Establishing a business model that adheres to basic wealth building principles is among the first steps to starting a small business.

Some of these principles are:

Residual Income
Leverage
Assets and Liabilities

This article focuses on the first of those principles, understanding residual income.

What is Residual Income?
Occasionally referred to as Passive Income, Residual Income is an income source received regularly, without having substantial effort necessary to sustain it.

So let’s take a look at some examples of business models utilizing various amounts of Residual Income.

Building Contractor
Contractors are usually hired for various construction jobs. In most cases they’re hired to do a certain project, they will carry out the job, after which they get paid. They perform a job once and they get compensated once. If they want to get paid again, they must go out and complete another job.

This probably appears to be fairly normal to you because most folks are accustomed to receiving payment in exchange for work; it appears normal. However, this particular example business model has actually zero dollars of residual income! If the building contractor wishes to take a family vacation or gets sick, he isn’t getting paid. If he hopes to retire, no more income comes in. If he passes away, his business dies with him and his family does not continue to live from the business proceeds.

Insurance Sales
As an insurance sales company, you are able to sell a variety of insurance plans. You may sell car insurance, life insurance, medical health insurance, or whatever. Whenever your company sells an insurance plan, you receive money once at the start, but then you will receive money each and every month in which the customer pays his or her payment. People usually keep the same insurance provider for a long time and as a result you would continue to be paid for many years.

As you have seen, this particular business model offers some residual income. You work once then get paid for years into the future. This is exciting because you can take vacations and continue to get paid. The problem with this particular business model is that the policies eventually expire and if unattended, your customers fade away.

The interesting thing in relation to both of these examples is that they require you. You are part of the formula. There is a big difference between being an entrepreneur and being self employed. If you are part of the equation, that means you are a necessary part of the long term business model then you are self-employed!

Residual Income as Part of Your Business Model
Planning and creating your own business model to include a strong element of residual income is vital during the first steps to starting a small business. Unless you are merely searching for a job or a place to go to work every day, you need to learn how to build residual income into your business model.

Let’s return to our insurance company example. Instead of becoming a self-employed insurance agent, consider it from a higher, more entrepreneurial level; create an insurance selling team. There are lots of jobs to be filled. Your role would be as the president and to merely oversee the operations. You will have to have a manager to oversee the employees. You will want numerous agents doing the actual product sales. Perhaps you would want some office workers. Most importantly, You will definitely require a written set of operations manuals in order to direct the employees regarding their duties and responsibilities.

You see, with this example you’re not necessarily part of the long term formula. You develop the business model and you develop the procedure, but then you are totally free to retire or go on vacation or start a different company.

Think about your small business during these crucial first steps to starting a small business. Does your business model offer residual income? How will you structure the business model so that it does deliver residual income? If you do not have residual income as part of your business model, how will you ever take time off or at some point retire?

I really hope you now possess a basic awareness of this essential wealth building principle. I would recommend also reading my other business building articles on Leverage and Assets Vs Liabilities. Feel free to take a look at my web page to read more.

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If you are the kind of person who gets cabin fever easily and who needs to interact with others, you may think that no home business idea will suit your personality. That’s not true. There are a host of ideas that incorporate using your home as a base but that allow you to interact with people at the same time. You could start a party planning business. You can field calls and do your party planning from home, but still meet with clients and visit venues and vendors. You get the best of both worlds!

For those who are a little more introverted or whose lifestyle dictates they work solely from home, there are a host of work from home business ideas to try. If you have a particular skill (financial planning, for example), then you can translate that skill to an at-home business. If your home is set up such that you could have a separate area for your clients, then that is ideal. If not, however, then you may run the risk of appearing unprofessional if your clients are subjected to tripping over your two-year-old’s toys while trying to plan for their retirement!

