Making Money Online

Again, I suggest knowing your targets, which I mentioned in my previous post above, because what works in B2C markets may be irrelevant in B2B markets. To drive a point, based on my experience from what I've been doing with my company:

1. In B2C markets, we formulate and implement mailing list building campaigns for our clients in our departments, and our clients are targeting B2C markets. They in fact need to build B2C mailing lists, because this promotes repeat business for them...

2. We don't build mailing lists of prospects and customers in our "corporate client department", because we cold contact them, tell them about a business proposal we formulated for them, then present that proposal to them to sign them up. And, our corporate clients have long term contracts with us, and that combined, as of this writing, requires 80% of our manpower base, which is equivalent to 160++ employees, individual subcontractors and subcontractor group partners of ours combined, so we just handle not more than a dozen at a time, and we add "bluechip" clients only after we significantly grow our manpower base by 50%. We have account executives and their assistants to provide real time communications to the executives and assistants of our corporate clients. Our account executives and their assistants handle our accounts in this department, with one account executive and his or her assistant handling one corporate client at a time, for the duration of the contract. Our corporate clients, when they renew their contracts, request for the same account executives and their assistants to handle their accounts, most of the time...

3. Neither do we build mailing lists in our "non-corporate client department" to get prospects and customers. Again, we cold contact them as well as implement direct advertising and marketing campaigns. And, our executive managers (and their assistants) handle real time communications between our non-corporate clients in this department of ours, at one executive manager and assistant per five to ten non-corporate clients (depending on the "size" of the contract, with "size" referring to required manpower resources)...

4. We don't build mailing lists in our "per batch order department" to get prospects and buyers. Instead, we implement direct advertising and marketing campaigns, in which these marketing campaigns for this department are mostly referrals of our corporate and non-corporate clients, i.e. Their colleagues, associates, friends and family. And, our per-order customers in this department are handled by our administrative assistants, with one admin assistant of ours handling real time communications between a maximum of 60 per-order customers per week. Yes, our WSO here falls under this department of ours...

5. For my personal blog, yes, I have a mailing list with my colleagues, associates, corporate and non-corporate clients, employees, individual subcontractors, subcontractor group partners, friends, relatives and blog readers, though I made this mailing list available to them so they can read what I write, in case it interests them and nothing else -- Yes, I don't promote anything to this mailing list...

At the OP, you can study relevant things about operating in B2B markets and the advantages this could bring over targeting B2C markets, and you can focus on these B2B markets if you decide that it's worth your while. With what you mentioned about $1000/month being enough for starters (for you), I believe you'd most likely be able to earn that with one non-corporate client. Just think of ways to help them with their problems and needs (which I explained in general terms in my previous post), then formulate an offer that they couldn't possibly resist, present that offer to them, sign them up, and deliver the targets outlined in your proposal and contract. At this point, you'll be growing and expanding your business in say two to three months time, with the right long term business plan along with growth and expansion attachment plans, of course. Here's a video documentary of what I went through to do this, which was developed by the Asia Pacific Development Center on Disability of the United Nations (they give this away in conferences and seminars or workshops about ICT, inclusive business and gainful employment and business opportunities for people with disabilities) and was uploaded by a good friend, Thomas Ng, owner of Genashtim and former Asia Pacific CEO (for more than 25 years) of Asea Brown Boveri, the world's biggest power engineering firm: