by Brian Cody

Created on: October 21, 2009

Before you begin to build and research your free websites for starting your Internet business, you must under take two crucial steps. Without these steps your chances for the success of your Internet business will likely fail.

The first step that you need to perform is the proper research into picking your product, or niche marking service. The second step will be to develop a working business plan and marketing plan for your Internet business. Many budding Internet marking businesses fail due to the lack of either of these two vital steps.

What are the major problems that your Internet business will solve for your potential clients? How will you target your potential clients? Is there a viable market for your ideas/product/service? What are the top 5 issues and problems that are facing your target niche market? What are the top 10 questions that are recurring in your niche market area?

What will the goal of your web site be? What will your monthly budget cost to run your web site be? How many product sales per month to do you plan on closing? What is the price range of your potential product line? Who are your competitors?

How do you plan on getting the word out about your new website? How will you optimize your SEO strategy? What is a SEO strategy? What will your E-mail list building strategy consist off? What auto responder E-Mail Opt in tool will you use? Where do you find the answers to the above questions?

Let's review the answer to the final question, "Where do you find the answers to the above questions?" One of the first parts of your research strategy will be to review the marketing tool called, "Standard rates & data service" known as "SRDS". You can begin your research on-line at their web site http://www.SRDS.com. They update their reports every quarter. Since Free, is an operative word, in this article go to your local public library and request to review the libraries most recent edition. That will give you a ton of excellent data and marketing leads.

You can also do market research on line and go to http://www.google.com to target your niche market area. Also check out the most popular searched topics on http://www.Yahoo.com and social media sites such as http://www.Twitter.com/FrugalityAdvice. To research popular selling items go to the web site http://www.Ebay.com and also check out http://www.PayPal.com

Check out popular blogs and forums and review the most frequently asked questions. A popular forum for affiliated marketing is

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