Expose Your Business Through Your Own Website! By Mona Abdulla

Recent studies have found that people are more likely to look up a business online than in the Yellow Pages or other traditional "old-school" ways. If someone searches for your business and they don't find you, chances are they will turn to a business they do find and you will lose customers. You pay a lot of money on traditional advertising for a huge number of people even though very few of them may be interested in your products.

Internet advertising is different, it is targeted. Everyone who visits your web site is there because he has specific interest in your product or service.

Getting and building a website has become much easier than it used to be. In fact, if all you need is a simple website where people can get basic information about your product and contact information, you have no excuse for not building a website yourself.

Many options exist online for the novice to put together a professional-looking website. They are inexpensive and easy to use.

The first thing you have to do is come up with a domain name for your website. That's what people will type into the address bar to find you. Come up with something that is easy to remember. Don't be too cute; you want people to find you and know how to spell your website name. Make sure it relates to your business.

Go to any domain search and type in the possibilities; it'll tell you whether it's available or not.
Building your website can be easier than coming up with a name for it---once you know exactly what you want your website to do.

How many pages do you want and what will each page need? Do you want people to be able to purchase something from your website.

You must consider these things before you begin building your website. Once you know what you want and need on your website, then you can go look for sites that can offer you everything you want. Don't opt for the free hosting sites; you want your site to be free of annoying pop ups and banners that are not related to your business.

Look for the free website development sites allow you to develop a website, then charge a nominal web hosting fee. These websites are customizable, down to text and pictures and are extremely simple to put together. The websites can have blog links or PayPal payment choices and most have hundreds of layout choices so you can avoid having your website look like your competitors'.

You also can have the option of setting up an on-line store, but that will likely cost an addition monthly fee, usually starting at less than $10 per month. One site, for example, charges $10 per month to sell up to 500 items.

And if you really don't trust yourself to make your own website, then by all means, hire someone to do it for you. Just remember, if you have a business and you want people to know you are out there, get on the web.

Business Ideas - Start an Online Business Without a Website

There are many ways you can start a small business online and make money without going through the process of building a website. In this article, we will focus on four of them.

Blogging

You can actually blog your way to the bank.You can write reviews about other people's website, products and services and get paid for doing so. For every review your post your get paid.

You will be happy to know that you can start blogging in minutes without spending a penny to buy any software. For instance, WordPress is a free standard publishing platform that you can install in minutes. If you can't afford to host your own blog or you don't want to involve yourself in any technicalities, then you can get free blogging spaces too. The best way to become a profitable blogger is to stay in your comfort zone. Only write about what you know.

Writing articles and papers

You can earn good money for writing articles. Just like blogging, you can write articles and papers and get paid regularly for doing so. The difference between blogging and article writing is the structure, the tone and the length. Blogging is more like running commentaries about specific issues and such commentaries can be your opinion about a product, service or a current issue. Article writing on the other hand is more information oriented, and content rich. For me, a well written article should not be less than 450 words.

You may write articles to required specification and submit it to article sites, companies or webmasters that pay you. You can become a ghostwriter if you have the ability to write at a professional level. More so, if you have some technical writing skills you can write technical papers for money. All you have to do is register as a freelancer or join article writing services online, and you are ready to make money.

Get paid for promoting other people's business (affiliate programs)

Here, all you have to do is promote other people's businesses. You don't need a website of your own to do this. Usually, a unique affiliate link is given to you, and you can promote this in many ways. For instance, you may promote your affiliate link through pay-per-click advertising or free advertising sites. You can also promote the site through blogs or online communities. If people buy a service or product through your link you get paid.

Turnkey - Ready made websites

Turnkey websites are ready-made websites. They are built with complete e-commerce functionalities. Functions such as feedback forms, newsletter sign up forms, shopping carts and so on are usually included. These websites sometimes include administration control panels, which allow you to customize your site as you wish. You don't have to do anything but include your affiliate links and other minor details such as setting up your emails and sometimes your bank or payment details to work with the site. Your main job is to promote your site and then make money. You can get turnkey websites for free. Please note that, not all turnkey websites are free.

Some websites are built and sold to people who don't have the time or the technical know-how of building an e-commerce site. Such sites are sold at what I believe to be reasonable prices - if you compare this to the amount of time, money and effort you would have had to put into building your own website and creating your own products. If you decide to go for a free turnkey website, note that the company or website that powers your turnkey website will place some adverts on your site. It is mandatory to keep these adverts on the site. Sometimes, all they require is a link back to their site. This link is usually placed at the bottom of the webpage. Choosing a Business opportunity You need to decide which of the opportunities listed above suits you best. Once you have made your decision, the next thing to do is to find out websites or online companies that can offer you these opportunities. The word here is 'caution'. Make sure you read the policies and terms of service before you commit yourself.

In summary, there are many money making or business opportunities online. If you have little or no money to invest, then you should think about blogging, writing of articles and earning from affiliate programs as a starting point to making some money online. You may also decide to get a ready made website for free or for a little fee. Make sure you ascertain the creditability of a website and understand the terms of service and policies before you engage in any business online.

Lola Adegbulu has been involved in Internet study and information distribution for over five years.

3 Killer Tips How to Create an Online Business Opportunity With Your Natural Strengths

When you think deeply, what is needed to run online business systems successfully, you will soon find out that the only real way to stand out from the crowd is yourself. Most online business opportunities include the same products or are total copycats. To start your own online business with me to solution will not lead to success.

1. What Is Your Nature?

All online businesses are small ones, which means that you will be the engine and the source of all ideas. So where your ideas come from? The answer is clear. They come from your subconscious, which is the storage for all your learned and experienced information.

And your nature guides this big warehouse, it picks certain kind of data to store. So, when you start to think how to create an online business opportunity, start from your own nature. Make a short research about what kind of life you have lived so far, go through your school days, your strengths and weaknesses at work, your marriage, what kind of friends you have had and have and so on.

These things will tell, what kind of online business you should choose to yourself. The core direction of your business is the most important, the rest is just details.

2. What Are Your Interests?

It is amazing how big differences there are with interests of different people. When you think how to create an online business opportunity, the interests are as important as your nature, as a matter of facts, they are parts of that.

The phrase, do what you love and soon you will love what you do, is exactly correct with online business systems. When you research your interests, be extremely honest and think deeply with time, whether certain thing is really your interest.

3. What Is Your Attitude To Projects?

An attitude is the strongest success factor, that we all have. We have inherited factors, we have learned factors and we have environmental factors, but nothing can beat a strong attitude. Can you carry the started project to success or will you give up after the first difficulty?

A winner with strong attitude will find ways to success and a loser with weak attitude will find out explanations, why it is impossible to reach the results. An answer to the question how to create an online business opportunity is, with strong attitude.

A marketer with attitude will survive and even after he has been beaten down and failed temporarily, he will learn from mistakes and start again. We all meet obstacles, we just cannot avoid them. But the difference between the loser and the winner is, which one will skip the whole business and which one will go on. And win!

Juhani Tontti, B.Sc., Marketing. Create An Online Business With Your Natural Strengths. They Will Make Your Online Business To Stand Out From The Crowd. Visit: Create An Online Business