Mentoring Tips For Online Home Business Success

Can you remember how you felt when you first started working on the internet and how everything seemed so confusing and different to what you were used to doing? This is exactly how inexperienced affiliates will feel when they join your online home business and most of them will be very glad of your help and mentorship.

Here are some online mentoring tips and ideas you can use to help your new affiliates achieve success while at the same time contributing to the success of your own online home business:

The most important thing is to always send a welcome email to your new affiliates. Introduce yourself and let them know you are willing to mentor them and share your internet marketing experience with them.

So that you are in a better position to assist them try and establish what level of internet experience they have.

Email does not need to be the only method of communication. Skype is a free and easy online way to communicate with your down-line and is ideal for problem solving. As an example, an auto-responder is not the easiest thing in the world to set up if you have no prior experience, so if you both have your browsers open on the same web page you can talk your new affiliate through the areas that are causing problems.

Start a section on your blog with useful tips and hints e.g. ideas on setting up folders in their email client to file their emails, as well as in their Favorites to save the regularly used urls, time management tips and advice on staying organized.

Compiling a series of training emails that can be sent out regularly from your auto-responder is another easy and useful way to provide your new recruits with information that they need to get their online home business up and running successfully.

If you explain the benefits of starting a blog and show them how they can set up a blog they can then start the social networking train.

Try and prevent them from wasting valuable time searching for information by sending them useful links. For example: a step by step guide to learning html, how to add a stat counter to their site, how to set up a forum signature, how to open a Google Webmaster Account, how to make a sitemap, how to create an author’s resource box, etc.

Recommend they search for online directories to submit their website url to create more back links or recommend a directory submitter.

Stress the importance of SEO and show them where to find the best resources for choosing their keywords and optimizing their website for the search engines.

You could also send them links to articles you have written as examples of how to optimize for their keywords and add a resource box.

Explain the process of how to submit their articles, the submission programs available and give them a list of your favorite article directories so that they have a good starting point.

Recommend and help them create a lead capture page so they can also start building their own opt-list.

Send them free e-books that have helped you build your online home business.

It often happens that new affiliates start recruiting when they do not have much experience themselves so offer to mentor their new recruits too.

Be sure to share the internet marketing ideas and advertising methods that are working for you with your affiliates. Keeping them a closely guarded secret will only hinder the growth of your own online home business.

By mentoring your affiliates to the best of your ability and sharing your success tips, experience and knowledge will result in you experiencing more success with your own online home business.

About the Author:

Cynthia Minnaar works full time from home and invites you to visit her online home business where she will share success tips with you. Find out more about the online business start-up idea that turned into reality for her.