Dig deep into all areas dealing with creating and maintaining an ongoing business. Look into Web building, advertising and promotion. Be leery of concepts that are vague or unclear. Should you run into words "new business model," head for door as fast as you can!

Always remember that you don't want to re-invent wheel, you just want to have a very good understanding of how it works. You are not trying to break new ground but to understand well worn steps traveled by others before you.

Don't attach a personal judgment to some of sales literature since there is a reason for that weed to grow. Commercial copywriting should be a main subject of study, no matter what your personal viewpoint.

As time goes by, you'll begin to feel a new courage that is gained by convictions of your studies. As you read many of ads offered, you'll have a guiding principle in your mind and in your gut. No longer will you be like a leaf, blown about by a merciless wind! You have power of knowledge to guide you!

As you surf Web, make a list of sites that you like. I'm talking about particular sites associated with starting and building your Net business. You'll recognize them instantly because their writing will be clearheaded and to point. Their articles will be in favor of reader with very little heavy handed sales copy. When need arises, go there and drink deeply from well.

All above should contribute greatly to help you find your center; you won't be fumbling around in dark anymore. When you run into next me-too fad to hit web and it rears its ugly head to look at you, you'll know exactly what to do. It's a good thing and I welcome you to peace of mind of your new home.

by Francisco Aloy

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5. Now if you have chosen to go for a free host, then please skip this step, cause you probably won’t be able to use it. A domain is needed for people to find your website. For example if you website is called BoatFish, then you could make domain www.boatfish.com or www.boatfish.net, whatever you choose for. There are quite a large number of extensions you can go for. But I always suggest you go for a .com domain name. People tend to look for them more often than for a .net or any other extension.

6. The most important part of your website is your content. People stay or come back to your website because you have good content, or leave if you don´t. So please write up some good content for your site before launching it; this can cost you a lot of visitors. I can’t show you how to submit content, or what kind of content you should be submitting, this is something you should look into yourself.

7. Now you got everything you need to get your site online. And still you are not done at all. You can site around and wait for people to come to your website, but not many will. That’s why advertising will be your best bet to go for. You can link exchange and/or go for SEO. Search Engine Optimization is a great way to get many hits towards your website. I do not have any websites that haven’t been optimized for search engines, because I know seo’ing brings in many visitors, and customers. SEO means Search Engine Optimization, which means that it will try to rank you as high as possible at search engines. If some one searches for a keyword regarding your website they will see your site and click on it. This is seriously a great way to get many, many visitors.

8. Now your site is done and you can keep submitting content to your site, to keep visitors coming back. Good luck! And let me know if this helped you in any way.