Building a Site That Makes Money

In building a successful online business, you need a well thought out plan. If you fail to plan, then by default, YOU PLAN TO FAIL. You'll spend too much time "chasing your tail" - not really headed in ANY direction.

Spend some time, clearly defining what you ultimately hope to achieve. Write you goals down on paper. Review them frequently. Use these goals to plan how you will build the business you really want to build. Too many people throw up a website, and say that they are building an online business - with no clearly defined goals. They spend most of their time jumping from chore to chore not really moving forward. Because they don't know what they ultimately want to achieve, they can't know if they are moving toward achieving it!

As you review your goals from day to day, feel free to adjust them. Your written goals are a success tool. They are not etched in stone and can be adjusted as things in your life change. You must have goals to guide you, but they don't control you.

You also must realize from the beginning that to become a real online success you must be ULTRA organized. There are so many chores involved in building a business that you must be able to clearly identify the individual chores. Then you must be able to decide what needs doing first, and you must focus on doing that chore FIRST. Fail to do this, and you will make very little headway. That's why it's so critical that you have a written plan and that you review it frequently. It's so easy to get sidetracked and then discover MONTHS later that what you have been doing isn't moving you toward achieving your goals.

Also realize that YOU CAN'T DO EVERYTHING YOURSELF. Building a successful online business generally involves:

- Developing or finding a product or service that is in demand and has a large market.

- Having a system for contacting that market and making them aware of your product or service.

- Reminding that market of your product or service frequently so that when they recognize that they need this product or service they also realized that you are who they should get it from.

- Continuously striving to reach more members of this market.

- Developing or locating additional products or services that this market needs.

- Making this market aware of these additional "backend" products or services.

-Finally...and I can't stress this important factor enough.

Your website is the gateway to making all your dreams a reality. Make it the best that it can be. Reach high and you shall acheive your goals. In return you will watch as your dreams become reality. Follow this guide for success and you will find that the sky is the limit.

Ken Envoy at Work