I am convinced that in order to be successful in an internet work at home opportunity, you really need your own website. Here are just a few reasons why:

• When you join most affiliate programs, you will be given "affiliate links." These links are beneficial in that they are built for you to promote your business. The problem is all affiliates in your business have the same looking sites. You can't make changes to them and you are somewhat limited in the ways you can promote them

• To stay competitive. Your customers, the people who are interested in what you have to offer, are going online and looking around after business hours.

• To open your business 24 hrs a day. Not just 9 am to 5 pm.

• Create an image of a well established company

• Web advertising is the cheapest form of advertisement and is unlimited

• Your customer base will not be limited to your locality. Your potential customer/client base expands worldwide

• Your target at potential customers is more accurate

• Update changes to information immediately

• Enable customers to visit your website and join your business online with no involvement on your part.

Before we go any farther, your first thought may be that you can get a "free" website through some hosting company. That is not a good idea. Read this article to find out why.

So, how do you go about starting your own website? I have found that there are 3 basic things you will need to get started: A Domain Name, a webhosting company, and the coontent for your home page.

Webhosting Companies

There are hundreds of web hosting companies and many of them are very good. Hear are a couple I komw are reputable:

VeryVIP SiteBuilder: The VeryVIP SiteBuilder offers a powerful package of results-driven features, tools, and strategies you won't find elsewhere on the Web.

Hostgator.com: Host Gator provides Reseller Web Hosting and Shared Hosting solutions. Our reseller hosting program is for both businesses and individuals. All of our plans include a 99.9% uptime guarantee, 24/7 support, and a 30-day money back guarantee.

Site Sell: 99 percent of small businesses fail with conventional small business Web hosting. SBI! not only delivers success, it proves it. Site Sell offers everything you need to start, build, and maintain your site.

Domain Registration

If you web-hosting source doesn't register a domain name for you, the first step is to register your business name, even before you start a website. A good source to do that is at Great Domania.

Website Content

If you aren't going to use a service that will write your home page content for you, an outstanding tool that can help you is The Affiliate Masters Course.This 10-DAY course focuses 100% on helping you, the affiliate, succeed. It leads you, step by digestible step, day by day, through a flawless process.


There is also Make Your Content PREsell!. Make Your Content PREsell! is the only book that shows you exactly how to write to PREsell, how to COMMUNICATE. This book shows you exactly how to write to PREsell. No programmer in the world can build a module that will write effectively for you.

Building a website is an ongoing process. You never "complete" it. But there are all kinds of things you can do to make it grow and to promote it. There are also many places to learn how to build a site. Many work at home opportunities offer you help with your site, especially those in your business who have been around a while. Here a few more places to find help: