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How To Start An Online Business - Simply

Posted by Jack Sinclair | September 30, 2008 .
by Jack Sinclair

Are you itching to know how to start an online business? Let me show you the 7 steps I took to get it working quickly.

Day 1: Registration Of Your New Business

The first step is to register your new business, and set up bank accounts for the new entity. Be sure to keep things separate from your personal affairs, since business tax deductions are better than personal income tax deductions. You need to get an accounting system set up, either by getting an accountant, or by doing it yourself. If you do it yourself, and live in the U.S.A., you can use single entry accounting, and most all other countries must use double entry.

Day 2: Pick What You Will Sell.

The usual choices to getting something to sell include developing your own product, finding a hot selling product with a lucrative affiliate program, or earnings commissions on a variety of related products or services.

On day 2, you should choose to either develop a product, choose an affiliate program to promote, or pick a group of related offers that pay you.

Day 3: Design Your Unique Proposition.

One of the key success factors of starting any new online business is its ability to stand out from the competition and offer something truly desired by the customers, and by creating your unique offering, you can stand out from the crowd and build your business.

To determine which benefits you can uniquely offer, you should try to profile your typical customer, and determine what their needs and wants are, so you can tailor your offer to them, and connect with them at the deepest levels. It will make your product the best out of all products available.

Knowing how to differentiate yourself is a key step that requires you to know your customer well, and that’s why I recommend you choose something you are passionate about, so you can leverage your life experience to create something that truly offers value to your potential customers.

Day 4: Get Your Web Site Uploaded.

Most websites can be created in a few mouse clicks these days, and what is most important is how you set it up (e.g. a shopping cart, a blog, or a sales page format). Another extremely important step is picking your keywords - the phrases you will design your site around, since this is what buyers will enter to find you.

During day 4, you will pick either a product-based website or a content-based website. Product websites are good for things you sell, and content sites are good for affiliate programs you are promoting. In either case, you will need to choose the keywords you will use to design your content and descriptions, since these keywords are what your buyers will use to find you.

Day 5: Create Your Marketing Action Plan.

Once your website is up and running, you need to create an action plan for marketing your website. This includes choosing the tools, systems and partners to help get the word out to the world.

Day 6: Website Advertising.

Day 6 is for getting promotional material designed - banners, articles, reviews, and so on. This is also the day you should start testing and tracking, to see which traffic sources are producing the profits, and which ads are creating sales.

Day 7: Enter Daily Operation Mode.

Once everything has been put into place, the next step is to start selling. Some people like to choose to outsource some activities, while others will be more hands-on (and work more). Ideally, you will spend your time doing the things that make you the most money.

Around this time, the successful business spends about 10% of their time in support activities, 60% in marketing and advertising activities, and 30% on research and product development.

No matter what you decide to market online, it is your marketing efforts that will largely decide your success. Get a great product that people crave, and market it effectively, and you’ll be in profit in record time. Follow the steps outlined above, and you’ll start an online business faster than most people dream of.

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