How Does Building An Online Business Work?
Putting the Pieces Together
How To Build An Online Business
Online Entrepreneur Guide (OEG) Vol. 1
Building Your Online Business requires just a few basic steps. These steps will be explained down below. These are the building blocks to get started.
What Is A Website?
One can compare the process of building a website to the building of a retail store.
To build a retail store one needs 3 main structures:
1) A Parcel of Land with an address - a Domain Name (URL).
2) A Foundation to hold the store - a Hosting Provider.
3) The retail store itself - a building (Wordpress) with different rooms holding content (Niche).
It is an interface on the Internet. Any time you click on to an Internet Browser, (Internet Explorer, Firefox, Chrome, or Safari) you are looking at a website.
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But wait, there's more!What Is A Host Provider?
| GoGVO | Wealthy Affiliate | |
|---|---|---|
| Support | 1-on-1 Live Chat | Live Chat with Members |
| 24 Hour Pager Support for Emergencies | Private Message Support via Backoffice | |
| Help Desk Ticket System | Forum Style Posting to get help from all Members | |
| Individual Blog Posting Capabilities | ||
| Training | Limited to How to Use the Tools | Extensive Internet Marketing Training |
| Wordpress Training | ||
| Price | Titanium Account -$44.95/mo | Premium Account - $49.94/mo |
| Technical Skills | Experienced | Newbie |
| Affiliate Program | Yes | Yes |
| Emails | Typical Internet Marketing Emails (unsubscribe works great) | No Spam |
| C-Panel Access | Yes | No |
| Database Access | Yes | No |
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A hosting provider can provide a number of vital services to individuals and companies that want to create a presence online. Unlike an Internet service provider (ISP) that is responsible for your connection to the Web, a hosting provider gives you a place in the World Wide Web to send visitors, place files, build shopping carts, hold pictures and other vital website needs. Web hosting providers come in many shapes and forms, and target users of varying experience levels, but all provide certain basic functions.
But wait, there's more!What Is A Domain Name?
A domain name is a case-insensitive string of letters, numbers, and hyphens that is used to define the location of a website. Domain names are used as pointers to IP addresses. Domain names are typically arranged hierarchically,
For example in my main domain name:
http://onlinepresencegroup.com
The following URL is to a Page:
http://onlinepresencegroup.com/how-does-it-work/
The following URL is to a Category
http://onlinepresencegroup.com/blog/topics/affiliate-marketing/
The following URL is to a Post:
http://onlinepresencegroup.com/blog/topics/website/what-is-a-website/
What Is A Niche?
"A niche is simply a GROUP of PEOPLE."
Kyle - Co-Owner Wealthy Affiliate
The above link will direct YOU to one of the best descriptions of Niches that I have ever read concerning what a Niche is. This was written by Kyle, a co-owner at Wealthy Affiliate. Rather than trying to explain Niches here, please feel free to go and read it from the link.
What Is Wordpress?
WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. WordPress was used by more than 22.0% of the top 10 million websites as of August 2013. WordPress is the most popular blogging system in use on the Web, at more than 60 million websites.
A content management system (CMS) is a computer application that allows publishing, editing and modifying content, organizing, deleting as well as maintenance from a central interface. Such systems of content management provide procedures to manage workflow in a collaborative environment. These procedures can be manual steps or an automated cascade. CMSs have been available since the late 1990s.
CMSs are often used to run websites containing blogs, news, and shopping. Many corporate and marketing websites use CMSs. CMSs typically aim to avoid the need for hand coding, but may support it for specific elements or entire pages.
But wait, there's more!What Are Your Needs
Take a minute to review the chart above and consider what YOU need to create an online business.
1) Are you new to Internet Marketing? If yes, choose Wealthy Affiliate. If no, consider GoGVO.
2) Would you like to have people available to help you brainstorm ideas while you are learning? If yes, choose Wealthy Affiliate. If no, considerGoGVO.
3) Would you like to have all the training in one place that teaches you everything you need to know to build an affiliate website? If so, choose Wealthy Affiliate.
4) Are you a technical type who likes to be able to access everything for your website? Choose GoGVO.
When I first started my journey into the Internet Marketing world, I searched many different avenues. Many of them have been mentioned here. By far, the easiest to start and get going in the shortest amount of time is AFFILIATE MARKETING. There are many, many, many products on various pieces to the puzzle of learning how to become an affiliate marketer. I've spent thousands over the years piece meal learning what is all consolidated in a very easy to learn format at Wealthy Affiliate. Had I found Wealthy Affiliate earlier in my journey I could have reduced my learning curve dramatically.
There are many pieces to becoming an AFFILIATE MARKETER and these pieces can seem overwhelming in the beginning. Wealthy Affiliate is designed for YOU to learn at your own pace in an extremely easy step-by-step training guide.
But wait, there's more!
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