Posted by Bigcash on June 28th, 2008
Creating a website can be both frustrating and time consuming, but the end results can be more than enough to keep any newbie webmaster determination high enough to push toward the ultimate dream of having a profitable and enjoyable website that has thousands of people visiting each and every day. The truth, it’s a very competitive area, but that shouldn’t hamper any one’s website dreams. There is room out in the world of cyberspace, and their are welcoming visitors waiting to find your new creations.
Just like a normal business, and yes, creating, developing, and maintaining websites is a business and should be treated as such, you should create a initial business plan, thus giving you direction as you move forward. This is especially important if you do indeed need to acquire any type of funding.
Here are the First Steps:
- Research your idea. (You may find that your idea may have a large competitor base, to which will hamper any instant success you may want. Success of you website can be achieved, but it will take time and a lot of effort, to put yourself in the ranks of those who already have a firm hold on the marketplace.) If you find that your idea is too competitive, research new ones, write down everything you know, then start searching, sooner or later you will find your market.
- Market Analysis: Determine the ages and the types of people you will be marketing too. This will greatly approve your advertising success.
- Determine your website type: Are you going to start a Personal Website or an Ecommerce Website?
- Product Development: If you are creating a product, or have already done so, you must be able to meet the demand when your site is live. Digital products are set up perfectly for selling online, but other goods, must have a manufacturing source or warehouse that will be able to meet the demand requirements when your website is live. Missing shipments and ticking off your customers will quickly crumble your website dreams.
- Create Content: Content is the key. The more unique content your site has, the better you will show in the search engines thus getting you plenty of free traffic.
- Create advertising campaigns: Creation of advertising campaigns early, will help you be prepared when your site becomes live.
- Set Goals: You can never say to much of setting goals. Set your expectations, so that you can hold true.
Now that you have created your game plan, it’s time to figure out how to build the website that is going to be your storefront. You will have two options, pay someone to do it or build it yourself! To pay some one to build your website will cost you money and can be quite expensive depending on the type and the difficulty of the script you want. If your website idea does have a complex development, then it would be wise to have someone build it for you, unless you do have programming knowledge.
Building your website yourself can be done, and in today’s world, it’s a lot easier than you might think, unless of course your dream script will have a lot of complex scripting to which only experienced programmers will know how to complete. There is a way around this and a way to save yourself some money on your sites development. You yourself can build the simple template features, and then hire coders to fill in the spots you want to have the complex scripting features.
To achieve a self built website will depend on the type of script you will want to build.
Ecommerce Website, your options:
- You can acquire already built ecommerce solutions such as Yahoo or Pro Stores. There are full ecommerce solutions that allow you to use their service for a price and have available to you a the features of a pro built store. All you will need to do is add your products, terms, and prices, then your off and running. They can be quite expensive though, and will probably take a portion of your sales by fees.
- Buy pre-built ecommerce scripts from vendors: There are a ton of vendors on the Internet selling full blown ecommerce website scripts. Purchase the script you find to be useful, then all you do is unpack and upload your purchased website script onto your server, then unpack, and install. Most of these will come with directions on how to install, and some vendors will install your purchased scripts for you for a certain fee.
- Zen-Cart: This is a very good option if you have a small budget. Zen is a freeware, or known as public domain. You can download the free software and upload it to your server to use.
- Digital Products: If you are going to sell info products or software which can be delivered digitally, then you can create a simple static page with the software I will tell you about below, and then join a affiliate program such as Clickbank who will take care of the checkout process for you.
Solutions for a Personal Website:
- Dreamweaver: One of the top and most popular website developing software to date. There is a huge learning curve though and will require some learning. Product is expensive, and will cost. Sometimes if you want a simple created website, paying someone else to do it may be cheaper than purchasing the software.
- Web Expressions: Another popular software with a learning curve also. Same rules apply, but not as expensive as Dreamweaver.
- Web Easy 7: Cheap and a great choice for those who want to build a simple type website. Point and click technology.
