Budding-Entrepreneur

Update: 1:45 PM 8/24/2009

Felt I needed to clarify - sometimes it’s imperative to have a $5500 and up website. For instance - my boss has a client who owns property around the world. The client needs an expensive website to showcase her properties. 

I seem to be going through a phase watching the Webosphere rumble by as the Blogosphere hitches on. Perhaps it’s just me and childish excitement, but the blogosphere holds much promise above and beyond Social Network sites that have perpetual rights to use your material at their will. 

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Previously:

 ”Building a Website.” A huge subject AND a main category…

I’ve held off getting into the nitty gritty because there’s so much to write about.

To begin, will talk about choosing to make a full website versus a blog. 

My boss has built many sites. Boss has done the work and I’ve done a chore or two - just enough to be dangerous.

But i have two eyes that see results, and one thing I’ve seen is that times change in a flash. Yesterday’s website can be today’s dinosaur.

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These last 9 months, I struggled to build my very own MONEY MAKING website. It was to be an experiment. No help from friends or family - just me, a relative newbie with my dangerous little knowledge.

Has it been easy? No. Have I learned a TON? YESSSS. More about myself and who I am, actually. I’ve also learned that a blog is all you need… and websites are dedsites.

Please feel free to disagree. But my belief is that the old $5500 websites are of little value in today’s blogosphere. AND - you can ALWAYS make your blog look like a site if you wish.

The main point is THIS - keeping your content fresh and updated. And a blog is the easiest way to do it.

If I had to start all over, I’d do something I already did - sign up with a service to have them walk you through hand in hand. But I’d also do much DIFFERENTLY. Goll, I’d save time, this time!!!!!

~~ Lord, Give Me a Second Chance, Please. And many more after that too. Honest Prayer here… ~~

I’ve come to believe signing up is crucial for the serious beginner self-website-maker who’s doing it on his her own.

Why? The time you’ll save and the company you’ll keep. The forums are worth every stinking dime if you use them, and the handholding instructions give you a comprehensive education in one fell swoop.

The cheapest and best I found was SBI, so I signed up with them. It’s been up and down, and let me admit that I’ve continuously run off to explore each guru’s super marvelous new secrets in the meanwhile.

(Note: I also signed up with a few more services for $1 and once for $97 or so. So my total expenses have been about $600 - $400 for SBI and maybe $200 for the rest. It took me AGES to fork over my pennies to SBI, let me tell you…)

More about SBI later.

Meanwhile, here’s a partial list of gurus I’ve liked.

I particularly liked Russell Brunson, Frank Kern and this long haired hippie kind of looking guy whose name I forget. At first I also really liked Alex Mandossian - what a magnificent salester! But he became too glitzy glam super polished.

I also liked the Mind Valley Guys. Super smarties who provide an encyclopedia of SEO science that burned me out in the reading. Then there’s the classic copy writers of worldwide acclaim - Gary Halbert, Gary Bencivenga, and others.

BUT HERE’S THE THING

Each of these marketing geniuses LOVE WHAT THEY DO WHICH IS MARKETING!!!!

OF COURSE THEY’RE INCREDIBLE AT IT - IT’S THEIR JOY!

They couldn’t stop themselves if they tried. As a kid, Russell Brunson used to read ad mailers zealously. He just fed off them, couldn’t wait to write his own. A born sales person. Do you love to read advertising mailers?

These gurus thrive on selling, promoting, marketing.

So they are very good at it AND very good at getting you to sign up with them. They will invariably tell you what they did to succeed and how you can do it, too.

Sure you can! But would you want to? If so, then sign up - it’s for you. If you live to sell, you’ll be able to do what they did.

As for me, no way. I hate selling.

So there’s no use in me trying to do what the gurus do - it would be just a huge bunch of dirty ole repetitive dull boring labor to me.

Instead, I turned to doing what I love most - being myself and telling stories. Don’t we all love being ourselves and telling stories?

So far in life, I’ve noticed EVERYONE has a story to tell… whether about themselves or about a subject.

LESSONS:

“Find yourself, find a subject.”

“Each to their own. Look in your past for something you loved to do year after year. Become really good at it. Practice Practice Practice. Then share it with the world.” In a Blog or Something.

As a perennial Budding Entrepreneur, I will keep searching and looking.

In school, they taught us how to read… and WRITE.

Everyday I keep writing and blogging, and my insight grows. Yours can, too… writing helps!