There are several things to keep in mind when deciding what kind of work from home business idea will translate into professional success for you. Ask yourself the following:

* What are my interests? If you aren’t interested in what you’re doing, then you won’t be successful. This is particularly true when there is no one looking over your shoulder to make sure you do the work. If you hate animals, then don’t be a dog walker. If you are passionate about paper and ribbons, then consider a gift-wrapping business.

* What are my marketable skills? For your home business to be successful, you need to consider your skills. There is no point in starting a business if you don’t have the skills necessary to make it work. Don’t start a catering business if you can’t boil water! You can have the greatest idea in the world, but if you don’t have the know-how to actually bring the idea to life then it’s not the right opportunity for you. Move on to something else.

* What are my lifestyle needs? Do you need to be able to work only when your children are at school? If so, then party planning won’t work since it will require a lot of evenings and weekends. Do you want to keep a day job while trying to make your home business work? You’ll need something that allows you to work after hours, so anything that involves calling other businesses is probably not the best idea. Perhaps something like creating gift baskets might be better because you can assemble them one evening and deliver them the next or on weekends. Maybe you want to do something entirely online. That’s a 24-hour-a-day idea!

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There are multiple pages to the map, but how many people actually browse the other pages unless they are looking for a specific business? How critical is it then with your small business advertising strategy for your business to be on that first page? Huge!

How do you get there and how do you stay there? The algorithm that Google uses to place businesses on the map is a well-guarded secret, but there are experts who through experience have learned some of the tricks. Most of the experts agree on a few of the secrets.

Have a website–You can get on the first map without a website and Google will list your site as maps.google.com. But you are very vulnerable to being bumped off if you happen to luck into a top spot without a website. Physical address–Google’s intent with the maps is to highlight local bricks and mortar businesses. A business with a physical address will trump one with just a PO Box all else being equal. The address should be accurate and checked for proper placement especially if there is a directional factor like East in the address. Categories and keywords–Selecting the proper categories is critical for showing up in searches. Keyword research in your niche can yield big results allowing you to carefully select the most “searched for” keywords. Other Data Providers–It is believed that listings in other directories like Internet Yellow Pages, Superpages, etc. provides Google with a higher credibility score. But just having those other listings will not help if there are discrepancies between the listings. Customer Reviews–It isn’t clear what role customer reviews plays in the ranking, but most experts believe that they do play a role and should be encouraged.

Check out part 1 to learn how to research a niche, get ideas and get started on your way to creating a successful internet business that makes thousands on autopilot…

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Check out part 2 and discover one of the most profitable internet business you can start today and make upto 90% easy profits for lifetime…

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Check out part 3 and discover the exact 4 block formula that will put up a rock solid foundation of your internet business to pull in profits for years to come, no matter what happens…

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I am sure you are now on your way to start your own wildly profitable internet business.

Part 1, 2 and 3 have shown you how to perform the first 3 steps to start an internet business.

Let me review the first 3 steps and then we will move on to the fourth step.

Step 1 – Research a Killer Niche that You are Passionate About. Then Get or Create a Product in that Niche to Sell for Hefty Profits.

Step 2 – Create a Stunning Website and Write an Order Pulling Benefit Laden Sales Copy for Your Product.

Step 3 – Automate Your Website with Tiny Robots that Makes You Money on Auto Pilot.

Now lets move on to the fourth step…

Step 4 – Website Traffic Generation.

Step 1, 2 and 3 showed you how to create a product, a killer website and completely make your internet business hands free.

Now you have to get visitors to see your website and purchase your product. For this you have to attract lazer focussed targeted traffic to your website.

How to do this? Here are some free ways for you to get started…

1. Article Marketing – Write quality articles in your niche and spread them to article directories and ezine publishers. Articles will get you free publicity and traffic to your website from the link in the resource box.

2. Discussion Forums – Start participating in forums in your niche and answer questions out there. You are allowed to place a signature below your posts that will help you to get free traffic.

3. Viral Marketing – Create viral mini-ebooks, reports, ecourses, etc and give your visitors branding rights to these viral tools. They will spread them all around the net and get you free non-stop traffic to your site.

