Starting online business

Discussion in 'General Business' started by burhankhan, Jun 24, 2007.

  1. #1
    Hi:

    I want to start any online business.
    May be selling online, or joining affiliate program and promote them.


    Can you give me an idea?
    What should i do?
    Or what should i sell?

    Thanks
    Burhan Khan
     
    burhankhan, Jun 24, 2007 IP
  2. rcj662

    rcj662 Guest

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    Find a affiliate program that relates to the topic of your site or websites. If you make new site make sure to have a few good programs that fit topic.

    You can use adsense on some sites to make extra money. Make a site about something you know and like. Then find programs or products that relate to it.
     
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  3. Jim Guinn

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    If you want to get into affiliate marketing, pick up and read this free eBook first...Affiliate Masters Course. Even though it is free, it is still considered one of the "Bibles" on affiliate marketing.

    http://aff-masters.sitesell.com/

    Jim
     
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    if you are going to create a new site, marketing products, the category must be your hobby or you are very interested.
     
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    ian0502 Active Member

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    I have found that it is best to dabble in all areas of online money making. I prefer it this way in case one area encounters a drop in business, then I still have other areas to keep me afloat. I think a combination of Adsense sites, forum sites, ecommerce dropshipping, affiliate marketing, and others create a good base to make money. That's just my 2 cents worth.

    Ian
     
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  6. Kontent.solutions

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    Burhun khan,
    If you have an offline biz, where you sell physical products, then you can think about selling the same products online, either on Ebay or have your own site.

    If you plan to sell affiliate products, then it will take some time, as you sound to be a newbie.

    Again, affiliate products can be either, physical or digital ... depending on the route you choose, we'll be able to guide you better.

    In case if you are looking at physical products, then have a look at www.clickbank.com register there and look in their Market place. You'll find thousands of products that you can sell.

    All the best for your succes,
    ~G
     
    Kontent.solutions, Jun 24, 2007 IP
  7. burhankhan

    burhankhan Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for your advice.

    I haven't any offline business.

    But i want to engage in some kind of business like Promoting any affiliate program, and make commission through sales.

    Do you know any good affiliate program that really works?
     
    burhankhan, Jun 25, 2007 IP
  8. Jim Guinn

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    burhankhan,

    You are putting the cart before the horse!

    Many people ask this question. Yes, it is important to find a "good affiliate program", but what makes it "really work" is your knowledge of the "art and science" of affiliate marketing.

    If you are new, as you sound you are, you need to understand basic affiliate marketing BEFORE you jump into ANY program. It sounds like you don't know much about affiliate marketing, and like so many newbies, it sounds like you are looking for the program to make you successful, rather than learning the essential skills you need to be a successful.

    Once again, I recommend you download and read the book I recommended earlier in this thread.

    Education & Training are corner-stone to your successful affiliate marketing career...as education and training is essential to ANY successful career. By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail....like the 95% of affiliate marketers who DO fail!

    Jim
     
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    Never. At least 99%. I remember so many people I talked to who mentioned they once "tried" affiliate marketing and failed or gave up a few weeks after they started.
     
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    Do something in a field you know ....
     
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  11. burhankhan

    burhankhan Well-Known Member

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    I know website development!
    I am working as programmer in a big software house.

    But i am fed up with programming. I want to start some kind of online business for easy money. I have tried adsense and it is working fine!

    But it is not a business. It is just part time income.
     
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    It's just part time income now, but if you expand your portfolio of Adsense sites, it can become full time income! I did just that with my content software and now make a few thousand dollars per month online. I can't wait till I hit the $10k per month milestone!

    Ian
     
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    No such thing as easy money. Not if you want to keep your good name... Of course there is poker: there is no harder way to make easy money.

    Besides the wise words above, make pr0n sites. But that still isn't easy money.
     
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  14. Bebicul

    Bebicul Writer

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    This is the best advice ever.
    When I was just lurking in this forum, I've seen this a thousand times and always thought nothing about it.
    I got lucky and started doing something I know about and I laugh when I remember how I was struggling before and didn't make any money.
     
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    as you are working with good software company, you must get some customised software ready and sell it. somthing related to SEO, ERP. these are hot now a days.
     
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    Everybody is doing it. Do you really belive everybody who says they are making money with SEO?

    My advice: sell something tangible online and use SEO to get traffic.
     
    Bebicul, Jun 26, 2007 IP