How to get started with your own website on your own server
Check out this link: http://www.listbuilding.com/quickstart/
Get a domain name, get a hosting account, set your dns, get an autoresponder, get HTML software, get FTP software.
Now that you have your tools, think about what you want your website to do:
1) attract buyers for your writing
2) collect names and email addresses for later sales
3) tell the world who you are and where you are appearing, speaking
4) host you blog so you can share your thoughts
5) sell your books
You will also need a paypal or paydotcom account to collect money online.
Now build your site, keeping it fairly simple–avoid music, stringy cursors, slow loading pictures. Go to paypal and make your buynow buttons for your book or seminars or other products. Put them in you site. Upload the whole thing to your host, and test it. Then set up your blog on a subdirectory. If you have a Cpanel hosting, look for Fantastico. It will manage the setup for you, if not, go to Wordpress.org, where you can get someone else to do it.
Then start blogging–post something every day, or write a bunch of posts and set the time stamp to release them one a day. Write articles abou the subject of your book, submit them to and link them back to your website. Find other people who write about the general subject of your book,a nd comment on their blogs.
Don’t spam, though. Add to their discussion, or they will delete your comment. After all, you are knowledgeable. Show it.
This is what I am working on for this site. It’s what the gurus say to do. Share your experience for the rest of us.
