Monday, January 13, 2014

Which Web Properties Should You Use? [Video Tutorial]

By John Demarco


Ready to begin or ramp up your current online business?

With so many tools and one-click promises, it's super easy to get overwhelmed with choices. 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!



Build Upon What you Own: Your Blog

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: somewhere that you have the most control.

Help is here and we're going to cut through the clutter and noise! James Wedmore, video and online marketing strategist has just revealed some of his favorite websites and website properties you need to run your business successfully. And, yes, he does, in fact, use these exact tools in his six-figure online business.

The answer? Create an online "home" that you have control of. That means a blog. One that you own, with a domain name you've paid for, and where you have paid for hosting. Your Blog is your content platform. And the best tools to use include:

www.Wordpress.org (you will need to pay for hosting)

www.Themeforest.net

www.Bluehost.com

Build Your Customer Base

You're primary goal is not traffic because traffic is not enough! Once they walk out, you could be forgotten quicker than a dog chasing a squirrel!

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. To quickly incorporate great looking and multi-device compatible squeeze pages us www.LeadPages.com.

Build Your Monetization Options

What about Making Money?

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:

And how to sell that "something" will involve a sales page. This is your 24-hour virtual sales person and the best tools to use for that include:

How you make money depends on your business model and your niche. You may sell a product, a service, or a piece of software that's going to benefit your future customers in some way, shape or fashion.

www.ThemeForest.net

www.Odesk.com

www.ThemeForest.net

These tools do double duty! You can use them for opt-ins AND also for Sales Pages and Marketing Landing Pages. They have templates to make your job easier and are already coded to function well on many devices, like mobile, and many browsers.

Paid Content and Training

Paid Content and Training

Offer extra value on a subscriber-only or paid basis!

Once you decide to offer paid content, you're going to need a way to protect that content so that only those who have paid for the content have access to it. There are a few moving parts involved to make all this work, but the website tools include:

Wordpress.org

Themeforest.net

www.member.wishlistproducts.com

Next: Put it Together

There you have it! 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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