I have an interesting conversation with a friend over lunch today, and he told me that he wanted to build a website to boost hos business and help his potential customers to know more about Financial Planning. Well, a very  Noble ideas . What matter is, every time when some one told me that he or she wanted to build a website for their business, it sure turns me on.

My question to them is always,

1. How do you proposed to build it?

Then follow by

2. How do you proposed to promote or market it?

Most  people will find a web designing firm to do it for them; it only naturally. Nothing wrong about that. Here is a comment given in my other business blog by Arthur

“That is so true. I’ve worked in web design myself and I know first hand that most web designers are programmers, not marketers at heart. So yes, they will make you a website, but will it sell? I’d rather have an ugly website that makes me money than a pretty one that doesn’t.”

What Arthur said is very true, most web designers are programmers, not marketers. You may have a very nicely done website with all the animation, flash and layout, but your site hardly have any visitor except those customers that you already had, who log in just to obligate as per your request. This situation is just like you start a grocery shop, except that the location of your shop is in the middle of a plantation, only those people who know and live there will pay you a visit one a while for the sundries when they need them. That’s defeat the purpose of having a website.

I personally have a few very interesting encounter with website designers, in due respect, these people produce professionally look website, if that is all you wanted, fine! But as Arthur put it in my blogpost, Your Website Need Revive! here, “…I’d rather have an ugly website that makes me money than a pretty one that doesn’t.”

Talk about promoting and marketing of website on Internet, you will sure heard about the buzz word SEO And by the way, just for some fun here, if you go to Google Page and type “Online Business Success” you will find that #6 on page 1 of Google SERP of out of 72,100,000 is www.clickabiznes.com, my very first  website that I build with all the Free Tools  found on the Internet.

You can read the story from the blogpost there.  I turn this site it into a blog like website after it lie dormant for 2 years.  Restarted last year and stop again for about 10 months since October 08 and started again this July. Hopefully when you read this post, the position stays.  

Wow! Google SERP Page 1 - Nothing To shout About lah.

The Screen shot is taken at about  10:31:00 pm 24/07/09. Click here for FullView

So you see, if you are talk into building a website and pay through your nose every month for the service of SEO, you may want to get a second opinion first, for many of the self proclaimed SEO expert (in my opinion) is telling the truth about what they can do for your site promotion but probably not the whole truth!

It always wise to get a second or even third opinion.

PR: wait… I: wait… L: wait… LD: wait… I: wait… wait… Rank: wait… Traffic: wait… Price: wait… C: wait…

I was surfing one of my social network site that I joined last couple of days. The challenge of joining any new social network is  that you have to answer many of the question in the profile and to decide which of you personal particular you want other to see.

Well the social networking site I joined is not the normal network site that most people are joining, they are a groups of corporate executive, entrepreneurs and business person. YO can clearly see their profiles listed and the message they wrote and question they asked, It is truely something different from many of the Social Network that I had join.One thing about joining any social network is that you will be invited to join similar netwroking groups of sites, and throught this site, I had joined a couple of newtworking that suitable to my profession and aspiration.

While reading some of th email and invitation, one of the, caught my attention, it say,” How would you like to make as much money from home and it is 100% FREE.” Well every one like FREE stuff, and one of my involvement in Internet business is to share FREE stauff with my subscribers, that was my quest and it lead me to build my very first website about internet marketing and online business. I am upgrading the content and may change it to block, the PR it carry is too good to lay idle. Will let you know once it is revised. Back to the letter, this is what it written, from a fellow members David who is now my sponsor into this social networking site.

“Last week I was checking out the science channel, the first thing that got my attention was a few names like MYSPACE, FACEBOOK, YAHOO, GOOGLE. The reason this got my attention, they were talking about how young people have become very wealthy.

Lets start with Bill Gates if you were in a room with Bill when he was talking about his plans and needed start up money would you say how much, probably not. Take two college men who had a idea for the internet (MYSPACE) they found a way to get a lot of people to become members at around 160 thousand a day. This opened the door for the companies who advertised on TV to advertise on the internet and that is how all the young people are becoming BILLIONAIRES.  What he said at the end was if you want to make money from home get with the people who find a way to get the advertisement on board. I have found that group of people and it is FREE.

How much money would you like to make!  I have the way, get back to me

www.zenzuu.com

david.

www.zenzuu.com“

The site name is a little funny to me, but nonthesless, out of curiosity, I just join, no harm done since it is FREE, no credit card detail needed, they did not even asked for home addres and phone number and have a very strict provacy rule.

One of the benefit of joining social network site is you will be able to link to many people of the world with diverse interests and it is  the best platform to expand your contacts and exposed your website and blog. What this social network promised to share teh profit will be an added benefit, if it did not deliver, you will still be able to make some friends and who know, that is the beginning of another new venture.

Check it out.

www.zenzuu.com

A friend of mine introduce me this challenge site The Thirty Days Challenge and I believe any one, newbies or Oldies on Online Business or even if you are not interested in Internet Marketing, my suggestion is still join in the challenge. The next challenge started on 1/8/2008 and it teaches a lot things before the challenge started.

What is the challenge, check it out yourself  under www.tinturl.com/30dayschallenge and  so far I Have learned

1. How to browse with a new Web2.0 browser much better than Firefox in my opinion.
2. How to have Better use of Twitter and Twhirl
3. How to make good use of Google Reader (how amazing, never realize so much uses.)and Google Subscribe
4. How to have better use of Stumble, You Tube, Friendfeed

There are still 5 video lessons to go before the challenge started,  it really keep me occupied with catching up with all the new gadgets and Web2.0 sites have to offer. For the last couple of weeks, the lessons were really kept me occupied but the effort worth every inch of it. The challenge is FREE for all to join.

I have subscribed to many Web2. 0 site and  community site but nenevr really explore what they have to offer and thus never have the thought that many of these sites are a great marketing tools to promote your blogs or sites.

This evening, after watching the FriendFree video which teaches the benefits and features of Firendfeed and the relationship and compatibility with twitter, I received an email which lead me to this interesting gadget for twitter. Have a look,

This Tweet MY BLOG plugin automatically “ping” your Twitter account every time you post at your blog. Your Twitter post will automatically contain a link back to your blog post, potentially driving massive amounts of traffic to your blog and the best part is, it is FREE!

The Tweet My Blog also provide a widget that listed your recent tweet on your twitter account. have a look at the widget on my sidebar Jaunesk’s Twitter Feed