About

Greetings! My name is Laura Childs and I’m creating this website as a means to an end.

An end to:

• all the questions I get, both personally and in online email, on how to actually make money online with your own website,
• all the requests I receive for business, marketing and webmaster consultation (at free or low budget rates – honestly!),
• being upset about the hundreds of people I’ve heard from who spend thousands of dollars buying info-products online that didn’t get them any closer to their goal (because the entire business of starting, running and promoting an online business was never explained to them),
• feeling like I need to help all who ask, then being exhausted myself, and my family and hobbies suffer as a result,
• and likely one or two more reasons that I just can’t think of right now, on why I’ve decided to put this website together.

Why Should You Take My Advice As A Complete Stranger?

If, in fact that’s what you are – you really shouldn’t take my advice without a little research first. I could be anyone, or no one. And I seriously want you to consider that notion, before you take any business advice from anyone online.

There are a lot of self-proclaimed gurus online, people who profess to know all the angles in online business – yet have only just starting running one themselves! Before you click the order button on any website you should seriously check out the person’s creditentials. Run a google search on their names if you have to – spend 5 minutes reading what the online community has to say about them, their methods, and their experience. If you can’t find anything – beware! If you can only find references to just one website that they own – beware!

Now, as for me, I am not a guru although many people have put that status upon me. In truth, I have expertise in some areas, and a healthy dose of generalized information in others. I own over 30 websites – about 15 of them successful, the remainder put on hold or in progress. Some sites are registered in my name, some in family members and others are registererd through domains by proxy. (Domains by proxy is the best way to keep your contact info private.)

My specialties are: blogs, rss syndication, traffic, search engine optimization, and ensuring user experience.

My heightened generalized knowledge is in: marketing best practices, defining markets, idea generation, and online press releases.

Other generalized skills include: website creation including coding and scripting, writing to meet the marketplace, article syndication, simplified graphics.

Some experience with: using video to inform, educate and make a sale, copywriting – and just about every other skill required to run a successful online business. If it’s an option, I’ve tried it – whether or not I excel at it is another story. (There’s no sense in pretending that I ‘rock’ at everything – there just isn’t enough time in the day.)

If you want to see what the online world says about me – before you invest your time and possibly your money – you can run a google search here. That search is for my name with the qualifier of ‘make money’. You could run the same search with a qualifier of ‘marketing’, ‘rss’, ‘blogs’, ’success’, or anything else you can think of – you’ll find, in each search well over 500 online references for each qualifier. Take Note: Not every Laura Childs is the ‘me’ Laura Childs. If you find reference to murder, tea shops or Gerry Schmidt those articles and posts are referring to an American author who uses my name as a psydonym. She writes a series of Tea Shop Murder Mysteries that are loved by women around the world, and they’re quite good, I’ve even read a few myself!

Why Take My Business Advice As A Friend or Associate?

You’re here because I’ve sent you. You’re one of the people in my life who are forever asking me to make them a website, make their website successful, come up with an idea for a business for them, define their market, get them more traffic, make them more sales, evaluate their website, rewrite or proof their info-product, fix their graphics or formating or spelling mistakes – and so on.

I love you all dearly, but I can’t look after each and every one anymore.

This website is as much for you as it is for the strangers who land here. As a matter of fact I initially had the idea for this website to serve you. I want you to learn to do all these things yourself – to make your online business a success by your own blood, sweat and tears.

This website is a labor of love as well as a necessity. Veronica turns 13 in a few months and sometimes I feel I barely know her. I’ve spent her life at this computer – making my fortune and helping others to do the same.

Now it’s time for you. Learn what you need to know here and apply it to your own business.

Next week I’ll be posting a short quiz. Through that quiz you’ll be able to discover which area of online business you need to know more about, how to get the information, and how to apply it to your business.

Until then, browse around or head over to my marketing blog.

Love, respect, and prayers for you,

Laura Childs
www.makemoneywithyourideas.com