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20 Reasons to have your own Website. |
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 09:54 |
20 Reasons to have your own Website.
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Get a Domain name. Get Hosting. Write your pages. Upload. Tell the World.
Reasons to have your own Website:
1. Improve your Credibility as an Internet Marketer, as a Teamleader.
2. Send email using your chosen domain name.
3. Make your training info/tips easily available to your affiliates by writing it on a webpage.
4. Setup a Blog on your site. (CPanel hosting make it a 5 minutes task using Fantastico on
CPanel to auto-install a WordPress blog on your website). Posting to your Blog on a regular basis
will improve your site's exposure on the Search Engines. I have just been learning about how to use your
WordPress Blog to get traffic to your site from the Social BookMarking sites. It is in some ways similar to posting
ads to Free Classified sites. I will tell you more on this later.
5. Similarly auto-install a Forum where your Team's affiliates could help one another and you could
help them all. You could make a private formum for your SFI Team Members only.
6. Adding your own content on a regular and continued basis will likely get you noticed by the Search Engines.
You could allow your affiliates to submit Articles which you could host for them to get them a link back to their
site or to their SFI Gateway.
7. Initially you could setup a page to FRAME your favorite SFI Gateway (or for several Gateways).
8. Make ebooks, software, Special Reports downloadable in your Teammembers Only section.
9. Host a site for one of your affiliates as a folder of your main website.
For instance mysfiwebsite.com/XXXXXXXX where XXXXXXXX could be their affiliate number or their name or company name.
10. Remember that the site can do much more for you than just contain a link to your SFI Gateway.
11. Setup an RSS feed so you can deliver your Sales messages or Training messages without needing their email address.
If you need to become familiar with RSS, first get an RSS reader and find a site with an RSS feed to subscribe to.
My favorite reader is free at: http://rssreader.com (That site also has an RSS Feed Publisher for free.)
12. Setup a Form on a page to collect visitors name and email address. Set the form to post the information to your
Autoresponder or at least a database on your site.
13. Setup a page for exchanging relevant links to other websites to improve in bound links.
14. Allows you to join Traffic Swarm or other traffic exchanges to get some free traffic. Copy/pasting code to some of
your pages (following instructions).
15. Install (follow instructions) an Autoresponder on your webserver so you can use it to automate your email followup tasks.
Get this Easy Install - Ultimate AutoResponder
16. By copy/pasting some code, you can setup a webpage to redirect to another page. This allows you to hide your
affiliate number from your link.
17. You can also use the redirection code above to shorten a long affiliate URL. http://moreinfo247.com/xxxxxxx/free
could become http://mydomain.com/sfi/
18. Setup a FAQ (frequently asked questions) page to post those questions that you are often asked and your person
answer to each question.
19. Put Audio or Video on a webpage. Saves you typing and saves the Visitor Reading.
20. Sell the Skills that you learn to write sites for others.
I'm working on another list of 20.
john
Get a Domain name. Get Hosting. Write your pages. Upload. Tell the World. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 10 March 2008 00:28 )
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How to Become a Website Hosting Company |
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Written by John A. Wilson, Jr.
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Sunday, 09 March 2008 13:23 |
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That means that they provide the space for someone to place their webpages. It will be on a computer called a Web Server. A Web Server is just a computer that is attached to the Internet with a fast connection. It has special software loaded so that it will respond for requests for web pages.
As with much that is for sale on the Internet, you can find a wide range of prices. You can pay too much for too little. And by doing a lot of searching and comparing you can narrow your list down. I have already done a lot of that searching and digging and reading and listing and comparing. How about $25.00/month? (I am using this service, myself and recommend it.) http://www.xis1.com You can use a search engine and search for "reseller web hosting" which will be less expensive than "dedicated web server". Try them both to get a sense of what is out there.
- How Long Will it Take to Set Up?
Depending on what type of hosting you choose, you can get it setup within a day, usually and within a few days even in the case of dedicated servers.
- What Technical Skill Does it Require?
You don't really need much technical skill. There are a few steps involved, but it's all really pretty simple. The difficulty is in the fact that you have never done it before and that you don't know what to do or in what order. >>Domain NamesSome of those things are what is a domain name, how much does it cost, where do I get one and why must I have one, anyway.First of all, you need one because almost all hosting now is setup using domain names and not I.P. (Internet Protocol) addresses. You will need a domain name, even if you only host websites that you own. Get one here: http://go-domainnames.com
· Name Servers
Without getting technically complicate, it goes like this: When you purchase your domain name, it is easiest if you already know the Names Server information for your hosting account. You will be given this information by the Hosting Company. It is in the form of 2 addresses like
Nameserver1: NS1.MYNAMESERVER.COM
Nameserver2: NS2.MYNAMESERVER.COM
So, if you already know this BEFORE you purchase your domain name, you can usually enter this information at the same time that you purchase your domain name.
