So you got the ache in your brain and you want to start a web based business but you don’t know where to get started. We have all been here before and once you’re over the getting started hump you start to see a little light on the other side.
I was introduced to the net roughly in the early nineties but never really started surfing till the mid nineties in college. It was amazing at the vast amount of information that you could find and the crazy stories you would run into.
It wouldn’t be for long before society was using it for business and personal use and somewhere along the way they got married, and boom came the “Net Revolution.”
The net started in 1969 when two computers -- one in Los Angeles, the other in Palo Alto -- were networked together. Now with over a billion users and growing a whopping %18 it is one of fastest growing businesses in the world. To be exact 1,319,872,109 out of 6,606,971,659 people that is a bunch of people!
With the technology advances in wireless you can expect that number to growing even faster. It will not be long till the planet Earth is wifi and you will be able to surf anywhere at anytime. If you have an Iphone you can already do if you get reception.
I really believe when the net was invented that nobody ever would have thought it would be so powerful and define a whole culture.
The idea of a wireless signal never really amounted to anything and most of America didn’t even have phone lines back in the day. Now you will see a rising number of net users all over through the countryside and in the urban areas.
One thing I have noticed after all these years is the numbers of companies that fail or get bought out. When I was watching the news and saw Microsoft wanted to buy Yahoo $42 billion, I was in shock. To me Yahoo represents the little guy and without them it would be way harder for the real person to get in there. Aren’t we all just little guys in the grand scheme?
Now that makes me wonder if one day computers will take over all e-commerce, bet I could write a book about that one! It would not be hard for a hacker to take over and run the net networked through a stolen laptop, through a bunch of private servers and stealing wifi on that hot laptop. There are many scenarios that could happen but for now while Webmaster John tries to fix that e-mail or photo we are all safe.
Anyway back to the story so after years of reading and surfing and seeing crazy ads and even shopping at on-line stores I have decided to try and make some money on here.
In over a year’s time I studied how to make a site from the ground up and get traffic to the site. So after I built one it wasn’t two weeks later that I started building my next site.
Well like many other people I waited, and waited some more and the people didn’t come. So then I decided to add a blog to my site and chose wordpress. At first it was a little tricky, I even banged my head against the wall a few times. Once I got the flow down and had to think about things it just all came to me.
It was like everything I have read from other people and the ideas I had collides and a bright light showed the way. I started seeing more traffic and started getting more comments on my blogs and it was the fuel that lit the fire!
Now I am on my 4th blog and am seeing more detail and have learned how to focus on niche rather than building a super blog. Now I know some valuable lessons and rules that have driven me to a new way of thinking and now I see the endless possibility of Marketing.
1. Have a vision
2. Find support and research (forums rock for learning information, cause they are the ones talking about what is what happening here)
3. Getting started- There can be a few expenses on the net. Domain hosting, Domain registration, Promotion, and the list goes on. You should be able to get good hosting t for under $10 and the same for registering your domain name. IF you are a blogger then you can save all that cash and find a free hosting site like blogger and many others.
4. How to promote for free? Write articles and add your bio at the bottom with your links of course! Submit them to directories and I have even paid to submit them before and it worked out, well. What about social networking, like yearbook, myspace, 360, bebo, Multiply, Facebook and this list is ever changing. Social networking is a great way to find fans and build a following. YOutube is another very hot networking sites that making many people a bunch of money! What about Social Bookmarking? What about Blog directories? They are great for traffic but you must complete that profile and get involved and get your name out there!
5. I have a tone of links everywhere on my computer, what do I do? Sounds like you need to spring-clean and build you a start page. To me the start Page has been my most valuable page I ever built. It has every link to every site including my link code to my sites and it is all on one page. I have everything listed in different categories like my music sites, my blogs, my reg sites, my financial sites, my social networking, social bookmarking, video , news, and many others. This is the Heartbeat of my on-line business!
6. Making money from your sites or blogs? People have found many ways to make money from your pages. You have many Ad companies and even companies that pay for blogs! You may have affiliates goods that match the content of you page! You may drive traffic to another site or refer to another company. I have a friend that makes $300 for referrals to another guys mortgage company. IF they close a deal he gets that fat check! They work together from across a whole country on the net.
7. Have you started making a little money and want to make more! Repeat what you just did with another niche. If you have managed to start making some, you can make more. Don’t get me wrong; it can take a very long time to make money. Some sites have taken near 5 years or even longer before the big bucks start flowing if they ever do! I still get excited every time someone links to me and never want to lose that feeling!
Thanks for reading, I got more marketing tips coming soon. I also will be going into more detail of how to build a social network and how to bookmark for traffic! Please bookmark me because what I got to show you might be the missing link to your net empire!
Thanks Johnny Chandler
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