How to Start a Business on a Shoestring Budget
If you have watched the news lately you will begin to see a pattern. That pattern revolves around the unfortunate individuals who are being financially devastated because job loss in one form or another has affected their families. It’s not that many of these hard working people have lost their job that disturbs me; rather it is the fact that almost none of them seem to know how to generate income outside of their jobs. Very intelligent people who have managed to raise a family, buy a home, and raise kids, all of a sudden find themselves out of a job and become paralyzed unable to come up with any legitimate way to make money. This pattern is disturbing because I believe it has taken the independent pioneer spirit that American’s once possessed and reduced it to nothing. Most people have now become mindless robots waiting for the next instructions to come from on high. Today that changes for you because you are about to discover how you can start a business with just one item that you probably have in your pocket right now.
If you are short on cash to invest in your new business, a credit card might be your best friend. Here is what you do; first visit a website that allow you to purchase a domain name. Register a name that ends in a.com and that has the word discount or coupon in it. As an example, Discount Diet Programs would be a good name. This should cost you no more than $30 bucks. Once done, opt for their free hosting package or get the cheapest web hosting plan available. This should cost you no more than $50 bucks a year.
Next you simply hire your teenager or a neighborhood kid to build you a simple 3 page website. The first page is your home page where you will describe why this is the best site to find the cheapest, lowest priced, discounted items on the internet. The other pages will be a contact us page and an articles page. Once done you then visit Commission Junction and sign up for a free account. Commission Junction allows you to promote other companies products and services for free on your site. As an example, you can sell anything from Bowflex selecttech dumbbells to eharmony online dating. If someone purchases from your site, you get paid a nice commission. Once inside the online Commission Junction website, find the companies that offer products that match your domain name.
Evaluate those companies and write a brief 275 - 500 word review of the company and product or service. Add this review to your website and have your kids or the neighborhood kid add your affiliate links to the page every other paragraph.
The last thing you will need are customers. To get customers, you must first provide value you think of some topics that might interest your potential buyers. Once you know what these are, simple write a 500 word article about the topic and submit it to the many article directories. Many of these directories allow you to include a link back to your website. You will write the informative and entertaining article and then provide a link to the product or service review page on your site. The prospect reads the article, finds it helpful and then clicks your link to visit your site. Can you guess what might happen next? That’s right; they click one of your links and Cha Ching (which will sound like a cell phone ringtone to your ear) !