Hey everyone, I hope you all are doing great!

I had sent this post out to everyone on my mailing list but I really felt that it was important enough that it deserved a post on the blog too. These are some things I’ve been doing to help my business and thought it would be extremely beneficial to you too.

So far since I’ve been learning this business and growing my websites, the things that have helped me most has been good training. There is a lot to get your arms around when you’re just getting started… You’ve got keywords, ad words, ppc, cpa, niche building, link building, …. GEEZE!  It’s enough to make your head spin and most of the time it really does!  The hardest part is that it’s really difficult to get organized.

So where do you start?

The first thing you need to do is to NOT BUY ANYTHING!  I know that may sound strange especially with the onslaught of ads from everyone telling how fast they are making money.  But honestly, if your not making money yet, you don’t need to buy anything.  You can make monecay without spending cash.. REALLY!

There two things that most people will try to sell you… Information and Tools.

INFORMATION

Most of the information that you really need you can get for free. Or from free offers.  I’ll be doing my best to post new articles to my site as well as email new site building tips every week.

If you feel you want to ramp up faster and want to get some training then I would HIGHLY recommend going with either the Wealthy Affiliate guys or the Stompernet guys. Both of these groups are the best and will help you get further in less time then you could alone.  Right now the Stompernet folks are offering a great deal where you get Stomping the Search Engines 2.0 and a copy of their new magazine NetEffect for free for the first month.  This is really a ton of info and its free. If your interested sign up here.

TOOLS

Now for tools. You don’t have to spend anything here either. There are some really good tools out there to help and they are all FREE! Below is a list that will help you get going without any cash outlay. Don’t you just love free stuff?? 

the GIMP – Free Photoshop like tool
Paint.NET – another Free graphics tool similar to Photoshop

Good Keywords – Free keyword tool
WebCEO – directory submission and SEO tool
Free Wordtracker – one of the best online keyword tools and its Free
Google External Keyword Tool – its Google, what more can be said.

I hope this list helps and until next time stay cool and keep building your sites!

To your monster success,

Joe

P.S. – For a jump start on some free PLR content and graphics, check out my free downloads at WebsiteMonsterProfits.com

Its funny how you get in the middle of a great project and then distraction after distraction takes you away from your beloved project.  Lately I’ve been feeling it first hand…  these past couple of weeks have been just crazy busy.  I was on a roll for a while and really knocking out some videos and chapters for the new online course, when BLAM!  Life comes in and reminds you “Oh shit! I have to pay the bills!”

Between work and family sometimes its down right impossible to make any progress.  And we all know, its not like you can just sit down and start hammering out stuff. Its takes a bit to get back into the frame of mind you were in when you last left off where you started.

The good thing is that projects like these are patient. They wait for our lives to settle down so we can begin again at building our niches, and our products hoping to share some of the lessons we’ve learned.

Well, I’m writing this while at work and I have to get back to it. I promise I’ll put up the first of the new videos soon so I can get some feedback from you guys!

Until next time!

Joe

Thank goodness for weekends!  This weekend was amazing. I was able to complete a good portion of the Video’s for the new course and got about a 3rd of the way through the ebook.  My biggest problem is by far the eBook.  I’m really a bad typist and almost as bad of a proof-reader- lol.  I get my thoughts together and the writing begins but the mistakes begins as well.  I’m glad my girlfriend doesn’t mind proof-reading and correcting my gramar.

But so far I’m really ecstatic over how things are turning out.  The first 11 chapters are just wonderful.  If you guys ever get a chance to play around with Camtasia, you should.  Its a neat application and its free for the first 30 days!  With any luck I’ll be able to complete this project without spending a single dime!! whew hoo!

With eleven chapters to go I can begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. I just need to start limiting the scope of the project. Every day I find new plugins to discuss and each one I feel is a must have or needs to be talked about.

If you have a favorite plugin for WordPress let me know. Hit the Contact tab at the top of the screen and I’ll do a review of it for you and include it in the new book.

Thanks for all the suggestions so far!

Joe

I thought I would write about my new project and document each step of the way so you can see how I’m going about things, what works and what doesn’t. I’m far from perfect and dare I air out my mistakes.  I know I will be looking back at this and go.. “eww.. I shouldn’t have done that!”.. HEHE – Oh well, its a learning process for us all.

So my goal is, and I hope its not too lofty considering I really have no idea what I’m doing, is to develop a series of videos and an ebook to go long with it. I’ll be giving away the end product here on my blog. The product if you havent seen it yet will be WordPress Plugins Exposed.

Some of the things I have started or completed are:

• General concept of the product
• Domain check and marketing research
• Purchased domain name and threw up a basic template -
• The basic outline of the eBook and video series
• Rough draft of chapter one and begun work on chapter two of the eBook
• a rough draft of the graphic logo

So some of the things on my todo list right now for this project and not necessarily in the correct order

• Create the graphics for the header page of the product site
• Pick a blog theme or site theme for the product site
• Get familiar with Camtasia for the video capture stuff (hopefully I can create all of the videos during the trial)
• Get the website to a point where it can begin aging and get it indexed so when content starts getting posted it will begin to rank

My hope if to work a few hours every day on the eBook or creating videos for each module.