Starting an online home-based business is something that can be quite challenging, but when you are equipped with the right tools you will have a much easier time achieving success. Now one of the great benefits of starting a home-based business is the low start-up cost, which means that anybody who has the desire to achieve success with a home-based business can realistically do it.Now the best way to achieve success is to educate yourself about the basics of running your business, as there are many home-based “opportunities” out there that promise fast money, but these do nothing to help you advance and will not actually give you any real value.In order to get yourself started the right way, here are six tips you can use to help you get yourself started off on the right foot:Tip #1 – Devise a solid business planCome up with a plan of what you want to sell, what you want to achieve in the next few months, and where you want to take your business within the next year and beyond.Tip #2 – Pick your niche wiselyPick a niche where you feel comfortable, don’t pick a niche just because it has the potential to make the most money. Do be sure that your niche will be able to bring you money, which can be done with a little bit of simple research. Type your desired niche into a search engine and see if people are selling products, if they are, you can be assured that there is money to be made.Tip #3 – Create some productsOnce you decide on a niche, create a few products. I highly recommend digital information products like ebooks, which are easy to make, easy to store, and easy to sell online.Tip #4 – Start building a customer listThere are tools that will help you capture names and email addresses of people in your niche, and this will help build a database of people who you can advertise to again and again.Tip #5 – Build relationships with your list subscribersGive them free information and free gifts on a regular basis, as this builds trust and increases the chances that they will purchase from you.Tip #6 – Learn how to drive traffic to your website/businessThe more people you drive to your business the more customers you will have, so learning how to drive targeted traffic will be a very important part of your business success.