We recommend the book for new people just trying to figure out internet marketing basics.
There is a directory of current articles from our home page.

Decide and Act

Many Internet marketers have a tendency to inflate the importance of certain
decisions. Don’t fall into this trap. Instead, get into the habit of making decisions
quickly; and then acting.

Detach Yourself Emotionally from Your Plans

As with any business venture, it is important that you detach yourself emotionally
from your plans. If you decide to do something and it doesn’t pan out as you had
expected, then let go of it and move on. Don’t let your emotional attachment to
bad plans ruin your chance at success.

Do What Gurus Do—Not What They Say

Instead of doing what gurus tell you to do, pay attention to what they do. Think
about how it is that they’ve captured such a large audience. Also, consider how it
is that they’ve become so successful in their niche. And then emulate these
features in your own business.

Don’t Be Afraid to Differentiate Your Business
Often, new Internet marketers are afraid to differentiate themselves and their
businesses from competitors. As a result, they create a lifeless, boring business
that proves to be entirely unmemorable to visitors. Don’t make this mistake. Give
your business a personality that attracts people; and allows them to remember
you.

Don’t Burn Bridges Unnecessarily
As a general rule of thumb, burning bridges is bad when it comes to business.
Unless you have a very good reason for doing so, you should never burn a
bridge with a joint venture partner. Instead, try to end the partnership amicably to
avoid backlash and negative word-of-mouth feedback.

Don’t Burn Yourself Out
When it comes to running your own business, it is all too easy to put in long
hours and burn yourself out. Don’t do this. When your work is done for the night,
go to bed, get some sleep, and then come back the following day well-rested.

Don’t Buy Everything
Many new Internet marketers end up going on a buying frenzy at some point.
They buy ebooks, software, private label products, membership site
subscriptions, and a wide variety of marketing tools. Unfortunately, they also
frequently do not use most of what they buy. Don’t go bankrupt for such a foolish
reason. Spend wisely; and use what you buy.

Don’t Follow the Crowd
If you read a marketing forum at any point in time, you’ll notice that a large flock
of people are repeatedly posting about similar subjects. They’ve latched onto a
fad; and they’ve decided that it is the only way to make money. Don’t fall into this
trap. These fads often aren’t profitable—and, even if they were, they won’t be
when everyone is doing it. So, unless there’s a good reason to do so, don’t follow
the crowd.

Don’t Listen to Everyone
In Internet marketing, many offer advice who haven’t experienced success
through the plans they suggest. For this reason, be careful who you accept
advice from.

Don’t Ruin Your Credibility on Forums
When it comes to using forums to market your products, your credibility is vital. If
forum readers perceive you as credible, they’ll follow your links, read your posts
carefully, and consider your offers. If you squander credibility my making stupid
posts to increase your post count or by spamming the forum, people will quickly
lose interest in you and your business.

Don’t Spam Your Email Lists
Internet marketers often mistake the mistake of spamming their email lists. That
is—as soon as they acquire an email address, they send it a deluge of emails
(both “informative ones” and ones that sell products). The end result is that leads
get turned off and unsubscribe or stop paying attention. Make sure you don’t do
this to your list.

Don’t Waste Time
If you find yourself spending hours each day surfing the Internet when you’re
technically “working on your business,” then it’s time to re-evaluate your
priorities. If you truly want to spend that time surfing the net, then continue to do
so. But if not, then you may want to keeping work and leisure separate. When
you’re at work, do work only. But if you get burnt out, then take a break and do
something you enjoy, rather than wasting time doing something you don’t enjoy
and counting it as “work.”

For more tips and tricks on internet marketing basics,

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Your readers will enjoy the content on your site and find the Google ads to be related to the content and then click those ads to find out more information. You then are making money on Google adsense.

How To Make money With Google adsense

First off, you need to decide what your subject will be. what will your content be about. Content does not just take the form of articles or written words. Content can be images, properly tagged so the search engine spiders can determine what it is about. Content can be video, either your own or video from a popular video sharing site. Content can be audio, recorded and made available to your readers.

Once you create the content, make sure it is unique and place it on your website.

Then, head over to Google adsense and register for a free affiliate account. Google will take a day or so to approve you, but once approved, you log into Google adsense and follow directions to create the code you need to put on your site.

