1. Even though you are doing your business at home and on the internet you may have other costs. Those could include getting it up and running such as a table or desk to work on, chairs, a phone, file cabinet, bookshelf, paper, pens, and paper clips. You will need a computer, possibly a printer, computer paper, and so on.

2. You may have more time than money. Others will have more money than time. It is cheap to set up an internet business, but you have to deal with your own set of circumstances and build it from where you are starting.

3. You will need hosting for a website or blog, a domain name, and someone to build your own website. It may even be you, or you can hire someone to do it for you at places like eLance.com. One other thing that all successful internet marketers do is build a mailing list using an autoresponder company such as GetResponse.

This is perhaps the most important step and should not be skipped. Building a mailing list is as simple as offering something for free in exchange for contact info from your prospect. The long term benefits of having a mailing list of thousand of names you can market to is obvious.

4. Be sure and include quality graphics on your website. This will make it look more professional. Add a blog and really begin to gain momentum quickly by adding a comments sections and other things like video, audio, and polls to make it really interactive.

5. Someone in your company will have to learn to write. You will be replying to email and adding fresh content to your site or blog if you get one. fresh content is what makes an internet business advance beyond that of the competition.

You can hire a good ghostwriter if you do not like to write, or do not have time to do it. The important thing is to build an internet business by offering many pages on content relating to many different keywords people are searching for products on. If you do that you will be a success.

6. Finally be prepared to become an expert on getting traffic to your site. Without visitors you will not make any money in your new internet marketing business.