How to open up a small business on the internet? Taxes?

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

Question by Brittney: How to open up a small business on the internet? Taxes?
I was planning on opening up a pageant crown/tiara business only on the web. I was wondering do you have to have a license or anything to have a business on the web? Do you have to pay taxes? How do you get your website to appear in yahoo/google searches?
Also if anyone has any advice please let me know!!
Thanks!

Best answer:

Answer by Shelley
I don’t believe you have to have a license and/or pay taxes. If you don’t charge tax, then you don’t have to pay. Also to get your business to appear on searches, usually they have a button at the bottom that says like “suggest a site” or something of that nature and it allows you to put your website on there, free of charge, by putting in keywords that when someone searches that word, your site will come up. Also, if you need help designing the website and with hosting and things of that sort, I would be glad to help. I build websites myself.

Hope this helps!
~Shelley
thedevilspinata@yahoo.com

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3 Responses to How to open up a small business on the internet? Taxes?

  1. Riz says:
    November 23, 2011 at 9:48 pm

    Some Online businesses might sound very lucrative and interesting and it will involve regular research and updating your site frequently..

    I am not sure about what license and tax payment procedures is required in your country maybe someone else can answer that part for you :) hopefully..

    About getting your site appear on google/yahoo all you need to do is make sure your site is “search engine optimized” to learn more about this.. search for the keyword SEO or Search Engine Optimization on google or yahoo and it will give you more clarity on this subject.. its vast and it can involve lots of money!!

    My advice for you is to start the site.. with whatever technical knowledge you have and get the site up and running.. Maybe you can learn about few web development softwares from sites like lynda.com or totaltraining.com.. you can also make money thru advertisements on your website.. search for google adsense or adwords for more details..

    good luck

  2. Nadja says:
    November 23, 2011 at 10:40 pm

    Lots of answers for the questions you pose. The best thing to do is research it a bit on the Internet. Here are some links below relating to the questions. A good place for you to begin. . . .the last one is regarding SEO (search engine optimization) for website placement in search engines. . . .hope this helps!

  3. VicSEO says:
    November 23, 2011 at 10:47 pm

    With 85% of Internet surfers using search engines/directories such as Google, Yahoo or MSN to find goods and services, it is very important to promote one’s website by first publishing one’s domain named website on these major search directories. To publish your website’s domain name for FREE at Google’s search directory, visit “http://google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl” and fill-in the form. In another way, Google, Yahoo or MSN provide a Yellow Pages kind of advertisement for every website according to a set of ranking protocols. And there’s where web designers and search engine optimizers play an critical role in marketing websites which in turn, display goods and services to be discovered [via search directories] by the rest of the world. The greater the appearance or presence that one’s website can generate on search directories, the greater number of customers will accordingly visitor one’s website.

    As for the cost to market one’s website via the Internet and more particularly — search directories, will depend initially with the proper design of webpages and the proper placement of metatags which are: , <description> and <keywords>. </p> <p>A searchable <title> would be “Crowns, Tiaras [city], [state - postal abbreviation]” — up to 65 characters and spaces. The <description> would be up to 20 words comprising a complete readable sentence which promotes interest in your business, i.e., “We sell quality tiaras at a reasonable price, etc.” And <keywords> would consist of 12-15 compound plural words separated by commas, i.e., “tiaras, crowns, headresses, head pieces, etc.” </p> <p>In conclusion, webpages can either be rather straightforward using only HTML text or be crafted totally as a graphic Flash configuration. Either way, care should be taken to complete the Properties entries for Title, Description and Keywords so that there is something that search robots can index. The more one is educated in crafting effective webpages along with metatag placement, the less will be spent to hire third-party consultants to assist you in this matter.</p> <p>To demonstrate how search engines/directories work, go to Yahoo.com and type in the following search query: “pizza downtown los angeles.” [Note: do not include the quotes (").] Again, this is a very generic query which means you want to order a “pizza” from “downtown” and in what city — “Los Angeles.” Sounds fairly simple and then hit Enter. In a moment or two, there will appear some 1.3 million search results and among the top Five rankings will be a business called “Pizza Next Door, etc.” The significance of this demonstration is to illustrate that most Interest shoppers will discover “Pizza Next Door,” forthright because of its high web presence and ranking within the Top Five. So these shoppers are more or less likely to patronize this pizza establishment and hopefully in the long term; validate the owner and his family as having a profitable Internet enterprise.</p> <p>Good luck!</keywords></description>