Day 1 – Let’s Get This Thing Started!
Welcome to Day 1!
Thank you for signing up for this course!
You’re going to learn and lot and I’m going to take you through it step-by-step but here’s just a quick introduction so that you’re ready to go tomorrow.
Quick Overview
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
-Albert Einstein
Let me explain what this course is about…
This course is about is building a blog-type website in 7 days that is centered on a particular topic so that you will have a website that starts paying you.
How did I do?
I’ll show you how to structure your website and get it going so that once that’s done, it’s easy to just sit down, write about a topic, publish it and go on with your day – meaning, the website takes care of the work for you of putting the article in the right place.
The content that you publish will start making money once you send traffic to your website. You’ll keep doing this and as you publish great content, your website with become an authority on that topic. When that happens, you’ll get more and more traffic and more and more revenue into the future.
Let’s Talk Expectations
Although this course is set up to help you get traffic to your website and make money, you most likely won’t get a lot of traffic right away and you won’t make money right away either (but you certainly could). Things used to work that way but it takes a little longer now. The good part is that since it takes longer, people tend to give up on it and that’s where you come in – you will keep going. I just want to set the right expectations here that your hard work will pay off. It just will. This is a proven method and it’ll work.
You should end up with a website that will keep bringing in extra income for you monthly (or even weekly) and then it’ll be your choice if you want to keep going with it or sell it. I’ve sold a website for over $12,000. Websites go for much more than that, too!
You are entering the world of Internet Marketing. In this world, you’ll work and the payoff will come a little later. This isn’t like school, where you hand in your work and get a grade back right away. You’ll have days where you’re putting up content and nothing will happen. No money will come in. You’ll want to quit but do not quit. Just keep going – your payday is coming soon. This is how it worked for me and many, many others.
The great thing is, there will later come days when you don’t do any work and money will come in. That’s about the best feeling there is. The first time that happens to you, everything will become clear and you’ll be more motivated than ever. You’ll tell your friends you made money while you were out with them and they won’t believe you. You’ll know all the hard work you put in is paying off and it’ll feel great.
Don’t Worry About Writing
To most people, the thought of sitting down and writing sounds like too much work. I used to hate it. I didn’t like it in school and college at all. Writing papers was like torture.
Many courses like this don’t address the writing part very well but what I’ll do with you is show you how to easily write content. Yes, the first dozen or so articles you write may be torturous but it will get a lot easier if you stick with it. This happened to me and now I can sit down and write and write and it’s actually kind of fun.
I’ll give you one tip on writing now. Starting now, when you text people with your phone, you should start writing out words and using correct capitalization and punctuation. Don’t write “u” but write “you” for example. If you’re not doing that yet, you should start. It will help you. When you write articles, you simply won’t be able to write them how you text your friends. Your articles will look like garbage and you won’t make any money. So start that now, it will help.
And if you absolutely cannot possibly get to writing articles yourself, you can get them written for you but you will have to pay someone to do it. To be honest, your website will not be as good as if you did the writing yourself because there’s a certain passion that comes out in writing but you will still make money.
Another option is to write it yourself and then have someone else proof it and fix it for you. You can pay for that as well or else maybe someone you know can help you with that.
Keep Your Eyes on the Prize!
The more you put into your website, the better you will do. That’s just how it works.
Maybe you have to spend an hour on your website every night or get up early to do it (I’ve done that). Maybe you need to give up some time watching television. Whatever you sacrifice will pay off if you keep going but just don’t sacrifice time with your loved ones or that could be trouble. Spend time with your spouse, kids and other close family members. Just sacrifice other time instead of that time.
You don’t have to get your website up in a week – so don’t worry about that. The 7 days thing is just the name of this course. Some people will take the other option I offered and get their website up in 2-3 days and others might take a couple weeks. You do want to try to stay with it if you can. You need some momentum with this so that you don’t toss it aside.
Homework
For tomorrow… start thinking about what you would do every day if you didn’t have to go to work… ever. Write down 10 things you would be doing instead and we’ll go over your list in tomorrow’s lesson.
