Monday - Website finished At Last
I am amazed that over the last three days I have managed to write an article (this is my one about insomnia) which is twice the length I intended it to be and will have to be severely pruned for publication, revamp my website, write a guide to starting up a Plug In Profit Site
with nothing much in the way of capital or income to invest, plant some spring bulbs and generally keep clean and tidy (myself as well as the house).
So much for weekends being restful. There is no rest for the home based business owner. Still, I would not want it any other way. I'd rather work seven days a week for myself than five for somebody else.
I am glad that I managed to finish the training guide. I want people to realise that they can have a home based internet business without having to spend a fortune on it. The Plug In Profit Site is an incredible concept and can work for anybody, the problem is getting people to realise that it is as simple as following the online training instructions while you get the feel for what you are doing. In no time at all, you feel as if you had been doing this all your life. That is what it is like on the internet - life speed x 10. I did not make that up but I think it is very true. I can't remember who said it now.
Today, instead of a home business article, I am going to present the world with my guide to starting a home business whilst strapped for cash. Hope people will read it and realise I believe in this system. I declare this a no hype zone to accompany yesterday's No BS Zone.
This guide is intended for those people who wish to start their own home based internet business but have a limited budget. These notes should be used alongside the ebook “30 Days To Success” by Stone Evans. I am also writing this guide for people with no previous internet experience so I must ask those more experienced readers to please forgive me if I seem to be stating the obvious at any time.
Before you start
I suggest you read these notes first, get your domain name registered (check the note below about domain names) and hosted by Host 4 Profit, sign up for free membership of the affiliate programmes and request your free PIPS website.
Do not pay to have upgraded membership of any programme, this can be addressed later.
Start a spreadsheet for all your user ID’s, passwords etc (believe me, you will be surprised at how many you will end up with once you get going). I suggest keeping the same password for all business uses apart from Pay Pal and Stormpay accounts. They should each have their own secret password which should be changed regularly for security reasons.
Your customised website will normally be ready within 24 hours but it could take a day or so longer in busy times. You will be anxious to get your website and start up your business so I suggest you use the 24 hours or so to familiarise yourself with the affiliate programmes and your auto responder.
I think all this is quite enough to take in for a start but, if you can take on more, start reading “30 Days To Success” as this will be your bible when you start promoting your business. Also read everything else about affiliate programmes and internet marketing that comes your way.
A Word About Domain Names
Most advice on this subject is that your domain name should reflect the nature of your business. Obviously this is sensible, if you are selling cat food, you would not be found in a search by many customers if you called your website Dogs R Us. However, certain words can cause problems when you mention them in emails and as emailing your list of prospects will be an important part of marketing, this is worth taking into consideration.
If you are selling books or insurance or pet food, it is fairly easy to think up a relevant domain name but it is harder when you are promoting home business opportunities. Words such as profit, money, offer, cash site, mega, rich (plus any number of others) can result in your emails being filtered out as spam. So “Huge Mega Profits R Us” might be a good name for a website but it can trip you up in other ways.
When considering the importance of matching the relevance of name to business I always think of Google!
About Plug In Profit Sites
The Plug In Profit Site (PIPSite) was invented by Stone Evans who started his own internet business when he was in debt and built it up so successfully that he became a millionaire at an early age. Sound familiar? Yes, the “zero to hero” story is often used to promote home based business opportunities but, in this case it is a true story and Stone Evans is still actively involved with PIPSite. When you start your PIPSite business you will receive free membership to the Internet Warriors Forum and you will see that Stone Evans is a forum moderator and active contributor.
If you have read about how Stone started and built up his business, you will know that to make big money quickly he “maxed out” his credit cards (he had no start up capital and was in debt). I have written this guide for people (like myself) who do not want to take on debts but are prepared to invest time and effort and a small amount of cash in order to have a successful home based business.
An integral feature of the PIPSite opportunity is that everything can be achieved with little or no capital outlay or ongoing expenditure. If you have a large budget to spend on this business you will most likely succeed a lot faster than the rest of us but that is the same in any business, not just internet marketing. The rich get richer faster, I’m afraid that’s the way of the world, but we’ll get there in good time!
It is worth mentioning that the Plug In Profit Site is yours to do with as you wish (a lot of people do not realise this at first). It is not just one of those affiliate web pages that are set up with your ID code and you can’t change anything. You can change anything you want about your PIPSite: you can change the colour, the logo, you can add more affiliate programmes, advertising banners, literally anything. It is a real website and you will be the webmaster. I was pretty pleased with myself when I became a webmistress (oh, the power).
Free Membership
All of the affiliate programmes built into the PIPSites are free to join, that is one of the beauties of the PIPSite concept. You will, however, be encouraged to pay to acquire upgraded membership status. The benefits of upgrading will be explained in each programme. With Traffic Swarm, for example, one of the benefits is extra advertising credits. With SFI and MDI the benefits are linked to the compensation plan.
There is no need to rush into upgrading with any programme. You will read that upgrading will secure you additional commission payments from sales by your downline (and other things along these lines). You will not lose by delaying any upgrade because, when you have just started out, you won’t have a downline to be earning you commission.
