WordPress is considered to be fairly easy to set up and install. There are even ways you can set it up through your cPanel host that make it a total breeze. With a few clicks of a button, your blog will be installed.
I hope you’ll find this process easy even if you’re new to it. If you’re not, I’m going to offer a few suggestions that should help you get through it even if you’re totally non-techie.
Believe me when I say this—building a list is the most important thing you can do for your business. It doesn’t matter who you are or what your business is, it’s so important to have a way to connect with and contact your audience directly.
There’s a lot of talk and interest in building up Twitter followers and Facebook likes these days. Sometimes, it’s easy to lose sight of your true goals and believe that these are the be-all, end-all in business.
Really, those things should be a means to an end. You should have Twitter followers as a way of connecting with others in your audience and funneling people to your email list. You should work to get Facebook likes as a way of being seen in your niche, building relationships, and… funneling people to your email list.
You’re a big dreamer. People who aren’t like us don’t understand our pie-in-the-sky dreams, but we wouldn’t feel like us without them. You want to change your life, financially and otherwise.
You know that you’re going to make it big someday. You repeat this belief to your spouse, your parents, and your kids. But, there’s always something getting in your way. Why hasn’t it happened yet?
You think:
Wouldn’t it be great for people to be able to easily compile biographies of their family members? Wouldn’t it be great if it were easy to publish these interviews and personal histories as actual books so they could be passed on to future generations?
Why is this so important? There are several reasons. Humans have always collected histories of the world and the people in the world. You and your family members are a big part of that. We can’t expect to understand life and be fulfilled in life if we don’t look to those who have come before us.
There is something really neat that comes from this in the form of self-reflection. What is the value of our life? Why do we do the things we do? What makes you the person you are today? This is all very important to explore. Taking a personal history helps you understand all of that.
It’s important to have a careful balance when it comes to email marketing. You want to earn great money with your emails… but you want to develop relationships too.
You’ve been on the wrong end of things as a list subscriber yourself, I’m sure. Some marketers send way, way too many marketing emails to you. You might have even unsubscribed from a list run by a marketer you otherwise liked because it got to be too much.
You don’t want to offend your list members like that. Sure, you’re never going to please everyone, but that doesn’t mean you want to fall into a “churn and burn” pattern. The marketers who do that don’t care about anything but the sale. They don’t care if you unsubscribe because they’ll just get more people on their list to wear out.