Find a product or service to promote
You can use a product of your own or you could become an affiliate marketer. If you want to be an affiliate marketer which I suggest you do, I would recommend you go to Click Bank. Click Bank is an affiliate marketplace where you can find products to sell for a commission. This means if you sell a product worth $50 at 50% commission, you will make $25. There you should pick a product that you know quite a lot about, for example, if you know a lot about horses, you should find a product about horses. Once you have chosen a product you then need to create a website. Cost: Free
Autoresponder
This is a must have for anyone who is wanting to make any money online. An autoresponder is a program which is used to organise lists of people who have signed up to a website like you did. Then people on the list are automatically sent emails at predetermined time intervals. If you don’t have one of these you will not make any real money. I would recommend AWeber. Cost: $19/month
Web Domain
A web domain is the web address of your site. For your site to be able to be viewed by customers you must first upload to your web domain. To purchase one of these you should pick a domain name that is easy to remember as well as being related to your product. Then go to GoDaddy.com and see if it is available. If it is you can then purchase it. Once you have done this you are almost ready to put your website up on the world wide web. Cost: $10/year
Hosting
For your website to be put up on the world wide web, you will need to get a hosting account. I would recommend HostGator.com. Once you join them they will send you an email with your hosting username and password. Keep this safe as you will need this to upload your website. They will also send you nameservers. These tell GoDaddy where to find the website. To enter these, you need to log back into your GoDaddy account, click the domain name and click nameserver. A new window should pop-up. Click “I host my slot online domains with another provider.” and enter the nameservers in the first 2 slots. Cost: $4.95-$12.95/month
Uploading your site
To upload your website you will need to download FileZilla from FileZilla.org. FileZilla is a program used to upload your website to your hosting account. Once you have downloaded and installed this, open it and you will then have to log in. You will see 3 slots. In the first one, you need to write ftp.yourdomainname.com (replace yourdomainname.com with your web address minus the www at the front). The second and third slots are for your hosting username and password which are in the email the hosting company sent you. Once you have entered these, hit connect. If it doesn’t make sure you have entered your details right. Once you are connected find your index.html page on the left hand side of the bottom part. On the right double click the public_html folder. Then click and drag (or copy and paste) the index.html page across to the public_html folder. Your website should now be live on the world wide web. If you go to your web address, you should see the website you created. If its not there, wait about 15 minutes as it sometimes takes a little time to refresh itself. Repeat for all your other pages.
Congratulations, you now have a website which you can then earn an income from. All you need to do now is market you site to potential customers.