Aug 18 2009
How To Start A Business Blog For Less Than $100
As every blog-savvy internet marketer knows, you can actually start a business blog for around $15.
So why did I title this post “How To Start A Business Blog For Less Than $100″?
Well, for a start, many (if not most) small business owners are not internet marketers – they’re full-time business owners who don’t have the time to keep up with the growing volume of information on the web about internet marketing related topics like search engine optimization, affiliate marketing, opt-in list building, pay per click management, and so on. And they don’t want to learn technical stuff outside of their area of expertise.
So … although it’s true that anyone can start a business blog for around $15 (I explain how to do this further below), what most business owners would end up with if they did this, is a default blog that isn’t really going to do much at all to help them grow their business.
Let’s face it … it doesn’t matter what business you’re in, if you think the competition for your products or services is bad “offline”, try taking your business online with the aim of actually getting some of that “multibillion dollar” online share of the pie that everyone in your market space is fighting for.
The world wide web is littered with “brochureware” type websites that were built either as an afterthought for the business, or as a hopeful “big red button” solution that would somehow automagically deliver new customers without requiring any commitment of time and effort, without crafting an online marketing strategy with clear goals and objectives, and without a focused and consistent plan of action aimed at helping the business achieve specific results.
If all you want is to have a “me too” online presence so you can put a web address on your business card, letterbox flyers and the back of your car and then hope for the best, then none of what I’m going to say in the rest of this post matters to you.
If what you do want, however, is a powerful business tool that will help leverage your time and effort, that requires no technical skills, and that will help you grow your business online fast starting in just a few hours from now, then keep reading. I am going to show you how you can achieve all of this with a business blog for a total starting cost of less than $100.
There are only 3 basic steps involved in starting a business blog.
How To Start A Business Blog For Around $15
The first two steps of the 3-step process I am going to share with you will get you a business blog set up for around $15.
These steps are as follows:
Step 1 – Get A Domain Name
Forget about setting up a “FREE blog” on someone else’s domain (e.g. Blogger). This is not only a really bad idea, but it could end up costing you a lot of money in the long run. Here’s the reason why:
First of all, you are not building your own asset, you are building someone else’s asset. Second, if you take your business seriously, a time may come when you finally realize why you should have been hosting your business blog on your own domain name and not on someone else’s (you may, for example, decide to sell your business and include your online properties in the package as a way of increasing your asking price). You will then discover after moving your business blog over to your own domain name, that all of the links that have been built over time pointing visitors to your “FREE blog” are now lost to you. You can try putting up a “we have moved” sign on your old blog, but all this is probably going to do is make people click somewhere else when they arrive at your site, until eventually the search engines start dropping your site lower and lower in their results pages due to lack of new content being added.
So, if you’re just starting out, do yourself a favor and register a domain name for your blog. You can purchase a brand new .com domain from a reseller like GoDaddy for around $10. Just make sure the domain name you want is available and try to include the main keyword relating to your business in the domain name. GoDaddy has a great domain name search feature that shows you different available options if your desired domain name is taken and excellent domain name management features.
To search for an available domain name, go here: Register A New Domain Name For Around $10
Whilst on the subject of domain names, here’s a brief video I recorded below showing you a very clever and free way of quickly finding an available “keyword-rich” domain name that you can register for your business blog or web site:
Click here to search for available keyword-rich domain names
Step 2 – Get Webhosting For Your Blog
Once you have your domain name registered. the next step is to set up a web hosting account for your business blog. Choose whatever hosting provider you prefer, but I recommend hosting your site with a company like HostGator, as they offer a reliable and inexpensive webhosting service that is ideally suited for running a professional business blog. The reason for this is because their hosting accounts use cPanel and come with Fantastico installed. cPanel allows you to easily control most aspects of your hosting account and Fantastico is a powerful program that makes installing blogs on your site a breeze.
With Fantastico, you can literally install a full featured WordPress blog on your site in less than a minute with just a couple of mouse clicks. You simply log into your hosting account, click on Fantastico, then select the option to install a WordPress blog on your domain, and follow the simple screen instructions to complete your installation.
The hosting package I recommend for most small businesses costs less than $5 a month (Hostgator’s Hatchling Package). You can learn more about it here: Blog Hosting Service
As I stated earlier, the two steps above will help you start a business blog for around $15.
