Sunday, December 13, 2015
Friday, December 11, 2015
CHECKLIST for WEBSITES
For web design checklists, for everything from header to SEO, see this list. If you want specifics, like how to tinker to improve traffic and generate income, see this list. It costs $7.95 a month to host a website at Hostgator, and you can use their one button install
to install a wordpress site in about 10 minutes.
So if the client pays you $2,000 a year to do that, then it is a good business model - especially if you can get 50 additional clients.
On the other hand, if the client expects you to spend ten hours a week working on their site, you'll end up spending at least 500 hours a year working for them, and that works out to earning $2.00 an hour.
Personally, I'd choose a business model where you spend 40 hours or less doing something, then are able to sell the thing you created in that 40 hours to hundreds or thousands of clients world-wide.
Bill's Affiliate Program
1. Create sales page and run it past people whose opinion you trust.
2. Make sure membership material can't be accessed by people sharing direct links to it.
CHECKLIST for VIDEOS
Start . . . by giving the viewer a reason to watch the rest of the video.
Basically, you should answer the "what's in it for me" question at the beginning of the video. Don't make viewers go through the entire video to learn what's in it for them. Most will leave long before the video ends if you don't.
That's why in my videos I always start out by saying, 'In this video I'm going to show you how to . . ."
That way, the viewer learns right up front how they'll benefit from watching the video.
For example, it it were a weight watching video, I'd start by saying 'Want to lose ten pounds in the next seven days? In this video I'm going to show you how.'
The idea is to give viewers a reason to watch the rest of the video.
For web design checklists, for everything from header to SEO, see this list. If you want specifics, like how to tinker to improve traffic and generate income, see this list. It costs $7.95 a month to host a website at Hostgator, and you can use their one button install
to install a wordpress site in about 10 minutes.
So if the client pays you $2,000 a year to do that, then it is a good business model - especially if you can get 50 additional clients.
On the other hand, if the client expects you to spend ten hours a week working on their site, you'll end up spending at least 500 hours a year working for them, and that works out to earning $2.00 an hour.
Personally, I'd choose a business model where you spend 40 hours or less doing something, then are able to sell the thing you created in that 40 hours to hundreds or thousands of clients world-wide.
Bill's Affiliate Program
1. Create sales page and run it past people whose opinion you trust.
2. Make sure membership material can't be accessed by people sharing direct links to it.
CHECKLIST for VIDEOS
Start . . . by giving the viewer a reason to watch the rest of the video.
Basically, you should answer the "what's in it for me" question at the beginning of the video. Don't make viewers go through the entire video to learn what's in it for them. Most will leave long before the video ends if you don't.
That's why in my videos I always start out by saying, 'In this video I'm going to show you how to . . ."
That way, the viewer learns right up front how they'll benefit from watching the video.
For example, it it were a weight watching video, I'd start by saying 'Want to lose ten pounds in the next seven days? In this video I'm going to show you how.'
The idea is to give viewers a reason to watch the rest of the video.
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Shop strategically
I started this
strategy back in about 2011 on a whim, now we live by it - I started by using
sites like ebates.com and fatwallet.com. You earn cash back for purchases you
are already making - it is a way to have you money go a little further.
As of now, 2015,
between the 2 site our family has earned approx. $700 in cash back between the
2 sites. They are both free to sign up for - if you refer people you can earn
money by referring others - family and friends, etc.
So let's use Best Buy
as an example - some stores are on both cash back sites, (meaning on fw.com and
ebates.com) - some are not - If you know you will be purchasing a needed item -
router, TV, or monitor - for example - go to fatwallet.com and check the cash
back for the item there - and check ebates.com as well. One site may show 1.5%
cash back on what you purchase and the other site may have 3% cash back.
We are in the habit
now of checking both sites - we make these purchases by thinking forward and
now our dollars go a little further as a result of these 2 sites and other
sites and strategies as well.
Another gem of a site
we found recently is giftcardgranny.com. It is an aggregate site for gift cards
that you can buy at a discounted rate. I got a $100 staples egift card for $85
back in Oct. or so. We were purchasing a backup hard drive via Staples - I
saved $15 there and then made my purchase via ebates or fatwallet and earned
additional cash back (3 or 4% for that item) for my purchase.
Ebates and fatwallet
pay out quarterly - I recommend that you track your purchases to be sure you
get credit for your cash back - ebates I find is better w/tracking than FW -
but you can always open a support ticket on either site if there are any
issues. Both sites are good with looking up and resolving issues.
GCG (gift card
granny) also has discounted gas cards, grocery cards (they sell out quick so
you have to be on the alert for those). Also with GCG be careful to choose
'egift card' - unless you want a physical gift card (but you have to wait
longer for that to be delivered) that option is on the left side of the page of
the main page of the GCG site you can uncheck the box for 'physical gift card'
- that will be delivered via email - and make sure you can use the egift card
at the store online or in the store as well. Sometimes there are restrictions -
read the fine print.
I am not sure if you
have an Aldi's grocery store in your area - we have one here in NC - we save 30
- 50% on groceries shopping there. Shop sales - make a list and stick to it -
buy what you need and get out - emotional buys can be expensive.
FYI - Fatwallet.com
has a great forum - very active with members and lots of good tips for saving
money and good buys, etc - GCG recently started a forums page on their website
too - from what I have seen it looks pretty good.
Wednesday, December 2, 2015
This guy is pretty hopeful about making money online. Though just yesterday Bill Myers admitted how difficult it is to earn money from create and do-nothing sites. People could make money on those sites 5 or 10 years ago, but he admitted that those days are gone.
I don't know where to find reliable sites or reliable information on how to brings a site up to par so that it is making $800 a month.
I don't know where to find reliable sites or reliable information on how to brings a site up to par so that it is making $800 a month.
Sunday, November 29, 2015
Wednesday, November 25, 2015
On my wordpress sites, I use these plugins:
Fast & Secure Contact Form
Share & Follow
WP Super Cache
My Custom CSS
The easy way to move a WordPress site from one host to another is to use the
free WP Duplicator cloning software.
It will create a copy of your entire site,
including the database, and put it in a zip file.
You then upload that to the new site, run the
WP duplicator program and it recreates your site on the new host.
Usually takes less than ten minutes from start
to finish.
I show how to do it in a video at http://www.bmyers.com/members/Heres_how_to_quickly_clone_my_latest_WordPress_site.cfm
Monday, November 23, 2015
The first step is to get the audio file out of Audacity into a format that is compatible with Slideshow maker.
To do that, in Audacity choose 'file', then 'export', and export the file as a mp3.
Then in Slideshow maker, import the mp3 audio file.
http://audacity.sourceforge.net
Convert Audacity recording to an MP3.
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