November 28, 2008
An Easy To Implement Ten Step Business Plan
Step One: Identify a hot niche market by researching top selling items on Amazon.com or the Clickbank.com Marketplace. You are looking for products that people are actively seeking and are willing to pay for. Save time with the Internet Marketing Research Power Tool.
Step Two: Use Wordtracker to identify a list of up to 20 long-tail keyword phrases. List your keyword phrases in a text document for future reference.
Step Three: Use your keyword phrases to find royalty free images, photographs and videos that are relevant to your niche. Or, if possible create your own images or videos.
Step Four: Identify relevant income sources such as affiliate products (Ebay, Amazon, Clickbank, Adsense)
Step Five: Register a suitable domain name, set up a hosting account and use Fantastico to install a WordPress blog. Find a suitable theme and install your favourite plugins. If cash is limited you could start with a free Blogger or WordPress hosted blog
Step Six: Start your blog with between five and ten posts. Each post should contain either an image, a photograph or a video. Use your long tail keyword phrases for your blog post titles, your image titles and in the alt tags. Add a short article, review or descriptive text which includes your longtail phrase and your links to relevant products. Using bold on keywords can also help. Be sure to add your keywords as tags.
Step Seven: Promote your blog by submitting articles to the top article directories, make quality posts in relevant forums, bookmark your site on Digg, Stumbleupon, Reddit and Del.icio.us and submit your site to the top List of Directories to create relevant backlinks. Be sure to activate a good ping list and submit your blog feed to the RSS directories.
Step Eight: Post at least one new article, image, photograph or video to your blog each week. Use Twitter, Facebook and Myspace to promote your blog by connecting with "friends" and announcing your new blog posts (Friendfeed is very useful for this).
Step Nine: Set up a Squidoo Lens, Hub Page and Google Knol with relevant content and link to your main blog. Post your own Videos to a dedicated Youtube channel and link back to your main blog.
Step Ten: Rinse and repeat..
Comments on An Easy To Implement Ten Step Business Plan »
Hi John,
Just like your informative posts on the Warrior Forum. This is a solid list of real actionable things people should do.
Problem is….
Even though this list is starting people right in the fact, I'd bet that 99% of your readers will FAIL to actually print this list up and do it over the next week.
People sell this type of information yet it's right here on your blog. But then again, even if someone purchased this information…they probably still will NOT take action.
Here's my advise (to whoever is listening):
Even though this list is "simplified" and every step isn't completely spelled out (how can it be?…it's a blog post) you can still take the core idea here and implement it.
One hour a day…that's all it takes.
Get off the blogs, get off the forums, get out of your email, get off Twitter, get off Facebook, and just do what John just said. Give it a full uninterrupted hour per day and you will be AMAZED at how much you WILL get done by the end of the work week.
Don't get distracted and don't put too much time in every day because if you do put too much time in….you will get distracted and eventually your discipline will slip.
Who is going to actually do this THIS week??????
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Good sound advice John and a nice kick up the behind for me. Some things here I know I should be doing so better get on with them then…
Thanks!
Nicola
If you use Fantastico to install your blogs, you are risking getting hacked!
With Fantastico, the database and username are identical, and easily guessed, which means hackers only need to figure out one more piece of data (your password) to crack your blog open like a crab leg at an all you can eat buffet!
I install my blogs manually, but if you don't know how to do that, I am giving away a PDF report that tells you step by step how to fix that security flaw in a Fantastico installation.
http://rapjv.com/blog-security
Have an amazing day!
Micheal Savoie
http://twitter.com/michealsavoie
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hay John,
I'm going to participate in HSBC Young Entrepreneurship Award this year.
I've to prepare a business plan for it and Basically I have no idea on it.I've gone through your suggestion and I hop it will help me a lot.
As I'm new in this arena so I've to struggle but I'm ready to face it.
With regards,
Ayan