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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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Beginners making a web page
Today I want to talk about beginners making a web page. It seems more and more folks are coming online and realizing they need a website. This can be very overwhelming and confusing to most beginners. For beginners making a web page there are a few things they need to keep in mind.
For starters it is not Hard to do at all.
Second they don’t need to know or even understand things like HTML, and tags, and things that are way above their heads. There are tons of software out there that will take care of this for them, and most are free to get.
Beginners should also know the market/niche they are going to build a website around, having this information will make designing the site much easier.
Tools, so many think they Have to go out and get Dreamweaver or Frontpage to build a website, well this just isnt so, there are other software programs that will work just as good and at no cost.
Remember too you are not only building your website you are building your business and you have to understand there are going to be costs involved just not as much as you think.
One place I strongly recommend you check out is The Faster WebMaster by Erik Stafford, he has outstanding tutorials and videos walking you from the beginning to the very end with your business!
Let’s take a close look at what you will be spending to put a website online, not a business, a website. The first thing you have to acquire is a domain name and I highly recommend www.godaddy.com besides the price is right at around $10.00 a Year the support is outstanding.
Next you are going to need hosting, there is so much out there to choose from no wonder people get all confused and just grab the first one they come across, but you have to make sure of a few things. Like they have outstanding support, you have access to your cpanel, and you can upgrade when necessary. The one I’ve been using for years now that fits all this and much is Hostgator they are the best I’ve seen and believe me I’ve been through some hosting companies.
To begin with it should only cost you around $4.95 bucks a month.
As for a FTP (file transfer program) no cost
As for an HTML editor, no cost
So let’s see here, looks like for about $70.00 a Year you can get started!!
Just think you can have a website up and running in just a few days at the most for around $70 a Year. Can;t beat that for cheap now can you?
So for the beginners making a web page, don’t be overwhelmed and scared, it’s not as hard as you think or expensive, the key here is Just Do It!!!!
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