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Recently I watched an excellent video about what can be accomplished within a month of starting a new blog when hard work and a business mindset unite. We can learn very important guidelines for starting a successful blog from this video review about the  Planting Dollars site.  It was developed by Lisa on her “2 Create A Website” blog.

The inspiration for the title of THIS post, (“Stop Whining; Start Working on Your Website!”) was realized about twelve minutes into the video. As I listened to Lisa talking about how success is the direct result of working a plan, I recalled when the light was turned on for me. The turning point of my Internet success came when I made a commitment to post one article per day on a blog that I manage. Because I did not get discouraged and continued to work towards my goal, my blog now has over eight hundred visitors per day after only one year.

Much of my determination to NOT GIVE UP was due to one person who posted a comment in the Website Babble forum in response to my whining about how slow things were going with making money on the Internet.

They simply said: “Hang in there, it’s definitely worth the wait.” I am in total agreement with that statement now.

Since then my online income has steadily increased, but the upward change in revenue came as a direct result of being persistent in steadily working on improving my sites.

As I have mentioned in prior posts, we must treat our website business like a regular job and not as a hobby.

When we look at where we have come from and set short obtainable goals for where we want to get to eventually, our accomplishments reach great heights. Rome was not built in a day. In this video-blog- post called “Get on the Treadmill With me and You’re Getting Off First”- Will Smith tells a story about how a wall is built by laying one brick at a time into perfect position.

I can assure you that if you will be persistent, stop whining and start working on improving your website- building skills and online business growth, passive income will be the result of your efforts.

That’s the beauty of making money on the Internet. Once we learn how to automate our systems and duplicate the things that are working, we will enjoy recurring fruit from our labor.

If you are anything like me, whenever I download an e-book I go to my inbox immediately to look at it. I’m certain that this was such a distraction from my products that people never returned to the page. The download included two free books. That was a lot of information for people to sift through.

While testing the web site’s sales page, the day I took the email optin and the books off of the page, I had three sales. That was a real eye opener because up until then I had only made two sales in about two weeks while the free downloads were on the page.

On another product’s page, I simply moved the submit button and price for purchasing the item from the top of the page to the bottom and the sales increased. I always try designing Intuit website pages so that they can be easily changed.

Continually testing and monitoring results is vitally important to the success of making money on the Internet. Many big name Internet marketers agree that the more focused a page can be for one item the better. If your goal is to collect an email address then every thing should squeeze the person to submit their email address when they land on the page. If the goal of the sales page is to sell a product, the product should be the main attraction of the page. It’s important to keep the main thing the main thing.

Intuit websites work really well for designing sales pages and then making changes to them as you are testing. Because the Homestead Sitebuilder program is so easy to use, it doesn’t take a lot of effort to move things around periodically to see what works the best.

Google Adwords
This program is free to join and will not cost you anything until your advertisements are clicked on. The way this marketing program works is that you use your credit card to put money into your account. The next step is to create your advertisements. This is a great way to get your website a lot of traffic fast and it can also cost a bundle if you don’t know what you are doing. There are places to learn correct ways of marketing where you won’t be wasting your money. The Adwords set-up is a wonderful way to market your Intuit website. Just make sure you get a good education about PPC before you start using the system.

Using Ezine Articles
This form of promoting your niche site is called article marketing. Create an account with article directories like Ezine Articles, Go Articles or Article Cube. Write keyword focused content and add an anchor text link in the author bio section at the bottom of the page directing people to your Intuit website page.

Youtube
Download a screen recorder or get a  Flip UltraHD Camcorder that shoots videos which can be uploaded to Youtube fast and easily. The Flip recorder is simple to use and creates outstanding videos.

Include information about your Intuit website in your Youtube videos and also a link in the the “more info” section of the video description box. Youtube is a very popular way to get your name on the Internet fast. The great thing about videos is if you choose good keyword phrases in your titles the videos show up on the first page of Google often. This type of website promotion will establish you as an authority in your niche quickly.

Those are three of the quickest and easiest ways for marketing and promoting your Intuit website. The Homestead SEO Videos, from the Homestead Users site will teach you how to get free traffic through the search engines. This is by far one of the best methods of generating lasting traffic for free and promoting your site.

When I started getting serious about Internet marketing, I posted a no-cost download on one of the pages of my Homestead Users website. The idea behind this method of making more money online is that once you collect an email address, in exchange for the free product, you can then market to the customer as often as you like. The Sitebuilder has an newsletter feature that you can start collecting email addresses with.

By joining Aweber I was able to set up an email auto responder that automatically sends the free downlaod to the opt-in subscriber. It is a wonderful way to establish relationships and credibility with your potential customers. As long as you don’t bombard the people who opted in on your Homestead website email list with junk mail, they generally won’t unsubscribe.

