Have you ever thought that, when you run your own internet business, you actually are in a know-how business. In that business to be an expert is the number one success factor.

1. Before You Start Your Business, Do Your Home Work!

If a starter will run promotions only when some overpromising affiliate business – ad says so, the potential to lose money is close to 100 %. The Internet has tons of total scam affiliate businesses and advices from unfair and unprofessional people.

When planning to the business, the key is to select a long term and stable affiliate business, with at least five years of internet marketing experience online.

Another feature must be the growth. Only the growing affiliate businesses are good businesses. The growth comes, when new people join the affiliate business.

2. Make sure that the selected affiliate business has wide sortiment of internet marketing tools to generate leads for your optin email list.

You must be able to create your own customized free web site, and get banners, text ads, email marketing campaigns and an autoresponder for automatic follow up. To be effective in the internet business, 3 to 4 different ways to generate leads is needed to make an income online.

3. It is good to run promotions in many online niches to get even more web site traffic.

However your own time and internet marketing skills will set the limits.

4. An Affiliate Business Marketing Plan.

When you start your business, you will need an affiliate business marketing plan. Remember that you are the one and only internet marketing tool for the business.

So plan what you have experiences of and what you have learnt about your own internet business. Every action must be fully understood. Do not run anything only because somebody says so.

5. My experience is that when you as a newbie will start the home business, you cannot accomplish anything in just 6 months.

Most of the time must be spent into educating yourself on your own internet business. Normally it will take from two to three years really to make an income online.

6. Remember that your start up is a serious business, like studying in a high school.

It is not a hobby, it is an affiliate business. There is no shortcut. You just have to learn it. Period. So I would say, instead of 6 months, it will take sixty months to make your affiliate business really profitable.

7. Pick an affiliate business program, which really can support you with rapid and professional online support, training and discussion forum.

8. Set the goals, which keep you motivated.

The goals cannot be like how much money you should earn. The question is not how to make an income online but about learning. This means that the goals must be what to learn in this month, for instance.

9. The most important goal is to learn to make a marketing plan for your own internet business.

That requires that you will understand the big picture and also the details. The long term actions and short term ones of the internet marketing.

10. The plans can be fine-tuned when more experiences are in hands.

Then the internet marketing plan will be more and more taylor-made for you and your marketing skills.
And when the day comes when you get more web site traffic and enough web site visitors and buying customers, you will thank yourself about studying and making the plan properly. Now you can make an income online.