Here is a business plan for 2011 - 10 steps

If you do this without giving up and changing directions, 2011 will be a good year to make money.

1. Think of something that you are passionate about - boats, lawnmowers, diapers, bikes, etc. whatever. It is important that you pick something that excites you...don't worry if it is something that you can make money off of or not.

2. Now take your passion and make a niche out of it. How? lawn mowers under 200 dollars. Diapers for old people, mountain bikes for under 500 dollars. Used BMWs in Houston. This is your niche.

3. Build a nice professional website. Buy domain name for at least 2 years (if not 10). It is important that you build a nice looking website. Pay somebody 500 dollars on Rentacoder.com to build you something good. Also, get aweber account and put their widget to collect email addresses.

4. Spend 15-20 hours looking thru amazon, ebay, walmart, etc websites to find items that meet your niche and put those items nicely on your website (their description, pictures, price, etc) and put the affiliate links of those items.

5. Spend about an hour each day to make sure you add new items daily to your site, and update descriptions and make user friendly links and website.

6. Spend about an hour each day to write article about each item that you just put on your website and then put the link to that item in your article's resource section. Put your article on ezine.

7. After three months, don't add new items to your site daily, but take that time to market your site some more.

8. After six months, try contacting the manufacturer of your items directly, and try to remove the ebay/amazon link slowly and put manufacturer's links directly.

9. After 9 months, build shopping cart in your site and don't send people to outside websites for all the items -

10. After 12 months, you now have an authority website for the niche you were passionate about!

Here is the most important thing. Don't give up, don't change directions, just build on one thing, don't listen to people who tell you that there is no money in your niche. Make sure you spend at least an hour on your website each day. Even if you spent 15 hours on sunday, you still have to spend 1 hour on monday.