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A Beginner's Guide to Websites Here you are: Well……one answer to the first question of why would anyone want a vibrant and successful website or blog up and running is to have a: “Plan B.” These days, the folks who have a “Plan B” website with lots of potential up and running just might have a little more peace of mind than someone who does not have a “Plan B.” Have you considered having your own website as your “Plan B”? That’s what happened to me. I got started after my newspaper publisher husband started a blog. I knew a little more than he did about computer programs, but believe me; together we didn’t know very much. We were comfortable financially, but we wanted to do a little more for our son and his family and we loved to travel. Our first “Plan B” website focused around the travel industry and it just skyrocketed from there. The more we learned, the more we wanted to learn. When we climbed one mountain top of knowledge, we could see much farther than we realized. It just keeps getting better. Today, we have seven successful blogs and websites in different areas of interest and it all started from that one travel site. First step: Find a good mentor. A good mentor will be someone who is a great teacher and shows you how to get started. Beginners need someone who takes them by the hand and offers step-by-step instructions until the light bulb moment happens and they say Aha!! Try Steve’s Classroom where he offers a great three day crash course to get newcomers started in the right direction. Also, I try not to miss his Blog Talk Radio program. Our mentors now are not the same ones we started with, but we still are learning every – single – day. That’s right, you just never quit learning. Here are a few good tips for a newcomer in setting up a website or blog. 1. Find an area of interest and properly learn how to find if it is a good niche to make an income. There’s a trick to it and a good mentor can help with this. Most likely your mentor will be someone with a classroom or teaching background that offers lots of free advice and may even have a member’s only coaching site. They will help you identify a good niche using ‘proper research’ if you just study their site long enough. 2. Become a reader. Become a student of your new “Plan B” niche or area of interest and internet marketing in general. Learn the lingo. That will go a long way when you start your own website. Here’s an example. I know a young woman who desperately wanted to improve her family situation. She found a mentor, studied in her spare time (which wasn’t much) and got off to a great start. She had a very good month last month doing a little over $7,000 and only two years before she knew nothing. She read a lot. She found a good mentor. She took advice, and …. 3. She took action. Building a website and profiting from it involves so much more than you realize. The exciting news is….YOU can do it. And more good news. You don’t have to be a computer geek to do it. There are step-by-step guides out there to help you. Let me encourage you to get your own exciting “Plan B” up and running. If not you, then who? If not now, then when? Five years from now you can be the authority in your field. Take that leap of faith, find a good mentor, and get yourself started. Ramona Werst has an amazing story “From Saigon to Texas” you can find on Power Systems Prospecting. You can also start to ‘learn the lingo’ of internet marketing by downloading a free report called “Internet Dictionary Resources.” |
