LESSON #2: What is an online business?
Contrary to what some of the so-called guru’s may say, having an online business is not for everyone. But in order to judge whether it’s a good fit for you, we first must define what an online business is and what it isn’t.
Please watch the following video:
Main points:
a) get over your fear
or
b) decide to be happy with your job, and forget about starting a business
Action steps:
1) Answer the following question honestly:
Do I want to run my own business?
As always, you are welcome to post your questions and comments below.
Have a great day!
dear friends on the internet,please take 5min a day to clear your brain,
then you will get every thing you want,try it ! dears
Yes…your statement is very true! It’s important to clear your brain of all the little daily distractions so you can be more present with focusing on your goals
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Schanie
your so right and have an open mind
i took 5 minutes today to clear my brain but did not get what i want.i wanted a business idea for the internet.pls explain how it works
Keep working your way through Eric’s lessons and it will become clearer for you (it worked for me). Sometimes you may need to go through some of the lessons as well. Here is a link to some more free videos that might help provide some ideas. http://preview.tinyurl.com/nitrovideos
The five minutes a day to clear your head is good advice but to take it a step forward try this:
1. Think about what it is you really want to achieve today.
2. Now think of something completely different like the weather (this is called breaking focus)
3. Now imagine how you will feel when you have completed your task (really feel the emotions)
4. Now give thanks to the universe (or God if you choose) for providing it.
5. Break focus again (step 2) and forget about it.
6. Take action… what small task can you focus on right now that will help you achieve your task… do it now!
That\’s all there is to it and you could probably do it in about 3min every day… try it it works!
Eric
First of all I would like to thank you for what you are doing here.Thank You.
I just listened to lesson 2.
Looking forward to hearing more.
Hi,
thank you for this great video.
Pascal.
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Eric,
Could you please tell me how to make a folder using gmail.
Your the greatest
You don’t make folders in GMail. You need to make labels. The labels will be listed at the bottom so you can sort your mail that way. It’s one feature I don’t like about Gmail. I have my Gmail forwarded to the Thunderbird email program and there I can use folders like I am used too. If you need more help is setting up labels, I will be glad to help.
Also if you look in the help tab within Gmail you should be able to get all your questions answered.Best of Luck to you!
I like folders also labels makes it confusing
How do i forward my Gmail to the Thunderbird email program. Thanks Mertin
I have been using gmail for some time now. I have found that leaving the email as it is in the list is good then you can do a search from within gmail and pull up all the mail for each sender. Maybe this will help someone.
thanks
Liz
PS Eric is one of the best teachers online but if you are just starting and something that may not be introduced to you for some time is the legality of a business, the things that you need to make a real business online its not just putting up a website and selling, affiliating or whatever you want to do. You need a privacy policy, tos, contact many things i was not aware of in the beginning. Please also take this into consideration.
Have a great day!!!
yes, I am not so common with internet, but though I want to know how useful it is to make a folder using gmail as well.
I have just followed lesson 1 and 2, so I am very curious about the rest of the lessons.
Thank you
Chris-
Once you make your label folder in Gmail you will want to put Erics Tips in it & then you will want to Archive it.(that saves Erics Tips)
Chris, another thing you can try is to do what I did and make a folder in your favorites(on internet explorer) called Eric’s tips. Then you just have to open the e-mail, click on the lesson, copy the url, and paste it in a new internet window, then save the page to your folder in favorites. Hope this helps alot of ppl. And Eric I love your tips!
Thank you,Erik!
Can you tell me what is the software you’ve used?
Best Regards,
Andy
Hi Andy- I use Camtasia to make the videos. Here is their site: http://www.techsmith.com/camtasia.asp
You are very informative . It is expensive to buy the video package. Thanks
The videos don’t show in IE6, but do in Firefox.
what is IE6?
IE6 is Internet Explorer 6, with the “6″ being the version. IE7 is current standard with IE8 readily available. If you visit a website regularly, such as for school, make sure that their system is compatible with IE8 before you upgrade. My online school does not support IE8.
Louise,
Have you tried clicking on the Compatibility view when on IE8. Sometimes this helps with sites that are not compatible. (It’s right next to the refresh button) Good Luck!
The last part of this lesson really hits home. Family and friends usually have a difficult time understanding and accepting the concept of working from home and running an online business.
Yes…and the funny thing about it all is: a lot of time they don’t suppoet or incourage you but when you start making the money their opinions change real quick! Lol..just a little side note to think about. Best of luck to you!
Thank you Gary,for your side note. as if you read my mind, what you said is very true. But I am determine to succeed.
I have a desire to succeed in the online affiliate genre but don’t really know where to start. I have a website, content (my own), great faith and vision but lack a plan or/and a strategy, I don’t know what to invest in - in regards to marketing ebcause I don’t know what works - any suggestions?
Andrew- as you will see in lesson #3, I actually recommend holding off and do not buy things until you have a better understanding of what you need.
Yes, I certainly do want to have my own business!
After 30 plus years of being at the mercy of the corporate bean counters, it is time for a new direction, and some financial and personal independence.
Yes…Corporate bean counters and working 9am-5pm. There has to be a better way…I agree!
Alex
MonaVie only cost $38.00 to sign up as a distributor and $20.00 a year afterwards. You can buy your product for your personal use at wholesale price, you can sell it, or you can get people who want to sign up under you and benefit from their work. http://mymonavie.com/lar/timing_discovering.asp
You are off to a great start. I am sincerely hoping I can stay with it.
I have a somewhat unique problem that is possibly true for thousands of others. While you in the city are used to unlimited access to high speed internet, that is not the case for us in rural areas.
If you have to use satellite to connect, you have limited access (rather like your server can have limited band width). Even with the top package plus a separate satellite just for downloading, I have to be careful. If you violate access, you are in a mess because the punishment is not fun.
One of the things I have to watch is the use of videos because the amount of time required for streaming. Some are ok and some are incredibly hungry.
Do you have any ideas about solutions for this group of people — especially now that videos are all the thing.
Carol Smith
Hi Carol, I do not have any specific solutions regarding this issue, but I think that the technology will continue to get better and that the bandwidth will eventually become more accessible. Also I will try to keep the file sizes of the videos as small as possible, which will help reduce bandwidth use.
There is a program called Sorensen Squeeze that will greatly reduce the size of a video file while still keeping the video quality intact. If you’re not using it on your videos, you should give it a try. It does take a long time to process the video, but it is a one-time process, and the resulting file may be as much as 80% smaller yet still look the same. That means it not only takes less bandwidth but also loads faster.
http://www.sorensonmedia.com/products/?pageID=1&ppc=3&p=14
Also, I have found in rural areas that oftentimes the local Mom and Pop telephone company or cable company can provide DSL or a cable modem that will work much better than a satellite connection.
Carol
I understand your problem with trying to have high speed internet service in the rural areas. Relief is in sight and at low cost. A company will soon be going public that with its new High Technology can provide T-1 wireless mobile internet service to everyone, everywhere for just $19.95 per month. I am very excited about this new service. You can read more about it at http://newt1wifi.com
George
Hi! Eric,
You are doing a great job. Pepople like who dont know any thing about online business are most benefited and feel couraged to start on line business. They have a satisfaction that thye have some one from whom they can take advise any time they want.
Keep going dear. My best wished are with you.
Regards/ Iftekhar Hussain
Hi Iftekhar,
I agree that hope and encouragement are 2 very important ingredients for success! Hang in there and best of luck to you!
Hi Eric. I am a newbie to computers and always hired people to do the work for me. I am now a widower and working from home trying to figure out how to build a business on the internet and ways to drive traffic to websites which I am preparing to create. I don’t believe much of the baloney I see on my emails and all they want is to low ball you with a shipping cost and then add more and more and the material is just junk. I don’t do that any more. What I need is someone who knows how to create business on the net and how to get traffic to the site and how to be positioned up froht on the search engines. If you can mentor me and it really works I will pay for the service if it is not too much. Let me know what you can do. Thanks,
Charles Attal
Charles- right now I am not offering any personal mentoring, but I am providing all of these video lessons for free, so follow along with them and you’ll see how to set up an online business step by step.
