Starting a home business is a heck of a lot easier now than it was 10 years ago – and we can thank the Internet for that!
In fact, as broadband Internet access continues to spread, thousands of new people are going online each day.
And many of them are starting their own online businesses.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re making fish tanks in your back yard and selling them online, or developing digital products that people pay for and download, the online market place is only going to grow.
So this series of articles looks at the mechanics of setting up and operating a business online.
They don’t address the marketing and promotion aspects – those are covered in the Internet Marketing articles.
You will, of course, need to consider book-keeping, accountancy, tax and other things like that. But I don’t cover those here, because those things vary from market to market. And, anyway, I’m not an accountant!
You may also be interested in this free eCourse I’ve developed. It takes you, step-by-step, through the process of setting up a new business online, from soup to nuts. You can find it here.
Click the headline to read the full article and leave a comment under the article (or contact me) if you need any clarifications.
Editing the stylesheet of a website or theme designed by someone else can be a seriously frustrating exercise, because finding the correct element to edit is like looking for a needle in a haystack If you’re lucky, the original designer will have used sensible element names and commented their code in detail – which should [...]
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I did a website for a client recently. It’s a sports bar and he wanted a calendar to display details and times of the different sports events he was going to be screening at the bar each weekend. I always try to use commercially (or freely) available solutions for my clients. First of all it’s [...]
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I’ve been using Thunderbird as my email client for ages – years – and I’ve always been very happy with it. But last weekend a wave of emails containing the JS/Redir virus starting hitting me (and they’re still hitting me now). AVG spotted the virus (which was good) but couldn’t get rid of it (not [...]
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A while ago I wrote an article in which I said that you almost certainly know more than you think you do about working online. And that once you realise that, you’ll suddenly find a whole bunch of business opportunities opening up. I described one in the article. So this week I saw another example [...]
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When I first started working online I used the fact that I was a newbie to comfort myself when I wasn’t making any money. And then I saw others coming in, who were newer than me, making their first $100, or getting their first 10 sales, while I still had nothing to show. And panic [...]
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Seth Godin’s book The Dip has some inspiring lessons for people at all stages in their career or business. Its message is quite simple: all new projects and businesses will hit a dip – that point in time when reality sets in and the excitement of the new project has worn off. Suddenly it all [...]
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Seems like the hackers are after me at the moment: 2 weeks ago my Twitter account was hacked and last week one of my static web sites was hacked. Last week’s hack was particularly embarrassing. I’d sent someone the link to my Web Services site. On the web design page there are some links to [...]
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