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		<title>By: Andrew A.H.</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-8187</link>
		<dc:creator>Andrew A.H.</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Sep 2009 10:06:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Lisa, is a free webhost like yola, weebly, and freewebs good? I mean it has been there for ages. Also, I need your opinion about bluevoda(http://www.bluevoda.com), it&#039;s not free but it&#039;s really good. Plus, you could be an affiliate too!(commision can be up to $70 per sale).:):)

P.S. I&#039;m not some agent promoting something, I&#039;m just asking.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Lisa, is a free webhost like yola, weebly, and freewebs good? I mean it has been there for ages. Also, I need your opinion about bluevoda(http://www.bluevoda.com), it&#8217;s not free but it&#8217;s really good. Plus, you could be an affiliate too!(commision can be up to $70 per sale).:):)</p>
<p>P.S. I&#8217;m not some agent promoting something, I&#8217;m just asking.</p>
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		<title>By: Dave Moore</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-7352</link>
		<dc:creator>Dave Moore</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2009 14:56:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great Stuff Lisa, 

Not sure I agree with you 100%, I only say that because I really think that you could enter the Internet Marketing Arena having not arrived yet as along as you didn&#039;t play the fake it till you make it roll.

Now I wouldn&#039;t say you come out here and discuss your theories as fact or try and market your services to people as a consultant without being able to back it up with fact.

I believe if you&#039;re educated not college, but you have some training under your belt and you are at least doing the things you talk about then you may have a viable audience.

Here&#039;s why...

Most any class you buy for any amount of money online has forgotten all the little steps that they do every day as naturally as breathing.

Or worse they&#039;re selling you just a piece of the pie and it&#039;s not the piece where they profit from. &quot;Profit&quot; being the key word. Sure they make a lot in sales, but who cares how much you sell.

So if you were doing some type of affiliate with a blog you could report your findings on a regular basis 
as long as you were completely honest about all the details.

Although you have hit the nail on the head with people  out there promoting their SEO consulting business with this really nicely done site, well visually nice... Then find out they have no traffic rank no page rank and just registered their domain last week. (Especially Tweeple people) If you catch my drift... Wink Wink

This world is all about research, testing, and taking action on a consistent basis.

I&#039;ve done 2 product launches this year I think they both failed miserably, however one made money and the other didn&#039;t.

What did I learn? 

You can send people to a $1 trail with forced continuity for $77 a month and provide 9 additional up sells and down sells and up the average sale by 200% And of course get paid every month. However, $77 is too much money to expect 70% quit after 14 days. Now the flip side is 40% of them that took the $1 trail spent $397 minimum.

The other offer was to a market where they&#039;re only looking for a certain brand and will not waiver from that brand no matter what you say about them.

My best advice to the world and I tell everyone this is to learn to SELL first. Yep, scary but true...

I started out selling in person and got pretty good at it, but hated it.

Then went into selling on the phone and delivering in person, that was a little better, but still sucked.

That progressed into developing a leads online and selling a training program off the phone where some one else did the training. Now if you can stand it there&#039;s a lot of money in that world. 

I did very well there, and still get offers today from various people to sell their info product and typically a marketing program for anything from carpet cleaners to real estate investors. It&#039;s not my first love, but the money is good.

Of course that lead to All kinds of things online some good some bad and some just OK.

3 things to take from this...

1. Complete honesty is ALWAYS the best policy to the extent of having their $2000 and giving it back because you know they are giving you their last nickel and won&#039;t be able to put food on the table next month. They will come back to you when they can afford it and pay you and will be lifetime clients no matter what you&#039;re up to.

2. Learn to sell, become an expert in salesmanship then take that into the copy writing world.

Every blog post is an opportunity to sell something and make it look like you aren&#039;t trying to sell anything. The problem is most people don&#039;t know the first thing about salesmanship.

