Launch a Winning Online Business in Easy Steps

If you are looking to launch an online business, do not feel overwhelmed, as it really is quite simple. It will take a little work on your part and before you know it, your business is up and running.

First, I want you to visualize the type of online business you are going to run. Will you sell digital products, like e-books, software or are you selling products like clothing? Your first step will be to get a domain name that targets the customers that you are looking for. When they search for "widgets" to find your product, you should choose a domain name with those exact keywords.

It costs under $10 to register a domain name, so no big deal. Once you have a domain name purchased, you will want to set up your web hosting. Again, this is as simple as signing up with a hosting company. There are plenty of deals online when it comes to hosting, so look for the best deal. Once you have signed up, you will receive all of your hosting information in an email.

The next step is to change you dns settings for your domain to point them to your web hosting. This sounds hard, but is as easy as pasting to words into your domain name hosting panel. It takes two seconds to do without any experience. In 1 to 2 days your online business website will be active. You will not see anything at the address until you upload your index page. I use free html editors to design a lot of my sites and than simply ftp them up to my hosting and boom they are online ready to take orders and make money for me.

Do not be afraid of ftp programs, they can be found for free online and make the process of uploading files to your hosting easy and quick. If you do not want to use ftp software than you can upload the files the old fashioned way, manually.

Those are the simplified steps to setting up your online business. Of course there will be learning along the way, but rest assured that anyone can learn this process and than just repeat it over and over.