Intro Courses

Making IT Online is not as easy as it was just a few years ago. When I first began, back in 1996, you could just slap up a website, throw some traffic at it and start making sales.

Of course it was also a lot more expensive to get started back then as well. Domain names were $35/year and hosting costs were out of this world. Back then I traded my website designer hours in exchange for hosting fees. Today however you can start your online business for less than $13! An $8 domain name and a $5/month hosting account and you’re set to go, get some content up and start selling!

But with the lower cost comes stronger competition and a lot more of it!

It barely matters what your interest, target market, or niche is - there are hundreds of sites, owners, and products clamoring for your attention. And your wallet.

The answers to making it online are no longer a petty mix of having a product to sell, getting traffic to a website, a little search engine optimization, and building a list.

No. The secrets to success online (and I mean real success, not just $1000 a month success), are now buried underneath a higher learning curve, powerful alliances, resonating with your market, letting your personality shine through, and staying on top of the newest and hottest techniques in online marketing, promotion. You’ve got to have your hand on the pulse at all times - in fact, you have to be the pulse in your marketplace!

This site has been designed to help you through all that. I’m still in ‘build’ mode, so the high end knowledge is not here yet, but it is coming. First we must get the basics out of the way and that is what the Ask Laura section aims to do. Real questions, from real people, with real answers. If you don’t ‘get it’ then leave a comment on the post or article that doesn’t make sense to you and I’ll reply shortly.

If you already have the basics down, it is time to head into the online learning tutorials. The very first has begun at profiting from the public domain. More will be following shortly.

As always if you need me, use the contact form - linked from every page in either the top bar or the extreme right sidebar.

Laura Childs
www.makemoneywithyourideas.com

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