To the Nine to Fiver Who Wants to Start an Online Business

To the Nine to Fiver Who Wants to Start an Online Business
By Zo Slater

Are you tired of spending endless hours working for someone else on a job you hate? I used to work hard also. The 12-hour shifts. The 7-day weeks. But I didn't start making big money until I started my own online business. And it didn't take much.

Many people that hate their jobs spend hours, surfing the Internet, looking for a particular get rich quick, money making, opportunity, which only ends up being a scam or false advertisement. If this sounds like you, you are one of the many people who would benefit from creating your own mini site to start your own online business. These are websites that only contain 1-5 pages. They are basically small web sites. The main purpose of mini sites is to make money. You can do this by focusing on a very narrow niche and try to rank for solely one keyword in a search engine. Creating a mini site can be broken down into these steps:

1. Picking a product
2. Building the mini site
3. Generating Traffic
4. Optimizing the Site

The first step is to find a product which you want to promote. You can promote all sorts of products or services. Just pick a product or service you are interested in. Then your next step is to set up your site. In order to create a site buy your own domain. Ideally the domain should include the keywords you are trying to rank for. You can use HTML and CSS to build your site. Lastly, you need to generate traffic in some form to your site. You can aim at getting 1500-3000 visitors per month once the site is set up. You can achieve this by focusing on a very narrow niche market. What you want to do is to find a keyword that is related to your product. This keyword will lead thousands people per month to your site. It needs to be a keyword with little competition which makes it easier for you to rank faster and better. Also keep in mind that the keyword you are targeting should be a buying keyword. If you focus on building a site around cooking then buying keywords for cooking might be cooking course, cook training, and so forth.

With mini sites you can generate cash automatically without having to worry about much. It's also important to remember to optimize the site.

Zo Slater is a well-known internet entrepreneur, digital media producer, hip-hop producer, author and small business authority. He has written nationally published columns.

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