If you're looking to make some extra cash but have little
business experience or little money, then starting an online
free home based business could be for you.
By beginning with a free home based business you will gain the
experience and the capital you will need to really take your
earnings to the next level. You will learn what works and what
doesn't. The risk in a free home based business is nothing - so
you have nothing to lose!
Any one can be successful with a free home based business but it
does take time and lots of it. Having some funding will speed
the process up and a good strategy is to use half of your
profits towards paid advertising.
The following free home based business requires little
knowledge, no financial investment and provides a firm
foundation for the future. Here's what you need to build your
own free home based business:
(a) Product Find a free program with a wide range of products
for your free home based business. This way you will be able to
experiment with different markets to find the one, which works,
for you.
Choose a program, which has been around for more than 10 years.
One with the largest possible number of affiliates (or members)
and with a step-by-step training program.
The program must provide no cost advertising pages for your free
home based business to use.
To start, select a product where you are paid to give something
away. As your skills grow, you can move to selling more costly
items from your free home based business.
(b) Advertising. There are a number of advertising options for a
free home based business. Traffic exchanges, free advertising
directories, blogs and forums are the most widely used. You can
also submit articles with your tinyurl (see below) in the bio
line at the bottom of the work.
(c) Page or URL Rotator A URL rotator is a must for an online
free home based business. It will allow you to send all your
advertising to one place - the rotator. It then shares all the
incoming hits amongst the products you have chosen advertise.
Having a rotator allows you to change products without having to
go back and change all the advertisements for your free home
based business.
There are many excellent free rotators on the web. A good one
will provide you information about the number of page hits sent
to each product and where the incoming hits came from.
(d) TinyURL Most page rotators have quite long names. These can
be off-putting to prospective customers. So go to a site named
www.tinyurl.com. There you
can type in a long name. It will be shortened into something
which works better with your advertising campaigns (and protect
your precious affiliate commission).
Pulling it all together:
1. Load up the page rotator for your free home based business
with web pages of all the products you wish to sell. I suggest
starting with no more than three. 2. Then create a tinyurl for
your page rotator. 3. Place advertisements in every directory
you can find 4. Add your link to the bottom of your emails 5.
Join every free traffic exchange you can 6. Write and submit an
article per week with your tinyurl in the bio line 7. Find a
number of active forums and post helpful messages making sure
your tinyurl is included in your signature line. 8. Start you
own free blog. Put a new entry in your blog at least once per
week. Make sure there are plenty of links to your free home
based business products from your blog. Always announce your
blog updates using the tool at
www.pingomatic.com.
Your objective is to get as many links back to your page rotator
as you possibly can. The more people who see you links the more
traffic to your rotator and the more sales you will make.
There it is, the basis of a free home based business and the
start of your online empire.
To your success!
About the author:
Brian Pratt is a 47 year old New Zealander with over 10 years
internet experience. He owns a Plug-In Profit site at
http://www.bestrealincome.com. If you would like more detail on
how to build your own free home based business you can find it
there. Brian can be contacted at brian@bestrealincome.com
