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It can make a huge difference in business if you know a lot of people.
And I don’t mean Facebook “friends”.
What you need are serious contacts, people who can teach you something, provide a valuable service, or connect you with more serious people. Don’t limit your contacts to your town, or even country. People you can learn from and even work with don’t even have to live near you. Correspond regularly with people anywhere in the world who share your interests and enthusiasm. You can even Skype ( free internet video phone ) for free. Download the free Skype software and get going on it.
In the old days, people used a Rolodex, ( rolling index ), and powerful people had a lot of names on theirs.
These days, you can use contact software that is totally amazing. It can keep track of mailings, responses, dates, all kinds of stuff, while you do other things to run your business.
You can also meet a lot of people on Twitter. But, don’t just rack up “followers”, just to have a big number and ego to go with it. Actually communicate with these people, learn from them, build relationships over time.
Let me explain…..
If you don’t have a website, you can still put money-making affiliate links in your emails, social media sites, and by using Twitter. People can and do make money that way online.
BUT,
If you have a website, or better yet, many websites, you can greatly expand your reach on the internet. Plus, you can have some material there that explains your offers, affiliates, etc.
Getting a website is NOT complicated these days. Far from it. You can have a site up within an hour.
If you are awkward around computers, have a friend who knows a bit about computers help you.
There are TONS of places online to get one. Pick good words or letters for your domain. Clear, simple, attractive domain names using one or two words ONLY ( EX: www.cashforest.com ) are not so easy. A lot of catchy names have been bought already, and in many cases, the buyers are “squatting” on the domain, hoping someone will want to buy it for multiples of what they paid. Some domain names are so valuable they command 6 figure prices. It’s crazy, but it’s true.
But, if you are really clever, there are thousands of words in the dictionary, and you can come up with something attractive. A basic domain can be purchased for around 10 to 15 dollars per year.
Try this place: Lunar Pages.com, in the active link below. They host sites, too. I have used Lunar Pages for years and always received great service. Their admin control panel has tons of features, stats, plug-ins, file managers, FTP, and more.
Now, a word about domain names to dispel some illusions.
JUST BECAUSE YOU OWN A REALLY HOT DOMAIN NAME DOESN’T MEAN YOU’RE GOING TO BE A MILLIONAIRE.
If you don’t believe that, do a little research. There was once a company called Pets.com that did a huge launch on a Superbowl day and fell flat on it’s face. Another company now owns that domain.
If you expect something good from your website you must have good content that people like, and that advertisers also like. You must have good products, and you have to get people to take a look in the first place.
PLUS,
A lot of REALLY popular sites have domain names that sound like gibberish, or are just initials.
DON”T get a domain name like ” www.mostfantasticdomainnameever.com
OR: www.iamgeorgethegreat.com
think about your product, your market and and your customers, not yourself, when you choose a domain name.
Get a website hosting package. Best to have it hosted where you bought it, but that’s not necessary, just more complicated. Packages for hosting vary widely so do some research. It’s possible to host a very large site for only 10 dollars a month or so. I call that a real deal.
Step 3:
There are many ways to create and load a website onto the internet at your hosting site. You can create all the pages from scratch using one of many site design programs. Most of these are very easy to use, but there are ways even easier..
You can buy a full website template online in many places. You review the templates, select one, pay a small fee ( 20 to 100 dollars ), and get a fully designed site with working links. You have it set up onto your hosting site location, and then tweak it with different text, colors, graphics, etc. There are templates available for just about every type of business or industry, and the prices are very reasonable.
Another thing you can do, even Easier, is to go to the control panel of your website hosting company, and use one of the plug-ins to download WordPress, for example. WordPress is a very simple to use publishing software that is free. Once you install it on your site hosting, you can go select one of hundreds of designs, install them for free, then start publishing your site, making pages and posts, adding photos, links, Google ads, and so on.
Step 3: Getting traffic
There are truly a LOT of ways to get website traffic. Some are free, some are not, and the free ones can sometimes work better and faster than the expensive ways.
If you hope to get noticed with steady growth, you should try to use as many ways to get traffic as you can think of.
Here are some really interesting ways:
For a long time, Monster.com had a dirigible, a blimp, that flew around the country, with a big sign on the side. That was a long time ago and I still remember it. Almost everyone knows about Monster.com by now.
you could bike across the country wearing a t-shirt. You would get into local news, etc.
What you need to do, seriously, is think about what visitors will find on your pages when they get there.
The products listed here are TOOLS. You have to study a bit before you select which one is right for you, see if it’s something you can do.
Then, you have to follow the instructions. Also, you need to understand the tool in context of the media, the internet, sites like Google and Twitter. Learn more on our other pages. If you’re not good with the internet, have a younger person help you. These are things high school kids can do easily. They can teach you if you feel awkward around computers
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Check out these very reasonable packages to help you market online.
You don’t need to spend a lot of money to get started making money online. Take a look at some of these tools and programs. Other people are doing it, you can too.
Turnkey system for Twitter ( click link ) You’ll save more money than in costs in the first few hours, and you can use it again and again. It’s a TOOL, don’t buy it unless you use it.
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( okay, have a savings account too, but don’t forget to create an income stream along the way )
How much does your savings pay while you’re heading towards retirement?
How much will it pay YOU once you stop working?
What if you could have income streaming in right on through retirement until the day you die, AND, keep on going to benefit your family?
Does that sound crazy?
There are things that you can do now, even in your spare time, over a long period if you wish, to build up a steady residual income from a variety of online sources.
Membership plans to interesting sites that you create, and newsletters that you publish
A digital information product, or DIP, that you create, and keeps selling month after month, passively, delivered by email automatically.
An Ebay business that sells a lot of similar products, easy to list and sell, and often you can have someone ELSE actually ship it.
Copyrighted content such as songs you write, or pictures you take There are companies right now who would like to use your images on a shirt, or mug, or some other way. You can find these companies online, and you can have your own products created so you can sell them.
You can use the internet to create steady, long term income. Here’s ONE of many ways, listen and learn.
and another one…
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It’s good to save some money, of course. But don’t be afraid to spend some money learning how to make passive income that will help support you when you are too weak to work, or just want to play during retirement.
But not just because you can hear about someone’s hangover or dog doo-doo.
It’s CRAZY for business and social networking.
It’s the fastest way to reach a broad, interested, relevant market, and meet new contacts,in real time.
The old way was, have a website, do google, do a MySpace thing, and wait.
BORING, takes way to long and we’ve got things to do.
Hey, we carry our computers around with us these days, people. and they have tiny keyboards, we have short attention spans….
Give us the goods, the tip, the link, the gossip, the news, and give it to us Short and Sweet.. and NOW, too. okay ?
Twitter is real time, so it’s very, very powerful. It makes international dialogue possible across a huge spectrum of the population. Get ready for some incredible stuff to happen in the next few years. ( Tweeter video and audio )
Can’t say what you need in 140? well, get yourself a dictionary and learn the lingo……….
If you say something interesting on Twitter you can get some eyes on your big message or product.
$$$$$$$
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That product is so worthwhile that within one day you’ll save far more in time than it costs. And then, you can keep using it over and over again to save and make money. I call that a bargain if I ever saw one.
It’s a tool. Tools can make money again and again. You have to learn what it does, how to use it, and then actually use it or don’t bother buying it.
Also, try this:
Tweet Later… incredible tool. You can set up “tweets” to go up on your twitter page automatically, set them up and let them run.
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