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How to Change the Fortunes of a Struggling Online Business

Struggling Online Business

Is your online business reaching its full potential? Unfortunately, it’s estimated that over 90% of startup businesses fail and a large percentage of these organizations are online businesses. However, if your online business is struggling, the following tips can help to reverse this situation and turn your company into a more profitable, efficient organization.

Find an Experienced Online Business Mentor

Find Good mentor

In many cases, online entrepreneurs go it alone and start their online venture without any experience, training or planning. According to Corporate Business Solutions, ‘while many business owners recognize the need for a web site, most don’t have a clear strategy’. This puts you at a severe disadvantage and could be the reason why your business is not successful.

To address this problem, consider hiring an experienced online business mentor. These internet professionals will analyze your business and find out why it’s not performing as well as it should. Once the main causes of your company’s failings have been identified, a mentor will suggest ways to improve your current situation by showing you how to plan, market more effectively and much more.

Market Research and Targeting Your Customers

Targeting customers

A large number of online businesses don’t fully understand their market and the needs of their potential customers. As well as this, many online organizations advertise to the wrong people and don’t target their ideal customers instead, which can waste a lot of money and produce poor business results.

All of these issues can be solved by carrying out the appropriate market research. The results of this research should tell you a lot about your customers, including their likes, their dislikes, their location and what type of products and services they need. By conducting market research surveys, you can create much more powerful online marketing campaigns that are more likely to attract people who will purchase your products or services.

Test and Track Your Online Activities

Growing a profitable online business is an ongoing process and you need to continually test and track all of the activities that take place in your business. For example, everytime you carry out an online marketing campaign, it’s vital to record and analyze the results of each campaign. If you do this, you will be able to identify and avoid marketing activities that you’re wasting money on and focus on activities that are proving to be profitable.

In most cases, online entrepreneurs don’t fully understand the difficulties of starting their own online business. As a result, their business fails to gain momentum, but you can rectify this problem by following the tips above.

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6 Comments

  1. Hello Suprabhat,

    Great tips over here 🙂

    Before starting up an online business we need to do a lot of homework, so that we do not need to fall on the wall with our face
    first.

    What type of market are we going to hit, what customers do we need to find, who will be interested in our product and services.

    Thanks for the sharing this among us.

    Shantanu.
    Shantanu Sinha recently posted…How to Build Your Audience Before a Product LaunchMy Profile

  2. Hi Suprabhat,

    Nice tips. The importance of effective market research can’t be overemphasized. Last time, I enrolled some students on how to carry out an market research for their business ideas. I made so much money teaching that. It opened me up to how ignorant many people are about their industry.

    Thanks for sharing this.

  3. Great article on how to turn your struggling online business to fortunes.It is really necessary to hire an online Business mentor if you have no experience in online marketing and also if you are unaware of your target audience.Market research and tracking of your online activities are really important for your online business.

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