What is your ultimate online homebased business opportunity? There are several different types, with each being best suited to a different type of person. Are you a people person? Are you good with numbers? Are you a "teacher"? Are you an organizer? The online home-based business opportunity that's best for you will depend upon what sort of a person you are. Many people think there's just one type of online homebased business opportunity - - you build a pretty Web site and hope people come and pay money. Well, that is one type, but there's really quite a bit more to it than that. I would say this common type of homebased business opportunity is best suited to the sort of person that I call a "teacher". Many people have this persona without realizing it. If, when you read an online forum and somebody asks a question that you know the answer to you just can't help but craft a long and careful reply, you just might be a "teacher". Maybe you are the numbers type. I'm not talking trigonometric calculus here, I just mean somebody who enjoys the predictability and certainty of something like accounting. Taking tables of numbers, comparing them in simple ways, and using the results to plot your actions. The first time you saw a spreadsheet program in action, did you think to yourself "cool!"? When you go out to eat with friends, are you usually the one that winds up figuring out how much everybody owes at the end of the evening? That's the type of simple math I'm talking about here. If this sounds like you, or even if it just doesn't scare you and send you running off in the other direction, your best bet might be pay per click arbitrage. That word arbitrage might sound a little scary, but all it means is "buy low - sell high, and do that a whole lot of times". Doing this successfully is simply a matter of keeping track of how much you are paying for some inexpensive advertising and how much you're making by sending the people that respond to that advertising to somebody else that's willing to pay more for it. It's a little bit like an E-Bay business; you put in a low bid on a whole box of widgets, and then turn around and sell those widgets one at a time for more than you paid. Now some of you are thinking to yourself "If I have to teach people things, or mess with all those numbers, then maybe an online homebased business opportunity wasn't that great of an idea after all". Not to worry, you are probably better suited to one of the other types of online homebased business opportunity. Are you good at talking to somebody about why one thing is better than another? Are you the sort of person that a friend might want to drag along when they go car shopping? If you find yourself in a situation where a disorganized group of people needs to get something done, is there good chance that you'll wind up being "in charge", just because the other people seem willing to do what you tell them to do? If so, you might be really well suited to the online homebased business opportunity called affiliate marketing. What this really boils down to, is building a Web site that describes something in a way that gets people's heads nodding up and down, and leaves them feeling like they can trust you. This is not really salesmanship; many people call it pre-sales. I liken it to the type of salesmanship that you see in car commercials. The guy tells the customer about the warranty and shows him all the gadgets, and patiently lets him test drive it for hours, but never asks for the sale. Of course the salesmanship that you see in a car dealership is very different; that's "real" sales. But the type that you see on the commercials, that's more like pre-sales; and that's what the online homebased business opportunity of affiliate marketing is all about. You do the pre-sales, and then you send them off somewhere else for the real sales job. |
