As an Internet Marketer, it is always tough to joggle your real world and your business. Yes, your online ventures is a business; less you don’t know.

If you treat anything as a hobby, all you get is a hobby.

I have been there…

In order to succeed in internet marketing, that includes niche marketing, you must have the following sets of tools at your disposal:

1. A web site, preferrably a blog
2. An easy to remember/catchy domain name that’s keyword rich to your niche or it can be your name for branding purposes
3. A hosting service
4. A set of keyword research tools
5. Various traffic sources
6. Something to offer to your visitors, be it affiliate program or your own products
7. An optin box on your site/blog
8. An autoresponder

Some of these tools are free. Some are paid tools.

Heck, you can even start with a free blogger or wordpress.com account! However, you have less control over your site. WordPress.com has been known to suspend accounts due to TOS violations.

The great things of using the above free blog platform is that these sites offer great ranking power! Their domains are really high ranking.

But, you can get that through adding your blog to the blog search directories.

As a first step in treating this as a business, I will be using blogging as a tool to spread my presence online. I will share the tools and knowledges I gained through each venture I attempted. There will be failures… But there will be successes along the way.

If you are interested, please come back and check on my progress.

Thank you,

-Jeff