Home based business - work at home - extra income with your own business

The terms above attract thousands of new people every month who want to find their own profitable space on the internet.  They have high hopes and good intentions - but are quickly frustrated and confused by the sheer amount of conflicting advice and info given to them. 

Most either give up in confusion or try to start a real business online - and fail.  The failure rate doesn't have to be so high.  Working online is not magic, there are no secrets - and there are no quick fixes to make you rich or solve your financial crisis.  la business online is a process and, truth is, you CAN do it and make good money along the way.

How on earth do you get started? 

The Good News:   Almost anyone who can think, read and write can generate income online

The Bad News:  Much of what you read about making money online is dead wrong

I'VE HAD IT!  As someone who has worked online for seven years, I'm sick and tired of seeing new marketers trying to get started and being bombarded with one "secret method" or "magic bullet" after another.  I'm disgusted by the tricks used by those selling "make money" products and services and the deception of many of the sales latters.  I'm saddened when I see someone who had good potential simply give up because they've been able to do nothing but spend money and time and have no results to show for it.

What am I doing about it?  I'll give you the truth about getting started in internet marketing.  You'll learn the tools you need - and how to avoid junk you don't need at all.  Click on any word that is blue and you will find a short, to the point, explanation of that subject.  Links in the left hand column lead to "newbie speak" explanations of the topic. 

FACT:   all those pretty sites telling you it's easy and fast to get an online business to profit have one thing in common: 
  They are trying to sell you something.

There are no "secrets" - there is no "magic bullet".  Income doesn't just appear from nowhere online any more than it does offline.  The profit you make is a direct result of the decisions you make, the tools you use, and the work you do.     For every guru online peddling "how to make money" systems, there are hundreds of real people quietly working on sites in their small niches and making a great living doing it.

Let me ask you this:

1. How many ebooks have you purchased?
2 How many memberships have you joined?
3. Did you fall into the MLM trap yet?
4.  Are you making money yet from these purchases?????

If the answers are
1.  a lot
2.  quite a few
3.  yes
4.  No

Then stick around.  Bookmark this site and start learning how to get started online.  Any ebook or report available here is the best that can be found on the topic at the lowest price it can be offered.  Any software I tell you about is a product I personally use and can fully recommend.  This site has been redesigned to help NEW marketers and I'm adding content and resources weekly so check back often.

#1 Question of New Marketers:

Can you start for free?  No, you really can't.  You are building a business and you need the very basic tools of the trade.

A musician doesn't make music without an instrument
A carpenter can't build without his tools
Every opportunity has a cost - but should provide a return for the investment of your time and money

Fortunately, to work on your computer you need only a few purchases and the monthly expenses are low.  There ARE some good free products - and I'll tell you about those, too.  You will find no cost methods for building your business but you will not find no-budget business models.  Or you can just spin your wheels rushing from one free method to another with no results except a lot of hours wasted.

Dreaming of how you'll spend the money you will make in the future will get you nowhere!   Get started with a common sense plan, work to build your online presence and sites - and the money will come.  The ways to earn money online are not that many - but the areas (niches) you can use to earn an income are almost endless.

The basic methods for earning income online are:

1 - selling other people's products (affiliate programs)
2 - selling your own products (ebooks, software you outsource creation of, etc)
3 - building a large website or group of websites and using programs such as Adsense or PPA (pay per action) programs on the sites
4 - providing a service (copywriting, building sites for others, doing the basic tasks outsourced by other internet marketers)

THE ABSOLUTE MUST-HAVE TOOLS FOR NEW INTERNET MARKETERS ARE LISTED BELOW:

A Good Sitebuilder

Recommended:  XsitePro

For a beginning site builder, there is no better tool than XsitePro.  With an easy learning curve, one button publishing to your hosting account and the ability to be used for anything from a simple sales page to complex content sites, XsitePro is a winner.  Though I recommend it for new marketers, I still use it for many of my own sites.  This site was built using XsitePro.

Click here to view the "7 Reasons Why You Need XSitePro Now!" video

A Good Web Hosting Account

Recommended:  HostGator 

You need a hosting server that is online reliably, has full instructions and good customer support.  In addition, you need a hosting company responsive to those who are working online and provides expanded space and accounts when you need them.  After trying many, many hosts - HostGator is what I have used for years and I fully recommend them.  They are inexpensive and provide full support.

Coming Soon.....A list of free resources, how to use social sites to get traffic, article marketing advice and links...and more