A Solid Foundation- Do you need one?Filed Under: My Journey to Success
Welcome back to my Blog, you are very welcome here and please if you would like to leave a comment or 2 then I would be very grateful, thanks.
Ok, what is a solid foundation? For me a solid foundation in terms of Internet Marketing is your starting point in your online journey. So where do you begin, well that is easy you build a Blog, and yes that is easy to. Contact me for an easy step by step guide.
But before you start to do anything make sure you have planned out what you are going to do, step by step and which day each task should be completed by, if not completed put it down for the next day and so on.
Set each task as an ‘A’, ‘B’ or ‘C’ depending how important each task is,
Here is a PDF you can download and use: Download
Now back to the Blog……
Put on your Blog this is me and this is where I am starting, this is the beginning of my adventure online so to speak. Just put something up there that is about you and what you wish to achieve, be accountable so if you say on your Blog I am going to do something you now have a reason to follow up on it. Take action……..I can’t speak more about that word ACTION without it nothing you read, buy or whatever will ever work. Don’t be afraid to get your face out there. At first I did not even what to sign an email with my name, now you can hardly find a blog post without my mug on it. It becomes fun and to think that what I am saying can guide people in the right direction is fantastic.
Add value to the blog, W.I.I.I.F.M everyones favourite radio station What Is In It For Me or We FM. So if a reader can take something away with him or her then you have added value to that person and I don’t just mean a free gift or something but a little tiny bit of information that makes that reader say ah ha that is how you do it. This will go along way to you becoming someone that they trust and in the end hopefully buy from.
So as your foundation starts to grow slowly but surely, you start to understand what is required to be successful, then in your Blog you can start to pass this information on. The information that is in you in valuable to other people as they as yet do not know what you know, you may only be a few steps ahead of them, but that few step can seem like giant leaps until all the fog clears. A small example, you may go and register your first domain name and set up hosting, well that is fantastic, go tell the world how you did it as there will be a tonne of people that have no clue how to do it. So tell them what you did and how you did it, which companies you used and how you found the process, then of course link to these companies with your affiliate URL and bam you have just made your first sale online.
So you have your foundations, what next, there is not point blogging if no one is going to here you. So how do you generate the traffic that is required to get a following or at least some readers. Well this is alot easier that you might think.
I all ready have posted how this is done, look at the ‘Twitter Traffic’ category and also ‘The Traffic Generation Challenge’ category as these 2 methods alone will start to work magic on your Blog. As you can link your Word Press Blog with Twitter so your followers will be notified everytime you write a new Blog post.
Leaving comments on other blogs on a regular basis will work a dream to, just be active on forums will also drive traffic as you can leave your Blog link at the bottom of every post you write in a forum. Simple little tricks like this will all start to mount up.
So to summarise, having a Blog will act as your foundation, as it grows your traffic grows because your content starts to get listed on the Google etc and people will find it. So put down your story from start to present, just keep adding content and over just a fews weeks you will have a wealth of posts to read and hopefully information to give.
Once you start to master these basics, this is when the next level kicks in as you want to start earning more, this is when you want to start building your list and building your list should be your ultimate goal as the money is in the list.
I will be Blogging about what to do once you have a list so keep checking back for new Blogs as time goes by.
I hoep this has helped you and plaes feel free to leave a comment.

- Permalink
- Neil
- 22 Jul 2009 4:31 PM
- Comments (3)

July 24th, 2009 at 9:29 pm
Hi Neil,
Glad to see you are prioritising your workload and taking action. It’s awesome to see your entire mentality change, in that you were apprehensive about putting your name or photo to anything you published online and now you can’t get your branding out there fast enough!
Keep up the good work.
David
David Walker´s last blog ..Progress Update 24 July 2009
July 25th, 2009 at 11:44 am
David,
Thanks for leaving a comment, I agree I have changed my mindset completely.
Speak soon
Neil
February 4th, 2010 at 8:09 am
@Markus I get your drift on where you were going there. I often think of my past and use it as a means to analyze where I am and where I want to get to. Where I struggle is balancing it all out. How do you guys balance things out?