What Should I Do First In My Business?
Do you have a plan or step by step method about: What Should I Do First In My Business? Do you know what direction you’re headed in for your business? Do you have trouble applying things you’ve learned?
Are you having a hard time focusing on your goals? Do you have a business or are you looking for one? If not, do you know what to look for in a business as far as products, services and compensation plans? Do you think self help tools and books are an expense or an investment?
Over the next several weeks I’ll be addressing each question. If you like what you see, please share with your friends, family and networks.
First of all, you will need to start a blog. The hardest part for some people (like me) was to get started. You”ll need to purchase your own domain name and web hosting which is about $10 a month for both. I chose 1and1 because they’re less expensive or more economical and they have the same features and benefits as the other top domain companies.
Next you’ll need to go to Wordpress.org, by doing this you will have a blog that’s 100% yours and that’s ranked highly by the search engines. If you need help setting up your blog, you can always ask me your questions and there are a plethora of specific videos on Youtube showing exactly how to, step by step.
Once you get your blog set up you’ll need to find a theme for your blog or what you would like for your main page to look like, these options will be in your back office of your personal blog or page. To go to your back office after setting up your Wordpress.org page, go to: Your domain name.com/wp-admin. Now you can start by letting your audience know a little about yourself to help people get to know you better.
Next you will need to decide what plugins you would like to have on your blog. Plugins are things like widgets, RSS feeds (real simple syndication), and other buttons that will help others share your content that will be on either side of your pages on your blog.
Daryl Whicker
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Great post here Daryl! This is a great little resource for people just starting out with there business. Maybe we can get an ongoing thread here about the next steps for someone.
Ok, I’ll start. The next step is to get on the social networks, Facebook and Twitter and start connecting with people by saying hello and being a real person.
Start figuring out what it is that your audience wants and give it to them in the form of good online content.
Simple. Figure out their problem and provide a solution.
Ok, who’s next!!
Thank you Glenn, for your great tips and I look forward to you and others to reply about more tips that will help us all.
Another tip that comes to mind: Ask others what they’re doing first. Don’t make it all about me me me.
Always be in the giving mode. I’ve talked to people before and they talk about themselves all of the time and never ask: what do you do?
Daryl
Daryl,
Thank you for explaining it in such simple terms. It seems much less overwhelming so that beginners will have a starting point.
Great post!
Thanks,
Eleni
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