If you don't want to get your own hosting account you don't need to. Yola allows you to build excellent websites absolutely for free. You don't need any technical skills, all you need to know is how to drag and drop.

If this is your first time building a website, no worries...because Yola offers free training videos, tutorials and webinars that will teach you everything you need to know about setting up your own website. They also offer around the clock support should you run into any problems.

You are provided with a free website builder that will help you to build your site in minutes. You get to choose from over 100 templates to help make your site unique. To make it even better you can add your own banner, and even your own HTML if you want.

You decide whether you want your own domain name, which you will have to pay for, or you get to choose a free sub-domain. Hosting is also free, with no banner or pop-up ads.

Yola provides you with a lot of features which allow you to add Google maps, YouTube videos, flickr photos, and other forms to collect information from your visitors. You can also add a PayPal shopping cart, and Google Adsense to help you make money right away with your new site. But these are just the tip of the iceberg...you get to choose from over 60,000 widgets to place on your site.

With your free Yola account you are allowed to create up to 5 websites. Each website is allowed 1GB of storage, and a maximum file upload of 15MB. Now that is not enough if you have major plans for your website, but it is a great way to get started, and you can always upgrade to a pro account for only $49.95 per year, plus your domain which is $19.95 per year.

Now, I know paying $19.95 for a domain almost seems a little outrageous, especially when you can get one for half the price at HostGator. And Yola lets you do just that if you want.

But, let's say you had your site under a subdomain, and had begun to build some backlinks, and now you want to upgrade and get your own domain name. This would basically mean that you would loose all your backlinks, but when you purchase your domain with Yola, they reconfigure it so that your old domain will redirect to your new domain, so you won't loose any backlinks. So once again they make it extremely easy for you, and you don't need to know any technical stuff.

If you don't want to upgrade you can use these mini sites to create backlinks and generate traffic to your main site. And the beauty of it is, it doesn't have to cost you a penny.

If you do choose to upgrade, you get to create up to 25 sites, with 5GB of storage per site, plus a maximum file upload of 100MB, $25.00 in Yahoo Search Marketing, $25.00 in Facebook Advertising, and $9.00 in Stock Photographs. Now that is an awesome deal if you ask me, because you basically get your money back which you invested.

So the bottom line is that you can begin to create your online business without making any kind of an investment.