How to Start Your Own Web Travel Business for Under $100

 How to Start Your Own Web Travel Business for Under $100

The travel industry is dynamic and offers entrepreneurs the opportunity to profit when others purchase a vacation. While you could spend the money to set up a brick-and-mortar travel company, you could much more easily set up a travel business online. In fact, you could potentially get started for less than $100 if you only have limited resources to work with. The trick is to be careful with your spending and be willing to do the work required.

Step 1

Buy a domain for your travel website. When choosing a domain name, you need to pick something that is easy to remember and something that deals with the travel industry. The company that you purchase a domain name from will allow you to search through the available names that you can register. Make sure that the name that you want is available and then purchase it.

Step 2

Buy a hosting package from a hosting company. You need a company to host your website on its servers. You may be able to pay by the month or in some cases, you will pay for a package that consists of multiple months of hosting.

Step 3

Build your website. In most cases, you can use a website editor that comes with the hosting package you buy for free. When you choose your hosting package, look for a website editor that is free and easy to use. You typically do not need to know any HTML or other languages and you can simply build the website with the included editor.

Step 4

Sign up for a travel affiliate program. These programs allow you to sell travel packages without having to incur any upfront costs. You are essentially a referrer and you get paid each time someone makes a purchase. You get a percentage of each sale that your site generates.

Step 5

Create content for your website and include links to the travel packages that you want to sell. You may want to make a different page for each type of travel or organize your site in some other way.

Step 6

Generate traffic for your travel site. You can generate traffic with several paid methods, but since you are on a tight budget, you will need to stick to free or cheap methods. For example, you could write articles and submit them to article directories. These articles will include a link back to your site, which could generate traffic to your site. You could also post in forums or use social networking to generate free traffic to your web travel business.