Last Minute Villa HolidayA Dream Business or A lot of work?
Have you ever thought of starting an online business? Have you thought of making money from
Internet?
That is exactly what I was thinking when I started my first online business venture. My head was turned by
figures people were quoting of how much is spent on
Internet every year. I thought to myself that it would be an easy way of making money without leaving
house. In reality it couldn’t be further from
truth.
It all started when I set up my first venture with a free website through one of
online Internet Service Providers. I decided that I wanted my own slice of
pie, so I set up a free website which can only be described as an embarrassing attempt at very crude web design. I knew exactly how to design a real website but didn’t have
funding to start. Anyway
website obviously did not attract anywhere near
visitors I thought it would. I had to move to plan B.
I then decided to register a domain name for
business which did, and justly so, take a while to come up with
perfect name. I registered www.lastminutevillaholiday.co.uk and started to build
website around this name. The first thing I had to do when choosing
name was deciding whom my target market was? And what sort of thing would they be looking for?
The First draught of this website was a lot better than
first. It was designed using a software design program and was coded to attract
Search Engines. The only problem I had was I had no villas on my website therefore if anyone did find
site they would not stay on it. The problem was overcome when I contacted a few villa owners to offer them free listings on my site.
Now as
website grew it seemed easy enough to make a little bit of extra money here and there. I, however, was not interested in a little bit of money I wanted to offer a service to my customers and get as much business as I could. Two months had passed and I was adding more properties to my ever-growing list of villas for rent. Now with
database of villas that I had I was then ready to concentrate on
advertising of
business. The best way I thought of advertising an online business would be to get it found by
Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn etc. I plunged into
optimisation of
website heavily. I made sure that all
pages had
right keyword density and
content of every page was as accurate as I could get it (content by
way is
only true way to get a website listed on a search engine).