Often when someone has decided to use blogging as a way to break into internet marketing or beginning an e-business, it’s a little difficult to know where to begin and what products to start out with. In many ways, the same issues that face someone beginning a “brick and mortar” business also seem to pop up for the internet business start-up as well. The following tips can help the newcomer to the internet business world start a business that can become an income stream.
1) Pick a topic that you might like to talk about with someone. Let this topic become the subject of your blog. It may not seem to you that the topic is that interesting but you’ll be surprised that people just like yourself want to know what some one else is thinking about the same thing. As they surf the internet, why shouldn’t your site be the one that grabs their attention for a few minutes.
2) Get a hosting account with a decent host provider to set your blog up on. Using free sites can be a good practice run, but since you are planning to use the site to make money, reliability and basic tools that most reputable hosts provide will be necessary over the long term to maintain your blog.
3) Use the hosting tools provided as part of your host account to install WordPress. The most popular blogging software currently in use is WordPress. Literally hundreds of thousands of blog sites are built in minutes using WordPress. Because of it’s widespread use and the ability to configure it without needing to write code, WordPress rules. Information for problems with WordPress is easy to find on the internet and in the frequently asked questions of your hosting provider as well as from WordPress.org.
4) Next, sign up for Google Adsense, Clickbank or an affiliate marketing and begin to run ads on your site. This is the simplest way to “monetize” your site without having to produce a product yourself. It will also give you much needed understanding in the area of affiliate marketing.
5) Post regularly on a schedule that you can live with. Don’t get yourself in the situation of pressuring yourself to do something you can’t keep up with. In other words, make a realistic schedule for posting to your blog, but don’t try to make a schedule you can’t live with and end up disliking the very topic you are interested in! Make lists of topics for your site. Build articles around the list of topics. If one topic strikes a chord with your visitors. Stay on that topic for a while and research interesting things to put into the blog posts to feed the “information hungry.” Regular posts will help your standing with the search engines.
In all, the steps above are a good start to the world of internet marketing.
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