The most popular free download that people use is an eBook. I suggest that you make your own by following our tutorial on How to Make a PDF eBook Using Open Office. Inside of your book you can create clickable links that will send your potential customers to your website’s product page or affiliate links.

One thing that I learned recently is that you should have one goal when people land on your pages. If you mix up a free download with products that you are trying to sell, oftentimes the visitor will click- off of your Intuit/Homestead website to go and get the free download from their in-box. If you want your visitors to buy something, then focus on selling your products. If you are trying to collect an email address, then set up a free download and email address collection system.

Some Internet marketers use free trials or products to lure customers in, then they put the subscriber on a membership recurring-payment plan. This is a tactic that Russel Bronson is using right now in a program called Micro Continuity. The visitor to the website sees something for free and finds out that there is a shipping and handling charge associated with getting the offer. Once the credit card information is taken, the free product is delivered and the customer is then placed on a recurring billing cycle to either receive more products or have access to a member’s area.

There is great power in using the word “free” on your Intuit/Homestead website. For example, you will find on this Homestead website builder review page that the “free trial text” and the “red arrow” are a good working combination for moving the customers in the proper direction. Everyone likes to get something for nothing, especially if it is something of value. Being able to try something out first before having to pay for it is a great way to sell something.

So, consider giving away something in exchange for an email address or set a customer up on a membership billing cycle after they get their first month for free. You can offer a free trial and then have them automatically billed through your Paypal account.

Set Goals and Stay Focused on Achieving Them
Once I got a good taste of making money online, I started setting goals. After building a couple of Intuit websites that were making money with Adsense, I set my sights on generating content. This is the key to making Internet money. It takes content to attract targeted visitors to our Intuit/Homestead Sitebuilder pages. As we focus on specific keyword phrases that are tailored to suit our niche, more traffic begins to come to our pages. Therefore, we make more money. So, one of my main goals is to get more traffic.

It’s really not a difficult equation, build optimized Intuit website pages ( Homestead Website  SEO eBook), get traffic, and make money. Once you find some thing that is working just repeat the process over and over again.

If we can train ourselves to see the potential of building an Internet business over a ten year period, then we will not get discouraged over the small results we may be achieving in the beginning. Just imagine if your first year on the Internet you made six thousand dollars. If you continue to build and repeat the same process the potential of having a passive income of $60,000 dollars in ten years is reachable. This means that if you get things set up on auto pilot, you could be golfing every day or doing other things that you love to do while making a nice five figure income.

To achieve this small level of income on the Internet only takes focus and determination to reach your goals. Just by writing one article per day you can build a nice passive income over time.

Let me leave you with this thought, millionaires think in decades.

Focus
We must determine what is making money and multiply the amount of traffic to those page. This will then increase the conversions and we will make more money. So, we should focus on where we get the best results and the most value for our time. This is going to require that we spend time studying how to use the Homestead website Real Tracker statistics data to our advantage. It’s like pouring gas on a fire. Once we identify what is working the best with our Intuit Sitebuilder pages, pour more of what works into the website.

Learn Proper Business Time Management
While we are building our online presence, it’s important to manage our time wisely. There are too many distractions on the Internet. Turn the email buzzer off, turn the phone off, stay away from facebook and work at hitting the mark of your goals.

Help Other People Succeed
One of the best ways of establishing an authority status online is by helping others succeed in the niche that you have in common. We have uploaded many free Homestead website tutorial videos to Youtube and other sites that have helped establish us an authority on using the Sitebuilder program. Hundreds have downloaded our free Homestead website SEO eBook and also purchased products from us as a result of us helping them learn more about using the Sitebuilder.

So here’s a quick recap of three things that will help us increase in our Internet sales. We must get focused on what is making us money and pour gas on the flame. Increase website traffic and you will make more money with what is already working. Manage your time wisely and you will make more money. Designate a specific work time and turn all of the distractions off. Help others achieve their goals and they will be grateful and recommend your services to their friends, family and co-workers. I am certain that if we apply these three things to our online businesses and offline ventures, we will see an increase in the amount of revenue this year. Our earnings have the possibility of doubling and even tripling.

You Must Establish Trust
There are several ways of establishing trust online. I think everything that I will be discussing in this article will have something to do with establishing trust with people. If we think about relationships off line and how they are developed, the same type principles apply to our Internet friendships and potential customers online. It takes time and spending time with people to establish kinship. I will be discussing how we can spend time with others on this digital World Wide Web throughout the article.

