Why Your Internet Business Should Thinks Like Sam Walton Did
By: Jeff Schuman | Posted: 09th August 2007
Copyright (c) 2007 Jeff Schuman
The internet offers so many different ways to make money online at home that many times we give up and do not do any of them. One of the easiest ways to do this is to offer products and information to fill a need.
This brings me to a thought I had about Wal-Mart. I just moved from Denver, Colorado, to Imperial, Nebraska. One of the first things you notice going from a metro area of 2 million people to a rural area of 2 thousand people is how much slower the pace is. Everything seems to be going in slow motion. The next thing you notice is there are not very many places to shop.
Sam Walton knew what he was doing 45 years ago when he decided to build retail store in virtually every rural area in America. Even where I live there is a Wal-Mart only 60 miles away and people drive there to shop. It is just the way it is done. Don't you wish you had bought stock in Walt-Mart 30 or 40 years ago?
I have a friend who's grandma gave him Wal-Mart stock she bought in his name when he was a kid. She bought it in 1972 and he is sitting pretty good financially right now because of it. So what does this have to do with ways to make money online at home?
Here is what I see today. An Internet business is something you can make money on in every rural area in America, too. Then you could earn money in all of these small towns and go worldwide with the right kind of products. What if you had an opportunity to make money that you could also make money sharing with others.
Building a website that becomes a mall store is a great way to that. Selling products as an affiliate in your own mall store is a great way to do it. With affiliate marketing you do not need products, you do not collect money, and you do not have to ship products. Same thing with network marketing.
But how about getting a mall store like a Wal-Mart. If you had a website of your own that contained products people needed and used, and they did not have to drive to get, wouldn't that be neat. Unfortunately Wal-Mart does not have an affiliate program, but there are programs like My Power Mall, and others that you can join for free and make money with.
In summary Sam Walton sure knew what he was doing and he built the world's largest retail business from one idea. When it comes to ways to make money online at home we all have the same opportunity as Sam thanks to the Internet.
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Jeff Schuman invites you to visit his make money online website for ideas on how to make money. You can join My Power Mall for free and get started making money with him today.
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