Building Custom Home Pages As A Business Idea for Working at Home
Imagine all of the people out there who have a home page set up on their Internet browsers. Now imagine how much money you could make if you monetized just a small portion of the home pages in your local area. This is the main idea that powers this business idea of providing custom home pages. It’s important to realize that this business idea can be used in a number of different ways and that you’ll need to put your own personal spin on the idea to fit your own situation. What we’re going to provide you with is a set of monetization ideas and how to get people to use your custom home pages.
The Monetization Process
Before we get around to having people use your custom home pages, you have to know how you intend to monetize them. If you want to eventually work from home using this idea, you’re going to need monetization methods that will work for months and years to come. For people starting off, we recommend three critical components. The first component is a logo of some sort that brands your home page. The second component you should include is a custom Google search bar that allows you to receive a commission of the ad revenue that Google earns when a user searches and then clicks through on an advertisement. You can sign up for this with a standard Google AdSense account. Finally, you’re going to want to add in some sort of news feed. One way to implement the news feed is by parsing a local news channel’s RSS feeds.
Getting the Pages Built
If you have some web design knowledge, it doesn’t take long to create a clean and effective home page using the three components we have outlined above. However, if you’re going to have one built for you, it won’t cost very much since it’s a fairly simple job. We recommend that you draw out a quick sketch of what you want the final product to look like with a logo over the search bar with the news RSS feeds under the search bar. This layout for your custom home page will be the basic template you’ll add to or subtract from if you end up creating special home pages for specific individuals in the future. Once the pages are created, you’ll want to have them hosted with a domain and web hosting account that you own.
Gaining Users
It’s hard to make money online with this idea if you can’t get many people to use the home pages you’ve created. You can always start off by sending an email to family members and friends telling them about this clean new home page you started that loads really quickly. From there, you can tie in any other ventures you may have like an opt-in for users to change their home page to your custom one. You could even print up paper flyers about the benefits of using your custom home page and how much quicker someone’s Internet browser will get started if they don’t have to load some complicated home page. The point here is that you’ll want to get as many users as you can, and you’ll want to continue to add users over time.
Selling Your Home Page
No matter how you try to get users to use your custom home pages, there’s going to be some amount of selling yourself involved. One of the most effective ways to get someone to change their home page is to provide a combination of simple instructions and a list of benefits to the user. The user must feel like he or she will be benefiting by changing their home page, or there will be no motivation for them to take a few minutes out of their day to change it. You have to remember that a lot of these people will not be particularly comfortable changing their home pages since they won’t be very good with computers, so you have to do a lot to motivate them. Then, you’re going to have to provide simple and easy instructions to follow. If you can do this well and get the word out, then you’ll have a nice side income from this home business idea.