4 Ways To Start A Home Based Business Easily

By Thomas Griffin

So many people these days are keen to start a home based internet business to either earn a second income or to start a business as something to fall back on in the event of them losing their jobs. Knowing just how to get started seems to be the problem for many.

Those looking for guidance on how to start a home based internet business ask many and varied questions, such as: How do I actually get started? What do I need? What are the basic requirements? Where should I look? What should I search for?

This article discusses three important basic requirements for starting a home based internet business.

1. Your Own Website and Domain Name When considering starting a home based internet business it is really important that you register your own domain name and get your own website. Did I hear you say why? Because that is the only way you will have total control over your own internet business.

You need to be in a position where you can choose the design of your website, choose what programs or services you want to promote, optimize your site with your chosen keywords for the search engines and are free to make any changes to your website.

A good reliable hosting company is the first thing to look for, so here are some important features to look out for:

* It is not advisable to go for the cheapest hosting company you can find. * Find out how long they have been in business and if they have a good track record. * Establish if they are offering you enough space to allow for the growth of your business in the future. * Is the support good, quick and friendly? * If you have any special requirements be sure to check out the features offered.

As a domain name gives you your own unique home on the internet do spend time thinking about it before registering it. Use words that relate to the theme of your internet business and keep it short so it is easy to remember.

2. An Autoresponder is your Silent Salesman

An autoresponder works for you 24/7. As you will have worked hard at driving targeted traffic to your website, you need to have a way to be able to communicate with your website visitors in the future. By offering your visitors the opportunity to subscribe to your free newsletter that will be delivered automatically by your autoresponder, will be the way to capture their email addresses and build your opt-in list.

Therefore a reliable autoresponder is important. It is a good idea that your subscribers are required to confirm their subscription to your newsletter by clicking on a confirmation link as this will help protect you from spam complaints.

When searching for an autoresponder here are some important features to look out for:

* You need instant reliable delivery * Unlimited message length * Unlimited message changes * Powerful personalization features * Smart tracking features * A password protected online control panel * A built-in anti-spam filter * Database access to manage your subscribers * Powerful mailing list management features * Automatic cleaning of your mailing list with hard bounces being removed automatically * Support by email, phone and a forum.

3. Products You need to have high quality, in demand products to sell on your website. You could consider starting off by joining reputable free affiliate programs and sell other people's products for a profit just by placing adverts, banners and links on your website.

Do a search for affiliate programs that pay generous commissions for top quality products that are in high demand. Simply by providing the link to the product from your site, you will earn a generous commission every time a sale is made.

4. Finding what you need You may be wondering how to find these basic requirements for starting a home based internet business now that you know what you need,

It really is not difficult you just need to have time to do the research. Start off by doing a search on your favorite search engine using words such as:

* Web hosting * Domain names * Autoresponders * Affiliate Programs

Go the first page of the results returned to you and look at each company to see if they offer what you looking for and make a note of those that interest you so that you can return to them later on.

Go through your short list and investigate them more thoroughly. Search on the internet for forums related to each topic and ask questions about the companies and programs you have an interest in. This way you will get good feedback on how the companies perform from those that have actually had experience with them.

You should now be in a position to make a final choice from your short list of the hosting company you plan to use, where to register the domain name you have chosen the autoresponder to install and the products you have chosen to market and you are ready to build a website and start a home based internet business. - 15790

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What To Look For In Web Hosting

By Gray Rollins

As you start a new website, you will have to look for an affordable web hosting company to give your new site a home on its servers and provide the other hardware and software needed to get your site live and online.

There are a lot of different web hosting companies out there, each of which offers a different array of packages and service options. Before you even begin looking for a web hosting company for your site, you need to sit down and carefully consider exactly what features you want your website to be able to offer.

Think about the features you website will need. You may want to host large files or offer streaming media, which means you'll need a lot of disk space and a lot of bandwidth. Maybe you need ecommerce capabilities or scripting on your site. Write these needs down so that you have a checklist of what you're looking for as you examine the different web hosting packages out there.

There are even free web hosting options. While these are fine if you just want to build a small personal website, they are not ideal for businesses for a number of reasons - the disk space, bandwidth and features offered are typically limited and of course, using a free web host for your business' web site gives a bad impression to visitors.

The next consideration is shared versus dedicated web hosting. Shared hosting is just what it sounds like - your website will be sharing space on one of the web hosting companies' services with many other websites.

This is also not really ideal for a business website; you can run into difficulties due to the actions of other websites hosted on the same server.

If one of the other websites on the shared server is using too much of the system resources of the server, the performance of the other sites on the server - including yours - can be adversely affected. For businesses, dedicated hosting is usually a better idea.

One of the most important things to think about here is the level of technical support and customer service offered. Your website will only be as strong as the capabilities of the support staff behind it. Look into the reputation of the company in regards to these factors - if possible, speak with some current customers to see what they think of the support and service offered by the company.

There are yet other things you should think about when looking for web hosting services, but in this article we have covered some of the top priorities. These can give you a good head start on finding a web hosting company which offers the service and features you need for your business. - 15790

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3 Way Links. Does It Work?

By Chris Chandler

I didn't believe it when I first saw this SEO linking system known as 3 way Links by the seo guru Jon Leger.. I was skeptical of a system like this at first.

It seems like one of those "too good to be true" deals that I generally stay away from. But I had a friend that joined and was giving it rave reviews, so I decided to take a closer look at this "miracle solution" to linking.