3. Lastly, but not leastly: It&#039;s the journey that&#039;s important not the destination.

Enjoy
Dave
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great Stuff Lisa, </p>
<p>Not sure I agree with you 100%, I only say that because I really think that you could enter the Internet Marketing Arena having not arrived yet as along as you didn&#8217;t play the fake it till you make it roll.</p>
<p>Now I wouldn&#8217;t say you come out here and discuss your theories as fact or try and market your services to people as a consultant without being able to back it up with fact.</p>
<p>I believe if you&#8217;re educated not college, but you have some training under your belt and you are at least doing the things you talk about then you may have a viable audience.</p>
<p>Here&#8217;s why&#8230;</p>
<p>Most any class you buy for any amount of money online has forgotten all the little steps that they do every day as naturally as breathing.</p>
<p>Or worse they&#8217;re selling you just a piece of the pie and it&#8217;s not the piece where they profit from. &#8220;Profit&#8221; being the key word. Sure they make a lot in sales, but who cares how much you sell.</p>
<p>So if you were doing some type of affiliate with a blog you could report your findings on a regular basis<br />
as long as you were completely honest about all the details.</p>
<p>Although you have hit the nail on the head with people  out there promoting their SEO consulting business with this really nicely done site, well visually nice&#8230; Then find out they have no traffic rank no page rank and just registered their domain last week. (Especially Tweeple people) If you catch my drift&#8230; Wink Wink</p>
<p>This world is all about research, testing, and taking action on a consistent basis.</p>
<p>I&#8217;ve done 2 product launches this year I think they both failed miserably, however one made money and the other didn&#8217;t.</p>
<p>What did I learn? </p>
<p>You can send people to a $1 trail with forced continuity for $77 a month and provide 9 additional up sells and down sells and up the average sale by 200% And of course get paid every month. However, $77 is too much money to expect 70% quit after 14 days. Now the flip side is 40% of them that took the $1 trail spent $397 minimum.</p>
<p>The other offer was to a market where they&#8217;re only looking for a certain brand and will not waiver from that brand no matter what you say about them.</p>
<p>My best advice to the world and I tell everyone this is to learn to SELL first. Yep, scary but true&#8230;</p>
<p>I started out selling in person and got pretty good at it, but hated it.</p>
<p>Then went into selling on the phone and delivering in person, that was a little better, but still sucked.</p>
<p>That progressed into developing a leads online and selling a training program off the phone where some one else did the training. Now if you can stand it there&#8217;s a lot of money in that world. </p>
<p>I did very well there, and still get offers today from various people to sell their info product and typically a marketing program for anything from carpet cleaners to real estate investors. It&#8217;s not my first love, but the money is good.</p>
<p>Of course that lead to All kinds of things online some good some bad and some just OK.</p>
<p>3 things to take from this&#8230;</p>
<p>1. Complete honesty is ALWAYS the best policy to the extent of having their $2000 and giving it back because you know they are giving you their last nickel and won&#8217;t be able to put food on the table next month. They will come back to you when they can afford it and pay you and will be lifetime clients no matter what you&#8217;re up to.</p>
<p>2. Learn to sell, become an expert in salesmanship then take that into the copy writing world.</p>
<p>Every blog post is an opportunity to sell something and make it look like you aren&#8217;t trying to sell anything. The problem is most people don&#8217;t know the first thing about salesmanship.</p>
<p>3. Lastly, but not leastly: It&#8217;s the journey that&#8217;s important not the destination.</p>
<p>Enjoy<br />
Dave<br />
<span class="cluv"> Dave Moore´s last blog &#8230; <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/OnlineMarketingSociety/~3/fr-Osn39KxE/" rel="nofollow">Sexy Website Branding On Twitter</a> </span></p>
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		<title>By: WanZ</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-6793</link>
		<dc:creator>WanZ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 05:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi Lisa, 
THis is my first comment to your blog.
I&#039;ve been reading your blog since last week. It is really a good blog. I wish I met your blog earlier so that I can eliminate so many things that didnt work for my internet business.
You have a good sharing and it is very sincere.
Keep it up. 
Almost all your post have the power to ask your reader to read until the end.

