5 Steps to Building an Online Business

The online business has several basic needs. They include: a website, a product, marketing system, payment collection system and means of communication with prospects and customers. How does the beginner or new business person get from the beginning to a finished and functional website?Step One. Determine the product you will promote. Use your "passion", hobby, personal interests as a starting point for ideas. Do a keyword search to see if there is interest in this product. Google has a free keyword tool that will provide you search information.A. Check to see if people are buying this product. Do an eBay search of completed items. B. Check Google to see what your competition is. Enter your keyword in the Google search box and you will see how many websites are available for this item.Step Two. Purchase and register a domain name. There are many domain registrars to choose from. You can do a Google search here also. Prices vary. You may wish to consider registering for two years as search engines appear to prefer that. Obtain a web host. Once again prices and services provided vary greatly.Step Three. Develop and publish your website. There are many aids available for the "newbie". Many hosting companies provide templates, and assistance in setting up your website. You can also hire someone to set it up for you.Step Four. Obtain an auto-responder and set up your campaign. An auto-responder sends out your pre-written email messages to your prospects at predetermined intervals Double opt-in is the preferred method as this avoids "spamming". Spam is contacting someone without their approval. More detailed information about spam may also be found on Google.Step Five. Promote, market (get traffic), and sell your product. There are many ways of marketing available. I provide a detailed, easy to understand course that covers the above information. For more information contact Theresa Newell.