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What You Need When Starting Your Own Business?

What you need when starting your own business is the best information you can find. Most startups want to succeed and most of the time success means make money fast. Unfortunately, most make one common mistake. They guess. It does look obvious. After all, the minute you open your browser, the first thing you see is a website.

But a website is not the first step on the ladder of success.

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Keywords

Today... the Internet is all about keywords. Keywords in your domain name, your website home page title, the first sentence of your page, where the keyword fits into the character count and so much more.

The days of launching a website and welcoming hordes of web traffic within minutes are long over.

It's understandable when you think about the billion web pages online today. Most of them will never be found.

So what's the first thing you need?

Well, it might sound silly to say it, but the first thing you need to decide is what you plan to sell. Once you are clear on the product, product line or type of products or services, you want to do two things:

  1. Do some research to make sure what you plan to sell is in demand. It doesn't do any good to have the most amazing shoe ornament, if no one wants to buy shoe ornaments. It's too big a hurdle to have to first explain why shoe ornaments are a good deal... and then explain and persuade people to buy your shoe ornaments. This will cost you big.
  2. Okay, you discover that there already is a demand for your product. In fact, there are many other marketers selling the same or a similar products. Fantastic! This is good news. So, your next step is to find unique keywords. Realize this. Many many marketers do not know how to market online. So you will have a huge advantage by doing it right from the beginning.

Next, 99 percent of the time, you are going to want web hosting and a website. Depending on the type of products you plan to sell, you need a simple website or an ecommerce solution. There are many site configurations to choose from, so don't guess and waste money.

There are a lot of choices and options and must- haves for success when starting a new business on the Internet.

Here are the basics of what you need but this listing is by no means complete.

If you are new to this whole process, we recommend you start by taking our e-course for startups.

I can't believe how many people take the course without getting the Workbook. If more people would get the information they need to be successful... more people would be successful.

  1. Setup office
  2. Setup offline requirements
  3. Research niche market and prepare plan
  4. Decide on products and services to sell
  5. List best keywords for your business
  6. Get your keyword domain name
  7. Order web hosting
  8. Write COPY your main pages* (home, overview, opt-in pages)
  9. Opt-in mailing list page (form) with incentive to join
  10. Order web design and development
  11. (1) HTML web site pages
    (2) Ecommerce store with shopping cart (as applicable)
    1. (a) Order SSL security certificate**
  12. Setup payment processing.
  13. Search engine optimize home page, overview and opt-in pages
  14. Launch your site
  15. Subscribe to search engine marketing or submit site to search engines and directories yourself

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