Beginners often have a difficult time knowing where to start a home based business. In this article, we are going to go over 7 simple steps to launch a business online.1. Create a business/site that offers valuable information to people and in order to generate income by supplying information, it has to be something that people want, need and ready to pay for. Surveys have reveals several times that people are willing to pay for information that they really need than for information that they only want.2. 43things dot com is a site where people go to list their goals, objectives as well as desires. At the same time, it’s also a good site for discovering what members of the site need or want. There are several other sites like this one that render similar thing.3. Create a list of potential business ideas which you could build your first business on.4. It is very vital to do some research to find out if people are searching for information to justify building your site. Wordtracker at Freekeywords.wordtracker is a good place to begin.5. You need to find a suitable product that is related to what you base your site on. ClickBank.com should be your first bus top.6. Create your website, if you don’t have the skills you might want to hire a professional to do the job for you or join a business program that provides you with a complete money making site.7. Now you need traffic (customers) to start profiting from your website. Because your site is new, no body knows about it, you are going to do a lot of marketing to get the word out about your business. Below are some few ways to promote a site online.- Go to Squidoo and Hubpages and sign up for an account. Those two site are very simple,modular site building program that is a big favorite of Google which means a great opportunity for people to see your site.- You either write articles yourself or take articles from article directories like EzineArticles, Articlesbase e.t.c and use it on your Squidoo lens and Hubpages, if the article is not yours ensure you include a link of the author otherwise it won’t be approve.- Write a reviews about the product.- Create a blog and post quality content on a frequent basis.- Participate in forums and build status and reputation. You can find a lot of different forums at big-boards.com. Do not forget to include a link to your site in your signature area.- Use social bookmarking to target a huge number of prospects. Onlywire.com allows you to have your post bookmark to multiple sites in less than 5mins.There are many other ways to promote a site on the internet. As time goes on, you will get to know them.I hope you find this article on how to start a home based business in 7 steps informative.To Your Success,John Benjamin