Wherever you are doing business, online, or offline you need to present a professional image.

You can have best product in world, most targeted advertising campaign dragging people to wherever it is you sell your product, but when they get there if you don't look like someone who takes their business seriously why should your customer?

For an online business owner, cost needn't be a reason not to look as professional as anyone else.

So ask yourself if you need to address any of following to bring your website up to professional standards.

Firstly, what is url to your business homepage? The url is address you type in to get to your website. If it looks like http://www.somefreehost.com/123/yourname.com you are in need of a domain name immediately.

Domain names are a great first step to creating a professional looking website, and are simple and cheap to setup. I personally use http://www.godaddy.com for my website at http://www.cashinonline.info as a domain for 1 year there only costs $8.95 and is easy to administer to point at an existing site (forwarding) or to a hosting service.

So there's no excuse not to have a domain name for your business, unless it's already taken, but Godaddy will even offer alternative names containing your name so even that's taken care of. Go and find your domain name now, and then continue reading.

The next big question is where you host your site, at first free hosting can seem like a good idea, but your business could quickly outgrow their offerings. Most free hosts only offer very low bandwidth and may have high demands placed by hosting lots of sites. This means your site will load slowly, and your potential customers will move on before it loads.

The next problem is amount of download (transfer) free host will allow you. If your site gets lots of hits (which would be great) they could pull plug to conserve their own transfer limits. Then your website will not be seen.

My reccomendation for web hosting would have to be http://www.Host4Profit.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?67213 host4profit has an excellent package for businesses, and offers plenty of space for your site and more bandwidth than most will ever need. Your site will always be available. But even better is that as a host4profit user you can refer others to service (with a clear conscience too) and receive commissions each month, and with just 3 people referred using service you are into a profit.

Then we visit each and every website listed and join programs becuse they are free! to join. We put all sorts of banners and text ads on our links page and expect to see a check in our mail box next morning.

Well, I am here going to reveal a very different way of promoting affiliate programs. Let us revise process one-by-one.

Step 1> Search for affiliate programs with your favorite search engine. Look for only those affiliate programs whcich have products which interests you. For example if you are interested in "radio controlled airplanes" then look for such products first. Don't start with promoting "herbal shampoos" or "yoga cd's" just because they pay 40% commissions.

Since you already know a little about rc planes it wiil be much easier for you to promote various aspects of product.

So when selecting affiliate prgram keep in mind following sequence

a)Product which you know about or are interested in. b)Qulaity of product. To know quality of product it is advisavle to buy product yourself first. c)The organisation associated with product. Look for promotional material they are giving to affiliates. This shows confidence of manufacturer in their own product. d)Commission structure. Some webmasters provide 2 tier commission structure. Some have a threshhold amout before affiliates get paid. Here is a nice place to sart with. This is a list which contains 50 affiliate Programs That Pay AT LEAST 50% commissions.