How do you start your own online business? Well, Mr. Najam Aziz has the answer for you in today's InsideOffice.

Mr. Najam Aziz answers you:

Stop finding jobs! Start your own Online-Business without investment! or Promote your existing business by bringing it online without investment!

Yes!!! Without Investment! or with a very little budget, you can start your own online-business or promote your existing business by brining it online. It is required that you must be educated and computer literate. You can be a professional/expert in any field (it is not required that you should be computer expert), a business person or a college student.

In the first few paragraph you will learn WHO CAN DO WHAT? and later you will learn HOW CAN YOU START WITHOUT INVESTMENT?

If you are a professional/expert in any field, of course, you know whatever you have learned. Suppose, you have a degree/diploma in Web Engineering, you know how to develop a web site and its programming, you can offer web development services to business owners who require your services. If you have some experience or some existing clients, it will be your PLUS point. Think... what can you do? what services you can provide? Offer these services online. You can introduce yourself as a web developer, software developer, hardware specialists, network engineer, estate agent, teacher, instructor, doctor, lawyer, sales promoter, accountant, engineer etc.

If you already have a business, you can promote it by bringing it online. When your business will be online, that means whole world can access your company details, what are you selling or what services you are providing. Your business will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

If you are a college student, in learning process, do not have expertise in any field and does not any business, don't worry! You can still start your own online business without investment. You can adopt following options: (1) Internet Sales/Marketing: Sell someone's else products or services. You can make a handsome commission by referring people to their web site from yours. (2) Whatever you can do: Business persons need people who can work for them. Think... what you know? Serve your clients in as many ways as you can e.g. internet information search, word processing, letter writing, sending, receiving emails etc. (3) Offer FREE Services: Affiliate with web sites that offer free services and also pay commission. e.g. Free email accounts [chek.com], get paid programs [spedia.net] & [sendmoreinfo.com], newsletter according to their interests [emazing.com] etc. Offer your visitors these free services.

Now I will tell you how you can start or promote online business without investment, step by step:

1) Get Free Email for Life from www.pcsoftweb.com to communicate with your clients.

2) Get Ready made Web sites, FREE URL with FREE HOSTING from http://www.geocities.com, you can design web sites within a few minutes with the help of wizards they provide. You can use http://www.dynamicdrive.com to get pre-designed Java-scripts/Java- applets and use them to make your web site more attractive. Describe your services and contact details. You can also check your site statistics, no. of hits day by day, referrer, systems used to see your site from www.geocities.com too. This does not required any designing, programming experience.

3) Setup eStore, affiliate with web sites like http://www.amazon.com and put their links on your web site. If someone visits your site and then goes to affiliated sites and make some purchases, you will be get paid commissions.

4) Promote your web site for FREE! Submit your web site URL to 110 search engines by the help of http://www.submitplus.com. Use proper keywords and use META TAG in your index.htm file too. Submit all important pages of your site, not only index.htm. Submit your company details to biz directories too, like http://www.alibaba.com. Subscribe and read articles from http://www.internet.com and http://www.webpronews.com to know how you can promote your web site and business.

5) eMarketing: Advertise by sending email to business persons. Include a header or footer as "If you do not want to receive email ads please reply with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line", do not send them email if they do not want to receive. Offer FREE services to them. You can find email addresses of business persons from biz directories, newspapers, magazine etc. Also, try to read messages and reply that are familiar to your site and in newsgroups like http://www.deja.com with a short description of your site and URL.

6) Don't loose current visitors of your web site. If you want to see your visitors back again and again use http://www.coolboard.com to manage a community of people of familiar interests. You can also offer your clients free email accounts for life with the help of http://www.everyone.net and when your visitors will get email services from your site, they will be back to check emails. If you need more information regarding this topic or if you can suggest me any useful idea, I am looking forward to you.

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