There are many Internet entrepreneurs, some have succeeded, and some are still groping. Are you also an Internet entrepreneur? What stage are you at? Some people succeed easily, while others have a bumpy road to success. Everyone's online entrepreneurship story has a different and exciting story. I believe that the end point of persistence and struggle is success.
On November 25th, the Admin5 Thursday edition chat event invited Internet entrepreneur Yang Wenjian to share his Internet entrepreneurial story, including the joy of success and the distress of failure. This edited version talks about some key points, welcome to discuss.
Question: In the interview with the guest, it was mentioned that the first pot of gold was obtained through the sales of agency space. I would like to ask the guest, are there still opportunities to be an agency space now? What issues should be paid attention to when choosing agency products when doing agency space, and what other issues are there? Is it a good way to promote?
Answer: As long as there are webmasters and as long as we are still building websites, there will still be opportunities in the agency space. Choose a space with stable space and fast speed when choosing an agency. I used the space I was an agent for myself for a year and found the stability and speed to be very good. Therefore, when you choose a space agent, you must first try it out for a period of time to make sure there are no problems with the space before you start selling as an agent. If you haven't used it yourself and don't know the situation of the space, sell it to customers. If there is any problem with the space, customers will definitely give you trouble every day.
Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Take a look at where the webmasters are generally active. Choose a place you are familiar with and find a promotion method that you can do. For example, if you like to write articles, you can publish articles on A5 to promote yourself as a soft advertisement. For example, if you are familiar with the discuz forum, you can be active in the discuz forum. Solve some forum installation and maintenance problems for everyone in the forum and improve your visibility. Before selling products, sell yourself first and find a platform to leverage on for development. If you have funds, you can consider purchasing advertising space online from some webmasters.
Q: I would like to ask, how do you view the SEO industry in the next three years? How will it develop and what new business opportunities will there be?
Answer: SEO is just a tool, an online promotion tool. Making good use of SEO as a tool to promote some products you can find around you is a good way out. Regarding SEO three years later, I didn't think about this issue. What I was thinking about was if I could make money to support myself today. Only by living the first today well can you live the first tomorrow well. Business opportunities are generated because of the needs of users. If you think more from the perspective of consumers and look at the products and services they need, you can develop good business opportunities.
For example, I recently discovered that someone was selling "birthday newspapers" on Taobao and sold more than 10,000 pieces in 30 days. Each birthday paper cost 30 yuan, while the cost of each birthday paper was less than 1 yuan. Furthermore, our old train tickets are also selling very well on Taobao because some people need them for business trip reimbursement. If you observe carefully, you will find many business opportunities.
Question: As Rodin said, as long as you pay attention to your surroundings, there is beauty everywhere in life. As long as you pay attention, you can also find many business opportunities. The guest is a person who is good at observing. Birthday reports and old train tickets are all the results of your observation. But many people are often insensitive to this information. Can the guests tell me some tips on how to discover business opportunities around you?
Answer: I have a friend celebrating his birthday. What gift do I want to give? Then I searched on Taobao and accidentally saw a birthday newspaper. I thought the theme of this birthday newspaper was very good. At the same time, I also consulted some of my female friends, and I said, if I gave you a People’s Daily copy of the year when you were born on your birthday, would you like it? Most of my friends would say yes, and they think it is very meaningful. So I went to research and found that the market is huge. The Baidu index of birthday newspapers is more than 200, and there are many companies doing Baidu bidding for the keyword birthday newspapers.
In fact, I think many friends should have seen the birthday newspaper product, but they have not studied and analyzed it carefully. Just like what you said, pay careful attention. In the end, everything in life is about making money. As an entrepreneur, we need to think about whether we can copy anything and make money when we see it. I remember that when I went shopping on Nanjing West Road in Shanghai with my friends, I saw a store selling antique notebooks. It was very popular. I searched Alibaba for the purchase price of this product, and the selling price on Taobao and Baidu. I searched and saw that no one was bidding. This is a natural habit that develops slowly.
As for old train tickets, I did not develop them myself. It was shared by a brother of our long-lasting station team in the group. I searched on Taobao and quite a few people bought it. At that time, I wondered if people would buy it because they thought it was meaningful, but I didn’t think so. Then I went to Baidu and searched it and found out that they were for reimbursement.
To sum up, there are two ways to discover money-making projects: observe them yourself and obtain them from friends or team members. The reason why Zhongzhuang has so many clever ideas is not because he is smart, but because he has many friends.
