Why I'm Here and Who I Am: To Help You Start an Internet Based Business
This lens is for you, the person who wants to start an Internet based business. Have you spent a lot of money ineffectively trying to start an Internet based business? Perhaps you have been kicked from pillar to post on the Internet, searching for a way to get started that actually works.
My purpose here is to help you find it.
Hello!
My name is John.
You may have read some of my articles on the Internet written under the name of John T. Jones, Ph.D.
Perhaps you like science fiction and have read some of my articles where I describe myself as Taylor Jones the Hack Writer.
If you like science fiction, I have compiled some of my science and science fiction in "From Big Foot to Zoodnock", and for now, it is a free gift to you at my personal site: http://www.tjbooks.com
I am in the process of converting my business site: Internet Business Tool Center to focus on new Internet Marketers. I'm going to try to keep my visitors away from the gurus. I want them to find the educational materials they need. I want them to find programs that actually work.
Yes, I want this lens to focus on those who want to start an Internet based business.
I don't want my visitors to be told how to operate a money-making system and then leave them to work out the details on their own.
I know that does not work from long experience.
My friends Kyle and Carson at WAU will not let that happen.
WA or WAU means Wealthy Affiliate University. It will cost you about $30.00 each month to stay enrolled, but you can use your affiliate status at WAU to enroll others. Once you have two enrolled, your monthly payment will be covered as long as they stay enrolled. Not a few affiliates studying at WAU are making good incomes just by promoting WAU the way that Kyle and Carson instruct them.
When I joined WAU, I joined for one year. I knew that I could not possibly assimilate all of the information on the WA site in less than three months. Once I signed on and found out that I was learning so much by direct communication with Kyle and Carson, I decided that I will always be a member of WA.
What I found out is that I need mentoring when I start a new money-making system. I start and Kyle and Carson correct. They have done this for me in systems that I have been using for years--but I was not optimizing the systems to actually make significant money.
I also have been resurrecting systems that I gave up on when suggested by WAU. But you don't need to do that. I think that if you master the first two systems suggested by WAU and you actually do what is suggested the exact way it is suggested, that will send you on your way to actually making some money on the Internet.
We are here to help. Well, your help will actually come from Carson and Kyle. I mean help directly to you. They will be watching you like a hawk as you learn to make dough on the Internet.
We hope you will contribute too.
Now, a final warning. I'm an old man. My brain does not catch all of the errors I make in my writing. I know that I have written many hundreds of articles and books and that I was a college professor, a V.P. of a large company, and the editor of an international engineering magazine, but all of that experience does not compensate for the fact that I am old. My brain is going, going, going ...
If you see an error, just slip me a note and I'll try my best to correct it. You can leave a post or email me at tjbooks@yahoo.com
Good Fortune To You !
Fly Old Glory!
John
John T. Jones, Ph.D.
Buhl, ID
Table of Contents
- What is an Internet Based Business?
- The Bottle Business Compared to the Start of an Internet Based Business
- An Example to Our Analogy to Start an Internet Based Business
- Focus to Start Your Internet Based Business
- Wealthy Affiliate and Micro Niche Finder Can Mean a Monthly Income
- My Blog Highlights
- My Article Feed
- My Stuff on Amazon
- New Guestbook
What is an Internet Based Business?
How to Start an Internet Based Business
My boyhood friend, Paul, was older than me and he had a mind for business.He told me why a perpetual motion machine wouldn't work and how he was going to make money in real estate by buying older homes, fixing them up and renting them out, which he later did.
He also cheated at marbles.
Paul taught me what a business is. He grabbed his red wagon and we walked along the highway picking up bottles. These we sold to Kenny, our local grocer.
Taking the money from Kenny, we went to the junk yard and haggled with the penny-pinching old witch that ran the place. You would not want to meet her at night.
What we haggled about was the price of bottles. We bought the bottles and pulled Paul's wagon to the store, trying to cut our loses as we crossed the railroad track, and sold them. We repeated this process until Kenny yelled, "NO MORE BOTTLES."
Then we took part of the money and purchased hot dogs and buns, carrots, potatoes, a chunk of meet, and what ever we needed for our hobo stew.
We went home and in my back yard we started a fire and put the stew on the fire. While the stew was cooking we ate hot dogs and told each other lies. After eating the stew, we roasted marshmallows.
After this banquet, we still had some extra cash which we used the next time for our "bottle business" omitting the "hunt for bottles along the highway" step.
So, we started from scratch with no cash, earned a small profit during our first campaign, and used that profit to start a new campaign.
So, now you know all about business with a system that works on the Internet.
Think about it because I am not kidding.
Fly Old Glory!
John
Internet Business Tool Center
The Bottle Business Compared to the Start of an Internet Based Business
This is called an analogy.
