Do You Know How To Start Your Own Online Business??

I have read that within the next 5 years, the number of online businesses will just explode! Due to the economy and job losses, people are turning to the web to earn income from their home.

If you decide to start your own online business, will you know what to do? When I look back at my own beginnings, I was pretty naive about the whole thing. You just can't believe everything you read--especially the stuff about overnight success and make millions within a week etc.

I started out with a Yahoo store--which is actually pretty nice. But, at that time, I knew nothing about Marketing or getting Traffic (customers) to your site, or Google ranking and all the other things.

I was pretty careful and didn't buy things that were "too good to be true" because you know what they say about that!

After trying some other things like eBay Stores (nothing wrong with those), I came upon an advertisement from Steve Clayton about their new step-by-step program that teaches you everything to run your own business (with very little money involved).  My "gut" told me that this was not some "slick" salesman out to earn a buck. Steve & Tim (his partner) genuinely wanted to teach their own money making formula so we "beginners" would know exactly what to do.

Niche Blueprint is a step-by-step program teaching you what to do each step of the way. They did this through video, audio and pdf files. They split the program into "modules" and each module had videos and several manuals. You work at your own pace (but you do have a timeline to go by). When you finish that module, you start the next. Throughout the program, there are Free tools (programs) to make a lot of things easier!


The key to this whole program is not to get you to buy more stuff. In fact, the emphasis is on making a successful online business with almost no money. There are things you can do and programs to purchase if you have the extra money, but Steve & Tim wants to show you that you can do the same things with hardly any money. And they were right!


I had to pay for Steve & Tim's Niche Blueprint course--you can't expect that to be Free! The only other thing I have to "pay" for is the monthly hosting charge and buying a domain.


Hostgator.com is recommended (and I agree) a great, inexpensive hosting company with great technical support. You have to have a host--that is where all your files are kept for your business. You can buy a domain name from GoDaddy.com and other places. That is the name of your business with the "dot com, dot org, dot info" etc.  My first online business was called BabysNursery-BeddingandMore.com. On average, you pay about $10 for a domain name (re-newed each year).

As of today, May 30, 2010, I have 27 money-making sites! They are all not online stores. I have also expanded into Affiliate Marketing and Adsense.

Don't expect this to be easy!  At first--before your business starts to grow, expect to put in 8 hours a day working on it. If you don't, it will just take you that much longer to start making money.

In my next blog post, I will go into more detail about Niche Blueprint 2 (updated version).

by Lori Walker
BestBabyThings

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The Niche Blueprint Report..

"The *Radically Unconventional* Niche Website Formula That Generated $1,214,978 From Free Website Traffic!"

The original Niche Blueprint product sold out fast and the creators, Tim and Steve, had to
shut the site down as they only had limited spaces.

However, the good news is that they have just released *version 2.0* of Niche Blueprint which takes this amazing system to a totally different level.

It's something they have been using for the past 3 years to make money
in weird markets like “bird cages”, train horns (that's not a misprint) ...and even sewing machines.

This report contains the exact same process that Tim and Steve (along with their customers) have used to set up highly profitable Niche e-commerce sites ...and how you can too!

Okay enough talk, read the report and discover the 5 simple steps you can implement right now to replicate their success!

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Make Money Online

Niche marketing is the fastest way to make money online. This is an important technique that shouldn‘t be ignored. Finding the right niche takes time, but once it is found, the profits could be endless. Most people who use niche marketing choose to promote affiliate products in their niche. But how do you promote your niche products?

While there are several ways to do this, review sites tend to work the best. People are always looking for information to help them make a decision about what to buy. So, the first thing you should do is find a few affiliate products related to your niche and then put up a website that compares those products. If you can actually use these products yourself, your reviews will sound much more authentic, but you can get by without this step if you have to.

When writing the copy for your review site, you should keep the writing short, yet informative. People shy away from reading lengthy paragraphs of unbroken information online. Two to three paragraphs of three to four sentences in length should be sufficient. Make sure you point out the benefits of each product you’re reviewing, but include minor flaws, as well. Don’t overdo it on the negatives, unless the product is truly awful. People tend to trust reviews more if there are some caveats listed in them. Highlight the product you deem the best value for the money, and make it clear this is your opinion. Finally, be sure to include links to the merchant pages of each product, and make sure those links are embedded with your affiliate code.