Lets get into the point immediately. You want to start a business online? You want to learn how to do it, but you are clueless where to start? You must continue reading to find out the basics so as not to waste your effort, money and time.

First, write down subjects and topics you are interested and more knowledgeable in. Guided by your list, check each for competition online using Google trends or any other tool handy to you. It is easier to always start with less competition in a not so popular niche than to start in a popular one and get overwhelmed by competitors. After you are decided what niche to concentrate after considering the competition aspect of it, get to decide how you are going to do it. There are many ways in which can do business using the internet. You can start doing affiliate marketing where you get to sell products which you can find from wholesale distributors and get commission for every sale you make using your website. You can advertise these products on your site and sell them using Google adwords, MSN marketing and Yahoo advertising. You can also sell these products in online stores like eBay, Amazon and Yahoo.

Second, test and retest your website. Perform continuous tests of your site to make sure that you are not wasting any traffic. After making it optimal, you can sit back and wait for the sales to come in. But you just can't sit forever and wait for the sales. Make sure that you are testing and retesting it regularly. Remember, you will always have competitors who are as eager as you are to make a sale. If you are slack and lazy, you are making money fly away.

Third, decide how to market your website. There are available companies online where you can buy traffic from which can be bought at a minimal price. This could be a better supplement to your sites organic traffic. Or you can invest to optimize your organic search traffic by boosting your back links. These are links of your site in other websites which will get indexed by search engines. The more links you have, the more important your site will be to search engines. It means that your are prioritized by search engines that whenever a user searches for your keywords, you get in first to the list search results.

On a final note, as a newbie, it is very advisable for you to spend time finding an under-served niche. It is easier to build a reputation to search engines when you have fewer competitors. Make sure that you are making an optimal site with credible content for people. Make them wish to go back regularly to your site by gaining their trusts.