Just Starting Out? Here's An Easy, Fast-Start Business Model That Works!

Internet marketing can be very frustrating when you're first starting out:

What direction do I take?
Affiliate Marketing...? Clickbank? Commission Junction?
CPA seems 'hot', should I try that...?
What about "creating my own product"...?
How about the "offline market"...?
Adwords PPC...?

Too many people starting out in IM get stuck in a 'death spiral' - they try their hand at something, maybe a review page & article marketing, don't see much success right away, so they move to something else, like trying to promote CPA offers, then on to something else, etc....

Here's a pretty easy business model that you can start almost right away, can generate good revenues, and most importantly, can be easily grown to a serious, ongoing, and very lucrative business.

The foundation is to offer free, basic websites, to anyone who doesn't already have one.

Did you know Hostgator will pay you $100 for everyone that signs up for a basic $7.95 monthly hosting account??

That's right. If you don't already have one, sign up at Commission Junction. Apply for Hostgator's affiliate program - it's an automatic acceptance.

From then on, whenever someone uses your link to go to Hostgator and signs up for a cheap shared hosting account, you get $100!

Once someone signs up, you have them purchase a .info domain name (very cheap - appx. $2.99, plus good keyword availability). With their hosting account, they get a cPanel account. From cPanel, you can do an instant, one-button Wordpress installation.

You can get zillions of very nice, appropriately suitable, and free themes: WordPress › Free WordPress Themes

Add a company name, use whatever basic info is available (company brochure, restaurant menu, flyer, advertisement, etc.) to create a post. This is then their homepage, on their own site.

Your time - appx. 15 minutes to log in to their cPanel, install Wordpress, copy a theme to the theme's directory, and create a brief post.

They have their own website, you've got $100!

Now of course you don't have to stop there. Might they want a listing in Google's Local Business Directory? It's free (to you), and takes very little time. And almost always worth another 50 bucks to your customer.

Do they want to capture leads? Is it worth another $50 to them? Of course. They don't even need to pay a monthly fee: Download the FREE Autoresponder Plugin for Wordpress.

Your time for the free plugin? 10 minutes.

Of course, you can also have them sign up at Aweber using your affiliate link, generate a form, and paste it into a text widget on the blog.

From here, there is the whole world of "offline marketing", but if you're looking for a simple, fast, and easy way to start making some decent money, that can also become the foundation for a much larger, long-term business, think about this:

How hard is to to walk down the main street of your local business district, walk into every business, and say:

"Hi - I'm branching out my Internet business into helping small businesses get online. I'd like to offer you a free, professional Website. No strings attached, and you don't have to pay me a dime. You're only cost is less than $10 per month - that's the fee to have a website hosted by a reputable service provider."

From direct personal experience, I can tell you that once you get a few, they will be referring other businesses to you.

If you pick a different business district main street each day, and spend not even a few hours walking into each business and saying just that, I can virtually assure you that you'll get at least one "yes" each day. That's $500/week, before you've upsold anything, and without even a single referral!

Want to polish it up a bit? Go to Vistaprint (http://www.vistaprint.com/) and have some nice, polished, and FREE business cards printed.

Create your own WP blog, create a simple post, download a few themes, switch them out and do a screen-grab of each. Go to Kinko's and for $10-$20, you can now hand out really nice looking color print "samples" plus business cards at each stop.

As you can imagine, you can take this in a thousand directions, and build on the basic premise in a thousand ways.

But the basic idea that opens this all up to you, while putting real, decent money in your pocket, is hard to resist:

You offer free, no-strings-attached websites. Every "Yes" puts $100 in your pocket.

Good luck!

Mark