My site is Live!

I've been working very hard, despite the physical problems I've had again this week. I was in hospital overnight on Wednesday and that wiped me out for a few days.

But I've done it. My first site is now live. It looks like nothing if you visit the homepage - http://www.rebeccasresource.com, but that isn't where the work lies. It's under the surface, in the special one time offers I have behind the opt in list page. It took me time and quite a bit of money to be able to set up such good offers, not to mention providing extra free gifts on my splash page, just for signing up for a free e-course.

My aim is to provide a really content rich site in time, that will become an expert website marketing site. Maybe in time I'll put in an advertising directory too, but for now, it's aimed only at small business web marketing. I realise already that my site will be much richer with a membership site attached to it, so in the next week or two I will add a free and paid membership option, though first I need to research the best way to manage it. I have no trouble writing a database, or even the code to secure the pages, but I know it's hard work and very time consuming, when what I need is money now, LOL.

Last night I sat down and wrote two articles and today wrote two more, which I've sumbmitted - 'Building and Managing an Opt In List', '7 Ways to Drive Laser Targeted Traffic to Your Website', '3 Tips To Creating A Promotions Strategy For Your Website' and 'Why Your Customers Are Ignoring Your Marketing Efforts'. The catch is that I submit mostly to ezinearticles.com who take ages to approve them.

I joined a heap of reciprocal links sites, but I'm already finding they're a disaster. 3 signups out of 8000 emails, and a couple of hundred into my inbox in return, is not a good conversion rate.

I've spent much of the day researching ideas for getting traffic to my site (preferably on the cheap at this stage), but I am quickly discovering that I must pay for quality leads. My next step is to find ezines that are in my field and pay for advertising to test how it goes.