Starting online career never been easy if you don’t have any guidelines. The other day, I was asked by someone about this question:

How to initiate an online business as a career?

How to setup internet online business?

Many people feel they are lost when come to start their online career. Here some of the idea you may consider to use it as a direction for your online career.

Step 1: Start from your hobbies or existing experience Step 2: Design a website that converts maximum visitors into lifetime Step 3: Drive flood of qualified buyers to your website Step 4: Put it all on autopilots

Step 1: Start from your hobbies or existing experience. Use your existing hobbies or experience to find a ???? (Fill in the blank yourself). The keyword to success is to be creative. Look for ordinary products to sell on the internet, not just look for e-books to sell, Think outside the box!! You may take your offline care online.

Here are some of the example websites: Global-Fitness.com ? generated 1.5 million, teaching fitness course online. GuitarTips.com.au ? generated 200K sales in 6 months time by teaching guitar lesson online. Maddentips.com ? generated $187K income a year for just selling video game manual Yoga-Teacher-Training.org ? Teaching People to Become Yoga Teacher

No. 1 fatal mistakes made by 99% of Internet Marketers are looking for the ultimate product to sell. Look as the example above, they are just another niche products that people looking for. We should look for easily targeted niche market and find a product that they are hungry for.

There is not true when someone say this: - Internet is saturated, all the good business has been taken - I need to be a technical expert to run my own internet business.

There are few ways you can generate income / revenue:

- create and sell your own products & services

- drop ship products

- affiliate products

- sell ads space

- Joint venture with like minded business owner

- Sell other people products by purchasing reprint rights

- Etc?.. (anything you can think of)

What is the most profitable product to sell online? The answer is anything can be delivering digitally. For example, softwares, e-books, report, paid subscription newsletters. You can either develop yourself or look for someone develops for you. A few good websites like RentACoder.com, eLance.com and ScriptLance.com allow you to find your developer here.

Step 2: Design a website that converts maximum visitors into lifetime First of all you need to understand the mindset of online visitors before you build a website. The fact is 99% of people don?t buy online and they don?t buy from you. They are searching for information & usually expect to get it for FREE.

Always answer their question: W-I-I-F-M? Yes, what in it for me? If you can answer their W-I-I-F-M, you have half way to your success. Your website must design to answer their questions. You only have 10 seconds to attract them, if they are female visitors, you may have 4 seconds only (That?s the report from somewhere else). J

Step 3: Drive flood of qualified buyers to your website Now, you need to drive traffic to your website. For the start you can start using the popular pay-per-click advertising like Yahoo marketing & Google Adwords. You may want to consider subscribing to Pay Per Click Search Engine which you can get the popular keywords search in 537 SE in one software.

Next, consider to distribute your contents and give it away for FREE! Cannot write article like me?? Don?t worry, you can pull out from the internet as well. One of the website provides free article is ezinearticles.com. They are tones of articles ready for you to pickup and use it.

Do a press release for your launch of your website at PRWeb.com. This wonderful website just like your offline newspapers, once you advertise in there, they will drive a lots of traffic to your website from every way.

You might consider using advance methods like blogging, podcasting and RSS to drive more traffic. Most of these tools are available online and you can grab and use it for FREE. Just do a search Google and you will find a lot of free tools available for your use. You just need to spend time to learn all these before apply to your website. Of course there are people offer their service to help you to setup all these. Within very short time, you will be able to plug into your website.

Affiliate marketing is one of the most effective ways to drive traffic to your website. By offering part of the income from sales to your affiliate marketer, they will glad to help you to promote your products and services.

Step 4: Put it all on autopilots Once you have all these setup, don?t forget to automate your business. I am sure you don?t want to answer your client’s calls or process the order midnight (since it is online business, there will be people order your products when you are sleeping) or in your holidays in Mediterranean.

Automate your ordering and fulfillment process. If you are selling digital products, you can use the tools to help you on the logistics part. If you are not, you will need to hire someone to arrange for the delivery.

Next, automate your inbound and outbound email. Again, the inquiries can come in anytime, you automated system like autoresponder to handle your basic email need.

And lastly, automate your search engine submission. In order to keep search engine updated about your website, you need to submit it once in a 3-6 months, depending on your website.

Spend more time on the important things like:

- promoting & marketing your business

- testing PPC ads and optimize it

- write sales letter & autoresponder email

- etc?

Words of Wisdom

Your income will grow to the extent you do.. T Harv Eker

If there is a different between you and me is I have a chance to do what I love to do everyday .. Warren Buffet

The No. 1 reason most people don?t get what they want is because they don?t know what they want!

If you have nothing else to do? Just put up a website and start promoting online?

No matter how ugly your websites, we all start from somewhere.

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