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Selasa, 14 Januari 2014

4 Essential Web Properties: This Is All You Need

By Dawn Damico


With all the online options available for your online business, it's too easy to get overwhelmed. When you experience that, one or all of these things can happen: 1) you waste time on tasks that only serve to drain your energy 2) you waste dollars on tools that don't work and 3) you avoid doing anything out of shear mental exhaustion!

Well, sit back and relax. We have an app for that (sort of)! Every online success story today once was caught in the sea of overwhelm, just like you!

In the true spirit of Oz and "pulling back the curtain, James Wedmore, has just revealed some of his favorite websites and website properties you need to run your business successfully. Yes, these are those "keys" everyone is always talking about!

Build Upon What you Own: Your Blog

There are lots of web platforms to use such as Scribd, Blogger, Weebly, Facebook, and YouTube. How do you know where to plant the flag for your online business? The answer is: Wherever you have the most control!

Why is "control" so important? Just like in the real world, there's always a risk to building a business on someone else's real estate. On someone else's terms. Yes, you can have an "arrangement"...like a lease; however, when the lease runs out or the contract is terminated, you may need to leave...sometimes quickly and without notice. Yikes! You could be out of business overnight unless you've established an active following that will follow you.

If your business is online, then this can happen too. So the best practice is to have an online "home" where you have some control over the future or your company. That means your own blog, with your own domain, that you have hosted on your account.

Your Blog is your content platform. Here are the online tools you should be using -

Content Platform: Wordpress.org (not the free hosting version!)

www.Themeforest.net

www.Bluehost.com

What about Customers?

You're primary goal is not traffic because traffic is not enough! Once those people leave your site, you will quickly be forgotten...no matter how awesome you are...UNLESS...You have an opt-in page where your future customers can sign up for "something" and you can collect their email information.

You provide opt-in opportunity where site visitors can sign up for a compelling free offer.

This is your virtual guest book and it is a key component to building a business online versus having a really fun and time consuming blogging hobby. www.LeadPages.com is by far the best tool for this.

Not long after you start building content for the web, you will wonder how you can actually make money with all this information you are creating. The answer is:

Not long after you start populating your website with content in the form of video, articles, graphics, and trainings you're going to wonder how you can actually make money with all this information you are creating. The answer is:

Now, what that "something" is will depend on what your business is. null

Whatever it is, you need a sales page. This is your 24-hour virtual sales person and the best tools to use for that include:

And how to sell that "something" will involve a sales page. The tools you use for your virtual sales team include:

www.Leadpages.com, www.ThemeForest.net, www.Odesk.com

These tools do double duty! You can use them for opt-ins AND also for Sales Pages and Marketing Landing Pages. They include tons of templates that already look amazing and are optimized to function well on many devices, like mobile, and many browsers.

So how to you set it all up? Don't get stuck here...hire someone to do it for you! The most important thing is to implement and get your ideas to market as quickly as possible. A talented freelancer can help you do that.

Paid Content and Training

Have you considered content on a subscriber-only or paid basis?

Wordpress.org

Themeforest.net

Themeforest.net

Now it's Time to Put it Together!

Next Step: Build It!

What do you think? While you may use other tools, these are four of the basics for building an online business.

These tools, a little assistance from a great freelancer, and your own talents can help you build your dreams online. Enjoy the journey.




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