Jul
29
Hosting your site Free VS. Paid
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Good Evening Everyone!
Today’s post deals with the issues of web hosting. If you’re going to have a web site you’re going to need a hosting provider. Your main choice will be to go with paid or free hosting.
When most internet marketers are just starting out, monthly expenses play a large part in how they go about setting up their E-Commerce site. Hosting from an internet hosting service is a recurring expense that many feel they can avoid by choosing a free hosting service.
While there are many free hosting services available, it is NOT in your best interest to choose one. As tempting as it may be to avoid that $25 - $50 dollar a month expense, it’s definitely not the choice you should make.
In a few circumstances it may be unavoidable to go with free hosting to start with. But for the most part paid service is going to be your best bet.
When you are trying to convince someone to part with their hard earned money, trust and credibility are probably the two main points you need to develop with your potential customer. Now most of your free hosting services obviously are not free out of the goodness of their hearts. They are in this to make money, just like everyone else. So if they are not charging you for their service where is the money coming from?
Advertising, first and foremost if a site is offering free hosting service, they are getting at least part of their revenue through selling ad space. And where is that ad space? On your website. It can be in the form of banner ads, pop ups, or a variety of other ways. But somewhere along the way your site will be advertising for the host company or for someone who has paid the host company to run their ads.
Now your main goal here is to make sales and collect the cash, right? So why do you want to advertise on your site for someone else? Especially when you are getting no benefit from it? The only ads that you want on your site are your own affiliate ads, where if someone clicks on that ad you are getting income from the click or from the purchase they make when they get to the advertisers site, or your own ads for your own products.
When someone comes to your site, and it’s a free hosting site, 9 times out of 10 the visitor is going to be able to tell it’s a free hosting deal. Do you really think that person is going to be willing to purchase something from someone who can’t even afford the price of monthly hosting, or going to trust the products you are selling? Probably not.
If you absolutely have NO money to start with I suppose a free site is better than no site, but do yourself a favor, as soon as you can, make the switch to paid hosting. Your credibility and integrity will improve by leaps and bounds over the free hosted site.
Another disadvantage to free hosting is the lack of good support as well as all the bells and whistles that usually do NOT come with a free hosting package. So if you absolutely have to go with free hosting to start out with, then do it. You can always upgrade to a paid hosting plan as soon as finances allow it. Remember lack of taking action is the number one reason why many internet marketers don’t get off the ground. Don’t be one of the ones sitting around all day “thinking” about making money online, get off your rear end and do something!
Well that’s it for today, good luck and remember all my subscribers get free one on one help with all their internet marketing madness. So head on over to my site I Love Working On The Web.com and sign up for my free newsletter, and get your biz going!
cya!
Mike
I Love Working On The Web.com
Jul
15
Greetings All!
Todays post is a re-post from my first blog which has long since been regulated to the vast reaches of the internet void. For those not familiar with the story I changed my web hosting and the short version is I lost my old blog and all it’s posts….alas.
Anyway I have been trying to devise a way to easily replace the posts and have resigned myself to the fact that I will just have to re-post them manually, oh the joy of it all. Anyway this post is from an article I wrote which deals with the question that seems to be on everybodys brain pan… how the heck can I make money online. So without further ado read on….
This article delves into the various ways to make money online. When I first started surfing around on the net 15 or so odd years ago I had no idea that I could actually make money online. But a few years ago as I read more and more stories about the dot com explosion, and eventual collapse, and heard stories about overnight millionaires and slow but steady millionaires I figured “hey if they can do it, why can’t I”? And so began my quest into making money on the internet. Surprisingly enough I found that there were basically 3 ways to make money online.
1 ) Sell your own stuff
2 )Sell other peoples stuff
3 )Sell ads on your site
Now obviously there are many variations on the above 3 items…but those are basically the main ways to make money online. So if you break those 3 things down you come up with the following options.
1 ) Sell your own stuff.
This can be accomplished in quite a few ways. Ebay is one way, cleaning out your attic or garage and putting your stuff up for sale. Purchasing discount or closeout items and selling them on Ebay. Creating your own product, crafts, artwork, info products, the latest greatest mousetrap, etc., and then selling it on Ebay. You can sell almost anything on Ebay, ( I believe body parts are out of the question in case anyone’s thinking about selling their extra kidney or anything like that). 8 ) But Ebay is only one avenue to sell your stuff.
You can put up a website of your own, or utilize something like Ebay stores or Paypal Shops, or any of a number of other storefront options available on the web for setting up shop and selling your stuff.
The main benefit to this option is you pretty much get to keep all the profits for yourself, (unless you are offering affiliate partners a share of the profits), so all the money make you get to keep yourself. And you have complete control of the product you are selling, no worries about whether or not the product is worthwhile or a some junk someone is trying to pawn off on unsuspecting customers.
The main drawback to this is more work. You have to create, buy, or find whatever it is you are going to sell. You have to ship it or make it available for download, or however it is you are going to get your stuff to the buyer. You have to set up a website or pay someone to create your site if you are selling from your own website. You have to deal with customer support, refunds, etc. So in a nutshell more work…but more $$$.
