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Home Based Internet Business Resources - Email

This is the second in a series of articles regarding legitimate home based internet business.

Incoming Email Filter - With Benefits

Email management skills are a necessity for successful home based internet businesses. I'm stating the obvious you say. Maybe. Maybe not. I do know that I had to change the way I thought about my email preferences settings when I started my home based internet business. Deciding which ones to allow through and which ones to actually take th...

 

 

This is the second in a series of articles regarding legitimate home based internet business.

Incoming Email Filter - With Benefits

Email management skills are a necessity for successful home based internet businesses. I'm stating the obvious you say. Maybe. Maybe not. I do know that I had to change the way I thought about my email preferences settings when I started my home based internet business. Deciding which ones to allow through and which ones to actually take the time to read is more subjective than you might think. How do you find legitimate opportunities without weeding through tons of spam? Is there a system?

Email Marketing

There is no online business that doesn't employ some sort of email campaign. If you want to become a successful home based internet business owner, you must use email marketing, period. email marketing is one of the first tools that you can use to drive visitors to your site. Every effective email campaign uses autoresponders to keep the ball rolling. The point is this: There are legitimate opportunities being sent to thousands of individuals' inboxes everyday. The sad news is the majority get deleted without a second thought. Yet individuals still yearn to be self-employed, working from home, enjoying life more and feeling a greater sense of accomplishment.

Get Off The Bench

If you want to begin to gather information about becoming a home based internet business owner there's more information available to you than ever before. It's FREE. Don't believe me? You must have your head in the sand. All it takes to get to know how it's done is your time. You decide if you want to participate. You decide when you want to participate. But you must decide and good decisions are always made from a solid knowledge base. If you don't know about something, you learn about it. Get off of the bench, get in the game and play.

Find A Niche

One of the biggest mistakes I made when I first started this business was getting too much information from too many different sources. My business started to grow when I quit going after the latest deal and actually spent some time implementing a program of my own. Again, it takes time to build a business. Search the internet for home based internet business, see what's out there. Find a program that you'd like to try and begin by receiving their free newsletter. I see more good ideas for free ten to one over ones I pay for.

Start Now

The longer you wait, the longer it will take for you to reach your goals. Whether you are interested in making an extra few bucks each month or making a real living from home, nothing happens until you get your feet wet. I played baseball in college and for a short time in the minor leagues and we had a saying around the batting cage, "Nothing happens 'til you swing." Get the bat off of your shoulder, pick a pitch you like and swing away. Nothing happens until you do.

 

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Home Based Internet Business Resources - Basics

This begins another series of articles covering the basics of how to start your home based internet business. We'll cover all the bases in this first article and explore each base in depth later.

The first thing you need to do when you start your home based internet business is decide on your domain name. You should choose a name that is easy to remember and type. It is best to avoid any weird characters or dashes in the domain address. For example you would not want "your...

 

 

This begins another series of articles covering the basics of how to start your home based internet business. We'll cover all the bases in this first article and explore each base in depth later.

The first thing you need to do when you start your home based internet business is decide on your domain name. You should choose a name that is easy to remember and type. It is best to avoid any weird characters or dashes in the domain address. For example you would not want "your-bu$iness.com" but you would want "yourbusiness.com". From the very beginning you need to think about making it easy for prospective customers or affiliates to type and remember your site. There are tons of free searches out there to see if your chosen domain name is already taken. One is but you can find literally thousands out there. Play around with your ideal domain name and search until you find a combination that is available. That is all there is to it.

Once you have decided on a domain name, you need to research what keywords will bring the most potential customers to your site. Key words are extremely important. Keywords are one component that drives search engine results for Google, Yahoo, MSN and all of the other top engines out there. If you wanted to start a pet business online, you might research the following key words and phrases: pet business, online pet business, pets, online business, dogs online, cats online, etc. We'll discuss ways to choose your keywords in later articles but I would suggest downloading Good Keywords from . The program is free and easy to use. Good Keywords will show you how many times a given word or phrase was searched on the internet in the past 30 days. The trick is to find keywords that are in the middle of the search pack. You don't want to compete with keywords that generate 10 million hits a month when you can compete with keywords that fit your business and generate 10 thousand hits a month. More on this in later a

OK, you've got a domain name and a good list of keywords. Now you need a solid "Host" for your website. I do not recommend free hosting. You truly get what you pay for when it comes to hosts and this is one area you do not want to scrimp on. Paid hosting sites provide quick response support. If you were like I was, knowing very little about how all of this works, support is one of the key ingredients to building a successful home based internet business.

Next I would highly recommend setting up a free email account with Gmail, Yahoo, MSN or whomever you are comfortable with or maybe already using. This email account would be used exclusively for your online business. Experience tells me it is much easier and more effective managing your business email separately from your personal email. Your online business will generate and receive a large volume of email and it is essential to be able to access and manage that email easily.

So far, so good. We've chosen our domain name, researched and chosen our keywords, decided on a host for our site and set up a dedicated business email address. It's time to take a look at email auto-responders. Very simply, email auto-responders send out an "opt in" email to individuals (leads) who have expressed an interest in owning a home based internet businesses. This is not spam! In fact, all of the auto-responders I use are 100% spam free and, believe me, they monitor it exhaustively. If the person(lead) expressing interest in internet business receives the opt in email and clicks on the confirmation link in the email, it triggers a group of follow up emails that you can write yourself or you can join a program that provides that service. The person can also "opt out" of receiving any more emails by clicking the appropriate link in the email. You can find programs that will write and install your entire email follow up campaign for free. I like that word "free".

Once you get your auto-responder working for you, you can allow your campaign to build a list of "opted in" subscribers that might eventually become customers or affiliates. Keep in mind that we're talking about sending thousands of emails to prospective home based internet business owners each week. Take a look at the number of emails you receive each week. Multiply that by several hundred thousand. It takes time to build a list of prospective customers. The key is in the follow up.

The most interesting aspect of running an online business for me is the hosts, auto-responders, lead companies, etc. that I use will also allow me to make money by advertising their services on my site. This is called "affiliate marketing" and it is huge. So, you are not only a customer of these services that are essential to online business, you now also "sell" their services on your site, even if your site has nothing to do with home based internet business resources. The cool thing is that you can be confident in promoting the performance of the services you are using because you have personal experience with them. Nothing speaks as boldly as personal experience.

This is the basic formula for virtually every online business I have researched and I have digging for legitimate opportunities for 5 years. Don't forget to look for my follow up articles which will explore in depth each of the areas we've covered in this article.

Remember, "Nothing Happens Until You Swing".

 

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