 How to start a successful online business in five simple steps. Hey, have you been wanting to start a business online, but you say, man, there's too many things to do, it's too tough, it's too difficult? It really isn't. As a matter of fact, in this video, I'm gonna show you the five steps you need to take to start a successful online business. Now I own several online businesses, sold millions of dollars of both digital and physical products. In this video, I just wanna share with you those five steps so you can get going and you can get great results too. So let's get to it. Another thing we wanna get to is subscribing. Hit the subscribe button down there. Don't forget to do that and bring the bell. Turn on all bell notifications so that you're notified every single time I do a new video or I go live, which I do once a week, so check that out too. If you're not subscribed, you won't know about it though, so you gotta subscribe. Okay, so let's get into these five steps, okay? Now I would say the first mistake that everybody makes is going out and trying to find a really cool product. They go out and they go, you know, man, I just gotta find something to sell. I don't have anything to sell. I need something to sell. That is not how you're gonna start a successful online business is finding an item to sell because a product itself is not a business, okay? A business, and you gotta start changing your way of thinking about this. A business is selling within a niche, okay? And if you don't know what niche is, a niche is an area of interest, okay? An area of interest. To give you an example, we sell survival food, okay? I have a company called Survival K Food and the niche is survival, okay? That's the niche. The product is not survival, but that's the niche. Now one of the products in that survival niche is survival food. So our first step, number one, okay, if you wanna jot this down is pick a niche. You wanna pick a niche, that's the important thing. You wanna pick something that people are passionate about. It could be tennis, it could be race cars, it could be football, it could be dancing, it could be playing guitar, whatever it is, pick that niche and then you can sell products within that niche. Number two, you need to find a supply of products, okay? So no matter what niche you're in, you wanna make sure there's more than one product out there, okay? So a pet rock would be a good example. When I was a kid, they sold pet rocks. That was definitely not a niche. Could that be a long, you know, standing business? Probably not, okay? Unless your niche was novelties and you had a bunch of other different novelties and that's the next key to this is make sure there's enough products within that niche to sell to that particular market. Now, chess, I think, is a cool niche. However, there's not too many products you could sell in a chess niche, okay? You got a chess board, you got the pieces, maybe you got some instruction, you got those timer clocks which I have no idea how that works but I've watched some movies on that. But the bottom line is, chess would be a tough niche to sell within. Now, if you were selling in a niche and you call it board games, well, that opens up a whole lot more, right? Because you could sell chess sets and you could sell Monopoly and you could sell Backgammon, all these different games, that would be a niche but chess itself, not really a niche, that would be a tough one. Make sure there's a lot of products to sell within your niche, super important. That was number two. Number three, build a sales page. Yes, we have to sell. People say, well, I don't want to sell. Well, then you shouldn't be online, okay? You shouldn't be online because that's what we do online every day. I'm a marketer, I'm a digital marketer, internet marketer, whatever you want to call it, I sell stuff online. I sell courses, I sell survival food, I sell products, my wife has courses, she has products but we sell, okay? And you've got to sell your products. Now, the best thing to do to sell your product is to have a sales page. Now, if you don't have a sales page, you're going to be largely dependent upon another site. So maybe it's going to be Etsy, maybe it's going to be Amazon, maybe it's going to be eBay, one of those other third-party sites. The problem with these third-party sites, and I know I started off with them, was that they control your business. If you've got your products listed on a site, let's say eBay, and I did it in the beginning of my business, I had all my products listed on eBay and one day they shut down my account and that's a story for another time but I was out of business that day. I was out of business that day, okay? I couldn't make any money because I had put all my eggs in one basket and they were all eBay. Everything was on eBay and I was making good money but we had some business difficulties and couldn't make some deliveries. They decided that my account wasn't any good anymore. So be very careful. When you say, you know, JR, I don't need to have a site. I don't need to have a sales page. Yes, you do. Because one day it's going to come around to bite you. I almost guarantee it. Now, what do I recommend for building a sales page? I recommend Cartra. Cartra is one of the best softwares on the market. I will put a link in the description down there. You can watch a video on Cartra. You can see what it does. And it doesn't just build sales pages. It's an email provider. It does email sequences. Oh my gosh, you can host videos in there. You can put membership. So you can do all these different things. But one of the things it does is a sales page and that's one of the things I said you need. So we'll definitely look at Cartra and check that out. If you watch that video, it will walk you through everything you need and you're gonna see stuff in there. You're gonna go, wow, I didn't even know I needed that but that's pretty cool. I can do that with Cartra? Yes, you can do that with Cartra. There is no other piece of software out there that does everything that Cartra does. And on this channel, I'm gonna do some comparison videos to Cartra and other softwares out there so you can actually see what the differences are. Number four, you're gonna