I want you to be successful with a Christian home based business and that is why I set up this blog. I believe the internet is big enough that we can all make money without ripping anybody off. All we have to do is offer value. As you know I have talked about scams a lot on this blog because it seems like there are a lot of people who think it is perfectly OK to take advantage of others and relieve them of their hard earned cash. I don’t like that because it happened to me when I was getting starting.

I bought into a program that said I would make a fortune on line if I only followed their advise. When my $197 program arrived I read it and studied it but I didn’t make any money. Why? Because it really didn’t tell me what I needed to know to actual generate any income. They basically said, “put up a website and people will come and they will buy stuff from you and make you rich.” I guess it was my fault because it sounded too good to be true and, as usual, it was.

I have learned you can make money with an online business but it takes a lot of work. I read something very telling in a blog the other day. “Making money online is easy but most people are not willing to do the work required to be successful.” Like all good things an online business requires work. You first have to find out what people are looking for. You do this with market research tools. Next, you find out how to fill their need whether it is a product, service, or information. Finally, you use the search engines to drive traffic to your site by getting keyword anchored backlinks. That is basically all there is to it. It’s simple but it takes work finding the market, finding out what the market wants to buy and building the back links to get the search traffic. These are all things we have talked about and I will continue to explore because although it is simple there is a lot to know. If you find a program that offers you success with no work run away because it is probably a scam.

I have really noticed lately that there are more and more people who are shedding the light on scams. The Passive Income Online blog has had several posts about programs that claim more than they deliver. The post Get Paid To Blog: Is It A Scam talks about Today.com blogs and their claim that you can make money by blogging on their site. Go check her blog out after you get done reading this.

Lately, the big scam I have seen directed at people who want to start a Christian home based business is cash gifting. This is a despicable ponzi scheme that I have posted about before at Fight Christian Opportunites Online Scam. The scam goes like this: you join the program and then pay a gift to the people above you in the pyramid. The more you gift the more you supposedly get back later. Thus people give as much as possible because they are told 10 times more will come back. Then you get other people to join and they give cash gifts to you and the people above you. This is a classic pyramid scheme because eventually there are no new suckers to bring into the “business” and the whole thing collapses. The only ones who make out are the ones on top who set the whole scam up. Please don’t get sucked into a scheme like this because you are just throwing your money away.

If you truly want to start a Christian online business then continue to visit here and check out Grizz’s site. You have to offer people something they want and you have to get them to your website. That is all there is to it. You can be successful with a Christian home based business without spending a fortune on less than worthwhile programs and schemes.

When I started searching for Christian opportunities online I had a hard time finding any good information. There are a lot of web sites that claim to help Christians but they don’t really teach anyone how to make money online.

I was looking for a legitimate Christian business blog and I had no luck. That is why I started this Christian based blog. I want to help you be successful on the internet. There is a lot to know and you will not get rich overnight but you can learn to make a good living and do better than that if you want.

For a quick overview go to 6 Proven Ways to Make Money Online. That post gets you started thinking about opportunities. There are all kinds of business models that work online and one of the first things to do is start deciding what method you like.

Regardless of the business model every successful site must do two things:

1. Develop ways to get customers

2. Offer those customers something they want to buy

That is it. Every business is built on those two pillars. That is also true if you are looking for a Christian way to make money online. You still have to find customers and you have to give those customers something they want in a way they want it.

The biggest mistake new people on the internet make is they forget the customers. This is deadly to a web site. In reality the only reason you have a business web site is to satisfy the needs of your customers.

NOTE: There are a lot of web sites that are not trying to generate any income and that is fine. If you want a web site just because you are interested in the topic that’s great. If you just want to be a member of a community of like minded individuals as a social network there is nothing wrong with that. But don’t get a social site confused with a site to make money. Our focus in this blog is to teach you the information you need to develop Christian opportunities online to help you make more money in these difficult economic times.

Ok. We have decided we are going to develop a Christian business to make money on line. What is the first thing we need?

If you said a product then you are one of the 95% of people online who fail. The web is filled with sites advertising products people spent weeks, months, or years creating. The web site owner just knew people would want their newest, greatest product. So they work and sweat and put all their energy into creating the perfect new gadget.

Finally the big day arrives. The product is done and they put it up on a web site for sale. Our budding business person just knows this product will sell better than ice cream on a hot summer day. But, the first day goes by and no sales. The second day, no sales. After a week, no sales. Months go by and nobody buys the product.

What happened?

Our business owner loved the product.

He put everything he had into that product.

It was exactly the product he wanted.

And that’s the problem. He developed a product he wanted and not a product the market wanted. Remember, if you want a successful Christian business online you must give your customers what they want, not what you THINK they want. It is not what you want to sell that is important. It is what they want to buy that is the key. You start with an idea and then find out how the idea needs to be filled out to offer value to your customers.

Let me give an example of an offline store in my home town. A woman wanted to start a candle business. Now she could have said, “I want to make long, slender candles in pastel colors because I like that type of candle.” She could have made hundreds of different colored candles and then stocked her store and waited for the customers. But she would have failed. Why? Because her customers could go to Walmart and get candles that looked the same as hers for less than half the cost. The candle store owner would have went bankrupt.

But our heroine knew a little about marketing. She decided she would find out what type of candles people wanted to buy before she made any product. She asked her family, she asked her friends, she asked her co-workers, she went to stores selling candles and asked their customers what kind of candles they wanted.

She did what is known as Market Research.

She found out what kind of candles people wanted and made those candles. Most people told her they buy candles for the aroma not because of the shape or color. She thought about this and BINGO she had her product.

Now our candle business owner offers candles fragrances from Sea Breeze to Desert Sage. Her customers love them. Is her store successful? You bet. In fact she now owns four stores in the surrounding area and also has a great online web store.

Why is her business successful? Because she produced what the market wanted. Not what she wanted. Give the people what they want and you will be successful.

Recap: Find out what your customers want and sell it to them. This is the key to any business including a Christian opportunities online business.

Our prayers are with you.