Millions of people don’t know how to start an online business, but it is easy when you know how and anybody can do it.

The good news is that it’s also easy to learn how to make your online business ideas a reality, or to get set up online to sell other people’s products or services if you don’t have any of your own or have no idea of what you could offer.

There’s a simple equation we’ll start off with: 

It’s probably obvious that you can’t make money online without having each piece of the equation in place. You may choose not to have your own website if you sell other people’s products (known as affiliate marketing), however we wouldn’t recommend it as you need to have your own online real estate that no one can take away from you. We’re sure you’ll agree that it’s not sensible, long term, to build a business based around a website that you have no control over?

The next step in knowing how to start an online business is to understand the online business model:

Basically, you need to send people, or traffic, to your website and entice your prospective customers with a free gift in return for their email address. This gift could be valuable downloadable information in the form of a pdf/ebook, an audio file, or a video file. Or it could be a physical product if you want to obtain the postal address of your prospective customer – you’ll then have the option of asking them to make a small payment to cover postage if you choose.

The beauty about gathering email addresses or postal addresses from people who are interested in your offering is you have the ability to stay in touch with them, in order to build long lasting relationships with them. You’ll also be able to ask them what sort of solution they’re looking for to solve whatever problem they have. You’ll then be able to provide them with it, which equals Sales!

The step by step process to achieve this model is to:

• creating your website – we use WordPress.org as it’s very easy to learn and is loved by search engines as they want to find relevant information for their customers who are searching for answers

• placing a form on your website to gather the name and details of people who think you may have a solution to a problem they’re experiencing

• setting up an email autoresponder, which is a database to hold you prospect’s details, and pre-populate it with emails which will be automatically be sent out in a pre-determined timeframe

• setting up products or services for sale on your website

• getting traffic flowing to your website

We run two day hands-on workshops in London on how to start an online business, where we show people how to do all these processes, in just two days. Hopefully, that gives you an idea of the time commitment involved in getting set up online.

However, what do you do if you can’t get to London?

Well, we have an online solution consisting of high definition, over the shoulder, step by step, video training – so you can watch in the comfort of your own home and, in your own sweet time.

You’ll also be able to watch the videos over and over again as, when stuff is new, it takes a while to take it all in. That’s perfectly normal. So, take a sneak peek here:

Or if you want to discover more about and how to start an online business then click here now!

If you’re serious about making money online successfully, we’ve got some great tips on your 4 key steps to online success, which is a must read.

Finally, we all know how fun it is to share good stuff on social media, so leave a comment on Facebook below or tweet what you’ve read to your followers on the left there

The internet is only young. Think back ten years – would you whip out your credit card to buy something online? Unlikely! Nevertheless, in the space of a few short years, you’ve probably ordered groceries online; downloaded music; purchased books; reserved a restaurant table; researched a holiday; watched a YouTube video; read the news, or checked the weather forecast.

The internet was ‘born’ for public use in 1991, so is now out of infancy, but it’s growing up fast and is changing the shape of modern life.

Radio took 38 years to reach 50 million listeners; TV took thirteen years to reach 50 million viewers; Facebook took under half a year to get 50 million users, thereby creating a fundamental shift in the way we communicate, and in the way we build communities.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web, says in his book Weaving the Web, that he wants the internet to remain accessible to everyone, to be non-proprietary and not governed by any one body, and to be free (hardly anything was free ten years ago!). However, he admits, there is still much work to be done as the World Wide Web develops and new issues arise.

Censorship, privacy, and security issues have made huge advancement over the past ten years, as most people now trust the internet, rely on it, and can’t imagine life without it. It’s a big part of most people’s lives now.

It really is a revolutionary medium, just like the birth of automated machinery in factories during the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. It created wealthy prospects for those who were willing to take risks and embrace change; the internet provides even more possibilities today. Why? Because there are virtually no barriers to entry, the investment required is negligible, and the internet is freely available around the globe.

The internet is dramatically impacting the world and is providing practical people with unlikely money making options. It has altered the way people do business.

Given that it’s out of its infancy and people have grown to depend on it, you have the biggest and best advantage to make the most of this situation, right here, right now. As the internet itself matures, and is further refined, more and more people will avail the openings it presents.

Living a Laptop Lifestyle is just for you savvy people who are prepared to grab the bull by the horns, embrace change, and make the most of the huge opportunities provided by the internet.

Why not open your eyes to the money making opportunities that exist on your laptop or computer, right in your own home? Why not shy away from traditional employment and gear up for the future? Why not live the laptop lifestyle – a lifestyle where you can just whip out your laptop anywhere in the world – and make money!

Join the growing army of thousands who are already living a laptop lifestyle – those who have already ‘seen the light’, and were willing to take an educated risk, as they had the faith and foresight to take action, to live a life of choice, and to live a life on their terms.

The internet is big enough for everyone, so don’t think you’ve missed the boat. There are millions of avenues to go down. We all have different personalities, and people have a myriad of problems needing to be solved which provides the profit potential out there. People’s problems are growing and growing – creating more and more openings to solve those problems. Just consider the growing levels of obesity in the western world and the size and value of the weight loss market. It’s a $60 billion market in the US alone – what if you could earmark just 1% of 1% of that?

