How to Start a Business on the Internet: Lesson 10
Before we get started with the process of setting up a business online, here are the common steps to creating your business entity offline. Check with your city, county and state for specific requirements. Some include a link where you can find additional information.
How to Launch Your Web Business
What Not to Do! Many new startup entrepreneurs fling money at their new business without any thought as to what needs priority and when. Soon the available money is gone and credit cards are max’d out.
NOW is the time to run through EVERY LINK, on EVERY PAGE on your site. You need to be SURE that when your visitors click on a link, they’re taken to the place YOU want them to go. Obviously, you need to make sure your order links work.
Get a friend, who’s not been involved in the process to go through the whole process and tell you how easy…or hard…it was for them to navigate your site. This will give you a “visitor’s view” of the entire process. Does it seem simple, or will they get lost in the process?
Get someone else to go through the process and actually BUY your product to see if you end up with the money or the credit for the sale. Sign up for your own mailing list to make sure it works. Opt in to your squeeze page.
Check EVERYTHING! If it doesn’t work right…now’s the time to fix it. All you’re doing here is trying to avoid costly mistakes. NOW…you’re ready to take your foot off the brake and put the pedal to the metal!
 How to Twitter.
Many of our clients ask if social sites such as Twitter have any real value for a business to use for marketing. With millions Tweeting, the answer seems obvious. Here a little report on how to use Twitter for your business. Download it.
No Touch Strategy
The object here to is take the time to setup your business sales materials: i.e. web pages and files - so that you do not have to do anything more “hands on” – the business generates income without any further ‘touch’ by you. This is part of the entire process to unlimited income. Once setup, “It does NOT take up any more of YOUR time.”
This “No Touch” strategy is the key to unlimited wealth on the Internet. It is the reason why you want to take all the time you need to setup the website's “product income stream” with great care in the beginning (so you don’t have to touch it again). Take time to make your products unique in the beginning… and your “no touch” strategy pays and pays and pays… every day thereafter.
Sending Out Your Good News
Here are a few basic steps for a plan to launch a new web business. It might be slightly different for your particular product or services. Without having a blueprint on how to announce your business reach your goals, you may find that funds quickly disappear. Have a plan so you know what you want to go and how you’re going to get there.
1. Write a news release and publish it. PRWeb is a fabulous resource.
You get your news out, online and you get a link back to your site.
2. Submit your site to all major search engines.
3. Subscribe to Google Adwords, and place 3 ads in one category for one keyword.
4. Write 30 articles based on your keywords and publish 3 a day to an article directory such as GoArticles.com
5. Create a Facebook and Twitter account, and put your site information as well as some details about you.
6. Create a Google Blog and post comments about your web business launch. Include your URL.
7. Write an email campaign message, buy a targeted list, blast your email to at least 1,000 people.
8. Setup your Lens on Squidoo.
9. Create a HUB page.
10. Blast classified ads.
11. Create a video and post on YouTube.com
12. Create a powerpoint presentation and post it on
13. Buy a place in the Yahoo business directory.
14. Send your press release to local newspapers and related radio stations.
15. Put an ad in the local newspaper.
Worksheet About Search Engines
Worksheet on Social Marketing
Worksheet on Squidoo
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