Before you get started, I want to tell you about what you need to prepare.

What do we need to start an internet business?

• Computer & Internet connection

I think you already have one that's why you are here now. But if you are using the internet from a library, you must purchase a computer , because the library won't let you spend several hours a day building your internet business.

• Printer

Depending on the method you choose for your internet business, you need a printer to make shipping slip or Invoice or to print out any other important document etc...

Also when you apply for a merchant you need to print out the form and fax it to them.
I'm using " Canon Pixma ip 3000".
This works really great ! I purchased it from amazon.com with half price $49.00.

• Degital camera

When you sell something on the internet,the picture image is very important. Images can influence a customer's decision more than just words.

But if you choose affiliate program for your internet business, it's not necessary to have one.

• Fax

This is also very convenient to have one when you need to Fax your applications for your internet business.

If you already have all of above, let's get started ! Doing step by step is always the best result.
Please don't rush and skip any step.


Step 1:

Decide what to sell on your internet business

What are you most interested in?

Doing what you love through your internet business can not give you any struggle or stress.
Everyone has their special interests and while they are doing it ,
it's just fun !

Don't start a kind of business that you don't like or are not interested in. Because it will usually fail or give you just stress.
If you do what you are intereted in, you can give many information using your knowledge to your customers . Also it's very fun to get the new information through your internet business.



Step 2:

Find out the keywords from your interests and check the profitability from the keywords.

One of the most important things for internet business is which keywords we should choose.

Choose the most profitable keyword with high demand.If you choose low profitable keywords with low demand that no one is searching for , your business won't succeed.

Don't pick up wrong keywords !
You can check the keyword at wordtracker.com.

They are offering free trial and you can test it how it works.  Many successful internet business people use this paid service every day . But if you are using  S.B.I ( Site- Build - it ) , it's not nessesary. 

Click here to check keywords


Step 3:

Where to find the products to sell ?

Depending on your budget, you have a lot of choices.

1. Sell your own products,
like ebook you wrote, picture you took, art painting you drew, software you developed, jewelry you made etc..

2. Trade products from China.

3. Trade products from wholesale company.

4. Find a company which can directly dropship the products with wholesale price to your customer.

5. Find a merchant who is doing affiliate program their website.

Step 4:

Find a web hosting company and register your domain.

There are also tons of web hosting companies.

Which company is the best ?

Don't register at free domain, web hosting service (except free blog), and also don't buy or rent ready to start website someone already made..
It usually won't work.
Because search engine for your website already started since when you named your domain name and website.

Here are several my recommended web hosting services.

Site Build It !

All- In- One site-building-hosting-&-marketing systemof software tools that delivers thriving, profitable businesses.

If you are totally new for internet business, and know nothing about making a website, and internet marketing, I recommended to apply for "Site-Built-It! "
Why do I recommend this hosting service ?Because this service offers not only web hosting, but all the instructions with step by step method included.

Beside, their website builder is setting up for search engine ( to get listed and get high rank in search engine ) .

For beginners, this is the best webhosting company especially for people who are doing affiliate business. This company is offering all in one web hosting service including domain name ,site builder, profitable keyword checker, autoresponder, traffic improvement and also tons of valuable information how to make a successful affiliate website and keys of the internet business using step by step system. Many newbie people get success from their affiliate program business using their system and website. If you don't want to fail with your affiliate business, this service is worth it .

All in one web hosting service, domain registration, keyword tracker, website builder, analysis of your website, shopping cart,

perfect instruction and customer support, traffic improvement, useful website templates, no html skill needed, email marketing autoresponder service, etc..
$750 worth bonus everything you need for your internet web business included.
Highly recommended !
To get more information about S.B.I.(Site-Built-It) , please visit the link below

All in one web hosting service, you can get everything you need to build and manage your website, domain name registration, shopping cart, website templates,email marketing service. keywords analyzer, website traffic generator etc.. free valuable ebooks,
Especially, great for ebook, software sellers !
The price is $24.95/mo.

