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Many people know how to create an online business, but the majority doesn’t know how to survive their very first year! Many who tried have failed miserably; that is why we can mention such statements. Failing is just part of the successful wheel of the profits, but your situation will improve if you have good entrepreneurial skills. Do you know how to start and create an online business successfully?

You have many options to start a business online. Focusing on your passion, as many online experts advise, could definitely become a plus for you. If you don’t go with your passion, you may get in deep financial trouble soon, as you are not retaining customers due to your lack of motivation.

Build a business around topics you understand so you can thrive and succeed. Obviously, you are going to get some delays and partial issues – it is just part of the process if you are starting out. However, you don’t have to fail right from the start, even if you don’t have any experience at all.

Here are some suggestions to help you start on the right track on how to create an online business:

1) Select a topic that has high potential to make money and at the same time, you are self-driven to work on it easily.

How do you select a business with a big potential to make consistent profits? Pick a niche that is high in demand but have less competition. And of course, you must be self-motivated to work on it consistently.

Doing research is the logical step on how to create an online business successfully. Following your own intuition and having previous experience can be of great help too.

Keyword Tracker, Keyword Discovery, etc. are excellent tools in helping your research for a hot niche.

2) Check if there are already at least two marketers on the search engines providing their own offers on your chosen niche. Be it an information product, software or a tangible hammock for your enjoyment – check if anyone else is selling it online.

If nobody is selling it, it could be that the audience of that niche is not compelled to buy. Or it could be that you’re the first person to discover a hot market. You could test this out and see which of those two assumptions are correct.

This gives you an advantage with assurance; it provides you an answer that there are even more possibilities to capitalize on the particular market online.

If you find that there is a lot of traffic for that topic, you may be able to bring your own innovation by profiting from the traffic alone. An excellent option for such a scenario will be with the Google Adsense program. You can easily profit if there are thousands of visitors searching for particular information that is perceived to be of great value.

Whether it is with Google Adsense, selling your products or services, you have plenty of options.

Remember that creating an online

By: Jeremy Gislason

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 How I Created a Cash Pulling Machine that Pulls-In Cash on Autopilot? Part 1

by: Murtuza Abbas
 

This might sound like a hype that you can setup your own cash pulling machine within next 30 days and make some killer money on autopilot within next few months.

If you follow the plan that I lay down in this article, you will have your own cash pulling machine generate cash for you day in day out.

But there is one problem. You have to work hard initially. There is no get rich quick system involved right here.

Work hard, have patience and think BIG if you want to succeed on the internet.

Are you still with me? That's great. Check out these cash pulling steps...

Step 1 - Research a Niche.

Step 2 - List Building.

Step 3 - Product Development.

Step 4 - Website Setup.

Step 5 - Drive Traffic.

The purpose of this article is to show you step by step how to setup your own cash pulling machine within next 30 days step by step.

Lets get started...

Step 1 - Research a Niche.

Research a niche or a topic that you are interested in.

Lets say you are interested in setting up a dog training website.

Now research this niche. Visit google and check out top 20 websites as to what are they doing.

Check out their sales process. What are they selling? How they have created their website?

Do they sell their own products or affiliate products? Generate ideas by visiting these sites as they are your competitors.

Now grab some top keyword research tool like wordtracker or keywords analyzer.

They will give you demand and competition relating to this niche and also show you the profitability ratio.

This will help you to make a sound decision whether to go into that niche or not.

Your goal is to find out a niche that has sufficient demand and less competition.

Once you have researched your niche that you want to target move on to step 2.

Step 2 - List Building.

It is extremly important to build a list. List building involves the following simple steps...

1. Create a free gift in your niche.

2. Setup a landing page where you give your free gift to your website visitors.

3. Setup an autoresponder that helps in collecting name and email address from your visitors through your website.

4. Setup an ecourse that will follow up your subscribers for months with quality content and also sell your products simultaneously.

In part 2 I will cover the remaining steps where I will show you how to get started with your own product almost instantly.

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by: Ivana Katz

This is one of the most frequently asked questions by small business owners. They are feeling the pressure from their customers and competitors, yet for many business people it is a daunting task, as they don't understand the whole process.

