Saturday 15 August 2009

Internet Business Planning - What to Consider

If you are considering starting an Internet business, then you need to figure out where your revenue is going to come from and what your return on investment is going to be. You also need to consider your costs, everything from your domain name cost, hosting fees, and costs that you will stand on web design.
Even if you are going to design your own website, you may need to buy additional software, this software is not cheap so you need to figure that out to. Then if you are going to sell something on the Internet, there is cost of setting up an e-commerce system as well.
Even when you figure out all these costs, you must also realize it will take a little while before you start making money. If you just purchased a new domain name it may take 3 to 4 months to get a good listing in the search engine. Your site will have little or no traffic at first.
In other words no one is coming to your site to look at what you have for sale, so you are going to sell anything yet. Therefore you need to figure out a way to bring yourself targeted traffic and to market your website. There are many ways to market a website, and some of them cost a little bit of money and you must consider this as well.
Many people that run Internet sites that have an e-commerce component admit that things were slow going in the beginning, and many of them are embarrassed to tell you they didn't even make $100 their first month, although by the end of the year many of them have made a little bit of money. Still not many have paid off their websites and all the costs they put into it already by the end of year one.
You can understand why you need some good Internet planning and you need to consider other things as well. You might need to upgrade your computer system, buy a new laptop, put high-speed Internet access in your home, buy a new monitor and even pay your attorney to set up an LLC.
Everything costs money and this is what you need to think about before starting your own business. And it really doesn't matter what type of business it is but since this is an Internet business you need to consider those costs, and they are real so don't ever forget that. I hope you will please consider this.




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