Good Sharing!

WanZ
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi Lisa,<br />
THis is my first comment to your blog.<br />
I&#8217;ve been reading your blog since last week. It is really a good blog. I wish I met your blog earlier so that I can eliminate so many things that didnt work for my internet business.<br />
You have a good sharing and it is very sincere.<br />
Keep it up.<br />
Almost all your post have the power to ask your reader to read until the end.</p>
<p>Good Sharing!</p>
<p>WanZ<br />
<span class="cluv"> WanZ´s last blog &#8230; <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/dare2d/qilT/~3/GuUYSuE0uTQ/" rel="nofollow">Selamat Hari Bapa!</a> </span></p>
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		<title>By: Ted Young</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-6651</link>
		<dc:creator>Ted Young</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Yes, that&#039;s all good, but where do I start. What was the first thing you did and where did you go from there?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Yes, that&#8217;s all good, but where do I start. What was the first thing you did and where did you go from there?</p>
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		<title>By: Kathy</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-5633</link>
		<dc:creator>Kathy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My mistake is and continues to be that I change new internet programs more often than I change my socks.
This isn&#039;t good for the budget, and IM&#039;s love me and keep sending me so much email.
So I must have 30 websites, but now I&#039;ve gotten into domains that are strong on SEO. They&#039;re made of good keyword phrases that are searched highly and with low competition. 
So now I don&#039;t want to do anything wrong with my &#039;good&#039; domains, that I did with my quirky domains.
The passion to earn a living continues to allude me. But I have now gotten a super chance and I need some help.

So I expect Ill drain my finances trying to find it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My mistake is and continues to be that I change new internet programs more often than I change my socks.<br />
This isn&#8217;t good for the budget, and IM&#8217;s love me and keep sending me so much email.<br />
So I must have 30 websites, but now I&#8217;ve gotten into domains that are strong on SEO. They&#8217;re made of good keyword phrases that are searched highly and with low competition.<br />
So now I don&#8217;t want to do anything wrong with my &#8216;good&#8217; domains, that I did with my quirky domains.<br />
The passion to earn a living continues to allude me. But I have now gotten a super chance and I need some help.</p>
<p>So I expect Ill drain my finances trying to find it.</p>
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		<title>By: Er Tjen Penge Online Markedet Mættet?</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-5461</link>
		<dc:creator>Er Tjen Penge Online Markedet Mættet?</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:56:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] at have læst Lisa&#8217;s indlæg om hvordan hun ville starte om, hvis hun skulle starte sit website i dag, så måtte jeg tage lidt til genmæle (du kan se min [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] at have læst Lisa&#8217;s indlæg om hvordan hun ville starte om, hvis hun skulle starte sit website i dag, så måtte jeg tage lidt til genmæle (du kan se min [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Mikael Rieck</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-5459</link>
		<dc:creator>Mikael Rieck</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2009 11:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have to agree with Josef Benjamin above. The MMO niche might have a lot of competitors but there is still plenty of room for more people to follow that route. We are daily seeing thousands of people coming online and trying to find ways to make money. All you need to know about MMO is more than they know (which for the most part is nothing) in order to teach them something.

I agree that you can&#039;t teach what you do know know but that is true for all niches and not especially MMO.

If you know how to install a WP blog and slap on some Adsense code you can still find thousands of people that would like to have that information and if you can get in front of them you can teach them how to do it (and have them pay for it if you want).

BUT.... In order to be able to follow down that route you will need to have that passion for Making Money. If you&#039;re not passionate about it you&#039;ll not keep going long enough to carve your space in the market and you&#039;ll need to do that to make money from it.

