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Online Business Opportunities - The 5 Essentials

Online Business Opportunities - The 5 Essentials

Online business opportunities, Google finds over 67 million. How do you find yours? Finding the right one for you can be tricky but not impossible. Use the Five essentials to a legitimate online business opportunity: a high demand product that delivers value, a solid system, scaled training, paid up front with residual income, and a support community.

The product: Have you heard location, location, location? Well the same can be said for the product you're thinking about marketing. Does that product fill a need today? Is that product diluted in the market or does it stand out? How or who can duplicate the product? If that business opportunity stands out is not easily duplicated and is in high demand, you're in the game.

Does the opportunity have a solid system in place that allows you to leverage your time to do the work once, but get paid again and again? Plenty of companies are looking to recruit you to sell their product, with you selling, telling and talking to any Tom, Dick or Jane. A solid opportunity has a system that you do the work once and that work continues to work for you.

Scaled training: Can an absolute beginner to the seasoned business owner step into the online business opportunity and both stand at the summit with training from start to finish? Training is essential and the opportunity you pick should have training videos, live Q&A calls, webinars, self help as well leaders that guide you if you are stuck.

The entrepreneur paid up front on a $5-10k sale or the salesman paid on a $5-10 sale on the back end? Who do you think stays in the game longer? With $ 5,000 coming to you first, you pay yourself then send a portion of that $ 5,000 sale to pay the product cost vs. having to sell 500 at $10. It's the same $ 5,000 but you're paid at the end of the month and the opportunity is paid first. If you don't sell that 500 but you've sold 495 at the end of the month and day one starts again with sale number 1, where did the $2,475 go? Another point is how many streams of income for that opportunity, not to be confused with multiple products from the same company.

Next, is there a community of leaders that have the results you want to have? Are people in the community living the life you're wanting to live? How many in the community are top earners, what percentage are making $10k plus per month? Does this community have people from all walks of life as their rock stars, just plugging in doing the work and living the dream?

This starts to give you a picture of what a solid online business model will have in it. One more quick point is if you take away the opportunity would you need, use or want the product? If no, look to the next opportunity. If you can not stand up and own up to marketing that product and opportunity with a 100% conviction you have not found the right opportunity for you. Yes there are about 67 Million of them but a little research now pays big down the road.





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David Barr is the President of Venture Opportunities, Inc. David has been a professional business broker/intermediary since 1980 focusing on General Business Brokerage and Mergers and Acquisitions representing client transaction value from $400,000 to $20,000,000. Mr. Barr has handled the sale of over four hundred and fifty companies. David earned a university degree from the State University of New York majoring in economics and business. David holds the Mergers and Acquisition Master Intermediary and the Certified Business Intermediary designations from the International Business Brokers Association. He is also a Senior Business Analyst and a Texas licensed Real Estate Agent. For more information about David and Venture Opportunities, visit www.bizdealmaker.com. - Visit David Barr's Website

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Just a guy who got out of the carpet cleaning business at the end of 2007. Went threw quite a few odd jobs before I got in with Habitat for Humanity ReStore. A JOB I truly enjoy but knew I wanted more and could give back more. After a few months of getting stable after the odd jobs I got an email from something I checked out in the start of the odd job faze back in 2007 before getting out of the cleaning business.

It was different and yet it was having me jump threw the hoops like all the other internet sites. But the different intrigued me, so I got my disc. The disc made senses to me but the odd jobs really kicked in. Two years later I am working a job I truly enjoy, putting in more emotion and heart than any thing I have done before. Working with people that are just glad to have a job in this day and age. Working with a "store manager" who does not know how to close the register, unwilling to see this is a different store than the one he came from and the mindset of if its not broke don't fix it.

So I here myself saying to the manager after listening to him complain about something one day, "there is a million ways to make a million dollars, pick one a go" one day. So I got this email from the website I got the disc from and I took my own advice and picked my way.

P.S. if you want to know the list of odd jobs let me know there were some dozzies.

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