The steps to starting a small business online can be systematically approached. First determine weather you will be selling your own product or service or someone else's. Since you will be building your business online you can also join a business opportunity such as an mlm and do extremely well.
One rule of thumb in choosing something to do is find something you love and are passionate about. Your service could simply be educating other like minded people about a particular subject. There are more ways to make money online than just providing a product or service.
Next, you will need to register a domain name. Godaddy.com is as good as any. Try to choose a dot com as your customers are more familiar with them. Try to have the name of your business in your domain if possible. For example if you want to sell mason jar candles then try to find a domain name like.masonjarcandles.com or ilikemasonjarcandles.com or masonjarcandlesforyou.com. You may have to enter different domain names until you find one you like that is not taken.
Next you need a website. This can be daunting but I highly recommend it because this becomes your location. You will want a site you can begin linking to and providing content for. You can go to google.com and type in website building or free website creation and you will find several choices. Yahoo has a great service that is very inexpensive and easy to use.
You are well on your way to becoming the next internet millionaire so what is missing? Ah...traffic. You could have the cure for cancer and it would do you little good if you do not have people coming to your website to find out about it. The best way to generate traffic that I am aware of is writing articles. It is free and they will pay dividends for years to come as they move through cyber space. You can also use these same articles to add pages to your website which is very important as your customers like content.
After you write your first article you need to submit it so it gets out on the net. The best service I have found for this is Unique Article Wizard. You can find a link to their site by going to my website. With this service you will be able to submit an unlimited amount of articles each month to up to 9,000 different article directories and websites. A truly incredible service.
The last step I cannot stress enough is to write and submit an article two or three time a week. If you are consistent you will have long term success.
To summarize the steps to starting a small business online you need to first decide what you are going to do. Next register a domain name and then build a website. After that it is just a matter of driving traffic to your website and the best way I have found is by writing articles and submitting them with Unique Article Wizard. Doing this 2 or three times a week consistently will provide a steady stream of traffic to your website for years to come.
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Zach Alled is a full service tax preparer and is also marketing the Infinite Potential Forum This Forum is enjoyable and free to register with. Also click on Zach Allred's main website which promotes Home Based Businesses.
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