Your Questions About Business Online Services

Jere answers:

Start by marketing your online service to your local area first. Then widen the area you serve slowly. If your service is good, word of mouth will help tremendously and business will pick up.

Referrals are the leading way new businesses increase sales on a B2B level.

Jere answers:

There’s not much you can do. Even though shopping online can be convenient and sometimes costs less, it is usually best to buy things in your community whenever possible. If you end up with wrong items, damaged items, items that were never received, etc., it can cost you a lot of money.

Jere answers:

If you paid $7000 for a “franchise” – you better hope you make more than $70-100 a week – that’s peanuts

never heard of an online franchise – you probably won’t make anything

franschises usually give you exclusive territories – online that is impossible – you are competing for the exact same online shoppers as every other online business in the world – you have no protected territory where people can only buy this company’s products from you – some other franchisee on the other side of the world could be selling to your next door neighbor

seems to me the only ones who will make any money with something like that are the ones selling the franchises ($7000 per sale)

Jere answers:

From landscape designer to cartoon artist, from an accountant with special knowledge of tax havens to a trainer (of just about anything), you can use the Web to build your client base.

The possibilities are endless. And whether your clients are “local” (ex., a fitness trainer) or “global” (ex., someone who indexes books) in nature, the Service Sellers Masters Course shows you how to use the Net to build a client base in a fast, cost-effective way.

Anyone can sell a service — you may already be doing so. If not, anyone can delve deep inside themselves — what knowledge or skill set do you have that others would pay for?

I hope this helped.

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Jere answers:

It sounds like you need a VoIP service that provides DID (direct inbound dialling) phone numbers with Voice Mail.

There are some VoIP services that you can subscribe to and get a phone number (DID) with Voice Mail. Then have your incoming calls forwarded to your home or cell, or go directly to Voice mail. Voicemail copies can then be forwarded as an attachment to your email address. CallCentric is one VoIP carrier that provides these features – and you can do it without using any VoIP equipment. They provide this service for as little as $1.95/month for incoming calls + 1.5¢/min usage. Voicemail is free. Forwarding your incoming calls to your home or cell is only 1.98¢/min. It is strictly pay-as-you-go – no contracts, no extra charges, no nonsense service.