"Secrets on How to build a Highly PROFITABLE Website that can convert visitors to buyers"

Website Development and Design

The second key element to a successful Web business is to have a Website. Website is one of the most important things in your online business because it is your storefront. Whether you already have one or are considering building one, there are many factors to consider for a successful website. These include domain names, hosting of the website, sites design, layout, functionality, easy usage, its aim and objectives, and ways to make your website sells on autopilot.

There are many ways that a web site can be built. You can build one yourself if you know how, but like many who have no knowledge of website building, alternative solution is to either hire a professional to do it for you or use a ready made template.

The two basic things you need in order to build your storefront - website is to have an Internet Domain Name and Web Hosting Provider .

Internet Domain Names

A Domain Name is the name of your website. You need to choose and decide on a domain name before you build any website. I personally use the services of Netfirms and NetVoob which has the best offer and ease of purchase. Always remember to register with the .com extension.

NetVoob is one of the largest domain ICANN registrar so you wont go wrong with them. It offer Cheap Domains, Easy Secure purchase and easy management of domain names. Customer Service is also excellent.

Web Hosting Provider

There are many hosting companies on the market and it can be difficult if not impossible to know which web site hosting companies truly provide an excellent hosting solution at an excellent price. A hosting company is like a place where you rent a space with them and put your website with them for a fee each month. The monthly service can range from $4 to $20 and the more expensive of $50.00 per month depending on the specifications you need. It is vital to choose the right hosting company and always avoid the free or very inexpensive web hosting services, because you may experience bouts of server downtimes.

The Popular and highly recommended hosting company for multiple domains hosting are Hostgator and Netfirms. However, I personally use the service of AceNetPro.com for Best Support. Alternatively, if you only need to host one domain, you can use the services of NetVoob for just $3.99/month.

Web Design

If you decide to hire a professional website developer, the most important factor is to have your own backup copy of the site, the username and password. This is simply to ensure that you still get access to your own website should your web developer no longer works for you. Before deciding on who you want to build your website, always ask to see their past work.

Alterntivey, there are now many website wizards that allows you to easily build website even if you do not know any HTML by just their "point and click" system.

Website Wizard has a breakthrough site builder technology that offers you everything you need to build a website , host it online, get pre-qualified visitors from search engines and convert them to customers with ecommerce features.

Design Dashboard also has a point and click easy to use system without the hosting. It is more geared towards internet marketer who wants to do everything by themselves. Another one to consider is X-Site Pro software that is almost like Dreamweaver but easier to use, also geared towards internet marketer. You can download this FREE ebook on Top 10 Web Design mistakes to avoid

Make Your WebSite Sells

Once you got your website set up, you will need to make your website sells. A website is different from an offline store front in that you do not have a salesperson to promote and sell to your customers. Hence your website must be designed in a way that it will sell by itself. This is where we need to have a built in sales engine in the website known as a sales letter. If your website cannot convert your visitors into buyers than you cannot make any profits. Since you do not have to employ any sales staff, you will need to invest some time to learn how to make your website sells by itself 24 hours aday. Some companies pay over $20.000 for the services of copyrighters to write the sales letter for their websites plus commissions on sales! You can read more on Web Conversion Secrets on how to make your website sells like crazy.

Other tools that you will need for your websites will be discussed in Traffic.

Accepting Payments

If you are selling over the internet, you will need to be able to accept payments securely. The three big companies that have good support in accepting payment for your online business are Paypal, clickbank and 2checkout. They are also reliable secure services that are widely used where customers have no doubt in using them to pay you.

Paypal Accept PayPal & Credit Card
Paypal is easy to set up and used widely as a secure payment gateway to accept payment for your products over the internet. It is FREE to set up.

2Checkout Accept Credit Cards
2 Checkout is an essential option for Asia market to accept payment. Easy to set up and used widely as a payment gateway to accept payment for your products over the internet. Although they charge $49 to set up.

ClickBank For Information Products
ClickBank is ideal for Accept payment for your Information Products widely used and easy to set up. However, they will only sell information products.

Other options is to go with merchant accounts, however they are costly to set up for a small business.

Ecommerce Solutions

If you are interested in setting up an online store with shopping cart, you may want to consider 1Shopping Cart which provides ecommerce solution. It comes with a shopping cart that integrates with merchant account for accepting credit cards.

Customer Service

You will want to let your customer easiliy contact you from your website to place orders, make an enquiry before ordering, or even to provide after sales service. Hence you will need to place a contact form in your website. You can easily do this by using Contact Profits which will prevent your email address getting spamed while being able to receive your customer emails.

There are many other website tools that can help increase your website conversion rate and sales. You can find them in my Recommended Tools page.

After you have your website up and running, you have to learn how to increase website traffic...