A legitimate online business should be simple enough to get up and running. Surely, if I build it they will come, at least that’s what they used to say!

Nowadays though it is just too competitive and anyone thinking that it is just a case of putting up a site or blog is either dreaming or is misinformed. To have a successful legitimate online business you will need at the least a basic understanding of keyword research, site creation, online marketing and search engine optimization.

All these skills can be learnt as you go along but here’s an important fact for you to consider:

97% of new internet entrepreneurs give up before the year is out.

This is because of the massive learning curve and the cost of all the tools, courses and ebooks that are constantly pushed as the “must have weapon” for the new online marketer.

I and many others have each spent many hundreds of dollars on all these “must have tools” that never deliver on their promises and in the end you just cut your losses, realizing that grasping everything required to allow you to compete with the pro online marketers is going to take many years rather than the few months the experts tell us.

It was 18 months a go that I found myself in this mess. I had been trying to make a profit for the last 6 months but apart from a few bucks from ads I was way out of pocket and in fact it was so bad I had taken to hiding bank statements from my partner because of the amount I was spending at Clickbank on so called “money making tools.”

It was then I found Niches In A Box. Here was a legitimate online business that fully understood my needs. Niches in a Box knew I didn’t fully understand how to write articles that will rank at well at Google, how to create a sales letter with killer copy, how to create a squeeze page to capture email leads, how to create my own product that people really wanted to buy and that even if I did, I didn’t know how to put all that together to create a package.

Because they understood that I and hundreds of others who desperately wanted a legitimate online business did not know how to do any of the research and preperation, they did it for us. Every month they give us fifteen websites all built around a niche and all designed to make a profit as quickly as possible. You get everything you need including a great ebook to sell, the sales and squeeze pages, even the 10 emails to load up the provided auto responder!

You simply use the provided software to upload everything to your host and your done, within 30 minutes you have your very own online cash machine and because you don’t have to worry about all the site creation, creating a product, market research etc. it leaves you the time to get on with promoting your sites and blog by building links via article marketing etc.

How much will you earn?

While my newer niche sites make a few hundred dollars this grows as the site ages and my link building grows. My first niche sites that are over a year old now pull in several thousand dollars each a month and I have been earning 5 figures a month for some time now, going full time as an online business around Christmas time 2007.

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There has been a wave of new writers joining the existing army of internet entrepreneurs. Article writing is one of the easiest tasks that a complete newbie can get involved in. What some budding internet barons do not fully realise is that there is a right way and a wrong way to write a good article. Starting out on any new business is always daunting and exciting and you must look on your new article writing empire as a business project and not a hobby.

Writing articles online means that you have to know what people are searching for. If you have a superb article on geriatric skateboarding for beginners but no one is looking for this subject then it will be a non starter. So before you start writing articles online take some time to do some quality research into keywords. The google keyword tool is a very goo free tool for finding a range of valuable keywords.

Once you have decided on the theme of your article there are some other easy tips on article writing worth taking note of. The first thing is to use your main keyword in the headline and the first and last paragraphs. Secondly you can use closely related keywords throughout the article. The most important of my easy tips on article writing is to write good value content. You must have good information that relates to what the online searcher is looking for.

As well as thinking about how you can actually write your articles you need to apply yourself to finding ways to earn money with them. The first and quickest way to make money fast online is to write for other people. There are service websites like elance.com that have work for article writers like you.com. Online communities and blogs can also give you a supply of customers for your articles. This is the way I started earning money online. I also got people to critique my writing so that I could improve my skills. There are many more tips on article writing on these forums and most people on them will always help a new person out.

In conclusion you need to realise that it is inportant to look beyond just the mechanics of how you write and article. You musr persistently and constantly put your plan into action and write and write. You must create a regular output of good quality articles if you are going to make money from your online writing activities.

Choosing good keywords for your websites is a skill that all online marketers need to master. Writing up webpages without paying attention to the keywords you are using will hamper the success of your website. The type of website you own and what you want people to do when they visit should be taken into account as this will affect how you choose keywords.

Someone looking for more knowledge in a specific niche is different to someone looking for a defininte product. The first website carries information and the second one will have the track ready for download. Now if the information website has the relevant information on video then you may be able to sell the information but you have to catch people who are looking for your information.

This is what you use keywords for. Choosing good keywords helps you to target what people are searching for. When it comes down to it there are 2 basic methods for choosing good keywords. There are paid subscription services to do keyword research such as nichebot. In a matter of minutes you will have a good set of valuable keywords for your website. Then you can use the free google keyword tool to find out which keywords are getting the searches. You will not find your keywords very fast this way but it does work.

To choose the right keywords you are looking for high search volume and low competition. For very small niches this will be quite easy. For big niches such as diet or credit cards will be much more of a challenge to find good keywords. I look for search volume above 600 per month and with less than 30,000 websites competing for the keyword phrase. Using these good keywords in your webpages will make them more search engine friendly and give you more traffic.

This is a bit of an oversimplification of a big topic. You can find more answers to the question how do I choose good keywords for my website by going to the mega article website.