So you have built a blog, your foundation is up and running, so now what do you do……??? Well you start by telling your story, tell your pain, your problems. Tell people where you are and where you want to go. Be straight with people as everyone can relate to a story, but nobody will relate to hype or BS. If you have no traffic, start telling people you have no traffic and then tell people what steps you are going to make to achieve more traffic. Remember that good information alone will attract more people to your site, so don’t keep things a secret, be open and you will see the difference quickly.

So here I am at my new beginning, however I have taken action by getting myself a mentor (Alex Jeffreys). I am certainly not a complete Newbie, but having direction is huge as you can easily find yourself going down the wrong path. So what am I going to do to start building so more traffic, well to start all I am going to do is get much more active on other peoples Blogs as this will start to drive traffic back to my Blog. However I am not going to start pimping my sh*t, as this will work against what I am trying to achieve. No, I will be doing my best to add value to their Blog. This is huge as if you don’t add value, why the hell would anyone want to visit your site to find out more what you have to say. Help as many people with as much information as you can, information will give you the starting point you need to become someone they will look for in the future for more help.

So back to what I am going to do, I will be commenting on other Blogs everyday until I am fully able to attract traffic all on my own. I have given myself a daily task to comment on at least 10 different Blogs a day. This should take me around an hour a day. This time commitment however will be the building blocks to having a truly active and succesful Blog. It isn’t an instant overnight trick, but more of a long term residual way to build traffic, but attracting real genuine people with the time to read and add value to my Blog to.

I hope you can start to see the picture I am painting with this plan, and remember to be yourself becasue that will go along way to becoming an individual that gets noticed, listen to and respected.

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.