At the most basic part of how to work from home on the internet there is three main paths.

1. Find a affiliate or reseller program or find a skill like data entry and solicit your services.

2.  Find your own product and put a shopping cart on your website. Paypal works great for this.

3. Provide a valuable content for a subscription fee

There is thousands of other way but I want to focus on the top three.

1 .. First find a affiliate or reseller program or find a skill like data entry and solicit your services. This the easiest of all ways to make money on the internet. I recomend finding something that most people use every month and that you use and have a opinion on. For example mps players, you can find a website that specializes in MP3 players and check to see if they have a affiliate program.

If they do then you should start a basic website, even one page is fine. Do not get a free web page or a page from the business that sells the product. This will be much harder to market and get search engine traffic to.

On your website post something eye grabbing like their lowest price MP3 player. Now add test that has to do with this devise on the page in a attractive and professional manner.

Next you should add a blog on the website, I recomend wordpress for this and DWHS for hosting since they have word press that can be added for free easily and they only charge$3 for a basic website.

Make sure and update your blog  3 times a week even if it’s cut and pasting stuff from the website that you are sending customers to. This will eventually make money if website has a good product, make sure and have a friend or you test the website to see if the affiliate program and website itself works well.

2 .. Find your own product and put a shopping cart on your website. Paypal works great for this. This is actually easier then you think. Even if all you sale is candles or toilet paper if the site is clean, professional, and functional you will make at least some sales.

First find a distributer, in this example lets say a local candle maker. At first you will not make much from the candles  because you will not buy them in bulk but this starting process is how almost all business with no start up costs will work.

Next sign up for paypal and use there shopping cart option to add the candles to your website and  allow for people to buy them. You will also want to make friends with your local shipping office so you can eventually get a shipping discount.

Next build a blog on your website and update it once a week with stuff in regards to candles. You will also want to sale these products on Ebay and Craigslist.

3 ..  Provide a valuable content for a subscription fee. This is done in so many ways I couldn’t cover them all but some are EBooks, News, Groups, Content, ECT.. ECT..

For this you don’t need a shopping cart, just a website with some great sales stuff on it and a company like verotel to manage the members and payments

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Other things to consider:

Get good hosting, slow or dead web pages do not get customers. We recomend www.dwhs.net for this

Link to you blog from at least your front but even better is every page.

Make sure and add images to each blog post, it makes it less boring.

Think of these words first when making a website:  clean, professional, and functional

It’s not that bad to have someone else build the website. PageAlive.com does a page for $100 flat

Be patient, search engines take about three months to list and update new sites.

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Written by Charles Yarbrough for www.marketingspot.com
www.charlesyarbrough.com

It’s coming to a age where having a website is necessary for all business owners. But who has time to update all the new products and business changes on a daily basis? The reality is the majority of business owners update their web page every 6-12 months. Usually this consists of something they think will improve the image of the website. The part that’s commonly overlooked is that updating your website pages and text at least once a month has huge benefits far beyond any benefit of a slight image change.

By updating the web page once a month it adds credibility with customers and even more credibility with the internet process (Search engines and other websites). Search engines will always list a website that is active over stale, plain, and low text (content) websites. The differance between adding even a little more text each month is huge for how search engines will consider your website in the SE ranking system.

Of course adding jiberrish will not help much, but adding good text based stories, information, and by building more pages you WILL make a huge differance.  With that said here is the top 5 reasons to update your website atleast once a month:

1. Search Engines - They see changed and content rich web pages as a active website and will always rank this over a stale website.

2. Other Websites - The internet starves for new original information and by adding it to your website regularly you will have a much better chance to get free one way links to your website.

3. Customers - When customers see a website that is updated and has lots of perdinant information they are more likely to save the page to there favorites and come back!

4. Personal  Investment - I’m not big on tricking myself but the more you add to your website and see actual results the more fun it will be to add more content and watch your website grow.

5. Website Quality - Eventually you will notice errors or little ways to clean up and make the website more usable when your actively updating it.

The best way to stay active is to add a blog to your website, www.wordpress.com is a search engine friendly and is super easy for anyone to use. Most web hosts like www.dwhs.net  has it available for free by the push of a button. For example www.ocfocus.com You can see how the main website is the front line for the business and just adding a link on the bottom of each page to your blog you can have a easily updatability website that the search engines and your customers will love.

The other option is to have a non-static website, you can so this with blog software or any CMS (content management system)  www.drupal.com is a good option for this but might require slightly higher hosting fees to run it.

Written by Charles Yarbrough for www.marketingspot.com
www.charlesyarbrough.com

First… sorry about the cheesy image, I couldn’t resist.

Here are 5 business marketing characteristics that might help you be more successful.

1. Do what you can do for free; If your willing to do something substantial for free then you are able to do it well for money.  Find something you like and that you do well as a hobby or passion, then seek means to do it professionally.

2. Stay in the game; Most business’s fail, it’s a cold fact of life. Use this as a lesson and learn from all obstacles. There is a lesson in every situation that sets you back. Usually the lesson is someone else did what your trying to do better.

3. Be in the moment; Try not to spread yourself to thin. Staying on track is hard by nature, our minds want us to find something easier or better. In busines there will always be temptations of easier and better ways to make money but these our found from someone else working hard to find it.  Usually they found it by learning as they get there. Trying to take a short cut to match someone else’s success will usually set you back. It’s more reliable to find your own path and stick to it.

4. Don’t find ways to make yourself more successful; This is more for business and marketing professionals that are established. Instead of you focus on what can make your customer and employees more successful. This will bring success back to you in the end.

5. Open the possibility box, expand all possibilities for the business you target. It’s smart to know what not do as much as what to do. Try new stuff that pertains to your business even if you think it’s not worth it. In the end, even if it doesn’t work you will know more about what you need to NOT focus on.

Written by: Charles Yarbrough
www.charlesyarbrough.com