The only person who stands to lose if you do not upgrade immediately is your sponsor (me!) but I don’t want to make a few quick bucks out of you while you are struggling, I want you to grow your business easily and without having to worry all the time about spending too much. I want you to be happy and successful, that way we both stand to reap large rewards. I think this is definitely worth waiting for.
Additional Tools
When you start out, you will receive all sorts of offers which are very tempting. When I started with my PIPSite, I wanted to buy every tool, ebook and piece of software I saw and it was very hard to resist (between you and me, I did buy a few things which turned out not to be as good as I was expecting). If you see something which you think you simply must have, don’t buy it, bookmark the site and go back to it after a day or two. In the meantime, do a Google search to see if you can get the same thing or something similar free; you will be surprised at the free stuff available.
The bottom line is that with your PIPSite, you have everything you need to succeed and when you start out, you should concentrate on promoting your site. Anything else can be tackled later.
Ready to Start - Get Organised First
Decide upon a realistic budget and stick to it. Sometimes budgeting is as simple as putting off a leads purchase for a few days so that the money comes out of your following month’s advertising allowance.
Next I suggest you read my article about getting organised for your home based business. The article is about home based business in general but it is relevant to PIPSites and it has all the links to the various useful free things you will need. Sign up for all the things recommended in the article. In particular, don’t forget Roboform as I have a plan for you which will involve filling in a lot of forms.
Nearly Ready
First, a word about email accounts. I reckon you need two (apart from your own personal one) as a very minimum. Keep one account for all your affiliate sign ups and traffic exchange memberships etc and the other for ezine and FFA (sorry, this stands for free for all) list memberships. If you signed up for PIPS using your personal account, just forward copies of those emails to yourself at your new business email address and you will have all the details safely in one place. You will have some of the information on your spreadsheet but I would save the emails in folders as well as some of them will contain extra information.
You now have your domain name registered and hosting arranged. You have signed up for the PIPS affiliate programmes. You have set up your new free email accounts, Pay Pal, Roboform etc. Now we will take a big step onwards. You will prepare to start your advertising campaign.
Time to join Profit Rally. Now if all this is new to you, this is truly a big step and it will look very confusing. Don’t worry, remember that anything can be changed, none of this is carved in stone. This is where you will start to appreciate the benefits of having Roboform and separate email accounts.
Sign up for free membership to Profit Rally. They will email you instructions for logging into your account. Read through the instructions carefully before you start to follow them. There are a few programmes which are not free to join. You can leave those for the time being, you can always go back and sign up for them at a later date if you want to. Don’t forget we are doing this to suit a limited budget. Don’t do any surfing unless you have heard from Stone that your website is functioning, otherwise any hits you earn will be lost.
Next, sign up for free membership with Adland Pro You will get free advertising here. You will also get a free internet business training course. I have upgraded my membership with Adland to get the additional advertising. The price is very low, so I suggest you note this as a possible early upgrade for the future.
Then join Search Estate for more free advertising.
I suggest adding Adland and Search Estate to your Profit Rally rotator so you will be advertising them plus Profit Rally plus your PIPSite. With free membership you are allowed to advertise up to 5 urls, so you still have a spare one.
Go Earn Some Cash!
We arrive at the exciting day comes when Stone emails you to tell you your brand new customized website is ready for you. Follow the instructions, log in and check that your referral ID’s are all correct. Make sure you read over the instructions carefully.
One of Stone’s first recommendations is that you upgrade your Get Response membership. This is not essential but I think you should follow his advice. It looks much more professional if your emails do not carry other people’s advertising and you don’t want their ads taking attention away from your business.
Now check your budget figures. So far, you will have incurred the cost of hosting and the Get Response fee if you have upgraded. The next thing to sort out is a monthly budget for advertising. You will hear it said many times that there is no point having the best website in the world if nobody sees it. This is completely true, a good consistent advertising campaign is essential.
Stone recommends paying for some leads. This is a quick way to get some action going. I can recommend buying leads from List Opt. They have various different priced packages and I have found them to be a good company. Stone was recommending Lead Factory but they were rather expensive and the leads not very good. If Stone’s updated version of “30 Days” had come out by now (due any day), he might have replaced them with a different company.
With your purchased leads and regular daily surfing, you have an advertising campaign. Now you need to follow “30 Days To Success”, remembering to stick to your budget and use free resources wherever possible. Also you should make a point of visiting the PIPS Forum every day - this is a mine of relevant information and all the members will be willing to give you help and advice.
For Later
When you are ready to invest further cash, I can recommend Ezine Announcer as a very useful tool. In fact, I would go so far as to say it is invaluable for promoting your newsletter and submitting articles for publishing. It also has a whole year money back guarantee. I’d definitely make this my first purchase (actually, I did).
When you are ready to upgrade memberships, I suggest doing it in the following order: Profit Rally, Traffic Swarm, Adland Pro. Then I would consider joining Empowerism.
Next, you might want to add some more affiliate opportunities to your website. You can check out my recommendations here.
By now I think you will be ready to go solo in search of further opportunities.
Good Luck and remember, if you need any help, you can just email me anytime.
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