Internet Entrepreneur – How to Start Your Own Business on the Internet

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

Internet Entrepreneur

The beauty of the internet is that it levels the playing field for everyone and allows anyone, anywhere the opportunity to become an Internet Entrepreneur. It doesn’t matter who you are or where you’ve been.

If you have access to a computer with internet connection, you can build a successful online business.

It requires consistency to make it work. Think of everyone you know online that is successful, they are ALL consistent!

I think of Shay Carl on YouTube – he simply started out making a video a day. Now he has built an entire business from those videos. He’s a great example of an Internet Entrepreneur.

But, it required consistent effort, not necessarily hard effort or long effort, but consistent effort.

Have you been struggling for years on your quest to be an Internet Entrepreneur?

Let me guess, you haven’t been consistent enough in your efforts.

Maybe for a week, maybe a month, maybe even a few months.

But at some point you quit, you gave up, you moved on to something else. There’s a phrase for that:

“The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence”

I bet, if you would have kept with it instead of looking for the next best thing you would have found success.

Because the truth is, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side…

That’s the truth!

I think I’ve drilled that point enough. Just pick something and stay with it long enough to see the fruits of your efforts.

How do I become a successful Internet Entrepreneur? (In no particular order)

Number 1. How to Become a Successful Internet Entrepreneur

In order to become a successful Internet Entrepreneur you must first find something that you will sell. This could be physical products or it could be services you provide. It could be local, or it could be international. You decide.

Now, if you want to start your own internet business but you don’t know what to do or where to start, I recommend AFFILIATE MARKETING.

If you haven’t heard, Affiliate Marketing is when you sell someone else’s products and get a commission on that product each time one is sold.

The benefit to doing this when you are first starting out, is you don’t have to create your own product, you don’t have to have a website, you don’t have to deal with angry customers, and the list goes on.

Usually affiliates are paid a commission of 25% to 75% depending on the product they’re selling. There are very few that pay more.

All in all, it’s a great way to get started right away, and I highly recommend it if you are just getting started.

Once you are making some money as an affiliate, you can then choose to do your own thing, or just continue being an affiliate, whatever it is you prefer at that point.

If you like the idea of being an affiliate, but have no idea where to get started, let me recommend you check out this company here.

Number 2. How to Become a Successful Internet Entrepreneur

You must build a list.

If you are doing anything online and you are not building a mailing list, then you are missing out on a HUGE chunk of the revenue pie!

As you are marketing your product/business/affiliate product you need to be building a list. I don’t care what market you’re in, you need to do it and do it now.

If you have never done it before, just go to Aweber.com and sign up for an account. You will then have the ability to capture names, email, phone, etc. from people visiting your site and then you can market to them over and over again.

Some other common email marketing services are Constant Contact, InfusionSoft, and a free one (up until a few hundred subscribers) is Mail Chimp.

It’s your preference which one you choose, all of the above are great services.

Number 3. How to Become a Successful Internet Entrepreneur

You are a Marketer FIRST AND FOREMOST.

No matter what your product or service is that you are selling, you are a marketer first.

It doesn’t matter how good your products are, if no one knows about them, you will not succeed.

So, learn how to market and focus on that. The internet makes it easy to learn everything you need to know about marketing online.

In fact there are some great products available that will teach you how to market online, no matter what business you’re in.

If you’re interested in one such program, check it out here and become the Internet Entrepreneur you know you are!

There are many ways to market online.

Essentially they are broken down into 2 categories: Paid and Free.

Paid can be quick and easy income – but it requires money and constant tracking and testing to improve ROI.

Free tactics can be slow in showing results, but it can get to the point where if you’ve built the right foundation, traffic will still be coming to your site for years to come (even if you don’t do anything else).

I recommend a combination of both, paid and free strategies.

To get started, pick ONE paid strategy and ONE free strategy and work those for months until you are a master in those areas, then move on to another strategy.

Oh, and fair warning: Be WILLING to lose money when you are starting your paid marketing campaigns.

When you are starting out you will probably lose money (not always) but just be willing to part with that money – set it aside – and if you lose it you lose it, but in a little while, you will start to see what works and what doesn’t, the learning curve will be over and you will KNOW how to create a successful campaign almost every time!

Number 4. How to Become a Successful Interent Entrepreneur

HAVE A MASSIVELY HUGE DREAM AND DON’T EVER, EVER GIVE UP!

No one can stop you, but you! You can be an Internet Entrepreneur – I’d love to help!

Make a Difference!

Justin