First I'd like to list a whole load of FREE resources that are essential to running an online business AND ALMOST ALL OF THEM ARE AVAILABLE TO BE DOWNLOADED OFF THE NET. The following are also the starting point for your new business, after you have downloaded the FREE Website Building Software by pressing on this link or WEBSITE BUILDING SOFTWARE link on the INTERNET ENTREPRENEUR page.

I would advise you to read through all the below guidelines before you buy your domain name and start creating your website (especially point 6. as this could give you page 1 ranking in Google, Yahoo and Bing, type in'Join The Internet Entrepreneurs' in any of these search engines and see the proof for yourself), this is important as your domain name should be chosen according to which niche and products you decide to sell, and the keywords you have researched for your particular niche/product.

1. FREE RESOURCES FOR CHOOSING THE PRODUCT/S YOU WANT TO SELL ON THE INTERNET FOR YOUR NEW BUSINESS VENTURE.

STEP 1. This step will influence you on choosing your DOMAIN NAME for your business (Unless, you already know which MARKET you want to sell in, e.g. products in health, but has to be a SPECIFIC NICHE , like weight loss, or IBS-Irritable Bowl Syndrome, hence your domain name could be for example, www.IBSrelief.com, if available, or derive other names for a domain from it). It is, choosing the market to which you want to sell in by joining the AFFILIATE program.

An Affiliate Marketer is someone who is an AGENT who promotes any VENDOR's products via internet or offline marketing, so no purchase of products is required by you (as the AGENT), and upon selling the VENDOR's products (which is tracked by a unique to you, Affiliate Link that the Vendor provides), you receive Affiliate Commissions for your sales.
And for this you need to register with ClickBank for FREE by going to their website: www.ClickBank.com

As an AFFILIATE you can promote and sell any products that you choose. Once you've chosen the market/niche in which you want to sell in, and found a few products that you want to promote, by looking through the 'ClickBank Marketplace', you need to do some MARKET RESEARCH to find out what keywords or phrases your buyers are typing in Google, Bing, or Yahoo search engines', search box.

2. For this MARKET RESEARCH you can use FREE tools like google's own keyword tool :

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal

If you already are a Vendor (i.e. already have physical or digital products to sell on Clickbank & to get others to promote by becoming an affiliate to you) or are thinking of becoming one soon on clickbank, click on the following link: ClickBank/Vendor

3. A very good provider for domain name registering and web hosting , and all the other features you will ever need for creating or building your websites or blogs is:

www.1and1.co.uk

All the companies I have worked for and am still working with some of them use this '1and1' provider. They are unfortunately not a FREE service, but as a Premium Business Web based Services provider, they offer HIGH QUALITY products and services and are renowned for their excellent customer services. If you have any problems with them, drop me an email. Check out the free 3 & 6 months offers they have.

The content I am adding to my website is from years of research both offline and offline on ' How To Start A Business ( Internet Business) ' . I will keep updating this constantly for your benefit.

More resources to follow are :

4. Autoresponders - A very important mailing list building software to help expand your customer base and manage and provide solutions to your cutomers' needs.

When you enter the world of an Affiliate Marketer there are essential marketing tools and softwares you need to manage your business with.
Autoresponders are one of them and one of the best ones available is by AWeber.

Goto :

AWeber.com

to open your account. You get one month's trial for $ 1.00 at the moment.

 

5. Once you have decided through your Market Research using ClickBank Free registration and looking through the Marketplace to find which niche you want to sell in, and also using Google's Free Keyword Tool for finding keywords in your niche and then deciding what domain name to choose , either according to your niche or according to a specific product, you can register your domain and get web hosting and then use website building software to design and create your website. For this website I am using InMotionHosting web hosting and their own website buider. Goto the following web page: Services for Domain name registration,Web Hosting & building your own websites or blogs to see the full range of services offered by InMotionHosting.

6. After you have finished your website there are number of FREE ways of getting your website submitted with google to come up in this search engine's organic results when keywords specific to your niche are typed in Google's search. One of these is called www.xml-sitemaps.com

Submission is free but you also need to create a Google Webmaster Account (which is also FREE) to complete the steps outlined on the XML-Sitemaps website.