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Archive for September, 2009

Building Your Own Webpage – Newbies, It’s Easy!

Sep 23

Posted by C.A. Perez in Getting Started | 1 Comment

As a newbie Internet marketer the task of building your first webpage may seem complex and daunting.  It’s not!  Building your own webpage is easy.  The Internet offers may sites that will help you create your first webpage or website.  Don’t be overwhelmed by the number of sites willing to help you.  A search for “free websites” in Google will return over 55 Million hits!

The Problem:

You can create a webpage from scratch.  Creating it is not overly difficult, if you want a very basic looking page.  You will have to learn some basic Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML).  That too is not difficult.  It comes down to a question of time.  How much time are you willing to spend before you go online; before you start making money?

If you surf the Internet and have checked out the competition, you know that there are some very professional looking websites out there.  You would be hard pressed to compete with a very basic looking page.   But, there is hope.

You can outsource your work and have a professional do it.  Well, that costs money and time.  Time spent in coordinating with a web designer, the layout, the content, the colors and fonts.  How long before you can launch it and start making money?
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The Solution:

Although you can use template-driven software like SBI or Dreamweaver to create your webpage, nothing beats the ease of WordPress.  If this is your first attempt, with WordPress you can have a webpage up and running within minutes.  You will want to tweak it as you learn more.  But, you can have a live professional looking webpage knocking on your customer’s door very quickly.

As with a search for “free websites” in Google, you can access many a tutorial on the Internet to help.  The difference is the quickness with which you will have your webpage online.

Learn more about WordPress and how to start building your own webpage with WordPress. You will cut your learning curve in half.

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Word Press and Blogging-Are You using It Yet?

Sep 14

Posted by C.A. Perez in Getting Started | No Comments

In 2002, blogs reshaped the online marketing world.  While most people at that time started with various blogging systems to create their blogs, eventually most of them shifted to WordPress.  WordPress has become much more than a powerful website content management system (CMS). If you read any popular blogging tips online, WordPress is most often listed as the number one tool of choice for creating blogs.

Serious Internet marketers soon discovered that Word Press was more than just a blog tool.  Word press  can be used to build profitable websites.  With it internet marketers can manage  large amounts of text, audio and video content making Word Press a very powerful business tool.

Although you can use template-driven software like SBI or DreamWeaver, after a dozen pages it becomes difficult to manage a static HTML site.   Nothing beats the ease of WordPress.

Using premium Word Press tools you can easily transform a static website, create an article directory, a membership site system, a complete e-commerce site, auction sites, portfolio sites and much more.  You can use Word Press to create just about anything.

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is another important element.  By default, WordPress is very good at optimizing and creating SEO friendly content.  However, by utilizing simple WordPress plugins you can increase and maximize your MSN, Yahoo, and Google SEO rankings.

The best thing about WordPress is its flexibility.  You can easily switch between WordPress themes, and improve its functions by using plugins and even some custom programming. Best of all its free!

If you aren’t using WordPress you should.  To power your online business, go ahead and use WordPress!

To discover more about WordPress, I strongly recommend that you visit this website: Word Press

You’ll get tons of step-by-step video tutorials on how to use WordPress, web 2.0 technology, search engine optimization, making money, and so much more. Get more information here.

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Tired of Emails?

Sep 7

Posted by C.A. Perez in General | No Comments

I have been in this business over four months.  One thing I’ve learned: don’t sign up for every little free offer of a report or free e-book.  Why?  Look at my inbox.  I’m getting a gazillion messages offering more freebies.

Now I know that we all want to build our email lists so that we can sell our product.  Heck, even I have one on this site.  But, sending out autoresponder emails emails everyday?   Sometimes those offers are for the same thing.

At first, I read everyone of those emails and clicked through to see what was being sold.  Most of the links offered very similar product each in its own niche.  But how many gurus are out there?   What’s really annoying are the emails from one source that send you a shotgun splattering of unrelated offers.

There’s niche finding, article writing, secret tools, keyword tools, and the biggest of them all – LIST BUILDING.   One guy has sent 19 messages in 14 days.   Another has sent the same message with the same offer three times in two days.

I guess it works.  But it is very annoying.  You can’t call it spam because you opted-in.  You can always unsubscribe or wear out the delete key.

Lesson: Opt-in only if you really want the freebie that’s being offered.  Choose your purchases carfully.  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

PS:  You can opt-in on this site on the Free Stuff page!

Internet Marketing Newbies Fail 95% of the Time – Want to Know Why?

Sep 2

Posted by C.A. Perez in Getting Started | No Comments

At this stage of my Internet marketing career, I am what is labeled as a newbie, a noob someone who knows very little abut Internet marketing of any kind. You and I know that Internet marketing has unlimited potential. Yet I also know that the latest statistics show that 95% of us “newbies” will fail. I know why.

Like many others that are just getting their feet wet. I have “opted in” to many an offer of free material that promises to help me make millions of dollars.  These offers come in all sorts of flavors they range from affiliate marketing guides, to affiliate marketing for beginners, to beginners marketing guides, and even newbies guide to affiliate marketing.

As newbies our learning curves are very steep. There is a lot of information to be digested and much of it is scattered throughout the Internet. It’s no wonder that so many fail at Internet marketing. You are distracted by all those offers of assistance. You are distracted by all the methods that you can apply to make you successful at Internet marketing. Internet marketing success is like a shotgun blast, there many ways (pellets) to hit the target.  For a no frills, no bull assessment of products visit: http://NewbieAffiliatesDirectory.com

Here is why we newbies are likely not to succeed at this business. As a newbie, after four months, I just now realized how much time I spend reading all those emails that I get. Do you? They offer me new ways and methods to make money online. Many of them come with free e-books and reports. Some offers ask for your e-mail to allow you access to the free give away; some don’t. Regardless, you download the files; you open up the freebie; and you start reading or viewing the information. The next thing you know, it’s lunch time where did the morning go?

What have you done to increase your revenue? What product or service have you exposed to the Internet and to potential customers today? How many websites or blogs have you created today?

That’s the bottom line – Customers. 95% of us newbies fail because we are to busy learning the hundreds of ways of making money, instead of choosing one and sticking with it until we are making money.

It’s time to delete those emails. If you can’t delete them, file them away, unread; and read them on the weekend or when you’re rich.

Another thing we do: visit forums. Forums are a wonderful place to ask questions and learn from more knowledgeable people and to socialize. Before you know it, an hour is gone, maybe two hours. You have read through all the threads on a topic that interests you and the day is gone.

What have you done to increase your bottom line? You say, “I’ve got to learn. I’ve got to read and ask questions. How am I going to make money, if I don’t know what to do next?”

We do have to spend time learning. The question is how much time. When do you put into action what you have learned? It does not matter that your knowledge may not be complete. Will it ever be? Most, if not all, of those gurus that are making those big bucks started at the bottom like you and me. They were once newbies. Let us not forget!

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