Even though you are not offering one on one mentoring. your video lessons are quite clear but i wish i can have them more regularly so i can devour them on time. Thank you
Hi
My name is Laurie. I have written articles on articlesbase.com and at the bottom of your aticle in the resource box where you write something about the author you include your website. If somebody likes your article they might want to know more about the author and click on your web site. Plus the more clicks on your article the higher rating it gets. The higher the rating the more it gets viewed. Type Cranberry, Blueberry, Acai Berry! Good, Better, Best! in the google search to see one of my articles
If you are looking for help & resources, have a look at http://www.jvpromos.com. New but useful information for newbiews. You may even have access to many good resources for your online biz.
Suby
Hi Eric,
I see lesson #2 is up and running but I didn’t received an email about it??
Greetings,
Erik, The Netherlands
The emails are all being placed onto my autoresponder system, which may send them out at various times. You should receive the email within 24 hours. If not, check your spam folder, and if you still didn’t get it, let me know.
Also if you bookmark http://www.erictips.com you can check it every morning for new lessons…sometimes it can take over 24hrs to receive a notice by email. Just a tip for consideration.
Hello Everybody! My name is Nico Pisani… some of you may know me from Eric’s show last year….Next Internet Millionaire.
I am one of Eric’s most ardent supporters, and after spending two weeks last summer with him, I know this step by step course is going to be one of the most valuable learning experiences you and I will ever have the opportunity to be a part of.
This being said… I have created a forum that I hope helps provide a solution for ongoing communication, support, and implementation of the 120 Lessons that Eric will be teaching.
Those of you who are reading this are already taking action in making a commitment to following Eric’s 120 Step by Step Lesson Plan!
This is NOT a replacement to posting comments on Eric’s blog! Please Note: I strongly encourage you to leave comments on Eric’s Tips below each lesson before going to the forum and getting involved.
However, I DO hope to create an interactive community there that will serve the following purposes:
An organized forum to review each of Eric’s 120 Lessons. Helping you to better find, ask, or answer questions and provide input for other users.
A MasterMind Platform to Share Ideas and Strategies from what you learn. Encouraging ACTION, SUPPORT, and IMPLEMENTATION of what you will be learning from Eric.
Relationship Building of like minded marketeers. Encouraging JV’s (Joint Venture’s) and Strategic Alliances. Mentoring.
So if you are reading this than Eric has approved this post… and maybe he will also take on a moderation/administrative role in the community:)
The forum can be found at:
http://www.ericstips120forum.com
Hey Nico- nice idea
I will probably not have time to be involved much in the forum, because it is taking all my working hours to make these lessons and reply to comments on the blog. But I think your reviews are cool, and I don’t mind if people discuss the lessons on the forum. And peer-to-peer support is great. The only thing I would say is perhaps make a different header graphic so it is not confused as being my site itself. Pura vida!
Cool:) I will rebrand the logo and I hope the forum helps deliver your vision!
say Hi to the gang for me!
Peace y Pura Vida! Nico
Have you been in Costa Rica Erik?
Coz Pura Vida is the surfer way to say what’s up down there!!
Nice place but not os nice people!!
Bye
Paul from Italy
I haven’t been to CR yet, but I will some day!
Hi Eric,
Good job. Your delivery and approach will make it easy for people to listen and learn. Can I post links to your video lessons on one of my websites? This should be a excellent set of lessons for people who have been skeptical of “hard-core” marketing but yet want to get the information and understanding.
Akili Kumasi
Sure you can post links. I always appreciate free publicity
Hey!
Can I enter a link on my profile on Digg.com so that people who are interested in MonaVie can benefit from your free info to start an on-line business?
Thank you so much, i am one who did the buy everything than knew nothing. i so want my own business and with your help and God on my side how could i possible fail? Bless you and if you want something to pray about than on July 3 i go in for brain surgery - 1 of 2 tumors to be removed. have a blessed day. see you on lesson 3
Wishing you nothing but the best and a VERY speedy recovery…I’ll say a prayer for you as well.Hang in there…it will get better!
Brenda
How are you feeling?
I want you to see this video by Dr.Lou Niles, ND. on MonaVie just copy and paste the URL
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvS-KA7t5dc
You can contact me at laurier6@gmail.com
Hope you are feeling better and everything is all right with you. Godspeed.
Hey Eric,
Thanks for Lesson #2! I appreciate what you’re doing. Maybe a heads-up on the autoresponder which delivered the same Lesson #1 email both yesterday and today–at least to my box. I found Lesson #2 though and I’m sure others will as well. You might want to check the autoresponder, though. Cheers!
Thanks for the heads up. You are right… aparently Aweber inadvertantly repeated their response to my support request and set all my subscribers back to the first message again.
Eric,
I did get lesson 1 on the 12th; then I got ‘both’
1 “AND” 2 on the 13th and now it’s sent #2 again
on the 14th, so maybe it’s back in sync now.
Bill
Hi Bill,
Just bookmark Erics homepage and check it daily. You’ll see the lessons faster as email can take upwards of 24hrs. It works better if your in a hurry to view them. Best of luck to you!
Np about the double post! Lessons will be useful for my own upcoming project to produce small video spots.
Again Eric,
Sincere and to the point. I think that most people do not realize how much work is involved in creating and maintaining an online Internet business.
Great,
RonnieMarz
Hi Eric,
Want to say thank you for these lessons up front.Im just starting out and you are right about overload.Now Im slowing down on all the info thats out there and going to do things right.There will be mistakes but I will learn and make it.I know with your help with these lessons I will come a long way.
I have not seen anything out there like this offered for free.So Thank you again an god bless.
Eric,
Thanks for the perspectives and the previous personal insights. We have much in common even though I’m much older. I retired from an education system where I worked as a consultant to startups and did entrepreneural classes. My refusal to make the classes easy always got me in trouble! There is a cost to starting ANY business and people have to understsnd that they still have to do the parts they don’t like! I struggle with that still, and I have even taught it. I can’t tell you how important it is that people learn to protect themselves from the negative input around them, but still be willing to ask themselves the tough questions. I always told my classes that prayer was essential to my sucess as a business person and gave examples. The system didn’t like that either. I REALLY am looking forward to these lessons. I have wasted alot of time and money on programs I just did not have time to develop. I work full time for my son in his business and frequently can only find 20-30 minutes a day to work on this. I have almost been overwhelmed with questions and information both.
THANK YOU
Yes…it’s funny how negativity and negative messages we tell ourselves can hold us back from accomplishing things. It sounds like you have a lot of good insight that I could benefit from. Best of luck to you!
Hi Eric,
Great tips. Thanks! I’m ageed with you that we can’t treat online business as a “JOB”.
If we did, we just escape from the low-paying “job prison” to the “potentially higher-paying “self-employment prison”
We need to have “Right Mindset” and treat it as a serious business. We need to have strong “burning desire to success”.
Right Mindset + Right Attitude + A Solid Plan + Proven Techniques + Taking Actions = $$$ Into Your Pocket
Other than that, we need to ask ourself why are we starting an online business?To do whatever you want? when and where you want?Without having to worry about money?
Your internet business ia a “Freedom Machine”
To your success
Bryan Hee
Hi Eric,
Are you familiar with AdSense, and if you are, could you address that subject?
I’ll be talking a bit about adsense, but my friend Joel is the expert on that topic. I recommend grabbing his new ebook for $9.95:
AdSense Secrets
Joels new adsense book is excellent(just read it)…I highly recommend it! Be careful everyone,there is a lot of adsense junk out there so take Erics advice and recommendations.
hi eric..i agree 100% on your comments
cool stuff erik ! I want to grow with this and give to others too! its a great way to make a living and give back to the world at large or small peace out
Hi Eric,
Thanks again. I looked forward to the next lesson. I do want my own business & I am committed to making it happened
True guidances to success, whyn’t, this is what everybody are waiting for. Not every GURUS are committed as you.
Dear Eric, today as we following up your lessons, understanding & committed as all in you.
With you we success
Ths, Regards
Mohd Singapore
Hi Eric
You’ve ask if I do want to run my own business, well my answer is not far fetch which is “yes” a thousand times
Regards
Dola
I love this course. I rules, I can’t wait to get them and when I see it in my inbox I scream and get so excited. It rules!!!
Thanks Eric
Hi, Eric!
Nice start! Keep on going!
Thank you
Hi Eric
Listened tp both lessons 1 and 2, refreshing content so far I have been on the net for about 6 months now and slowly moving forward.
