Even with little or no money to invest, you can run an online business that generates money! With virtually millions of customers out there your opportunity is limited only by your effort and creativity. This site will provide you with more knowledge than most small business online marketers posess, yet they are making money as they sleep.
Moonbeam Mega Mall began with an investment of $9.00 per year in 1989 and now has a total budget of less than $500 per year, yet earns thousands and thousands of dollars.
If you have the time, we will share the knowledge with you. All we ask in return is that when you open your site for business, that you share a link with Moonbeam. It costs nothing and will benefit you more than us. If you take advantage of the above provided links you'll begin to understand how and why.
If you have any questions, feel free to ask:
Choose a catchy Domain Name for your Business.
a.e. WWW. ShopMoonbeam.com
Of course you must be creative. Enter your ideas in the box to the left and you soon will be on your way to owning your own personal domain.
Own your own upscal apparel, gift or accessories store in just minutes. This si your opportunity!
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There are several ways to bring traffic to your site. The fastest and most effective is to get your site highly placed within the search engines. It's tricky so you need a professional to guide you.
Creating Your Online Business
It's easier than you might think
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Q: How much will it cost me to open an online business?
A. $0 to $1,000,000! Such a broad question will get a broad answer.
We all know that we can acheive any project by throwing enough money at it. Assuming that you are willing to invest "sweat equity" into your business we'll provide you with some valuable options that are closer to the $0 end.
If you already have a website of interest to a segment of the public, great! You can begin earning money simply by affiliating with a merchant who would be attractive to your visitors. a.e. Your site is about "Infant Care" so you can advertise Maternity Clothing. But please read on...
If you do not already have a site but are interested in creating one: first see Page Design
You'll not only need to create a site that is of interest to your segment of the public, but the code within the site should be "friendly" to the Search Engine "spiders" (a program that scans and rates your site as to where it will appear when someone asks the search engine to find a site of your discription.) That is to say that even if you have the best site on the net, regarding "Infant Care", without a "spider friendly" coding, you may be the 500th site offered in the long list of search results that the searcher will be offered by the engine.
The chances of a customer finding you are the almost nill.
Q: How do I code my site to acheive a high ranking result on the search engines?
A. We can steer you in the right direction, but no one, repeat, NO ONE can definitively tell you how to reach a top ranking. Beware of anyone who makes that claim, and who offers to sell it to you. Common sense tells us that if someone could master that puzzle that they would be billionaires, and whose sites would come up on the top when anyone entered a search engine query.
You first need to present written content that appeals to a segment of the public; information that the general public wishes to find. The search engines are in the business of trying to please those who place search requests. To understand more about what the search engines wish to see, you must read: Search Engine Puzzles
Q: My webhosting is a free Geocities account. Can I create a viable business using Geocities?
A. Yes and No! Odds are that your free account will not be sufficient to operate a profitable business. There are several reasons for this.
The first is that internet marketing is usually a three tiered equation. First, of course, is you, the store-front, thirdly is the merchant who pays you a commission for providing visitors or for sales. The second, or the middle-man, is the network to whom you subscribe to in order to establish relationships with the merchants.
We'll use ShareASale as an example, since we've provided you a link on this page for you to follow, in order to establish a business relationship.
ShareASale, along with Commission Junction, Performics, Link Share and others sell their service to the merchants. The service that they provide is to first, bring webmasters, like you, to the merchants. Secondly, these networks provide you with the tools to professionally represent the merchants to your visitors in the form of inviting advertising links that transport your visitors directly to the merchant's sites. Most importantly, they are the ones who track your actual sales and insure proper commissions to you. If you should sign on directly with a merchant, what makes you think that they would always report sales to you? The networks are your recording overseer.
The networks, therefore, also have a huge obligation to the merchant. It is their job to screen the webmasters and attempt to insure that the merchants shall be adequetly represented by serious and professional webmasters. To make a long story short, logic dictates that someone who will not go to the effort, and limited expense, of providing a solid and professional storefront is not someone serious enough to adequetly represent the merchants valuable trade name. Therefore, a www.geocities... address may be declined by the network for that logical reason.
But we said yes and no. For a minimal fee of around $12 per month, you can establish a small business account with geocities. This will eliminate the pop-up ads that they impose on their sites and will also provide you with invaluable reporting as to the number of hits your site receives and even the "key words" that were entered with the search engines to find you. For an additional $10-$15 per year you must obtain your own personal address. Your URL, a.e. WWW.ShopMoonbeam.com, will direct all your Geocities traffic to your site, yet will not send up the red flags that a www.geocities.com address would.
Q: How much of my time will an online business demand?
A. It is again too broad of a question. The time required is dependent on the scope of your business. Using the previous example, the "child care" site with a link to maternity wear will require the normal maintainence on the site but the ad should simply be checked occasionally to insure it is current and functioning. Moonbeam Mega Mall, on the other hand, is what is commonly called a "link farm" which provides over 1,000 links to merchants, and supplies simply enough content to satisfy the search engines. Moonbeam requires a minimum of 40 hours per week of "hunt and repair" maintainence plus Moonbeam creates a minimum of one new site per week. It must be cautioned, although, that link sites are frowned upon by the search engines and must be created with nuch expert finese. It is far more profitable, for the novice, to create sites primarily dedicated to specific topics and which contain a relevent few links to merchants.