What you won’t get for around $15, however, is the functionality, the automation and the system that helps you grow your business online successfully and that gets you results with the least amount of effort, time and cost involved.
To get this, you generally have to either pay for a professional internet marketer’s expert knowledge, or be willing to do what internet marketers do to gain their knowledge and expertise, which is to invest considerable time, effort and money going through a steep and often costly learning curve.
Fortunately, there is an alternative solution available that will give you everything you need to start a business blog right, and that is designed to get you guaranteed results without going through the learning curve.
It’s called “Step 3″.
Step 3 – Copy The Proven Formula Used By Many Successful Business Blog Owners
For less than $100, you can:
a) register your own domain name,
b) have reliable web hosting for your blog, AND
c) set up a business blog that will get your business blog indexed very quickly in the search engines (usually in 48-72 hours), deliver you a powerful business marketing system and results with no technical knowledge required to run, and help you grow your business online fast with very little time invested on your part.
Our Step-By-Step Business Blog Video Tutorials will show you how to do all of this in just a couple of hours. You simply watch over my shoulder as I show you exactly how to install a blog on your domain in minutes, how to add and configure all of the system components we provide with your video training package (we supply everything you need) and how to kickstart your blog to start automatically driving visitors to your site.
And don’t worry, everything is explained using plain and simple English. The videos are designed for business owners, not computer geeks. I promise that if all you know how to do with a computer is move your mouse around and click a button, then you can set up a business blog just like I will show you how to do in our video tutorials.
Not only is our “How To Start A Business Blog” video tutorials package extremely affordable, it is also completely guaranteed to work for you risk-free. What makes your purchase risk-free is that you are covered by a 60-day 100% “no questions asked” money-back guarantee, which is actually enforced by our payment processing company, Clickbank (one of the most trusted online retailers of digitally delivered products).
The video tutorials package also includes over 50 professionally designed themes for your business blog and all of the components you need to transform your blog into a powerful business marketing tool.
But we go even further than just showing you how to start a business blog. The specially selected bonuses included in the package are designed to help you create a complete online business success system – giving you access to everything you need to know to drive massive traffic to your blog, write powerful sales copy that converts your visitors into customers, grow your business with email marketing, set up additional sources of online revenue, learn how to create new products and services, set up membership sites for recurring income, and so much more. And we do this all without overwhelming you with too much information.
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Want to see proof that what we show you in our tutorials really do work?
Then click here to watch a video we recorded showing you the results of a blog we set up on a brand new domain after only 60 days.
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If starting a business blog for less than $100 interests you, then here are some useful tips on what to do next:
1) Go here for more details about the business blog tutorials and what’s included in the DIY package.
2) Decide who is going to set up your business blog. The tutorials are easy enough for anyone to follow and no technical skills are required, so if you’re too busy to put in a couple of hours into setting up the blog yourself, then get one of your staff members or your partner to go through the videos and training tutorials and outsource the task. I know one business owner who paid a local neighborhood teenager to come in on a Saturday morning after sports to help him set everything up. It won’t take long, since each video tutorial just gets straight to the point and covers only what you need to know to get your business blog up and running very quickly.
3) Log into the member’s area after completing your purchase and register for the customer training emails. These are delivered around every 7-10 days straight to your email inbox and guide you through the process of growing your business, just as if you had a business coach working alongside you and helping you every step of the way. There’s also a forum and a customer help desk available to answer your questions and provide you with all of the support you need.
4) Don’t get distracted by all of the bonuses in the members area. They’re there to help you take your business to a whole new level AFTER you have set up your business blog and are getting results.
5) If you purchase the business blog tutorials package and then decide that you really want us to set it all up for you, just upgrade to the “full installation, set up and configuration” service. You will pay a few hundred dollars more to upgrade to the “we set it all up for you” service, but the good news is that you will be reimbursed for the FULL value of the package ($127) after the 60-day money-back guarantee period has passed, even if you have purchased the DIY package at a discounted or special offer price. And we also guarantee to have your blog completely set up and running in 4-5 working days.
So … there you have it! You can start a business blog for around $15 but then you’ll have to figure out how to actually make your blog work, or, if you want to save money and avoid wasting valuable time, just invest a few dollars more and get our complete ’step-by-step’ video training tutorials that show you exactly how to start a business blog the right way first time around, and in just a few hours from now you will have a powerful tool that’s ready to help you grow your business online fast.
For more information, click here –> Start A Business Blog
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