We’re BAAACKkkk …. Oh my head!
Well, that was fun NOT! 
So here’s what happened. We originally set up one site — TrainingNOW.ca. It was meant to be a simple brochure type site advertising our company, its services and our courses.
Unfortunately, things change … (bad word, bad, bad, word) … and we realized that a) we needed to sell our training over the web rather than live b) that we needed to sell other products and c) we were trying to sell too much through TrainingNOW.ca.
Cool. No big deal. Sometimes it takes a bit of convincing. A little learning. We’re not all born marketers, after all. ;>
So we set up a couple of new sites (learningcreators.ca, contentcreators.ca) to promote the extra services beyond the actual courses. No big right? Basic brochure sites. (Okay, so we started to …. it’s a work in progress. Work with me here).
Then we realized that LearningCreators should be doing more than just creating learning content or info products for other people. Better to teach people to fish than to do the fishing ourselves! So we set up LearningCreators.com.
That’s where the first of the problems came in. You see we started out by testing the waters using MyBestCopy.com. When it looked like the market was viable, we created the LearningCreators.com site. Including the blog.
The problem was that we went with the basic Doteasy package. Great package. Great price. No complaints at all. (In fact, if you are looking for a webhost go here . You won’t be disappointed).
But one of the things we learned was … in order to improve your SEO ratings you really, really need a blog.
No biggee. We created a blog on MyBestCopy.com. It worked. It drew viewers. Just copy it over and we’re set. Right! Nope.
Try as I might, I couldn’t convince any of the sites that www.LearningCreators.com and apps.LearningCreators.com were the same site (domain). So nothing I did on the blog helped the main opt-in & sales pages.
Meanwhile, we’ve been approached to host the training courses of another company. Great. That’s what TrainingNOW.ca is all about. Publishing training and training materials (e.g. books, DVDs etc.). But that meant we needed to upgrade from the basic Doteasy package to the fancy, dancy, super-special Unlimited plan.
Fine. Couple of headaches but no big woop! Cool so far….
But if we did that then there was no need to use the somewhat limited blog facilities provided by Doteasy for their basic customers. We’d be better off switching to WordPress like everyone told us to.
Silly sods … we believed them!
Sit back, grab a coffee. There’s enough material here to keep this blog alive for a week!
Hey Buddy,
Nice site. Some useful and informative posts man
I know, I am creeping,lol. Hopefully I can produce something like this myself. Which site did you get your templates from?
Hopefully one of you folks could help me out somewhat here. I am searching for someone who I was reliably informed told was a member with this site. They did use to use the tag ‘laughtubes’.
You see I am wanting to start my own website on cosmetics type products for products such as: [removed by moderator] (hence the where did you get your templates from,lol) but am having realllll difficulty getting hold of dropshippers for these goods. I had been in touch with this guy but my PC got stolen and unfortunately had all my contact details on it (I know, I know, should have backed it up
)
So if you people have heard or seen anything of this guy could you pm me please? Failing that maybe one of you people knows someone?
Also, which hosting do you use as I keep being told negative stories about the host I am thinking of hosting my site with. Plus any other useful tips you can give re starting up my website would be helpful and gratefully appreciated.
I do hope that one of you has useful knowledge on this
Thanks Buddy,
1. Templates came from several different sites — some paid, most not. Start by looking at the WordPress free templates. Then use google. I also have some PLR templates that I use.
2. Laughtubes — sorry haven’t run into the individual under that name.
3. I use
doteasy.com. Service is excellent, and the price is unbeatable. Watch for their sales.The “free” or basic plan is great for starting up but doesn’t have the services you’ll need long term. Great for basic sites tho.
Glen
Thanks for the newbies steps. That is helpful. I have a question, as a newbies, how do you build credibility in the niche? I assume we need to build credibility to build the list?
Give them what they want … information. Give them proof that you can deliver. Be generous. Show them why your information is trustworthy (e.g. In our case, writing and creating courses is what we do in our non-internet lives. Teaching people how to do what we do is no big jump.).
Deliver on what you promise.
Try and try, that is the key to success, giving up shouldn’t be included on our dictionary (i think).
This is a great resource for anyone who blogs!!