Dear Internet Marketers and Enterpeneurs,My name is Chad Cook, I specialize in innovative graphic and website design, writing, blogging and Internet Marketing. Check out my 'About the Author' paragraph at the bottom of this article for more on this. Across the internet there are literally hundreds of thousands, of training courses teaching you everything that you could possibly know about internet, affiliate and even Search Engine Optimization. This information can usually be acessed for free aassuming you have the correct ideas, techniques, catchy domains, and decent graphics. There a few general things you should know have if your planning to create a website, they are as the following:Get a good niche or specific idea about something that only you or few other can provide, and know lots about that certain topicGet a catchy domain, if your selling a product(s) try to make it sound more like a brand name, more so that the topic. Ex. eBay.com ( not onlineauctionstore.com )Get decent graphics, you have two choices when it comes to graphics, create or purchase. Now when creating I would stick to Photoshop, learn to use all the tools properly with their tutorials. However you can also learn to create many, many abstracts, order now buttons, and mailing list promotions, using unofficial Photoshop Blogs, Tutorials, and interesting texts. If you choose to purchase graphics, I would find someone who uses PayPal and has nice graphics on their website.For Search Engine Optimization, you also have the options of purchasing or just doing it yourself. If your going to do it yourself, there are plenty of good SEO software that I would recommend. If your going to buy, ask them for frequent progress reports, on how much they're actually helping. If you think they're not helping enough, cancel immediately.Now, advertising is one of the most trickiest things to do well. Advertising is based on Keywords, and with keywords, you'll use Pay per click(PPC) advertising. Which can be brought for you with a variety of Search Engines. The key is to find keywords with as many searches as possible but the least amount of cost per click.Now if you stick to those simple guidelines, you without a doubt be quite sucessful, in the world of Internet Marketing. Good luck, with your online sucess.