It is quite easy and you can pick different sizes, shapes and colors for the adsense block you want to install on your site.

Paste one of two blocks of code onto your site and that is it, Google will quickly scan your page for key phrases and then start serving up relevant ads.

Making Money online can be a challenge, however to make money with Google adsense is one of the quickest ways to get started.

The way you make money on Google adsense is that Google will share the advertising revenues with you. The advertiser have gone to Google first and said, “serve my ad along with good content, and I’ll pay $xx.xx for each click” Google in turn uses your site to place the ads and will share the revenues earned from each visitors click from your website.

There is a bit more to know and we touched on it above. There are some creative ways to develop your content so that goggle loves it and serves up its highest paying customers.

There are some sure fire ways to design your Google ads so they have the best possible chance of being clicked and there are some extremely profitable positions within your page to place those ads that will outperform other positions by 10 times or more.

The resource we recommend and has been our “bible To adsense” is simply called the adsense report.

The Adsense Report Includes:

* 10 Things You Must Do With Every Site To Make Money
1. The Best Way To Do Niche/Keyword Research
2. Why You Must Register Domains A Certain Way
3. How To Choose Keyword Domains
4. Why .html Sites Are Better To Use Than Blogs
5. How Much Content You Need And Exactly When To Add It
6. Why You Don’t Need To Worry About Keyword Density
7. How To Get Quality Content Search Engines Love
8. How To Build Links On Auto Pilot
9. One Google Analytics Stat That Can Pull In Thousands Of Searches
10. How Often Should You Use Social Bookmarking And To What Sites
* I Divulge All The Sites And Tools I Use On A Daily Basis
* How To Use 5 Free Tools To Pinpoint Just The Right Keywords
* Technique For Writing Your Own Content In About 15 Minutes
* How To Obtain And Keep A 20%+ CTR
* Why Adding Sites To Google, Yahoo & Bing Webmaster Tools Is Critical
* What You Absolutely Cannot Forget To Have On Each Site You Create
* Step-By-Step Worksheet On Exactly What To Do Each Month

And do you know what the most valuable part of the whole report is?

it is this:
Step-By-Step Worksheet On Exactly What To Do Each Month

With this step by step blueprint there is no guessing left.

You simply follow the blueprint.

So, following the guide is what I recommend for how to make money using Google adsense.

I’m hoping this will get this site indexed in google. I’ll watch it for a day and if you see it indexed before me, post a comment and let me know. I’m hoping to get fulltiltpoker.com-deposit-bonus.com and partypoker.com-deposit-bonus.com idexed along with it.

Kevin

I have delt mostly with blogs, and I usually had them get indexed in google and other search engines within 48 hours. All by themselves, I did nothing.

Then, last week I made a few websites and set them up on domains. And still nothing..

So I did a bit of research. seems if the SE find a new domain refrenced on an existing indexed site like this one, they may index them quicker.

Not sure if it will help, but I’m going to list my new sites and see if google or the other SE’s index them.

I’ll let you know in 24 hours or so..

Here is my list of sites:  (linked to their domain names or keywords I want to rank for)

forexproductreport.com
fapturbo.forexproductreport.com
EasyForex.forexproductreport.com
fapturbo.demoforexaccount.info
easyforex.demoforexaccount.info

 
COM-ALERT.COM
FOREXKNIGHTRIDER.BIZ

COM-PROOF.COM
SIXFIGUREYEARLY.ORG

You will notice some of these are first level domain names, some are sub domains and others are product names. They are part of a 3 part experiment which I will cover in a new post. For now, lets see if these get indexed.

Kevin

By Kevin Needham

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The steps to follow to purchase and host a domain name are
quite straightforward. I’ll go through those steps first. What is more
challenging is picking (finding) a domain name that will serve your
business well into the future. Read on to discover how important you
domain name can be to your business health.

To purchase a new domain name, you must do so through a domain name
registrar. A domain name registrar is a company, accredited by the
Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) or by a
national ccTLD authority, to register Internet domain names.

I always use Godaddy.com to search for and purchase my domains. There
are hundreds of domain registrars online. I have found Godaddy to be
the easiest to navigate, as professional as others and close to the
least expensive. I have also found out over time, now that I
own 200+ domain names, that dealing with one registrar is much less
confusing and provides for better organization.

