I Didn’t Like Blogs When I First Saw Them! October 14, 2008
Posted by Riley West in : The Making of an Internet Marketer , add a commentThat’s right. I was all about websites. I learned how to make them. I learned how to get a domain name and hosting. That’s what actually takes your web files and presents it to the world as a screen filling webpage. It’s simple… you just have to get into it and get ‘er done.
I got my start making websites that feature furniture people have shown an interest in. I have an inventory right here in town. I have a store. Always have. Now I’m looking for another way to get people who might be interested in what I have to sell to come into my store.
And I’m finding out that folks don’t have to wonder, they can just follow a proven path!
I wanted to use websites to drive customers to my store. And, now, I am doing it. Customers are coming to my store daily and saying that they saw it on the net. Some say they found me on Google!
One of the things that used to perplex me was this idea. I put up some Google ads and people from Nairobi click. I pay for the click and they can’t come to Oregon.
No problem! Did you know that you can now trace a circle around on a map and set up your ads to ONLY run inside that circle! This is big.
We have had 16 months of record business and we attribute the increase in sales to the Google Adwords campaigns. And nobody clicks from Nairobi! Or even California.
I mean people now days are going to Google like the new phone book. And now you can use it for Stanley the Plumber in Eugene, Oregon.
I’ve been using Google Adwords for almost 2 years 24/7. I’ve made some mistakes and now I’m quite a bit better.
Now I also offer products in several countries but those are downloadable.
Stanley the Plumber doesn’t want to fix somebody’s toilet in New Zealand, even if they CAN speak English.
The point I’m making here is that, as soon as I made my first website, I ran over to Google Adwords and put an ad campaign together. I knew in the first days whether or not this was a winner and if it wasn’t I could pause and tweak it!
But, as you know, Google isn’t the only way to get traffic to a website. There’s lots of ways.
But Google is the only low effort, low cost (if you know what you are doing and are NOT forgetful) way to find out fast whether a site will sell or not.
So now, I get an idea, I make a simple website fast and advertise it on Google. That can still take me half a day but I’ll know whether I’m on to something or not 2 days later. That’s Testing!
Listen Guys and Gals. There are lots of clever dudes out there trying to sell you the latest greatest, wipe out the competition, keyword robot and cash collector.
Fuggeddabouditt! Stay small and learn the basics. Then you’ll not have to be embarrassed when someone asks you if you have websites. You’ll not feel awkward when they ask you if you have ever made any money at this, because you will have made some.
When I was a 12-13 year old I took newspapers down to the busy corner in my little town. I held them up and said “Read all about it!” I sold some.
Here’s the simple formula for busting in to the world of Internet Marketing.
Learn to build a webpage so you can put together an offer!
Learn to name the project (Get a domain name)
Learn to get it hosted.
Learn to Upload files to your ISP’s servers. Now you are up and online.
Now - Get Traffic to your offer. Hope they buy. If they don’t buy - know why!
Getting Traffic - that’s the biggie. Lots more on that later.
Your comments are welcome,
Riley West - An Oregon pioneer making his way in the trade.
PS: Start out right bylearning how to make a webpage.
psps: If the offer above doesn’t interest you (which would surprise me!) get my FREE PDF.
After you read this you will have webpage building software AND a real opportunity for making a few bucks on the web.