Click here to go to "Thirdsphere "

iPage is a sister website of Power Web.

• Domain registration : $15/yr
• Web building & manage & promote:$6.00
• Web hosting : $7.95/ mo (at PowerWeb.com )

$50 overture credit, $25 Google ad credit, shopping cart, web promotion tool, design templates included.

Web Hosting - $7.95 - Free Set up - Rebate



Yahoo merchant solution& web hosting

I started from this service because I chose dropship method for my business.
Yahoo merchant solution is good for beginners who are selling dropship & wholesale products.
Because it's easy to make and edit products image and products pages.

Domain name registration, Product Catalog and Inventory Management, shopping cart, they have two type of styles to build your site , template included.

You can also transfer your webpage if you already made it from Microsoft Front page or Dream waver.Automated UPS shipment processing, tracking, and shipping label generation.

They have three optionals that are for

• starter- $39.95/mo
• standard- $99.95/mo
• professional- $299.95/mo
• Set up fee $50.

Easy to make online products catalogue pages.

If it is for only web hosting ,

• starter- $11.95/mo
• standard - $19.95/mo
• professional- $39.95/mo
• $25 set up fee.

For more info please visit to this site below,

Step 5:

Get tax ID and business license and open a business bank account.

In order to apply for a merchant service by which we can accept credit card from the customers for payment, we need to prepare those three.
Also when you apply for wholesale company or affiliate merchant service ( some mechant service don't need tax ID )

Where to get them ?

• Tax ID - I got my tax ID for free here.

Click here to get more info Click here to get more info

• Business license - Fill out the application form in this website, and bring it to the place it was stated in the website . The price I paid for it was about $ 12.00

You can get your business license here You can open your business bank account in the bank around your house. To open the business account, they will need your business license and tax ID.


Step 6:

Apply for merchant service.

Once you got your tax ID, Business license and business bank account, you can apply for a merchant service where you can accept credit card for the payment.

Where to apply for it ?

• Electronic Transfer, Inc -

I'm using this company to accept our customers payment with their credit card.

This company offers very low transaction fee rate.
Visa, Master - 2.25% and $ 0.29 per transaction fee, American Express - 3.5%.
Also quick approval time it will take only 1 to 2 days and they have high approval.
The customer support center is very friendly and helpful.
The price we paid for this service when I applied for it was $58.95 ( one time secure gateway fee $49 + monthly fee $9.95 )
Highly recommended !

• Advanced credit system -

This company also offers great tool.
One time set up fee $125.00 , Visa Master - 2.21% and $0.25 per transaction fee, American Express 3.5%, $5.00 a month, Discover - 2.38% and $0.30 per transaction fee.
No monthly fee. Quick and high approval.

• paypal - I do not recommend to have only paypal for your payment system .

Because some customers don't like to use paypal for their payment. But as a supporting merchant, it's good to have it.



Step 7:

Get traffic to your website !

After you built your website and set up your payment system with your merchant service , you need to improve your search engine to get traffic to your site.
This is very important !
Many webmasters are suffering with this part. and many of them failed with their internet business.

But If you choose S.B.I. ( Site-Built- It ) for your webhosting and web builder, and follow their instruction, you don't have to worry about your traffic, because you will have already made perfect website with attractive content.
Keywords also are checked in each page .All you have to do is purchase " link check generate software " to improve more traffic to your site.

What do you need to do to get traffic ?

Don't apply for any search engine generate companies. You won't get top ranking with your keywords with the service.
But submit at all the major directories such as yahoo directory($299/yr) and open directory (free).

All the marketing experts recommend to join yahoo directory because once your website gets listed in yahoo,it will become strong inbound link and you can get good ranking in major search engine.

Also you can get free traffic in the future after you did all the below, also you can get top ranking in major search engine (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Alta vesta, AOL etc..)

