Wednesday, February 23, 2011

7 Steps to Running A Successful Content Publishing Internet Business

Step 1. Market Research
Business is all about finding people's need and fulfill them! Make sure there is a demand for what you are going to supply!

Step 2. Setting Up Your Web Properties
Leave the technical stuffs to professionals. Your time should be used for more profiting activities such as define the business model (how you are going to generate your multiple streams of passive income, driving traffic to your site - SEO your web page for Google (Video) - etc). 

Target: Fill in at least 20 articles before you go to step 3. Make a mid term target of, say 100 articles within 6 months.

Step 3. Apply Adsense Account
Make sure you got your WHOIS record right and your site is properly setup before you apply the account as a publisher. This may take you quite some time. Go to Step 4 directly once you submit the application.

Step 4. Facebook 
Facebook and Google are two of top traffic websites. If you don't get traffic from these top sites, where else? Setup a facebook fans club using a more generic name, such as Fashion.fashion facebook community or Ecoliving.MY facebook community. You can use a more generic and branding purpose name once you got more than 25 fans in your community, simply go to facebook.com/username for changes.

You may want to target some >= 10,000 fans for your community. If you want to know how much is your facebook page worth, get some guide from Social Page Evaluator - measuring facebook return on investment.

Step 5. Social Media Submission
This is part of your link building effort. You may set a target of submitting only 1 article per day to the social media or bookmarking sites. Some suggested sites are:
Twitter, Bebo, Yahoo!Buzz, Google Buzz, BlinkList, Reddit, Webride.org, Digg, StumbleUpon, Messenger/MSN Live, MySpace, Delicious, Mr Wong, Yahoo!Bookmark, Google Bookmark, Faves, Kirtsy, Xanga, Tumblr... Most of which are available in your ShareThis plugin. You can check out more by Google "submit directory your keyword" or "submit social media your keyword

Step 6. Traffic Monitoring 
Start monitoring your business with Google Analytic or Alexa traffic ranking, besides checking the Adsense report to maximize your profit. If you want to have some ideas how much your website may worth, check out Biznut website evaluation service.

Step 7. List Building
You may build your own list to minimize your effort in updating your members by using Auto Responder System such as Aweber. If you prefer free services, try Google Group, Yahoo Group or MSN Group. Keep in touch with your community.

Four ways to make money on the internet: Content Publishing, Affiliate Programs, Resale Rights, and Own Products.

The million dollar question: How can I do what I do for more and more people with less and less effort?

To your success!

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