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Great Home Business Ideas For You To Start Your Home Internet Business

While most people want to start a home internet business as a way of earning additional income, taking their traditional businesses to another level or having some employment, very few are courageous enough to venture into online business. Many times they fear due to lack of knowledge and skills to do online business and are skeptical about their success. They tend to think that online business is for internet experts, which is not true. This article brings out some facts and great home business ideas for you to start your own home internet business.

There are many great home business ideas on the internet but it takes time and patience to do some good research for those ideas. Each day the internet opens up new opportunities for us to make money by providing solutions to other people’s problems. Take advantage of that to start your own home internet business.

Most of the great home online business ideas require you to be smart enough to make money online. You have to take action by acquiring knowledge and skills through self-help learning, trainings and support programs. Take action by spending some time to work on your business and at times some money to invest in your business. Before you start your home internet business, ask yourself the following questions:

1. Do I have the courage to start a home internet business? To succeed in online business, you have to be self-driven, hardworking, passionate about your business, persistent and able to take action.

2. Do I love reading? Most successful online marketers started their online businesses with scanty knowledge but through reading and learning from others, they became experts and are now earning good income. Like other newbies, you will have a lot of information to read before you become knowledgeable, skilled and conversant with doing online business.

3. Do I have the time? You have to allocate ample time everyday to work on your business. You need to create time. Remember 99% of the time is within your control.

4. Am I able to spend some little money? Although you can start a home internet business on a shoestring budget, you should bear in mind that business is all about investment. What are you investing in your online business for you to earn what you expect to get from it?

What do you need to start a home internet business?

The following are 10 great home business ideas on what is exactly needed for you to start your home internet business.

1. A computer and internet connection. It’s obvious that you cannot do any online business without having a computer and access to the internet.

2. A website. You can only start a home internet business if you have a website. There are mainly 2 ways of having your own website set up:

I. Designing your own website. You can learn the HTML (the web designing language) to design your websites. Look for web designing e-books on the internet and teach yourself. Learning to design your own websites is a great home business idea I strongly recommend to you.

If you find it difficult to learn, like most people do, then hire a web designer to design it for you at a cost.

ii. Setting up a Blog. Setting up a blog is the easiest and cheapest way to start a home internet business. You do not have to know HTML and it can be set up in a very short time. What you need to do is to visit blogger.com or WordPress.org and create a beautiful site. If you still find it hard to set it up by yourself, you can instead have it set up FREE by other online service providers.

3. Domain Name. You need a domain name to do online business. When coming up with a domain name, first educate yourself and become familiar with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) so as to compose a good name for your site. Register your domain name with a reliable service provider at an average annual cost of $ 10.

4. Hosting Company. You need to host your website with a reliable hosting company. Hosting charges depend basically on the hosting period and the package you select. I recommend hosting your website over a long period of time preferably 3 years to save money. It’s not advisable to use FREE WEB HOSTS.

5. A niche. A niche is a specific area of your expertise or professionalism that you intend to sell to your targeted customer group. You need to focus on a specific area of the market to build a successful business. People buy to satisfy their specific needs.

6. A product or service. You must have a product to sell to make money. There are 2 ways of going about this: coming up with your own product to sell or selling products of others. I recommend selling your own product along with affiliate products. Some of the top internet sellers include software, information, private sites and internet services. The success of your business will depend on how good your products are and how great your home business idea is.

7. Marketing. After setting up your website, you now have to market it. Market and market your site! You can only succeed by carrying out marketing campaigns to drive traffic to your website. There are free and paid online marketing methods. Some of the free and most effective methods include forum marketing, blogging, article marketing and social networking.

8. Automation. As already said, online business takes a lot of time but you can save your time by automating some of the tasks. Use auto responders to capture email addresses of visitors to your website who subscribe to your newsletter and to manage order processing, order confirmation, customer follow-ups, welcome messages and thank you messages.

9. Developing your reputation. Reputation determines your success. Portray yourself not only as a professional but also as a person with certain good values. Set ethical standards by which you conduct your business and be honest.

10. Organization. Being organized is a key to building a successful home internet business. Create a daily work schedule, a communication calendar and organize your work e.g. computer folders, email messages, etc…

Using the above great home business ideas, you already know much about what it takes to start and build a successful online business. You do not need to be an internet guru but you only have to take action and start your own home internet business. The rest you will learn gradually.

How To Make Great Money Part Time Buying And Selling Domain Names – Part One

This truly is the business to get into in 2005. It’s a red hot opportunity that savvy investors can make a killing on when you know how. And this article will walk you step-by-step through the money-making process.

Don’t be put off by the term “investors”. I’m not talking big money down here. As long as you’ve got a spare £5 a week then great money can be made for only half an hour of your time. Like the sound of that? Thought so.

