Earn money by starting a website is the easiest yet cheapest home based business idea as far as we can see. You do not need to have 5-10 years of programming experience, you do not need more than $1k to start, you do not need more than 3 start up kits other than a PC/laptop, internet connection and a PC desk to start and the most important aspect is you can earn money from many sources! There are generally two ways to generate revenue from a website, either you sell or promote products or services on the web or you sell advertisement space in your site.

Sell or promote means you have to either sell your own product or you promote other website’s product (affiliate). By joining an affiliate program, you earn a portion of revenue from the product sold or referred by your website, you save time and money by generating or storing your product in the inventory, all you need to do is just to use your promoting skill to sell as much as you can.

Earning from selling advertisement space from your website is another type of online business venture, you can start a blog, an info based portal like BusinessGoOnline.com, forum, directory, photo album and etc. One of the most famous type of websites in the world wide web today is info based website and blog, you create unique and valuable contents and attract as much traffic as possible to your website, the more visitors to your site and the more regular they return to your site, your site ranking will be increase. And advertiser usually target to advertise in a high ranking website where they are able to gain visibility and exposure through the website. Other than selling ads space, you can also consider to participate in google adsense program, this program allow you to insert the advertisement from their advertiser, when somebody click on the ads, you will earn a portion of revenue from the advertiser pay to google, and this is the most used revenue generator from most of the websites today.

Starting a website is not as difficult as you think, but is also not as easy as you think. What you have to do in the first step is to purchase a domain and register a hosting, download a web script(depending on what type of website you want to start) and get ready to earn from the web! However, if you need help in developing your first website, please contact me, i will help you.

Estimated cost of start up: USD 300
Basic start up kit: PC/laptop, internet connection, basic web programming knowledge (but not essential), and basic typing skill.