your knowledge to increase your profits in this area and possibly provide even more leads 

for your service. 

What do you do if you don t know how to do any of these services, but you want to start a 

service business? Start learning. For most of these subjects, you can t just go to a college 

class and have everything taught to you...you will have to search it out on your own. You 

need to do five things especially to start the learning process: 

1. Find any models of that business online. Do some searches on the search engines and 

find out if anyone is currently offering that service and start taking notice of what they 

are doing, what can you learn from them? Some of them even offer "Mentor" programs to 

teach others. If either one is available, you should take advantage of it! 

2. Find information products that deal with the subject. What books, audio s, videos, and 

software can you find that deals with that subject? You will find most of the successful 

people online are avid learners...constantly expanding what they know about their 

subject. 

3. Go to Google and search for  _____ discussion board  with blank being a keyword for 

your niche.  Find message boards which discuss your subject. There are thousands of 

discussion boards online about every subject you can imagine. Find some that apply to 

your site and get involved in the discussions. Don t be afraid to ask questions.  

4. Practice on Yourself. One of the funniest things you can see is when a "Web 

Promotion" expert is going around begging everyone to show them how to get traffic to 

their site. If you can t promote your own site, don t try to do everybody else s. Start 

practicing on yourself first! 

5. Do your first services for other for free or for a reduced price. Get more experience and 

some testimonials under your belt before you really go into this business. Remember, 

these markets aren t declining. They are only growing, so you don t have to be in a hurry 

to get involved in them. 

21. Web Design

Designing web sites is a skill that can actually be learned extremely quickly, but most 

people just aren t willing to do it. Find a web design program which you really 

understand well (Go to http://www.download.com and do a search for web design). 

Purchase books to increase your knowledge of the program. Then, start studying what 

type of web pages make sales and what kind doesn t. 

The easiest way for you to do this business is for you to design a few templates which 

you use for the majority of your work. In other words, put together some basic designs 

which seem to work for many sites and then basically fill the blanks on them and put in 

pictures and colors. This will greatly speed up your work and help you to provide a good 

service for all of your clients. 

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