Kerrie Sheehan’s Blog

Most people do not bother building a list because it is hard work. Most new marketers think that the only way to build a list is drive traffic to your website and people might sign up to your mailing list.

For those of you that are considering starting an online business, please take a moment for a little free business advice. Whatever your market niche may be the internet can be without question your most powerful marketing resource.

There are umpteen guides on how to create a blog online on all sorts of platforms, some paid and some free. Creating a blog is a relatively easy process and I think the biggest problem people have in creating a blog is getting started. Maybe because it is relatively simple people think that it may not be the case if they do get involved and create their own blog.

A squeeze page is a simple one page website used as lead capture, also known as lead capture software. The sole purpose of this site is list building, capturing a targeted email list. This site must quickly draw attention to the visitor something of value to them. Therefore you must have something in front of them that sparks their interest immediately, something of real value to their specific need.

Wordpress itself is a great platform to run your own blogs but wordpress plugins make it a lot easier to control spam comments, SEO, check for broken links, place revenue generating ads and to back up your wordpress database to name a few. Without these plugins you would require technical expertise way beyond the average blogger, not to mention the time plugins save in doing things like creating a “Contact Us” page and sorting out all those spam blog comments.