4. Search Engine Optimization – Create unique quality content in your niche and paste them on your website. Make sure you include relevant keywords in your content. Search engines love unique theme based content and will send you lazer targeted traffic to your site on continuous basis, all for free.

Here are some low cost ways to drive traffic to your site…

1. Pay Per Click Search Engines – Search engines like Google.com and Overture.com will give you quality traffic and will charge you per visitor to your site. If your website converts pretty well then this is the way to go.

2. Ezine Advertisement – You can place small ads in different ezines around the net and get targeted traffic pouring into your website. This is a very strong traffic generation tactic provided your ad and your site converts well.

So here you go… In this 4 part article series I have shown you exactly what you need to do to start your own wildly profitable internet business. I would urge you take the first step right now in starting your internet business and see your internet profits skyrocket. You can thank me later.

Despite of the fact that SEO is important for the efficiency of your internet business ideas, the article must always be written to the reader. It is an art to include the search keywords into the copy in the natural way. You can bookmark this page, press Ctrl+D .

1. Do The Search Keywords Research For The Internet Business Ideas With Care

The internet is an information highway. People are searching things from search engines by using search keywords. The more specific or niche the search keywords are, the more relevant are the search results. This is important for the internet business ideas web site and makes it look more special.

The search keywords are the tools to find new markets from the internet and the number of good relevant keywords is practically limitless.

An article needs from 2 to 3 relevant search keywords, which can be picked by some the most respected tool online.

2.Do Not Slaughter The Innocent Copy.

You sell the business ideas to the web site visitor, not to the search engines. The most important job of the copy is that the reader gets the feeling that this is for me, this is what I searched. So the search keywords must be included naturally and that requires that a writer has picked them before he has started to write.

On the other hand, the search keywords are important, because those are exactly what the reader has used in his search and they make the reader convinced that the copy is exactly from the topic.

3.Target The Long Tail Search Keywords.

The long tail keywords are phrases, which are built with from 3 to 4 words. With the long tail search keywords the article of the business ideas can be targeted to the very narrow and relevant target audience, actually to many, because one keyphrase will include several keywords or -phrases.

According to the many researches, the long-tail search keywords will convert better and rank better in the search engines.

4.Add Some Useful Hyperlinks.

The role of hyperlinks in the internet business ideas article is not to sell but to offer more information or, for instance, a practical tool related to the topic.

5.Distribute The Articles Widely And Measure The Results.

The marketing of internet business ideas is a numbers game and the wider is the distribution, the better are the results. The simple and affordable method is to use ArticleMarketer, which distributes articles to the widest distribution list online.

It is very interesting and useful to measure the number of hits and visitors of each internet business ideas article. This happens by adding a small code from some of the free tracking services on each article.

When you are starting a new small business you have mixed feelings of excitement and anticipation. You are excited at the prospect of making a difference in the business world with your product or service. You are also unsure about the way your business will be received by the consumer market. This is all very normal for the new small business owner. Always have a plan of execution.

Organize how much capital you need, marketing strategies and have a contingency plan. It is therefore very important that when you have started your business that you have done enough research on the market and your competition. Maybe you are introducing a whole new invention that no one else is doing. This can be even more nerve racking than an already existing business venture. If you are introducing a completely new product or service into the market, the results from your market research will guide you in the beginning stages.

It will give you an idea of what the customer wants, why they would need it and what they are willing to pay for it. For an entrant in an already existing venture, the already existing business will give you a clue on the way to go. You can talk to the owners, or if they are not willing to give you information, you could always pose as a customer. You will be surprised how much information that other business owners share with their clients. The way they handle their customers and any loopholes in their system will be known to you.

Use this to your advantage when you are running your new small business. Give the customers something your competition has not done or thought off. Cut a niche for yourself and give it your best. You will soon start reaping the rewards

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