Do yourself a favor. Before you start an internet business, write a marketing plan (sound familiar?). Plan your website design, layout, and content based on your marketing plan. Read articles, ezines, ebooks, etc., written by those who have already made it, and glean ideas and suggestions on how to run your business from these.

There is so much to managing a business online, that you would be here all day reading an article such as this. Bottom line - before you start an internet business, learn how to so you don’t have to do it ‘hard’ way.

Focus on getting started to get started.

Alan Huff is the founder of AT Huff Publishing and MoMony.com (http://www.momony.com) and an up and coming Netrepreneur. Contact Alan at alan@momony.com.

Other sites are developed by graphics designers, these sites may look good but major opportunities to automate business processes might be missed and website could have technical flaws. As a result such sites rank poorly with search engines.

Websites are also implemented, without any content or technical maintenance plan. Have you noticed when you are surfing that there are sites that state when they were last updated and it was several years ago. That just isn’t competitive on web today. There is often no one specifically responsible for maintaining and monitoring website or specific business results that were expected when investment was made

“A company that neglects its website may be committing commercial suicide. A website is increasingly becoming gateway to a company's brand, products and services—even if firm does not sell online. A useless website suggests a useless company, and a rival is only a mouse-click away. But even coolest website will be lost in cyberspace if people cannot find it, so companies have to ensure that they appear high up in internet search results”

May 13th 2004 Economist

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