Design My Own Website

Hello, Scotty here.

I’ve been away for a bit. I apologize. I’ve had a busy time of it recently.

I want to put some actual real-life examples here soon (with video) of designing an online web site business from scratch from getting a domain to getting the site up and running. Stay tuned for that.

In the meantime, I just wanted to write a simple article on getting a business online and what it takes. In this internet age it is very easy to think about getting an online business and you may have the right attitude, guts, and time, but just don’t know how to focus it.

When beginning a home enterprise there are such a lot of things that cross an individual’s mind.

One of the toughest issues in beginning a home-based business is the person themselves. Beginning a home based enterprise can be frightening because there’s such a lot that goes into it. A home run enterprise isn’t something that you can pick up and start doing without having quite a bit of resource whether that is money, time, knowledge, etc.

The money aspect strikes fear in the minds of many we all stress about cash even if we have got a thriving company. Without knowing where that money is going can be even scarier. We ask ourselves so many questions when beginning a home business. What quantity of money will I need? How many hours will I have make a contribution to this business? Will I be successful? How long can I do this for? Am I smart enough to tug this off? Will someone help me?

Accept it or not, if you’ve got the right perspective you may have all these questions dealt with and be satisfied in virtually no time.

The base cost for starting an online business is actually quite cheap: $1 a month for a domain name, $5 a month for hosting, and then time to find a product, design your site, and market your site (all of which can actually be done for FREE though you can speed up the process spending some money as well).

That’s a total of $6 a month to actually get an online business.

The rest of it is patience, faith, time, dedication, and guts (and a lot of those overlap).

We’re talking about taking time to
1) choose a product to sell (affiliate, your own, etc),
2) design your own website using templates or from scratch.

By the way for templates, I cannot recommend highly enough that you use WordPress. For from scratch, check out my favorite resource: Web Design Mastesry.

3) Marketing your website.

And there are many MANY MANY ways to market a website, and lots of debate on which are the best. It’s not that they are all bad, it’s that they are all quite good and when you have limited time you want to naturally try the “best” way … becuase all of them might take some time. Some take some money, some are free (but take even more time).

4) fulfillment

I started a t-shirt company that actually did quite well. I stopped doing it because I didn’t like storing all the t-shirts (took up too much room dedicated to my comic book art and statues). But fulfilling orders can be tough. In this case a better idea would be drop shipping, affiliate marketing, or some other online asset.

It’s been said that 9 out of 10 businesses fail. I would agree. Some of it is money,but a lot of it is persistence. Online businesses is the best example as it takes money out of the equation (drop two Starbucks a month and you have your site) and really relies on persistence.

Is it hard?

Sure … but if you are willing to gut it through and enjoy the process, there is no reason you won’t succeed.

I suppose this is more of a pep talk then a technically enlightening post but I hope it helps. Sometimes I write these types of things for me too to remind me to continue to persist as well!

Take care!
Scotty

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