The Online Professor's Practical Guide to Starting an Internet Business

Welcome to Online Success 101

From ideas to future growth, successful online professor Dr. Danielle Babb and custom support network youronlineprofessor.com take you step by step to online success, delivering a host of tailor-made online tools, resources, templates, forums, and more with every chapter. Use online quizzes to discover your specialty, establish your business using downloadable forms and templates, streamline operations with real-time support from practicing netpreneurs, spread the word with help from your online network, and more!

Let The Online Professor help you:

Discover your online specialty
Build an effective website
Efficiently set up your office
Set your pricing and policies
Connect with consumers using new media tools
Gain exposure using high-impact, low-cost advertising techniques
Identify new opportunities and grow your business
Avoid common pitfalls and scams
Access a world of online business resources
And more!

E-commerce, virtual services, online education-the online opportunities are endless! And the benefits-no startup costs, a world-wide market, setting your own hours, and huge profit potential--are unmatched!

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Down Economy Creates Online Opportunity
There are times to build your business and times to cut back. According to Danielle Babb, author of The Online Professor's Practical Guide to Starting an Internet Business (Entrepreneur Press, $19.95), this is the time to start building, and the place is on online.
"Today's economy offers a ripe environment to build a business. With product and service costs very low and businesses willing to negotiate for your business, this is the time to build out a website-based business." says Babb. "You can get a great web developer with a lot of experience for historically low contract prices, snap up excellent tools online at minimal costs, and negotiate with providers that you need to make your site fantastic."
For aspiring online entrepreneurs who need more convincing, Babb offers a few more reasons why they should get started now.
A More Mature Market
More consumers than ever are doing business online, and more people than ever are comfortable submitting credit card information and personal information into online sites. Integrating Secure Socket Layer (SSL) Certificates into your site are required and will also encourage consumer confidence. These products are also now reasonably priced and far less expensive than they were a year ago. Hosting companies are also costing less as fewer companies make investments in technology.
Quality Consumers
During recessionary times, people are also cutting back on travel and trips to the store, and want products and services for less money. Online providers can often beat brick and mortar store prices because they have less overhead. Consumers that otherwise would have driven to a store to buy a product are choosing to buy from online websites instead because, in the end, it saves them time and money.
Profitable Partnerships
This is also a great time for companies offering complementary goods or services to create advertising partnerships with online businesses. This is a quick and easy way to build momentum online and help out other companies that may consider themselves rivals in other markets. Now's the time for online businesses to get creative with their business partners!
Free Marketing
Blogs and forums are a great, free marketing tool for any online startup. By joining blogs and forums within their market, online entrepreneurs can quickly build a name for themselves. People love free advice, and their payback will be in the form of future purchases when times are good.