By Kevin Needham

Once the decision is made to start a  business online, we move forward by putting the action steps down mon paper or computer but the important thing is they get logged, so we have something to look at and follow.

The action steps are the things we need to do, in order to launch the business online, get traffic and get profitable.

To identify my action steps, I reviewed my business plan:

1. Set up a squeeze page to capture leads, decide what to giveaway in exchange
2. market my free domains to the prospects
3. Drive traffic to the site
4. consider and impliment future traffic activities.
Step 1
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So, setting up a squeeze page. I’m the first to admit, I’m not so skilled in page design and layout. 

You can hire someone, but it was not in my budget. Here is what I did.

I downloaded Komposer, a free HTML editor and loaded up a blank page.

I needed a header graphic, so I did a google search for “header Graphics” and found this as the 1st result . I downloaded a free header graphic and opened it with PAINT program, that came with my windows software.

I typed in my URL and pasted it onto the graphic, and I was done. I loaded the header into my new web page in Komposer, and put a table below it. I typed my message And played around with fonts. I mentioned in article 1 that I had done a survey, and decided on a List  building PLR rights ebook to giveaway. I pasted in the code from my autoresponder (See “Setting up an Autoresponder“) and uploaded the page to my web host. (also review “Picking a Domain Name” if you need to)

I created a couple of more pages like
index.html  (home page)
confirm.html (to confirm opt-in)
contactus.html (to contact us)
privacy.html
download.html  (to download the giveaway PLR product)
faq.html  (provide answers to common questions)
how-it-works.html  (Page to list available domains to be given away)

For each page, I loaded the saved template I created for index.html, and I edited it to suit the needed page.

 
Step 2
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market my free domains to the prospects is step 2. This is somewhat speculative in nature, not an exact science. What I did here was simply create a series of autoresponder messages to drip out to my new subscribers. I wanted to focus on the free aspect of the domain being given away, a $10 value, and also the free business being given away with each domain name. You can download my Autoresponder series emails here, and you are free to copy and modify as you see fit. this is the extent of marketing to my prospects.

Step 3
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Drive traffic to the site. This I have done in two different ways. One method is not available to you, so you will need to find an alternative. The first method you can repeat. Method 1 is Twitter.  I have spent the last 2 months building a Twitter following of close to 10,000. I post tweets daily, and I tend to receive 30-100 clicks per day to my links. Some of those Tweets say things like: “I posted THE IDEA of starting an online (unique) web hosting business URL” , and “I fully expose my business idea for startabiz, URL” and “I bought 10 domain names, but I’m giving them away” and ” I goofed and disclosed my traffic plan for my new business”  and each and everyone of these tweets went back to my blog post, not to a sales page.

My second method I used was to tell my collection of 13,000 affiliate marketers involved with Adreporting.com about StartABiz, and let them get involved. Overall it is working, I have given away a collection of domain names so far, and it is growing into a noticeable residual, monthly income.

 
Step 4
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consider and impliment future traffic activities. I have run a paid cpc campaign on Facebook recently and picked up a number of subscribers, not so many buyers just yet. I’m spending a considerable amount of time on this article series, and will post in to  article directories, and invite other blogs to link to it. I’m on the look out for good PLR products with full websites. I’m always looking for good domains.

This in a nutshell is my game plan, or business plan to start this business online

Stay tuned for article 3, The Technical Steps For StartABiz101 Web Business
Kevin Needham

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