Yes there is a lot of BS out there and it takes a discerning mind to sort it out
Which I am starting to do now, like most people I looked at everything and tried most things and got confused.
I retired and decided to start an internet business,to keep the ‘old’ brain cells active. Concerning health wealth and happiness, plus animal care articles. This is exciting for me to be involved with the net.
Are you planning an internet business involving animal care? What a great idea! I love animals…I have a huge black and white cat..his name is Stanley…lol Best of luck to you!
Wow Eric!
This is a totally new perspective of what is an online business. I think some so-called gurus have to hear from you.
Happy you took-off right from scratch. I see that many people have problem from the concepts and definitions.
Thanks millions
Braveheart
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Hi,
I think it is absolutely BRILLIANT in what you are trying to achieve. In this over hyped world, more power to your elbow.
All the best, Allen
yes and I’m going to one way or the other!!!!
With the economy in decline and jobs at risk you need to look at alternatives to earn a living before your job is axed. But like anything you do in life, success is a result of effort. What Eric is providing is a means of olearning the skills to start looking at an online business without the sweat. self employment does have significant benefits
Yes…Eric can provide all the information but I agree that success only comes with effort and determination!You must step up to the plate and put your knowledge into practice!
Hi Eric:
Just a quick note. I have been attempting to start an online business for quite some time and made a lot of mistakes. Information overload is a gross understatement.
The point of this post is to thank you for your efforts and also note that your vids and teaching style are much appreciated.
I look forward to the remainder of the series.
Thanks
Hal
Eric,
This is great. I have often felt I have all the tools and info to build a successful business. My hard drive is filled with it.
I just haven’t known the steps, or even how to put it all together so it makes sense and actually makes a business.
This looks like my answer. Thanks a lot!
Scott
Yes, I agree with family members having a difficult time understanding about online businesses. My husband has even went as far to tell me that there is no money to be made on the internet and if there was he would be doing so himself. And no my husband has no clue of what is involved.
Eric, even though you are starting at the beginning it is still sometimes good to still go over the basic (even for someone who is past the basics) because sometimes it can generate new ideas that you never would have gotten otherwise. But keep up the great work
Heidi
Hi Hedi,
Stay positive and hang in there…you can do it!
this is the best time to start an online business
Thanks Eric, you started to make it very interesting , looking forward for the next lesson.
Hi Eric,
I would add a point to your point a) in your two points above relating if one is afraid to start a business. And that is “Get over your fear by learning what running an online business involves.” That includes learning about the risks as wall as the rewards - and the hard work it entails. Plus, I hope you will talk about the desire to provide a useful service should be a key driver running/having a business. There are a lot of “have an internet business become an instant millionaire…” promos out there (and of course, buying their products will ensure that will happen for you), and it seems many now believe that having an internet business is the door to instant overnight money riches. I believe one has to provide something that someone wants and values AND know how to market in order to have success. OK, now I gonna watch the vid.
Good sound advice!
I agree partially: Owning a business is not for everyone. And a website, by itself is not an online business on its own. However, if you really want to have personal wealth and security, then you need to own a business, period. A business builds equity and equity is the only source of true wealth.
And I agree partially
A business is one of the best sources of equity, but I would not say it’s the only way. There is another way, and that is to be an investor (which is not necessarily a business in itself). I will be mentioning it in lesson #6
Wow is all I can say Eric. This lesson hit home for me….Thanks for being a giver and I look forward to the next lesson.
Hi Eric:
I am enjoying the lessons and trying to wait patiently for the next one!
Raymond
Hi Eric,
Can you tell me what plugin you are using to get comment replys right below the original comment?
Thanks,
Fermin
It’s pretty sweet isn’t it? It’s called Ajax comments reply: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ajaxcomment/
Yeah, I love it. No more searching through tons of comments to see if you have gotten a repy.
Thanks much,
Fermin
FerminSuero.com
Thanks Eric…I wondering this myself! I made a tag of it so I can come back to it later!
Hi Eric,
It is so great that someone has started doing this I have felt so lost. I have been try to start for the last six month with no success.
All the best,
Hugh
Thanks Eric,
I know from experience, you might not even know you have fears about doing something different.
You might fool yourself by continuing to “learn” about how to do something, while you already possess all you need to get started. You just don’t get started. And you don’t get anything done. And you don’t make any money.
Once you do anything a few times,it will be like second nature before you know it.
Ted
I love the new tips Eric. I agree that having a website is not a business, but can be. I have worked at my own business off and on since I was 15, and I have worked for others in the wage-slave world. Which I am doing now to earn the money to set up the new business that I am starting. I appreciate that you give real advise and not hype. Working for yourself means that you are the one that has to get up and do it, all without someone there to say you have to. You are your own boss, but that means really doing WORK! OMG! That can be hard! That is why they always say find your passion! That means that you will enjoy getting up to do the hard stuff! Keep up the great lessons! Raven
I’ve got Carol Smith’s problem, Eric - limited access to highspeed service (for now). Everybody has gone to videos & I feel as if I’ve been locked out of the library! Is there any chance you could share the transcript (ie - a pdf file?) with us that you use to prepare each video?
Kathy
http://www.delaneyvineyards.org
for now i’m not going to have time to make PDF’s, but I’ll try to beef up the points after the lessons when I can.
Hi Kat,
I also saw it mentioned somewhere that Eric may release the training course on DVD or CD-Rom once the lessons are completed. Best of luck to you!
Eric,
Thanks, To say the least.
I hope to get my site started soon and follow your lead - to help others.
Hi Eric,
Great Tips!
I am looking forward to the remaining lessons.
Thanks for sharing.
Best Wishes,
Kannan
http://www.growing-self.blogspot.com
Hi Erics,
Now you come forward to introduce ‘the online Business’. Let everybody knows the concept of online in the Internet. What is ‘offline’ business? These terminologies are very important if we need to understand fluently in the internet marketing.
If we go further, some other things coming across and we should be happy to face all these without any unsatisfied complain.
That’s why these basics are very important to be acquired as a beginner, and thus help us to really understand and succeed in this virtually internet marketing world.
I hope we can follow all what is going to be exposed by Erics, and everybody must be patient
to wait till the ends of the course.
Thank you for your organized intro,Erics.
Hi,
I have been slaving for others for quite some time now but would like to be liberated through internet business - ebooks business.
However, I have encountered countless problems and deceits and therefore feel terribly betrayed and discouraged to continue.
They tell me internet business is easy, very easy but immediately I part with my money, they start singing a different tune, asking me to build the website myself using their tools, draw traffic myself to my website yourself, etc, etc until I give up since I do not know how to do these things. I have lost out countless times in this manner. The cycle of deceit continues. I wish I had one truthful person who can really help set me up thoroughly ( set up the website for me, including affilliate programs, draw traffic etc and hand the business over to me, and tell me in advance the cost. I recently paid a company to draw traffice to my ebooks website. According to their own records, they are sending thousands of visitors to my website but there is not even one visitor or customer or activity recorded in this website.
Can anyone help please. Mike
Hi Mike
I understand the way you feel, and I used to feel the same way until I discovered my coach and mentor who taught me how to:
1, Build and maintain websites and Blogs
2, Drive massive traffic to my websites easily
3, Convert traffic to customers
You need to focus on your goals and consistently work at it.
Internet/Niche marketing is not child’s play especially if you want your “Ebook website” to have good rank listing in the search engines (Google, Yahoo, & Msn)
I have watched my traffic and rankings improved
drastically by applying what I learned from the best free 67 page guide on social marketing. It is called the Authority Black Book, http://contentdesk.com/cmd.php?af=794301
You’ve also enquired about Affiliate programs. You can easily apply for Affiliate programs; here are the 3 I’d suggest you start off with
1, https://www.clickbank.com/index.html
2, http://www.cj.com/
3, http://www.amazon.com/
I hope this puts you in the right direction
Regards
Dola
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Hope this helps, Tony
So what the definition of business on line, if we have make website and want to make money from that website by referring affiliate is it business online ?
Hi There,
Yes….affiliate marketing can very much so be considered an online business and there are many people who make a lot from doing this. However I beleive you can make even more if your able to develop your own products and sell them yourself.This way your item is unique and one of a kind.Best of luck to you!
Q. How do you eat an elephant?
A. One bite at a time.
Two lessons in and I am truly appreciating the bite size servings. These few minutes with you are clarifying and focused. I have time to digest what you are saying and relate to it before moving on to the next step. Super great pace for someone working a JOB and trying to get a business going at the same time.