- Blogging with hosting: Generally when you acquire hosting, they will have a instant download and setup bonus section on your control panel, which allows you to set up free scripts such as wordpress on your server with ease. Having a blog will take out the development phrase of your website, giving you the opportunity to find thousands of free themes to use with your blog.
- Learn HTML and PHP: This option will take time, but it can be done. There is enough free information available out there that can literally show and teach you how to build your website.
- Free builders: There are free website builders out there, but beware most will want you to use their hosting company to publish your website.
- Niche Website Creators: The newest trend on the Internet, and is growing each and everyday. You can purchase Niche software to create Niche websites with ease, some will give you some control of the content, while others will not. I will inform you of one that is one that I personally use and has been everything they said it would be.
Niche websites create a need and that need will only be for a few special individuals who are either fans or are looking for that subject. Before the web was populated with websites covering just about anything and everything. That day is gone, now the focus is on websites that create a purpose for one subject. This allows their websites to rank higher on the keywords and the niche they are marketing, in essence they are specializing a certain niche.
I had a few months back purchased one of these so-called niche website creators, and the one I purchased has been a blessing and has produced better than I could have ever expected. The software is easy to use, easy to set up, and yes produces income like they said it would.
This particular Niche website creator is tuned towards one of the most popular websites on the web EBAY, and with this creator you will be cashing in on EBAY with out selling your own products. According to a few sources, only about 3 to 5 percent of the whole Internet user population actually uses Ebay, which leaves a huge and untapped market available for aspiring website owners and affiliate marketers. This Niche create will allow you to earn affiliate commission from Ebay, plus give you the opportunity to add the content you desire to add. It’s a win/win situation.
In my few short months my EPN Ebay affiliate commission has soured past my adsense income. It was something that I did not expect, but I gladly welcome the new income. The websites I have created from this software are turning in income each and every day, and I first saw the results with in 7 days of my first site’s launch and haven’t looked back. One of my sites is turning in a whopping 40 dollars per hundred clickthroughs. Get a few hundred visitors a day and well you do the math.
Using this package I can have a site up and running in as little as twenty minutes, depending on the extra content I want to add. So yes, it’s simple, and anyone can do it. The software comes with an unlimited licence, which means once you have the software, you can build as many niche websites as you want.
Here are a few of my Niche website I have created. (I have left off my top producing websites, only because the market is not saturated as of yet, And you know got to get as much As I can out of it before it filled with competitors, with that said all of these are producing income each and every day.)
Usedcheaplaptops.net
Shrekshopping.com
Vintagepinupposters.net
Bidbayauctions.com
Ghosthuntingequipmentforsale.com
If you are interested in purchasing this software and putting it to work for you:
- First Step is to purchase the software by clicking here! Once purchased and downloaded you will have to unpack the files onto your computer.
- Sign up with EPN by clicking here.
- Second Step locate a niche that you are going to target.
- Third Step is to find the domain name you will use since you have located your niche.
- Fourth Step is to purchase hosting. I would recommend using this host. They offer unlimited bandwidth, unlimited domains, free domain name, and a ton of special features that most other hosts don’t have. The service is my number one choice. I have used others, but no one has matched this host for hosting. The Niche Software works perfectly with them as well. Not to mention the script upload is easy using their control panel.
- Once you are in upload your chosen store and unpack. You can upload either by clicking on the file manager in the cpanel or a FTP program. Follow the step by step instructions to set up the script.
- Now that your website is up, create and customize your website.
- Marketing and advertising………
It took me a total of ten days to return the software costs of purchasing the program…..How your Niche site will produce will depend on the type of niche you market and how you advertise.
If you have purchase the niche software, great success to you, you will enjoy it….
What are the Costs?
The program cost is $97
The Web Hosting Cost is about $85 per year
Grand Total w/hosting=$182
Through the host I gave you it only costs $10 a new domain registration for the year. So to add more websites to your account all you do is pay 10 dollars for the new domain and it will be added to your hosting account.
Compare that to having someone build your website for you!!!! Not a bad price to get into the website business……