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Successful small-business on the web
Don't expect it to be easy, though. Making money on the web is (and always was) hard work. This article discusses how to avoid the many pitfalls that await you. Choose
your field of battle If you're looking to make money from the web, there are four main offerings that you can provide:
The first step to making money on the web thus requires you to choose which of these offerings you plan to provide. You may decide to specialise in a single one, or you may try to cover all four. Find
a niche The
days when the Internet was considered new are long
gone. A remedy for this situation is to specialise. Find a niche that's little covered. For example, if you wanted to sell music, you might specialise in Australian music or even Australian country music. By doing so, you're lessening the size of your audience, of course, but you're also lessening the number of people you're competing with. The trick is to find a niche that will have a large enough audience to sustain you yet is specific enough that you have few competitors. Achieving
success Having decided what products and services you want to sell -- and researched how much competition you'll have -- there are still a few major hurdles remaining:
It's beyond the scope of this brief article to cover credit card payments in depth, so I will only mention my own experience and say that I have found Digibuy to be very a reliable means of accepting online credit-card payments. Services like these allow you to accept credit-card payments without having to set yourself up with a merchant account. Of course, if you already have a merchant account, your bank can provide you with more details on how to use it to accept online payments. Good
luck and best wishes with yor new venture. You'll find many more helpful tips like these in Tim North's much applauded range of e-books. More information is available on his web site, and all books come with a money-back guarantee. http://www.BetterWritingSkills.com
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