Starting an online business takes some research. Before you do anything you need to first be clear on your niche. If you want me to recommend one for you, I’d suggest getting into the money making niche. Find something about making money and start talking about that. It’s so much easier to sell dollars for dimes than anything else.

Once you’ve chosen your niche, you need to set up a squeeze page that captures the name and email address of your visitor. Now, how do you throw up a squeeze page? Well, you’ve first got to buy a domain and get  hosting. You can use FatJack Hosting for that.  If you have no knowledge in setting up websites or if you don’t want to do it yourself you can hire somebody to do it for you from websites like www.guru.com or www.elance.com. Another option is doing it yourself using tools like Nvu, DreamWeaver, FrontPage, or WebExpressions from Microsoft. Once you have one of these programs installed on your computer,  go online to see examples of websites with squeeze pages on them and try to imitate it.

The next thing you’ve got to get is an autoresponder installed on your hosting. Log in to your autoresponder software platform and create your own autoresponder. I use AutoresponderPlus and highly recommend it.

So, how do you set up an autoresponder sequence of messages? It’s a fairly simple process. Just follow the instructions laid out for you on their site. When you create an autoresponder, it’s going to create a form. Go inside the autoresponder and copy the form code so that you can also use it inside your squeeze page website. The reason for this is so that your visitors will be able to sign up and you will be able to capture their information so that you can market to them.

The next thing is finding products to promote. In the “making money” niche, there are tons of great affiliate products you can sell to your list. Once you’ve posted your products on you site, save your website on your computer so you have a backup of it and then go up to the top of the software where it says: “Open site.”

The hosting account should give you your Cpanel username and password where you can input the domain name of your website as well as log you into the server. The public html folder inside Cpanel is where you’re going to drag and drop everything. After you do that the site will now be live.

Once that’s all set up, now you can begin working on your autoresponder messages.

In the first message of your autoresponder sequence, you’ll probably want to send a welcome email. Perhaps something like; “Welcome, thanks very much for signing up…” For your second message, you’ll want to probably send them straight to your affiliate page. This will help you set up a good foundation and start training your list members to buy.

A quick way to make you money is go to Clickbank.com and sign up for a related affiliate program in your niche with high gravity. High gravity means the product is selling well overall. Once you find something with high gravity, take that product and log back into your autoresponder and change the redirect so that when people opt in, the success/confirmation page will be a new page and the link you’d want to put there is a link to your affiliate program.

To start driving traffic, I would go to Google.com/ads and set up an AdWords account. In addition to this you can start writing articles to get you more established. Good luck! By taking action you’re sure to grow your business fairly quickly and make some money while you’re  at it!

Warmest regards,

Matt Bacak

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