But back to WHY of that business plan. You’re going to be starting small, slow and boy! is there a lot to learn. What’s point of actually sitting down and writing a business plan? You’re not Bill Gates, this isn’t Microsoft, just you in your home office a few hours a week, slowly building an online business presence, not really understanding what heck you’ll be doing.

Relax and breathe. Unlike Mt. Rushmore, your plan won’t be designed to withstand weathering of ages. You can expect it will change and bend with flow of your real experiences, which will be totally yours, not identical to anyone else’s.

What writing your plan will do is cause you to pause, think, dream, study and focus. The written document, whether it is one page or twelve, will give your business a framework to work within. The internet is vast and seemingly endless. It is easy to lose focus and drift away on a different whim or idea every day. Understanding where you are today, what tools you have to work with, what your goals are, and how you can best achieve them and measure your success, will help you stay on target and not waste what few hours you may be investing in your business at start-up.

Whenever you feel lost or confused, you can return to what you have written. When you analyze your situation and decide to make a change, rewrite that part of plan. Understand that it’s a living document, intended to grow with you and your business. Your business plan is your friend.

Getting Started with Business Plan

First you need to study company and its management. You need to read and learn about products, compensation plan and network structure. See you next month. Just kidding.

Plan on doing SOME reading each and every work day for next few months, if not indefinitely. Keep up with company forum entries every day; read something in training reports every day. Your education will continue. Plan for it.

When you are ready, open up a Notepad window and answer these questions:

What service/products does your business provide and what needs does it fill?

Who are potential customers for your product or service and why will they purchase it from you?

How will you reach your potential customers?

How To Be A Web Content Provider!

Would you be happy with reaching literally millions of people by being a web content provider. Whatever you're selling, it would be nice if you could do this on a regular basis, FOR FREE, through a large number of other people's ezines and websites, wouldn't it?

Well this is what you can be doing when you start writing content and articles for countless online newsletters, ezines and webpages that are looking for your input. One thing common to all Internet publishers is that they are all looking for good articles to publish.

If you can be a content provider of interesting and informative articles for them you stand a good chance of getting included in their website/next publication. However you probably won't get included if it is simply a sales letter disguised as an article. But if you can provide good quality and informative web content you can often be their savior.

Then, they will give you what you need in exchange. They will give you exposure for your business...

How Web Content Providers Benefit:

The publisher will actually expect you to include a small advert at end of content you provide. This will get published along with article itself, and is seen as a fair exchange for content you have provided. It's how you benefit from deal!

This small ad is usually referred to as a "resource box", but you can put almost anything you like in here so long as it is only a few lines long. You are free to advertise whatever you are promoting. You could point people back to your website, affiliate program, or tell them how to subscribe to your own newsletter etc.