Friday, November 13, 2009

Thinking About Starting A Home Business?

As a home business owner I can tell you that I would much rather be doing this than driving a truck like I used to. Having your own home business is much different that working a physical labor job.

I did own my own trucking company for years, however the economy killed the business that was so good to me for so long. I have learned many things since I decided to start a home business.

In order to start making money online, you should take the adventure as a real business and not a quick money making scheme. Being penniless and without a job is not the best moment to start an online or off-line business.

Money needs to be spent as an investment so any business can be initiated. Most of the people believe that everything on the Internet is free. They think that they can use a bunch of free resources to get started.

The drawback with those free resources is that the marketer is not in the driver's seat. Any free account someone has, may be suspended at any time for some reasons: policy violation, service terminated or changed to a paid upgrade.

You have to understand that you are not going to make any money by joining a free program. That is the hook to get you in the door so they can sell you other things once they get you in the door.

There are many newbie Internet marketers that use free hosting, free domain registration, free auto-responder, free advertising, and the list goes on. These marketers will understand some time later, when one of their free account has been canceled, that all the work they have put into making and promoting their website is for almost nothing!

You may have not spent a dime but you have lost your time, and time is money! You have worked for nothing!

Making significant money online takes much more skills and work than one would think. It takes having some structure to your daily schedule of tasks.

The good news with Internet marketing is that a business can be started at any time with a minimal budget. Having a job, with a regular salary, is the best when time can be used after work or in the week-end to begin slowly, without worrying about money.

With a small monthly allowance kept for the online business and time spent to study how Internet marketing works, moving forward is possible with down-to-earth goals. Fortunately, starting a business online is cheap.

The main expenses that the new marketer would have are: domain name registration, a web hosting plan and a paid auto-responder system. In addition to that, some budget may be needed to outsource work that can't be done by oneself such as web or graphic design and writing articles.

Here are some things you will need to do when starting an home business with a limited budget are:

Get yourself a good domain name that is easy to remember when you tell it to someone. It should be easy to spell and remember.

Get yourself a good basic hosting plan for your website. You must be hosted on your own server to get ranked by the search engines!

Set yourself a blog. It's free and you can add content to it daily.

Don't forget to ping your blog after adding new content to it! It will alert the search engines of your new content.

You must have a good auto responder service. You have to be able to follow up with your customers.

I will work with you personally to start a home business!

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