Generate Income by Providing a Service
A service is really just specialized time...you providing a service for someone in a specialized way that they can't perform themselves. And that's why there is value in it for the customer. But selling a service does take time, and we've all heard the saying, time is money.
Building a service business website is a great way to make money, but it shouldn't be the only avenue in which your website generates revenue. If you only sell a service, you're limiting your earning potential. So selling a service should be combined with selling advertising space and related affiliate products to help diversify your portfolio of money making streams on your website.
Working from home is one of, if not the biggest draws to building a website business. And selling a specialized service that you can provide either locally or globally is a great way to make an income.
What If You're Excited By The Service Selling Opportunity,
But Aren't Currently Providing A Service As A Business?
Think! Brainstorm!
What do you know, what can you do, what can you provide that others will pay you for? What are your passions and your hobbies? What is your current job? Everyone has a unique source of knowledge, a skill set, that can be leveraged into a service of some sort!
Your full-time job (past or present) may contain the answer. Perhaps it already involves providing a service for a "service corporation" that bills out your time at triple what they pay you. Guess what? You don't need the middle-man anymore.
Some ideas of services to offer from your website:
Building Databases
Copywriting
Editing
Bookkeeping
Computer Programming
Event Planning
Freelance Marketing
Mowing Lawns and Shoveling Snow
Travel Advisor
We mentioned it earlier, time is money, and people are busy. If you can provide a service to someone that saves them time, immediately they can see the value in the service. You could sell a service as easy as online research, or online shopping for someone. Believe it or not, people pay to have someone shop for them because it's too time consuming for them, and their time is too valuable. Saving someone time is the number one reason that service businesses succeed.
How do you Value an Oil Change?
Some people like to change their own oil in their cars, while others like to pay someone to do it. Either way, you're still paying the same amount of money for the oil and filter because that's the physical goods exchanged in the transaction. But for the individual that likes to change their own oil, they get satisfaction out of doing it themselves and getting the car up on ramps and the oil pan out and all the tools necessary to do the job themselves. And a couple hours later, they are satisfied in a job well done, and they know that they saved a few bucks by doing it themselves.
On the other hand, you've got the person that doesn't want anything to do with going to the store and buying the oil and filter, coming home and prepping the car and getting out all of the tools, completing the job and getting all dirty, etc. The amount of work and time involved in this task simply isn't worth it for some people because they value their time differently. So they choose to go to a Jiffy Lube or other auto maintenance establishment and sit for 20 minutes while all of that work is done for them, and in the end, it might cost them an extra $10 or so to have it done for them. If you do the math, let's say that having your oil canged for you at a service station costs you an extra $10 over doing it yourself. And if you factor in the amount of time saved by having your oil changed for you, we can estimate that all in all it saves you 2 hours worth of time. At an extra $10 to save you 2 hours...that's $5 per hour.
If you're someone that values their time at more than $5 per hour, then you're probably more likely to have your oil changed for you. But if you like the "do-it-yourself" approach and gain satisfaction knowing you accomplished something, maybe that feeling is more worth it to you. There are people that see this both ways....and it's the people that value their time more who are going to be your target market in the arena of service selling. And that's how you're going to want to build your website. Tug at the strings of your potential customers by expressing to them how your service is going to save them time and effort, and allow them the opportunity to pursue things that they excel in and allow them to be more productive.
When deciding what service you want to sell from your website, think about the way this service can be delivered. Can it be done through an email attachment? Will it need to be physically shipped? The process of delivery will determine how quickly you'll be able to complete jobs and get final draft or package back to your customer. Focusing on services that can be done over a computer will cost you less in processing and shipping fees and increase your profit margin, and also allow you more time to be spending on the service itself rather than the physical packaging and shipping of the final product.
For myself, I enjoy golf, and am fairly decent at it. I understand the golf swing better than most and the mechanics involved with it. A few years back I got into building customized golf clubs tailored to my own swing. I learned about it, took some classes, researched the different aspects of the components. And before long I realized, other golfers could benefit from having customized clubs tailored to their height and swing...and for a fraction of the cost of buying new "canned" off the shelf clubs from any retailer. I've started to customize golf clubs for family and friends and begun exploring the money making potential that this type of service business could provide if I build a website to promote it.
My problem isn't about finding "a" topic to build a website business with, it's a problem of having too many ideas and not knowing which one(s) to capitalize on first. And recently I stumbled across Site Build It!, and have partnered with them to help narrow down my ideas and begin building websites one at a time.
Service selling is about problem solving. The problem for everyone looking for a service is a lack of time. That's why folks are looking for someone to do things for them. In every case, they don't have time to do it themselves, and in many cases, they aren't knowledgable enough to do it on their own, and the time that it would take to learn how to do it themselves would just suck more time away from an already limited amount of time they have in the first place. Did that make sense? It's all about time.
How SBI will make your Dream a Reality
And right now, it's time for you not to waste any more time. Start tapping into your unique knowledge and skills and allow Site Build It! to help you build your dream of working at home, profiting off of doing something you enjoy and love. You don't need prior knowledge of the Internet or website marketing or search engines or advertising or any of that. You don't need to figure out who's going to host your website or deal with all the technical side of things....that's why we have Site Build It!
Since we're on the Services page of the website, let me recommend an all inclusive solution to your work at home dream. Site Build It! captures ALL of the tools and resources you need to build your at home business. Building an online business hasn't been easier than with the tool set that they provide. From the very beginning of choosing a topic and theme for your website, choosing a domain name that will sell and reach people, the actual hosting of the website, building content that will sell, teaming you up with advertisers, developing products and most importantly, making your website visible on the web. Because without visitors to your website, you don't have a business. Generating traffic, free traffic is the key to any website business, and Site Build It! does an amazing job at explaining the technical aspects of making it work (not only do they explain it, they do it for you), and providing you an all-in-one solution with all the tools and resources to build, grow and sustain a profitable online business that offers you the freedom of working from home.
I encourage you to give them the opportunity. Look through all of their free resources and help you understand what they're about. And once you're ready to get started building your dream of working from home in your pajamas and making your own hours, just take that next step and let SBI provide you with every tool necessary. It's all possible with Site Build It! Take it from any one of the satisfied partners that have teamed with Site Build It! to build their dreams. And by looking at some of their stories, it will help you generate ideas as to what theme you'll choose to build your online business around.
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This video is about a half hour long, and it takes you through each step and everything that SBI offers in their dream building service. Cause that's what it is...a service that has collected all of the necessary tools and resources to build a profitable business online, so you don't have to go and pay for each of them individually and spend hours upon hours researching for you. SBI has done it all for you, and provided it at a considerably low cost. How much are you willing to invest in a work from home job that will run on it's own?
