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Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Starting an Online Business - How Hard Can it Be?

If you are interested in starting an online business there are a few things you will need to know! An online business can be as easy or hard to start as you make it. Lets discuss some of your options to help make it easier for you.

Tip #1 Starting An Online Business
The first thing you really need to do is decide what type of business you are going to start. There are many different choices available but, the most popular is 'Affiliate Marketing'. This is by far the easiest way to start an online business. Affiliate marketing means that you promote other peoples products and when someone buys you get a commission. These are products that are developed by other people, called merchants. Usually when you sell a product for a merchant you will get between 30% to 75% of what the product sells for. There are two great places to sign up for free and get your products to promote. You can either use Clickbank or Paydotcom. You should try and select at least 3 - 5 products to promote and then start your advertising campaign.

Tip #2 Starting An Online Business
Advertising your products can be a bit intimidating for most new affiliate marketers. You can advertise for free using 'Traffic Exchanges' or you can use Google Adwords or Yahoo Search Marketing and Pay-Per-Click. You can also use 'Safelists' (email advertising). It is best if you use a combination of them all. If you are not familiar with pay-per-click go to Google and search for free information about this topic. I would put a little money aside for advertising since it is the lifeblood of your business!

Tip #3 Starting An Online Business
Most everything you read on affiliate marketing tells you that you don't need a website. I really disagree with that philosophy. You need a site where you can control your products. You will need to create what is called a 'Landing Page' this is a webpage that pre-sells your prospects before you send them to your merchants page. If you don't want or don't have the money to set up a website then at least get a Free blog at Blogger.com or a Free webpage at Squidoo.com.

Tip #4 Starting An Online Business
Use article marketing to get traffic to your webpage its free and effective. Writing articles is an easy process to learn. Even if you hated English class in school you can learn to write articles. This is by far the best method to drive targeted traffic to your website 24/7. The articles that you write are like little sales machines that will work for you around the clock. There are several different free article directories to submit your article once you have finished it.

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