Make This Your Home Business

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Following on from MLM On Line Home Business 1 & 2 In order for you the reader, to get a better understanding, I will give you an overview of my personal experiences on the road to success.

The lessons learnt can easily be applied to whatever niche or media you have chosen.

To recap, we have already discussed the important basic essentials, but for those who haven’t already read the posts, here are the key points again:

* BUDGET

1. Finance
2. Time

* Identify your “Niche”

1. Product
2. Service
3. Opportunity
4. Affiliate Program

* Decide which media to use

1. Web Site
2. Blog
3. Pay per click advertising

Whichever niche or media you decide to promote or use, the basics are fundamentally the same.

When I started out with my MLM On Line Home Business, I really did not have a clue where to start and after much research, decided to join the Plug In Profit Site due to the low start up costs associated with it. This opportunity gave me a Free web site and came preloaded with 6 different programs which I could choose to join or not. Some were free to join and others required a subscription. As I did not have a particularly big budget, I opted to join only the free programs.

If any of you reading this have decided on promoting an affiliate program as your niche, consideration of your budget when joining such programs, can be the difference between success or failure. Opting for the free to join programs is perhaps the best way for anyone new to MLM to start their new venture as it offers a low risk.

Being green to the MLM world, I now had my new web site and the free programs within it. All I had to do now was get visitors / traffic to it and I would start making money on line I was excited to say the least. I had my new web site and I was going to make it big in the MLM world and I wanted it to happen overnight. Like so many others who join such programs, my expectations were high. I had speed read the tutorial that came with the program and basically followed all the recommendations as to which other products I needed to subscribe to in order get my visitors. Suddenly, it hit me! My credit card was maxed out! This was my first big mistake and so early into my Home Business venture too. I had not set a budget! A hard lesson to learn when you are bursting with excitement.

It is a sad fact, that many people who have done what I have done, on realization of their mistake, cut their losses and quit their Home Business, very often blaming the program they joined when in reality, there is no one to blame but themselves.

Having realized my mistake, I took a step back, I quelled my excitement and faced up to reality. Time now to reflect on my course of actions. If I was to be truly successful, i had to get the format right. What was the best way forward from here? It was pretty obvious really, read through the tutorial again, but this time, digest it properly.

The first thing that stood out when re reading the tutorial, was that the recommendation’s to purchase or subscribe to other programs, were literally that. Recommendations! There was no suggestion that I had to subscribe to them, but on the contrary, to subscribe only if my budget allowed. Many people from all walks of life join these programs and as such have varying degrees of budget. The program in this case, is set up to cater for all budgets. Speed reading information such as this is not advisable. Another lesson learnt.

Now having a better understanding of the program, I started to unsubscribe to certain services / products, which although recommended, would be of no benefit until I started to see volumes of visitors to my site. That then, was to be my next focus, to get traffic to my site. Never mind what programs I was promoting, I needed visitors as without them, I had no business, just a nice looking web site.

It was at this point, having re read the 30 day to success tutorial, I discovered The Pips Warrior Forum, which is recommended within the tutorial. My first visit there was a jaw dropping experience. If only I had joined here (free to join) sooner. The people active within the forum, vary from newbies like myself at the time, to very experienced marketers. All with a common goal, to help each other succeed in their business. The advice given to me was first class and following this advice has led me to where I am today.

As far as getting traffic is concerned, the advice given was to set up a blog and to do blog posts daily, write articles, submitting them to various ezines, my favorite being ezine articles due to the popularity of the site. Following this advice, cost me nothing but time and very quickly I began to see the power of blogging and article writing. I was starting to get more visitors to my site which was linked to my blog.

The by product of getting visitors, was also an increased page ranking within both Google and Alexa. This is mainly due to the fact that because my blog is linked to my site, every time I post to my blog, I am generating fresh content for my site and this is one of the most important factors that search engines love.

As the learning curve for anyone starting out with a new online home business is quite steep, I will continue with my experiences within future posts.

The lessons learnt here so far however, need to be digested and if you truly wish to be successful, do not make the same mistakes that I did.

Graham Maddison
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