How to Make a Lead Capture Form in Two Minutes

I don't know about you but I don't really have the time to go through long set up processes and tutorials and such or learn a new skill when I'm really wanting to get the show on the road.
I can do those things but do I really want to take the time or do I want to have the time to do more for my business.
That is why I love, love these websites. You know I belong to a lot of affiliate programs but I never talk about or promote the ones I don't like or I don't really know about. In fact most of the time I find some I really like and then I wonder if they have an affiliate program because I really want to tell people about these guys.
Anyway you can create a lead capture form with Homestead in literally 2 minutes. I do it right here in this video in that short a time. It's just a matter of point and click and moving some little boxes around and filling in a blank of where you want it to go. You can then set up an autoresponder in your email or just respond yourself and send out the mailings. It's not until you get high volume web traffic that you need to pay a monthly fee for an autoresponder(which is something that sends out your newsletters automatically to subscribers. You definitely don't want to pay a monthly fee before You even start advertising at all or you just built the site and Google hasn't even found it. I'll be telling you all about that later and what you need to do to be successful with that.
You know what else, you should write to people personally once in awhile as well.
Well here you go, it's in the video bar also but this comes out a bit larger. I think I'll redo this video some time but at least you'll get the idea.

Affiliate Site Demo

I made another demo that shows you how you can create an even easier business online. You just use affiliate links from Linkshare or Commission Junction or others which are all free to join and the great templates and Site Builder they have at Homestead to quickly create some webpages. Watch the demo for now. You can see it on the front page of BuildYourOwnBusiness.homestead.com. You can also see it right on the left in my video bar.
I mainly show you how I made my florist site but I also go over a little how you might make a credit card comparison site and how you credit card companies often give you $50 to $200 commissions just for getting someone to apply for one of their credit cards and getting approved.
I'll be posting more information and have more demos on this as well.
Okay well I decided to put to put the video on my post here as well:





Later,
Claire

Create a Retail Site in Minutes Demo

I really like this site builder I've been telling you about so I making a little demo so you can see how easy it is to use and how quickly you can get something up and running that you only had time to think about. I'm having fun with my new Camstasia software too.
I thought about my oldest son. I asked him to send me some snake pictures, he didn't know why.
I know he could totally make his own website using something like Dreamweaver but maybe doesn't have the time to get it done too quickly.
He is in the snake business. I don't know a thing about them but I thought I'd use that as my theme this time.
So this is a demo on how you might use Site Builder to create a website where you sell your own product, including how easily you can put paypal buttons on your site.
Next time I'll make a demo on how you can create a profitable affiliate marketing site with Site Builder.
Anyway they have a whole month free trial, this is the only web hosting I found with that and if your only going to be having one website, it's only $4.99 for three months then goes up to $9.99. I've been using it and I definitely think it's worth it, just for the fact it has that free awesome site builder. But it does all kinds of things, keeps track of the stats of your site ie you can see how many people visited, from what website or search engine they came from. You can sign up for a free trial from this link directly or go to my website buildyourownbusiness.homestead.com and there's a sign-up link there and more information about paypal and other resources you can use in conjunction with it, plus some good information on some good businesses you can get into.
Here you go:

Business Building Website

I have a new website www.buildyourownbusiness.homestead.com where you can learn how to create an online business from scratch starting with easy, professional do it yourself websites and including some great cheap ideas on exactly what kind of businesses you can put on there.
I have some step by step Camtasia demos on exactly how to do this. I'll be posting a short demo on this blog soon but if you'd like to see the full set on "How to create your own online work at home business" you can send me your email address here.

Bye,
Claire

Great Resources

I'm going to start sharing with you some of the great resources I found and have tried for creating an online business.
The favorite links on the left side of my page shows a number of the links you should check out.
The things I like are high quality, time saving and low cost and I always shop around. So I believe this will help you.
There is a sea of offers trying to lure you on the internet with get rich quick schemes, but there are things you definitely can do to start a successful web business. The book I recommend you start with is a book by Yanik Silver: Moonlighting on the Internet . It gives 5 different ways to earn income on the internet, each section written by someone who has had a lot of success and gives you a pretty thorough idea of how to do it. Them when you know which of these ideas you would like to pursue, most of these authors have written their own books, which you can read for more information. When you go to the link above you'll also see 4 Hour Work Week which I also recommend you pick up.
I'll be posting some information on website building soon, see the links on this page if you're ready to get started on that now.

Later,
Claire

Getting Started Quickly with a Website

I think the thing that actually held me up the longest in actually really moving toward starting an online business was the lack of a website. One of my sons was taking a course in Web Design and I was going to sort of wait for that or try this or try that. I was always surfing around looking at my options. I looked at templates online but none of them really suited my purpose, plus I would have needed to know something about Web Design to use them.
I found Homestead a few times and I loved their templates, I think I got confused and thought if I wanted to sell anything at all I would have to sign up for the store option. Well that was not really so, it turned out.
Anyway, they have a free trial, so I don't know why I waited. (In fact this is the only web hosting that I found that had a free trial.) I realized that not having the website or the time to figure all that out was what was holding me up, so I got started. It's very easy to use and the tech support is very helpful. I did definitely need them at certain points, but I would just submit a question and the same day it would come back with the answer. But it's basically just drag and click.
As far as the store part, that was really easy too. Probably most of you already have a Paypal Account. Did you know you can upgrade it to a business account for free? You can start a business account free even if you don't already have a regular account. With certain add-ons you have to pay, but to be able to accept Paypal on your website or send email invoices to customers for payment there is no extra charge. You have to pay a small transaction percentage at the time someone actually purchases something, but that is standard with any merchant account. What I like about this is no monthly fees plus they have a simple option where you create your own Paypal "Add to Cart" and "Buy Now" buttons. After you create it, they give you the HTML to put into your site, which is super easy if you use Homestead's Site builder which comes with the hosting for free. You basically drag a box to where you want it on your site, click on the box and something opens up where you simply paste in the code and that's it. There is even something on the Site Builder to create buttons using Paypal is well and you don't have to have pay for a Store to use it. Some time maybe I will take the time to figure out how to build a website with Dreamweaver, but I wanted to get the show on the road so to speak.
I think the above two things are what really made it so I got moving and made it easy for me and it's always good to get moving or else you don't get anything done, obviously.
I have found other great easy resources I'll go into on later posts.

Until next time,
Claire