The 8 Steps of Starting a Business Online
- Chose Your Products
Find the needs or demands, not the products.
Go to wordtracker
(commercial) or overture (free), and look for well-searched keywords (searched a lot of times). Then, find a product related to those well-searched keywords. Being searched a lot of times means a lot of people are looking. If you find a product which a lot of people are looking for, you can sell it a lot. - Other things you may want to know about choosing products
- Buy a Domain Name
You need your own domain name, not like YourISP.com/~UserName. You can get one less than $10/year. Though, don't buy any keyword-rich domain name. It won't give you a boost in search engine rankings. (At least, it isn't a significant factor.) Your domain name will be your own brand name, like aol.com or amazon.com. You don't want a keyword-rich domain for your brand name, do you? - Make Your Site
You have only 8 seconds or less to grab visitors' attention. If you fail, they are gone. Moreover, if you confuse visitors, they are gone. You need to make a website that people want to brows. - articles about building website
- Get Hosted
Forget about free hosting services; find a reliable hosting service. For conventional businesses, time is money. For internet businesses, uptime is money. - articles about website hosts
- Publish Your Own Newsletter
Using your own opt in list is the most effective way of marketing. Don't forget to ask visitors to subscribe to your newsletter. - articles about e-mail marketing
- Sell It Right
No matter how many visitors you receive, you cannot make money if no one buys your product. To sell your product, you have to do it right. - articles about copy writing
- sales techniques for affiliate marketers
- Get Traffic
You might already know that if your site is ranked high at any search engines, you will get a lot of visitors. But, that isn't the only way to get visitors. There are other things you can do to generate traffic. - articles about Search Engine Marketing
- articles about generating traffic
- Test & Revise
Successful online business depends on consistent analyst and test. So, always analyze the results and find flaws. As you correct those flaws, you will make more money. - articles about analyzing and testing
More info on running a business online
- An index of articles on making money online Website Promotion, Internet Marketing, and anything about making money online.
Affiliate Programs - another way to make money
- The Secret of Super Affiliate Learn why some people never make money on affiliate programs.
- Learn about Pre-Selling, the most important thing to make money on any affiliate program. (Free PDF formatted E-book)
- Online Affiliate Link Cloaking Tool
Or, read the e-book, How to Hide Your Affiliate Links, and do it yourself.