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Originally Posted by Raspie
When I first started in the internet for E-bizz I was, like a lot of people I guess, drawn by the idea that internet could make anything possible and for free... So I started with free web-hosting, free advertising, free traffic, free , free, free... Did it get me anything? Yes ! Of course ! A lot of work and some results... The moment I had made a little money I considered to reinvest a little and at that moment it grew so fast that I looked back and realised this : If I had invested this to start-up I would have been a lot further by now...
So I can agree with a previous post about not only focussing on free traffic, but it goes a lot further than that... Free software, free hosting, you can find almost anything for free on the internet. But the internet is not different from the real-life business world : you need to invest to really become succesfull.
That is my modest opinion: I would invest faster. Not a lot however. But a minimum. In my case that was 200$...
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I'm at that stage now, where I want to invest something, but I'm going to build a lot more content first. I think that investing right now would be folly, before I have more to offer. I think that the old cry "CONTENT! CONTENT! CONTENT!" is still true today. If you have nothing to offer visitors, no matter how much you invest, you won't make any money. You have to have enough to make them stay on your site and want more.
If I could do one thing differently, I would not start on a blog or article site. I would maybe build it as a free website, then buy some space and transfer it, but it's a pain trying to get content from my blog sites to real site pages. A lot of "copy and paste" and rebuilding entire pages, which is entirely too time consuming. I'm wasting time now doing that when I could be using that time to monetize and build traffic.
I would also make a daily time management plan, as to how much time I was going to spend on each task daily, such as how much time marketing, how much time building content, etc. I started out trying to market before I had much to sell. I think I'm heading in the right direction now, but it's cost me 5 months of time. Still, at least I've caught on after 5 months instead of a year.