There are 3 fundamental concepts for building a successful online business.

1. Killer Offer

You need a killer offer that relies on specific deals, or perhaps training. It needs to be tailored to fit your target market; your niche, that addresses one of your prospects major problems or challenges. They need to know that what you provide the solution.

The media for delivery for this can be just about anything, from an eBook, report, or video.

2. Your Target Market

How do you get in front of your target market? This is going to require some marketing strategies. My biggest tip for you here is to focus on less. Focus on one or two marketing strategies that you’re going to master from the beginning. If you try and implement more than that, you’re going to end up setting yourself back months.

3. Follow-up

People that are interested in your product or idea; your target market, will opt-in to anything you have to offer. This is why for successful online businesses it is important to have a strong follow-up strategy. Depending on what it is you offer, you can use different strategies to follow up, such as email auto-responders, phone calls, or perhaps consultations. The product or idea you offer, will determine the follow-up strategy you require.

There are only a few basic things you need for a successful online business, to get up and running in order to actually start seeing results. Instead of spending months planning, preparing, and getting things in order, get out there and start doing something! You can spend countless hours putting your brand together, getting your graphics in order, building your blog; but you may actually be delaying the success of your business.

Your goal should be to get your business out in front of potential customers, in order to see if your business and idea is going to work. This will provide you with valuable feedback you can use to make sure you get things right the first time. The last thing you want to do is spend months implementing something into your business that is just not going to work.

To get yourself back on track, ask yourself these simple questions:
• What can you do right now to actually start making progress?
• What can you do to get yourself in front of prospects?
• What can you do to get yourself sales while other things are being built?

Your product or idea doesn’t have to be perfect in order to get started. Some of the most successful entrepreneurs will tell you, that you need to get your product out there. Put your product out to market first, and tailor the fixes later. This can provide you with valuable feedback that you can use to adjust and develop your product.