Thanks, again.
Thanks a lot Eric, very nice video.
Stef
http://stefgrandgi.com/
Thanks for this. You must have read my mind or else there are a lot of people out there just like me.
Everything happens at the right time.
About a fortnight ago I pulled by website down that I paid a designer to do and have relaunched it one step at a time.
I have been doing so much reading and research that I have hundreds of bits that I should do someday. And of course I am getting very confused.
I WILL make it work this time.
Hi Eric,I am a newbie and am following your tips closely.i am not making any progress,could you kindly log in to my site http//onlinedatingcode.com to comment on my site.
Thanking you in advance
hs
Thanks Eric. Great advice. You’re right about not asking family they can really be negative and end up pulling you down. I guess they only want to protect you.
Lyn
Hi Lyn,
Hang in there and remain positive. If you take some time and read other peoples posts you’ll see that your not alone. Best of luck to you!
Hi Eric,
Thanks for your hasty answer!
But for a free one?…
Best Regards,Andy
Hey, Eric, Good Video. I have joined Justin Brookes SiteFlipAcademy.com and am interested in websiteflipping. I have a website for a while, but I am learning to drive traffic to hit with various methods: article, blogs, forums, and I will work on USFreeAds.com and PPC. My website has Google Pr Rank of 0. Do you have any suggestion of getting traffic. I am just starting out and have a hard time with webdesign. So I have hired someone out to do that. Any suggestion for good blogs or forums to go in. I think one of the most effective ways to gain traffic is post YouTube, MySpace, Digg and other social bookmarking sites. I have a camcorder, but I am going to start using Camtasia with Powerpoint and create my own products that way. So I think online Business is great if you are dedicated and motivated. I think the hardest is to decide what to do. I guess I should try to write out a schedule and be more organized. I think an online business, so be treated like a business. Most people think of it as a hobby. That is why they fail. But if you think of it as a businesss, good things will come. I guess I am just rattling off. But have a good day, Looking forward to lesson 3. Thanks alot, Eric, Ray
Check out my websites, Let me know what you think, Ray.
http://officialinternetmarketingexpert.com
http://ebooksforsale.blogspot.com
http://martialartsandnutrition.weebly.com
Michael , you just got scammed by junk traffic
provider. Its one of the longest running scams.
Also everyone who tells you internet marketing/business is easy, is well, bluffing.
Its low cost way to set up your business but it takes lots of time effort and money to consistently drive targetted traffic to make money. And you have to find ways to keep ahead of competition which if you don’t know is in the 100 millions !
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we get access to 21 teams of top grade private investment analysts who do all the grunt work
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Thanks, you do a excelant job as a teacher. I appreciate your clear no BS style and your subject task breakdown, I wish I found you three years ago. The web can suck money faster than a rigged casino.
Hi Eric Id being about 6 months trying to understand what an online business is all about, to my deception I found out that most programs are selling just a lot to read, where they explain what to do, but not how to do it. For example buy a website, pay for hosting,autoresponder,email lists, ebooks,manage PPC, subscribe to affiliates that you never know if are working or steeling your comissions since there’s no reliable way to proof if someone is reading or not your articles, and some more things that looks like tools that are useless. I’ll be honest to you I haven’t make a penney yet, I don’t invest much is true, but is like you said. If I don’t understand what Im buying I hasitate, unfortunatelly you won’t know what you are buying until you pay for it. This days knowing who to trust is more difficult, it seems like everybody got scamed and everyone has a solution for it. “Which seems like scamming forward”. When they offer you a money back guarantee they make sure you have so much to read that by the time you finish understanding, the cancellation time will be due and you end up overwhelmed and frustrated. So I hope your lessons are quite different, because I really want my own business since a very long time ago.
Hi Eric,
Great video. I especially appreciated the part about not asking family & friends. I began looking into internet marketing a couple of years ago and have gotten back into it pretty seriously the last 6 months. I didn’t mention anything to anyone about what I was doing until I got a couple of sites up and started working a little with Adsense. Now my family is interested in how I can help them do the same!
I appreciate your integrity- looking forward to the rest of the tips.
Kim
Hi Eric
Very well done! I would love to bring you in as a guest speaker to my network at http://www.kiosk.ws
Joel Therien
President
Kiosk.ws
Hotconference.com
hey Joel- Thanks! I’m not taking on any speaking engagements right now… but I know who you are and I take it as a huge compliment. Keep up the good work.
My answer is a resounding YES!! I’ve been an “offline” business owner and I know the freedom that comes from it. All I need is now is a product or service and some knowledge, which I’m getting thanks to Eric!
Good luck everyone and thank you Eric.
Mary
I know the answer to the action step right off the bat…I’ve thought about it long and hard over the past year, and the answer is most assuredly yes! Though I know I was not required to comment on my answer here, it felt good to do it;)
Hi! yes, i am passionate about what i am doing as a personal performance coach and definitely want to have my own business.
I have not yet developed a website but do you have any suggestions as to how to do a questionaire specifically to health professionals online now? Thanks
Hi There,
Your post caught my attention as I’ve been in the medical field now for 14 years. My internet business has been a great hobby on the side for the past 5 years. Best of luck to you!
First and foremost i want to appreciate ur effort for ur several mails u have sent so far, pleae Eric i’ll like to know the risk so to say about this online business and also how to go about executing the business. thanks
Love This site. I like for eric to visit my site and maybe join. I like for him to send tips to my members.
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Hi Eric,
You didn’t replyed to my posting from Lesson #1 but I found out the answer to my question to you from the other comments.I’m sorry you aren’t going to have time to make your videos into .PDF files.
I’m sure into your videos will be the most important details as to how to start an online business from A to Z.I don’t like videos just if they are the most modern method and because I less understand audio files.
But I’ll follow your lessons because I still will learn more skills from you in the long run.
Of course, I do want to run my own online business if this is the single action step of Lesson #2.
I ask you:
May I use a link to your lessons on my blog,website to send it to my online friends to help me to understand your speach from your videos?
I look forward to your next lessons.
Hello Eric,
I read up to lesson 6 and it will not let me go further. Do I have to wait till I get the e-mail from you?
I’m looking forward to the future. I’M a rep for a Health and Wellness Company and have my own web site but not doing well in it. I do not have traffic going through. I do love the product line and been using it for 2 years. I also have a Cleaning business right now but I’m very slow. I’m always willing to learn.
[…] LESSON #2: What is an online business? Contrary to what some of the so-called guru’s may say, having an online business is not for everyone. But in order to judge whether it’s a good fit for you, we first must define what an online business is and what it isn’t. […]
Wow Eric,
These courses have been absolutely wonderful so far. Thanks for providing such a down to earth experience…it’s so refreshing after seeing all the other alternatives out there!
yes i want online business
my question is this, for some of us that live here in Nigeria, how can we earn our pay?
Rommy
Great question my answer
I WANT LOTS OF BUSINESS`S
try this website and get 300 content pages debtcrackers.com
great stuff Eric keep it up
hi Eric i paid a large sum of money to a company to train me internet marketing but i find i am not getting it . is there recourse i can take to get my money back ..just a thought .thanks Eric
Hi Eric,
First, let me say thanks for the great tips, advice and frank discussion about the in’s and out’s of having an internet business.
Second, I could use some help. I am in the business of life coaching. I had a web designer create my website about 16 months ago and I’ve been painfully reminded that everytime I need to make a change to the website, I have to pay her to do it.
I’d like to make my own changes so it won’t be so costly. I don’t even have my coaching prices up on my webstie which actually makes my website a high dollar business card.
Of course, I didn’t know any of this until recently. Should I ditch my current website and buy XSitePro so I can start over and actually make changes myself? I will be adding eBooks and other products shortly.
Also, I send out a newsletter every two weeks with Constant Contact. CC doesn’t have autoresponder capability. I’m thinking about switching to IContact because they send out newsletters and have autoresponder capability. Should I make the switch or wait it out for now?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Kathleen
Action steps:
1) Answer the following question honestly:
Do I want to run my own business?
YES!
