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Thursday, July 26, 2007

How to Start your Own Business Online

Author: Vicknaeshwari Marimuther

How do you get in on some of the action on the internet? What you should know before taking the plunge:

1) What are you interested in? Look online to see if this is a popular topic. For the purpose of this article, we’ll take the example of online dating. How many times is this topic searched online?

2) Find out about online dating businesses online. Look at dating agencies. For other businesses, look at for example affiliate marketing programs, how many people have already built sites based on them. What does it take to be an affiliate of these programs? How much commission can you get? A good place to check would be Clickbank’s marketplace.

3) You are now sure you want to get into a certain business. What next? Check out web hosting companies. Get all the information you need on hosting. Choose one that meets your needs and is within your budget. There’s no need to get a costly one. You can now get web hosting for as little as $7 a month with most web hosting companies. Email the companies you think you might consider hosting your site with. If they take several weeks to reply it’s possible that you’re going to get really bad service from them. You’d best stick with those who want your business.

4) Choose a good domain name. Domain names are part of the sales pitch of your website. A good domain names reflects what the site is about. There’s no point in putting your name as a domain when you’re not part of the product list. Yes, most articles tell you to sell brand YOU. What they mean is promoting yourself, by writing articles and blogs about your website.

5) Get traffic to your website. Check out how to get good advertising and how to generate traffic. Launch ads on Google and/ or Yahoo advertising. These two are searched on more often than other search engines.

6) Find out what tools you should add to your website to generate traffic. Features like ‘bookmark this site’, ‘email this to a friend’ help to generate traffic. Work hard on getting the traffic to your site as traffic is half the work done.

7) Make sure to get an affiliate link scrambler. This makes sure that people are unaware they are clicking on an affiliate link. Often, people tend to close the link if they know they’re being sent to an affiliate site. Scrambling the link ensures you still get your money. Scrambling affiliate link also protects you from affiliate link thefts so that people can’t replace their hop links with yours.

The key to a successful internet business is being able to get the visitors to your site and to keep them coming. You will learn more about this later.

Remember to constantly work at your website to keep those visitors coming back.

To learn about how to keep the visitors coming back to your site, read my next article, You’ve Set Up An Online Business. What’s next?

ArticleSource: http://www.articlesbase.com/online-business-articles/how-to-start-your-own-business-online-186348.html

About the Author:
Vicknaeshwari Marimuther is the owner of
http://learn2earnonlinepackage.com/. She has written several articles on Helium.com under the pen name of Princess Cordelia.

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