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Is Your Home Business Working?

wholesale merchandise work at homeAn online home business is a great way to generate a supplementary income. Whilst the internet does provide many opportunities for entrepreneurs, if you want to make an online income from home, it does involve more than putting a website up onto the internet, having a few random products for sale and then sitting back and waiting for the money to start rolling in. So how do you know if your online home business is any good?

 

1. Are You Generating Traffic?

You cannot generate an online income from home if you do not have any traffic to your website. Your online traffic is made up from the people who visit your website. If nobody visits your website, nobody will buy from you and you won't be able to earn online income from home. You can use free traffic methods or paid traffic strategies.

 

2. Are You Building A List?

Your list is built as result of the traffic that you send to your lead capture pages that may be linked to or independent from your website. Your list is the email addresses of prospective and actual customers who have given you their permission to send them emails about your products and services.

 

3. Are You Offering Something Of Value For Free.

When someone goes to your website, to get their email address you have to provide them something of value in return. This could be a free report, a video tutorial or a newsletter. Don't forget that what you give away for free is an indicator of the value offered by your online business. If you give away something that is useless, it will reflect back on what prospective customers think about your business overall.

 

4. Are You Selling The Right Products To The Right People.

There is an old but true saying that says he who tries to sell to everyone, sells to no-one. You have to clearly know who your target customer is and what products or services you can provide that solve a problem for them or make their lives easier.

 

5. Are You Willing To Learn?

It is surprising how many people dive in head first to the online business world without any direction or idea if they are doing anything right. To succeed online, you need to learn from those who have gone before you and who can help you to avoid the pitfalls so that you make money online and not lose money online.