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Do You Think This Way?
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When it comes to designing your webpage, are you thinking of yourself or your customer?
This is something I see more and more on the web. People are thinking of what ‘they’ like and want on their website, instead of what is best for their visitors.
When you set out to design your website, keep your visitors in mind and the search engines. These are the most important parts of your website.
You want your website to be clean and easy to navigate, so don’t hide links and opt in forms. It is vital that you always keep what is best for your visitors not what you like or think is best in mind.
No matter what you plan for your website, it must have a purpose, are you thinking it out clearly?
Whether you are capturing information from a visitor, or selling something, it is vital you go through the process yourself and make sure everything runs smoothly. Don’t ever think it is fine, make sure it is great. The worst thing you can have is a visitor that gets stuck going through the process and leaves.
Always keep in mind who your visitors are and what they want and/or need. Not what you want or need.
That’s it for today, do leave your comments I actually read them and reply back 
Have a wonderful day!
How To Use Plugins for Your Blog
Posted by: | CommentsIt seems that a lot people are confused on just what blog plug ins are and how to install them properly.
What are blog plugins and why do I need one?
A plug in, is a download you can get for free at many different places on the Internet. Depending on what you are trying to do will depend on what blog plug in you get. There are many different ones for different functions, and most bloggers will tell you what they use but that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to have it.
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Niche-Marketing Know How
Posted by: | CommentsIs Niche-Marketing stopping you?
Let me take away all that confusion for you.
Within this article you will discover some simple steps you can take action on and start doing niche-marketing to build your own online business.
So first, just what is niche-marketing?
First you need to know what a niche is. A niche simply put is a group of people that share a common interest. For example: golfers are a niche group of people that share their interest in golf.
These niches can be big, medium, or small, it all depends on how many people share the interest.
Niches can and are very profitable if used correctly, between the passion people have for their niche they can build a spot for themselves and make money by offering products and/or information about their niche.
There are many different ways to accomplish this, but the most important way is to follow your own passion. You can of course follow a profitable niche, but it won’t build you a business. You need to be passionate about your niche so you can stay with it. If you do decide to follow only profitable niches you can build a number of sites and benefit from each one.
Here are 3 main keys to research your niche:
- Do a Google search to see how many other people are promoting this niche
- Head over to eBay and see what is hot
- Go to places like Clickbank or Amazon and see what type of products are selling
Once you have discovered a good niche to market in, you now have to decide how you are going to deliver the information or product to the people looking for it.
Here again there are many different ways to do this:
- You can learn to build a website
- You can put up a blog and write about the niche
- You can find affiliate products to promote
These steps are the basic steps in finding the right niche with the right products to sell. Niche-Marketing isn’t difficult once you understand the basics.
Just do keep in mind it is much easier if you do follow your passions and not the money. By following your passions the money will come once people see how passionate you are about your niche. You will be known as the expert they can rely on to answer their questions and help solve their problems.
You can easily learn how to do this and put it all together with little time involved on your part with a complete blueprint telling you how to take action.
I do hope this has helped you to better understand Niche-Marketing and how to find your niche.
If you want to kick start your business then head over to http://laurasbasicstowebdesign.com/success and get your hands on the Niche-Marketing Know How Interview with Erik Stafford.
Niche-Marketing doesn’t have to be difficult or overwhelming, with the information you will learn with the Niche-Marketing Know How Interview it’s a steal.
I hope this will help you at least overcome one of the obstacles standing in your way to success.
Laura
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Building Your Foundation, First
Posted by: | CommentsWelcome to your first lesson on building your website.
The very first thing you need to do is decide on what your website is going to do, there are many different types of websites. From, landing pages, membership sites, salespages, and informational websites, and the list goes on….
So first decide what type of market/niche you would like to go into. I have learned and discovered that the best place to start in deciding this is, is to start with your passions. Now I hear a lot that some people just don’t have a passion, but I don’t believe this at all.
Everyone has something to offer. Their passions, what they do at work, and any kind of training or knowledge they have, all these could be possible markets you can go into.
Before, you think your passion or knowledge is profitable for you, you need to do some research to see if others are willing to pay for this.
The first place to start is to see if anyone else is marketing in this niche. Go to Google.com and type in your passions, like golf, and see what others are doing. One thing to keep in mind is not to be too broad with your niche, like golf, has millions of websites, break it down to like golf shoes, or whatever. You want your results within Google.com to be less than one million results.
So dig deep if you have to, don’t be afraid to dig deep within your niche, usually the deeper the better as long as there is people looking for your specific product or service.
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How To Find the Website Building Tools
Posted by: | CommentsThis area seems to be frustrating to so many folks. Just how and where do you find the proper tools to build your website? There are soo many different answers to this question and I have found that it isn’t always on what are the proper tools, as much as what YOU feel the most comfortable with.
There are a lot of web designers out there that swear by Frontpage and/or Dreamweaver, and then there are others that build their websites completely in Notepad or with a simple HTML editor, so what is the best way to build your website?
This completely does depend on you and what level you are at.
I personally use a HTML editor called Kompozer I have used many others throughout the years, but I have found that I personally, perfer to see what I am doing while I am doing it and I don’t have this big budget to purchase things like Frontpage and/or Dreamweaver and have found that a simple no cost HTML editor such as Kompozer does the job just fine.
With any new type of software there is always a learning curve to go through, but I have found not only for myself but for some I have taught, that the simple HTML editors that you can download free, work just as good as anything else out there.
Now keep in mind, I’m discussing building a website, Not designing graphics or that stuff.
With these editors you do not have to know much at all about HTML or how things work, but it is highly recommended you at least know some basic HTML, which will not take you years or months to learn.
So for the tools that you need to have in place to build a website -
1. An HTML editor of some sort. I highly recommend you give Kompozer a try, it’s free and it’s easy to use
2. You will need an FTP program, so you can take what you saved to your hard drive and move it to your hosting account. For more information on FTP you can read my article at How to get your website online
3. You should also get an autoresponder so you can collect your prospects information to build that list! Now I’ve used free and paid companies, and have come to the conclusion that the paid way is the way to go! So if you need to get your hands on a good autoresponder I highly recommend Aweber!
4. Of course you will need hosting and there I recommend Hostgator
5. Then of course a domain name which you can get at Godaddy
There you go 5 important tools you need to have, at no cost to little cost to get your first website online and collecting information or sales for you.
Until next time Take Action!
Laura Miller
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