2) Sell other peoples stuff.
This is probably one of the easiest ways to make money online. You can become an affiliate marketer, you advertise somebody’s product for them, direct customers to their site, the customer purchases said product, and you get paid a commission from the seller. You don’t have to deal with product development, customer complaints, payment processing, etc. All you do is drive traffic to the vendors site and collect your share of the money when they buy.
This is probably the easiest way for newcomers to start out making money online. When you are first starting out you usually don’t have a website, or a list to promote and sell to, or a product, or anything actually except a desire to figure out how the heck to make money online! So affiliate marketing is usually a good choice to “get your feet wet” so to speak and start generating an income online.
3) Sell other peoples ads on your site.
This is probably one of the hardest ways to make money online in my opinion. At least initially. To be able to sell ad space on your own site you are going to need a pretty large traffic count coming to your site to be able to charge any kind of money for ad space. You are going to be hard pressed to convince anyone to pay any kind of real money to advertise on your website if you don’t have a few thousand people dropping by your site on a regular basis.
Ads and affiliate marketing are 2 ways to generate money on your blog, and if you can generate enough interest on a topic on your blog you could start getting a good base of traffic coming to your blog. But even with a good topic it’s going take a while to generate enough traffic to start selling ad space on your blog.
So there you have it. Now you just have to decide which way you want to go. Get out there and do some research into the different venues and see which one appeals to you. Ideally you would eventually branch out into all 3 ways. Remember multiple streams of income is the way to go. You don’t want to rely on just one thing if you are looking to replace your daily 9-5 grind with an income from the internet.
So there you have it. I will try and post at least 3 or 4 times a week till I get all my previous posts back up here. In the meantime feel free to drop by my site and sign up for my Home Business Tips Newsletter. It’s free and I offer free one on one email support for all my subscribers. Any and all questions or problems are welcome. Remember there are no dumb questions, only unanswered ones.
Cya!
Mike
I Love Working On The Web.com
Jul
1
Today I am going to address the biggest problem newcomers are encountering in their quest to Work From Home. The problem starts before they even get started, it’s called Information Overload. If you are just starting out you need to read this article before you get buried alive in information overload. Believe me it will happen. I am speaking from personal experience.
There are a wide variety of ways to make money online today. Affiliate marketing, create and sell your own product, (i.e. and e-book), selling P.L.R., ( Private Label Rights products), Google AdSense, etc. The list goes on and on. So what happens to many newcomers who don’t know how they want to make money online? They begin to search for information on many of these options of how to make money online.
A search on Google or Yahoo! for work from home, or make money online will bring you an unbelievable amount of links to pages telling you how to go about it. Of course just about all the pages that you go to will have some sort of free newsletter offer, or a free report, or free resell rights products that you can get if you will just give them your name and email address. So your average newcomer begins giving their name and email address to receive their information and then the fun begins!
You suddenly have become very popular! Your in-box is filling up daily with emails from all over. Every one has a product or program that they want you to buy and you can’t possible live without. So you dash on over to check out someone’s site. Suddenly you are sucked in by the brilliant graphics, bold blazing headlines, and unbelievable claims. And if they are good the spiel grabs you, your eyes glaze over, you suddenly see yourself sitting in your hot tub in your new million dollar house, as your butler brings you your martini, as you look out to see your new Hummer sitting out in your driveway next to your black Lamborghini. The next thing you know you are getting out your credit card or logging into your PayPal account to buy their product.
So you have downloaded your new latest and greatest product and you jump right in. After reading through the information for an hour or so you sadly realize your dream of calling your boss tomorrow to say “I QUIT! I’ve hit the mother lode on the internet”, is not going to happen.
So off you go back to sorting through all your emails, (which have been piling up again while you were out getting your last latest and greatest product). Suddenly there’s another one! A product that MUST be the one and off you go again, and again, and again. You begin to jump from one program or product to the next. Telling yourself the next one will be it. That one that delivers what they all say, “No work, all automated, just sit back and collect your money”.
The next thing you know you have a dozen or so products sitting on your shelves or on your hard drive just waiting for you to” Strike it Rich”. Listen, it’s not going to happen like that. Whether you choose Affiliate Marketing, eBay, sell your own e-book, M.L.M., Network Marketing, whatever it is, it’s going to take some work and it’s not going to happen overnight.
Do your research, find out how to become an eBay God, or an Affiliate Marketing Madman. Find out exactly what’s going to be involved in whichever one appeals to you. Then pick one and stay focused on it! Don’t get lured away by some other programs or products. Stick with one and make it work. Then you can branch off into other venues.
And do yourself a favor. Get another email account from Yahoo!, Hotmail, Google, or Gmail, anywhere - Use that email address as you begin to sign up for all those reports and newsletters, and product downloads and whatever else you need in your research in deciding how you want to make money in your quest to work from home.
It is possible to make money from home on the web. In between all the scams and hype and bs there are legitimate products and programs that will help you on your way. Many people are out there doing it. You can be one of them. Just be realistic. Don’t expect miracles. And with some work and research and dedication you to can be one of them!
Well that’s it for this evening gang, have a good one!
Mike
I Love Working On The Web.com
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