Hey Eric,
I agree being a business owner is not for everyone. I’ve been a business owner for 29 years. The internet is a different ballgame with a completely diffrent skill set. Fear was huge for me going into the internet world. Whenever I had to learn a new application I would have a full out anxiety/panic attic. You know, the kind where you want to throw your computer out the window. Things have gotten easier the more I do them. I give my all and try to be patient with myself. Thank you so much for giving so much. Your parents must be so proud!
Thanks,
Melina
Get Your Introductory Product or Service Into The Hands Of Current,Active, Buyers In Your Market!
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Ok Eric I’m on board
once again, been struggling with overload issues but my incoming personal emails are getting lighter and I am slowly becoming able to stay focused on just your tips and lessons(I am putting a lot of faith in you).Sad to say my wife just lost her job so I am trying to talk her into taking over my lessons from The Success Network (I’m locked in with them and feel that I have hit the “brick wall” anyway)and I have purchased 3 programs from the “Sean Casey group” that I have yet to attempt to launch.It was too late when I received your stop buying stuff tip:(.
But to answer your question,YES YES YES!
Thanks Again Eric
hi eric i am just joining your class and i hope it will hep me start an online business which i am intrested in,thanks for your efort.
do i need to have my website before startng a business on line?
yes I want my oun online business
Dear Eric,
Late last night I payed for hyperVRE through
PayPal and had no problems, my question is do I
need to purchase any more products to make
hyperVRE a Successess ?
Dear Eric,
I’m really looking forward to working wit you on The hyperVER not just for my future, but also for the future of my family and all my loved ones, I put GOD 1st. then my Family and my Church, Thank You Again….
i wish to run my own online business and need to be guided into it.writing is my passion and i wish to make a living with it
Ayodele, you need to learn it step by step and it’s not hard.
I can see we are close to each other. Call me and let’s talk.
We can work together and learn from each other.
You Can Calculate Success
http://www.IncomeChamber.com
Kola Adebayo
Hi Erick,
I just want to know what is the best way to bring traffic to my website ?
How can you help me make money with the internet? I’m a newbie and I want to learn how to make money selling an ebook in my field real estate (meltdown and hurting badly).
Valentin
Hi Eric
Thanks again for taking the time to do these lessons. It is a direction that this business has needed for a long time. As I get my own business going providing real info on how to do it will be a staple in my own newsletter. I also checked out your online prayer community that you mentioned in the last lesson. I joined and posted my own prayer request. God bless you for your efforts and i look forward to completing all the lessons and gaining the freedom we all deserve.
Eric your god sent thank you for helping me to start my business Iam looking forward to all your lessons
Eric,
I appreciated your efforts to make me know what’s an online business and the way of creation my own business online. Please, elaborate what’s an ebay? purchasing and reselling on ebay ? in the naxt lesson.
Thanks.
Dear Eric,
I have looked at other Stock packages and most of them come with a computer program so you can test drive and then track your stocks, usually with color coding. I didnt see that with yours or did I just miss it.
Cont. please email me if you can and give me further details.
Thanks Eric your 2nd lesson encouraged me to have my own busines.
Nilufer
YES! I WANNA CONTINUE WITH BUSSINES
I’m presently involved in an MLM, I find the continued sorting of those that are interested
a daunting task. But the main quality of a MLM is the residual income through duplication.
It seems that an internet business can also provide this residual income in the same way without me chasing friends,family and strangers, is this true?
good beginner’s lessons and a nice courtesy, thanx
good beginner’s tips, nice courtesy Eric, thanx
Good lessons l want more lessons to start up my BUSSINES,and love to have my website good,good lessons you have.
thanks ,good beginner,s tips .see olso 12+ Streams of Passive Residual Income! All virtually hands free and without EVER having to talk to a single person about it! And now I am going to let you STEAL a copy of this Ground-Breaking New System for FREE! at http://abhlimited.ws/
yes, I want to own a business.
Eric,
Thanks for the teaching. Can’t wait for the next one.
ERIC good question, there are so many out there pedaling, you know what I mean, and it seems that no body wants to stop it.
There are a lot of good comments here and this is what should be posted to show people what is really all about, not a lot of money, but a lot of time to get started, just like any business.
My self I do it because I am disabled and 65 with nothing any better to do, I am on the computer every day so why not see if I can make some extra money if I can, one thing I don’t want is to be a couch patatoe, so don’t be surprised if there are mistakes, that is why I am disabled, a triple by pass then a stroke three month later which left me seeing double, you take it from there, try typing that way, so why not, it keeps the mind active.
Thank you for the great information. These are worth learning from. Thank you for the basics and more.
Hi Eric;
I’ve had the oppertunity to check out both lesson#1-2 and your blog. I like what i’ve seen so far. I’m a retired 75yr old construction worker with a verry small pension. Even tho I’m spending around &500.00 dallars a month on what I’m starting to realise is nothing else but a money grab on the part of a unscupalace sellar with no concience. That’s why I can’t take advantage of your $1.00 special offer. What I’m realy hopping for is that I’ll still be able to get in next week after I’ve replenished my CC with new funds (and cancelled out most of my other money drainers)Providing that it”s still availlable and the price is not out of reach like some programs I’ve tryed and lost money on.I really want this, It sonds good. Keep it up.
Thank you
Wilf
Sure I want my own business. My problem is how to establish it without liabilities on a tight budget. What if I burned and loose more than I can affoard and end up canned? I for sure think you know what I’m talking about.
How can I start with at profit so that I can reinvest and grow? Those have always been my 2 doubts.
–JA
Hi Eric,
Getting into business is just like going to war. It’s either you win or you lose the war. Know your enemies and use your weapons wisely is a step to victory and success.
Jimi
http://vur.me/jimisan/efb
Eric, I do have online businesses, including one that helps the same people as you do in these videos, but it is still great to learn your views. Lesson 2, which focussed on WHAT and online business is, and WHO should start them put down essential markers. Looking forward to the rest of the course.
Hello Eric,
I am looking foward to learning with your user friendly tips. How does one go about setting up a PayPal Account? Have a great weekend.
It’s pretty easy, just go to http://www.paypal.com
I recommend doing a business account.
Yes, I definitely want to run my own business. It’s a goal of mine to retire my husband. Even though he owns the company, the company owns him to a large extent. I want to change that.
Eric: I don’t even Know whether I am setup or not, can you chek it out for me and let me know what else I should do? I asked you the other day if I need to have windows for this , I haven’t received an answer yet. Please let me know. Also I cannot download or get your lessons on my IMAC.
You can certainly be an internet marketer on a mac. But many IM-related programs (including our Push Button Marketer) only run on Windows. I know it’s a bummer, but might be worth getting a Windows PC too. I have both.
Hi Eric,
Just a few lines to give you an idea were i’m coming from,till 2 weeks befor the new year the only things i new about computers,on/off,browse the net,open and send emails thats it, and 1day last year i bought a book online which was nothing to do with computers.It was a further 8 months later when one of his sales pitches caught my eye again and something just clicked in my mind,yes ok i’m still working the usual 8hrs a day running my other 2 businesses but this is so incredible to be learning an online trade i just can’t believe i’m doing it.Looking forward to vid 3.
Regards
Len
I totally agree with you concerning family members being negative about the possibility of you starting an online business, or any business for that matter! Their negativity is based on two major factors.
1. Past failures (on your part)to get an idea or a project off the ground. Even if you have the will to continue to try to succeed their perception of your past performance(s) will always cast doubt in their minds.
2. Jealousy (on their part) because they know that you have the desire and drive that they lack that will eventually produce positive and lucrative results given the right opportunity!
Hi Eric,
Just as you mentioned in your very first lesson, I am overloaded with info,not knowing where or how to start an online business.Thanks for the simple yet informative lessons. Looking forward to more interesting lessons from you,
Rema.
I want to do online selling but am so confuse,how should i start it on ebay on line selling
ebay is just one of many ways to make money online. I will be covering various methods in lesson #4, so just take it one lesson at a time
Hi Eric,
Once again you provided good information with realistic warnings — while somehow maintaining an overall encouraging tone. I’ll be back for the next lesson.
Thanks!
