Setting Your Online Business Up for Success!

There is a common misconception that an "online business"requires no investment...that you can make money onlinewithout spending any.

When we hear this from people who are desparately trying tobuild a successful online business it makes us angry!

We believe the misconception is primarily due to all of thehype and false promises that arrive daily in our inboxes.Emails promising us that we can make millions of dollarswith no financial output while we sit at home and donothing. It's insane and it's not the truth.

The truth is that you must treat an online business just asyou would a business in the conventional world. You mustplan on investing time, money and effort to ensure yoursuccess. The good news is that your investment in an onlinebusiness will be MUCH, MUCH less than that of a business inthe conventional world.

With an online business, there are essentials that you musthave in order for your business to run smoothly and becomesuccessful. You can literally run an effective onlinebusiness for $100-$200 a month. Later in this article, wewill show you how you can access many of these essentialsin one place for less that $10.00 a month!

But first...

Here are six essentials that you MUST have to run youronline business.

1. Your Own Website

This includes a domain name and web hosting for your site.You must have a central place to send your customers, evenif you are selling multiple products or services.

2. A Professional Autoresponder

An absolute MUST for any online business. If you're notusing an autoresponder, you're losing money! That's thebottom line. Your autoresponder should have the ability tocreate subscriptions via email and web form and should be aprofessional one with no ads! Fr~e autoresponders lookunprofessional and they are not reliable.

3. Ad Tracker

This is probably the most underused tool that we know of.Consider this - most people who are NOT making money on theNet have never used an Ad Tracker. Yet, ALL of the peoplethat we know who ARE making money on the Net - use onedaily. It makes no sense to spend money and time onadvertising if you're not going to be able to determinewhich ads are producing and which ones are not. An AdTracker will solve this problem and save you time and moneyin the long run.

4. Products or Services

You must have something to sell! This can be a service suchas web or graphic design, an mlm/affiliate program orproducts, tangible or digital. If you don't have a specificproduct or service in mind, there are thousands ofprofitable digital products that come with resell rights.This means you can resell them and keep 100% of the profit!

5. You must know HOW and WHERE to advertise to bringtargeted prospects to your Website!

You can save yourself a tremendous amount of time, moneyand frustration by learning the effective advertisingmethods that are available online. There are countlessworthless ones that are simply a waste of time. If you'renew online, you won't know this unless you find someone whois successful online and follow their lead. Find a mentoror a membership site that offers step by step Tutorials ononline promotion. Make sure that the tutorials are updatedfrequently to keep up with the changing times of theInternet!

6. Leads

The lifeline of any online business! Just because you havea website and products to sell, that doesn't mean you'regoing to make money! To make money, you must drive targetedvisitors to your website. There are THOUSANDS of companieson the web that sell Leads but if you just pick one out ofthe blue, it's trial and error. Do some research and find agood source for leads. Again, you can achieve this byfinding someone who is succcessful and following theirlead. Or join a membership site that includes Leads as apart of their package.

We promised we'd tell you about a membership site thatincludes many of these essential items in one place. Have alook at http://www.viralprofits.com With your membership,you get a professional autoresponder, ad tracking, Leads,Digital Products with resell rights, step by step trainingtutorials AND you can earn money by referring others to thesite. The tutorials are updated frequently and NEW productsare added each month so that you always have something newto offer your customers!

So there you have it. With these six essentials, you've gotthe foundation for a successful online business. Withoutthem, it's going to be a tough road ahead. Use them as a"checklist" and make sure your online business is armed forsuccess!

Charles & Susan Truett are experienced internet marketers who have built a successful online business and are now teaching others how to achieve the same success. For more more info on make money online ideas visit: http://www.partnersinsuccess.net