Another way to think about it is: there is enough money and wealth in the world for each and every person to have $1 million each. If you haven’t got yours yet, the internet provides you the chance to get it.

But what about the thousands of people who attempt to make money online, but burn and fizzle. They become overwhelmed with too much information, don’t know where to start or what step to take next, are afraid of technology, or think about things too much instead of taking action.

And spare a thought for the people who are not aware of the opportunity at all!

That’s why we’ve written Living a Laptop Lifestyle – to avoid such frustrations and to overcome the barriers. To provide simple advice, which anyone with no experience, can follow.

Are you ready to begin the journey to reclaim your life by making money online (no experience required)? Click here right now.

Gosh, we’re already half way through January …

So we wanted to share our online business predictions for 2012 to see what they might hold in store for your online success.

We prepared these slides for a webinar we presented to the members of The Six Figure Mentors the other night, and got some great feedback:

What are your plans and goals for 2012?

Don’t forget it’s an Olympic year this year, so we hope you’ve planned Olympic sized goals.

And how do our predictions impact your goals?

So what do you think the big changes will be in the oline world this year?

Do you agree that mobile websites are going to be huge this year? And if so, would you like to have one that looks like this on below?:

We’ve built it ourselves on our own domain so that our customers can find us on their mobile phone when they’re on the move, or have idle time on their hands.

Go on, go and have a look at GregAndFionaScott.com on your own mobile, just to check it out.

Having a site built for viewing on a handheld mobile device is also great for SEO as Google loves mobile seeing as it’s invested millions and millions into Google+ and Android.

We’d love to hear what you think mobile websites in the comment box below.

Wishing that 2012 is the year of your success 

Hi, it’s Greg and Fiona here,

We’re spending the end of 2011 and the start of 2012 in the French Alpes skiing, as that’s what we love doing.

We are doing a wee bit of work as well, as we’re happy to work wherever there is a good internet connection, so we took a short bit of time out to record a really quick message for you from the slopes. Just click to view:

So please relax, have a chill time, make the most of the holiday break, and get ready for a fabulous 2012.

Very Best Wishes

There’s an awesome tool that you need to know about that increases your productivity in your online business. It connects many of the different social media websites allowing you to automate a large number of the tasks you usually perform.

For example, every time you create a status update on Facebook, you can automatically post a tweet to Twitter, or create a post in WordPress, send an email to someone, or receive a text message; the list is endless.

So what is it and how does it work?

The tool is called “If This Then That” and you can find it online at ifttt.com.

The concept might be slightly tricky to grasp but when you get the idea and see how easy it is to use, your head will spin with the possibilities.

Think of it as follows: You do something on a website that TRIGGERS an ACTION to be performed on another website.

So “If this then that” works as:

If TRIGGER (on one website) then ACTION (on another website)

The trigger can be something like uploading a photo to Facebook, creating a new post in WordPress, or creating a new tweet in Twitter. When you do one of those it creates a TRIGGER to perform an  ACTION on another website. The ACTION could be something like sending a text message to you, adding a file to Dropbox, in fact one of hundreds of different actions.

Let’s have a look at an example:

We get hundreds of emails in gmail every day, so sorting through them is a nightmare. There’s one or two emails we get that we do want to receive but finding them is very difficult. So we actually want to save the emails we select in one single place, automatically.

To do that, it’s easy to create a new task in ifttt.com. Then create a trigger that says, whenever we get an email from this person, we want an action that automatically copies it to Evernote. Evernote is another handy tool you can save all those ideas and notes into one easy location.

It’s extremely powerful what you can do with ifttt.com. To see it in action check out this slideshow. Once you’ve got your head around that, go to ifttt.com, open a free account and have a play!

PS. We just worked out that with a selection of only the more popular websites in ifttt.com like WordPress, gmail, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter there are over 450 possible ways of automating stuff for you! That’s just the tip of the Iceberg. So go ahead and get an account to make your life easier.

Why not share some of the tasks you’ve created in the comments section below!

We’ve been members of THE best online training and support community for a whole year now, and absolutely love it. But, we’ve also met a few people who, quite rightly, still have some unanswered questions about it and wonder if it’s right for them.

So we thought we’d share with you some of the questions we’re most frequently asked about The Six Figure Mentors:

Is Six Figure Mentors just MLM?”

“Is it an internet scheme?”

“Does it REALLY work for the average person?”

We get these questions from people who are sick and tired of their daily job commute, but are sceptical and don’t want to jump into anything without doing their due diligence or research first.

That’s exactly what we advise. Be sceptical until proven otherwise and always do your research or ‘leg work’ first.

The online home business world is full of horror stories and scams that don’t work. We know, as we’ve fallen for some of them! Therefore, we never recommend anything we haven’t tried and used successfully ourselves.

