 Five critical steps to start, run, and grow an online business, saving time, money, and hassle. Hey guys, I have got some great information for you today. If you've wanted to start an online business, I broke it down into these five steps. It's so easy. All you got to do is follow it, but you've got to watch this video to the very end so that you know how to do it. Now, I don't have to tell you, there's a lot of benefits to working online. I've been doing it for 11 years now, and I mean like some of them are time management. I can work when I want, you know, if it's morning, night, evening, sometimes I work all those times because I do work a lot, but I can pick when I work. What if you could do that? What if you could pick any time you wanted to work, and you could spend time with your kids or your family, and you could just work what you wanted. Also the freedom to work where you want. Man, this is the big one. This is the big one. And I know going through the pandemic, a lot of people figured out they could work from home. But what if you could work from the deck of a cruise ship? What if you could work from Paris, France? Or what if you could work from some sunny beach in the Caribbean? You can if you work online. And I've done all those things, okay? I've worked in all these different places and made money. So that's another really cool advantage. That's another reason why you want to watch this video to the end because you have that freedom of where you want to work. The next thing to consider is money, okay? You could make a lot of money online. You know, when you go to a job every day, you have a job, and I don't care if it's a doctor. I don't care if it's a cashier. I don't care what it is. But it's a job. And it's got it. It's a title. Now, unless you're in sales of some sort, then that's different. That could be out the window. You could make all kinds of money. But for the most part, let's say an orthopedic surgeon takes somebody who makes a lot of money. But they're only going to make X number of dollars. If an orthopedic surgeon's income is, you know, $650,000 a year, nobody's going to pay you $3 million. Or just not. It's not going to happen because that's what that job pays. If you're a cashier and you're making $12 an hour, nobody's going to come along and say, I'm going to pay you $1 million a year because that's what that job pays. They can find people to do that job. So what we want to do is we want to break out of a job. We want to go online and we want to sell services and products to millions and millions of people because then we can get into real money. And that's what I've been able to do. And that's what I want to share with you on how to do it. Number one, decide a business niche. Okay? When you're selling online, too many people think, that selling online is finding a product and selling it. It's not. It's finding a niche that is popular and then finding products to sell within that niche. That's how it works. So an example is I sell into the survival market. People who, you know, are survivalists and they want to survive, you know, hurricanes and storms and, you know, civil unrest and all that. And my gosh, we've had all that in the past year, but in pandemics and everything else. But the point is that is a niche. So we sell survival food within that particular niche. We have survival courses within that particular niche. So that's a really cool thing to be able to do is to sell products within a niche. That's what you need to do. And I want you to ask yourself why you're doing this. Okay? Do you have an interest in this particular subject? Now, I'm doing a video on how to make money online. I'm very interested in that. Okay? I think that's pretty cool stuff. I love helping people make money online, learn how they can make money online. So you've got to have some type of interest in it. If you're not interested in it, you're probably not going to be good at it. And if you can add to that, that you're leveraging your strengths, what are you strong at? I sell courses on how to make money online, and I'm strong at that because that's what I do. Okay. That's what I've been doing for years. So I said, well, that would be a good niche to go into because I already know how to do it and I can leverage my strengths. So what are your strengths? Okay. Is it building furniture? You know, is it, you know, doing recipes? Is it cooking? What are your strengths? Sit back and look at that and there's probably a niche that you can make money in. And here's the big thing. Really, selling online is solving a problem, just solving a problem. When we sell survival food, what we do is we're solving a problem. People who cannot get good quality food buy food from us that lasts for years on their shelf and it's ready. So we've solved that problem. I have a course on Facebook ads. People don't know how to do Facebook ads. They have a hard time with them. They lose money on them. They can buy my course and learn how to do Facebook ads. I've solved that problem. So instead of selling a product, you want to think about what problem am I actually solving? Number two, the next thing you want to do after you pick your niche is validate your niche, validate your idea of a niche. And what I mean by that is go out into the market and find out who else is selling in that niche. Look at what they're doing. You know, you can Google your niche, survival food. You can Google your niche, making money online. Google your niche, barbecue recipes, whatever it is that you're particularly doing. Try to find successful people. Now if you can't find any successful people in your niche, that's a bad sign. You know, a lot of people think, well, no, I checked out my niche and there's too many people doing it. No, that's okay. It's okay. If there's a lot of people doing it, that's a good thing because there's billions of people in the world. Okay. You got enough people to sell to. Don't worry about that part. But if you can validate it and you can see what they're doing, you can see the products they're selling too. When you go to those competitors, look at all the products they're selling and you'll probably find some ideas that you didn't even think of