The Idea For StartABiz101 Web Business

THE IDEA of starting an online (unique) web hosting business
By Kevin Needham

Step 1, The idea

I started off with good intentions when I wrote “Watch Me Create An Internet Business” and followed it up quickly with “The Mind Map Business Plan“. I then wrote a few articles about hosting and social media.

I want to fill you in on what I have been up to in regards to getting the first business launched.

Well it is launched (but really that is the final punch line.) Here is what I have done.

Originally I liked and purchased buyasite101.com as I felt it described what I wanted the customer to do. And it does. however I let it sit for a couple of days and when I came back to it, I did not like the word “buy” in the domain name. I figured it would discourage visitors instantly from exploring the site.

Somewhere during this time I wrote “pick a domain name pick it well” and decided to change the sites name completely.

I went out and registered startabiz101.com

I think Start A Biz, meaning start a business much better describes the benefit we offer at StartABiz101.com

So, I had the domain name figured out, lets recap the business model.

1. Drive traffic to my squeeze page, capture a name and email.
   To do this I first conducted a survey on my blog, drove a handful of visitors to the survey page using Twitter posts, and decided, based on the results of 10 or so people, to give away a list building ebook with resale rights as the carrot to obtain the email and name. Took 2 days
2. Once the subscriber is inside my autoresponder (if you are not familiar with autoresponders, read “Setting Up An Autoresponder“) I then follow up with a series of emails offering them a free business, already set up for them, with a domain name. Took 2-3 hours to set up AR messages
3. There is only one of each domain name, my cost is $9.05 on each domain name, and it took me 1/2 hour each to set up the site. Bought 10 domain names, took 50 mins.
4. The hope is that they take the domain name and web business for free. we host the web site for them at $12.00 per month, and that is how we make money. Our business model is hosting. In the longer term, we plan to offer services such as blog installs, Twitter marketing, Traffic generation and Information Products to enhance the back end

Over the next series of 3-4 articles, I’ll describe

1. The idea, this article you are reading

2. Action steps. Write a “napkin” business plan to follow

3. The Technical, how I set everything up, where I bought my services like hosting, autoresponders. Where I got the PLR content to give away.

4. The Revenue Streams, how to make money

5. Traffic Plan, Marketing Ideas

6. Long Term Plan, what can we do

So each “Web business” found under the “Web Business Blueprints” Category will have these 5-6 articles (some more if required) and by reading these series of articles you will be able to set up the exact type of business for yourself.

Stay tuned for the 2nd article of this series called “Action Steps For StartABiz101″

Kevin Needham

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