Like most smart people starting a small business, you understand that a website that makes you money - even while you sleep - is a great business asset, right?If not, then you should develop a plan and initiate action as soon as possible. The sooner you start earning an income, the sooner you can start doing more of the things you love.
One way to get started is to try building a website. It’s relatively easy to get your feet wet, but you must learn how to do it right if you expect to tap into the income potential, without getting stuck on the nickel and dimmers.
Whether you're looking for additional income or a full-time on-line business, creating a website that makes money could be the answer for you. If you want to start a website for profit, you'll need to work hard to make it work. Running profitable websites isn't as easy as some advertisements make it out to be. It takes serious dedication, time and commitment. However, if you follow through, you can begin to make extra money from your sites.
Why build just a blog, when you could build a profitable website that generates ever-growing residual online income for years to come?
Yes, you can build your financial freedom on the net.
If you don't really know what you need, or how to do this...
...Relax.
Whether a complete novice or an expert in making websites, you're at the right place: the straight-forward business concepts, advanced marketing strategies, proven tools and step-by-step guidance found here at Brainy Websites will help you build a profitable website - without pulling your hair out.
Your site will draw free traffic from the Search Engines, then resell to and monetize this traffic by integrating your valuable content with a functional web design and with proven web marketing strategies and tools.
Simple. Clean. Clear. Effective. And, profitable for you.
Here is a straightforward guide to having a profitable website.
Step 1 – Set up your blog or website
- Sounds like cake, but you must know how to do it right. A properly built blog or website is one that fills a visitor’s needs, and broadcasts their purpose with clarity.
- If you have expertise in a field where people need help, you can turn that expertise into a business. If you can promote a product people love, you can spin your online words into gold.
- If you don’t have an immediate expertise, build one. Find a place where people need you, then service that need.
- Make a list of all the things you love and love to do. Then, search Amazon for book reviews in that area. Look for one-star reviews – these are the people who aren’t getting their needs met. You can step in and help.
- When you provide a service or publish information that people need and want, you establish credibility.
Step 2 – Earn their trust
- Start by making a name for yourself. When people know you want to help them (and you’re not just out to make a buck), they’ll repeatedly return to hear your advice.
- Meeting their needs makes you their hero, and makes them want to help you in return.
Step 3 – Find products you love
- Look for products that your readers need and can use. If you love it, tell your readers all about it. High quality products are useful and will pay better in the long run. Yes, there are plenty of sites where you can go and sign up for any and every available product, but you won’t be passing quality links to your readers, or earning anything close to the income you wanted.
- Once your readers see you shuffling whatever you can over to them, they’ll stop wanting to come and eventually never return to your site.
- The goal is promote what you love.
Step 4 – Promote sparingly
- Once you’re a credible blogger, you must be smart about what and how you promote. Never inundate your readers or come across as a beggar. You want your readers to know they can trust your opinions, so you must post them with wisdom, and sparingly, so you don’t lose readers.
- You must also always let people know when you might be compensated by promoting a product (it’s FTC regulation, anyway). Post a disclaimer to tell your readers they should naturally assume that any products you talk about could potentially bring you income. This is smart, honest business.
- When promoting, make sure you’re promoting products or services you’re familiar with, and can fully stand behind.
Step 5 – If you use it, you can back it
- Your readers will come to trust that you will lead them in the right direction. Maintain that credibility by affiliating yourself with systems or products you’ve actually used.
- You should be able to sell your reader on the products you want them to buy. But you can’t do that, unless you’ve tried it yourself first.
- Make sure you know all about the item you’re promoting in case your readers have questions before the sale. This continues to reinforce their trust in you
- Your website, done well, can bring you a nice income. Enough to thicken your savings, or help you earn that vacation you’re longing to take. But you must invest your time. Rather than sitting in the evening with nothing to do, start building your affiliate empire instead.
Step 6 - Determine your business model
- Determine your business model. Websites earn money through a variety of business models--selling physical or informational products, receiving advertising revenue or charging readers a fee to read information. All models work, but it's best to choose just one and stick to that model.
Step 7 - Research your niche
- Research your niche. In order to make a profit on a website as an individual, it's best to choose a topic that is very specific. For example, for general health issues, you'll find that large authority sites, such as WebMD, dominate the search results. You don't want to compete with a site like this. If you want to create a site about health, you want to choose a specific ailment to focus on.
Step 8 - Purchase a domain name and hosting
- Purchase a domain name and hosting. Your domain name should be simple and easy to remember. Choosing a name that includes words related to your main topic can help you to rank in the search engines. To start out, a simple web hosting plan with a monthly payment is all you need. This is the company that will store your files so people can view your website on-line.
Step 9 - Design the website
- Design the website. If you don't have designing experience, you can use a WYSIWYG--"what you see is what you get"--editor. This allows you to easily create the layout, change colors and adjust text without having to understand programming languages. To make things even easier, you can use a template, which will set the basic layout for you and you simply have to add text and images.
Step 10 - Upload the website to your server
- Upload the website to your server. Use an FTP software to transfer files. Open up the FTP software and drag your files from your desktop to the software program. You'll begin to see the files uploading.
Step 11 - Bring traffic to your website
- Bring traffic to your website. You won't make money with your website if you don't have any visitors. To get visitors to your site, you can pay for advertising, use search engine optimization or article and video marketing--putting your content on other websites with a link back to your site.
Best Tips for Successful, Profitable Website
Know Your Website Purpose
- Before you start to create (or re-create) your website, consider what purpose it serves in your business? A website can be used to sell a product or service exclusively, to give information, as a brochure to attract more business or showcase projects, or even a combination of things. Let’s say, for example, that you sell fishing equipment. Your website might include articles for fishing enthusiasts, tips to catch bigger fish as well as a store for fishing equipment and supplies. This would be an example of a combination site selling multiple related products.
- If you are an author selling a book, a simple sales site might serve you well. With a simple sales site, you have only one or two pages to the whole site, featuring the product you wish to sell. The only information on the site might be the letter describing the book, and links to “purchase now”. This is a simple and very effective method for using the internet to produce revenue from your site.
Lead Your Visitor to Action
- Have you ever been to someone’s web site, looked at the front page, and left because you were confused? While it may be a common practice to put everything about your company’s product or service on the front page, it’s not a good idea, for exactly the reason I described above. You want your visitors to stay on your site and DO something. For each page on your web site, decide what you want your visitor to do. Should they sign up for a newsletter? Buy a product? Look at the pictures of your work? Make it clear and easy to understand and your visitor will happily tour your website.
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