Forums

advertising effectiveness and help you to build a network of sites across the Internet.

You can host your site on one host or on many hosts. You want to make sure you do have some sites operation should one host go down, or a section of the Internet black-out for whatever reason. If you have multiple sites and all networked to different areas on the network, you won't have to worry that all your income will go down at once. There will always be some offer up, regardless.

You websites should be simple to set up and you should make extensive use of templates and turn-key systems to help you set up a domain, a sales page, autoresponders for your offers, and even payment collection systems. The technology is there to make setting up an online business easy, but you don't want to be the one fussing with scripts or endlessly fiddling with the look of a site. Instead, focus on the copy, use the templates, set up the system, and let it run. If you have to pay someone occasionally to add some feature, that's fine, but try to keep your technology simple enough to implement over and over in rapid-fire succession to build an online empire.

Forums

More complicated sites can include memberships and forums. You don't have to be a geek to set these up either. You can buy a forum that has already been developed by someone else through various sites for developers. They just transfer the domain to you and the hosting fees too and you can become the proud owner of a forum without ever doing a single line of code.

Forums have some pros and cons to them. You do have a captive audience where you can promote your products without being accused of spamming anyone. However, forums require more maintenance than a typical website because people do attempt to spam forums for their own agendas. So, you