Using Your Photo or Logo
It’s funny; two really good friends of mine have yet to reveal what they look like on their Homestead websites. I’ve only really heard their voice once on a video they uploaded to Youtube. Yet, they have no less than five websites that circulate around their niche. Wouldn’t it make more sense if searchers could make a Homestead website connection with their face on each of the sites? So, if you want to be recognized as an authority in your niche, then you should get your face or logo plastered on your websites. The more people that see who you are the more comfortable they will be with purchasing things from you.

You Must Leverage the Power of Video
The Internet is going full blast toward video. You’ve got to jump on the train or your websites are going to be plundered by video rankings. If you have not noticed, video sites are topping Google’s results all of the time. The other thing about video is that people can hear and be able to see the person behind it all. Here again, you are establishing an authoritative presence and trust online. Learn to use screen recorders, get a Flip video recorder and upload to Revver, Youtube, Meta Café, Myspace, Yahoo and Google.

Use Web 2.0 or Social Media
Get your name out there by using Twitter, Hub Pages, Squidoo, Ezine Articles and free blogs like WordPress.   Many of these web platforms will let you embed your videos on the pages too. These sites get top rankings which will help establish your authority status online.

Publish Content Daily
Make a commitment to publish new content related to your niche on a daily basis. Get the  SEO Homestead eBook for taking your first steps toward learning how to write your content.

Self Promote
It’s funny, several years ago-I read an article where someone said something negative about self promotion. What the heck is marketing about if you are not supposed to promote yourself?  Tell McDonalds, Pepsi and Wal-mart that they should stop tooting their own horn because that is self promotion. Paaalease… give me a break!

Here is my last point that will help you establish yourself as an authority online. You must have a no mercy mindset. You have to run faster, farther and harder than your competition. Use every available means for promoting yourself, your company and your expertise in the niche that you are in.

Solid Foundational Tips:

1) Make your contact information complete and easily accessible on your website.

2) Use video as often as possible on your websites. Great people with them and use them to explain your services. People are multitasking and it’s easier to be doing other things while listening or glancing at a video.

3) Collect email addresses (Email Marketing With Homestead) and keep in contact with your lists. Provide them with quality free information about your services and their interest in your company.

4) In everything you do be personal. Use pictures with your posts and upload videos often so people can actually see a face behind the website operations.

The way the online world works is that you have to move faster than the other guys. I wrote an article some time ago about having a “no mercy mind set.” This means that you have to go hard and fast with your Internet marketing efforts to blow your competition out of the way. The title of the article was Internet Marketing Domination.

I really like to live by the term: “I won’t relent until I have it all!”

This is the type of determination that small business website owners must adapt if the goal of their Homestead website is to market products and services on the Internet.

Most people who start a website don’t have a clue what is going on out here online. Somehow they think if they just build a site, then streams of visitors will come and visit their pages. That’s not how it works in this giant sea of people, hobbyists, business owners and most certainly Internet marketers.

Hear me on this one, you must use every avenue you can find to dominate the market that you are in because if you do not someone else will. Your marketing efforts must be focused and fast. If you can leverage the use of software that helps you move quicker than your competition, then you should do so.

We are on the Internet surfing and there are many new waves that come rolling in. You have to get on the biggest wave that you can ride and have fun with it.

This is no place for the webmaster who wants to launch a website and then do nothing else to promote it or grow the site. If an Intuit website is not growing, it will eventually be mowed over by the larger sites that are literally moving with typhoon strength online.

One of the biggest waves that’s hitting the net right now is video. If you are not riding this wave you need to be. Learn how to make them and upload them. If you don’t want to do this, hire someone to do it for you.

Very soon we are going to start hearing more about a term called “Horizontal” website businesses.

A horizontal site is a website like eHow. This site is starting to show up all over the results pages of Google, Yahoo and Bing. It is an information site that is pumping out content and videos in massive amounts. There’s no way that little sites like Homestead Sitebuilder websites can match the mass of these horizontal sites. They are leveraging new technology that produces the highest paying keywords and then they mass produce content and videos and spit them out with hurricane wind strength all over the Internet.

To them all they want to do is produce content, build links pointing to their pages link and produce videos that will draw visitors to their sites. That’s what is working so they are riding current Internet waves with great speed and massive movement to make money.

So where does this leave the small hobby or business website built with the Intuit Company software? I’ll tell you how we can win at this game. It’s called building and establishing trust with people on the Internet. That’s how we win. Establish strong foundational relationships that will literally last a lifetime.

Small businesses have always been well established because of the personalized services that they provide. This is where you must focus your Internet marketing efforts. Write loads of content, build an email list of people who trust you and produce videos continuously. The more that your voice and face are seen online, the better your Internet marketing adventures will turn out.

If you want to start getting people to visit your web pages quickly and without spending any money, here are a few suggestions. These promotional techniques are totally free.

