A Business Start Up Tip

The internet is flooded with people wanting to know how to start a home based business online now but unfortunately it can get very overwhelming due to the fact that there are just way too many opportunities. It becomes frustrating, confusing and you have absolutely no idea of how or where to start.

Before you hop on to just any online home based business opportunity that comes your way, you must first ensure it is legitimate and the real deal because there are many scammers out there who will do absolutely anything for your money and give you nothing in return.

I would highly recommend you use Google. com to perform searches on every opportunity you come across just to be on the safe side. Look for reviews, forum posts and even yahoo answers because people will tell you all you need to know and help you to make that important decision.

How To Start An Online Business

You don't really want any start up costs when you are new to internet marketing since the idea is to start generating an income first, plus it may leave you broke and out of pocket if things go wrong.

First you should decide on a niche which you want to work with. Dmoz. org is an awesome free directory that lists thousands of categories, some you may or may not even heard of.

When you have your niche, I recommend you get a free affiliate account with amazon. com since amazon is very well known and sells a massive range of products from which you can earn great monthly commissions (providing you put the work in).

You should then create a free lens at squidoo. com. Squidoo is awesome and fun because you have the freedom to customize your lens with the building blocks it provides and you can promote your amazon products on your lens, but you must also add your own unique content to the lens in order to attract readers and generate sales.

Finally, to get visitors to your new lens you will need to do some promoting. You can use the big social networks such as Twitter, Facebook and Google+1. If you don't have many friends on facebook, that's no problem since you can join some facebook groups, promote and make new friends along the way.

Another great promotional method is to bookmark your lens at social bookmarking websites. If you visit addthis. com/bookmark. php you can select some of your favourites.

Before you even start a new business, you must first set yourself some goals and find a good online home business training site like the wealthy affiliate university for example. What is wealthy affiliate university you ask? And discover just how the wealthy affiliate university is dominating the home business training world by conducting your own searches on Google.