In fact, many people are even asking the question whether they should have a website. Whether you are a consultant, florist, designer, builder, architect or a doctor, consider the many advantages a website provides:

1. Make money - Set up an on-line store or get paid for advertising from other companies

2. Save money on advertising - Instead of paying for large ads, simply advertise your website

3. Be flexible in your message - Change the content as your business changes. No need to re-print expensive brochures.

4. Exposure to new customers - You will reach more local clients as well as interstate and global markets

5. Having more professional image - Keep up with the times and your competitors

6. Save time - Don’t spend hours on the phone, direct customers to your website

7. Keep your business open 24/7 - Provide customers information when THEY need it. If you don’t, someone else will.

So what does it really take to get your website set up?

Step 1 - Register your domain name OR not.

The big question is whether you need to register a domain name or not. The simple answer is NO, but a better answer is YES it is a good idea.

What is a domain name?

The purpose of a domain name is similar to that of a street address or telephone number. The domain name directs customers to you on the Internet. The domain by itself is not your email or web address. The domain does form the base from which these addresses are derived.

For example: Company Name: QikPhone Domain Name: qikphone.com.au Web Address: www.qikphone.com.au Email Address: sales@qikphone.com

Do I need to register a domain name to have a website?

NO, you don't need to have your own domain name. Your website can be created and hosted without it. Your website address will look something like this: www.web4business.com.au/JBCleaning OR www.ozemail.com.au/~JBCleaning

The only advantage of not registering a domain name is that you will save yourself a few dollars.

The disadvantages of NOT having your domain name include:

1. If you decide to change your Webhosting company or if that company goes out of business, you will lose your website address. Your website can be transferred to a new company, but your address will change. And that means re-printing stationery and re-doing all your advertising, notifying all your customers etc.

2. Website addresses that contain information other than your company name are long and hard to remember and do not appear as professional. Compare these two and see which one you are more likely to remember: www.ozemail.com.au/~JBCleaning OR www.JBCleaning.com.au

So it is a good idea to register a domain name, even if it is just to protect yourself for the future. Say for example, your business name is JB Cleaning and you decide not to register your domain name for now. Along comes Joe Bloggs who opens his own cleaning business and registers JBCleaning.com.au domain name. After a year you decide you want to have your own domain name, but since Joe Bloggs already owns it, you won't be able to register it. Not to mention your customers who know your business as JB Cleaning may visit his website, thinking it's your web address and instead hire Joe Bloggs Cleaning.

Step 2 - Plan your website.

Planning your website is a two part process:

(a) Decide on the website design (colour schemes, buttons, special effects etc). This is your website designer's job. However, you may have a preference for a certain colour or look. To help you choose a design, you may wish to check out other people's websites or work with your web designer's pre-set templates.

(b) The content. There are many items you may wish to include on your website. The most common ones include:

1 Product/Service Details 
2. Contact Information 
3. Pricing 
4. Testimonials 
5. Frequently Asked Questions 
6. Response Form, such as "Join Mailing List" 
7. On-line Magazine or Newsletter 
8. Resources & Articles 
9. Guarantee 
10. Survey 
11. Events Calender 
12. Search My Website Form 
13. Refund Policy 
14. Privacy Policy 
15. About Us Information 
16. Site Map 
17. Copyright information 
18. Useful Links 
19. Media Information 
20. On-line store 
21. News 
22. Directions to Your Bricks & Mortar Premises

Step 3 - Choose a Web Hosting Company.

What is a Web hosting Company?

A webhost is a company that provides server space for your website. You can think of a web host as a commercial building. The web host provides space for your website just as a commercial building provides space for your shop or office. You can build your own building and you can host your own website, but because of the cost and expertise required it is easier to rent the space.

Which Company Should I Choose?

Webhosting companies are not created equal so you need to take a number of things into account when selecting one. A proven track record, experience and reliability form the foundation of any successful business partnership.

