Do you want to discover your passion and turn it into an ethical online home based business? If you do, the internet makes it easier than ever to reach your target market. This article will explore steps you can take to build an online business around your passion.
Here are seven essential steps for building your online home based business around your passions:
1. Discover what you are passionate about. Find something that has meaning for you. You don't have to find your passion to do something you love. I have found that people who aren't interested in what they are doing, give up at the first obstacle they encounter.
A technique I recommend is called the elimination technique. First, you write down all your interests and what you enjoy doing. Be sure to write everything down without censoring.
Second, eliminate anything that doesn't make much sense and arrive at a short list. Third, compare what's left and decide on which one means the most to you.
As an example, let's say your short list consists of online home based business, personal development and real estate. Compare personal development to online home based business. Then I compared real estate to online home based business. The winner for me was online home based business.
If you can't use this elimination technique to arrive at just one, no problem. Perhaps, you can blend together your passions to create something valuable and unique.
2. Determine the viability of turning your passion into a business. Find out if anyone is doing what you want to do. Competition means that people are making money. Look at what is working and what is not working, and determine your strategy for standing out. Ask for advice or find a mentor or coach.
3. Focus on who you can help, why they should listen to you, and what you help them with. Everyone has a different set of problems, and you need to focus on a specific set of problems to be effective. This enables you to speak to customers in language they understand. The "why" tells them why they can trust you to know what you are talking about.
4. Use a blogging platform. Blogging is one of the most effective ways of getting the word out about your business, if you know what you are doing. Blogs are excellent at attracting customers. You will need to build an email list to turn visitors into prospects who want what you offer.
5. Give your readers what they want by asking, interviewing and researching. Look at their comments and emails, and ask them about what they are struggling with. Get into their minds. You need to help them come closer to what they want. The readers have problems, and they need solutions to those problems. If you listen to what your readers are saying, you will know what to write about.
6. What are you going to sell? If you aren't selling something, you don't have a business. If you choose to create an information product or offer coaching or consulting, the focus has to be on who you are serving. Perhaps you can create an audio course, tele-seminar series, small e-book, or audio course. Once you listen to your readers and create a product to solve their problems, chances are that the product will sell well. Just keep the spotlight on your readers.
Most importantly, take action. Create it and get feedback. Then improve it.
7. "Feel the fear, but just do it anyway." Yes, we've all heard that before. The fear is a sign that you are on the right track. Just decide whether you will give into the fear or not. Pushing the fear away doesn't work. At least, it hasn't worked for me. What does work is accepting the fear.
Try this method that I learned from a coach: Observe the fear without judging or trying to figure it out. Then welcome it. Accept it. Let it be there. Take action anyway.
If you are afraid of failing, understand that you are going to fail lots of times as you build your own business. The goal is to learn from your failures.
Starting an online home based business is not easy. Get ready to put in the hours and work hard if you want to be successful. Building a business based on your passions will make it easier to stick it out when it gets tough. The steps above will help you turn your passions into a profitable online home based business.
Learn more about creating an online home based business. Stop by JC Dawkins' blog where you can find other strategies for building an online home based business.
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