How to jump start an on line internet business?
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A successful internet business can give the owners many options that 
are simply not possible with other businesses.
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	1. you can live anywhere 
	2. you can travel full-time 
	3. low employee requirement
	4. low inventory requirement
	5. possible tax advantages
	6. the market place is global
	7. a physical store is not needed
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An on line business needs a platform on which products and services may be 
offered or sold to the general public.
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And the platform is very often the website itself.
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The Dot-Com Bust killed nearly $1,000 billion dollars of investors money.
How do we avoid it?<br>
Start small and start also start many!<br>
Begin with <a href="http://www.cdc.net.my/turnkeyforce.com/?art1">ready made sites</a>
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Advantages of using a template driven website.
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	1. fast time to market.
	2. low cost
	3. You may launch multiple websites simultaneously and
	   subsequently only concentrate on the ones that perform the
	   best!
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A ready made sites can be had for as little as USD100.
You will also need to add about 100 USD per annum for hosting and a 
minimum 800 USD for marketing.
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By far the biggest expense is marketing and this includes search
engine optimization (SEO), search engine marketing (SEM) and pay per
click (PPC) e.g. google adwords.
   
Therefore with 5,000 USD you can have 5 websites started in the first
year!
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A discussion of of <a
href=http://www.readymadesites.net/?art1>ready made sites</a> 
will not be complete without mentioning the problems/pitfalls associated with it.
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1. Some templates vendor makes it mandatory that you acknowledge the
source and copyright of the template maker. 
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2. Some php websites come with encrypted php scripts. This means that for 
any modifications of the functions e.g. the logic flow or price 
calculations of the websites, either you have to refer back to the 
template maker and be charged separately or you have to write the function
from the ground up and interface with the existing website. This is a task 
for an experienced programmer.
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3. If you were to change or modify  a graphic of the template, you would 
usually need a Photoshop file e.g. .PSD file. This files are usually not 
supplied together with the template.
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4. In order to achieve certain effects, special fonts are 
usually used. Without the associated fonts file, the graphic can not be 
changed easily while the maintaining the same look and feel of the whole
website. 
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Potential ready-made-sites buyer should be aware of the above. And if
the advantages out weight the disadvantages then and ONLY THEN go full speed ahead!
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About the author:<br>
Jacob Liew jacob9@cdc.net.my<br>
<a href=http://www.turnkeyforce.com/?art1>http://www.turnkeyforce.com</a>