Archive for September, 2008
Your Design is Important
Today I was reading some other posts on website design and how important or not important it is to your visitors and your conversation.
Well I came across this port by Terry Dean that is just awesome and oh sooo true and you should read it!
Head over there now and take what he says to heart!
These tips are what every person out there needs to do and consider when they are building any type of website, it doesn’t matter if you are building a website for business or not, if you want to build a relationship with your visitors and build that trust you need to be doing these things.
Laura
http://laurasbasicstowebdesign.com
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Who Do You Listen to?
Hi everyone, boy have I been all over the web lately. Who do you listen to when you need advice?
I needed some software to help me convert some audio so I could place it on my website, and boy there were a lot of different people giving me different ideas. Confusing?
I read article after article, blog post, and everything in between and everyone had their own idea what worked.
This got me to thinking, that not everything you read will work for you. You have to decide if who you are listening to is really worth it.
Let me tell ya a little story here…
When I first came online about 6 years ago, I listened to the first person I came across, I was new, real new.. and she steered me completely wrong. After about 3 years of listening to her, I then realized I was doing this all wrong and needed to find someone else to help me out. I followed at least 3 other people, all telling me what to do and how to do things. Everything they said made perfect sense, but you know what? At the end of the day I still had nothing to show for all my hard work. So what did I do?
I decided to step back, take a break and rethink just what I wanted to do online, what was my business going to be. That’s when I decided to listen to myself and not everyone else on what I wanted. Once I knew what I wanted I then knew the proper people to contact and listen to.
Ever since, things have definitely turned around for me.
So the moral of this story, is listen to yourself on what YOUR Dreams are not what someone else says you can do. Once you find your dreams, then you have your niche and then start building on that niche to make it a profitable business online.
Just about any passion you have or hobby, can make you money, you Do Not have to stick within the Internet Marketing niche. In fact, some will tell you that is the biggest mistake to do as it is so over saturated. So don’t be afraid to look outside of Internet Marketing and look for your hobby or passion and build from there, you will do much better if you do.
Remember, the number one way to see if your niche and your dreams can be reached is to do your research before diving in.
Never, ever, just throw up a website or blog and think you can make money without that foundation of research. It is a Must!!!
Just a little something that was on my mind today, and I thought I’d share it with you. As this is such an overlooked step most everyone makes, especially the beginners, as they want the pie in the sky yesterday and dont’ realize this is a business!!! You have to work at it.
So if nothing else please take away, that you much work at this, to get it started, but once it is set up and working it will pretty much be on auto pilot and you can live your dreams. But do the research and build your foundation First!!!!
One great way place I have learned a lot of this is from a great guy Erik Stafford, he shows and tells you how to build your own foundation and your business, you can learn more about Erik and his program, The Faster Webmaster II.
Take care,
Laura
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