Hi! Valentin,
Welcome to my blog. I respond with a post, it is too much to write on comment, and other people can read as well.
Sorry, you do work a little backwards.
First:
You have to start with a Blog. Create your Blog with WordPress but in your own domain, not as a subpage of WordPress domain.
You already have a domain, valentinmarketing, it is empty, and you can use it for a blog.
To be easy for you to build a blog, you need a host that gives you a cPanel which has Fantastico. This is a utility not all hosts have.
If you need the right hosting, I recommend Host Gator (this is what I am using):
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/HostG
From Host Gator take baby crock plan, is in not expensive and is enough for the beginning, you can upgrade later if you need, the first 1-2 years you will be just fine.
You can move your existing domain on Host Gator, they have a great support and they can help.
If you have cPanel with Fantastico, to create a Blog is just a matter of a couple of clicks and fill in screens info, choose a theme (a FREE one), and you will create your first Blog, in 5-10 min.
How to do it?
- Get on cPanel and click on Fantastico icon
- In the left menu, click on the WordPress
- Click on New Installation
- Now you have a screen to fill in, choose the right domain, if you have many, and let “Install in Directory” blank, fill in the rest of requested info
At this point you have a Blog with WordPress on your domain, but with a default WordPress theme. Now you have to choose a theme:
- Browse WordPress theme directory, choose a free one
- Download the Theme, and unzip the file
- Go to FTP and upload the unzip folder on …/wp-content/themes folder of your domain
- Go back to WordPress admin, click on Design
- Choose Theme button, and click the theme you loaded
This is it, entire process is max. 10 minutes, but you need a cPanel with Fantastico on it.
Now start to add content to your blog, put an opt-in list on a site bar, but give the people a reason to sign in (give away a free digital product: report, eBook etc), and start to build credibility for your self.
Of course you need an autoresponder, I recommend aweber:
http://www.mc-ebay-resources.com/recommends/aweber
But I presume you already have one, because you already have a squeeze page with an opt-in list on it. Aweber is the best autoresponder.
This must be the first step, you create trust and respect and a list in the same time and you start the process of pre-selling your future product(s) on the blog.
The truth of the matter is you can choose the trial and error method, but you will spend a lot of time until you will realize that the people don’t buy from a person they don’t know and trust.
This is way we do pre-sell first to warm up potential customers from the list.
Second:
You have to work a little more on your squeeze page, give benefits not features, create a landing page as well, and use the autoresponder to set up the automatic procedure of delivering your product.
At this point I presume you already have a product to sell, if you don’t you create one.
Third:
Only now drive traffic to your squeeze page using: your Blog, Articles, Forums, Squidoo lenses, HubPages, Stumbleupon, digg, Twitter, you name it, use as many Web 2.0 Applications as you can.
This is a huge subject in itself; the products I am working on now will be a good guide for driving traffic.
All I told you up till now is not expensive:
- You need a domain – but you already have one
- You need a host with Fantastico, if you don’t have one, you can buy a baby crock on Host Gator and move your domain on that host
- You create your own blog, not outsourcing at this point.
However there are some rules to cover before you get going:
- Start setting up your goals, you want to sell one digital product on Internet or you want to build an on-line business that will be with you years to come. If you want an on-line business you have to start doing some thinking up front, and take the right decisions from the start
- Learn the online business from the right people, this is really hard for beginners in this information overload era
- From the beginning learn and do a lot yourself, it is cheaper and later when you will outsource work you will know what to request from others
- Take action and be consistent with your work
- Build trust, honorable relationship with the people from your list; consider from the start that they will be your future business partners. Some members from the list will buy some products from you, but they can be affiliates, join venture partners, a huge potential for business trends and ideas for your business
- Be patience and never give up. If a niche you are working on now is not a success story, you are not married with the niche, you jump on the next one, and some point in time you will succeed. It is important not to consider a failure as a waist of time because you learn a lot in the process. Actually we learn more from failures then we learn from successes, it is our human nature, we have the tendency to take the success from granted. Some good Internet marketers will tell you – the sooner you fail the sooner you succeed!
My recommendation for quality FREE training is Eric’s tips:
http://www.ericstips.com
He has a free course of 100 lessons, he is now at lesson #27, it is still possible to fill in the gap, and continue to listen to his Videos which are remarkable.
If you consider that you learn from my answer to your question, get on side bar, sign in and I’ll keep you posted with my work.
Until next time all the best
Michaela
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BEware! If you use Fantastico to install your blogs, you are risking getting hacked!
With Fantastico, the database and username are identical, and easily guessed, which means hackers only need to figure out one more piece of data (your password) to crack your blog open like a crab leg at an all you can eat buffet!
I install my blogs manually, but if you don’t know how to do that, I am giving away a PDF report that tells you step by step how to fix that security flaw in a Fantastico installation.
http://rapjv.com/blog-security
Have an amazing day!
Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie
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Twitter: cernescu
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Micheal, I use Hostgator and they have “Fantastico De Luxe”, I don’t think we have any problem with it! At least I don’t.
I was curious to read your Free Report, and I find out that it is not Free; can we keep our promises for a change?
Thanks Michaela
Hi Michaela,
I like to thank you the whole bunch for your time,comment and lesson.
I’m taking babby steps and I’ll get there one day.
I’m a novice learning my way around.
Thanks,
Valentin
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regards
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Michaela,
Thank you for that explanation about creating a blog.
I had an idea but your step-by-step explanation is priceless. I will visit your blog often from now on.
Big Thanks to You!
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You have really pulled together some great resources for those of us that are looking of us looking to create our own blogs.
Thanks!
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Hi nice post, i read your blog from time to time but i was wondering something. I also run a blog on a similar topic, but i get 1,000′s of spam comments and emails every day does that happen to you.. Any ideas to stop it? I currently have commenting disabled but i want to turn it back on.. Thanks!
Twitter: cernescu
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Hi!
First I set up my blog to be moderared by me, I aprove or disaprove email but because it is a dofollow blog, I started to get too many spam comments.
Next step was to find a plug in which will stop spam emails. The one I find out to be very effective is Akismet . Now I have one spam comment in 10 days.
Akismet is a powerful plug in.
Regards
Michey
Hmmm… this is really getting more and more interesting…
Lots of great information. Added your blog to my list of favorites.
Woww, Thank you brother . Very good theme .
Useful set of steps for new bloggers to use wordpress.
A very useful information indeed , thanks al lot and keep on
Doesn’t it take up a lot of time to keep your blog so interesting ?
Thanks for the blogging tips.
A fantastic read….very literate and informative. Many thanks….what theme is this you are using and also, where is your RSS button ?
We use a wordpress theme on our site. This really seems the way to do it as it makes it so easy to change content, make changes to the site, etc. Thanks for the walkthrough…I’m sure others will find it useful as well!
What I really love about Host Gator is the awesome customer support. They were super patient with my newbie questions! Haha.
By the way, I stumbled here looking for an answer about not getting hacked and found it in the comments! Awesome!
Hey Michey, I use Akismet for spam comments and also have a captcha plugin. Should I deactivate the latter? Thanks!
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