Whatever project you decide to run with, learn as much about it as you can before spending your hard-earned money. Talk to others in same business and learn from their methods.

Before you make any investment, devise a plan that details how you will grow this business from scratch into one that will generate a significant income for you. How will you promote it? Where will income come from? How will you reach potential clients? How much will it all cost? Plus a million other questions that you need to ask yourself ;-)

You should also realise that many of more successful online entrepreneurs gain their incomes from more than one source. Multiple income streams is name of game these days. Several businesses all working in tandem towards a common goal. If one business should fail at any time in future you are still deriving income from others.

However, don't try to run before you can walk. One business at a time is more than enough for most of us!

So there you have it. Take your time, do your research, learn. You can have a successful online business, but it will take time.

My thinking was that I was not only adding content to my existing site but also creating stand-alone pages to tempt search engine ‘spiders’ to locate them in appropriate new categories based on power of my keyword selection.

In short, it worked, and worked spectacularly.

For one of these keyword phrases I ended up with TEN additional No.1 ranking spots plus dozens of complementary positions ranging from 1-30 on Google, Yahoo, Teoma, AOL, MSN and All The Web. You can evidence an example of this for yourself by entering ‘start a business masterplan’ into either Google or AOL. It should show up at No.1.

So far so good, and then within hours of being listed, came further success.

1. The downloads on my freebie ebook were phenomenal and continue to escalate.

2. Orders for Product No.1 started to roll in, a trickle at first, then increasing in number.

I haven’t re-invented wheel, but maybe, just maybe, I’ve developed it a smidgeon. Whatever, now I can set about developing my new web business…