Maybe one show at a time, that's it, right? You got to cut yourself off. Doesn't mean you shouldn't have any fun. Doesn't mean you shouldn't enjoy your downtime. But the point is, spend some of your time watching and learning. If you don't watch and learn, you're not gonna grow. If you don't grow, you won't stay ahead of all these people that are doing these things, because there are people that are doing them. There are people, I'll tell folks, I'm telling you, they're brilliant, and they're making a lot of money, and they're brilliant because they learned stuff online. They weren't brilliant before. I know I wasn't. I didn't know how to send an email, but I learned how to do these things. I put them into practice and put some hard work to it, and it works, okay? So I'm no different than you. You can do this stuff, but you gotta follow these steps, and you gotta put forth the effort. Now, I hope you enjoyed this video. I enjoyed making it for you, I really did. But you gotta do me a favor, if you would. Hit that subscribe button down there, that big button. When you hit that button, it's gonna change colors. It's magic. It's magic. It's gonna go from red to gray, and then, some more magic's gonna happen. 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