Question: The guest's self-introduction said: The outlook for 2011 is to build one's own core competitiveness. I would like to ask how the guest will build his own core competitiveness? Second, as an ordinary webmaster, how to improve his core competitiveness? , where can you start.
Answer: The power of one person is weak. My core competitiveness in 2011 is to build my own team. Everyone knows that there is no perfect individual, only a perfect team. For example, this time I printed "Earn 600 Yuan a Day". I would definitely not be able to do it alone, but it would be different with a team. Some people in our team are good at PS for book cover design, some people have the resources of a printing factory, and some people understand typesetting. I integrate these people and we can print the book.
How to build your own core competitiveness needs to be based on each person's interests, hobbies and expertise. Choose a direction you like, such as SEO, program development, template production, etc. If you stick to it for 6 years, you will become a top professional in this industry.
Question: How to start as a crazy Internet entrepreneur? Website building technology? SEO technology? Marketing technology? Management ability? Good eloquence and literary talent? And good project operation, all-round development or focused research on one aspect, how to be successful? Professional Internet entrepreneur?
Answer: Focus on development and choose one point to expand and expand. For example, a friend of mine makes soldering wire equipment. He uses Baidu bidding to promote his products. At the best time, he made millions of profits a year. He said that there are only a few pages introducing the products he makes in an industry book with hundreds of volumes. In the past, there were only three factories in the country producing this product. Customer demand was small, but there was a one-third chance that customers in need would find it. If the industry is small and competition is small, it will be easier to become big.
Question: I also want to make money online, but what qualities and skills do I need to have this? Thank you!
Answer: If you have a pair of keen eyes that can observe money-making projects in every corner of the Internet, then you need to have strong execution ability to copy and execute the money-making models you see.
Many people on the Internet are lonely. We must learn to communicate with others. In order for others to communicate with you, you must first make them feel that you are valuable to them. You need to learn to take the initiative to give and actively provide the other party with the help you can provide. Surround yourself with a group of Internet friends so that you can get the latest Internet information. One day of prophethood brings three years of prosperity.
Question: Will grassroots webmasters be successful? How many are successful? Grassroots webmasters have no skills and no funds. How to develop?
Answer: Successful people are successful in whatever they do, because successful people have the mentality and enthusiasm required for success, especially high-intensity execution. Every grassroots webmaster who wants to succeed must build his or her own core competitiveness and work harder than others. You can now have no technology and no funds. But you must have the ability to take action. For example, you can first go to an Internet company to access the Internet, or you can pick up some part-time Internet jobs. Feed yourself first, then seek development.
Q: The topic we want to share today is success and failure in online entrepreneurial experiences. What do the guests think is their most successful experience and what is their most unsuccessful experience?
Answer: In terms of economic income, the most successful experience is to do Google adsense through SEO optimization of U88 3158 and other investment keywords. In terms of personal growth, the most successful thing is losing all the accumulation this year. No experience can make a person grow more than losing all the accumulation.
The most failed experience was giving up a good opportunity. At that time, I knew how to introduce me to work in Guangdong Education World in Guangzhou, but I ran out on my own. I think if I were still in the company now, I could be on the front line of bidding and use the company's funds to learn how to bid. A friend of mine said that all good bidders are made through money. If a person invests hundreds of thousands of advertising fees in bidding and then constantly summarizes and thinks about it, he will definitely become a good bidder.
Question: It is mentioned in the blog that earning 10,000 US dollars per month does not rely on one website. How many websites did Wen Jian make at that time? What kind of belief is supporting you to continue doing it when the website is not profitable. Regarding external links, how do you solve it?
Answer: I graduated from college in 2007. At that time, I had no experience in doing website work and I didn’t make any money. I feel that after I graduate from college, I should become financially independent and no longer need support from my family. But I still needed to survive, so I had to go to friends and classmates to borrow money. If you ask me what kind of belief supports me, it is that I can live without borrowing from others. What's more important is that I have to prove to my family that I am fully capable of supporting myself. I remember that I promised my mother that I would give him 100,000. She thought there was no way I could make that much money and I couldn't let her down.
For the construction of external links, I mainly used friendly links at that time. I purchased a large number of high PR domain names in the A5 forum, and then sent the link required messages in the friendly links QQ group. There is no PR limit for the other party's website, and only Baidu snapshots of the website within a week can be exchanged. So many people are willing to link to me. When it comes to friendly links, I don’t care about quality, but I care about quantity. At that time, each of my websites had hundreds of friendly links, and I achieved a qualitative breakthrough through quantity.
