Some of the quietest moments where a mom can think is when the children are sleeping. Whether it is an afternoon nap, early morning or night owl hours, take advantage of the quiet when your children sleep, to start an online business.
Keep in mind you can do this in bites size chunks. That is it does not all have to be done in one nap time.
Your Expertise
You will start by assessing your expertise. Ask yourself the following questions:
What are you good at? What is it you love doing most? What expertise are you actively involved in?
Can you teach others about what you are good at? Could you profit from what you love to do most?
It is important that you are honest with yourself. Also think about expertise that you may not of thought to monetize on such as hobbies, do not leave any stone unturned.
The Market
Even if you have a potential to make money with your expertise it is still important to see what people are looking for. You may find that you have just what they are looking for or perhaps you may look at narrowing or targeting further.
Visit your favorite forum or locate a forum that would have people of similar passions and find out what need they are expressing. Those needs will come in form of questions for the most part.
Next go to Google keyword tool and start by searching your expertise. Type in word phrases that may be related to your expertise and being sure you verifying if there is a potential to profit. Also search for any phrases or questions you found within the forum.
Your FREE Advice
Prepare a simple report, video,etc offering your free advice, answering the questions that the market you can relate to has.
Your Opt-in page
It is important that the free advice you offer such as a simple report or video that you give it away only after folks provided you their name and email. This is called a capture page or squeeze page.
The reason for this is without it you may be working twice as hard later on when you actually produce a product that you want to sell.
By giving away your advice in exchange for a name and email, you now have a list of interested people.
Note: Be sure that in order to collect their name and email, you use a reliable email service that complies with spam laws.
Now, that your kids are stirring awake you can take satisfaction in what you have accomplished. You have defined your expertise, located a market need, prepared a simple report or video and as well as a squeeze page. Great job!
Ann M. Moore invites you to start you own legit work from home. Whether it is a job you are looking for or starting your own business be sure to take advantage of the REAL opportunities and avoid the scams.
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