Heads Above the Rest

On 15/11/2011 22:49 by Admin

If you want to run a business from your home, it is very possible to make money and be a success. However to do this, you must have a website. A lot of people when they start a home-based business they try and build their own website. While that's fine if you know what you're doing, it reflects very badly on you if you do not. Even though your business is based on your home, your website needs to be professional looking but not too flashy. You want to project a professional image not the image of somebody working in their underwear.

While some opportunities for working from your house do include a website when you sign up. Betting the 11 with a business consider a couple different options.
1) Find a designer to build your website for you. Take a look around, websites can be found at relatively low cost nowadays.
2) The other option is to use a free template or paid for template. Many web designers work from home, which reduces their overhead.
 
Make sure all the pages in your website, consistent theme to tie them all together.

Customers want to see a consistent layout on your website. They do not need to know if you're working from home or from an office, with a one essay is a professional well laid out easy to use and navigate website. Just think and what you do when you get a website. If it's easy to navigate looks good year on liable to stick around longer than it looks like it was thrown together by 12 year old in the basement. The difference between the two websites is lost revenue coming out of your pocket.

Do you want to run an e-commerce business? If you do do not build a shopping cart yourself. Make sure you use a product such as PayPal, Google checkout, or any of the credit card processing solutions. These are designed specifically for selling on the web, they allow you to get on with your main business and reduce or eliminate the necessity for storing credit card information. You do not want to store credit card information you to the fact that if your computer gets hacked you could be liable for hundreds of thousands if not millions in damages.

Whether you invest the money and purchase a complete shopping cart or use an open source product such as opencart or osCommerce. In any event, if your enemy selling products, do not try and reinvent the wheel.

Paid host or free host? Okay this is a trick question the years hosting with your own domain name is cheaper than going out to the movies and usually cheaper than going to McDonald's with your family. If you're not willing to invest $20 a year into your business, then why are you bothering to even start a business at home? Your own domain makes you look much more professional and will improve your sales. Have you ever heard of a subdomain.com business succeeding?

How much does it all cost?

Hosting your new  web site and fitting it out with e-commerce might cost you less than a $100 per year. This depends how many products you sell and how much of the work you are prepared to do your self. But be realistic know your limitations and know when to ask for help!  Reference point www.mingamong.com

To set up a website and include e-commerce will cost you well under 100 year if you do a lot of it yourself. If you outsource some of the SEO work and web design work, it might cost you from $500-$1000 to start your website. Make sure you know what you can and cannot do and when to ask for help. Your business success may not rest on your website but a great website will help improve the chances for success.

Good luck in your new work at home job.