Ask Laura About Getting Started

There will be quite a few of these question and answer series in the Ask Laura section of makemoneywithyourideas.com – I get a lot like the one that follows below.

As you’ll see, there are many ways to build and promote a business online, even more ways to make money from your efforts.

Your First Website – Ask Laura (August 24, 2005)

Laura,

I have been researching all the guru’s on the net trying to decide how I should go about starting a web project I have in mind.

What bothers me is so many experts that give out different “solutions”. I guess in reality, there really are many different ways to skin a cat.

Well, I still don’t have a web site or a product even though I have lots of ideas for products, etc. I have decided that when I get a site I will use your materials as best I can.

You seem very sincere and I feel that I can trust you and not go down the wrong path. My whole purpose for doing this is to raise monies for Christian missionaries around the globe. But I can’t quite decide where to start; sometimes I think I should just start an affiliate site and develop my own stuff later.

Would RSS and blogs be good for that type of venture? Sooner or later I need to stop studying and pick a path and get on with it.

Thanks and God Bless,
Gene

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Hi Gene thanks for writing!

And thanks for your kind words. You came along just when I needed to hear it!

You need to do whatever it is going to take to get you moving forward. If it is easiest to set up an affiliate site, then go down that road. If you want to start grabbing subscribers to a newsletter (so you can tell them about your own product later) then start right away. If you’re nearly completed with a product offering then finish that and get selling!

I guess what I’m trying to say is the hardest part of this all is actually getting started!

Once you’ve got some momentum there isn’t much that can hold you back.

To become successful you will need all three – a mailing list, your own product, and other people’s products that you believe in.

You can start with either of the three, pick which one you are most comfortable with and begin.

It is easier for many to set up a mini-site, write a small product, sell it at clickbank (that way other affiliates will send you traffic), and start collecting email addresses. Then you grow your business from there…

Let me know more about you and maybe I can provide you with something better than general information…

Laura

p.s. by the way I was in ’study mode’ myself for quite a few years before I got busy and started implementing some of the stuff I had learned.

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