Starting a Home Internet Business

If you're thinking about starting a home internet business, we have provided free information to assist you.  A operating a business from your home is becoming popular.

It's important to have some degree of business experience to run a successful home based online business, however, if you don't have prior business experience, knowledge, and resources available, we suggest you enlist the help of someone who does.  The good news is, to run a successful home internet business requires more common sense than business theory.

Starting an Internet Business

It's time for a personal assessment.

Ask yourself these twelve basic questions about starting an internet business and be sure to give yourself honest answers.

1. Is there a demand for your product or service?
2. Do you have an in-depth knowledge about your product or service?
3. Is your product or service a new concept, have you tested the market?
4. Who is your competition, is the market already saturated?
5. Do you have business experience, if not, can you afford the alternatives? That is:
1. Can you put an honest business plan together?
2. Do you have the equipment machinery and tools?
3. Do you have the ability to operate a computer?
4. Do you have the programs and ability to design a website?
5. Do you understand how the search engine protocols work for good placement?
6. Do you have experience in writing, especially marketing copy?
6. Do you have the resources and money needed to last a year or more?

Start a home internet business with a internet business plan.

An internet business plan can be done professionally or you can do it yourself.  If you do it yourself, be honest, don't gloss over anything.  I don't know of a faster way to find yourself in a box canyon, than ignoring an important part of a business plan.  Don't forget this is an internet business plan - which means you need to consider both every aspect of the internet and business in general.

Finding resources that will help grow a successful home internet business.

To start creating your home based internet business plan, either a regular business and/or an internet business, find information on the internet using the search engines.  A lot of it is free, especially from the Department of Commerce and Small Business Administration.

Starting a successful home based business on the internet.

How to start writing your own internet business plan.

Most internet business failures, or any business for that matter, can be traced back to under capitalization, lack of planning, cutting corners or rushing it.  Be sure you have enough capital and time. Create a internet business plan, don't cut corners or rush it, one step at a time, grasshopper.  The internet is not going away.  Remember, the goal is to start a business on the internet that will last for generations, so taking a year or two to start an internet business and dealing with the many modifications that may be necessary to fine tune your internet business is not that much time considering the long term picture.

If you are thinking an internet business will solve your present financial problems, forget it.  This is a long-term venture and you want to do it right the first time, so keep your job until success taps you on your shoulder.

Don't mislead yourself about when you're ready.

It only takes 20% of your effort to get 80% of the job finished.  It may look like you're ready, but statistics show only 10% succeed.  It's the last 80% of your effort, putting the fine finishing touches to your home internet business, that will shift the odds of success to 90%.  In other words, if you want your internet home business to be successful, you will need to take your time and do your homework.  The key is research, then more research and then research some more.  It will save you time and money in the long run. The bottom line to any business is the return on investment, never lose sight of that objective. Patience, research, planning and tenacity are you operative words.

Do you feel confused or doubtful about starting an internet home business.

Are you asking yourself: "Do I really have what it takes to start my own home internet business?"  Good honest mature question.  Consider the following.  You'll never know if you don't try, and if you are going to try, do it right, take your time, and get the odds of success in your favor.  If you feel that all this is way over your head and you are thinking this isn't for you, then quit now, not everyone is able to do this, it takes a strong constitution and a lot of drive.  Remember, your health and happiness is more important than starting an internet business.

If you have an established business.

If you have an established business, you will have some rethinking to do to start an internet business.  Marketing and merchandising on the internet is a little different from conventional marketing and merchandising.

First, let's use an analogy for marketing on the internet.  Say you have an advertising company make up several full-page ads for every product and/or service you provide.  Then you take it to every phone company in the world and they place it in their Yellow Pages for free, under every applicable category for your products and/or services.  Sound to good to be true?

Well, not true for the Yellow Pages, but it is true on the internet, it's called the search engines.  However, there is a catch, if you don't get placed on the first three pages, you loose.  You are lost, buried deep in the database, never to be seen again except by family and friends.

Do you see it coming?

Well, this is what we do, consult (teach) others how to start an internet business, and this website has laid the foundation for you. Just remember, the foundation is only the base support for the rest of the building and it's up to you to build the rest. We're only a phone call away if you run into a problem.

We recommend that you learn to create and maintain your own optimized website.  The reason is money.  It may initially costs more to learn how to optimize your website, but in the long run, you will not be paying us for updates, changes, improving positions, etc., etc., for years into the future.

Remember, once you have achieved top positions, your competitors are not going to remain static.  The search engines are continually changing and improving their protocols to provide the best webpages for a given keyword phrase.  You'll need to update your knowledge base yourself or again, with a simple phone call to us, complete the changes yourself.  We experience an average of one to two years before our webpages start to slide down dramatically in position, however, sometimes in just a few months they drop.  It is an ongoing process to maintain all your positions.

We are internet business consultants, website designers and search engine optimization (SEO) specialists in search engine placement.  If you want to use search engines for your advertising and marketing, you'll need an experienced person with website design skills, who understands search engine optimization, and also has a marketing background. This person/company must be able to write excellent motivating copy, and hopefully has general business experience.  Being able to write motivating marketing copy, while using unique keyphrases that have been specifically selected for search engine placement, is critical for a successful internet business.

How to find an experienced business person, web designer and SEO specialist.

There are thousands of website designers out there in cyberspace, but few have business experience and/or understand search engine algorithms.  Keep this in mind.  To get into the coveted top 30 positions on a search engine, you will need to pass over thousands of your competitors, and it is as hard as it sounds.  Think about it.  Your keyphrase returns 3,000,000 pages, and there are only 30 desired positions.

How hard is it to get into the top 30?

For instance, if there are 3,000,000 webpages returned with your keyword phrase, only one webpage in a hundred thousand will make it into the top thirty positions (top three pages). That is a tough challenge for even the very best SEO specialist. Now a word of caution, watch out for the unethical seo scammers that "guarantee positions" - NO ONE CAN GUARANTEE AN ETHICAL POSITION.

Let's use an analogy.  Did you know that the difference between first and second place on the 2400 mile Victoria to Maui Offshore Sailboat Race can be under one hundredth of a knot over two weeks, day in a day out.  It's the same race here, your home internet business webpages have to be so finely tuned, adjusted and shaped, to have a fighting chance to sail pass all your competitors on the internet.  Yes, I have many years of racing large sailboats.

Another analogy.  Starting an internet business without a large marketing budget or search engine optimized website would be like starting a business in the basement of a large building with the entrance in the alley and no signage or parking.

The why a home based internet business?

Potentially, a home based internet business will give you reduced overhead, no daily commuting and closeness to the family. It's rumored that Ebay started in a garage.

The 1700's through the 1800's it was the family business or cottage business, that was at the forefront of our nations commerce.  Today the small or home based business is still employing 70 of the working population and bring in about half the total commerce income in the United States, and at this time with the instability to day, the small business is growing at a rapid rate, especially on the internet, consider it.

Still want to start an internet business?

If you are determined to start this adventure of starting a business on the internet, then there is more information on this website, just follow the links.  You might want to get something to drink, coffee or whatever, and lots of paper loaded in your printer.  We are giving you this information free.  This information can help you start your internet business correctly. It'll still may take years of experience to fine tune your website for top placement results.  There is a way to reduce the time it will take you to gain that experience, just continue on to the business seo website, webdesign section when you've finished this section.