[EP 06] 5 Essential Things Every Online Business Needs

I'm not going to lie, when Josh and I started out with our first affiliate site we made a LOT of mistakes: From the theme we used for our website to our reluctance to create a newsletter, the lack of acohesive "voice" to shoddy promotion strategies, we made nearly every single mistake you could make with that one little website.

Fast-forward to today and it is one of our biggest and most active websites in our arsenal, and we are incredibly grateful to have stumbled along and made a whole slew of mistakes right up front.

Why?

Because it allowed us to fail fast, and learn even faster. I mean, if it wasn't for those (at the time) humiliating slip ups we would never know what we know today.

We also started looking for different resources that could help finesse our online business, and realized there are 5 essential elements that every single online business needs no matter what industry you're in or monetization model you use.

"It will always keep changing and evolving. Like, what you start out with will never be what you end up with." - Jill

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Words of Wisdom in This Week's Podcast:

• The crucial lessons we learned from our very first website
• The #1 essential thing you will need to start an online business; it's so simple, your mind will be blown!
• Why getting your hands on a Premium website theme will make your life SO much easier
• An email tool that will build trust, clout, and repeat customers
• How to determine the key strategy that will ultimately drive people to your site and convert into sales
• The importance of knowing where your customer is and how to leverage that into business growth
• How are you going to make money? You'll definitely want to know the answer to this!
• The tedious task that you will kick yourself for if you don't start implementing straight away
• A handy little trick that Natalie Sisson from The Suitcase Entrepreneur shared with us
• This free tool will knock your socks off

Post-Podcast Resources and Honourable Mentions:

• Start screwing your 9-5 now with The Escape Plan
• Theme Forest
• Aweber
• MailChimp
• InfusionSoft
• PayPal
• Stripe
• The Suitcase Entrepreneur
• Tropical MBA
• Chris Ducker's list of 100 Things to Outsource
• Asana
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