Looking at it now after being on the service for almost a year now, I would say it is not "miracle service" for it cannot grab the #1 spot in a highly competitive niche market, like "insurance" but I know for a fact it has helped me to grab the top rankings in some smaller niche keyword phrases.

It has helped me get to the top of the engines for several "long tail" keyword phrases that requires less link popularity to rank for. It will take a few weeks but it is definitely worth the wait.

The way the links grow is slow, and as your network of links grow, your PR grows.

At first, I tried this on sites that I did not care much about and saw good results the rankings began to climb.

The 3waylinks.net system allows webmasters to add up to 50 domains in their link network in exchange for thier monthly fee. In the beginning I only added 3 of my own websites. I decided to do some otehr things and then months went by and noticed a doubling in traffic to those site. I am now convinced it is worth it. To this day, I am still a member.

On one of my sites on the network, I was able to acheive a top 3 ranking for a highly competitive term (which I will not reveal here..but be assured, I was extremely pleased...

A few tips I will leave with you about 3 way networks:

1. DON'T TAKE MY WORD FOR IT - If you want to test it, test it on sites that are marginally important so that you can find out for yourself if it is good.

2. CONTINUE TO LINK TRADE IN OTHER PLACES - It is definitely dangerous to leave all your linking in only one place. IF you will build a strong network of links all over the net, it will be much better. This will disguise any possible footprint...even though I have not found this to be a problem any way.

3. IT DON'T HELP PR - It didn't help my sites with PR anyway. I find PR to be not such a huge factor in rankings anyway. While I dod keep an aye on it some, I don't base my SEo solely around the concept like some SEO "experts".

4. YOU NEED SOME WEBMASTER SKILLS - The install of the code could make a web newbie cringe, but it is not difficult. IF you need help, email me.

5. CHOOSE THE RIGHT KEYWORDS - I usually pick highly related keywords that are not going against huge competition in terms of sites optimizing for it AND also produces a good bit of traffic according to Google's Adword Keyword Tool.

If you are looking to get more traffic, build rankings, and have an extra way to dominate Google, I highly recommend 3waylinks.net - 15790

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Best Prices for Web Hosting

By Sara Lewis

Despite what you may be thinking by the title of this article, this article is not a comparison of different prices from different web hosting companies. There are a number of places where you can get that information, so it seems rather useless to just add another. Rather, what this article does is give you general information on what you should be looking for in terms of the best web hosting prices for particular web hosting packages that you might be interested in. This is useful information because it is information that you can keep in mind when you are shopping around for a web hosting package and information that you can use to determine whether or not the price you are getting is a fair price to begin with.

There are way too many specific types of web hosting packages in the world today to really tackle them all in detail, but for the most part you can actually figure out what the prices of related items should be based on the price knowledge of just two or three different kinds of web hosting. So, without further ado, those three types of web hosting are discount web hosting, Windows web hosting and Linux web hosting.

Ultimately, discount web hosting is of course going to be the most popular type of web hosting in todays world, simply because there are so many people nowadays looking to start a business online. If you are interested in starting a business online, chances are that for the most part you dont have a lot of money to begin with and therefore the discount web hosting plan is going to be the one for you. Discount web hosting is very cheap and for the most part very cost efficient. The cheapest discount web hosting plans are going to run you around $5 to $6 a month and at the most a good discount web hosting plan should not cost you more than $10 a month. If it does end up costing you more than $10 a month, you are likely not dealing with an honest web hosting company.

Some people might consider the above to be harsh, but really the reason it is true is because when you get to the $10 barrier, you are actually into both some Windows and some Linux hosting packages that have benefits far in excess of what you could ever hope to get from a discount plan. Therefore, it makes no sense to pay that same amount of money for a discount plan when you could simply take the Windows or Linux plans and get all of the added support that you would not get under a basic plan. Support under Windows plans includes things like support for ASP and MSSQL; things that would perhaps not be there under most discount plans. Windows and Linux plans can both be found for in the $10 to $15 range per month for their basic incarnations and then if you want more space, more bandwidth or anything else, it just increases from there. - 15790

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You don't 'get' giving till you get giving

By David Anttony

B1G1 (Buy One Give One) connects business enterprises with charitable cause right around the world so that every business sale makes a significant difference somehow, somewhere, every second, every day. And it does much more than that. It adds a potent marketing 'engine' building your own level of attraction.

Michael Porter, probably the world's most respected business enterprise strategist writes this: "I used to see this area of corporate social philanthropy as the last thing on my agenda 10 years ago, but now I agree that social and economic issues are intertwined. Corporate philanthropy - or corporate social responsibility - is becoming an ever more important field for business. Today's companies ought to invest in corporate social responsibility as part of their business strategy to become more competitive."

Everyone we speak with about Buy 1 GIVE 1 gets it instantly. It's an idea that totally resonates and makes sense. And it's an idea whose time has come.

You can put your hand up to make a huge difference and play a significant part, not just in leaving a legacy, but also in transforming our world. It may well be the very best business and personal choice you've ever made or could make. At the end you will leave a legacy. The only question is : will it be one of consumption or one of choice?

Bill Gates has become key to this idea, calling for 'Creative Capitalism' in response to the vital question, he shares in TIME Magazine:

"How can we most effectively spread the benefits of capitalism and the huge improvements in quality of life it can provide to people who have been left out?"

Buy1GIVE1 (Buy One Give One) is about Sharing the Joy of Giving; with giving coming from giving thanks for all that we have.

Remember - you don't 'get' giving till you get giving! - 15790

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