Here are the steps in our business model:1. We decided (or Paul did) to start a business. I became Paul's partner to help with the work. Knowing Paul, he would have rather had all of the profits from the business to himself, but he needed a slave (employee) to help him.
2. We had no capital (dough)so we salvaged bottles. Lots of folks get rich in the "trash" business. We put the bottles in Paul's wagon, a fixed asset that Paul got for Christmas.
3. Gasoline was 10 cents per gallon but my Dad's car was on blocks and Paul's dad had no car. So we had no energy cost other than feeding our faces.
4. Our customer was Ken, the grocer. He purchased our bottles.
5. We took the profits that we generated and purchased our bottle from our vendor, the junk yard lady. We haggled for the best possible price.
6. We continued this process until our market dried up when Ken said, "No More BOTTLES! We had temporarily exhausted the market. We were too tired to walk to more distant stores.
7. we spent part of the money we had earned, our profits, on needed nutrients to feed our faces.
8. We held some profits in reserve with which we started our next campaign.
Got it?
Don't forget the terminology.
Fly Old Glory!
John
Internet Business Tool Center
An Example to Our Analogy to Start an Internet Based Business
We all have to start somewhere.
Joe Wanastart decides to start an Internet based business. He reads one of my print ads and orders my little booklet How to Buy Books for Pennies and Sell Them for Dollars on the Internet.Joe goes to yard sales and bargains for books, never, ever paying the asking price. He goes to library sales too. He hauls the books home and stores them where he can retrieve them when he gets an order.
Joe pops over to Amazon.com and licks on a link that asks if he has a book to sell. He lists his books, pricing them according to how other people our pricing theirs.
Joe gets quite a collection of books. He decides to list them on Alibris.com and ABEBooks.com.
Joe saves his profits for investment.
Joe sets up a dealership with several book publishers. He builds a web site thinking he is in business. Some one tells him that he needs traffic to his site.
Joe pays a scam artist for traffic. The first time, he gets a few customers. Then he orders lots of traffic and gets zero sales. Joe has been bilked--but he is learning.
That is called the "school of hard knocks."
Joe list a few books on Ebay. He has an email address that is joe@joesbookstore.com. Visitors to Ebay see Joe's email address and they go to www.joesbookstore.com where Joe has placed a PayPal shopping cart at no cost at all.
Joe is in business. He decides to push a certain high profit book. He decides to try PPC. He gets kicked in the teeth by competition.
Joe tries national print ads. The cost is prohibitive.
Joe decides that he is not making all the money he wants so he thinks that maybe he will quit his Internet based book business.
Then one day, he goes to WAU and learns what he has to do to be more profitable. Joe decides he is only going to sell books on the Old West. Now he can focus on this smaller market with more effect.
Joe is learning.
Who says you can't teach an old dog new tricks?
Gee, this story sounds familiar.
Fly Old Glory
John
Internet Business Tool Center
Focus to Start Your Internet Based Business
Choose One Way to Make Money to Start an Internet Based Business
Article writing is a good way to start earning money on the Internet.To find a niche market, I use the tools at Wealthy Affiliate University and Micro Niche Finder which not only finds the market niche but provides the resources to write articles.
Perhaps you will find a good niche market and a good product for that market at ClickBank by studying your WAU lessons.
Now, if you have some effective keywords, meaning that there is less competition, you can focus by writing a keyword article.
I remember writing and article about that a while back.
Maybe if you Google "Writing 101: Writing the Keyword Article," you may find it. Warning: I wrote this article before I joined WAU so it needs to be updated.
You should keep writing articles that will make people want to go to your site.
Don't do any of this until you are enrolled at WAU.
When you get your article writing in gear, then maybe you can sell your product by paying for keywords at Google or Yahoo, but don't do this until you have your first method working.
If you have a web site, you will want to optimize it. You can learn to do that too at WAU. If you don't have a web site, the design and hosting is part of your small monthly fee at WAU.
WAU is the best training a beginner can get on the Internet, bar none.
What I'm trying to tell you that the cost of $30.00 is all the cost you have. You will not be paying or hosting or advertising unless you decide to go PPC. You will be taught free marketing methods.
Sign up today at WAU!
You have everything to gain.
Fly Old Glory!
John
P.S. I have written about 600 articles for the Internet but I was not doing things right to drive traffic to my sites. I was writing for the fun of it. Learn how to do it right at WAU.
Wealthy Affiliate and Micro Niche Finder Can Mean a Monthly Income
This is how I do it. You can too!
Read my personal review of WAU at Wealthy Affiliate ReviewThere is only one other tool that I use to make money other than the tools of Wealthy Affiliate University. It is Micro Niche Finder. You don't absolutely have to have it but I'm lazy.
Micro Niche Finder not only helps me to find a niche market, it also finds the research material I need to write articles.
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