1. Create a home office. This is not as difficult as one would think. Every home office's needs are different, but there are some fundamental staples that all require. You will want to have a clean, noise-free environment that has good lighting and is free from distractions. This will help keep you more focused and productive. You will need a desk and chair. The size of your desk will depend on what its function is. You will want a place to store all your information about your customers such as a computer and/or a filing cabinet. You will also want a phone, fax/scanner/copier, Internet connection, and any other communication tools you might need at hand. Since most home-based businesses focus on services or affiliate products, there will be no need for storage. If you are planning to sell your own products and ship them yourself, then make sure you have room to store them all. If you plan on doing meetings outside of your home, there will be no need for a conference room either. If you are going to be seeing clients in your home, and don’t have a conference room, then be sure to keep your place clean and neat at all times. First impressions say a lot.
2. Create a website.
   • Keep things simple. You don’t need to have tons of graphics and bright colors plastered all over. The clean, simple design is the best and attracts the most people. Too many things going on throughout a site can be overwhelming to the viewer and drive them away, not get them to stay and come back. Stay away from playing annoying music of any kind on your site. This a sure fire way to drive away business. You also want to stay away from things that require time to load. This slows down the viewer’s access to immediate information. Just because you can put it on a site, it does not mean you have to or should. You want to have value to your site.
   • Include good content. This will make the viewer linger and become more interested in what you have. There are tons of ways to accomplish this and you will to use and decide what works for you. Pick a few tools of the trade use them and apply them to your site and monitor the response and traffic. If you notice that some are not producing, remove them and try something else. You will have to be diligent but remember that simple is better. You don’t want to implement every tool at once, it can make your viewers feel uncomfortable, so use a few and ditch the rest. Here are just a few possibilities.
3. Start an e-mail list. They're great to allow customers to talk about your products and services. Yahoo! groups offer this service free. Members can post comments and questions to you or each other and an e-mail is generated to all users. The group can be private, subject to approval, or public. You will want to see daily traffic and post frequently in the beginning to get things going. Eventually your customers will start talking to each other. These lists are a great tool and keep people active and coming back.
4. Create some polls for viewers so they can vote on a specific issue related to the site’s content. You want to keep people interactive so they don’t get bored. Writing a poll from scratch can be tricky but they make great templates today that can be of great help. You would fill in the blanks and then copy and paste the code to your site.
5. Create a weblog or "blog". This is like an online journal that is frequently updated. You will add some good links into it to advertise your business, of course. It is also a form of communication that allows people to stay updated on what is going on with your business and what they can expect in the future. Today, blogs have taken on a life of their own and are sweeping through cyber land.
6. Create a valuable product line that exclusively you have it. This is extremely important as it define what made you unique. Unique is not only something that you created, the product must contain value that consumer or your clients purchase can use it or apply it.

I agree some good info, and I have done almost all of it but currently spending 10-20 hours a week prmoting my biz at http://www.gworks.ws to no avail have made a pittance, averaging about 5 cents an hour since January and actually several hundred in the hole if I count my costs.  Guess I am doing somehting wrong.......... - Stu.