Woman Show How It’s Done
I have been assisting my new friends Mark and Delmae Bower over at My Home Based Business Delmae has written a wonderful website over the last few years, about her experience of being a stay at home mum, the positive impact it has had on their children and how a stay at home mom or mum can do more than just clean wash and be a leaning post mentor for all the daily issues that crop up when your a mom/mum. I mention her husband Mark, her husband has obviously made the family structure possible for her to operate at home full time, he brings in the coins.
Delmae has written on how to be a mum and contribute to the upkeep of the bills, this woman is a super woman, she keeps the home, looks after the kids, makes her husband dinner after work and then thinks about how to raise some money through online working, she has seen it done it and worked it, I recommend you go and take a look at her very down to earth and informative site.
An Article By Marie Ynami
So the desire for starting a business online is calling you. You have some great ideas; have a lot of enthusiasm your ready to start. You’re going to make a large amount of money and be your own boss. Well wait a minute regardless of the claims of how easy it is to get rich off the Internet. You will find starting an online business is no different than starting a business in the non-virtual world. Maybe you need to consider some things first to make this profitable and mistake free.
When contemplating starting an online business you need to take an honest look at yourself. What are your skills? What kind of interests do you have? Many people stared their online business in the fields that they worked. A graphic artist could start a web design company or produce custom graphics. You will also want to think of the type of jobs you truly enjoy.
Do your homework to start your online business. Do not make the mistake of putting all your efforts, money and time into a service you want and try and find a market for it. You cannot make people like your service or product. Instead find out what the consumer would like and then design a service or product to fit that need. Also just like a real world business there is a certain amount of risk. By doing your homework you can lessen that risk by finding something people will buy and for how much. This allows you adjust your costs to make sure of a profit.
You also need to study your competition. Find out what they are doing and what works or what doesn’t work. The more information that you have in regards to the market and your competition the better chance of success you will have.
Starting your online business you need to have a plan and follow it. What will it cost to start? Where will you get that money? If you are going to ask for a loan you will need to have a business plan to present to the loaning institution. It is a good idea to have a business plan even if you are funding your online business yourself. It will give you some set goals to look at.
To get your online business going you will need to make a time commitment and keep it. It will be difficult to keep a full time job and work on your new online business. You probably will not be able to accomplish that unless you set a specific time to work on it. Starting an online business and making it profitable enough for you to work full time on it does take some time.
You have done the required research, taken the time and made the commitment for your online business. You feel that now have a great product that the world wants and priced that they can afford and you make a profit. You have one more thing to consider marketing. Your customers need to be able to find your product so they can purchase it. This can be done online, offline, or a combination of them both. You will need to continually study what works and what doesn’t until you find what works for you the best. However, remember what works today, may today may not tomorrow and be able and willing to change your approach to marketing as the consumers dictate.
About the Author: Marie Ynami a work at home mom from California. Marie offers resources for those who want to start working from home. To access the resources she offers, visit www.marieynami.com
Chatwise - Ari Galper
I was introduced to chatwise by Delmae Bower a colleague from SBI, at first I thought, ok another chat program, whats so special about it. It is much more than a simple chat 
program it is in essence a sales backend system that allows you to see your site visitors that return and are maybe looking for some information or possibly to buy something, it is engaging with people on a human level that have found you.
If you haven’t checked out chatwise, I suggest you head over and sign up for the free video seminars, its an eyeopener in the terms of closing sales.
some of the features he talks about are :
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Connect with visitors in real time • How to start a chat without turning off or scaring away your visitor • Key strategies to identify which visitors on your website are most likely open to chatting • Why creating trust + fixing website holes = more sales • 7 key trust-building key words and phrases you should use in all your chat conversations • How to use the 4-step ChatWise conversation process to quickly identify a buyer |
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Change your Sales Mindset • How the Unlock The Internet Game Mindset makes live chat profitable • Why live chat is uniquely sensitive and different from phone and face-to-face selling • Why using traditional direct selling through live chat is a recipe for disaster • Why you can’t use live chat to jump in and “sell” |
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Use chat to increase your conversions • Why repeat visitors who chat with you are most likely to be buyers • How to spot trends in a chat session indicating an interested buyer • How to track your sales that included a chat conversation to measure your ROI • How to identify when it is appropriate to suggest a live phone call • Key phrases that you can use to move someone from a chat to a live phone call |
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Humanize and fine-tune your website so visitors aren’t skeptical about buying from you • How to take the hype out of your copy so your visitors trust you more • Why a chat box is 100% more effective than just a chat graphic • How to place your chat box IN and around your sales letter to get the most chats • How to create “sweet spots” on your website so visitors will chat with you • How to identify “holes” in your sales process by tracking the paths your visitors are taking • How to use the Mindset to fine-tune your site so visitors will chat with you instead of leave • How to review your chat conversations periodically to find the “holes” in your website • How to improve your website copy based on your chat conversations with your visitors • How to turn autoresponders into “sweet spots” for new chat conversations and more sales |
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