What Should I do Before I Start ?

Before you want to start your own Internet business, please find out the answer from the following questions. Once you go through the list of question, you will have some basic idea what you want to do next.

Please take note that there is no definite answer, right or wrong answer for the following questions. The answer might be different from time to time. Just answer the question base on your current situation.

Q1.

Is making money from Internet your top priority ?
If Yes – Proceed to Question 2. If No – stop right here and continue watching your favorite TV program.

Q2.

Do you want to sell a product ? If Yes – Proceed to Q3. No – Proceed to Q 6.

Q3.

Do you have a product to sell ? If Yes – Proceed to Q4. No – Proceed to Q 5.

Q4.

If yes, what is your product ? Is your product a physical item ( like watch, perfume, clothing, jewelry, etc ) or in electronic format ( ebook, software, information on soft copy etc ) or services ( advisory, translation, editing, copywriting, fortune telling etc )

What is your product ? Please give a brief description of your product. ........................................................................................................................................................................

Q5.

If you do not have a product to sell, you can sell others people product. ( Affliate Program - Google it to find out more information) In order to sell a product, you need to recommend this product to your visitor and convince them that this product is worth buying. You may consider writing a review of that particular product in order to create the interest of buying such product. In order to do that, you have to be sound “expert” in that particular sector and able to create the trust that you visitor in you. Once they purchase the product recommended by you, the supplier of the product will pay a commission to you. Your job is to recommend and convince the visitor to purchase; the supplier will do all the logistic handling.

If selling others people product is what you want to do, Please state that what area are you good at ? or What is your personal interest ? For example if you like reading, you may consider selling books. If you like traveling, you may consider selling traveling package.
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If you do not have the answer for the above, then tell me what are the items that people will buy from Internet ? If you do not know the answer, try to search the answer from Internet, search “ what do people buy from Internet” using Google or Yahoo. Try to do some reading and thinking. Take your time, have a coffee and browse through all the resources available in the Internet.

If you have done the above, please writing down what do you think you can convince people to buy from your Internet website.
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http://www.clickbank.com/ is one of the most popular affiliate program in the world, please visit the site to have a look at it.

Q6.

If you do not want to sell a product, there are others way to make money from Internet. One of them is advertising revenue, you don’t need to talk to any company in order to convince them to advertise in your website, company like Google create a program call “Adsense” where it will automatically place advertising which relevant to your website content automatically. Once the visitor who visit your website click on the advertisement by Google, Google will pay you a pre-determine sum of money to you. In this case, Google act as an middle men. For you information, there are terms and condition that you have to follow, such as you cannot ask your visitor to click in the advertisement, for more information about Google Adsense terms and condition, please click “here”.

If this is what you want to do, then you may consider setting up a website/blog that share your interest and update it regularly so that you get regular visitors to your website. You may also compile resources available on the internet such as “ Article about Spiderman” “ Hotel Directory” “ How to pay less tax” etc.

Now, please tell me what is the content of your website ?
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In summary, we can make money from Internet by selling our own product, others people product ( affiliate program - google it and find out more ), or advertising program like Adsense ( please google it ).

After you have decided what you want to do to make money from Internet, then you may proceed to part 2.