Hi noah,

First of all nice to meet you :-)

I do some affiliate marketing part time and I absolutely love it so far. The title of this post is actually a title to the last article I wrote on one of my websites. If you want to start your own business online, you must first figure out exactly what it is you want to do. Focusing on one product or service is much easier and much more successful than trying to fry lots of fishes at the same time. It's pretty easy to get your own webpage for a really cheap price. If you're new to the web it's extremely easy to get lost with all the hype and offers.  I have some great tips on this website which has the link in the above post and it's mainly about affiliate marketing because that's just my thing and what I like and it works great for me, so I've kept doing it. I'm currently working on my newsletter as well which offers lots of freebies, tips, and resources loaded with a wealth of information so I can help people not make the mistakes I did. I've began to write my own articles as to where I was paying to have someone write them for me at first which was a big NO NO. I ended up learning my website had a lot of duplicate content from doing that and after a bit more research, I learned what I needed to do. So, to make it short, I'm still in the process of fixing that mess and getting my SEO better organized on my website. I've learned so much by making  a few mistakes but that's how you learn best and you certainly don't forget what NOT to do again. I've only started blogging over the past few months, and like that also and have projects I'm working on with that as well. If you want to sell products, then make your website about products and focus on just those products. Also, whatever you name your website, try to make sure you have done some keyword searches and find out what is low competition and fairly high searches globally and have those keywords in your title. Read some ebooks on SEO and keyword search. Google it or visit the tons of websites that have some information on it. My website has some great tips, articles and information that can help point you in the right direction and give you some great ideas, but there are tons of other great websites out there too. This forum has great tips from what I've read so far, I've not had time to come in here a lot, I'm fairly new here as well but look forward to contributing, sharing and learning. Remember something, you will make mistakes and run into tons of challenges, but it's important to stay focused on your ONE service/product and goal you want to reach with that. If you try to focus on too many things at once (products/services) you're going to drowned, get frustrated, and not do so well and get nowhere fast. ONE focus is all you need, and believe me it will keep you busy. Don't anticipate overnight success, make yourself out a 3 year time frame on building your online business and work on building and learning all you can on that ONE service/ product you want to make your own online business. Luckiest said it great also, you must have a business plan, that will place you on a good starting point. ;-) I also like to mentor and help others in my spare time, so feel free to join my blog, I don't have any members yet since it's so new and I've not promoted it a lot, and send me an email if you have any questions, I'll always get back to you when I get time. :-) Good luck to you.