It is important you know how internet works before asking people to design a website for you. Many computer service companies are giving out wrong information and misleading people and ripping them off. You do not need $1,000 worth of website to begin your business and you do not need an E-commerce account to start a business on the internet. You can start your on-line business with as low as $52.

A business can be established on-line with a single page housed on an already existing site for less than $8 a month. All you need is a one page introduction of your product or a couple of pages for an already established business. Spend the rest of your money to market your product on-line and off-line -- from here, let your customers determine the direction of your business. Time and efforts will build your business, not an E-commerce account.

Every page displayed on the internet is seen by search engines as a single entity. All you need is a simple address and you are ready to start marketing on-line. Once your business takes off, you can enlarge your internet presence and even obtain an independent URL and link to your original site. An independent URL will incur a monthly fee from $15 to $40 a month and the name has to be registered for $70. These are the expenses you can initially avoid by placing your web pages on already established website and still be able to promote your product and business. The cost of hiring a full time webmaster for $100 a hour can be avoided.

On-line shopping malls sell hits and jack up their price to $1000 to $2000 a page. But they do not guarantee how many hits or customers will be delivered to your page. They are the easiest way to lose your money.

Test a series of ideas and see which one works for you or which one delivers the customers. Start small businesses on-line first.  It takes time to develop any business and the same is true for on-line business. Spending a lot of money initially to start the business is very unwise.

Treat your web page as your sales representative -- it must deliver the information to capture the attention of your audience and customers and lead them to buy. You may have to change your strategies a couple of times to evaluate which one works better to deliver the message.

Effective website design must incorporated marketing into the design. However, delivering the sales message is more important than the cosmetic look of your site8.

 Good business does not come over night. Every business must have a time of transition to grow. It makes no difference whether the site was designed for $20,000 or $87 -- every site has to be developed through the same process. The more you pay may not be the more you get on the internet. Start your on-line business marketing slowly and spend a little money at a time till you establish what works to deliver your message and product -- or till you find your targeted audience.

Every on-line business must find a target audience and where to locate customers before the business can become successful. All the strategies take time and effort.