To run a successful home business on the Internet you need a few essential business resources, and we want to look at those in this article.

You will see how little is involved with an online business compared to the old school way of operating a business of your own.

1. The first thing we want to put on the list is a money making website. Regardless of the product or service you offer, people need to be able to come and buy from you. Your online store is your website. Trying to do business on the Internet without a website puts you at a huge disadvantage.

2. The next we want to put on our list of the essential business resources is your autoresponder. The smart Internet marketer knows the value of building a list for future follow-up. Depending on your advertising budget, you're going to be attracting a lot visitors to your website.

Every visitor who comes to your site. Eventually will lead. Many of them will never buy from you and some may never come back. The beauty of the autoresponder is you can offer something for free in exchange for your visitor giving you their contact information. Once you have their e-mail address and their name, you can follow up over and over giving yourself a better chance to make a sale in the future.

3. Another business resource we want to mention is a blog. The blog is no longer something that an Internet marketer takes lightly. Successful Internet businesses, all have blogs. If you don't you're going to lose business to your competition.

Although listing everything great about a blog really requires a whole mother article, let us just say you need to take the time to set up a blog and begin using yours right away.

4. Going back to your website there is another essential business resource that you must have to be successful. You need a way to process payments and collect money. This is easy to do and you have several different payment options including Safe Pay Solutions and PayPal.

This is a list of four essential business resources that we feel you must have if you want to be successful marketing your business online. Regardless of the ups and downs of your business these four things will always be there for you.