Some of the issues you should consider when choosing a webhosting company include:

1. Support - Does it provide comprehensive Technical Support - 24 hours a day, seven days a week?

2. Reliability - Does it have multiple large-scale links to the internet to provide a fail-safe path to your customers from anywhere in the world?

3. Security - Does it have a robust security system that minimises risk of web site intrusion?

4. State-of-the-art - Does the company utilises leading edge technology and is supported by a large-scale uninterruptible power supply (UPS) system.

5. Scalability - Does the product range and services offered allow your business to grow without impediment by making it easy to upgrade and add components to existing product levels.


Step 4 - Getting people to your site.

The marketing of your website is important if you want to draw visitors to your site. If you don't promote your website no-one will ever see it. There are a number of different ways of advertising your website. The best strategy is one, which integrates your existing promotion methods with your website.

1. Office Stationery - Including your web address and email address on your stationery is probably the easiest way to draw attention to your site. It's cost effective and gets your Internet presence out there in the market place.

2. Business Cards - When printing business cards you should include the individual's email address and main address of your website.

3. Radio Advertising - Radio Advertising should include your web address. Don't include the http://, try "Visit us on the internet at w-w-w-dot-qikphone-dot-com-dot-au". If your budget is limited, you may wish to consider community radios.

4. Email and Mail-Outs - Let your current customers know the details of your website. You can either send them an email or a letter/postcard. Keep your website's content up-to-date and they will keep coming back!

5. Print Media - Print advertising should include a generic email address for the company and include your website address. Normally positioned at the bottom right or bottom centre of your advertisement.

6. Search Engines & Directories - People looking for your website who don't know the URL are most likely to use an on-line search engine to look for your organisation or the kind of products and services you offer. There are over 300 major search engines and directories, but you should concentrate on the larger, more commonly used ones. These include: Google, Yahoo, Altavista, Anzwers, Inktomi, Infoseek, Lycos, Excite, HotBot, MSN, Dogpile, AllTheWeb etc.

7. Links from other websites - A good way to attract visitors to your site is through the use of hyperlinks placed on other sites. If you know of another site which has a list of links and you think your website would be a good addition, let the website owner know. You might also offer to provide a link from your site back to the other site. This will encourage the webmaster to include your site. You should also seek out partners for trading links including vendors, suppliers and providers of complimentary products.

8. Link Exchange - Another way to getting a link is through a system called Link Exchange, a free public service designed to help websites advertise each other. With Link Exchange, you agree to display advertising banners for other Link Exchange members and they agree to display banners for you. The System is automatic, you simply add a piece of HTML code to your web page and Link Exchange will display an advertisement for another website. The disadvantage with Link Exchange is that you don't get any control as to where your banner ad appears or the type of banner ads that will appear on your website. It is not possible to guarantee that a competitor of yours may have their banner ad displayed on your site.

9. Paid Banner Advertising/Affiliate Marketing Programs - Various sites give you the opportunity to purchase banner advertising on their site. Some sites will charge you a flat monthly fee while other sites will charge you based on the number of people who see your ad.

For more information about marketing your website read "30 ways to promote your website on a shoestring budget"
http://www.websites4smallbusiness.com.au/ArticlesIK30waystopromote.htm

Step 5 - Monitor your site's statistics

Your website's statistics should show who visits your website, where in the world they come from, how they are finding your site and what pages are being viewed. Knowing your customers is the first step in effective marketing. Most webhosting companies will provide access to this information free of charge.

Step 6 - Maintaining your website

It is important to update your website regularly to keep your customers interested. One of the great advantages of having a website is that you can change its content virtually overnight at minimal cost (unlike re-printing brochures and flyers).

This is just a brief overview of the process involved in getting your website up and running. In future articles we will cover each step in more detail.

For more information about getting your business on the internet you may also wish to check out:

Frequently Asked Questions About Websites
http://www.websites4smallbusiness.com.au/ArticlesIKFAQsreWebsites.htm

10 Tips for Planning an Outstanding Website
http://www.websites4smallbusiness.com.au/ArticlesIK10TipsforPlanning.htm

8 Tips for Designing a Great Website
http://www.websites4smallbusiness.com.au/ArticlesIK8TipsforDesigning.htm

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