Expectations for an Internet Business Plan

noreply@blogger.com (Bill Disciple) — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 02:46:00 +0000

With no internet business plan, you have no control. I’m paraphrasing something I found in a project management book, but you get the idea. If you have no plan, you have no control. And when you have no control, how can you expect to do anything? You must have a business plan of some kind.

This brings us to expectations. If you don’t set them, then you will have no measurement of success or failure. When starting a legitimate internet business, Here are some things you can expect:

1. It is hard work.
2. You won’t get rich quick.
3. You will not be writing about topics you are passionate about.
4. Expect some failures.

Part of your internet business strategy will be accepting the fact that this will indeed, be hard work. In the beginning, you can expect to work at least 8 hours a day (or less if you have a family to take care of). You’ll spend hours researching the internet to find the right keywords. You’ll spend hours writing about topics which you may know little about. You’ll spend hours learning terminology that you may not be familiar with. The beginning will be rough.

If you found this website then you’ve probably seen them before. They have ads that say “Start an online business and get rich quick!” or “Turnkey internet service business!” or “Exciting internet providers business”. 99.9% of these offers are completely bogus. If you get that gut feeling, that tells you it’s too good to be true, then you are probably right. The real, legitimate online businesses, in which people work from home are not get rich quick schemes. They are comprised of all different types of people who put a lot of time in. It is truly their job and career.

Most people who start an internet business will make their money writing about specific topics and placing relevant advertisements on their blog or website. This is how it’s done. When you write out your internet business plan, make sure you include that fact. There’s no way around it. Before you start dreaming about writing exclusively about your favorite pastime, realize this: You will spend the majority of your time writing about topics in which you know little or nothing about. Boom. There it is. It took me a while to get comfortable with this. I kept thinking, “Surely there’s a way I can write about things I know about and make a lot of money”. Well, guess again. Unless maybe you’re the guy from Jeopardy who knows everything….

Expect to fail. There will be certain topics that you will put a lot of time into, only to have little or no return. Don’t get discouraged though. There are tens of thousands of topics or niches to write about when starting an online business. Another thing to remember is that the internet is dynamic. It changes, sometimes hourly. So don’t get too hung up if one of your topics doesn’t do well.

Now let’s put this plan together.

For now, you will be creating 20 websites that zero in on one topic or keyword. These are commonly called ‘niche sites’. Each of these sites will slowly start to get traffic (naturally) and if you monitor your sites appropriately, you can make them better and better. And they will tell you exactly what site is paying and for what keywords yadda yadda yadda.

The success of your internet business will depend greatly on how closely pay attention to detail. So next time, I am going to go into a little more detail.

Internet Business

noreply@blogger.com (Bill Disciple) — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:12:00 +0000

Welcome to Internet Business The Right Way. This site will serve as a guide for those seeking information about doing business on the internet. This site can also be used as a guide for people setting up their own internet business.

First things first. Creating an internet business is not easy. Don't let anyone fool you into thinking that you can just sit back and start letting the cash flow in. There are tons of websites that are ready and willing to just take your money and not educate you about anything. If starting an internet business were easy , everyone would be doing it. The fact is that the people who work at it, get the most out of it. If you don't want to work, you won't get anything.

In the next couple of posts, I will be showing you what it really takes to start an internet business the right way. There will be no payment necessary or nothing required of you. Just reading. That's all.

The first thing we are going to talk about is Google. Google is the #1 choice for searching on the internet. Period. Google is your friend. Google will tell you a lot of information. If you’re not using Google, start now.

There are several ways to start an online business. One, is to sell things. Another would be to offer some kind of service. Last, but not least, is advertising.

Advertising on the internet has been around since, well, the start of the internet. We’ve all seen them. Banner ads. A sure fire way to start an internet business would be to publish a web page that contained banner ads. These are called affiliate programs. Someone who has written a website devoted to, say, ‘blue widgets’ could search the web for affiliate programs that offer ‘blue widgets’. Once you sign up for the affiliate program, you can then begin to place these banner ads on one (or all) of the pages of your website. Depending on the affiliate program, you’ll be paid, either when someone clicks the banner ad or when someone clicks it and then proceeds to buy a ‘blue widget’.

That, has since evolved into what I call content related advertising. Enter Google AdSense. Google AdSense is a program offered to website publishers that enables them to monetize their web pages. The types of advertisements that are displayed on your website are determined by a number of things. The content of your page, how the person arrived at your page and some other criteria.

In a nutshell, you can create a webpage (with some research) and with a little more work, make a lot of money every month.

In the next couple of posts, I will get into a lot more detail. But keep this in mind.

An internet business can be created solely in the comfort of your own home.