What Message Are You Really Sending?

Recently, I was at a team building retreat.  During the retreat, I offered three or four suggestions.  When a comment was made, the facilitator would write the comment on the board.  Many times, what I heard someone say and what he wrote on the board were not the same message or idea. That was in…

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How Do I Generate Traffic?

Congratulations!  You’ve started adding interesting content to your website.  Now, the question is what to do to get people to read it.  We call the process of directing visitors to a website “generating traffic.” Just like the foot traffic in a shopping mall, the website visitors are called traffic.  Getting visitors to your website to…

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How Do I Create Interesting Content?

Creating interesting content is the exact question of many new internet marketers.  If the content isn’t interesting, it most likely will not be something that someone is looking for in a search engine. How To Create Interesting Content Writing articles that will answer the questions of your audience is going to serve the most people.…

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How Often Should I Add Content?

The short answer is “it depends.” The long answer is “regularly and consistently.” But what does that really mean? Well, let me explain… Things You May Want To Know About Adding Content Okay, there’s a few different things to talk about here. First, search engines “reward” sites that are “alive” and updated recently. So, adding…

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How To Add Graphics

I added graphics to my website today. In the background, here’s what happened. I downloaded the graphics that I was going to use for the site.  Then, I also edited the code that was going to put the hyperlinks into the graphics. For each graphic that shows up beneath the opt-in form on the right,…

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How To Create An Opt-In Form

In order to add any people to an email list, we’ll need a form that helps gather their information. In Internet Marketing (or IM) terms, this form is called an Opt-in form. This will be where a visitor to our website puts their contact information for us to use in the future.  Usually an opt-in…

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How To Set Up A Website

Week 2 of the Partnership To Success training went rather well. Setting up my website was much easier than transferring the domain. With John’s specific and clear video instructions, I was able to update my website rather quickly…once I made time to get online. Being a webmaster isn’t just sitting at a computer all day…

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How To Legitimately Transfer A Domain

Transferring an existing domain was the hardest part of the week one assignments.  I never thought it would be this difficult since I’d worked with the same company for years.  They had hosted my domain without a problem.  I had been very happy with their services. For week one, essentially what I needed to do…

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