before. And you know, you can run surveys and survey potential customers. You can go into social media and post some things and say, hey, I'm thinking about selling these products here. What do you guys think of it? You know, I've got this barbecue cooker grill here and I'm thinking about marketing. Do you guys like this? What do you like about it? What do you dislike about it? And maybe they'll give you some input where you can find a better barbecue grill or whatever it is you're trying to sell. But go out into the market first and find out what are people saying? What do they like? Read reviews on some of those products. You can go to Amazon. You can find reviews on a product that you're not selling and see what people think of it. If it's got poor reviews, you may not want to sell that product. Now, you're not going to want to hear this one. Not going to want to hear it. You're just not. Number three, start a business plan. Yeah, you actually got to plan. You actually have to plan. You know, I think it's interesting. People will plan their vacation all year long, but they never spend any time to plan their business or their life. It's kind of funny. That vacation is so important, that time off, but that time on is really a whole lot more important. If you want to make money, that needs to be planned. So, you want to set up a business plan, so you have a path to go down. This doesn't mean that you have to follow it exactly. You know, if some twists and turns come in there, like I started off selling cell phone cases. I don't sell them now. I switched to other products. But you still have to have some type of plan. You've got to be knowing what direction you're going in. You wouldn't jump in your car on the east coast in America and drive to the west coast and not have a map or GPS or something. You wouldn't just drive randomly. That's how most people run businesses. They just kind of randomly run the business. You don't want to do that. Number four, set up a landing page. No, I did not say a website. You can set up a website, but I would rather set up a landing page. I would rather set up a page in Cartra. And if you look below, you'll see a link for Cartra. You can build a page in 15 minutes, as opposed to a whole website could take you some time. But Cartra is so good because it will also work for your emails. It'll work for your sales pages, your funnels, your sequences, everything you want to do, your videos, everything is in Cartra. There's a link below. You can watch a free video on it to see what all it does. If you're interested in it, you can get a $1 trial if you use my link below. But anyhow, what you want to do is set up this landing page for your product. You want to see if people go to this page and they buy this product or they like this product or they opt-in for this product. And if they do and they do like the product, they'll pick a product and they'll build an entire website around this product and the product is not marketable. And they've wasted all their time building a website. So the step is really to build a landing page first about a particular product. And if it does well, then you can build a website and you can add more products to it. Now, you can also test your product on sites like Amazon, eBay, some of those places, too. Put your product there and see how it does. Before you do that, make sure you search for the product that you're selling it for. I found Amazon, eBay, all those places are like the cheapest place to buy stuff, okay? So if you're trying to make a really big profit, it's hard to do that on those sites because it's so competitive that you have to sell huge volumes of whatever your product is to actually make any money. So that may be a place to find products that are selling, but that wouldn't be my first choice for actually selling a product. Number five, make it legal. Do it, do it right, okay? Just get your local state tax numbers and your town tax number, no matter what country you're in, no matter what city you're in, government's probably going to want a piece of you. So make sure that you get all your paperwork in order and you have the right permits to do all this stuff because if you don't, later on you could have a real problem. I've had people say, well, do you have to have a business license for an online business? I said you just called it a business. You just said online business. Of course, it's a business, okay? And next thing I tell you, when you're setting up this real business, read all the rules and regulations. You know, there's certain things you can do, certain things you can't do, certain things you can say online, certain things you can't say, you know, little things that can really come back to bite you. For example, let's say you run Facebook ads or you run, you know, YouTube ads and you send them to a page that has a pop-up on there. That can cost you your account right there because they don't allow pop-up. So, you know, if you're immediately going to run an ad on Facebook and lose your entire ad account and never be able to advertise again, there goes that. Okay, so make sure you know what the rules, regulations, and terms are when you do these things. Now, ultimately, when your business takes off and you do well, you're going to have to maintain it. You can't sit back and have a money machine. I know a lot of people will tell that and they'll say, hey, you know, we can show you how to set up this business and it's autopilot from paying that website, your inventory, your customer base. All these things have to be done. It's not to say you have to physically do it. You can hire people to do it. You can hire assistants to do that. But you are going to have to work. The work really never ends. As soon as the work ends, unless you're invested in, let's say, the stock market or, gosh, what else would be a good example of that? Maybe a savings account that doesn't pay you anything. Those things you don't have to do any work for. You just put your money there and you make money or you lose money. But anytime you have a business, it's an active, live, organic thing. You're going to have to put in effort to the very end. 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