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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

The Top Benefit Of Creating A Successful Online Business

By Shakil Zaman

The internet is making a lot of people wealthy and quite rapidly too. Many people are going from rags to riches in as little as 6 months to a year. The reason for this is that the internet has essentially leveled the playing field and now even the average Joe can come online with a vision and commitment and make big money relatively quickly. Here is the top benefit of choosing the internet as a way to make money.

Freedom:

Running an internet business can be vastly different from a conventional one. Most regular business require that you get some office space and then hire employees and then you will have to manage these employees at least until you have enough positive cash flow to hire a business manager.

The amazing thing about many internet businesses is that they are being run by only the single business owner and many of these businesses are generating six to seven figure profits each year. This is possible due to the massive leveraging capability of the internet. You can almost outsource every aspect of an internet business and you do not need to hire any permanent employees if you choose not to.

There are many websites that rank very highly in the search engines and these sites market products like affiliate products where the shipping and customer service is handled by other people. Sites like these get heavy targeted traffic and make money almost without any effort on the part of the site owner.

Of course it does take time and effort to create a site that ranks well in the search engines. Look into search engine optimization and affiliate marketing if you would like to create an autopilot business like this. Also many of these sites have AdSense on them too for an additional source of passive income so look into that too.

This means that you can work from anywhere in the world. If you like to travel then an internet business is a perfect choice. If you just want to have the time to do what you want and when you want to, then an internet business can give you that advantage as you will be able to generate large income and be able to work from anywhere.

Another great thing is that the effort required to maintain a successful internet business can be very minimal. Once you put in the initial time, energy and sometimes money to create a successful business then to maintain your income may only take an hour or two a day of work. It is similar to the analogy of creating a pipeline versus hauling buckets that the famous financial educator Robert Kiyosaki spoke of in one of his books.

It may take some time, money and energy to create the pipeline but if you create a strong pipeline that is deeply created in a vast ocean then this pipeline may pump money into your bank account for a very long time once the switch is turned on and without much effort required to maintain it. If you seek to become truly wealthy then you need to create a massive network of these pipelines instead of hauling buckets at your job.

This low maintenance aspect of an internet business is what makes it so attractive to so many people. Also the low cost of starting an internet business is another factor for the growth in online businesses. It can cost very little to create a website, although it will take time and effort to make that site rank well and get lots of free search engine traffic.

Combining AdSense and affiliate marketing onto a highly informative website that draws free search engine traffic is probably the number one recipe to making more money online with little money and getting more freedom in your life.

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Shakil is an online researcher, author and a regular contributor to a site that shows people how to make money online. Be sure to visit and also learn about affiliate marketing as a way to increase your income.