Where to Start with Your Home Based Web Business

Once you have decided that yes, you do want to capitalize on your own home based Internet business the first question that you will likely encounter is where to start first. There is so much information readily available that it can often be overwhelming. There are many complete Internet marketing courses being sold online of which some are very good but you need to make sure that you are going to benefit from them and not just the person selling them to you. The good thing about going this route is that these are the people who have already done a lot of the work and they have a much bigger picture of how to go about making bigger profits.

Maybe though, as you are just starting, you do not know where to begin or in which direction you should be headed. First, you need a website because without one you do not have a business. That is the second agenda because the first is what are you going to put on that website?

Think about what you have to bring to the table, what are you good at, what would you like to sell or what service can you provide, what problems can you solve for other people, and what do you know about that you can create your own little niche rather than contribute to an already flooding market? Once you have made this decision then you can get going on the website and likely have everything rolling well within one month.

Understandably you probably want to know when you will see a profit and that is a legitimate question, unfortunately one that no one has the answer to. Remember you are getting the straight up facts here so these are just the facts. First, what is a profit? It means that you are making more money than you are spending. That could be as little as $100 or as much as $20,000 a month. Your success will depend on how quickly you implement and correctly apply the techniques you are learning today.

There are three basic key elements that you need to be successful with your home based Internet business
1) create a website that is designed to sell. Every orifice of your website must in some way lead to getting your visitor to buy whatever you are selling

2) build huge amounts of traffic because without it you are doomed. It might sound harsh but first when you think that things will be hard, they will but if you think things will be easy then they will be easy. But you can build traffic by submitting articles to ezines, listing your websites with the major search engines, and blogging

3) send out email newsletters as these are things that you can do to begin building customer relationships and those are what are going to carry you straight into hefty long term profits.

So as you can see it really is not that hard to do. Becoming profitable online requires you to, of course, begin with developing a product, how to and informational products are great! Design the website and keep in mind that there are plenty of sites that allow creating a website for free. This does not have to be a glitzy and glamorous website. What it does have to be though is effective. Drive traffic to your website and work on developing a customer relationship that builds trust and repeat customers.





Steve Kimball
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