Friday, July 03, 2009

3 Critical Ingredients of an Internet Business Plan That Guarantees Success

With the large amount of information that is easily accessible, your task of creating an internet business plan will only take a few hours today. Before the internet came into existence, people had to spend several days collecting information about the business, studying competition and gathering other details. Let us now consider some of the critical ingredients for this task.

1. Study similar or existing business
The best way to start your internet marketing business plan is by studying a similar business or an existing business in the same category. This will give you the major inputs required and also provide an overview of what contributed to the success of the existing business. Importantly, look at the page ranks of competitors, the keywords, how they have achieved the page ranks and in general take a peek into their activities.

2. Focus on the purpose
A plan for an online business is normally created to solicit support from sponsors or investors. Another objective of the plan is to help the entrepreneur engage in effective and thorough analysis. Both the purposes should be clearly and squarely addressed. Additionally you should also concentrate on issues typical to the internet. These will include demographics, tracking, payment systems etc.

3. Discuss the risks
Projecting a very promising picture in your internet business plan is easy. But an entrepreneur should be fully aware of the risks involved. Internet business has typical risks that are not similar to offline businesses. Hackers, computer viruses, technology challenges etc. should be discussed at great length for the entrepreneur and all other concerned to take stock and make an informed decision.

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