How To Build Your Own Website And Make Money With It
June 11, 2008 – 9:24 amWhilst it is possible to make money on the Internet without a website, it’s far easier when you actually have your own site.
Why is this?
1) Branding - when you have a website you have a “central hub” of your business and customers soon get to know your domain name and hence exactly where they can find you. When I want to buy a book I don’t search for it in Google, I go straight to Amazon. Without their website they’d lose my business.
You can also list your website address on letterheads, on business cards, in articles, in directories and so on so others can quickly learn where to find you.
2) Free Traffic - without your own website it’s far harder to generate free traffic from the search engines and missing out on hundreds or even thousands of potential leads each day is like throwing money down the drain. It’s how I make 90%+ of my monthly income and I wouldn’t be without it for the world.
3) Leverage - when you have your own website you see both repeat visitors and can leverage it by setting up your own affiliate program to draw even more visitors to it. Both of these are difficult to impossible without your own website.
4) Lead Generation - by setting up your own mailing list you can repeatedly market to the same leads and so increase the lifetime value of your leads - and make your marketing more cost-effective.
The easiest way to go about this is to set up a form on your website so people can sign up for newsletters, special offers, product updates etc. from you and this can rapidly build a list of thousands of interested people.
The other way is that the shopping cart you use on your ecommerce website can record the details of everyone who buys from you so you can market to them again in the future.
Having your own mailing list is like being able to make cash on demand. Any time you need extra money you just fire out a message to your list and wait for the sales to come in.
It’s the closest thing to having a perfect business that there is.
5) Contextual Advertising - many webmasters with their own sites earn even more money each month by adding contextual advertising - such as Adsense - to their sites. However this advertising can only be placed on websites you own. None of the “website-free” businesses discussed below will allow you to indulge in this easy, cost-effective business model.
Infact, the truth of the matter is that with developments taking place at such a rate now, having your own website is neither expensive, time-consuming or difficult and many services and pieces of software exist to make having your own website so easy you won’t believe it.
I’ve just found a small set of videos that promises to teach you the simplest way possible to get your own website online - in just 5 steps and at a cost of less than $5 a month.
Below is an outline of the process…
To learn more, simply visit the full how do I build a website tutorial site at www.5DollarsAnd5Steps.com
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