Here’s the skinny….
Check out the audio. I was
lazy and didn’t feel like writing…
Turns out, I wrote some stuff anyway.
Funny how stuff like that happens.
But don’t miss this! You need to have
this plan in place or at least know where
you’re gonna start.
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The Highlights
Figure out how you’re going to monetize your site. There are plenty of ways to do this. You can start with just one way or even do some combo action and use several. The choice is yours, but realize this…
It’s best if you figure this out before you begin to design your website…. Why you say, I’ll tell ya.
If my goal is to get a big ass database of customers built… that I want to sell to over and over again I need some serious optin-action happenin’.
Besides, one of the best ways to make something like this happen is to build a relationship with your new found list of peeps (read > need that email).
So if ya know you want people to sign up… You need to optimize your site to catch all the optin magic.
Puttin’ that lead capture form front and center, taking every opportunity that you can, is a must.
See what I mean about knowing what’s goin’ on before you set up your website??? Hope soooooooo.
Some of the ways to make the Benjamin’s (from the audio):
- Sales by email
- Pre-sell pages
- Content posts
- Tutorials
- Reviews
- Adsense or Contextual links
- Product demonstrations
I leave you to the audio for the details …
If you haven’t listened to the audio yet, you should now. I just took the cherry off the top here. The audio digs a little deeper.
Questions Answered
A few figured out that they could get right to me by my contact form. CoooooooOOLL …
I will summarize so of the main questions, with my answers.
Q 1. What hosting do I use?
A 1. Seo hosting – it’s a different flavor of Hostgator. Seo hosting lets you get multiple ip addresses and some other stuff. You really don’t need it unless you are going to develop your own network of blogs, besides it costs more…. I would recommend hostgator if your looking for a new host. You can find them here if you want to take a peek a boo.
Q 2. What are you using to set up your website?
A 1. I will be using WordPress for my website. From time to time I will create custom html or php pages, but for this project I will stick with only using WordPress.
Q 3. What theme do you recommend?
A 1. Since the assumption was that I would be using WordPress (and it was correct), my answer to this would be to get something “clean” looking. The fancy pants bells and whistles aren’t important, conversion is! There are plenty of good free themes out there that can be used. As a matter of fact you may want to even use the default 2012 theme that comes with WP. Just change up the header and watch out for the upcoming lessons for some little tweaks.
A 2. Even know I told you about the free stuff above, I need to mention that I will not be using a free theme. My theme of choice is the Thesis Theme. Thesis is the most versatile and reliable theme that I have ever tried…. but it does cost some change. So to keep with telling you everything that I’m using, there ya go. If you want to see what I have to say about Thesis you can check out my Thesis Theme Review here.
The Potpourri
If you’re going to collect emails you need an autoresponder. The autoresponder that I use is Aweber. I think they are the best, but do your own research and pick out what’s best for you.
I also had a question about what FTP program that I use. I’ve used Filezilla or years. There are plenty of good free and paid ones. There may be some better ones out there, but for me – If it ain’t broke don’t fix it… You can find Filezilla here.
Don’t forget… if you have a question or you need me to give ya a little more detail about anything – catch me on the contact page.
Next stop setting up the site.