Hi Eric,
I have my own business for 16 years in constructions, but now it’s time to have a business that making me more time for my children, friends and myself. I have working like a dog from 6:00am to 22:00 pm, sometimes later. And what I have won, a divorcing and loose everything(house, car, financial problems, on the momenent not abble to have a new visa card before all my financial problems are solved “when???”. My courage for working so late and with my bear hands is a little bit down, so i see a new opportunity in these business. I’am not a computerfreek, now nothing about these all,but i want learn it fast. Also the first point for me it’s all in english (it’s difficult with a dictionary,BUT… :-)), so i say YES. Please send me more lessons and thank you for your kind support. Tony from Belgium
I WANT my own business. The issue is now that I have the desire and the time and no excuses, I also have no job or cash flow. The last 2 weeks I have struggled and spent and have not succeeded in much. $5.00 is a poor payday. I will to prevail even though the odds are that I will suffer loss. Nothing good comes w/o sacrifice. Oh yea everyone watch out for Mackenzie Lee’s home cash course.
Please repond, what do you mean watch out for mackenzie Lee’s home cash course. I just started with that program. are you saying it doesnt work
Betty,
I too have just started the Mackenzie Lee Home Cash Course. It is ok, but watch out for the upselling. The original cost of $49.95 is increased to:
VIP $22.95
Blue Wire Domain..$10.19
Hosting..$19.95 per month
Traffic machine $49.95. (You will not get any sales without this)
Tim
Traffic machines $49.95
I am overloaded with info,not knowing where or how to start an online business.so i say YES. Please send me more lessons
yes
I agree with you, Eric.
I order to really find out if starting an online business is for you, you need to ask people who have been doing it for some time.
I went about it all the wrong ways you could count.
I never consulted with my wife, and because of that, I went a little overboard on my purchases.
That said, if anyone REALLY has the bug to want to start on online business- seek out he people who have been there and are doing it.
Just watch out for the hype/
Best,
-K
The answer is yes. I have had one business or another for 35 years. I want an online business now.
I’ve always known I wanted to.
You sound very informative and am paying special attention cos this year is my year to suceed.pls continue with your good work
Hi Eric,tanq for your tips,its quite inspiring becos it has reality in it,i request yu send me more than 3lessons a day,i hav gud time to spend so pls–tc
if dats the question to run my own business,well its yes for me,before i hav faced lotta problms becos of not knowin a rite person,
it was hard for me to knw the right ways of it,ther r many options,ive spent money on but nothin in return,i lost all of them,so i need tomake sure if am really benefitiin in doin this busines,i dont mind spendin lil money on it but after i find it fruitful only—-tc
I am very interested in startting my own business. The concern that I have is what I have heard and seen regarding the Internet SCAM’s. You hear so much about this, that it causes you to pause. This does not mean that I am not interested or wanting to start the business.
I agree with K, you have to be careful of the hype, because there is ALOT of it out there. There are also the ones that want you to give them an absorbadent amount of money, just to train you on doing the business. This money should be used to start up the business, in my opinion.
Al
YES, ERIC I WANT A BUSINESS, NOT A SIMPLE JOB!
THAT’S THE REASON I ASKED YOU IN THE MAIL IF THERE IS NO OTHER WAY TO START! i will hangon untill the right time!
why work away fro home when you can be working out back at your pool
Eric,
You own Push Button Marketer? i just bought that I went through all the videos but I still do not have a clue on how to us it. Any suggestions!
take it one step at a time. Follow along with the videos, or try one of the prebuilt macros. If you have any specific questions/concerns, just submit a helpdesk ticket and Micah will answer it.
I want to start an online business but I don’t have a dime! What do I do
You’ll need to save up some money as startup capital. I recommend at least $200. In the mean time, you can start following these lessons and develop your business plan.
Hi, Today is my 2nd day here. I would say, this is straight forward and focused on what Eric’s trying to convey/teach to me on how to learn and establish an online business. I’ve been scammed alot of times but my desire is so big that I won’t give up because I feel there is a right one for me in the internet world but I just can’t figure it out so for now I am fixating my mind on this one.
Yes I want to own my own business, I just need to know who the bad people are that are selling the programs, so I don’t get burned. my
first attempt is with Mackenzie lee home cash course, I’ve taken the step to create the website, establish, the clickbank account that’s as far as I’v gotten, should I consider going farther with this program?
Okay Eric, I’ve started and owned 6 businesses over the last 30 years so I can truthfully say I want myown business and know that I can and will persevere.
Eric, Thank you so much for sharing your advise to everyone, I am just starting my own business and I am trying to get over my fear. I am going to take in consideration all the help/advise that you are teaching for now on.Thanks
Eric, I am an entrepreneur at heart and look forward to more excellent information I can implement.
Thanks, Jill, NC
Hi Eric, I think your Tips are very helpful.The questions you ask makes a lot of sense. It makes you think to take inventory of yourself. Thanks!
I like your matter of fact approach. I want to enhance the success of my existing business with social media and more. Keep these videos coming!
Hi, Eric:
Yes, I want to start my own business. I think I am ready to explore. I know it’s not easy, I got to put efforts in order to succeed. Again, I totally agree with you that having a website doesn’t mean you are having an online business. You should be able to monetize and earn an income to be an online business. To do this, you should drive traffic to you website and monetize from them. So, the content of you website should be the most important thing I think. It must be able to attract traffic(visitors). I think I neeed to think about what to put on the website.
Thanks,
Rick
Eric, your tips are great and inspiring.
Today I had signed up with Traffic Sage, however, there’s problem with my loggin to Traffic Sage’s support desk. I’m not able to add my information to allow them to contact me.
Do they have an e-mail address?
Thanks,
Amelia
Yes, I can give you the owner’s direct email address. Please add a comment here with your email (I won’t publish it), so I can send it to you.
Thank you so much for your quick response.
Amelia
I am read to start my own online business,
My answer has been a loud and proud YES for the last 15 or 16 years i have wonder and dreams of making myself rich not the other person. My niche is probably the most common and sought after but I have what most dont have and that is a desire to help people with there goal and not to keep them as a suffering customer like the Bayers of the world.All the help and advice, ebooks, webinars, and other advice I get along the way is most helpful and I thank the Gurus who give me the unfinished and not all the pieces to the puzzle.
thanks again Eric, These are so easy to follow I know in the coming weeks I will no longer worry about how to pay my Cable etc, To our continued success……Greg
simple answer to your question is:
yes
Hi Eric,
Your lessons are wonderful. But I’m deaf and I can’t hear your voice.
Can I receive from you your voice as .pdf file?
Respectfully,
Petre Tudor
Unfortunately I can not provide PDF’s at this time. But when I have finished making the lessons, I am hoping to put together the transcripts in a package.
In the mean time you might want to look into finding a speech to text software translator. I think I speak clearly enough on the video that a STT translator would be able to pick up a fair amount of it.
I want to get a bus. started so bad. I have been trying so long to get thru the info overload and get someone to clear the picture up 4 me. Being handicapped gives me a lot of time and I thx u 4 the help. You’ll be in my prayers.
I am answering the Action Step for Lesson #2 with a very loud and resounding YES!!!!!
I have an ebay store and 7 booths on bonanzle. I now have another making money website through HomeCash. What I need desperately is traffic. I have signed up with a traffic program and am anxious to see it in work.
You are so right about the time offline that an online business requires. Just writing ads for my online stores is practically a full-time job — and that is with help from the suppliers!
Eric thanks for your lesson 2 I would like to start my online buisness I am flat broke which tis the best way to go about it. Thanks for all your support
I would recommend to keep following my lessons, and try to save up some money to invest in your business.
You could try a combination of affiliate marketing and free article marketing to generate some commissions without having to spend any money, but that’s really more of a tactic and not the foundation of a business.
But then you can take that money and invest it back into your business so you can start building your own website, list, product, etc.
Yes i want to have my own profitable business.
Eric I would likke to thank you for these lessons. I would like to ask you about how long does it take to get started in this business? I am very committed to start my own business. Again Thank You.
It’s a pretty big variable dpending on things such as your technical aptitude, marketing aptitude, and how much time you can devote to it.
It can take anywhere from weeks to years to build a successful online business. Using the techniques I teach, it is reasonable to be making money within a couple months.
cn i do this without had not studyd business
Yes you can do this without previously studying business. But you must be willing to learn about business.
Very important and very ineteresting.
Who in the world would like to work for some1 else and fill the Employers’ pockets,when in fact we should be filling ours ??
After being given the boot and not even being paid my salary for the last 6 months,I decided to explore the possibilities of an online business.I did spend $50 before i reached your site and got some valid and sound advice, that too for FREE. I think u saved me a lot of money..!! Cheerio n thanks for all the Gr888 advice, Eric. Hope this works for me.
