Your Questions About Business Online

Jere answers:

I would suggest you not INVEST some serious cash in infrastructural things. First get a feel of WHAT AN ONLINE BUSINESS is. Then you will have that GUT FEELING. Since selling Off line & Online are two different things, you must first get acquainted with it.

The most important factor for any online business is CONSTANT SUPPLY OF TARGETED VISITORS.

Jere answers:

I would suggest that you try to earn through a freelance online since you have some talents. There are many companies offering such job.
See: http://www.weworkathomeonline.com if you are interested to find some of them.

Jere answers:

Well good luck and I hope you have done research in your niche before you invest in your business.

Here goes a quick list of things you need:

Business lic, save time and register your business lic as the domain name of your business

You should have at lease one years worth of money in the bank for your personal living. Worst thing for you to do is think you will live off the business during your 1st year. Any money coming in you want to reinvest into the company for more income

A Keyword Driven Domain Name for your business. Since you are thinking of a local pool business think of something that will tell your clients where and who you are

A website created from a blog like wordpress. Give advise to people on how they can treat there pool and stuff like this. This will get people in your area to notice that you are a pro and seek out your advice

A hosting account to host your business

Merchant account or someway for you to take credit cards. You might be able to use paypal and have your clients locally pay you online.

Some marketing tools to hand your door to door clients.

A unique way you do business. Give your clients a reason why they should use your business over the other businesses in your area

Email marketing system, it’s the cheapest and best way to stay in contact with your clients and continue to market to them

Hmmm that seems good for starters Good luck and below are a few sites to help you with some of the online idea

Jere answers:

My husband is a member of an Internet marketing community called Wealthy Affiliate. It is like a school for internet marketers.
There are a lot of people in it that know what they are doing and everybody is trying to help each other. You can learn so much there. The forums, the support, the coaching, all the information they provide you with. You can find the right answers for most of your questions regarding starting an online business, advertising, etc. It is a great program.
Check it out if you want to… I guarantee you will not regret it: http://www.wealthyaffiliate.com?a_aid=jV6Ylqvy

Jere answers:

Online businesses need quality on-topic content that acts as a magnet to draw qualified prospects. In addition, you need to spread the word online by providing quality expert information on user conversation sites (e.g. Y! Answers) that include links back to your site if your site offers services that may benefit the people you’re responding to.

Be sure you are ‘pinging’ the search engines so they know to come crawl your site.

If you have a newsworthy announcement you should consider the opportunities available by using online press releases. There are free places to do this but it’s reported that the value available from the company I work at (PRWeb) is worth the spend (starts at $80).