| Tools You Will Need For Your Home Based Business |
I have listed a set of tools to help you be successful. These are the same tools that I use because they are the least expensive and work very well. You don't want to go too cheap because they usually have bad service or they will not show up in the search engines. They look very professional to give you a professional image. I chose my ecommerce website, www.e-rackonline.com because they were the best for my industry and specialize in it, not because they were the cheapest. Now I have a very successful website that is very search engine friendly and gets me lots of good free traffic which is what you want. |
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Start with a domain name. Use your first and last name. You want to start branding yourself just like Oprah Winfrey and Donald Trump. Maybe 300 people will google your name every day. |
GoDaddy.com $1.99 Domain Names  - Get your own domain name for only $1.99. Cheapest price anywhere.
GoDaddy.com Hosting Plans  You will need a hosting plan to host your website. This makes sure your site is up 24 hours per day and loads very fast. You can also get your domain name, hosting, and do-it yourself logo and website through Site Build It. |
Quick Blog from GoDaddy.com  A blog will bring you lots of free traffic to your website because they are very search engine friendly. Go Daddy has the best blogs out there for a cheap price and you can put unlimited keywords in them whereas a free blog will not and not bring you as much traffic. This definitely gives you more bang for your buck. It also comes with podcasts so you don't have to do double work. One tool does it all. You can have a unique domain name or blog.firstname-lastname.com and promote traffic to your website which means more visitors which means more sales which means more money in your pocket. |
| SEO book - SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization or making your website search engine friendly. If you type in SEO on google you will notice it comes up on first page. I highly recommend this book for two reasons. First, many people just starting don't have the resources to pay a company several thousands of dollars to do the work for them. Second, you can waste a lot of time trying to figure it out. I will guarantee that if you buy this book it will pay you back one thousand times over. Why? Because you can work as a consultant part time getting other peoples websites on first or second page on the search engines while you're getting tons of traffic to your website and turning that traffic into cash. |
These are sites which can drive traffic to your website and your blog AND you can use them absolutely free! I use them and they work well.
Trafficswarm - Place free classified ads to bring free traffic to your website, capture pages, and blog. Works well. Click here to go to the page.
Squidoo - Write columns on getting free traffic to your website. Free Page. Also Helps to get your page ranked higher on search engines. Click here to check it out. |
Site Build It - Having your own website is the most important tool you can have because it creates credibility, gets your message across, not someone elses, and promotes you! Have your own website up and running in minutes not days. With Site Build It, everything is a piece of cake because you don't need to know HTML or website design. And unlike every other website designing company, Site build it gives you tools to market your website and get traffic to it quickly. This is the problem with most peoples website. They have one but no one sees it. It's as if they put the store sign in the bathroom instead of on the street. You can't make money if you don't get traffic. You can get two types of traffic, free traffic and paid advertising. I can personally tell you that paid advertising has almost zero payback. Sitebuildit submits your site to the search engines for you, saving you time and the headache. They ping your website so it appears you're getting a lot of traffic to your site and therefore you rank higher on search engines. They have a logo design tool so you don't have to pay someone to design your logo and you don't need to know photoshop. It took me almost three years to figure this stuff out. SBI gives you all these tools for free. I spent close to $20,000 for tools to get my website on first or second page on the search engines. Site build it gives these same tools to you FREE. Not only that they show you how to make money from advertising and other income streams without losing customers. This is by far the best website solution for the do it yourself-er. Click here to watch a free informative video because they take everything and I mean every single little thing to build a successful site and include it into one package so your off and running, making money fast. It's well worth your time.
Vista Print - Click here  to get Free Business Cards, business card magnets, car magnets, post cards, and all your printing needs at 80% less than locally. I use these guys for my own business and I havn't found anyone cheaper or better for the small business. I got 250 business cards with a calendar on the back for $9.00 plus $5.00 shipping. I would have $60 for that with a local printer. A few tricks to get people to your site cheap. Leave business cards in lobbys, restaurants, and bars with your name, website, and cell phone. put "make money on the internet" on the card and whoever picks it up will go to your site and at a higher percentage than online advertising. You need to get a lot of cards out there though. Car magnets also work well. Especially if you have a nice car. "Want a car like this?" www.homebasedbusinessconsultants.info and people will check out your website. Don't be embarrassed to do them. These things really work. When you start to learn what you're doing you can start to send postcards out through vistaprint. The cost is pretty cheap, about $.30 each including postage and they have the lists for free. I can get you some ideas on what to say. |
Pay per click advertising
The least expensive and most effective form of online advertising.
Maximize your marketing ROI with Yahoo! Sponsored Search. Sign up and get a $25 credit.  - If you want to get instant traffic to your website you will need to pay for it. The good thing is that if you have monetization tools on your website,like my google ads, it is well worth the investment. If you would like to learn how to do this, please contact me.
Receive $25 in free clicks when you sign up for Enhance Interactive. Start reaching new customers, sign up today!  - Here you can get traffic to your site for only $.03 per click. That is very cheap traffic which means a higher return on your investment.
Google Adwords is the most powerful pay per click advertising method. You really want to concentrate your time here so that you can reduce your costs and rapidly increase your ROI.
Firefox is a free browser that contains a ton of search engine optimization tools to get FREE traffic to your site. This is a Free download and it can help you tweak your website to make it more search engine friendly. It also has a ton of security features and is much faster than Internet Explorer. I use it and I recommend it to all my friends. |
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