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You need a business plan

What it costs to get an online business web site, online

Or do you have the time and temperament to build your own?

What are you going to sell, how are you going to sell it and who are you going to sell it to?

Your domain name – choose it with care

Search engines – they do go fast and they don’t need fuel

SES - search engine shortcuts

What kind of site are you going to need? All singing, all dancing or just a bit of a jig?

The aesthetics – good design is important, great wording is vital

Building the site – the bit you really don’t need to know about

Going live!

Where do they go? What do they do? How to find out what's happening on your site

Knowing where you stand - exploring the search engine listings

Online payment - what you should know

Other people and resources who can help you start your online business:

Inexpensive web site design

Hiring a professional writer

Getting your site to the top of the search engine listings

AdWords explained

Developing your online business marketing strategy

A free video tutorial with help and advice on converting prospects to sales

How to make your site easy to use

Give your business a head start by choosing an effective domain name

Finding the keywords for your site

screenshot screenshot Once your site's up and running, you can learn from it - every day...

How you can track what a visitor actually does once they've found and entered your web site...

The most popular - and free visitor tracking/behaviour tool - is undoubtedly Google Analytics (GA).

At first sight the GA tool may not appear to be immensely user-friendly, but stick with it and you'll eventually begin to see behavioural trends and patterns emerging, which you'll find illuminating and valuable.

Among many other benefits, GA shows you how many visitors you're attracting, how long they stay on your site for, where they come from and which pages of your site they find the most - and the least - interesting.

The feedback you get from GA is useful in its own right, but you can also use the data to make pages of your site that visitors aren't interested in more interesting, or to further improve the attractions of pages that visitors are interested in.

For the moment that may sound a bit remote and something of a luxury, but please make sure that your web site developer includes Google Analytics functionality in your web site from day one.

You'll be glad they did.


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