You can spend time and effort to teach yourself all you need to know through study of millions of free words on Internet. That is a hard way to go. How do you know stuff you are reading is actually helpful or not. You don't. What I suggest is that you find someone to help you.

There exists on web several companies dedicated to online business start-ups or to improving of existing online businesses. The Company I am most familiar with is Internet Musketeers Incorporated Online Business Center or IMIOBC. The IMIOBC is dedicated to helping people start-up or improve their own online businesses. The list of services provided by these people are impressive and covers entire spectrum of requirements concerning operations of online businesses.

For example they provide a free consultation service designed to explore your ideas, products or services, determine your specific requirements, and then recommend courses of action designed to meet your specific requirements. No one else does that. Many times this free consultation is all you need to get started in right direction. That's OK with them because in talking with you they have opportunity to expose you to their unique business building products and services for your future use if you are so inclined. Below is a short list of products and services available to you through IMIOBC.

1. Business, Marketing, Promotional and Advertising Plans.

2. Web Design and Construction Bureau. A full service agency and includes all state of art Website design capabilities. They even help you find a proper host for your website.

3. A Website Search Engine Submission Service. Gets your Websites on major search engines with all appropriate keywords and Meta Tags. They teach you how to do it or do it for you.

4. A Marketing, Promotional and Advertising Service wherein they devise and place copy material for you.

5. A Ghost Writing Service. Professional ghost writers prepare and place articles covering topics of your choice with your byline. Get yourself known on web through published articles.

When you hook-up with these guys they are with you all way on your long journey home to success. You owe it to yourself to check them out and see what they can do for you.

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C. Attract targeted traffic.

How do you reach your niche group?

You tap into those FREE Internet resources and find out where and how your niche group exists.

1. Search Engines.

Prepare a list of search words that would identify or are related to your niche. What words would you use to look it up in "Yellow Pages"?

Once you compile your list, hit Top Ten Search Engines and Directories and start searching each word and begin to "Bookmark" results that you find will be useful for interacting with your niche.

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2. Discussion lists.

A discussion or mailing list is a community that discusses a certain subject by e-mail. The Internet discussion groups may be mailing lists, newsgroups or IRC chat channels, to name just a few possibilities.

Every niche group has serious discussion lists that would be informative and educational to join. Your niche group will benefit from your contribution to list and you can communicate your message, with your signature.

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3. Your Signature.

NEVER underestimate power of your signature.

During a one week period, my signature was ONLY form of promotion I used and we got over 1000 visitors to our unadvertised web site.

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4. Ezines/Newsletters.

Whatever your niche, there probably already exists a network of publications that tap into your group. Tap into them and get an instant pulse on your market.

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This gives you a basic "Blue Print" to follow to either begin to establish yourself on Internet or expand on whatever you have already accomplished.

Once you know WHY you want to contact people, then you will know WHO it is you need to communicate with and for WHAT reason.

The basic resources I have outlined above will give you a strong foundation to discover WHERE to reach that special niche of yours.

And you will need to decide WHEN.