There’s a few ways you can make money buying domain names and selling them on for profit. And I mean PROFIT. You’ll see why people will be scratching at your door to buy off you in just a moment.

Let’s start with the basics.

All domain names are only registered for a limited amount of time.Registrars can choose to use the name for a period of between 1-10 years. After this the rights to these domain names expire and the user has to renew the name again. If they don’t do this it will be placed on hold for a short time and then deleted. This means it is then available for anyone who wants to buy it!

This Is Where You Can Cash In!

20,000 expired domain names are made available each and every day. Some of them are very attractive and well-established names.

Example. Last year the owners of Race.com carelessly didn’t renew their registration fee. It was grabbed (the term used to describe purchasing an expired name) by a savvy ‘investor’ for a few pounds and sold for thousands and thousands back to the old owner.

The owner was willing to pay huge sums for to the investor because he had built up qualified traffic over X amount of years and didn’t want to lose all the previous custom.

Now I admit that making a sale for thousands is rare, but is certainly possible.

The likeliness is that you can buy a domain name and register it for £5-£50 and then sell it on for anything from £150 – £1000. Do this with five domain names a week, and your looking at a big sum of money for only a couple of hours work.

It’s not just businesses that have carelessly let their domain name that will buy off you. It’s other businesses too that will buy the name to get the old owners’ traffic. It’s a legitimate way of increasing your customer base.

And if the old owner and a new potential owner get into a bidding war…well..the sky really is the limit.

So there’s two main reasons why people will be willing to pay YOU a couple of hundred pounds for a domain name.

a) They carelessly let the domain name expire. That means that they will pay you to get the name back to ensure that they don’t lose their existing traffic that they may have built up over years and years.

B) They are a business in the same field as the one that has let the name expire and therfore will pay you to secure the exisitng custom of a rival.

Here’s step-by-step how you go about this fantastically profitable part time business.

There are several sources of expired domain name information and reserach tools, some free and some that require a payment of a fee.

http://www.wehavethem.com supplies lists of names due to be deleted. http://Www.DeletedDomains.com allows you to do some searching free and more extensive searching for a $99 annual fee.You can search for names that are due to be deleted and also allows you to bid on newly deleted names that have already been grabbed by other ‘investors’.

What you are looking for is an expired domain name with traffic in the last month of anything over 1500. Ensure that the site is an actual consumer site. There’s no point buying a domain name if the previous site wasn’t selling any goods.

If you see a site that had tens of thousands of visitors in the last month GET IT. The likeliness is that the previous owners will be itching to get their name back off of you due to its obvious success.

Also if you see a name with a large qualified traffic thats due to expire and has a high traffic volume use an automated grabbing system such as http://www.snapnames.com and http://www.pool.com. These will ensure the second they become available you will have registered them. The cost is about $60 but only if they get the names for you. Definately worth it in my eyes.

Remember you could easily sell the name for hundreds, maybe thousands.

In part 2 we’ll take a look at how you go about selling the names once you have acquired them. But in the mean time here’s a few domain names which were up for sale at the time of writing this article. Now obviously not all names sell for this much, but it’s a very real possibility that you could stumble across a gem in your business.

my.com $750,000

lovelife.com $350,000

fights.net $16,000

diet.us $35,000

askdoctors.com $7,500

dietary.info $6,000

lovemaking.info $10,000

textmeassage.net $17,000

ejobmarket.com $1,800

smokers.tv $5,000

teens.org $22,000

raregifts,com $20,000

The profits in this business are like no other. Now it’s your turn to get your hands on your share in the billion dollar industry of buying and selling domain names.

Until next time…

Jonathan Street

Great Plains ERP In eCommerce Environment – Combining Hosted Website With Business Portal

After seeing reasonable and multiple concerns, we would like to give you some directions for your homework, when you consider transitioning for your let’s say “legacy” e-commerce website to new totally data driven eCommerce. Microsoft Dynamics GP 10.0 has pretty advanced Business Portal, where we recommend you to research Order Management module, which in turn is redesigned version of former eOrder. eOrder went to the history, the last version of the product was 7.5. For version 8.0 Microsoft Great Plains redeployed and improved old eOrder logic on Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal platform, tightly integrated with MS Sharepoint. After a bit complicated introduction, we would like to explain your options in simple language:

1. Where to host: in-house or outsource? Well, this question doesn’t have direct answer, in essence it depends. Self hosting gives you complete control over the functionalities and future directions, as you do not have to “comply” hosting company requirements. However it is not necessary to switch to total self hosting over night. You can keep your website hosted outside and move its data driven portion to hosting internally. If you have complete understanding on how to split your website across multiple IP addresses, then you can skip the hint, for the rest of the auditorium we’d like to say, the all you need to do is to login to your domain registrant website and add something like that:

Ecommerce.mycompany.com 11.11.11.11 – this would be the placeholder for your in house dedicated IP address. Domain name and IP are fictitious here, you would need to provide real ones.

