Your Questions About How To Do Business Online

Jere answers:

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Jere answers:

Are you going to use your own domain or are you going to use a free website domain via. Website hosting site. It would help if you wrote a quick business plan to help motivate yourself if you feel like quitting! If you don’t know what you are doing you should either hire a professional to build your website or take some lessons on the Internet or in person! I hope this was enough information, if you need any more information feel free to email me! =)

Jere answers:

It depends on what you’re selling.
If you have an item that’s quite rare — Where yours may be the only one on eBay a 10 auction wuld be in order. The longer the auction the more people see it.

Everything else I use 7 day auctions.

Auctions that end on Sunday between 6-9pm do best for me.

Jere answers:

The MLM business model Avon uses made more sense when it was conceived in the days before an infinite number of advertising channels were available, when a local door to door sales rep, answering to a regional manager were necessary.

You would probably have to do some very creative marketing to make online sales, writing original beauty, cosmetics, lifestyle pieces once or twice a week on a site using a free blog host like Google’s Blogger.com might earn search engine ranking, which would attract a following that you could soft sell, being active on fashion oriented forums might be helpful, you could setup a free Facebook Fan Page as well, (you should not do business on your personal Facebook page, just mention your resume there)

Trying to compete with the throng of reps for the same internet space may simply be impractical, I did a little research to get a feel for how much competition there may actually be:

While the Avon parent site has a remarkable 176,000 pages of catalog pages, product reviews, etc.

Avonrepresentative.com where the reps pages are hosted, has some 550,000 pages

I don’t know if the actual number of representative is commonly known. To get an ideaa of the amount of competition a looked at the number of pages on avonrepresentative.com who’s introductions mentions the state they operate in include:

CA 37,400
TX 31,900
NY 25,900
OH 17,200
GA 16,100
NJ 12,600
AL 7,810
MN 5,480
UT 3,350
DE 2,350

Actually, professional internet marketers would not bother with Avon, they could find better paying results for a similar effort without the throng of competing Avon reps., the hot area for marketers are CPA (Cost Per Action) offers in which you are paid a finders fee for delivering a lead, in some cases someone signing up for free trials, (CPA marketing is not where online marketers typically start, you have to pass a phone interview regarding your legitimacy and marketing skills to get into these programs)

(Wanted to mention an example of alternative, more modern internet specific sales affiliate systems worth investigating.)

JuSome recentf current top paying CPA offers in this area:

Lauren Hutton Face Disc $ 45.00 Sale
Luminess Air – Airbrush Cosmetics – 30 Day Trial Offer $ 33.00 Lead
Purity Mineral Makeup $ 29.00 Lead
Sheer Cover $ 17.00 Lead
Magic Minerals – Self Correcting Makeup Powder AsSeenOnTV 2011 $ 6.00 Sale
CosmeticsCentre – Free Makeup & Cosmetics Kit – United Kingdom $ 1.05 Lead

A properly designed fashion and beauty sort of site might be able to switch promotion from Avon to one of the many other affiliate programs on the web, should Avon not prove to pay off. Keeping your online asset development more general in nature, firstly designed to attract visitors will make it more suitable for switching ‘sponsors’

Jere answers:

If it’s legit you should’ve had extensive one on one with your profs through email exchange. I know with my legit online classes I was communicating back and forth with the prof several times a week, so they knew who I was even though I never met them in person.