I  have spent alot of time looking into different home based business ideas. Before the Internet and after. Now adays I am looking for something that I can do online, period. With gas prices the way they are I am not in any hurry to start a business that I will have to drive to. Heck, I quit, or at least scaled back BIG TIME, my real estate business.  No, online is the way for me to go. I am pretty sure many of you reading this agree, the economy makes staying at home a  very attractive alternative to working outside of the home,if we can.

So, I spend alot of time searching out online opportunities. Believe me, I have heard of many of them and I know that there are still plenty more that I have never heard of. Truth is, I don't want to! With all of my experience in searching for the right opportunity, I have learned a few things that I would like to share with you here.

I have learned that, marketing to your target group ( NICHE) is the key. It is the key to everything. I have no experience with marketing, none.  But I have learned that marketing and marketing correctly is the only way you are going to get yourself out there. I think that some people believe that if you build a beautiful website it is only a matter of time before "they" come! "they" will come and buy your things because it is a beautiful website with many, many beautiful things. Uh, No! Not true. If you think just because you spend a small fortune building a beautiful, nice, user friendly website with a shopping cart that is easy to navigate, masses of consumers, with$$  are going to flock to your site...dream on!  Sorry!  There is a bit more to do then build a website. I have actually had people show me their website and ask why do I think it is not getting any traffic....when I say to them that they have no META tags at all on their site, that the site is not optimized, they have no clue what I am talking about. They might say..."what is a META tag"? Okay, I am not a very techie kinda girl..at all! But, I do know that your site has to be optimized and to do that you need Meta Tags AND the tags need to be relevant to the content of your site! I know that much!

Now, I am not the type of person that likes to sit and read some BIG ol book to figure out how to build and market a website, so I will not tell you that in order to get a site ranked in the search engines that you have to read all there is to read, BUT I will tell you that education is the key to your success! You need to know SOME of it! The basics...there are sites that I have been spending time at like http://www.magneticsponsoring.com/my-profile/indychristine.html  and http://www.directmatches.com/indychristine these are networking sites. They are filled with TONS of FREE information to help you with your business. I love them and you can follow the links to check them out. There are some other great resources which I have found and you can find their links on my site at http://www.networkmarketpro.net/resources.html .  

Remember, you do not need to read  ALL of the books on SEO or marketing your website but you BETTER read some of them! Education is the key to YOUR success. Believe it!