Then, assuming you have Microsoft Windows domain, you make the settings on your Internet Information Server to resolve e-commerce traffic by named header on your IIS

2. Business Portal Order Management Module. Microsoft Dynamics GP Business Portal 10.0 is too dependent on the technology layers, such as SQL Server, Sharepoint, Active Directory – so we recommend you disregard BP hosting outsourcing (maybe down the road in the future you can revisit the idea, but for 2008 probably it doesn’t make any sense). What is good about Order Management – you are virtually sharing GP inventory control and Sales Order Processing modules with OM, including pricing updates, promotions, customer price levels (and of course secured customer logins on the Business Portal level)

3. If Business Portal is too complex or simply doesn’t do the job for you. BP is not something easy to install and implement. If you need light touch to your existing e-commerce application, you should consider do this either in eConnect, which in essence is Software Development Kit, allowing programmer create such necessary object in GP as Sales Invoice; or you consider Great Plains Integration Manager to do overnight transaction move from eCommerce to Great Plains

Want Fast Access To Great Ideas On Making Money Online? Check This Out!

Let’s face it. Most people could use more money, whether it is simply to help make ends meet, put money away for a rainy day or meet retirement goals. But so many of us grow frustrated when we are not sure how to get more. Making money online can help with that. This article is here to help.

Sign up for a site that will pay you to read emails during the course of the day. You will simply get links to scan over different websites and read through miscellaneous text. This will not take you a lot of time and can pay great benefits in the long run.

Get paid to review some of the new products that are out on the market today. This is a great way for companies to determine if their new products are a hit or miss as they will pay good money to get an opinion on them. Get the word out on these products and pull in the cash.

If you have good ears and can type quickly, you might want to look into online transcription jobs. The beginning rates are usually low, but with time and practice, you can build up your skills to tackle some of the better paying jobs. Try looking on oDesk or eLance for some transcription work.

Many people find that they can make extra cash by completing surveys. There are many survey sites online that will pay you for your opinions. All you need is a valid email address. These sites offer checks, gift cards and PayPal payments. Be truthful when you fill out your information so you can qualify for the surveys they send you.

You can make money flipping domain names. There are many who can earn a living by simply flipping domain names. It’s a bit like buying real estate on the Internet and requires some investment on your part. Obtain the latest trends in keywords by utilizing Google AdSense and similar sites. Buy some acronym-based domains. Find domain names that are likely to pay off.

Join a focus group if you want to make some money on the side. These groups gather together from an internet hub at a physical location where they will talk about a new product or service that is out on the market. Generally, these groups will gather in very big cities near you.

Enter contests and sweepstakes. By just entering one contest, your odds aren’t great. Your odds are substantially better, however, when you enter multiple contests regularly. Taking a little time to enter a few free contests daily could really pay off in the future. Make a new e-mail account just for this purpose. You don’t want your inbox overflowing with spam.

Tens of thousands of people have learned to help line their wallets by finding great ways to make money online. You can be part of these really smart people who are doing this and become a financial success, too. You do not want to miss out. It is time to take financial control!

Forming Great Internet Business Ideas

Almost everyone has now joined the Internet business bandwagon. Who would not want it? Doing business online is one of the cheapest and most practical ways of starting your own venture. If you do not have the sufficient capital to pay for your very own place to showcase your products, you could simply post it online. It also saves a lot of time and effort as you do not need to travel often from place to place and just stay comfortably at your home. However, before you get too excited and jump on the first internet business ideas that pop into your head, better consider the following before you push through with any of it.

• Consider the demands and needs of your target market. You may choose some internet business ideas that present a solution to these problems. Fulfilling the market’s needs will certainly make your product or services in demand. Start with something practical, those that people essentially need in their daily lives.

• Think of your own set of skills and expertise. Stick with internet business ideas you feel comfortable and competent to handle. You need not be an expert in the field but having some form of background can help you in jump starting your business and will enable you to compete with your competitors in the market.

• List the advantages and disadvantages of your ideas. Knowing these can help you decide which would be the most beneficial idea. If you also know the disadvantages, you can remedy these deficiencies and improve your idea.

• Think about the start-up cost. The good thing about this type of business is, most of them require low or no start-up capital at all. But it depends on the kind of business you want to try. Some Internet business ideas need start-up capital, so you need to look at your finances first and decide if you have extra bucks that you can use in jump starting your planned business.

• Know the ins and outs of your business. If you want to make it big online, you need to be familiar with the several techniques that are related to the kind of business you have in mind. Try to learn basic html, SEO techniques, social and internet marketing strategies, and a lot more. Instead of feeling intimidated, always be willing to learn new things.

Make sure that your Internet business ideas can be conducted online. This is a crucial step in deciding which would be the easiest to conduct in the internet. This is after all an internet business and practicality dictates that it should be doable online.