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Free Does Not Always Mean Cheap When It Comes to Your Web Based Home Business

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Most traditional businesses can cost thousands of dollars to start. So if you want to start an inexpensive and/or almost free home based business, you should consider starting a Web based Home

business.

Let’s face reality; there is no free ride in any bonafide business. If someone tells you that there is, watch him or her really closely because eventually they will lie about something else. Any successful business will eventually require both an investment in time and money.

However, there are a couple of web-based businesses that you can get started at home with very little investment at all.

A start-up web site can be very inexpensive. To support the marketing of that site, there are several free tools available to help you create a high content design with a specific focus that can be

a great marketing asset.

If you don’t want to have to invest in a product, then affiliate selling may be the best option for you. Once you have your web site complete and have high volumes of traffic using your key words

and Search Engine Optimization techniques, then you are ready to find a merchant that will affiliate with you. The affiliate promotes your web site with a link on his or her own web page. Your products and services are promoted through the link. When a customer clicks on a link and makes a purchase, you give the affiliate a commission. This is because that visitor found the link from the affiliate’s website.

You and your affiliates will agree prior to the link being posted what the actual commission will be for a particular sale. The affiliate needs to make sure that the product and services he or she is promoting are related. You want to have a targeted audience and be able to promote your products and services on the affiliates site.

If an affiliate has several types of businesses to promote they need to have their own sites independent of each other. This will keep things organized and only get the visitors who will generate sales. Make sure that all the pages on your website are themed and easy to find on the popular search engines. You want to make sure that you are attracting potential buyers who are specifically looking for what your website has to offer.

Wonder if your web site is really successful and you decide you would like to sell it? Well, the best method of selling your site to someone else is to speak to your customers and visitors. They will feel comfortable with your offering and in turn promote and advocate your sites and business to others.

One of the easiest ways to start your own home web based business is to sign up yourself with an existing affiliate program. Selling other peoples products within an affiliate program is a great way to generate cash flow. If the seller of a product or service does not have an affiliate program, he or she has generally one source of income. So, they make more sales and more money if they have affiliates selling for them, and those affiliates make money for selling those products as well. The more products an affiliate sells, of course the more money they will make.

Your first successful website is always the most difficult. Once you have figured it out you will surely succeed.

If you are looking to have a home based business where people can buy and sell for absolute minimal cost, you should consider the business of online auctions. Maybe you want to sell, or maybe you are looking to buy. Either way, it doesn’t have to cost you a fortune. Actually, it doesn’t have to cost you anything. That’s right! There are many free auction sites online to choose from.

Unless you have been living under a rock for the past several years you've heard of eBay. But there are alternative free auction sites online to choose from. For example, AuctionFire.com charges no listing fees and allows sellers to link to their auction page straight from their website for free. They have tons of item categories to choose from, whether you are a seller or a buyer, and claim to be open to new category suggestions. Similar in its item categories is Bid-Alot.com where buying and selling is free, though they require sellers who sign up for the free account to provide credit card information. They also offer a how-to-trade guide for their beginners. Baymore.com offers pictures of their home page featured items as well as message boards for both buyers and sellers.

Other free auction sites include BuySellTrades.com which offers free listings, classifieds and trading, secure shopping and bidding, free store setup, community forums for buyers and sellers and even a chat community. BidMonkey.com also offers communities and even ChatMonkey IM. Users have the opportunity to earn Monkey Bucks and purchase items without paying anything but shipping. Also, sellers have the chance to be featured on the main page—a guarantee that everyone who logs in will see your name!

Whether you want to buy or sell on your online auction site, there are free auction sites out there for you with extra bonuses such as free store setups and community forums and chats to help you along your way.

So there are some real opportunities to start a home web based business for little or no money. That is good news for those who want to start their home web based business on a tight budget and then expand it as they generate profits.

So why not set up your business today and start making money now!

Warm Regards,

Kenny Anderson

Mr. Kenny Anderson is the Principal at Tiger Trade, LLC
a subsidiary of Goeins-Williams Associates, Inc. of Wilmington, DE
and Aurora, CO. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy
at Annapolis, MD, Kenny is a “Netpreneur” currently marketing and
managing a number of successful home based affiliate programs.
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