Own website

You are reading this so possibly you are interested in your own website, or at least curious!

Curiosity gave me the bug – I love my website and can spend hours with it if time permits. Mind you I do make time permit! Not really work when you are playing with something you enjoy. It seems like play, but I am quite serious about Wessex.

When I first started thinking about having a website, I spent hours researching how on earth to go about it. Did not have a clue. I could surf and email of course but had never got that technical.

I bought a copy of Dreamweaver as this seemed to be the way to go and worked out roughly how to use it. This still did not help me as to how a website actually became a business. I was not even sure what I wanted to do with it.

There was plenty on the internet, all those get rich quick schemes that really did seem to be too good to be true so I did not get involved with those as they probably were. Did not have the money to waste anyway. Was looking for something useful.

To cut a long story short it was not until I eventually found Site Build It that I found some common sense. A system not just a web host. Was rather amazed really after all the hype.

My messing about with Dreamweaver has been useful, but it is not at all necessary. SBI can take a real beginner and teach them to have their own website. Not just for beginners either, all stages of skill!!!! I decided that I was a medium starter, hmm - found the Blockbuilder taught me so much.

Blockbuilder is like a form to fill in and your page is built! On the way one learns how to do it for oneself! Brilliant!

Did not say it was an easy get rich quick scheme, it is not. Of course like everything else the more you put into it the more you get out of it. I shall be 'working' on www.travelwessex for a long time yet I am glad to say!

You can have all sorts of websites – own products, information, affiliates – whatever.

Here - Have a sticky beak!!!

Worth thinking about.

If teaching yourself is not your thing you could try SBI e learning. Handy hands on help at a fraction of the cost of many web marketing courses. A 10 week course that shortens your learning curve and prevents the usual confusions that always seem to follow trying out new programs.

It was not a video that caught my original interest, but this one, the Affiliates Masters Course

I had not heard about being an affiliate before, did not even know they existed! Talk about plain common sense was my reaction and the book was free to boot.

An affiliate website is one that sells products for others - like my hotels, car hire and flights. My site started as an information type site talking about the places I love, it still is. The affiliations are helpful to my visitors, for their benefit and interest. They are of course the business side of my site as well now.

Delightfully to my amazement although this site is quite young I already have several pages well rated by both Google and Yahoo, some pages have had a number one rating by Google for some months! (Not the complete site of course, just some of the pages.)

There are other handy free books as well.

This one is for those folk who want or have a Service orientated idea. For some businesses it does not matter where in the world you are living. For some of course it is local. Either way it would work.

For those who really must be local there is the Master Course for local business,

Working at home solves lots of problems particularly for Mums. A real dream for all of us who have youngsters. Who ever has heard of a Masters Course for Work at Home Mums - that is free and is plain common sense. There are a lot of courses we have to pay for - not this one!

Then there are these -

Many of us are retirees - may be looking for an interest, may be wanting to pass on our skills, and may be would love to make some extra cash. Try this one for retirees

There are a couple of useful how to Masters Courses. Both are pretty handy.

The first of these is the knotty problem of makiing sure your price is right! The bottom line!

Of course to get to the stage of even selling anything we need to be able to write effectively. Not all that hype though. Interesting copy that a visitor to your site would be interested in. Quite fun if you love your subject.

There is masses of interest to study on the main Site Sell site A great deal of reading that helps understaning the whole concept. Very interesting and useful whether or not you eventually decide to try SBI.

My real hope is that you have as much fun and interest with your own website as I am having with www.travelwessex.com Just think - to have your own website!!!