How Do I Start An Online Business?
If you’ve been Googling “How do I start an online business?”, then this is for you. Before we reveal what you do need, let’s talk about what you don’t need.
You don’t need more hoo-rah. You do need more do-rah.
In other words, you need action—not information.
Why?
Because learning doesn’t turn into earning if you don’t apply your knowledge.
Here’s how to get out of your head and get your boots on the friggin ground so you start seeing some real progress as you build your own online business from nothing.
How Do I Start An Online Business:
The 6-Step Action Plan
Step 1. Start An Online Business By Casting Your Vision
Your vision will serve as your north star guiding you on the journey ahead.
It’ll push you through the excuses, obstacles, and surprises every online entrepreneur faces so you survive the tough times to enjoy the good times.
More importantly, it’ll help you start an online business of your dreams—not just any online business. Before you go on, read that last sentence back: There’s a lifetime of wisdom in there.
This may seem a little woo-woo, but you need a crystal clear vision to start an online business.
Like we say from our estate here in wine country: No vision, no vineyard 😉
Step 2. Make Your Online Business Stand Out By Being Distinct
If you don’t start an online business the right way, you’ll get crushed by the competition… or even worse, blend in with everybody else doing it wrong. For the record, the competition is only growing as ecommerce grew 44% in 2020 alone.
The best way to start a distinct online business is to serve a very specific niche with a very specific problem. Like Seth Godin said, “No niche is too small if it’s yours.” Pinpoint your niche to avoid being boring, bland, or blending in as you start building your own online business.
Step 3. Build Your Online Business Around Your Signature System
If you’re wondering what the heck a signature system is, good! You’re in the right place.
Nobody else teaches this, but after helping dozens of aspiring entrepreneurs finally start online businesses, we’ve proven a signature system is the difference-maker.
Your signature system is your coaching curriculum or course systemized into a repeatable process.
It’s a shareable, step-by-step playbook that helps solve your niche’s biggest problem.
The only way you’re going to get paid is if you can promise results.
The only way you can promise results is if your online business is built around a process that delivers them like clockwork. That’s why now’s the time to nail your signature system.
However, your signature system won’t sell itself…
Step 4. Get Your Online Business Earning With the Right Offer & Sales Strategy
Ever wonder why 90% of online businesses fail in their first 4 months?
They don’t have consistent sales generating consistent cash flow.
Said another way: they go broke.
The truth is, you don’t need a ton of money to start an online business.
But once started, you do need money to grow your online business.
That’s why you need an offer in the market as fast as possible—and a sales strategy to sell it.
Step 5. Put Your Online Business On Auto-Pilot With Funnels & Systems
Funnels and systems take every online business from sh*tshow to success.
The last thing you need is to be stuck in the hustle and grind online like you already were offline.
And, thanks to technology, you can start an online business and automate it so it can eventually run independent of you.
That’s the fast track to freedom.
So, put your online business on autopilot by building funnels and systems to take the wheel.
It’s quite literally the secret to earning around the clock without working around the clock.
Step 6. Develop Your Online Business Edge
Real talk: We’ve never seen anyone with a weak inner game successfully start an online business.
Thing is, people with a weak inner game don’t have the resiliency, the mental strength, or the intangibles to keep their foot on the gas when they approach the obstacles every online entrepreneur faces.
Even if we were to give you our entire online business-building playbook, you’d crumble at the first sign of struggle if your inner game is weak. We’ve seen it happen to tons of people just as they start an online business.
Here’s the good news: You can develop high-performance skills to create your edge. Nobody’s born with these skills, but everybody can learn them.
Seriously — as you take a look at your to-do list, put “develop your edge” right on top alongside the usual suspects like posting on social media and crafting emails.
How Do I Start An Online Business?
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You can’t just talk about the plan. You have to put it into action to start an online business. Let’s do this!
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