Ink and Toner Cartridges: How Do I Start an Online Business From Home on a Low Budget? Part 1
About a year ago I took over an existing online business from a friend of mine selling ink, toner and other printing consumables and decided that there was a lot of potential for promoting the website more aggressively over the internet. I started with maybe a hundred dollars or so and a handful of customers carrying over from the previous owner. One benefit was inheriting his website as that gave me a good benchmark on what I wanted and didnt want when I got my own going.
Now a year later I have around ten times as many customers, a respectable page ranking in Google (more about this later), first page search engine rankings (SERPs) in MSN with respectable SERPs in Yahoo and Google still needs some work.
Although I still have a long way to go (in truth I will always have a list of more stuff to do) Ive made a good start and by all accounts done quite well considering my limited resources. I have found that there are a great deal of free or very cheap resources you can utilise for building and promoting a business online and this is what I shall be passing on...