Start a blog
For anyone looking at creating and selling information products I recommend they start a blog. Running your own self hosted blog like this one is easy to make happen and is low cost. You need a domain name (around $15 a year) and hosting (around $60 or more a year) to start a blog but there is some thought that needs to go into what niche you will cover and who your audience will be for your blog.
To discover all of this in a way that will ensure you succeed I recommend training with Blog Succes http://www.blogsuccess.com/diane
They take you through how to start a blog and focus on the important elements of ensuring your blog is a success like research marketing, picking your niche and getting traffic to your blog.
What are the steps to start a blog?
First you have to do a little bit of keyword research into your blog niche. Google have a free Adwords tool that will help you with that. Find out what people are searching for and the words they are using to perform that search.
Once you have an idea of your niche you then focus on your content. What type of content will you add to your blog? What information products will you promote? You will be creating and selling your own information products or will you focus on selling resale and affiliate products?
It is a good idea to have 10-15 pieces of content ready when you start a blog so it is not empty when you set it up.
Now you go ahead and buy your domain name and hosting. Make sure you buy cpanel hosting because that will ensure you can log in and click one button to install your blog – its that simple!
Your blog is now up and you can place your 15 blog posts on to it. Then the fun starts – you need to start marketing your blog.
When you start a blog the two most important phases are the keyword research and blog marketing- when you carry out research you will know who you are looking to attract and you will write for them. If you miss that out and you have no idea your blog becomes unfocused. When I looked back at blogs I had in the past which never made any money it was because I hadn’t carried out the keyword research – so don’t miss that out.
Blog marketing ensures you get loads of visitors coming to your blog. There are loads of different ways to market a blog and you want to ensure you engage in a number of different methods to ensure you get traffic from a variety of different sources.
Blog Success take you through this whole process one step at a time so you can ensure your blog will be a success right from the start. Take a look for yourself http://www.blogsuccess.com/diane
