How do I start a business designing websites for money?
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The best way to do it would be to try and make a few sites on some free webspace to show people how good you are at making websites and to prove that they are practical, professional and working websites and that they comply with w3 standards :\n\nwww.w3schools.com\n\nOnce people see you can make sites and you advertise it on the free sites you make to show them and your prices are reasonable then you should be able to make money and as you get better you can charge more.
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1. You can sell products and run an ecommerce website like Newegg or Amazon\n\n2. You can publish information earn by advertising (through contextual advertising like Google Adsense and Yahoo Publishers Network; banner advertising such as Fastclick, Tribal Fusion and Burst Media; or your own ad sales)\n\n3. You can create members-only website and earn money throough monthly or yearly subscriptions such as most adult websites or Economist.com\n\n4. You can sell information products such as downloadable ebooks or CDRoms\n\n5. You can bring buyers and sellers in your portal such as eBay\n\n6. Sell services such as search engine optimization, graphics design, web design, online incorporation, domain broker, etc. \n\nOne article that I found very useful is "7 Steps to Successful Web Site Development" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol142/website.htm as it takes to you all the decision steps that you need to take when starting an online business. Like any other business, startup period is full of "should I do this" or "should I do that" questions. The article is useful because it helps you think through every step of the way - from why do you want a website to who is your audience to how will you create your website to how you will market your new website.\n\nHere are the steps you need to take when creating your online business:\n\nSTEP 1: Set Your Goals - Why do you want a web site? What is the size of the online market? What are the goals for your website?\n\nSTEP 2: Develop Your Web Site Strategy - Who is your website target audience? What typically appeals to your target audience? How are the other websites (your competition) reaching out to this target audience? How will you measure your performance?\n\nSTEP 3: Set-Up Implementation Plans - What name will you give to your site? How do you envision the design of your web site? How will you create your website? How will you create your content? How will you maintain your website?\n\nSTEP 4: Start the Ball Rolling - Do you have a logo? For e-retailers, do you have the critical components needed to run an e-commerce site? How are you going to host your site?\n\nSTEP 5: Create and Launch Your Web Site - Have you uploaded your site with your chosen web host provider? Are the scripts and application you need for your website functioning well? Have you tested your website? \n\nSTEP 6: Promote Your Web Site and Measure Its Results - Do you have a plan in place to market your website? Do you regularly review your traffic logs and web site performance tracker? How are you going to get sites to link to you? Do you know the search engine keywords that you rank well? If your site is not visible in the search engine results pages for its keywords, what strategies do you intend to do? \n\nSTEP 7: Maintain Your Website and Grow Your Web Business - Continue to find ways to grow your web business. How do you intend to continue your education on web development?
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Build a website with useful content. No tricks, no ads, no promises that you cannot fulfill. And to win money you need money. You will need money for hosting, webdesigners, etc. Good luck!!
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You dont need to pay anyone to start your own website. Its free but you may want to buy some cheap web page software. You probably already have webspace through your internet provider. Check into affiliate programs, kmart, walmart, shopko, tons of them! Everytime someone purchases something thru your site you will receive a commission. Just look for the affiliate links. When you are happy with your site you may want to obtain a domain name. This will make it easier for the public to find. You can purchase a domain name for as little as 3 dollars a year. Yahoo provides this service. The hardest part of running an internet business is pushing your site. Be prepared once it is up and running to spend many hours poking your site down peoples throat! After you get it rolling the rewards can be great!
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One of the minimum legal requirements for all businesses is that the company owner / creater is of legal adult age, which you are not, however you can legally contract your services out by freelance as a self employed minor, given that you do not need to have a separate legal entity (company) to work self employed. The first and most important thing to all business ventures is to establish an income, and keep cashflow coming in as greater in volume than the cashflow going out. If one of these fails, you end up in debt and can spend your life climbing out. In order to establish income, you must have people paying you, in exchange for goods or services, in your case web design. Web design clients can be aquired by advertising your services as available to the public, particularly targeting your audience, namely people who either do not have a web page, or have an old, pathetic web page. One way to advertise for free is to create a really good (your best ever) web page, and send a link in an email to organisation email addresses. This is called SPAM, and there are some laws against it, but it is so accepted in todays society that unless you SPAM the antiSPAM squad at the police department, with your name, address and phone number on the email, your probably going to be ok. you can also buy bulk (1000s) of current email addys for $10 on the net, but I suggest you use PayPal or something.\nRemember, the less of your income you spend on yourself, the more you can spend on increasing the amount you make in any given period, so be smart about where you apply your capital, and you could be the next Bill Gates in 20 years easy.
