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You're excited. You have a great idea for a new online income opportunity. Maybe it is an original idea that has not been marketed online before. Maybe you have come up new angle on a traditional concept. Whatever it is that has influenced you to start your online business, be sure that you have a plan before you begin. This is not the time to 'pick it up as you go'. These are some basic things that should be included in your new online income opportunity business plan.

First of all you should have a brief description (mission statement) of the entire business as an integral part of the overall business plan. After you have completed the summary you should begin to list the aims and objectives that you want your new online income opportunity to accomplish. Next and perhaps most importantly, you should develop your marketing plan. This plan will address all the specifics of your new business. When developing the strategy you should consider the following:

The target market. The target market is the customers that you expect to see visiting your site. For example will your product be more appealing to at home mothers or those business executives?

Now you need to make careful consideration about your competition. Choose a service or product that will be seen as different and useful. Visit sites that offer the same or similar products. Analyse their costs and marketing strategy. Finds out the what the positive and negative elements of their business is, and try to improve your product based on their weaknesses.

Get to know the various and most effective ways to advertise your new online income opportunity. You should become knowledgeable about search engines and how they work since each one is different. Also be sure that you know how to submit your site to search engines. You should budget to invest on advertising, but if done with proper research the profits that you will gain from your advertising campaign will prove to be money well spent.

Consider how much to charge for your service or product. Again, examine what the competition does and see what similar products are selling for. Get the price right can play a big role in the success of your product since selling a product well below the average price may lead customer to think that there is a problem with the product or that it is not of the best quality. However, pricing items too high could also detour customers. With your online income opportunity ' always think from the customer's perspective. What would the customer want?

Determine the shipping method. Be sure that you know how products will be shipped so that you can have shipping details clearly posted on your site. If you are shipping things of great value, you should consider providing shipping insurance. Also think about shipping outside the country that you live in.

Think about the different methods of payment that you will accept. If your business does not accept credit cards, you should be ready to give up half if not more of your sales. If you decide to accept credit cards will you use a merchant account or will you use a third party credit card processing center? Both will help you get started and the third party processing center will handle all of the business so you don''t have to. You should decide which you will use and also if you will accept checks or money orders. It is essential to have a secure server when taking credit cards.

These few things will help your online business to become a great success and also provide you with peace of mind knowing that you have thoroughly thought about and planned for the opening of your online business.

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