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How to set up a FREE Internet business!

Setting up a business, any business, normally has costs involved. Some more than others.

Everyone knows that setting up a business on the Internet is normally less expensive than any other business, for various reasons:

- no physical premises
- no physical shop and office fittings
- no brochures and leaflets
- no newspaper adverts

etc.

Apart from your web design and web hosting your costs are generally directly related to your sales and your major "expense" is your time.

One of the main issues of setting up a business on the Internet is normally getting products to sell.

Let's take a look at how you can set up your business for free, or at least for a very low cost.

Web hosting:
There are many service providers on the Net that will host your web site free. Do a search on your favorite search engine for "free web hosting" and investigate some of those that come up. Alternatively, if you have a bit of money to spend, get one of the inexpensive hosting services (normally for under $4 per month)

Domain Names:
With the free hosting services you would normally not use your own domain name and would operate under a sub-domain. If you want to use your own domain name (recommended) it could cost you as little as $2 to register

For affordable domain names and web hosting take a look at GoDaddy's options.

Web design:
To get this free you will have to do your own web design.

This can be done with one of the many free HTML editors available on the Net. I use NVU at http://www.nvu.com

Alternativel y, a number of your free and paid hosting services, including GoDaddy that I mentioned, offer you free web site builders with your hosting.

Another option would be to download and install one of the free content management systems available. But this would require some knowledge to install and you may need to use a paid hosting service as you normally will need a database. A great one is Joomla at http://www.joomla.org as there are tons of free templates, components and modules available.

Finding products:

Finding products to sell is simple.
(Also read my article: "How to Make Money On-Line Selling Nothing!" at
http://www.helium.com/tm/393 142/money-selling-nothingdo-ea siest

1. Affiliate programs

You can either use affiliate programs where you earn commissions on every sale but do not have to worry about anything further. The suppliers take the orders, does the delivery and looks after customer service.

2. Drop shippers

Drop shippers are companies that will supply you

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