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The Web offers tremendous opportunities for those who know how to harness it. You hear of stories of people who earn thousands if not millions of dollars from doing business on Web. While there are many scams (same way in the traditional business world), there are various ways you can legitimately make money on the Web.\n\nHere are the main business models you can adopt:\n\n1. Sell products on the Web - Big boys like Amazon or Lillian Vernon online catalog or smaller businesses like BigKidsVideo.com or Candle4Less.com all sell products on the Web. \n\nYou can either sell: (a) through your own storefront through your own website or applications such as Yahoo Stores; or (b) sell through online auctions like eBay\n\n2. Information Delivery. Others such as About.com or PowerHomeBiz.com create content and monetize their content in a number of ways:\n\na. Advertising - whether by joining banner ad networks such as Tribal Fusion, BurstMedia or Fastclick and display the banners on their site; or through contextual advertising such as Google Adsense or Intellxt. Google Adsense is the HOTTEST program right now for online publishers.\n\nb. Affiliate Programs - you sell other people's products that your audience may be interested in; and you get a certain commission after the desired action was done (whether a sale, a lead, subscription to email newsletter, or however this is defined). As long as you have a website, this is one of the easiest way to make money on the Web\n\nc. Paid online content. Hoovers.com or WebmasterWorld.com Supporters forum all require paid subscription before accessing the information\n\nd. Content licensing and syndication. Some publishers such as the Associated Press get paid every time their content is published elsewhere \n\nI suggest you check out the following books:\n\n- 121 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home: Plus a Beginners Guide to Starting a Business Online -- by Ron E. Gielgun\n- 101 Internet Businesses You Can Start from Home \nby Susan Sweeney \n- Start Your own E-Business (Start Your Own . . .) by Jacquelyn Lynn \n- The Best Internet Businesses You Can Start by Marian Betancourt
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I  have a business I do from home using the Internet. You can see my site at http://www.writershelper.com/index.html.\n\nI have a service business and the Web site primarily advertises my business, although it earns money in its own right as well. Some of the links on my site earn me money when people click on them.\n\nMy next step will be to create two other sites that simply earn money without my having to provide a service. A site like that, an information site, is created by an infopreneur.\n\nAll of this is quite possible without knowing html or being a designer or having any other specialized technical knowledge.\n\nI have done what I've done with the tools I got from the Web site below. That site has several high quality free e-books (and a few others that you have to pay for).\n\nBest wishes as you pursue your goals.
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Hello,\n\nSeems to be a conflict here. If you want to market high-end designed websites you are going to have to invest some money in marketing. You have to know your market. If you advertise for free you are going to get people who want free or cheap. That said, \nThere are many free or cheap classified ad sites on the web. Also you can do a search of high end websites that have associated content and you can pay to advertise on the site. Just type in relevant search words and also for free advertising type in free classifieds in a search engine.\n\nDarwin\nDarwin's 4X4 Work At Home Listing\nYour vehicle to work at home business\nsuccess and freedom\nhttp://www.profits-in-hand.com
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First, you will have to decide if you wish to use your own domain name (i.e., http://www.mydomain.com) or prefer to use a subdomain (i.e., http://www.yahoo.com/myshop/) You may wish to consider using Yahoo Small Business for your needs until you get more capital - http://sbs.smallbusiness.yahoo.com/webhosting/?p=1 for as low as $8.95 a month. (i.e., I will not post links to other commercial businesses that offer these services because its a violation of Yahoo rules but you can Google them). The Yahoo Starter package includes all the things you need to get started, including MySQL (you can even create a customized shopping cart), PHP, etc and enough pages to suit your for as long as you are still a small businesses. It also offers over 200 email addresses, and a Sitebuilder with templates that you could get started with.\n\nYou may also consider using your home computer to host your own website for free. It would need to have an dedicated internet connection and server software such as Apache (free web server). I wouldn't recommend this until you have more experience and capital.
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First, secure a URL and purchase the website domain name (register.com, godaddy.com).  Second, determine the scope of work involved with the site.  ie: how much information do you want to convey to the user?  Third, determine if this is something that your company has the bandwidth (and resources) to create in-house.  Remember that this website is an extension of your company, your brand, and an important touch point for your clients and prospects.  I can't believe how many horrible websites are out there.  Lastly, contact a few different interactive agencies that specialize in website development work.  Submit an RFP and see what kind of pricing they give you.  \n\nThis is something that is worth spending money on...and worth doing right.