So here are a few facts about the Six Figure Mentors which are all well documented:

• It’s not permitted to sell or prospect in the Six Figure Mentors community or website, so it’s a ‘safe’ place to be to avoid temptation of buying ‘shiny objects’ that you don’t need

• It’s not MLM

• It’s designed for the average person without any formal business experience (Co-Founder Stuart dropped out of College)

• You don’t need advanced technical skills (You just need to follow step by step training)

• It’s recession-proof (Six Figure Mentors has seen record growth during the current “great recession”)

• You can start with as little as 30 minutes a day (a true “lunch time business” and perfect for daily commuters)

• It has helped thousands of people – from taxi drivers, waiters and doctors… to high level executives, property investors and other professionals trapped in the corporate rat race.

• You have access to unlimited email and live support

• It works fast (You can get started in the next few minutes)

• It’s great for both introverts and extroverts

Those are just the questions we’re most frequently asked, so if you have any other questions, feel free to ask us – we’d be happy to help.

Or, just check it out by clicking here.

Recently we holidayed in Vermont, North America, but were still able to do a bit of work on our online home business as we had our laptops with us, plus we made sure we had a reliable internet connection.

Unlike our friends, we didn’t have to rush home to be back at work on Monday, so we had more flexibilty and were able to enjoy ourselves fully,  because . . .

Our online home business gives us the choice to work wherever we want and whenever we want. It gives us freedom.

So if you’ve ever contemplated being your own boss, controlling your income, and building lasting wealth, then you should seriously consider starting an online home business too.

Even if you’re more interested in job security than freedom, there’s no reason why you can’t start slowly, building up an online income, then sacking your boss when you’re confident about doing so.

If you’re relying on the government or other people for your financial security, and maybe think that entrepreneurship isn’t for you, you might very well be limiting your opportunities.

Some people might have a mental block around the word ‘entrepreneur’, or think that they need to have brilliant ideas, but the truth is: you don’t need to be that smart to succeed online.

So if you truly want to build your own income and your own free lifestlye, then we’re the best people to help you make a success of your own online home business.

We can help you get started in the best possible manner for you, after we’ve considered your personal circumstances now. We’ve created Internet Lifestyle Starter Kit just for you, to help you get started. So contact us to find out when you can start building your very own online home business today.

Please leave a comment to inspire others

We’re avidly in favour of grabbing opportunities as they arise – a perfect example being when we saw something most unexpected on the way home one day! We always have a camera on hand, so whipped it out to snap this mystical symbol of opportunity – the unicorn.

Just looking at the bigger picture – do you ever think that life is passing you by and not much is changing and that nothing ever happens to you? Well…

OPPORTUNITYISNOWHERE

What did you read above?

Hopefully you see that opportunity is now here and not opportunity is nowhere?

Simply being aware that such abundant opportunity lies at your fingertips is the first step to success.

What on earth are we talking about, you may be thinking? It’s the internet, of course.

The internet is young. Think back ten years – would you have whipped out your credit card to buy something online? Unlikely! Nevertheless, in the space of a few short years, you’ve probably ordered groceries online; downloaded music; purchased books; reserved a restaurant table; researched a holiday; watched a YouTube video; read the news, or checked the weather forecast.

But now, censorship, privacy, and security issues have made huge advancements to protect the consumer, so most people now trust the internet, rely on it, and can’t imagine life without it. It’s a big part of most people’s lives now.

It really is a revolutionary medium, just like the birth of automated machinery in factories during the Industrial Revolution 250 years ago. It created wealthy prospects for those who were willing to take risks and embrace change; the internet provides even more possibilities today. Why? Because there are virtually no barriers to entry, the investment required is negligible, and the internet is freely available around the globe.

The internet is dramatically impacting the world and is providing practical people with unlikely money making options. It has altered the way people do business. It is the source of opportunity.

Given that it’s out of its infancy and people have grown to depend on it, you have the biggest and best advantage to make the most of this situation, right here, right now. As the internet itself matures, and is further refined, more and more people will avail the openings it presents.

We’ve written a book for you savvy people who are prepared to grab the bull by the horns, embrace change, and make the most of the huge opportunities provided by the internet. It’s being launched in January 2012.

Why not open your eyes to the money making opportunities that exist on your laptop or computer, right in your own home? Why not shy away from traditional employment and gear up for the future? Why not live the laptop lifestyle – a lifestyle where you can just whip out your laptop anywhere in the world – and make money!

Join the growing army of thousands who are already living the internet lifestyle – those who have already ‘seen the light’, and were willing to take an educated risk, as they had the faith and foresight to take action, to live a life with choices, and live a life on their terms.

The internet is big enough for everyone, so don’t think you’ve missed the boat. There are millions of avenues to go down. We all have different personalities, and there’s a myriad of problems to be solved to match the potential out there. People’s problems are growing and growing – creating more and more openings to solve those problems. Just consider the growing levels of obesity in the western world and the size and value of the weight loss market. It’s a $60 billion market in the US alone – what if you could earmark just 1% of 1% of that?

Another way to think about it is: there is enough money and wealth in the world for each and every person to have $1 million each. If you haven’t got yours yet, the internet (and our book) provides you the opportunity to get it. Contact us to grab your copy in January 2012 when it’s released.

Please share this opportunity with people that you love by commenting below or tweeting on the link at the top of this post