Sooner or later, and better sooner than later if you want to make any kind of real income online, you will need to get your own website(s) and hosting for them, an autoresponder, tracking and split testing tools and, of course, you can always benefit from good training programs. Other useful services (and usually free ones for the beginning levels) include downline builders, banner and splash page makers, resell rights sources, giveaways and webinars.
When you’re just starting out, you may be a bit intimidated by the technical tasks involved in getting your online presence going. Blogs, emails, autoresponders, social media, RSS feeds, domains, hosting and more. Just the names are scary enough.
The good news is that you can slide by on some of that until you’ve got a little more experience under your belt. There are some things you can’t do without though … at least if you’re planning on earning any money online.
A Blogger blog can work as your domain and host at the start. It’s free and pretty easy to keep up once you got it going. You will also need an eMail for business purposes. GMail is also free and works well for that.
The third thing you really need to have is an autoresponder, a service for mailing to your customer and potential customer lists. There’s a good one that has a free first month trial, but it will cost you $17.95 a month after that.
Then there are the social sites and services. Twitter, Facebook and IM Faceplate for marketers. All free to join, but all needing setup. That’s where I come in.
Starting under $5 for individual services, I can get these services setup for you and working together so you’ve got your online base to start your business from. When you’re ready to move up and get your very own domain name and site I can help you with that too.
I also have two bundles.
One for the beginner, which includes setup of your GMail address, Blogger Blog, RSS feed for the blog and a subscription form for your autoresponder. Separately it’s almost $30, but in the bundle for only $19.97. I’ll even throw in some eBooks on how to use them,
When you’re ready to get more professional, you’ll want your own domain and hosting account, usually with WordPress on it. WordPress isn’t just for blogging any more either. With the right plugins you can make it do just about whatever you want.
This bundle includes getting your domain, setting up your hosting and pointing your domain to it, setting up a domain specific eMail address, getting WordPress up and running using a much more secure manual installation than the free Fantastico setup gives and your autoresponder with custom form. Separately, this is almost $50, but bundled for only $29.95. eBooks and training videos are included.
You can eMail me at Diane@DianeMerriam.com (or use the form at the bottom right of this page) or Skype me at Diane.Merriam (afternoons and evenings est)
Full Disclosure: If you join or buy anything through any of the links on the site, I might make some money. Seems obvious to me, but to do a CYA under the new Federal Trade Commission rules, I have to be explicit.
Scroll down past the table for links for do it yourselfers:
| Service | Price | You’ll Get |
| gMail Account | $4.97 | eMail account you can access from anywhere. It’s free and it sets you up for all things Google. |
| Blogger Blog | $4.97 | Another free Google tool. Limited, but enough to get going on. |
| RSS Feed | $4.97 | Feedburner RSS feed people can subscribe to (like an electronic magazine via eMail) |
| Text Logos | $7.47 and up |
Nothing fancy, but professional (Samples) |
| Remove Background From Picture with “halo” |
$7.47 | The halo has fuzzy edges. You don’t see them on a white background. I can use a different color, but only one color at a time. You’ll get files back in both .GIF and .PNG format. Sizes at 200×300 max, 100×150 max and one 58 pixels tall for standard banners (which I can also make)Reasonable size folks … say up to 200×300 pixels. I can size it down for you to start from (Samples) |
| Remove Background From Picture no “halo” |
$12.97 | This one costs more because it has to be handled right down to the pixel. The advantage is that you can put it on any background and it fits right in. You’ll get files back in both .GIF and .PNG format. Sizes at 200×300 max, 100×150 max and one 58 pixels tall for standard banners (which I can also make)Reasonable size folks … say up to 200×300 pixels. I can size it down for you to start from |
| Setup TrafficWave Account | $4.97 | Autoresponder with startup TW referral eMail series. Yes, I know it gets promoted way too much as a hyped up business opportunity. I’m talking using it as the great tool it actually is and if you make a few bucks off it, that’s just icing on the cake. Note: FREE if you get your TrafficWave account through my link. TrafficWave And your first month is free!! |
| Setup Custom Name Capture Form | $9.97 | eMail capture form you can insert into any page or post with your text, picture and/or logo Note: FREE if you get your TrafficWave account through my link. TrafficWave And your first month is free!! |
| Apx 300 Word Article or Blog Post | $7.47 | Not anything Pulitzer Prize winning but in good American English. Larger tasks can be worked out. |
| Each Additional 100 Word | $1.97 | |
| Setup cPanel eMail | $4.97 | eMail account you can access from anywhere. The benefit being you have COMPLETE control over what you want to see or not. Note: FREE if you setup your hosting at HostGator using my link: HostGator Use the coupon code PennyTrialDM to get your first month for as little as 1 penny. |
| Setup WordPress | $27.77 | The King of Blogs. Actually, you can do just about anything with WordPress these days with the right plugin. Note: FREE if you setup your hosting at HostGator using my link: HostGator Use the coupon code PennyTrialDM to get your first month for as little as 1 penny. |
| Web Design | General Graphics, Banners, Headers, Pages, Forms (Samples) | |
| WebMistressing | General site maintenence, whether WordPress or HTML. | |
| Other | Let’s Talk |
Domain Registrar (where you get your domain name)
GoDaddy
Hosting (where you keep all the files for your site)
HostGator. Use the promo code PennyTrialDM and get your first month for as little as a penny.
You can also get your domain registered through here, but pricing (especially with promo codes that are fairly easy to find – simply use Google to search for godaddy coupon or godaddy promo code and you’ll find several. You may have to try a few to find one that’s current) is better at GoDaddy.
Autoresponder (indispensable for all the eMail series’ and followups)
Traffic Wave
Tracking (the first of the three t’s – tracking, testing and tweaking)
TE Toolbox
Rotator (the second of the three t’s – tracking, testing and tweaking and a bit more)
TE Toolbox
Training Programs (how you make it all work)
Affiliate Funnel
Get Referrals Fast
Downline Builders (lists of programs you’re in that you want people to sign up under you in)
Banner and Splash Page Makers (If you’re going to succeed you need your OWN pages, not just cookie cutter pages that hundreds of other people are using too)
AdKreator
Resell Rights (you want to learn ,you want to get people on your list, you need content for your site and you can make more than a few bucks with them also)
InfoMania
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LinkedIn
IM Faceplate
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