Eric, I have a site which was designed by a2z site solutions. I have included a site pal which i would like to change on the site. When I go to Oddcast, they give me a code to paste onto my site but how can I? I have been a member of yours for some time now but even my e-mail, which is connected with this company can’t be accessed. I don’t know what to do, this is 50+. I hope you remember me. My site is designed to provide an avenue for people to get Saved and it has been difficult to get it up. Help!
I am not familiar with a2z, or site pal… or Oddcast
Lesson #28 shows how to edit an HTML file (you can paste the code there).
Lesson #29 shows how to upload it via FTP
Thanks, Eric, your advice is so practical. Yes, I want to start my own business, and yes I want to run it. I am trying to learn some of the technical stuff because I really want to know what’s going on. If I decide to outsource later, I’ll at least know what I want. I am looking forward to more tips and lessons, especially in Push Button.
Hi Eric
I am thankfull to you who showed me the right way to make money over the internet.
Yes. I want to run my onw business. I started a business 9 months ago just working for myself and it is a great feeling being in control of your time and your life. I will never work at a job again. I now want an online business so that I can live anywhere in the world and still earn an income. Your own business is the only way to go if you want financial security and control of your life.
Hi Eric and thank you so much for a very informative lesson, once again. We need to all sit back and re-evaluate the things that are most important to us in our lives and our business. Thank you again.
Eric av always wanted to be an internet maketer n I am now one but am still srugling with things.
Hey Eric I could not be any clearer in my mind I been researching Marketing for over a year now, I dont have a website,though I have Many Domain names, Because I was also going to build a domain website as well,as my Marketing plans. YES I WANT A BUSINESS
YES YES YES But I would like to have started it DAY BEFORE YESTERDAY but I will be patient and having said that WILL make a ton of money soon.
Hi Eric
I just wanted to know, if I can use the samples that you have provided word for word example Disclaimer sample, Terms of Use or Service sample, privacy policy sample. Please let me know and if yes do I put anything jerryjet.com there or do I use the samples like my own.
Thank you
Farid
yes you can use the samples from lesson #43, but they are as-is, and at your own risk
hi Erick!
how can I create a folder for eric`s tips emails using Yahoo mail?
here’s instructions:
http://help.yahoo.com/tutorials/mmail/mmail/mm_manage2.html
Hi Eric,
YES I DO WANT TO RUN MY OWN BUSINESS. This is my first business so I am feeling overwhelmed but I keep working at it every day. I am happy to get one or two things accomplished a day!
Great Eric for telling those who havent made up their mind. Most of the time some gurus will tell you anyone can start their own business. This is not true because many people are thought to get a degree by our society. Having a business is a responsibility, not a job where someone tell you what to do. It is not easy as most of were told, but it provides a greater reward for those that succeed at it.
Yes I am ready to run my own online business. It is all new to me. Thanks for the video lessons, and I appreciated the personal introduction to you & your family. Looking forward to the other lessons.
yes, I wish to start a business online now,how long will it take to start a business and earn money ? Yeah, I will commit myself to the lesson that you have posted . Thanks Eric
I am very determine to have my own business! With God’s help, my efforts and your guidance, I believe I will be successful!
Hi Eric, I do wish to have a successful online business I have spent the last 9 months building skills in html editing, ftp , hosting, domain name, clickbank and now cpa marketing. I have purchased video screen capture and virtual assistant software as well as social networking and twitter profiles. So I have come to far to quit now. Gracias.
Eric,
thanks for the info. I have an offline business that I wanting to get online. I tired of one store in one town.
Hi Eric,
I am enjoying your video series. The information is very helpful. On thing I am having problems with is adding an optin page to a template. I use Aweber and know how to insert the code, but the hosting company I am using provides templates and I am having a hard time figuring out how to add the script code. Do you have a video addressing this?
Leanne
Hello Leanne,
While we don’t have a video tip on this, the Aweber staff has encountered these difficulties before.
We recommend that you visit their knowledge base here:
http://www.aweber.com/faq/
Or, you can get some direct assistance at this link:
http://www.aweber.com/contact-us.htm
Hey Eric,
Once again I enjoyed the video! Is there a way that I can access your lessons to where I can view more than 1 at a time. I am very interested in what you have to say and in your teaching style! Thanks as always,
Jason
Thanks, you can find them here:
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/category/lessons/
Just make sure you don’t skip any steps.
Hi Eric,
I do want a on line business, and the 2 tips so far makes me think I can do this. I don’t know much about this stuff, but I am starting to pick up some knowledge by studying every day. I have owned and operated my own retail and rental stores for 22 years, this year I lost all including my house,but I know I need to have a business to recover. Will my past experiance help me in this new start up?
Yes I think your past experience will help in several ways. You know the kind of work ethic required to build a successful business. Within 22 years you’ve no doubt experienced successes and hardships that you can draw wisdom from. If you’ve hired people and managed employees, this experience will help too.
In fact, for someone like yourself… it would probably be best to hire people as early as possible in the business building process, so you can build it faster and take the workload off of yourself.
Hi Eric! I’m a new subscriber and I have to admit that you’re far more honest to your statements compared to the thousands of ” gurus ” swarming online. I’m not sure if this has already been answered, but I wonder if I can somehow directly download your vids to my computer for a more thorough study. Thanks for your help and I really can’t wait for the next lesson…
When I am done with the 100 lessons, I will be making them available for download for a reasonable fee. In the meantime it is online streaming only
Hi Eric! I’m a new subscriber and I have to admit that you are far more honest to your statements than most of the “gurus” swarming online.Keep up the good work! Now, I’m not sure if this has already been answered in previous comments, but I wonder if there’s some way to directly download your vids to my computer for a more thorough study…
Yep… I’ve failed in business before for exactly this reason! And yes… I do and have an online business and am doing it because I have a passion for it!
Anyone looking for a simple FREE business plan that makes money while building a list can get it by clicking on my name and subscribing to my FREE Newsletter.
-Casey
I also in the past have had a couple of small franchises, first was bread and second was snack foods. There are a lot of variables to deal with, product, delivery times, vehicles, taxes, ect. I had to get out due to a divorce but I still think it is worth all the time and effort, getting the first dollar is the kicker.
Hi Eric,
The answer is yes. I do want to run my own business.
Butch
Hi friend I have just open this web I don’t yet understand anything in this web.How it is business?
Hello Tick,
We recommend that you keep following Eric’s Tips. There are currently dozens of entries that cover many ways to make money online, and run your online business. Each entry has a video that you may watch to better understand Eric’s tips and insights.
Hi Eric,
thank you for your lessons.It’s so useful for me always.I have one question.Pl answer it.
how can I copy the book from amazon.com?
buren
Hello Buren,
Is there a particular book you wish to receive a copy of?
I’ve been in business most of my adult life. Being in business does have its ups and downs. I personally like the freedom of having control over when I work, alhough you must take the inititive to actually put in the effort or you won’t be successful.
It’s my dream to have income through the internet. But I don’t know how to do it! To have business on-line is very much welcome! YES! I want to have my own business on-line! Looking forward to the next lesson!
Eric,Im a new subscriber and have just watched your 2nd video. I am new to this type of biz and i am trying to establish if my basic knowledge of IT will suffice. Anyway, your refreshing approach was most welcome!!! All the very best. Sandra
My wife and I are very keen to start our online business. We have a business now but want to be free of the industrial age type. We have the stickability ,the drive, the willpower,the money and the Lord Jesus Christ. What we lack is the info so I will be very greatful if you will put the dots close together so that they can be connected. We can do all things through Christ. When one door closes,another opens. John
Hi,
Of course I want to run my own business.
Sabir
Thanks Eric. your first lesson was very interesting. I like your interest in teaching newbies like me but i must say that the second lesson wasn’t clear. i do hope to catct up with the subsequent ones.
thanks
Eric, i really want to start an online business to be financially independent. To have time for other things.
Hi Eric,Ilike the way you set up your lessons.It’s very organize and understand easily.I can’t wait for all your 12o lessons you offer free.Could I share to my friends.God Bless!!!
angie
Having an online business is the BEST thing that has ever happened for the income earning in this World.
Thank you for adding the highlights - I’m a “reader” rather than a “watcher”!
