Watch Me Create An Internet Business

ok, day one, I’m finally starting to put this idea to paper.

I have had the idea for a couple of weeks. Then about 4 days ago I thought that I would create a blog to document the whole thing.

I hummed and hawed a bit this am, surfed the net, then went to the gym.

It is now 1054 am.

Here is the idea. Or the group of ideas.

I have always loved the concept of web hosting. Over the years it has gotten so cheap in cost. And everyone needs it, or at least everyone who tries to be Internet marketer.

Recently, in the past year or so, I have been loving the idea of membership sites, or continuity sites. There are so many benefits in this type of business model.

Flip back to this hosting concept, and you can see that if you owned a hosting service, and customers paid you monthly for their hosting, it is really just a continuity program. you get to re-bill them every  month.  You got the customer once, you bill them monthly, and they stick around as long as you provided a needed service.

So selling hosting and owning a continuity membership business are really the same thing.

In the past, (and I remember paying over $3000 a month for my first dedicated server space, to operate my mailing business memail.com, 1996) hosting was very expensive.

Nowadays hosting is very inexpensive. the same account today for instance  would be about $200 a month.

And nowadays, you don’t even need to be technical to own your own hosting business, because, yes, that is right, there are affiliate programs out there. HostGator runs one of the best.

You can get a business account, or re-seller account for $49.00 a month, and host over 200 domains on the site. If you could charge users $10.00 a month per domain.. well the potential is huge.

And HostGator, or any other company, actually does the hosting and customer service.

Your job is to market the service.

OK, if you have been online for more than a day, then you know that web hosting is very competitive. Not that likely I could get too much traction if I just tried to setup and operate a web hosting business. So I need an angle, some type of hook that would convince a customer to use my web hosting services versus anyone else.

This is what spawned my idea two weeks ago.

I plan to give away a fully functional web site, a proven money making site where the owner just needs to drive traffic to the site and keep all the revenue from the site. It is their site, their domain their business that could actually be sold for profit.

And, I’m going to solve the number one obstical that most new online marketers struggle with.

I’m going to set up the site for them. Edit the pages. Setup their auto responder and here is the kicker… HOST the domain name and website for them for a small monthly fee. They will buy their own domain name and own the whole business.

I’m going to limit the number of sites I setup so the market is not saturated. Then I’ll find a different money making site, and repeat the process all over again. hopefully selling a 2nd site to existing customers and finding some new customers.

I figure by the time I have 1000 customers, they may have purchased 1500 hosting accounts from me, so if these accounts are just $10.00 a month, that is $15,000 monthly, or $180,000 a year revenue.  My costs to host these accounts would be under $400 a month, huuuum, think it will work?

Well, I have started this blog so you can follow along. I will try to explain each and every aspect of my thinking along the way, as well as the technical aspects of what I do. I’m not a programmer, I know how to set up a domain name and create a blog (very easy). I will post an article soon that explains both.

The next thing I want to layout is the flow, basically a “mindmap” that explains how I want customers to flow into the system, where I think they will come, what I think they will do at each stage of the process, and how I will communicate with them.

That will be my next post.

Then I’ll just go for it. And tell you exactly how I..

• Determine what profitable website and product to giveaway.
• Create a squeeze page to gather name and emails. 
• Set up an auto responder to communicate with the subscribers.
• Figure out how to track subscribers sent from affiliates or JV partners
• Set up my re-seller hosting account, so I’m ready for the first customer.
• Set up paypal to be my initial payment processor.
• Set up my own affiliate program
• Start the process of getting traffic to this blog and direct to the new site.
• Answer any questions you have along the way. 
• Set up a forum and email subscriber list right here on this blog
• Lots Of other things as I notice I need them

Kevin Needham

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Right here will also be the place (eventually, cause I’m going to be busy LOL)

• To find out how I set up this blog
• To find out how I included a forum
• To find out how this blog makes money
• To find out how to make a video and host it on your site or blog

So, tell me right now what questions you have, or what has been your biggest challenge

in getting your online business going?

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