Newbies How to build your own blog website

Starting a website of your own from scratch without any previous experience can leave you wondering, “Where do I begin?”

With an information overload, so much to learn and so little time available that I thought why not give you a step by step amateur’s guide to walk you through it all. For a website used by business’s, bloggers, collectors, support groups and numerous other people that show case’s their special interests and ideas. Your Newbies A to Z Guide to building your own website. Read more…

How To List Build And Why….
Building a targeted Email address list is the most important and profitable online marketing tool for any business to focus on. This should be your foundation to any marketing campaign undertaken……
Using Email is an instant free connection to your market audience at a press of a button. As a marketer your objective is to build a “Large and Targeted” Email address list of potential customers that you can communicate with on auto pilot using simple online tools.
In this article I can just give you an overview on how this all works.

1. Getting email address of all customers buying from you is imperative. This is to follow up on customer satisfaction and to update any further offers that could be suitable to their needs.

2. Sending interested prospects to a landing page on a web site specifically designed to just collect their names and email address. This is to build what is called an Opt-in mailing list which is compiled with participants that have requested to receive information related to your specific topic, offer or product. There are a number of ways to get prospects to your site. Pay per click advertising (PPC), article writing, blog posts, viral marketing, using social net works and so on. Offering some sort of carrot or incentive will coerce them to exchange their vital details that are so essential to your business success.

3. Using an Auto Responder Service to manage your list on auto pilot. Emails that you wish to send are loaded into a system set by you and all the rest is auto pilot. Frequency of dispatch, time of day and even pdf files can be attached to the emails as a bonus. A double optin feature prevents any spam.

There you have it, Email marketing success formula to grow your business. The larger and more targeted your address list the more business you will bring in, plain and simple.

To help you set up your own website and autoresponder mailing list system, a membership site I recommend is the one that helped me get this one going. Your first months membership cost I think is $1. Try it out and see how easy it is to follow step by simple step video instruction. If you do not like what you see- cancel your subscription.

If you are any thing like me there is so much to learn you will get stuck in, to never look back at your business growth. Newbie List Building Club.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

Incorrect action is better than no action. Take heart.

**Christina Saunders**

New Year Resolution.
Find Your Voice, Start blogging.
We all need to start somewhere as a blogger and this is as good a place as any. An amateur blog resource you can down load for f*ree will give you all the low down that you need to get started with your newbie blog. Just leave your first name and primary email address and I will send you your own copy with my compliments. “Amateur Bloggers Tool, Check List and Recommended Resources”

We all have to start from some where. The decisions we make at the start as a newbie may have a huge influence on the final out come.

For most of us getting our toe into the water is the easy part. Making the decision to dive in and swim is another. We could be afraid because we do not know how to swim or may feel that the water is too crowded?
If you want to learn to swim, getting in the shallow end would be best to gain confidence. A few people once in the water decide that this is not for them and never swim again, others just love it and have great fun enjoying the experience. A swimmer may find a certain style that they are good at, they focus on that discipline to go on to be Olympic super stars and win gold. No one for sure knows how it will all pan out, surffice to say all the champions  work and train very hard perfecting and honing their skills. They need persistence, dedication, determination and resolve to do well.

For the blogger signing up to Google Blogger for a free Blogger.com or a WordPress.com blog would be an easy learning to swim way of starting. The instructions are very simple to follow and in no time you could be on your way blogging. This is where you learn by trying different styles to see what suits you best. Remember the true saying “Incorrect action is better than no action to find your style”.
To become a blogging super star though, this is not the pool to be swimming in, so do not stay too long here.

These “newbie” free sites are definitely the easy way to learn but do have many draw backs for the long term blogger. 
1. The site does not belong to you so would be difficult to sell at a later stage.
2. You have little control and if the site closed down, all the hard work put into your blog could be lost.
3. It takes time to build your blog name, to make it something special but it will still look amateurish.
4. Your hosts may want to put advertising on your site and capitalise on your hard work.

In the long run and if you want to be a serious blogger the best advice would be to decide on your blogging topic, think carefully about a short catchy domain name and register it for your self.                                    

1. This name becomes your personal possession.
2. You will have complete control over everything from choosing your web host, developing the site, adding advertising and content, right through to selling it if you want. Just look what the name Google means today.
3. Having your own domain name will also give a feel of professionalism to your blog.

To help you set up your own blog, a membership site I recommend is the one that helped me get this one going. Your first months membership cost I think is $1. Try it out and see how easy it is to follow from step by simple step video instruction. If you do not like what you see- cancel your subscription.                         

If you are any thing like my there is so much to learn you will get stuck in to never look back at your amateur blog status. Newbie List Building Club.

“Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” ~Winston Churchill

Incorrect action is better than no action. Take heart.

**Christina Saunders**

What exactly is a blog?
Blog, blogs is the shortened form of weblog (“web” as in internet-”log” as in journal). This is an internet term for a personal web site/ sites set up to be regularly updated as a diary or journal for public viewing. This diary can come in a form of written text, pictures, photographs, audio and video or in a combination of all.

What is a blog used for?
Blogs are written by professionals in all disciplines to share ideas, thoughts, concepts, expertise, art, music, stories, beauty, knowledge, experience, help, support to even their life story. What is great about the internet, is the room for everyone to share from the amateur blogs to stay at home moms using blogs to market products, chronicle events, share recipes or just how they feel.

Successful blogs.
The most successful blogs are normally written in a humorous, honest and personal way by celebrities right through to the terminally ill. Success in blogs knows no boundaries as to the audience they capture. Of course fame, writing skills, search engine optimization, blog layout and content all play a role in creating successful blogs but not always. Perhaps you could spell blind the world and dazzle us with your blog, go on show us how it is done.

Leave your comment, ideas, thoughts on blogs and share……

**Christina Saunders**