I go to Godaddy.com, I use the search box and type in the domain name I
want. I try to use my major keyword of my niche in my domain
name. If that is not possible, I try to use a catchy phrase that will
be rememberable (is that a word?) or not easily forgotten.

For instance, I started this blog with the intention of starting new
businesses, and posting all my activities on the blog so everyone could
follow along. I was starting new businesses, I wanted others the
follow. I chose FollowMyStartups.com. In this case it is a brandable,
rememberable name hopefully, and it is somewhat descriptive.

I had a bit of a challenge with a domain name purchase for the first
business I am starting. To recap, I am going to drive traffic to a
site, to capture an email in exchange for a ready-to-go private label
resale rights product. The product is a 50+ page ebook, complete, ready
to go. Visitor gets it for free. I have noticed with PLR
ebooks, allot of people like them, they are complete, and ready to be
sold, just add your name, however most do not get around to making the
first sale. This is where my revenue will come from then is that for a
monthly fee, I will set up their complete website for them. A custom
sales page, payment processor, autoresponder series, their domain name,
a splash page for initial capture of customers emails, we will do all
the work for them, and simply turn over the keys. All they need to do
is feed it, which is traffic. As a back end product, we can then offer
them traffic related goods and services.

So, first I registered buyasite101.com (sometimes throwing
101 or other numbers at the end, still gets you a memorable domain
name, as buyasite.com was taken) I sat on it for a few days,
then realized it did not really describe what I wanted. I
want traffic coming to my site to get a free ebook, that they can
resell. A ready to go business. The word BUY in the domain, was going
to discourage allot of visitors and affect my opt-in rate, had to get
rid of the word BUY, as a side note, BuyASite101.com is for sale, drop
me an line.

I went back to Godaddy and settled on StartaBiz101.com This
describes more of what I want the customer to be focused on. Come to my
site, to start a business. I don’t particularly love the 101 on the
end, but it is still catchy, what do you think?

So, you can search and purchase a domain name at Godaddy.com

A good name suggestion tool can be found at Nameboy.com, where You can
take your keywords or phrases you believe customers will type into the
search engines and this tool will generate related domain name
sugestions.

Do a search for “domain name suggestion tool” on google to find other
tools. Bottom line is, return to Godaddy to buy the domain name.

follow the directions on Godaddy, don’t add anything onto your domain,
and you should get a domain name for a little over $10

Now once you own your domain name, you need to host it. This means you
need web hosting. I recommend HostGator. They are a superior web
hosting company. Of course you can shop around. The key elements you
want to consider are price, support, features.

Web hosting can range in price from free, you get what you pay for, up
to hundreds monthly. Good web hosting can run from $7 to $30 a month
and at $30 a month, you should be able to host multiple domains,
possibly up to 10

Support is critical. If this is your first setup, you may have
questions. Read the site, make sure support exists, by email or live
chat. Make sure the operating hours of support work for you. Make sure
there is a guarantee if you need it. Go ahead and test the support,
with a question before you purchase.

The features you want (don’t worry if you don’t know exactly what they
all are) include c-panel, Fantastico, 100MB Quota per domain, 1000MB of
bandwidth per domain, FTP accounts, at least 2, email accounts,
DataBase accounts, 3 minimum,

There are lots and lots of video on line, at youtube.com to show you
exactly how to set up your account.

Order your hosting account, and pay for it. Log in to the account.
Follow the directions to set up your domain name. Make note
of the DNS numbers of your newly set up hosting account. Ask support if
you can’t find it.
With DNS numbers in hand, log back into your godaddy account (or name
registrar account you used) and click on domains, then click on your
new domain name you purchased. Click on DNS settings, and paste your
DNS numbers from your hosting account, into the Goddady
fields. To clarify, Godaddy is the registrar, they registered
the domain for you, Hostgator is the hosting company, they keep your
domain name connected and live to the internet backbone for you. The
DNS settings take 1 hour to 1 day to get set up, and then you will be
able to type your domain name into your address bar and see your domain.

you can use your c-panel to log in and edit your account files, or use
an ftp client, I use a free one called FileZilla and works great.

Best of luck, see you online!

Kevin Needham

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When I start a new business online I like to try to map it out before I begin so I have a game plan and I can keep myself on track with my work.

