9 Steps to a Successful Home Based Internet Business

Anyone wishing to start a home based internet business is faced with thousands of options and opportunities and it is very easy to suffer from information overload, however having a successful home based online business involved 9 simple rules.

It does not matter which plan you are using, as long as you keep the following 9 rules in mind, you will be successful in your venture.

I have had to write this article in 2 parts, here is the first 4 rules, the correct sequence of steps will summarised at the end of part 2

Step 1 - Find a hungry niche market First.

The reason that most new home based internet business’s fail is because people make the mistake of locating a “hot product “first, then they try to find a market to sell there product to.

Most people do not go online to buy something – they go online looking for information or to solve a problem. Like where to find home based internet business opportunities.
To identify your niche market will require you to do a little research, you need to establish what words people are using on the internet to look for a particular product or to solve a specific problem.

By doing some simple keyword search research, use tools like,

Keyword Tracker

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There are loads of free programs that you can use on the internet that will help you identify words that people use on the Internet while searching for something.

Enter these words in Google in quotation marks and see how many pages are listed, play around with various words and use long-tailed-keywords, instead of using terms like “Internet Business”, try words like “How to make money with a Internet Business

Step 2 : Find a Product that Your Niche wants.

Once you have identified your hungry niche market, now it is time to find a product that they are desperately looking for, keep in mind, people are using the Internet to look for information and you need to provide this information.
Various products that you can promote in your home based internet business are,

• Create your own product, like a recipe book, or if you have a skill that will help people.
  
• Promote a product as an affiliate.
  
• Get a PLR, product that you can rename and sell as your own product.
  

Step 3 -Send tons of targeted traffic to your site, by using search engines.

Now that you have got your niche, written a compelling sales copy and have a dynamic website – how do you get traffic to your site? The answer is by using search engines.

The two quickest ways to drive laser-focused visitors to your site is by using pay-per-click (PPC) programs like Google Adwords and Yahoo Search marketing.

As soon as you have some paid traffic coming to your home based businee internet site, and you have figured which are the best performing keywords, you will need to optimise your web pages for those keywords, to get your home based internet business site showing up in the organic search engines as well.

Step 4 - Use sources of cheap or free traffic.

Your reputation as an online marketer, is one of your most important assets, people need to know who you are, and why they need trust you.

The best way to “spread the good word”, is to utilise the following effective methods

• Give away free expert content.
  
• Issue a press release about your business.
  
• Become an active expert in industry forums.
  

Your name and home based internet business website URL linked to your articles, will boost your rankings in the search engines listings, since every site that posts your content will link back to you.

Conclusion
For the rest of these 9 steps, please read part 2 in the concluding part of this article.

Regards

Alan
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