It is never easy to run a business whether an offline (traditional) or an online business. It seems that only a small fraction of entrepreneurs fail to sustain or grow in business, and collapse after some time. It is the traffic volume that matters. For example getting sufficient customers to visit your shop. Is online business similar like that in the sense we need lots of visitors to our website to make purchase and how to do that.
Running an online business is very different from running a traditional business in terms of the way you market/advertise, so you cannot really compare them. You are right. Very few (3 out of 100 people) succeed in online business mostly because they have no clue how to go about it.
You are asking how to get traffic to your site and how to get that traffic to convert, right? Safelists are a waste of time from my experience. There is a free Internet traffic set of videos http://bit.ly/ilovetrafficvideos that might be helpful to you. I would recommend that you bring your online marketing skills up to date, especially if you were doing online marketing in the same way you advertise for your offline business. Read the article called Why 97% of All Web Businesses Fail…And How You Can Stop It From Happening to You http://bit.ly/c3y2FA.
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http://www.LifeMasterNow.com/Janmck-Hilado is a young Internet Entrepreneur from Cebu City, Philippines. Jan Mckingley Hilado or better known as “Janmck Hilado” in the Internet world, believes that age and formal school education is not a hindrance in setting up your own business. At 19, the age when most teenagers are busy flirting, boozing, playing computer games or wasting away, Janmck remains focused to his dream.
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