Promoting on Craig’s List
This is the quickest way to get website traffic/visitors coming into your Site Builder pages. The promotion of your business, hobby, event or products can be done easily and quickly. Go to craigslist.com and sign up for a free account. Choose the state and city where you want your advertisement to appear. Enter your information in the text area and include a link to your Homestead website. Millions of people visit this website every month. It’s a great way to start promoting an Intuit/homestead website.

• Tip: When you are using Craig’s List as one of your promotional tools for your site, DO NOT OVER POST! This will get you labeled as a spammer on the advertising giant’s site and could possible get your IP address blacklisted.

Join a Community Forum
I feel this is the second fastest promotional tool that will help you get traffic coming into your Homestead website. Look for web forums that share a common interest in your business or hobby niche. Before you join the forum see if the users have clickable links in the signature areas of their posts. If there are no clickable links in the individual posts of the users, I personally would not join the community. You want to be able to have an active anchor text link in your signature area. This way your services can be promoted through making posts and people can click on a link to your web pages.

Start Posting on Blogs
Using a blog as a promotional tool for your Ituit/Homestead website is another wonderful way to begin promoting your information. Most blogs will allow you to make comments on the posts. In this area you can enter your name and also the website URL of your business site. When people are reading through the comments, if you have written something interesting enough for people to explore further, the promotion of your site through a link will effortlessly bring traffic to your Site Builder pages.

Write Articles
This is a fast way to get people coming to your website. The time consuming part will be writing the article. Join Ezine Articles for free and upload links in your author bio section that point to your web pages that you want to promote.

Promoting a Homestead Website on Google
In order to get free visitors through Google, you will need to learn web Optimization. A good place to start the learning process is by downloading our free SEO Homestead Website eBook. This form of web traffic is slow going. It can take months to get people coming to your pages. You still must learn how to promote your Intuit website through the use of SEO.

Learning how to market a Homestead website is going to take an investment of time. There are many ways of doing website promotion on the Internet. Your Intuit web builder is equipped with everything that you need to be successful at website design, now you will just to learn how to promote a Homestead website. I’ve been promoting my web pages all over the Internet for several years now and I get loads of traffic coming into my Site Builder pages daily. There are two benefits that I enjoy from being able to promote my site properly. Number one, I am able to share very useful and helpful information with people who need to learn what I know. Number two, the more traffic I get the more money I make with my Intuit website program

I would recommend that you sign up for a free Homestead website trial first and call tech support and discuss all of the things you want on your pages.

Follow these steps for building a website for your business.

1) Before designing or even writing any content, you must learn Intuit website SEO. You can download our free Homestead SEO ebook to get you started in the right direction.

2) Never forget this point, “content is king.” The best way for people to find your business website is by having the proper content on your Intuit website pages. Using Homestead to assemble your web pages with is going to be really easy, but the tricky part is getting people to actually visit your website. Every web page should have no less than 250 ( two hundred fifty) words and your main landing web page should have no less than 700 (seven hundred) words.

3) Understand that your “Home” page is the most important one on your Intuit business website. Your most important descriptions of your business should on this page. The reason this is important is because Google ( the largest search engine) picks up just about every word on your main web page.

4) Learn how to work with photos. Here’s a good program we use for editing Homestead website images. The two things you will be working with the most are photographs and content. Here again remember that content is king.

5) Research other business websites that are related to your niche. See what terms they are focusing on. You can learn how to do extensive Homestead website keyword research by clicking the link and watching the video.

6) Once your business website, built with Intuit/Homestead is up and functioning, you will need to learn how to build links that point to your website pages. There’s a right way and a wrong way to build links. The HomesteadUsers.com website has great tutorials in their Marketing Center designed specifically for helping business enthusiasts succeed with their Intuit website.

7) It will be good to understand the various ways to get traffic to a Homestead website. Click the link and get a thorough tutorial ebook explaining the many ways that traffic can be found online.

If your business is local it should be fairly easy to rank well with the search engine results pages. I have a business website about cabinets and one about building a website with Homestead that both get many local visitors. The reason I know this is because I get emails and calls from people asking for help.

If you’re building a business website that is more on an international scale it will be more difficult to get visitors because the area is so broad. If you concentrate on specific areas of the world, by writing optimized content, you will be more apt to succeed.

Using the Homestead Site Builder for a business website is an excellent choice. I would recommend that you sign up for a free Homestead website trial first and call tech support and discuss all of the things you want on your pages. There are some things that presently cannot be done using the Intuit program.

The Site Builder is an amazing tool and easy to use, but it is somewhat limited. By building a few trial pages and discussing your options with Intuit/Homestead you will be able to determine if the hosting company will be the right choice for you.