WebMaster Solutions

Internet Success

Business Plan Outline

This page contains a complete business plan for making money with  a WebPages. Please review the entire page and the links it provides to our other pages. It is meant to be a comprehensive plan of attack.

Why write a business plan? In most cases a business plan is the most important step in launching a new venture or expanding an existing one. The kind of business plan we provide is designed to get you up and running with little investment. It is designed for people who want to invest time but little money.

As a start, you can use the info below as the meat of a plan, but you will need to tailor it to your own personal business desires (of course). Feel free to save this one to your hard drive and modify it for your own use.

We modify this plan based on our own experience and feedback from others. We would really appreciate feedback from you. Please let us know what worked for you. Any suggestions for improvements would also be appreciated. Send them to: webmaster@webpageprofits.com 

The essence of this plan is:

STEP BY STEP

Step One: Determine your focus area and business model. For example, our site focuses on helping webmasters make money. That mission impacts on everything we do. The rest of this plan is supportive of any focus you determine, but only you can determine what your focus will be. If you have yet to solidify the precise nature of your business, you should still press ahead, but we strongly recommend you at least make some assumptions on the services you will be providing before you get down the road too far. The assumptions can be general for now (assume you will be marketing affiliate and associate programs. Assume you will be providing information of interest and use to a specific market niche to be determined at a later time).

Determining a focus also means writing down your goals and describing your products or services. You should also revisit these goals, objectives and intentions frequently.

To help select your business model, review our business model page. We list the key types of online businesses you will want to consider.

As part of this first step of determining your focus, ask yourself what you can do for your customers. Put yourself into the shoes of your potential readers. For example, we have found that the majority of our readers are looking for free information. Many already know what "fee" services are out there, but don't want to sink money into something unless they have taken maximum use of the "free" services. So we have tailored this entire site to providing this kind of information. We had to devise a unique profit model to allow us to do that. But by putting our customer's desires first we have been able to do quite well.

Step Two: Establish a web site. You can use a free page or your can establish your own domain. Your internet service provider may already give you free webspace. That is probably the best option to start out with. For other free webspace option see our Free webpage review page.

Now is a good time to mention that establishing a website is an iterative process. For example, if you build a website on a free service you will probably upgrade later to your own domain. The same thought applies to every other step mentioned here. Be ready to revisit and refine thi s plan and your intentions.

Step Three: Link your webpage to companies that you have an "associate" relationship. This is usually easy (all the associates we recommend provided HTML code that is easy to copy and paste into your webpage).

To pick the best associates for your page, visit our review of associate programs. Or visit Commission Junction (a free service). We are big on them.

Step Four: Provide content to your site that will be of use to your niche market. Keep it valuable and up to date so your visitors will keep coming back for more. If you have a skill, hobby or area of expertise that you can provide free information on that is best. However, there are plenty of commercial businesses that exist just to provide content. We review several on our content page.

One of the most important is the free content provider Moreover.com. Click Here to Visit Moreover's Site Some content can be ads, but if you take this route be sure to offer your opinion on why your readers should pay attention to the ads on your site.

You can also use free articles as content. See many on our Article and Advice page.

Step Five: Market your site. We have a more detailed review of marketing tips on our marketing page.


Step Six: Keep your content fresh. You will need to keep adding content to your page. Never stop this step. If you do, you will become stagnant and people will stop coming. You should also ensure your HTML is always working and that you have no dead links on your pages. As your site changes you should revisit your meta tags and page descriptions too.


Step Seven: Provide interactivity. All of your internet based business should focus on serving your visitors. One way to do that is to provide interactivity options. Always ensure an e-mail address is at the bottom of each page, and provide message boards, FFL lists and ad pages that free ads can be placed on. We provide those services throughout our site, and all the services we use can be signed up for free for integration into your pages.

Step Eight: You should establish your business entity (although we assume you have already done that).

And, we strongly recommend you select an online bank. No matter what your business entity (individual, partnership, company, corporation), banking online makes sense for e-commerce companies. We have examined three online banks (it is always good to check around), including
Of the three, Compubank has received the best reviews for security and customer focus. They have our highest recommendation.

That's it in a nutshell. Remember to keep building content and keep marketing. Good luck! 

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