The Fast and Easy Way To Set Up an Online Business

By Ruth Barringham  

It's hard to set up an online business when you don't know where to start and how to keep going.

You want to do it but you just have so many questions that no one will answer -

• How do I set up a blog?
• How can I set up a blog for free?
• How can I make money online?
• How can I create a regular online income?

If you search online about how to do these things, one of the first things you'll find is that most of the information is full of hype and trying to sell you a product that guarantees almost overnight millionaire status if you buy it.

So as a breath of fresh air, here is a really simple way you can set up a blog and start making money online for free.

And I'm keeping it really simple for you so even if you don't know anything about creating websites and making money online, you'll be able to do this.

First, search for blogger.com. This is service owned by Google and allows you to set up your own free blog. If you're unsure how to do it, you can do a search on YouTube where you'll find a plethora of videos showing you how. But it's simple anyway.

Next you need to change the blog to get the layout exactly as you want it. This is easy to do thanks to the simple Blogger dashboard that also makes publishing to your blog easy.

You can also search another Google service called FeedBurner which again, is easy to use (and free) and lets you put a signup box on your blog so that visitors can subscribe by email or RSS feed and your blog posts will be automatically sent to them every time you publish something.

You can also upload your blog post titles and a link to them on social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc) to get more visitors to your blog.

Then comes the exciting part. Making money online.

The fastest and simplest way to do this is by placing Pay Per Click advertisements on your blog. These work by you earning money every time someone clicks on one of these ads, regardless of whether they buy something or not.

Or you can do affiliate marketing which means selling other people's products and services for commission.

You can find a few online affiliate networks such as ClickBank, Commission Junction, ClixGalore, Amazon, and many others, simply by searching for them.

Or do a quick search for a keyword for your niche followed by "affiliate program." So if you have a blog about weight loss, you might search for "weight loss affiliate program."

Affiliate programs are free to join and done correctly, can earn you a full-time income.

And that's all there is to it.

• Just pick a niche for your blog.
• Set up a free Blogger blog.
• Set up a FeedBurner account.
• Write your content.
• Join affiliate networks to monetise your blog.
• Use social media to market your new blog.

Just remember to keep it simple and that you don't have to get it right, you just have to get it going.

About the author: Ruth Barringham has been successfully working from home running her own online business for years.

Article Source:   Ezine Articles expert Ruth Barringham