• page title - have to match with your main keyword, each page
• Meta tag- this is for your website description,
• keywords-narrow keywords ( but not too narrow which no one is searching for )
• Headline - put the main keyword in the headline of the page with large font.
• Put many keywords in your each page
• Add keywords rich contents on your website every day
• get quality links ( inbound links which have same keyword as yours )
• send newsletters and follow up emails.
• build a site map

     If you are using S.B.I. (Site-Built-It) you've already done " Page title" "Meta tag" " How many keywords in your each page" "The keywords have to match with your page title" with their method.


What is quality links ?

• That's the links which have similar keywords and page title with your site and have high google page rank.

You must make sure your link is in a similar keywords and page title in your link partner's site.
Where your link will appear in your partner's website is very important because if your link is in the page which has a different page title from your site and also page rank 0,the link won't give you any benefit.

• Use " Bold" for your link description and title when you apply for link exchange.

• Get high google page rank ( It is called PR ) site such as more than page rank 5 (PR5).

• Get same keywords links as much as possible.

I realized I made a mistake with this part after I had already exchanged with many links. If you want to improve your website with no expense, you must understand how search engine work .

Actually, getting alot of quality links can be hard work, especially for newbie sites which have PR 0(google ) , no date(Alexa ), most of them don't accept to exchange links with those site.

• Buy quality links ( high google page rank site and same topic as your website. )

This is the fastest way to improve Google Page rank to your site in the beginning.

Where to buy quality links ?

• Text link ad - This website is offering many special deal packages with less expensive price.

However, Google often change their ranking system and I recommend to get the latest seo (search engine optimization) information. There are many ideas to get quality inbound links to improve your search engine.




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Step 8:

Research & Analysis you and your competitors back links using special software.

There are several link generate software.
But what software is really good ?

    Seo Elite by Brad Callen

- This is my favorite software and I'm using it every day. The software developer " Brad Callen " explains the point to improve search engine very clearly.
I like his explanation. His software is also very convenient to check our competitors link analysis.
          Highly recommended !

if you really want to get top ranking in google and other major search engine this is a must have software.
In his software, there is also special feature that we can send emails to target link partners easily, so you don't have to type each email address when you send your link exchange request to your partners.

What will happene if we get top ranking ?

You can get a lot of target visitors a day !
The key of success is to get a lot of target visitors  to your website !  If your website don't have traffic, your business won't succeed.  
For more info about how to get more traffic to your site, plesae click here




Step 9:

Email marketing.

This is the most effective way to increase your sales for your online store.
Once you collected your customer's( or visitors) email address , write a newsletter to them.
Give them discount coupons or information of new products, this month specials, any other information customers are interested in. But don't push to sell your products, customers don't like to read pushing sales letter.

Instant Salesletters by Yanik Silver

This is a powerful sales letter kit and already tested by successful ecommerce leaders and webmasters.
You can easily make your magic sales letter within 3 minute with their instant sale letter templates.

No Matter What Product or Service You Have To Sell - You’ll Find A Sales Letter That’s Already Written For You..

This item is for people who want to send killer sales letters easily and fast without struggle to find good words to write it .
The price is only $ 39.95

Autoresponders

- Once you collected many email addresses, " email autoresponder " is very convenient to do your email marketing.
You can also set up " remove me " link at the bottom of the email .

If your customers want to cancel their subscriptions, they can just click the link and it will automaticaly remove their email address from the email list.

Here are several recommended autoresponder service.

But if your webhosting company is S.B.I ( site-build-it) or Thirdsphere, you don't need to apply for the service. because in their packages, they have the autoresponders and mailing list service included.


Where to get autoresponder ?

This is a autoresponder service.

The price is $17.95 /mo to $19.95/mo
They offer free trial, Unlimit autoresponders, Instant, reliable delivery,Up to 5 follow-ups ,Unlimited message length,Easy set-up and management ,Built-in anti-spam filters. You can also get a lot of free marketing materials when you sign up.
Highly recommended !