Starting an online home business is never easy. You have to learn everything from scratch, and at first it may seem sometimes as an impossible task.
But if you just persist, day after day, you’ll soon start to realize that you can actually do it. Not in a day, or a week, or a month, of course. In the beginning, you need a little patience to get you through that “learning curve”. But the more you learn, the more you see the pieces of the puzzle falling in place, one by one, and then you feel a couple of steps closer to your goal: to have your own online home business and an income from it that allows you to have a better life for you and your loved ones. That goes on for a while until you finally have the knowledge and the tools to “open” you doors and start you online career.
Now a word of caution here: you should be careful not to fall prey to that never-ending “preparing to start” mental trap that frequently prevents so many aspiring entrepreneurs to actually start doing something, to really get their business off and running. The important thing is to start any way you can as soon you have the minimum knowledge and tools necessary, and then you will improve things along the way. Because if you keep always waiting for things to be “100% complete“, “100% perfect“, then there is only one thing you can be sure of: you will never start anything.
And when you do start your biz, keep this in mind: you’re not finished. In fact, you will never be finished because the learning never ends. You’ll always come across new stuff — whether it’s information, techniques, tools or any other kind of thing — that will constantly help you to improve and advance your online enterprise. However, the good thing is, the more time passes by, the less you’ll have to learn, and that means you’ll have more time to concentrate in running the business itself and expanding it.
We try to showcase here links to the tools and sources of knowledge anyone needs to get their own online home business started. Whenever possible, we’ll show, in addition to the paid options, some free alternatives to try and minimize your initial expenses so that you’ll have more “breathing room” financially-wise until you are in profit.
So feel free to browse around and get familiar with them all.
RESOURCES
Domain name – NameCheap
You’ll need a domain name in order to have a website or blog. NameCheap has been around for many years, gets good recommendations from many top online marketers and has good prices.
Hosting - HostGator
This popular hosting service is among the biggest and best. It’s been around for many years, it’s reliable, has great customer service and good prices.
Blogs – WordPress.org
If you choose to build a blog, then WordPress is the way to go. It’s by far the best platform for blogs, and it has a many themes to choose from and lots of plugins to enhance its features or add many more to it.
Sites – SBI – Site Build It
This is is something to give some serious consideration if you have the means to do it at the moment or, if not, whenever you can down the road. It helps you build not only a site or blog, but a real business — a complete, profitable online business.
If instead you take a low profile road for now in a financial sense, you can build low- to medium complexity sites with a free tool called Kompozer. To help anyone not familiar with site building yet, there is this User Guide.
FTP Client – FileZilla
It’s a software needed to upload your site’s files to your web host (you won’t need it if you decide to build a WordPress blog instead). FileZilla is one of the best and it’s free.
Browser – Firefox
This is by far the best browser for doing business online (and, in my opinion, for anything else). Its huge array of functionalities, combined with great speed, makes it the browser of choice of all internet marketers.
