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Hi,<\/p>\n
I get a lot of questions from people wanting to build a web based business. I’m not talking about becoming a web designer or a web programmer, I am talking about building a website and then making money off it. <\/p>\n
Sometimes, people just want to put up articles and then sell other peoples products (through affiliate programs) other times they simply want to put up a bunch of ads. <\/p>\n
The more ambitious want to sell a service or a product. This blog post is going to be about how to do that … in a nutshell. <\/p>\n
What do you need to know (and what to do,) to set up a web based business?<\/strong><\/p>\n Well, before I get into it, I should mention the stay at home mom who contacted me recently. She had an idea for a website and her goal was to generate ad revenue and sell memberships\/access to premium content. She was asking a bunch of questions about setting up a forum, an e-commerce system etc … <\/p>\n So the first thing I ask when people come to me with these questions, is if they know anything about building websites? If you don’t know much, you will either:<\/p>\n Since this mom in question had no money to pay someone to build her site, she was going to have to learn. Before I get into what you have to learn, when you are a do-it-yourself web entrepreneur, let’s quickly talk about NOT ‘putting the cart before the horse’.<\/p>\n \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Do the first things first!<\/strong><\/p>\n Our well intentioned hard working mom, was very worried about setting up the e-commerce system and getting a forum installed … to deal with the traffic coming to her site. Seems a sensible thing to worry about … when you have a website with traffic!<\/p>\n … Before you start thinking about things like that, you need to first build up a website that has traffic. And that means good content. So, I kept pulling her back to that: you have to get your basic website up BEFORE you even consider all those other things.<\/p>\n The Stay at Home Mom, Home Web Business To-Do List<\/strong><\/p>\n This is what you need to do:<\/p>\n\n