Steps to online success

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I'm only in the research stage. I found this on another forum and wanted to get thoughts on it.

8 steps:

1 - Find a niche

Check out some forums, usergroups, and places like yahoo answers. See what kind of questions people are asking. Look for popular topics. Also checkout amazon, ebaay, http://www.google.com/insights/search/# , https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

2 - keyword research

Use the above tools and tolls like freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ to find what kind of key words people are searching for.

3 - Get a web hosting account.

They are pretty cheap. Around 10 bucks a month for a good one. Stay away for free web hosts. They are not worth it. I strongly recommend hostgator.com. You can host unlimited domains there, and there price is under $10 a month. If money is an issue, do a search for "hostgator coupons" enter the code when you signup and the first month is only 1 penny.

4 - Find or create your product

You can write your own info product or you can go to clickbank.com and chose a product for there. You will get a commission for each sale. If you are just starting out, I would strongly suggest using click bank. Unless you are a very good writer and have a lot of time on your hands, it's the easiest way to start.

5 - Create your site

Now you will want to create a content site. This only needs to be a few pages. You will want to put 10 articles on the site. Make good use of the keywords you researched. Also put out product on the site.

6 - Set up an auto responder

This is optional if you REALLY don't have the money, but it's something you will need to do eventually. This will collect peoples emails on your website. You write a small report (you can base it off of your articles to save time) Have your visitors sign up to get the free report. Make sure you include a link to you product in the report. You can get a good free auto responder at getresponse.com

7 - Marketing

Remember those forums you looked up to find a good niche. You should start posting (not spamming) on them. Help people out, become an "expert" in your niche. You don't really have to be an expert...but you should look like one. Share and help as many people as you can. Include a link you your site in you signature. Also places like yahoo answers. You can answer peoples questions and include a link in your resource box.

You will also want to submit articles to article directories such as EzineArticles.com.

Another good marketing tip is to exchange links with site in the same niche as you.

There are a lot of different marketing techniques you can use (too many to go into here, but this should get you started) Just search around the forums here.

8 - Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Do this with several different niches. The more sites you have going, the more money you have coming in.

These are just some basic steps to get you started. I could go into serious depth on each point...but this is a good launch ground.
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