Tuesday, February 26, 2008

How To Start A Home Based Business On The Right Foot

(How To Start A Home Based Business On The Right Foot )
Copyright © Rodney Mckinnon
http://www.WorkWithRodney.com

With the internet constantly evolving, more and more people are jumping on the wide array of home business opportunities available. Because of the millions of people that search the internet, you can virtually start your own home based business on whatever you want. Although it is not a walk in the park, the sky is the limit for where you take your business.
The first step to starting your own home based business is determining what exactly you want to do. While some options require money, there are a number of low cost ideas that are equally effective. You can join an already existing program, sell other people’s products, or make money off of your own product.
Some of the top programs you can join today on the internet include Abunza and Success University. These programs have been around for a short period of time, but are already making hundreds of thousands of people rich. These programs do have a start up cost, but you can quickly make up the cost by selling the product.
Affiliate marketing has been around the internet for awhile and is still a quality home business opportunity. This is a free method to make money as you make money by selling other people’s products. The easiest way to have success with this is to have a web site of your own to promote it on. The higher the commission is for the affiliate program, the more money you are going to make.
Some other low cost ideas include taking surveys, posting in forums for marketing, and writing articles. Article writing can be used for promoting your site, writing content for other people’s sites, or you can sell your articles to web sites like Associated Content. Articles are hot on the internet right now because everyone needs fresh and enticing content for their site.
Once you have determined what you want to do it is time to put together a plan. Know where you want to take your business, who you will market to, how you will market, and how you will design your site.
The next step to starting your own home based business is picking a domain name. Pick a domain name that has your company’s name in it, keywords you want to target, or the product you are selling in it. After selecting the domain name you want to research and find a reliable web hosting company to keep your site up and running.
After you have a plan, know what you are doing, and have a domain name and web hosting company, it is time to start developing your site. This includes creating fresh and enticing content, designing your site, handling customers, and marketing your site. It is a long process, but it is vital you jump on the numerous home business opportunities on the internet. There is a wide array of low cost ideas that can quickly take you from rags to riches.


About the Author: Rodney Mckinnon is an entrepreneur on the rise by helping others realize their dreams of owning their very own home based business using a lot of free and low cost tools.
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To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Money Making Home Based Business Tools and Ideas

(Money Making Home Based Business Tools and Ideas)

Copyright © Rodney Mckinnon

http://www.WorkWithRodney.com

With each new passing day there is approximately 170,000 new people getting on the internet

according to USA Today. The sudden fascination with information provided has now opened the

eyes of many who are now toying with the idea of starting their very own home based

business. With 95% of them not making a substantial amount, I decided to try and come up

with a couple of free to low cost home business tools and ideas to help those with limited

income start there very own home based business. With a little patience and determination

there is not much room for failure. Each part will be broken down into sections and by

focusing on each one individually you can increase your chances of success.

The first thing that is vital to your success is to find what your interested in. There are

many people that have made a fortune simply doing what they loved. You also need to see if

your passion is also profitable. One way to quickly earn money on the web would be to start

out as an affliate and sell other people products for a percentage. A great company known as

clickbank offers a large variety of affiliate products.

After finding what your looking for the next thing to do is build your own website. One of

the great things about affliate programs are that a lot of them now offer to build a website

for you. If you decide to go it alone there are a few sites that offers to help the everyday

person with building there very own website. One such company called Template Box, offers a

variety of web templates for any one interested in any type of website. They even offer a

selection of low cost voice animated characters to add personality to your site.You can

check them out here at http://www.templatesbox.com. Earthlink is another company that offers

support along with web hosting and a free domain. At the time of writting this their price

is $9.95 a month for the first 3 months. To check them out to to

http://www.earthlink.net/biz/ehost/ to get a step by step video of how to go about building

your very own site without having to know any html codes.

The next thing you need to do is get an autoresponder to follow up with your customers on

your behaf. A couple of companies that offer free autoresponders are Getresponse and

SendFree. Getresponse offers a free autoresponse service of up to five messages and sendfree

offers up to 12 but with limited services. By getting an autoresponder, no matter whether

your out on vacation or anywhere else the autoresponder is always at work.

The final step is the most crucial of all outlined thus far and that is to bring traffic to

your site. There are many routes that you could take and one is to go to free traffic

exchanges such as traffic swarm (www.trafficswarm.com) and instant

buzz(www.instantbuzz.com). Some of the more extensive ways are through blogging and writing

articles. Google offers a free blogging service that you can find at www.blogspot.com. With

a blog you can basically advertise your business for free along with anything else that you

may want to do including putting articles on them. Now by going out and staying focused on

just one project at a time the sky's the limit to what you can achieve. To find everything

you need all wrapped into one along with more extensive tricks and training visit the site below.

About the Author:
Rodney Mckinnon is an entrepreneur on the rise offering tools and training to those that are interested in starting their own home based business.

To find the best home based business ideas and
opportunities so you can work at home visit:
http://www.WorkWithRodney.com
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