Quickest Way To Starting Your Cash-Creating Internet Business: Part Three

Now that you have a product, it's time to get your business started. This may sound very basic but they are all the fundamentals to having a successful Internet business. First, you need to create your sales page. A good sales letter defines everything - whether people will buy from you or not. Copywriting is a job of creating your sales letter, and there are tons of strategies to improve your response. To explain copywriting alone can take a whole book with hundreds of pages to explain! Nevertheless, when starting out you wouldn't want to spend five figures just to hire a good copywriter in order to write your sales page, so you should try and write it yourself - while studying sales copy written by famous copywriters like Michel Fortin, Gary Halbert, or Alex Mandossian. There are several useful website builders available on the Internet which allows people with no HTML knowledge to create even better looking websites from those who are expert in HTML. For a free one, there's NVU at http://www.nvu.com. Sometimes you'll see the word WYSIWYG - it stands for what you see is what you get, usually describing a website builder which allows you to build a website which have an exact look with the outcome. To save your time on the learning curve for NVU, http://www.nicheopolis.com has all the tutorials you need. Nevertheless, free tools usually have their drawbacks thus getting a paid one like FrontPage, Dreamweaver or XsitePro will always be a better choice. When your sales page is created, then you'll need to host it. Before we go on to hosting, let's talk about domain name. There are billions and billions of websites out there and most of them have their own domain names, which renders people with little choice on their process of naming their own domain names. If you want a website mainly for selling sunglasses but http://www.sunglasses.com was taken, that's not a problem. We want the keyword "sunglasses" in the domain name so that it helps in search engine ranking optimization. A simple trick is to add numbers down into your domain name. Here's what it means: * www.1sunglasses.com * www.1sunglasses1.com * www.01sunglasses.com * www.sunglasses9.com * www.sunglasses10.com * www.101sunglasses.com Alright, once you have your domain name registered, you need to host it. We don't suggest using free hosting for your own Internet business, but if you really want a free one you can get it at: http://geocities.yahoo.com. If you have no idea which hosting company is good for you, you can check out midPhase or LunarPages. Of course, you can choose other hosting companies which you feel comfortable with. The two hosting companies listed above provides free domain names for life, so you won't need to register for one or renew them as long as you continue hosting with them. Once you have your domain name hosted, the rest is only uploading your files into the "public_html" directory(or folder) and you're done. For your main page, name it index.html so it will be automatically shown to your visitors when they visit your URL/domain name. Now that we have hosted everything up, the last thing to do is accepting payments. If you need to have an Internet business, you must know about PayPal. PayPal is the most widely used payment processor currently and anyone can join it for free at http://www.paypal.com. To accept payments, you need to register for the premier or business account. Nevertheless, not everyone is able to withdraw their money from PayPal. These are the only countries entitled for money withdrawal: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portugal, Singapore, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom. If you don't live in any of those countries, you can always use 2CheckOut. With a one time fee of $49, you will be able to use 2CO as your payment processor for life. If you are selling electronic products like an e-book or software which is downloadable, ClickBank is one of the best choices. They will send a check to you on every 1st and 15th day of the month, 2 payments every month on your earnings. You probably won't realize but now you are ready to launch your Internet business! You have your product ready, you have your domain hosted, you can receive payments, these are all you need to start a business online!