This article can determine the success or failure of your internet marketing strategy. You see, there is ONE question that anyone starting out with a home-based business opportunity NEEDS to have answered:

“How do I make money online in the fastest, easiest and most effective way? How can I do this while working with what I love and helping people I like to be associated with?”

The answer is simple. You follow these 10 steps:

1. You need to focus on a specific target market that you love and want to work with for a lifetime.

This makes it easier for you to stay motivated, gives you more satisfaction in life, and allows you to earn a very good living in the process. Target a market you’d love to work with, even if you didn’t get paid for it. Choose a group of people with whom you can identify.

2. The purpose of your home-based business should be to help your customers, not take their hard-earned money and run.

That’s useless in the long run, and if you’ve been thinking about it, you might as well drop the project. Please make sure you understand this universal truth deeply enough. If you have a sincere desire to help your customers, everyone wins and you will be much more successful.

3. Your primary goal is to build a large database of lifetime customers in your market who trust you, appreciate you, and value your recommendation.

A one-time sale is worth nothing. A good relationship with loyal customers is worth a fortune in your internet marketing strategy. That is the most valuable thing any business can have. The key here is to build your big list of “lifetime customers who trust you.” Achieve this and you are set for life.

4. To do this, sell your prospects something that solves their common problems and helps them achieve their dreams.

It doesn’t have to be a complete book, it doesn’t have to be complicated, but you have to have your own product to build this relationship. It is not enough to resell someone else’s things. Giving something away is not enough. By having your clients pay YOU for the solution, you will earn their trust immediately and they will listen to you from then on. Your front-end product should make your customers extremely satisfied.

5. You need to create a proven and optimized sales process and automate it as much as possible.

You need a powerful sales letter that converts the maximum number of prospects into paying customers. If you don’t want to lose money, it’s vitally important that you test every step of your sales process to achieve the best results. You need to test the effectiveness of your sales letter, your ads, your pricing, and your back-end strategy. Once you know the winners, you can easily optimize your results and increase your profits.

6. You should start a reseller program and let other business owners recommend your product on their listings.

Many have a great relationship with a lot of people, and you can take advantage of that relationship. All you have to do is contact these business owners personally and offer to do a joint venture deal where you split the profits. Many will be happy to accept your offer and it will bring you loads of new customers in no time.

7. You want to build your valuable customer database for life quickly and for free.

You can do this in a number of ways, but there are some easy methods you should combine: free advertising, viral marketing, joint venture agreements, and large-scale advertising. The key here is that as long as you break even or make a profit on the first sale, you can basically build your database of loyal customers as big as you want instantly and for free. From there everything is profit.

8. From now on, just continue to build your relationship with your customer list by helping them solve their problems and achieve their goals.

Do this by recommending information, products, and services that will help your customers. All you have to do is create joint ventures and resale agreements with other business owners to make money in the process – you split the profits. This is your back-end strategy, and this is where you make REAL money.

9. Always, always over-deliver on your promises. Take good care of your customers and subscribers.

Treat them like you would treat your best friend. Again, your main goal here is not just to “make money” but to actually HELP your customers. Never recommend a product to them that you wouldn’t recommend to your best friend. Always keep their interests in mind and satisfy their needs and desires. Do this and you should be successful.

10. Continue this process from now on and you will make a fortune.

Keep selling your front-end product to add new customers for life to your list for free. Please continue to help them achieve their ultimate goals by recommending additional good and related products. You will live very well and enjoy life to the fullest, all while doing what you love. And you’ll make lots of new friends in the process.

That’s all.

Do you realize how powerful this system really is? Follow it, and you will not be able to fail. Take your time to think about it. It may sound simple, but that’s really all there is to it.

Many people try to overcomplicate things, only to end up confused and frustrated. Don’t let the simplicity fool you – when you have all these steps in place, you SHOULD be successful.

Now, work is needed to set everything up. No business is easy to start. However, if you follow this plan you will have a great time in the process. And the rewards are MORE than worth it.

Remember friend, the most difficult thing is always to start. So do it now! You will remember this day for a long, long time.

Think big.

A great future filled with freedom and a richer life is ahead… Cheer up!