Your internet business may be small - but the Internet lets you think big. Whatever product or service your internet business offers, the Internet levels the playing field and lets you compete with bigger businesses, reaching customers around the world who can conveniently buy from you 24 hours a day.

FIRST STEP - THE IDEAS & STARTUP PLANS

This is the most important step! Without a good concept, a good product, good services or good content, anything else you do is a waste of time. So what should you look for here?

If you already have a business offline means in the real world, this is the logical place to start. So many businesses launching websites as just another place they need to advertise. They simply copy their print advertisements and brochures to the web sites. While these sites are not totally worthless, but they fail to take full advantage of the supreme opportunities afforded by the new technologies online.
Your web site can be the perfect showcase for people to obtain info

about your company and products, an efficient way of communicating with your present clients, potential customers and an international marketplace to sell your products and services.

If you do not have an existing business, you should still look for ideas first in areas where you already have some expertise. If your current expertise does not seem to lend itself to an online business opportunity, your next plan should be to spend some significant time learning about the businesses already operating online.Once you have an understanding of what is available, look for ways to do the same things in a better way or look for a market niche that has not been serviced well.Keep in mind that there are almost always ways to improve upon existing services & products.

Clearly, converting your ideas, expertise and skills into an internet business is a big job, but it's too important to do it for a successful career and for financial independence. amdm.biz can help. As the leading provider of internet business and internet marketing services for individuals and small-businesses. AMDM.BIZ offers a complete set of solutions that help you easily handle every step of the internet business process. If you have an idea you wish to discuss, email me for advise.

SECOND STEP - YOUR DOMAIN NAME (Web Address)

The first step toward internet business is selecting the name of your site. Your Web address (also called a URL - Uniform Resource Locator - or "domain name"), tells customers who you are and how to find you on the Internet. It is the core of your Internet identity - your online brand. And because no two parties can have the same Web address, your online identity is totally unique.

Selecting a domain name is an important part of developing an Internet business.

Although it is true that virtually every word in the English language is already owned by someone else, there are many clever ways around the problem of finding a good domain name. For example, if you are a travel agency and can't get travel.com, you might be able to reserve something like JJ-travel.com. You can also reserve a name with a .net, .org, .biz, .pk or many other extension.
If you would like to register a domain name for your internet business, I suggest using www.amdm.biz , which is an excellent registration service for only Rs/- 599 ($10) per year with many free services. Network Solutions / Yahoo is currently still charging Rs/- 2100 ($35) per year for the same service.

When registering a domain name, please keep this point in mind: Don’t use unusual words, phrases or ellipsis in domain name. Choose an easy-to-remember name that also describers your products, services or expertise.

Never use free domain and free hosting (with a lot of banner-ads or popup-window ads) for your business. They don’t leave good impression on your web site visitors about your business and professionalism.

There are some basics you need to consider when selecting a web hosting company:

Reliability - A good rule to verify their reliability is to check existing web sites hosted on their servers or ask their existing web hosting clients about their hosting services.

Access to Support Staff - All hosting companies probably have support staff. The important question is how easily can you get in contact with them & how soon can you get help with your problems.

Server Hard Drive Space - An average web page is 10K to 50k. Pictures & other graphics usually range on size from about 1K to 100K. This means that if you have a 10 to 15 page website with 2-5 graphics on each page, you will need 500K to about 3MB (3,000K or 3,000,000 bytes) to save your website on a server. Even if you have a much large website with many more graphics, your website should be able to fit comfortably onto about 10MB of hard disk space.

Allowable Data Transfer - When someone visits your web page, they cause data (web page code and images) to be transferred from the server hosting your

web page down to their individual computer. If you have many visitors who look at everything on your web site, this transfer puts a strain on the resources of your host server. For this reason, limits are generally placed on the amount of "traffic" your site may receive before you are charged extra. In the example above, assuming the maximum web site size (about 3MB), and assuming 1,000 visitors per day viewed everything on your website once, you would need to transfer 30MB per day or about 1GB per month.

Secure Server - Many web hosts have this option available for an additional monthly fee. Secure (or encrypted) server space is needed if you plan to accept credit card information or other sensitive data on your website.

FTP Access - There are many ways for you to upload your web pages to your server. However, the quickest and easiest is by using an FTP (File Transfer Protocol) program .

POP Accounts - These allow you password-protected access to mail sent though your website email address.

CGI-Bin Access - If you want to run your own programs on your website, you must have CGI access. Your CGI capabilities must allow you to read, write and execute on your server.

Domain Name Hosting - At a minimum you need your host server to allow you to have your own domain name.

I highly recommend you to use AMDM.BIZ Hosting Services (partnership with a US-based web hosting company).

FOURTH STEP - DESIGNING A WEB SITE

If you already familiar with HTML, FrontPage or Dreamweaver, a graphic designing program like PhotoDraw or Adobe PhotoShop and using FTP, you can design, maintain and update your web site yourself. But keep in mind that it should be professional-looking in design and contents.

With a domain name and web hosting in place, you're ready to start building your internet business online presence. But before you begin, take some time to plan.

Plan Your Site Carefully First, identify clear marketing goals for your site, such as generating leads, building a database of potential customers' names and e-mail addresses, or putting a product or

Carefully examine your own favorite internet business sites. Creatively adapting the most compelling marketing and design techniques will enhance your site's effectiveness.

• Your company name, logo, and slogan, prominently displayed. Take full advantage of the opportunity to showcase your brand identity.
  
  
• A link to an "About the Company" page for customers to quickly learn who you are and what your business offers.
  
  
• A site menu listing the basic web pages of your site. Keep this menu in the same place on every page throughout your site to make it easy to navigate.
  
  
• Contact information. Don't make it difficult for visitors to find your phone number, e-mail address, mailing address, and fax number

FIFTH STEP - TEST, TEST & TEST

You may be eager to launch your internet business web site, but take time to review and test your site thoroughly before going live. You will only have one chance to make a first impression on each new visiting customer, & broken links, incorrect email address, & grammatical or spelling errors don't leave a good impression to your web site visitors about your professionalism.

SIXTH STEP - PROMOTE YOUR INTERNET BUSINESS

Register your site with search engines.

Put your domain name everywhere. Brochures, advertisements, business cards, can be effective ways to promote your site and establish your corporate identity.

The Internet offers such awesome potential for creativity and multi-level communication with potential customers that companies have a responsibility to take advantage of it.

EIGHT STEP - GENERATING REPEAT BUSINESS

Once you have customers using your services, you need to be creative about finding ways to keep the relationship going as well as encouraging your customers to send others to your site. This can be accomplished in many ways. likes, Contests and coupons, Affiliate program, Partnership/associate relationships, Newsletters.

NINTH STEP - START SELLING

With an online identity, a Web host, an eye-catching, professional-looking Web site, and the right promotions, your internet business is ready to succeed in the competitive world of the Web.

In the light of the above-mentioned nine steps, you should have an idea or plan what to do. Then register a domain name for the same and get a web hosting package. Why have I recommend you to get domain and hosting in first steps? Because, I know, it will automatically motivate you to start earlier and as soon as possible.

Your web site development and web site promotion is not a one-time job. It needs continues research and work to keep your web site contents updated and promote it in as many ways as possible. I've listed a few promotional tips in brief here. In my next articles, I will cover each and every aspect in details.

If you ever have any questions about online business, you’re invited to email business@amdm.biz& I’ll do my best to help you!

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