Saturday, August 2, 2008

Getting Started With An Internet Dating Business

By Ade Carone


Ask yourself some questions before you try to start an internet dating business. Do you know what kind of competition you are up against? Do you have a business plan that you can follow step by step?

If you don't know very much about web design or coding you may be a little bit leary about starting your dating business. Don't be. Get yourself an easy to use dating site script and install this on your web server.

Now that you have a website on the net, you should begin to look at ways you can get people to visit your site and ultimately join or sign up. Finding targeted prospects is done through advertising or website promotion.

If you don't have a lot of money to spend on advertising, a great alternative would be to optimize your website so that it ranks well for words of your choosing. Imagine if your site ranked in the top 5 results for "online dating".

If you want to use paid advertising as a testing ground, this is also a good idea. By doing a little testing on select keywords, you can find out which ones are profitable and then try to rank your site for those.

The three main categories of running any kind of online business include research, planning, and executing that plan. Do this and you will be ahead of the game.

Keep in mind that you will want to provide some sort of customer rep for your visitors. People have questions and if there is no support from a website, you won't have very much business at all.

If you think this is too much to handle, give affiliate marketing a try. By selling someone else's stuff, you never need to provide customer service, and all you do is collect the check. Search Google for more information on that topic.

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