I like to start by describing the activity or business concept.

Then I list the steps required

then I List the time I think each step will take.

A number of steps get left out, because I do not know specifically what they are or the time involved. The mind map progresses over the course of creation.

The whole idea is to have a game plan, or a step by step to begin with. I don’t spend too much time on it, about 1 hour. It gives me direction and keeps me moving forward. (If I don’t know anything in particular, I try to make note of it, but not worry just yet about describing the implementation just yet.

Without more delay, here is my Mind-Map or business plan for

Buy A Site 101

The concept ( 50 mins)

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I really like membership sites or continuity sites where you sell to your customer once, and you then go on billing and providing service to them until they cancel. Much like a hydro company, phone company or Columbia House records and CD’s will do.

I have always liked web hosting as a continuity business. Once you have the customer, they buy hosting ongoing.

How to “package” the hosting has been the unknown till now for me because so many companies sell it, and the barrier to entry is so low, you simply join a good affiliate program and re-sell the service, letting the official hosting company do all the back end customer service.

I have also always like the idea of master resell rights and private label resale rights (see the definition of all the types of ‘rights’ here). So here is my business idea to combine the two.

I have bought many private label rights products and 3/4 of them are sitting on my hard drive. I downloaded them but never got around to setting them up. It was too much hassle to find webspace and hosting, buy a domain, change the dns settings, upload all the files, set up msql database for a blog, setup an autoresponder, set up email forwarding, edit the pages and the list goes on and on, that was only 1/2 the things you need to do…

It dawned on me that giving away a private label product is only 1/2 the solution. Setting it up and making it fully functional is what most people really need.

so, I’ll give away the private label product for free, that is my hook

and I’ll offer the fully installed, ready to market version as the upsell

I’m going to develop a website buyasite101.com and on the site the user will

1st hit a squeeze page, offering them a free private label resale product of their own.

After subscription is captured, I will land them on a sales page

They are able to read the sales page, and take advantage of the offer, or proceed right to the download page and grab there product in a winzip file.

On the sales page we will promise to

a) host the new product and sales page they just received

b) allow them to purchase their own domain name

c) Set up the domain name and provide them a c-panel log in area, complete with Fantastico and wordpress options

d) set up their payment processor with paypal for them

e) code and edit page with their name and personal contact information.

f) build and include a “contact” page and a “privacy” and “Terms of service” page

g) keep the site up and running 99.9% of the time.

h) set up an autoresponder for them, loaded with 10 pre-written messages

i) Provide them with a copy of my top secret “Traffic Blueprint”, the simple but so effective step by step process I use to generate traffic to my sites.

j) provide them with our easy to follow “blueprint To buying a domain name” including what to do with it after you buy it.

k) Ongoing access to our forum with access to me and all others to discuss things like marketing and site design and affiliate marketing

l) Our report detailing “How To Start Your Own Affiliate Program”

and much more..

Full ownership belongs to the customer, this is there site. They can do with it as they please.

All this will be offered for a low fee of less than $15 a month, possibly much lower.

All free members remain on one autoresponder, while paid members are moved onto a “customer” autoresponder.

We will continue to offer and promote the paid services to the free members, along with useful tips and trips to help them get set up and running, as well as traffic generation.

We will continue to support and market to “customers” in the hopes of moving them from one hosted product to another, and educate them with traffic tips to help them make money with their sites.

That is the concept. Pricing needs to be worked out and we can test price points as we proceed and do split testing (explained here)

Revenue per subscriber (free) needs to be worked out, and multiple sales pages need to be tested.

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Lots to do, here is the start of my list

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Buy a domain name and set up hosting. Set up email accounts

This is complete, May 25, 2009. I bought buyasite101.com at godaddy.com and I set up the hosting account with an existing multi-domain account I have at Host Gator.

Develop / Design the splash page

Decide on private label rights product to give away, do I need multiple, need to test?

set up Autoresponder to capture emails. Set up reminder to confirm page, setup thank you page, design a “contact, Terms of service” and privacy page”

Write and install 4-5 emails for AR series

design sales page, hook up payment process

package resale product, sales page, put product in a .zip file and upload it for subscribers to access.