Using the Web Host Control PanelThe most common are CPanel/WHM, and Plesk. As usual, you have to make a decision. But if you have never used either. Just learn to use the one that comes with your hosting. The link shown above uses the first one, which I think is a little more user friendly.
- How Do I Get Started, Today?
Have a notepad and write down information as you go through. You WILL need that information later on. Save on this step by getting RoboForm's free version and that program will remember this for you. http://roboform.com
2. Get a domain name and at the same time, list the name servers with the domain name registrar.
3. Follow the instructions which you will be given from HostingWithUs to setup your first web hosting account. Note: You may not want to ReSell hosting accounts, but for this price, you can just set up your own hosting accounts and some for your Friends, Affiliates, and Family. Do it for your own websites first because as a User, you will have to learn the CPanel control panel. You will then be able to guide your customers in using it. More info at: http://xis1.com |
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Last Updated ( Friday, 14 March 2008 14:03 )
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How to Install a Free Follow Up Autoresponder |
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Written by John Wilson
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Wednesday, 05 March 2008 16:15 |
Follow Up Emails Easiest Autoresponder Install
"The Fortune is in the Follow Up."
Get this free version of a Smart Autoresponder.
(I have evaluated a bunch of autoresponder, this is the best free one that I know about.)
It is called "Email Marketing Assistant".
More info including the features: http://www.emailmarketingassistant.com/ema.free.php
Download the script here: http://www.emailmarketingassistant.com/ema.free.1.1.zip
The one significant thing missing is a double opt-in system. The double opt-in system that automatically sends the subscriber an email requiring them to click a link in order to get added to your list. You will want this at some point. But if you just want to see what installing a script is like, this is a nice one to try.Oh, it is a script that runs on your website. If you don't have a website this is one of the strongest reasons to get one. It will run on inexpensive ($5/month) hosting. I am going to add it to the hosting package that I give my Executive Affiliates. I will install it on their website for them.
Follow up should be done promptly and regularly after that. Don't let too much time go by before you contact a new affiliate.
If you are sending any new lead through your own website so that you might persuade her to give you her Name and Email address and her permissison to send her follow up information, you will have that in your database of some sort.
This free version will autogenerate the html code that you copy/paste into a webpage to create the signup form!
If they are in your downline from another Sponsor, then you may not have their email address, but you should be able to contact them through SFI's Contact Manager. In that contact try to send them to your website to sign up for your newsletter, follow up mailing list. Or give them some reason to send an email to you. That email will have a return address on it and they will have initiate contact with you directly.
If we look at a new affiliate, starting their Affiliate list, it will come slowly. But, the time to automate follow up is at that stage, NOT later, when you have too much to do, anyway. So start early to put together your follow up list.
You can handle it in the very early stages when you are getting an affilate or two each week or even each day, by just creating a Welcome email - then copy/pasting that into a new email addressed to each new affiliate. (You do know about copy/paste??)
But the problem comes in when you try to keep up with which of your follow up emails you sent to each person last.
The Smart Autoresponder is the program that solves this problem and gives you more at the same time.
The Smart Autoresponder is capable of sending out a sequence of email messages, at specified intervals to a list, and personalizes the messages with their name and enters their email address and sends the mail for you all automatically, once you have it setup.
Contact Manager cannot do this for you. It is a Broadcast system. It sends the same message to a given group of people. But it is for those affiliates who have nothing better. You should get something better as soon as you can. The sooner you do, the less you will have to enter into the system.
There will be instructions for installing the script. Once you download and unzip the files, look for:
instllationguide.html (they misspelled it) for the steps to install and
00readme.html for the Intructions on Using the Autoresponder.
It will require you to upload files, change permissions on the files, create a database in MySQL from your hosting control panel, create a user and set that user's password. But it really sounds more complicated than it really is.
Note: (from personal experience- I goofed here.)
When you create the database in MySQL and a user and password for that database it will be
that database name, user and password that you will fill into the boxes when you run the install.db.php script during the install. If you don't get this right it will stall on you here. I did not get it right but an email to support got me help within an hour.
Once installed, you login to the autoresponder by going to the folder that you installed it in as for example:
http://mydomain.com/ema/home.php login and create your follow up email campaigns.
You could probably get it done in an hour or two.
The next script installation you do will be easier. Keep notes as you go through the process.
Then you can teach your affiliates to do it.
Remember, Learn, DO, Teach to duplicate and grow your business.
Good luck,But if you find this a little to "techie" for you, see how easy it can be:Easiest Autoresponder Install |
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Last Updated ( Sunday, 09 March 2008 22:59 )
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