November 24, 2011
It's my son's birthday today! Happy Birthday Damani!!! Just had to get that out of the way first.
I started out just over a month ago researching how to make money online. With 4 kids and a full-time job, my options are somewhat limited. So the first handful of blogs will be a recap - to an extent. I am pretty new to the whole online thing. I just figured out how to post in a forum a couple days ago, that took like a whole week! How to get website online was my very first challenge. I needed to figure it out, because without it I would never be able to make money online! I found this really cool FREE 26 video course online. At first I was skeptical, the guy Chris Farrell had a funny accent and sounded like he was trying to make a sale.
But I was like, well it's free (which it actually really was - to my utter amazement!) so what the heck? That took about a week off and on to go through, the clips are like 6 to 8 minutes long. It taught me how to get website online. Step-by-step. It wasn't too difficult, and is made especially for beginners (like me!). Chris was like click here, do this, do that, click here. Which was really nice considering how very new I was (and still am!!!).
I learned exactly what to do, in order, and got my first website up in about two weeks. Not by 3:45 like his FREE eBook Create Your First Website by 3:45 This Afternoon claimed, but not because it wasn't possible, mostly because I had to:
(1) Come up with a domain name and buy it (that was like $10 - I did mine at godaddy.com, it was easy and cheap).
(2) Buy a host account (that is like $10 to $20 a month for most services - I got mine through Chris so it was free)
(3) Set up my auto-responder (I picked Aweber - they're apparently the best service out there and only cost $1 for the first month and like $20 each month afterwards.
All and all, it cost about me about $17 to start out. Mostly because of "trial offers" that are good for the first month. It's costing me $57 a month now, not bad at all for starting a business. Now will it really work? That is the question. How to get website online was challenge #1. I have now done that successfully. Yay me!!!
