Recap: The Simplest, Free Online Business Plan.

.: #Lessons revision: A recap of our previous lessons~   :-)

Seriously free, but comes with hard and smart work to make sure our business (and profits) runs indefinitely.

• Zero start-up cost
• Free tools
• Very profitable

What we should do? This is our simplest and free online business plan.

• Create an online ID
• Build our business space
• Find our market
• Prepare our products/services
• Attract our customers

The simplest and free online business plan.

Create an online ID.
To use all free tools available on the Net, we need to have our own ID. With minimum of two IDs, your online business registration now is much much easier. What I meant with online ID is your e-mail account. It would be nice for you to have one Yahoo! ID and one Google ID. We'll use these IDs a lot later~

• A list of free email account services
• How to create your Gmail
• How to create your Y!mail
• Understands and use all Y!mail and Gmail services~

Build our business space.
This blog (our internet marketing online class) prefers doing online business and e-marketing without the need to use a lot of money, or I rather say it that I love to use free reliable tools out there. Not all free tools are great (and secured), and it would be advisable for you to opt for paid services if you had more money to spent. For starters, we'll use free blog services and then the earnings later we can migrate to self-host our own blogs or sites~  ;-)

• 6 free and great blog services (I still prefer Blogger in Draft though, haha) ;-P 

Find our market.
The most important thing about selling online is how can our online business become visible to our customers/prospects? Internet is a very big big world, it might be *impossible* for them to notice us. Luckily, we have internet giants who voluntarily helping us to show our business to them. But with a little trick and strict T&C. Better say it as 'hard work done the smart way'.

• Rational why (new) online business is hardly visible
• Internet giants who help us for free...
• if, Our business sells what our customer wants!
• How to really find our targeted market?

Prepare our products/services.
After finish building our business space, prepared with our chosen niche, it's time to think what we're gonna sell for our business? Are we selling products or selling our expertise? What about if we do not have anything to offer?

• Examples of products and services we can offer
• Alternate solution for not having anything (any own products) to offer

Attract our customers.
Now everything is ready, we need to go all out to reach our customer. Again, this is the most delicate and the most important part to ensure our business become a success. We need to attract our customer ethically, give them what they wanted so much - help to provide their problems with the best solution, consistently interacts with them, and leave them impressions about our online business.

• Internet marketing sisters?
• Brief explanation about internet marketing

There you go, that is our simplest and free online business plan. You should get the overall idea how we gonna do it, and please start taking actions now! The sooner the better~   ;-)


InternetMarketingOnl9Class: "No pain no gain, because we reap what we sow~~"
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Internet Marketing : Recession-proof Business?

.: Off topic: Online business is a very profitable business of the future! (Even explaining what is online business is a profit itself~)   ;-)

From Yahoo! HotJobs(R) : 5 Job Sectors with Recession-Proof Pay, you will likely to feel very happy and delighted that you ventured into doing an online business (after reading the last job sector). Do you realized that without an academic scroll you can make much more than your graduate friends? Unbelievable, but it's the truth. ;-P

While I'm not encouraging all students out there to quit their studies, online business is not going to fade away anytime soon. With 444.8% growth of internet users (from Dec 2000 until June 2010), opportunity for an online business to prosper is very high. Plus, the computerization for almost every gadgets we have today, must-haves online connectivity for office and home use, internet and online business is meant to stay here. (forever maybe?)   :-?

#7: Internet Marketing All the Way~~

.: Lesson #7: After finishing your online business preparations, now is the time to tell the whole world about it~

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Done with our online business products and (or) services, this is the time for reaching out for our valuable customers. Because there is so many website build each second, so it is up to us to let people know we have what they needed. It is a process of friendly "telling" it to our interested customer.    :-)

Internet marketing on Wiki means "The marketing of products or services over the internet." The way of informing others that we can give this or give that and do this or do that by using internet as our platform, either for free, or paid with some money. Just like real world marketing, we need to be creative with our usage of words, music and images.

Internet marketing sisters, say, in...

• Writing : e-mail marketing, article writing
• Music : video advertising (music advertising collectively)
• Images : display advertising
• Actions : interactive advertising
• Mix all of 'em together : multimedia advertising
• Smartphones : Mobile advertising

Marketing itself is a very large topic, doing it need a lot of small-plans-for-a-bigger-one (which means persistence). Until you get the hang of it, internet marketing is definitely a lesson we need to learn by heart. Later, all of this is just a matter of who's gonna do it first in extraordinary way~   ;-)


InternetMarketingOnl9Class: "Marketing is like an adventure, you don't get much until you explore further~"   ;-)

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