Working At Home with Internet Marketing

Want to work at home as an online marketer? The environment for frustrated 9-to-5ers has never been better, but before you jump in with both feet, there are some tips we’d like to share so you don’t get in too deep too quickly with little proof that you’re on the right path.

How To Get Started Working From Home

Tip 1: Don’t pull the plug on your day job until it makes sense.

CareerCast advises job-haters to not quit their jobs until they have something else unless they want to spend a very long time unemployed. The hard truth is, employers are less likely to hire unemployed people.

What does that have to do with being an online marketer?

Imagine going through that long unemployed spell with NO MONEY COMING IN. That’s where you’re at as an aspiring online marketer.

You don’t want to go there until you see a steady stream of income, and preferably enough income to where it makes sense to drop your 9-to-5.

What makes sense?

That depends on your situation, how much money you need to live on, and how close you are to getting there.

Tip 2: Create something that enriches people’s lives or solves a pain point.

You can’t get realistic about working at home as an online marketer until you’ve identified a product or service that solves a pain point or enriches others’ lives in some way.

This isn’t something you’ll want to guess at either.

Do your research. Look up books on Amazon about your topic. Check udemy for online courses already performing in your niche. See what people are saying in product reviews and special interest forums. Participate with them and hone in on the areas where other products and services are lagging.

Tip 3: Build your email list.

Who are you going to sell to? How are you going to collect their email? What are you going to do with it once they’ve given it to you? You’ll need to continually add value while making it easy for them to respond to your call to action.

Tip 4: Roll out your minimum viable product.

Your minimum viable product is often thought of as your first product, and that may be the case. To simplify, the MVP is the first point of monetization that you get out of your leads. It should not be the last.

For help with this part of your business, check out this revelatory piece from TechCrunch.

Tip 5: Start maximizing your per customer revenue.

If all your customers are doing is buying once and forgetting about you, you’re going to be in business a very short amount of time.

Start working on ways you can deepen your relationship at once, perhaps through online hangouts, webinars, or sustained coaching plans.

You work too hard to get signups. Don’t let them go with just one sale, or you’ll be needing that 9-to-5 again really soon.

Tip 6: Eliminate distractions.

As Forbes notes in this piece from 2013, the only way that you are going to be able to succeed in a work at home job over the long haul is to eliminate distractions and get motivated.

When you are working from your house (or for yourself from an office for that matter), you aren’t eating unless you are earning. That means the independence you enjoy is also yours to misuse.

Make sure that your life still has enough routine to keep you productive because the hard work is only beginning.