Getting Started Online For Free
I recently received a helpdesk request that went something like this:
I’d really like to use EasyTrafficBar.com, but I have no website, no prospects and no products. What can I do?
This is one of many similar questions I’ve received lately and it’s exactly the kind of thing I was talking about yesterday. The obvious answer to the question is, “Do SOMETHING!” Doing ANYTHING is better than doing NOTHING. And you won’t progress until you start.
So, if you’re in the same boat and want to know what to do to get started, here’s my recommendation for getting the show on the road and it won’t cost you a dime:
- Get a free blog account at Blogger.com. (Why Blogger.com? It’s the only free service I’ve found so far that you can easily add an EasyTrafficBar.com traffic bar to.)
- Get a free autoresponder account from GetResponse.com or SendFree.com.
- Get a free EasyTrafficBar.com account and add the traffic bar to your blog template.
- In the members’ area of EasyTrafficBar.com, set up your autoresponder subscription form using the information from your free autoresponder account (from step 2).
- Subscribe to your own autoresponder (I know, it sounds weird, but do it anyway).
- Start blogging often (try to make it everyday). And every time you post a new article on your blog, send a note to your autoresponder subscribers to get them to come read the new article (even if it’s only you that gets the message at first).
- Once a week (more often if you’d like), take one of the articles you wrote during the week and rewrite it. You might even want to use 2 or more of your posts to make one longer article. You want something about 600 to 800 words but it can’t be word for word from your blog. You have to rewrite it. Post that article on as many article sites as you can find and put a link back to your blog in the author’s resource box for the article.
This will get you started. Now, your next question will be, “What should I write about in my blog?” That’s up to you. Make it something you know a lot about or can learn a lot about in a short period of time.
You might want to do some keyword research to see how good the market is for your topic. And by “good,” I don’t necessarily mean “big.” A good market is one in which everyone shares some passion, problem or pain -AND- has money to spend on it -AND- has proven they are willing to spend their money on it.
Unlike the “gurus” who tell you to stay away from the business-to-business and work-at-home crowds, I will tell you straight up that this is a “good” market. People in this market share the same passions, problems and pains. By-and-large, they have money to spend. And, most importantly, they have proven over and over again that they are willing to spend it.
But, you’ve got to ask yourself what you really know about this market? Do you know something about making money online that few others do? Do you have some technical expertise that you can share with people in this market? Can you build tools to help people promote themselves and their products? Your competition can. Be prepared.
I’ll be posting more information on getting started online in future articles, so stay tuned.
- Daniel Joseph Moran
