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[N335]Non Profit Building Grants

by Tim Whiston, Tim

Following is a realistic and achievable outline for reaching a profit with your web business.

Determine Your Initial Expenses -

Obviously, one of the first things you need to do is structure your monthly spending. It is important that you know exactly how much money is going out, so you can determine how much return you need to reach a profit.

I recommend only investing in the necessities until you start generating some type of an income. Web hosting, mailing list management, a good tracking utility, and a basic advertising budget are examples of essential expenses.

Once you account for all your monthly expenses, you will know exactly how much income you need to realize a profit. But as the saying goes, you must learn to crawl before you learn to walk.

Become Self-Funding -

I encourage you to think large in terms of what you wish to achieve with your Internet marketing ventures. There is absolutely no reason why you can't make a nice full time living from this business if you plan diligently and work hard.

But let's take this one step at a time. The first thing you need to do is generate enough money each month to cover your operating costs.

This way, you aren't spending money out of your own pocket to keep your venture afloat. Naturally, you'll have to go out-of-pocket in the beginning, but you should set a goal of making your business self-funding (meaning it pays for itself) as quickly as possible.

With a well structured game plan, and a strong work ethic, there is no reason you can't become fully self-funded within 3 to 6 months. Individual results will vary, but this is certainly a realistic time frame if you stay focused.

The Rest is Gravy.... Sort of -

Once you achieve a recurring income that exceeds your operational expenses, you are officially in profit. But let's not schedule the victory parade just yet.

There is one more thing to consider when evaluating your earnings. How much of your time is required to generate whatever amount of money you take in each month?

Your time is precious, and should not be undersold. If you're spending 10 hours each day to pull in an extra $50 per month, I'd say there is room for improvement.

The last thing I want to do is squash the life out of you here. A small profit is still better than what 99% of the people in this industry ever achieve, so once you reach the point where you are getting back more than you are putting in, please pat yourself squarely on the back.

At the same time, you should not be prepared to settle for what I like to call "prison wages". Demand an amount of compensation that reflects the value of your time, and work hard to make this demand a reality.

Always have your antennae up. Look and listen
for ideas, insights and concepts that you have
never thought of and write them down. Talk to
anybody and everybody you run into. Ask them what
they do, how they do it, why they do it, what
could make their jobs better, their offerings
better, what are their dreams and aspirations?
Basically, keep asking around.

Ask yourself - "what don't I know that is
absolutely critical to my success?" Then decide
where you can find that information quickly.
Start writing down ideas on how you can work with
people that have that knowledge. If you do not
have money to pay them for their expertise - how
else can you work with them? Any way you can
trade barter trade? Trade services for services
or services for products or products for products?

Start writing a book. On whatever you are good
at, or whatever you want to be good at. Start
researching the industry and successful
businesses in that industry. A book is one of
the most important tools to building your
credibility and to build on publicity for your
business. The book does not necessarily be one
you sell - it can be a bonus for prospects or
clients to show them you know what you are
talking about.

Find or pick a charity that you deeply believe in.
How can you help them accomplish their goals?
Possibly volunteer your services or donate
products they can auction off to raise funds.
Donate a percentage of all revenue you receive to
the charity. Find multiple ways to help them and
you will quickly find opportunities knocking on
your doorstep.

Start building a dream team. These people can be
people in your life now (if they are motivated
and positive people) or people you would love to
work with. If you do not know them now - think
of ways you can give back to their interests,
passions or charitable causes they are interested
in. Start interviewing these people and find out
what makes them tick.

Create your elevator pitch. Get some paper out
and think about your product or service. Imagine
you have a stadium of 50,000 people at your beck
and call. You get 30 - 60 seconds in front of
the audience to convince them of you and your
offering. What would you say? How could you get
your point across so convincingly that they would
be stupid to say no? Now consider the fact that
any one of them can walk out at any point in time
and do not have to listen to your pitch. Would
your pitch change? What can you say to make them
stay? What can you say to make them buy?

Consider that there are only 3 ways you can grow
your business. You can increase the number of
clients, increase the average sale price, or
increase the number of times they buy in a year.
Most people (90%) focus in on increasing the
number of clients - and it is the least effective
and the least profitable. So what can you do to
increase the other 2 methods?
Use a shotgun approach to marketing your business.
Think of multiple ways to promote your offering
- and have them all happen at once. Very similar
strategy to war - air, land, water each of which
has multiple resources and firepower coming at
the target (the customer) at once. How does this
apply to your offering? What types of firepower
will you use?

Test all of your crazy ideas. No matter how
crazy they sound - try it out. Find out which
ones work. Then optimize how effective they are.
Test all variations of that idea. Find out which
variation works best.

Think of educating your prospect. What can you
do to educate your prospects to the extreme that
they know everything there is to know about what
you do? If you are an expert (which you need to
be) in your business - how can you show your
clients how they too can be an expert - before
they purchase?

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