HOW TO SET – UP YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS
HOW TO SET UP YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS
HOW TO SET UP YOUR ONLINE BUSINESS
So, you're thinking of trying to make some money online. A very good choice by the way! But how or where to start?
Well, the first thing you need is internet access (preferably high speed). Having your own computer (not too old!!!) is off course a great advantage. The way I see it, there are 3 major ways you can make an online business (Homebiz).
You can create your own product or service, sell it online and cash-in 100% of the sales yourself. Provided that you have your own product or service, this is a very smart choice!
However, if you don't already have your own product, it can prove to be quite difficult and very time-consuming to try to create one!
If you don't want to lose your time with creating something new and being bothered with customer-care, shipping, etc., you can start with AM (Affiliate Marketing).
With AM, you have 2 options : you can do it part-time (more as a hobby), or full-time.
If you don't really need the money, but you think it would be fun to earn something online (part-time), you can create a blog or web site around a topic that interests you (your hobbies, family, health,), simply "decorate" your site with some interesting AP (Affiliate Products) and just hope that some people will buy them.
If you're more serious about earning money (full-time), you can create a web site around one ore more AP's, and really start marketing your site, in order to get Traffic (visitors) and sales.
Whatever you choose, you will need to follow certain procedures in order to set-up the whole thing.
First of all, you need a web site (or blog).
Depending of your seriousness, you can choose a free web site (including site-builder, there are plenty of possibilities), or you can pay for a more professional site. If you want to do things seriously, you have to consider following options.
You can buy (in fact it's leasing) a domain. Statistics show that people who surf the internet, looking for information or products, are more likely to visit a site that has it's own domain (.com .org .net). There are plenty of companies offering cheap domains. The problem with this however, is that many domain-names are already taken (especially with .com).
Younger companies like GDI ( .ws) offer a solution for that, since the number of "occupied" domain-names is much smaller! You'll have a lot more chance of finding an interesting domain-name that's still available!
At the same time, GDI offers you the chance of earning some good money by promoting their company (commissions + Residual Income).
By the way, GDI (Global Domains International) is listed in the top 40 (#37!) of fastest growing companies in the US!
A professional web site needs a good hosting company. After all, you wouldn't want your site to go offline because you're getting too much traffic! And that's not even mentioning all the other services a hosting company gives you!
There are plenty of hosting companies, but one of the best (and cheapest!) is Host Gator. They too offer very interesting possibilities for earning money.
Next, you will have to create content for you web site.
If you don't have a monthly internet subscription, you should consider writing your content offline in order to save money! Think about "appealing" text, pictures, People must be interested by what they read and see!
That's how you take the first steps towards your own, online business.
Off course, this is how you would do it "ALL BY YOURSELF" !
There is however another option!
You can subscribe to a program that builds your site for you! This can be very cheap and lucrative! However, you should be very careful here, because there are many "scams" on the internet! Hundreds of sites promising you to earn thousands of dollars instantly (by only pushing a few buttons!) if you join their program for only xxx $! They even show you (false!) testimonies! Once you're in, you will learn that in order to get sales, you have to buy or rent some extra services, that will cost you many hundreds (or even thousands) of dollars! And even then it will take a certain amount of time before you start getting sales (if you do get any at all!).
These are the so called "Get rich quick" schemes.
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Once your site is ready to go online, it's time to think about your marketing plan. After all, you do want people to visit your site and buy, don't you?
That subject will be treated in my next article!
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