Setup a reseller hosting account, so I can host these sites.

reseller account is best, it does auto billing for us..

Set up 5 sites on hosting, so they are ready to go.

marketing to include sending traffic to landing / splash page.

I believe that is it for now. over the next couple of days I’ll knock off these tasks and make a post as to how I completed the task.

Talk soon

Kevin @ Follow My Start Ups

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I have had the idea for a couple of weeks. Then about 4 days ago I thought that I would create a blog to document the whole thing.

I hummed and hawed a bit this am, surfed the net, then went to the gym.

It is now 1054 am.

Here is the idea. Or the group of ideas.

I have always loved the concept of web hosting. Over the years it has gotten so cheap in cost. And everyone needs it, or at least everyone who tries to be Internet marketer.

Recently, in the past year or so, I have been loving the idea of membership sites, or continuity sites. There are so many benefits in this type of business model.

Flip back to this hosting concept, and you can see that if you owned a hosting service, and customers paid you monthly for their hosting, it is really just a continuity program. you get to re-bill them every  month.  You got the customer once, you bill them monthly, and they stick around as long as you provided a needed service.

So selling hosting and owning a continuity membership business are really the same thing.

In the past, (and I remember paying over $3000 a month for my first dedicated server space, to operate my mailing business memail.com, 1996) hosting was very expensive.

Nowadays hosting is very inexpensive. the same account today for instance  would be about $200 a month.

And nowadays, you don’t even need to be technical to own your own hosting business, because, yes, that is right, there are affiliate programs out there. HostGator runs one of the best.

You can get a business account, or re-seller account for $49.00 a month, and host over 200 domains on the site. If you could charge users $10.00 a month per domain.. well the potential is huge.

And HostGator, or any other company, actually does the hosting and customer service.

Your job is to market the service.

OK, if you have been online for more than a day, then you know that web hosting is very competitive. Not that likely I could get too much traction if I just tried to setup and operate a web hosting business. So I need an angle, some type of hook that would convince a customer to use my web hosting services versus anyone else.

This is what spawned my idea two weeks ago.

I plan to give away a fully functional web site, a proven money making site where the owner just needs to drive traffic to the site and keep all the revenue from the site. It is their site, their domain their business that could actually be sold for profit.

And, I’m going to solve the number one obstical that most new online marketers struggle with.

I’m going to set up the site for them. Edit the pages. Setup their auto responder and here is the kicker… HOST the domain name and website for them for a small monthly fee. They will buy their own domain name and own the whole business.

I’m going to limit the number of sites I setup so the market is not saturated. Then I’ll find a different money making site, and repeat the process all over again. hopefully selling a 2nd site to existing customers and finding some new customers.

I figure by the time I have 1000 customers, they may have purchased 1500 hosting accounts from me, so if these accounts are just $10.00 a month, that is $15,000 monthly, or $180,000 a year revenue.  My costs to host these accounts would be under $400 a month, huuuum, think it will work?

Well, I have started this blog so you can follow along. I will try to explain each and every aspect of my thinking along the way, as well as the technical aspects of what I do. I’m not a programmer, I know how to set up a domain name and create a blog (very easy). I will post an article soon that explains both.

The next thing I want to layout is the flow, basically a “mindmap” that explains how I want customers to flow into the system, where I think they will come, what I think they will do at each stage of the process, and how I will communicate with them.

That will be my next post.

Then I’ll just go for it. And tell you exactly how I..

• Determine what profitable website and product to giveaway.
• Create a squeeze page to gather name and emails. 
• Set up an auto responder to communicate with the subscribers.
• Figure out how to track subscribers sent from affiliates or JV partners
• Set up my re-seller hosting account, so I’m ready for the first customer.
• Set up paypal to be my initial payment processor.
• Set up my own affiliate program
• Start the process of getting traffic to this blog and direct to the new site.
• Answer any questions you have along the way. 
• Set up a forum and email subscriber list right here on this blog
• Lots Of other things as I notice I need them

Kevin Needham

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ps:
Right here will also be the place (eventually, cause I’m going to be busy LOL)

• To find out how I set up this blog
• To find out how I included a forum
• To find out how this blog makes money
• To find out how to make a video and host it on your site or blog

So, tell me right now what questions you have, or what has been your biggest challenge

in getting your online business going?

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