Question: What do the guests think of the website group? I mean the garbage website group (such as Zuo Xuan Brother and Feather Brother who appeared during this period), not the boutique website group. To a large extent, SE will not consider quality site groups to be cheating because according to Baidu’s current technology, it seems difficult to stop spammy site groups. We can only rely on manual work. One site group will fall down, and the next ten site groups will rise again. .
Answer: I think the space for development of garbage sites is getting smaller and smaller. The responsibility of search engines is to display advantageous websites to users. There is so much time to build a garbage station group, so it is better to do a good research and build some valuable websites according to the needs of users.
I have been working as a garbage dump for more than a year, and now I don’t have any left. What is left to me is just a little profit. The garbage station is just a short-term project, just to solve our current survival needs. What we need more is to do some long-term and lasting projects. If you do this little by little, and accumulate over a few years, you won’t have to work so hard in the future.
Building a garbage dump is profitable, but it requires us to work hard every day to update the website and constantly add new garbage dumps. Too tiring and not worth spending too much time at the dump station. There are always some search engines that will empty the trash stations.
Q: What should you generally pay attention to when choosing a project? The Internet changes rapidly. In this process, how do you enable your projects to avoid various waves of risks and survive? Do you have any projects that remain unchanged, or which projects do you focus on? If things go downhill after making money, do you give up and switch to new projects?
Answer: There are risks when doing anything. Many of my projects have not been able to avoid risks and survive in the long term. Of course, this is basically because of the special industry of the Internet, where the survival period of many projects is only about three months.
I have now chosen a project that I can stick to for a long time. It’s about building your own team and your own network of people. People are the most valuable at any time, and they have their own team and interpersonal circle. Even if I fell into despair that day, my social circle would still be there, and I would soon be able to develop it again. Three Gangs of Men illustrates this truth. Today’s individual webmasters are becoming increasingly less resistant to risks. Just like a drop of water, it may evaporate at any time, but I can also integrate myself into the ocean like this drop of water, so that I can exist for a long time. The best way to avoid risks is to find a team and integrate yourself into the team.
Question: Nowadays, there is such a situation on the Internet. Novices can’t find a place to learn, and experts are unwilling to share. For example, most webmasters on Taobao do not make money, so various trainings have appeared. What do you think of this? What about planting?
Answer: Its existence is reasonable, and training exists because everyone has this need. If a newcomer wants to develop quickly on the Internet, the best thing to do is to find someone to guide him. If you want an expert to guide you, the best way is to give first and let the other person recognize you. When new people enter a new industry, they should not rush to work on projects, but first need to integrate into the interpersonal circle of this new industry. Ask less and give more.
Question: Today the guest shared some of his experiences in starting an online business. The successes and failures are very inspiring to webmasters. There are still many new webmasters fighting on the front line of the Internet, and they are also experiencing their own successes and failures. If you were asked to give some advice to grassroots webmasters, what would you say? What issues should be paid attention to during the process of starting a business online? Woolen cloth?
Answer: Any grassroots webmaster must learn to cooperate with others and find a team to join. The most likely thing to capsize in the sea is a small boat rather than a big one. The bigger the boat, the better it can withstand the blows of strong winds and waves. Now that the threshold for online entrepreneurship is getting higher and higher, grassroots webmasters must speed up their pace and accumulate their own resources and funds. So that they won’t be washed away by the next Internet reshuffle.
The most important thing to pay attention to in the process of starting an online business is to seek stability rather than speed. It’s not about how much money you can make in the short term, but how much money you can make in the long run. As far as I know, the income of many webmasters is quite unstable. They may earn tens of thousands this month, but many times they have no income and have to pay for domain names and space. So I suggest every grassroots webmaster to buy himself an "insurance". Find a very stable income project, or open some Taobao stores, or be a long-term consultant for a company, or often take some small orders.
Everyone has different highlights on the road to Internet entrepreneurship. Everyone is also experiencing their own successes and failures, joy and frustration. The road to entrepreneurship cannot be smooth sailing. No matter whether you succeed or fail, you must sum up your experience and experience immediately. If there are any shortcomings, set sail again where you failed and continue to pursue success. I hope that some of the ideas discussed above about Internet entrepreneurial stories can inspire you. Please also continue to pay attention to the chat activities of the A5 forum every Thursday afternoon. (Text/Compiled by Mengjiang)
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