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Come Celebrate at SiteSell Facebook!

How to Build an E-Business

Let the celebration begin! The SiteSell Facebook community has reached an exciting milestone - 10,000 "Likes" and growing!

As a thank you for everyone's enthusiastic support, there's a special 3-day event happening. It has two exciting parts...

1) Comment SurPRIZE

We'll be giving a variety of mystery prizes for your comments. The surPRIZEs? They all depend on the who-what-when-where-why-how of your comments.

2) The Buy-1-Get-1-Free SBI! Special

Use this super deal to start your own long term profitable e-business... and help someone else to achieve the same financial freedom!

For full details, please visit SiteSell Facebook...

http://www.facebook.com/SiteSell/posts/190700744301146

Is This the "First Day of the Rest of Your Life"?

How To Build an E-Business

Envision the "first day of the rest of your life". Now think about what you need to do to get to that "first" day. More than likely, money plays an important role. Building your own e-business is one of the best ways to harness the Net's vast potential and achieve financial freedom.

One word of caution though...

If your driving goal is purely to "get rich," your focus is automatically upon yourself. And that's a soft foundation for any business to build upon. Instead...

Why Tweaking Pages Can Hurt Your Online Business Success

How to Build an E-Business

Tweaking is a low-yield exercise that can damage your online business success.

Avoid falling into the trap of adjusting and tweaking your web pages to improve Search Engine (SE) rankings. Tweaking refers to the process of repeated re-working of keyword density and the placement of keywords in the various parts of a Web page to rank more highly at the engines.

It’s not worth your time to try and manipulate the SEs. This exercise is an attempt to "fake reality," and it’s getting more and more complicated for Search Engine Optimizers (SEOers). It’s simply not possible to stay ahead of the smartest minds at the big Search Engines.

Anything That Is Worthwhile Has Humps

How To Build an E-Business

Life's a hump. Or I should say "life has humps." Human relationships have humps.

Everything worth doing or having usually involves overcoming a hump or three.

Every business has humps, more than its fair share, it will seem. Humps can be anything from hard-to-make decisions, tough-to-beat doldrums, devastating unforeseen setbacks, careless accidents... just about anything that puts an obstruction between you and where you want to go.

So don't be surprised...

Do You Really Need a Website to Make Money Online?

How To Build an E-Business

So many folks think this or that.  Why not this and that?  Websites did not replace e-mail (which was the first killer app of the Web).  Blogs do not replace websites.  Facebook does not replace blogs.  And so on.

They all supplement each other.  Some may be more appropriate as the primary resource, depending on your business.  But generally...

A Theme-Based Content Website, an evergreen resource, should be the core.  Everything else (e-mail, Facebook, blog, etc.) are adjuncts.  Add the ones that can accelerate your business growth the most, with the least additional effort.

The bottom line is...

WordPress or SBI!?

How To Build an E-Business

Are you a blogger, or a business owner? It pretty much comes down to that distinction when you're deciding how to work on the Web.

You can use WordPress, the best way to blog about the latest news, or your opinions about a topic. On the other hand, you can build an e-business around a niche that you love and want to share with the world.

If your niche isn't news-related, and you're not a pundit whose words are pounced on as soon as they're published, a blog isn't for you, which means WordPress isn't for you.

WordPress just can't build a web-based business with its "out of the box" set of tools. Sure, you could install several plugins, and buy hundreds or thousands of dollars' worth of keyword research and other tools. But even they can't overcome a few WordPress hurdles...

Google Sees Blogs and Websites Differently

How To Build an E-Business

Does Google consider all platforms (ex., WordPress-created blogs, news, etc.) as "just sites"? Not at all. There would not be a blogsearch.google.com or news.google.com, if that was the case.

Google recognizes the difference between news, blogs, images, theme-based content sites, local sites and so on. Google has specialized search tools for them because their very nature is different.

But here's the kicker. Folks don't use these tools very much. They just want to search at Google. So Google came up with "universal search." Now...

How To Build An Online Business

Online Business-Building

Are you researching the best way how to build an online business? Perhaps you thought it takes magic or luck to be successful online? There's nothing mystical about it.

Simply follow a proven, results-generating process...

Content Traffic PREsell Monetize

It starts with your "pre-customer," the hundreds of millions of people who surf the Web every day...

People use the Web as a searching tool. They search for credible high-value information or solutions, anything that can fulfill a wish that they hold dearly or solve a troublesome problem that they're experiencing.

A Theme-Based Content Site contains information based on a main subject—the information that those people are searching for. Each page focuses on a single topic that's related to that theme. The sum of all the information on all your pages forms the Content of your site.

Your pages rank well with the Search Engines, since what the engines are looking for is quality content that they can send their users to. Your pages' high rankings at the engines attract lots of targeted Traffic. The high-value content "warms up" (i.e., PREsells) visitors by OVERdelivering what they came for... relevant information.

Visitors start to like and trust you, based on what you write about on your site. Your content-rich site builds trust and credibility... "PREselling!" You become a knowledgeable expert in the eyes of your visitors, who quickly become repeat visitors.

This credibility creates an open-to-buy or open-to-hire mindset. You are now a mere click away from Monetizing (converting PREsold traffic into dollars)...

• merchant-partner sites that you represent as an affiliate
• an order page on your site where a prospect can buy your own products (hard or digital goods)
• a contact form which visitors can use to follow-up with you for more details about your professional services or Network marketing business opportunity
• your own online store
• a site that sells a related, non-competitive service or product, in return for a referral fee
• your established sales site (become your own best affiliate!)
• an ad from Google's Adsense program
• any combination of the above or others!

This proven, results-generating process...

Content Traffic PREsell Monetize

... works.

Always keep in mind that you're in the "Content Delivery Business." Build up a solid site that OVERdelivers quality content. Find some inbound links. Then monetize. Follow that plan and you'll succeed!

Learn more about how to build an online business with the Content Traffic PREsell Monetize method.