Building A Business From Scratch
Posted on May 14, 2008
Filed Under Internet Marketing |
I thought today that I might talk about how I started Encore Solutions from just about nothing into a company that helps people market their services online. As we are approaching our one year anniversary as a company, I was thinking about everything that we have gone through to become a successful company. Last July, I was pretty depressed and hated my current job. I wanted more than anything to be my own boss and help other people build their online presence through internet marketing.
I phoned my younger brother one day and threw down a business plan over the phone. He had no experience with internet marketing, but wanted to be a part of something fun and new. It was exactly then that I realized that I was going to be a business owner. As I thought more about what I was going to be embarking on, I was quite scared. I had no idea how a little guy was going to come into the industry and make it. I also wondered how I was going to finance such an operation. At the time, I was doing internet marketing for a market research (paid survey) company here in Orem. I had been taking paid surveys on the internet for the last few years from three companies and making about $200 a month doing it. I decided that I was going to sign up for three more companies and take my earning from the six companies and roll it into our business.
When starting, I had about $600 from paid surveys that I had earned throughout June and July and we spent about $300 more that we put on a low interest rate credit card. This paid for us to register our company with the state of Utah ($52), open a savings and checking account at the local credit union ($25), buy a book of company checks ($20), purchase a year of web hosting for three websites from a company called Host Monster ($116), purchase a killer website template to build our company website ($50), purchase Adobe Dreamweaver and Fireworks to help build our websites ($300), purchase an Article Marketer account to help promote our business ($200), and a few other necessary expenses needed for us to go into business.
Two weeks later, we had landed our first client and business exploded from there. Today, we have helped many different types of companies develop their business on the internet. Internet marketing is a powerful tool that can lead to greater sales and increased revenues. To be successful at anything today, whether it is starting a business or marketing your business online, you need a plan, persistence, patience, and dedication. Without these, you are destined to fail and lose a lot of money.
It has been a fun trip over the last year, especially with the launch of Web Vizion. I hope that this post has helped you realize what potential you have to make good things happen. It doesn’t take a lot of money, just hard work!
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Mainly the main strategy for the business to start from the scratch is to build the importance of internet marketing and seo isn’t it.
I don’t know that I would agree since using internet marketing and seo practically go hand in hand. If you want to jump start the success of your website and business, you have to be thinking short and long term…