You make a good point. A website is not a business unless there is the intent to monetize, and there are systems and processes around it.
Sorry I did not understand what steps should I do in making the web and blogs
What is included katagory online business
Thanks
putu
Keep following the lessons and I will show you how to make a website and blog.
Hi Eric,
I really like your approach to teaching in this lesson- that of wisdom and remaining calm while looking at the bigger picture. It’s reassuring and motivating!
God bless!
Hi Eric,
I decided to have an online business because i want to work anywhere in the world with my family. I said it because I need to work full time far away from my family as of now to provide their need.
I believe you could help me a lot.
By the way incidentally, when I click lesson # 3 suddenly it’s gone from my email list. Could you send it to me again. I will appreciate it, I want to have a complete copy of your lesson.
Thanks again.
here it is: http://www.ericstips.com/tips/lesson3/
Hi Eric
I sent you a message yesterday asking for how to register a clickBank Account in Nigeria and how to start online business as a beginner. please am still waiting for your response.
thanks
You can check out clickbank here. I talk more about it in lesson #54.
Yes of course I do want to run my own business. That’s why I follow your lessons. God bless you Eric!
cheers,
Hi Eric,
Your advice is right on! My company sells turnkey web sites. We include the products, install the website, setup the affiliate ads. All our customers have to do is promote their website.
Would you believe that many of our customers who purchase these fantastic business opportunities are not at all committed to owning a successful business?
Although we repeatedly stress the fact that you must promote your site to make it successful, some customers simply purchase the site then sit back and wait for the money to start pouring into their account.
Needless to say, since they’ve put forth no effort at all in bringing traffic to their site, they get nothing in return. So bam! They shut down the site and go off in search of some way to get rich overnight. Sadly, they either can’t or won’t accept the fact that whether you work at home or work for someone else, the key word to success is “work!”
Thanks for the lessons!
Hello,Eric. All is great, what you tell about. Probably, I made mistake subscribing to your’s, because I’m artist, and I would like to sell my art works at the auction of ebay, but I do not have some money for paying. I think about affiliate program. How to participate in the one?
Well it doesn’t take much money to post an ebay auction. You might enjoy this post:
http://www.ericstips.com/tips/valentina/
Hallo Eric,
In this case we actually have to run our own bussines but sometimes in a special case we can ask someone to run for us and or we can join together in a certain bussiness. The reasons is for economics and practicals measurements.
Yes Eric, I am very sure if I have a bussiness especially online bussiness certainly I will take the lead to run it by myself. The reason is so we can control everything e.g.financial activity to the target ahead.
Just getting started….awsome video for a newbie like me..
To answer the question…Yes Yes and Yes again. My best friend has been in business for himself for 12 years now. He’s had ups and downs along his path, but he answers to himself, he’s responsible for his mistakes and triumphs. I admire that and I want that level of command in my life.
Thanks Eric, bread is still important, I need it for me and a lot out there, even though its not an end itself, because we know the end.
This my first lesson.
Hi Dear Eric
I would like have more information about online business because my phd program is e-commerce. It will be beneficial for my teaching.
Best Regards
Dr Narges Delafrooz
Hi Eric
I’ve just started an online business. I am selling ebooks, affiliate products and my own - resell rights on products. I am finding it difficult to get people to buy - I use adwords as one way to drive traffic to my websites, this works but they don’t buy. I have autoresponders as I capture their details, however again not many sales.
Do you think the customers are not hungry enough for the products? Are the autoresponders not doing enough? Where do you think I should focus to get the sales? I have products that fall into niche markets, the website is visited but the sales are hard to convert?
Any generic factors I should address in a situation like this? I am testing and tweaking but if you have any tips would appreciate it.
Thanks
Sarah
I will be addressing most of these issues at some point during the lessons. In them ean time you are doing the right thing by testing and tweaking. The most important thing to keep testing is the OFFER. In other words, what are you offering and for what price? If it’s an ebook, and they’re not buying it at $47, then maybe they would at $37 or $27 or $17. OR maybe they would buy it at $47 if you added some videos. OR maybe they would buy it if it was a $7 trial, with $40 paid later. OR maybe they would buy it if you converted it into a membership site. It’s important to test the little things too, like headlines and colors, but it’s best to focus on the BIG factors until you achieve at least a mediocre conversion rate… then you can fine tune the details. A lot of it comes down to copywriting and the positioning of the offer as well. If the prospect doesn’t clearly see the benefits and the value, they won’t buy.
Thanks, good advice.
Hi Eric,
I enjoyed today’s lesson. It was thought provoking and I know that’s what you intended. Truthfully starting an online business has to rank in the top percent of life’s decisions. I have been trying for months to start mine and believe me…it’s time consuming. After all those months I finally realized I need a mentor. I’d recommend your training videos to anyone contemplating or trying to start an online biz.
Many blessings,
Tom Gregorio
Hi Eric… I think, I am already one step further. But you are absolutely right. Everybody should make up his mind first, and then take action!
All the best,
Arne
I have tried other web marketing lessons, but yours, Eric, is where for the first time I’m beginning to understand this concept of internet marketing. I am already with Clickbank as it seems to be the easiest one to understand and market, so will continue with your lessons and hopefully will be able to supplement my retirement income.
Hi Eric,
Thanks for this 2nd lesson, really liked it!
I have a desire to start my online business and looking forward to the next lesson.
Many Blessings,
Max
Thanks Eric…moving onto lesson three, I have been commited for 15 years in my business and am starting a new carrier path change and developing this new business of mine for my future and my loved ones. Thanks a Bunch.
Scott W Kelley
Hi Eric
Thanks for the second lesson i have been ready to start my own business i just can not find any body to show step by step how is it your they just want sell you stuff and they expect you to know what to do next iam a type of a person where i like evevrything explained to me step by step because that is the only right way to learn and i hope you are the one to teach it to me iam a fast learner and iam looking forward to work with you from now on and i can not wait till the next lesson i did download all the package that i got from you now i need you show me how to do it and how to become succesfull like you
Hi Eric
Iam a new for the online business and iam very excited to start my own online busiess and hopefuly with your step by step training i can become very succesful at it i know nothing comes right away but with right training and the right attidude and hard work i can do it.
Thanks Eric lokking forward to your next lesson
Alfred
Hi Eric, I’m working through the videos although I’ve been in business using the internet for over 10 years. I am now trying to unlearn all the wrong information I was taught over those years. Your videos are helping me to dispel my old idea and make way for the new methods that will actually work. Great Stuff.
Expect Success
Eric,
Yes, I want my own business. I am not sure what I want to sell, however, I know that I am ambitious and willing to put forth the effort to work for myself. I appreciate this walk-through and look forward to each step. Thank you so much.
i do want my buisness the risk am willing to take i want be the bread winner of my family but i dont really know anything about computers let alone runnig a business online i just hope that i am heading in the right direction
Dear Eric Yes I am being ready to start my own business for years but did not bump into you till now.
You are a great teacher and i am so ready to learn from a great, clear, teacher like you I am so ready to start the trading pakadge I just got, but have no clue how to make it go.
But I see the light at the end of the tunnel with your clear teaching and so ready to get to 120 lessons and start to make sales.
thanks Barbara
dont know how to white list??? im with outlook express. anyone please help???
es algo excepcional, quiero lograr mi independencia economica, ya que soy madre soltera y deseo que mi hija siga por las sendas del progreso.
I want to create my own website to market my eBooks, but I don’t have the money it takes or the know how to build it from scratch or an idea of how I will attract traffic to it.
You asked me if I want to have an online business.
Yes, I want to have an online business.
Eric,
I thoroughly respect your honesty. It is very refreshing in an Internet space that is fraught with fraud.
For you to give me the option to walk away gives you great credibility in my eyes.
I have started a website that I hope to spin into an Online business.
Your lessons seem to finally be giving me the path I need to follow. I look forward to following them.
I learned from this lesson that I need to get over my fear. Thanks.
Hi Eric, my wife and I have our blog up and running but do not generate income yet. We have tried things such as affiliate products, adsense etc. We are presently running a 28 day challenge in which we have JV partners in.The 28 days are free and we would like to put together an e-book during March. How do we make money?What are we doing wrong? I will follow all you lessons.I just don’t get it I guess. Thanks for listening.Pierre
Keep watching my lessons, and I will show you what has worked for me and many others!