need to promote your products. Promote your products. In other words, you're gonna need to get your products in front of other people. Now, there are two basic ways to do that and underneath those two basic ways, there's a multitude of ways to do it. But the first basic way is run an ad, okay? Run an ad. So you can run an ad on Facebook and I have a course below. If you don't know Facebook, check out the course below. There's a link down there. You could run an ad on Twitter. You could run an ad on Instagram. You could run an ad on Google on YouTube. There's so many different places you can run ads but it costs money, okay? Costs money to run ads, that's fact. And the truth is most people that run ads are not successful and it's not that they're not successful because ads don't work because ads most certainly do work. It's because they did it wrong, okay? If you do it wrong, you just don't get the good results. And if you don't have training, like you go out and try to run Facebook ads right now without training and I almost guarantee you're gonna lose money. So, you know, if you want, check out that course down there. There's a training course you can go through for free and then I offer you the actual training for Facebook ads, so check that out. But the bottom line is you need training. You're not gonna be able to figure this out on your own if you're gonna wanna run ads. And so what happens is a lot of people say, well, I don't have much money, JR. So I'm just gonna try some ads and I'm not gonna get training. Well, then you're gonna really lose out, okay? The thing you need to do before you run ads is to figure out how to run ads because if you just go run ads and you don't get any training, you're guaranteed to lose because you don't know. You can't know what you don't know. So if you don't have money, I get that. That's okay. You can start without money, but you're gonna have to go the other route. The other route is social media, social media. Social media takes a lot of time, okay? So you either have to invest time or money when you're growing your business. There's only two things you've got, okay? You've got time and money. If you've got time and money, well, you're pretty good off, all right? But the bottom line is most people don't have both. I know I didn't have both in the beginning and I would have to do social media. I would have to use third-party sites until I learn all these other things. I would say if you don't know these things, check out some of the videos on my channel here. We'll teach you some of those things. You've gotta get knowledge. You gotta educate yourself. You can't just jump out there and say, tell me the four things I need to do because there's not four things, okay? There's a lot of things you need to learn and if you don't have the money for a course, go through my channel. Watch 100 videos this week and I guarantee you you're gonna be a lot smarter on marketing online than you were before you watched those 100 videos because that's all I talk about on this channel is how to make money online and we've done it. We've made millions of dollars online in both digital and physical products. Why not learn from somebody who's done it? And number five, do email marketing. Oh, did I miss this? Did I miss this in the beginning? I missed out so bad. My list could be so much bigger than what it is right now. In the beginning, I didn't really know what email marketing was. I didn't understand that the most important asset that you can have, I believe to this day, is an email list. As a matter of fact, I know for a fact I can take my email list right now. Let's say my survival food one and I can put out an offer. As long as it's a good offer and within minutes, I'll have money. Within minutes, I'll have money. Now, that sounds easy and you say, well, why don't you do that every few minutes? Well, first off, you don't wanna burn out your list, okay, you don't wanna do that. And secondly, to set up that offer, to do that takes time. So it's not a matter of just sending the email. You gotta write the email. You gotta put together the offer. You gotta have reasons for people buying that particular product. You had to have built up your email list. You had to provide them with content so that they like your company, so that they trust you. But if you do those things, I'm telling you the most profitable thing you can do is email marketing. Now, I recommend, once again, Cartra, the same product I told you about for building your sales pages, you'll wanna use it for your email. It will do both of these for you. That's why Cartra's so cool is it does everything for you. And once again, in the description down there, there's a link where you can actually watch a video on Cartra and all the things it does. And by the way, if you watch that video and you use my link, I am an affiliate, okay? And you can actually get a discount and you can actually get Cartra for $1. $1 trial, okay? So $1 is pretty cheap for you to get in there, kind of check things out and kick the tires. So that is your five steps, okay? That is your five steps to building a successful business online. They are simple steps. I didn't say they're easy, okay? I did say they're simple. Now, I will tell you, it becomes easier and easier and easier the more you do these steps, okay? You're gonna learn more innovative ways to do it. Matter of fact, on this channel, you can search any of these things too on my channel and I've probably got another video on it. This channel has over 700 videos on how to make money online, 700. That's a lot of videos, okay? So why not take advantage of that? You don't have to buy a course. If you want to, of course, you're gonna get to your end goal a lot faster if you check out one of my courses because it actually focuses on those particular subjects. However, if you just wanna watch free videos, I'm okay with that too, that's cool. Now, what I'd like for you to do, I mean, I'd really like for you to do, and I want you to do this a whole lot, smash the subscribe button down there. You gotta hit the subscribe button. You gotta ring the bell. That was not good bell ring. There we go. You gotta ring the bell. 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