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When starting a business you want it all, a company that is low risk, everyone will  need you, low start up costs, and high profits. To make such a business would be the answer to all your problems, and also highly unlikely. If creating a business was so easy then everyone would have one of their own. More likely a company would take all your time, have high costs, the returns would start out slow, and most days you would debate if you had made the right choice to start the company. Stated below is one of the number one business ideas for 2012 that if done correctly will produce for you a steady income stream.

Website Start Up

You may have guessed that in 2012 running a paper route would not be the top low risk business to start. Instead the almost perfect plan would be to start your own website, build it up, and sale it. There are  a few steps to take in order for these online business ideas to work, and once you have the routine down you can begin to make a fairly steady income.

1. Finding a topic that will be successful with an open domain name is the first step in a website start up. You can predict all day long that having a website on gold would be a good plan, but finding a domain that is worth your time which is still open would be your one huge obstacle. Many times if you narrow your view a little it will help you find an open domain. Instead of writing about everything gold, focus more on gold coins, gold chains, 14k gold, or something similar.

Another option would be to find a domain you like which is already set up and buy it. This will certainly cost more money then simply finding your domain and doing all the work your self, but most of the work and time is already taken care of. This is now a choice of trade offs, you have to decide if you can do something to the site in order to have it rank better so that you can then sale it for more than you had purchased it for.

2. The next step after finding a domain narrow enough to work with that you believe will be successful is the host and build your site. Hosting is pretty simple, there are dozens of company’s that will host your site for a monthly or yearly payment. The harder and more time consuming step is to build your site. You must decide if you will do all the link building and content writing or if you will outsource. If you do decide to outsource then you must know how much you are willing to spend, and the amount of money spent typically has a direct correlation with how good your content is.

It is possible to write the content yourself and outsource the link building or the other way around. Either way you need a decent amount of content on your topic and a plethora of links so your website will rank higher. The goal of course is to be on the first page for whatever key words you are wanting people to find, hopefully whatever people typically search for. This means that the links you build will have to be to high page ranking websites as well, thus your articles must be good, it is an never ending circle.

3. Once you have spent the time to rank your website you have two options that can be used in combination, you can generate an income from your site and wait for a buyer, or advertise your site. Doing both would be the idea situation, technically generating an income for a few months would be the best plan because then you have a price per month to multiply for a years worth of earnings in order to get a starting price for what you would sale your site for.

When ever you are in the process of selling your site there will  most likely be a bit of haggling so remember to start high, but not so high that your buyer will run away. Say your site is on page one rank 8 for 24k gold, and you earn $800 a month. You could start your bid at two years earnings which would be $19200, and then if haggling were to take place you would typically not want to go below one years earnings at any cost, and 18 months earnings would be idea if you did have to drop. Personally I would say the site is worth more than two years earnings based upon its rank and subject matter, but that is for you and your buyer to decide.

4. The final step in a website start up plan is to sign a contract and get paid, then perhaps start the whole process over again. Many times a contract detailing the sale and restrictions will be drawn up emailed and faxed. Some typical things in the contract will be price sold for, way to receive payment,  lump some payment, and possibly a restriction on what websites in relation to the one you just sold you can start up again. Say you sold the 24k gold site, there may be a restriction that for the next 18 months you can not have a website on 24k gold, but that you can on other key words such as gold chains or bars.

Once you are paid you can choose to start the whole process over again, or since you now have some capital you could purchase a site that is already started and save some time, or another option would be to purchase choice domains and just sit on them. Many times you can find a good domain and sale it for 10 times what you purchased it for, but the amount of time in which you will sit on it is never known. There are so many options when it comes to starting websites, basically you must find a routine that works best for you. If you are a good link builder then doing the work yourself may best suite you, find your routine and start making money.