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well... I'd say you could start by going to freewebs.com and make a website there... it's free and they have some basic layouts for you... the only downside is that your website comes with advertisements on it... If you want your own server Yahoo I believe has it wher eyou can register a domain for $9.99 I think for a year... but then you'd have to buy a server and/or run the website off your computer.\n\nIf you want it professional looking and don't like freewebs.com and want to design it yourself... that's where it get's expensive and I'd suggest using Adobe Photoshop and Macromedia Dreamweaver...\n\nPhotoshop for graphics and Dreamweaver will help you with setting up the pages to where they look nice..\n\nOther then buying those two programs... Freewebs.com is the only place right now to help you get started at least with a basic website...\n\nI'm a graphic designer myself and have helped design websites... you can email me and I'll help you design your website and all... You'd just once again have to pay for a domain then a host if you're not planning on hosting it off your computer.
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Starting a small business takes a lot of courage. But, as they say, courage does not pay the bills. To be successful – to stay in business – you need more than courage. You need a combination of hard work, skill, perseverance, and lots of luck. \n\nSome things you need to consider:\n- "How can I support my family while I build up by business?" \n- "What are my abilities?" \n- "Is there a market for the product or service I have chosen?" \n- "How long will it take this business to reach the financial goal I have?" \n\nYou may want to read the article "How to Start a New Business Successfully" http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol51/launch.htm , which lists six steps to launch a new business successfully:\n\n1. Provide a benefit.\n2. Determine the fit with your market.\n3. Right timing is everything\n4. Be ready to support your business\n5. Develop a blueprint for success\n6. Market, market, market\n\nStart by researching the business and preparing your business plan. Here are some resources on starting a web/graphic design business\n\nHow to Start a Web Design Business http://webdesign.about.com/od/jobs/a/aa052404.htm\n\nI suggest you check out these sites to gain more info on the going rates for freelance graphic/web design\n\nhttp://www.elance.com\nhttp://www.guru.com\n\nImportant thing to remember: don't forget the contracts. Here are some resources to guide you in preparing contracts\n\nNeed for Written Web Design Contract http://www.ivanhoffman.com/written.html \nSample web design contract http://www.wilsonweb.com/worksheet/pkg-con.htm\n\nFor in-depth information, I suggest checking out the following books:\n\n- How to Start a Home-Based Web Design Business by Jim Smith http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0762705612/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid\n- The Real Business of Web Design by John Waters http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1581153163/ref=nosim/powerhomebizguid
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This kit claims to have the answers to starting a web design business http://www.sitepoint.com/books/freelance1/?SID=2dffbd95b9c25e9302ec1458217e76ea .  It isn't cheap and I don not know anyone who has used it but, it looks like it is targeting needs such as yours.\n\nAnother (maybe best) approach is to work for an existing, successful design firm for 6-12 months to get first hand experience on what it takes to launch, grow and manage a profitable web design business.  Then take the time to develop a business plan - see template at http://www.score.org/template_gallery.html
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Do not try to start an Internet business. Start a business that allows you to use your passions.\n\nDetermine what you are good at and what you love to do. Then research to determine if there is a market for it. Do you love making jewelry? Start a jewelry business. Are you good at graphic design? Start a design business. \n\nOnce you know what your business will be, you can decide if you should do business on the Internet. "Internet" is not a business. It is one way of reaching customers.\n\nAnd you will have to learn some "techie" things, unless you have the funds to pay people to set up your Web site and all the things that go along with that (shopping cart, merchant account, search engine optimization, pay-per-click ad campaigns, etc.). \n\nThere is no magic to making money online. It takes hard work, just as it does offline. It is certainly possible, but do not expect that you will get rich with no effort.\n\nCome up with something (a product or service) that people want, find those people and tell them about it. That is the simple formula for success in any business.\n\nGood luck!
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First and foremost you need to have your license.\nCalculate your personal expenses for two years and try to save that money, just in case you start your business and no money comes in for the first or two years.\nStart your business at home, that way you have less expenses. You will also need to find out how much it will cost to buy a computer and software (usually around $10,000).\n\nThen try to make friends with Architecs and Surveyors.\nUsually they will refere you to jobs.\nThat's how my friend got started and now he is really busy with a lot of work.
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I  have a business I do from home using the Internet. You can see my site at http://www.writershelper.com/index.html.\n\nI have a service business and the Web site primarily advertises my business, although it earns money in its own right as well. Some of the links on my site earn me money when people click on them.\n\nMy next step will be to create two other sites that simply earn money without my having to provide a service. A site like that, an information site, is created by an infopreneur.\n\nAll of this is quite possible without knowing html or being a designer or having any other specialized technical knowledge.\n\nI have done what I've done with the tools I got from the Web site below. That site has several high quality free e-books (and a few others that you have to pay for). The cost is more than reasonable. I'd gladly have paid 10X what I did.\n\nBest wishes as you pursue your goals.
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Try starting your own website.