Another important part of your home based business website that you want to put a great deal of though into is content. You’ll want content to speak to your customers in an conversational, informative manner. And website experts suggest more pages better. When you’re first starting out five to ten pages is probably enough, but you will want to add to content as you go and frequently update your content with news and information to give your home based business website visitors a reason to come back. If you’re sitting there screaming, “But I can’t write!” Relax. You can hire professional website content copywriters on outsourcing websites like Elance and Guru to develop content for you for quite affordable rates. It’s money well-spent to have best content possible for your home based business website.

All of these, along with a merchant account, are essential for a successful home based business website. However, there are some other things that you will want to consider for your home based business website such as:

Opt-in newsletter Shopping cart if you’re going to be selling merchandise Autoresponder Affiliate program Email courses Free offers

And don’t worry if all of this website building stuff sounds confusing or difficult to you. A good website developer or a few nights searching Internet for information on building a website will clear everything up for you—or lead you to right company that will build your home based business website for you, from beginning to end. Just make sure company has a great reputation. You may be running your home based business from your basement, but that doesn’t mean your website has to be anything less than perfect.

Charles Fuchs http://www.charlesfuchs.com http://charlesfuchs.blogspot.com

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Copyright © 2006, Charles Fuchs, President of Vision Management Enterprise Inc., is an established online marketer who specializes in helping people start their very own Work at Home Based Business.

Make sure you have insurance. This is crucial in case something should happen to your home based business inventory or equipment. A home based business can afford not to have proper insurance. That basement flood mentioned earlier could easily put you out of business for good unless you have insurance. So you want to have best insurance you possibly can, even if it means scrimping on other expenses. If you don’t already have it, get on phone or go online and get adequate insurance as soon as possible.

Plan for taxes now. If you haven’t already discussed your taxes with an accountant or other home based business financial advisor, you want to do it as quickly as possible. And you want to check in with them frequently to make sure you stay up to date on important tax laws that may affect your home based business. You want to be sure you’re setting aside enough money to pay your taxes and you also need to know if you should be filing taxes yearly or quarterly as many self-employed people do. Also, if your home based business has employees, you’ll want to make sure you’re withholding right amount of taxes for them as well. Taxes are a fact of life and sooner and more efficiently you plan for them, better off your home based business will be. The last thing you want is for that tidy little nest egg you’ve saved for your home based business to be gobbled up by tax man!

Charles Fuchs http://www.charlesfuchs.com http://charlesfuchs.blogspot.com

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Copyright © 2006, Charles Fuchs, President of Vision Management Enterprise Inc., is an established online marketer who specializes in helping people start their very own Work at Home Based Business.