Starting Your Online Business: Stay Focused

Many articles are written on starting your online business, so I'll home in on one problem that I had a difficult time overcoming; STAYING FOCUSED.

My first decision, after I decided to take the leap into starting an online business, was to come up with an idea for a web site.

Since I didn't know much about a web sites, or internet marketing; my second decision was to purchase an introductory internet marketing course, and get my feet wet in the internet marketing niche.

I then ran into the focus problem. I started getting side tracked by online offers of e-books, software programs that research keywords and market niches, several different affiliate programs, and some e-mail marketing scams.

I lost my primary focus, which was starting an online business.

My suggestion to anyone starting an online business, is to first select a niche market with a monthly Google search engine result, of 100,000 or less. You can do a Google search to manually find your niche, or get free tools from the internet, that accomplish this.

After you are comfortable with your niche, I recommend you get an easy to work with program to design your web site.

Some basic software, that can get you started, is usually furnished when you register your domain name. With a little effort and imagination, you can create a simple, effective, web site that will make you some money.

In addition, you can set up a blog, or blogs to augment your web site, or even to use in place of a website.

You can start a Wordpress blog on your own domain, and use cpanel to set it up. An alternate hosted site, such as blogger.com, can be used if you adhere to their terms of service.

Blogs are indexed much faster than standard web sites, by Google, and other search engines.

Regardless of which site you choose to use, remember to stay focused on your primary goal; getting your online business up and running.

If I could start fresh tomorrow, I would STAY FOCUSED, better than I did on the first go around. I believe that instead of going from one program to another, and buying different software, e-books or memberships, you should focus and stay with one project until it becomes a success or fails.

Lastly, remember that you don't have to be perfect in everything you do.

Don't lose your focus trying for perfection; it ain't gonna happen! In any event, whatever you do, stay focused and just do it.

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