Just my 2 cents. ;)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have to agree with Josef Benjamin above. The MMO niche might have a lot of competitors but there is still plenty of room for more people to follow that route. We are daily seeing thousands of people coming online and trying to find ways to make money. All you need to know about MMO is more than they know (which for the most part is nothing) in order to teach them something.</p>
<p>I agree that you can&#8217;t teach what you do know know but that is true for all niches and not especially MMO.</p>
<p>If you know how to install a WP blog and slap on some Adsense code you can still find thousands of people that would like to have that information and if you can get in front of them you can teach them how to do it (and have them pay for it if you want).</p>
<p>BUT&#8230;. In order to be able to follow down that route you will need to have that passion for Making Money. If you&#8217;re not passionate about it you&#8217;ll not keep going long enough to carve your space in the market and you&#8217;ll need to do that to make money from it.</p>
<p>Just my 2 cents. <img src='http://blog.2createawebsite.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_wink.gif' alt=';)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: RMVX</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-5361</link>
		<dc:creator>RMVX</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 16:31:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Great post! I&#039;ve definitely fallen into the third trap, and possibly doing the first again right now... hopefully google doesn&#039;t decide to start charging us for those blogger blogs!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Great post! I&#8217;ve definitely fallen into the third trap, and possibly doing the first again right now&#8230; hopefully google doesn&#8217;t decide to start charging us for those blogger blogs!</p>
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		<title>By: Gigi</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-5240</link>
		<dc:creator>Gigi</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:21:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hi guys,

I started my blog a while ago..it has been 2 months already. To be honest with I did not think it would be that hard. I thought that my biggest problem would be with the design of the blog and everything, but this is nothing comparing to trying to drive traffic to your blog/site, especially when it is almost brain new and does not have a lot of content.
However I love writing although I am really bad at it (since English is not my first language) but I am trying really hard. 
Actually it is a lot of fun that I get to experience new things, it is just sometimes frustrating when something messes up and you do not know how to fix it. Like a week or two ago I was trying to change smth within my theme in the php file and then I could not access neither my dashboard nor my web blog from anywhere for 2 days. It totally disappeared. These things can really frustrate you, trust me. However, I wanted to ask if anyone knows where the option in the wordpress blog is from where you can control how many posts under a specific category you can have. With this I mean that if I go to my main url I can see my newest blog post and one more below it. However when I go to a specific category, for example EXERCISES, there I can see only 2 posts as well..even though that category can have another 10 posts. It is always like this, if on my main url for example is illustrated only 1 post, then under the category is 1as well.
If anyone can give me any clues I would highly appreciate it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hi guys,</p>
<p>I started my blog a while ago..it has been 2 months already. To be honest with I did not think it would be that hard. I thought that my biggest problem would be with the design of the blog and everything, but this is nothing comparing to trying to drive traffic to your blog/site, especially when it is almost brain new and does not have a lot of content.<br />
However I love writing although I am really bad at it (since English is not my first language) but I am trying really hard.<br />
Actually it is a lot of fun that I get to experience new things, it is just sometimes frustrating when something messes up and you do not know how to fix it. Like a week or two ago I was trying to change smth within my theme in the php file and then I could not access neither my dashboard nor my web blog from anywhere for 2 days. It totally disappeared. These things can really frustrate you, trust me. However, I wanted to ask if anyone knows where the option in the wordpress blog is from where you can control how many posts under a specific category you can have. With this I mean that if I go to my main url I can see my newest blog post and one more below it. However when I go to a specific category, for example EXERCISES, there I can see only 2 posts as well..even though that category can have another 10 posts. It is always like this, if on my main url for example is illustrated only 1 post, then under the category is 1as well.<br />
If anyone can give me any clues I would highly appreciate it.</p>
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		<title>By: Anonymous</title>
		<link>http://blog.2createawebsite.com/2009/02/24/if-i-could-start-over-again/#comment-5214</link>
		<dc:creator>Anonymous</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:49:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>i love the topic</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>i love the topic</p>
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