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!