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Time For a Wake up Call

They told me it was going to be easy, that all I had to do was follow their instructions and I would be earning money in my sleep. That was 4 years ago, and I still haven’t earned a cent online. I have bought just about every course out there and spent thousands, only to be disappointed time after time.

Can you relate to that? I know many people can and I want to share my reasons why I think so many people struggle to get things going online.

It’s because people want to make money for doing nothing and this is ultimately what leads to their failure. The usual cycle is they see a product that promises easy riches so they buy it, only to find out that they have to actually do some work. Then they see another product that promises easy riches so they buy that, and the cycle continues.

Do you know why there are so many done for you and push button products out there?

It’s because people want to make money for doing nothing.

Now don’t get me wrong, once you get things going you really can make money in your sleep but I want you to understand one thing, to get things going is no easy ride. It takes lots of work, usually for very little reward in the early days, you will hit roadblocks, you will struggle, you will seem like you are doing this for nothing, but get this.

Once you get things going it becomes easier than you could ever imagine.

I struggled for 4 years before I saw any results online, mostly because I didn’t have anyone to show my where I was going wrong. I was making the same mistakes most people make, I was looking for the automated push button solution. It never came, but then it hit me. If I wanted to have a successful business online I had to treat it like a business. Not just something I did in my spare time.

Once I changed my mindset into building a business things changed. I became more focused, more determined and that’s when I started to see results.

So let me ask you.

Are you trying to make money online or are you building an online business?

Most people if they are honest will say they are trying to make money and this is the wrong mindset to have. You will usually find these people messing about on Facebook or moaning in the forums about the latest product they have just bought that ‘doesn’t work’.

To become successful you need to build a business, not just mess about trying different things every week, not spend half your life clicking ‘like’ and not buying every product that’s put in front of you. When you do buy a product you need to apply what you learn to take your business to the next level. Not just give it 5 minutes of your time looking at the menu.

You have to put the hours in and you have to understand it takes hard work. Once you realize that success can come easy. You see we are living in an age where we can sell digital products to people on the other side of the world while we sleep. If that’s not enough to motivate you I don’t know what is.

As always your comments are welcome. I’d love to know where you are at and if you have became a success what the turning point was for you.

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7 Key Benefits of a WordPress Site

No matter what niche you’re working in, you will need a high quality website to establish your online presence. There are a lot of options when it comes to building a site. You could create a site from scratch, use ready made templates, purchase a drag & drop website builder or hire a web designer for a custom solution.

However, choosing WordPress could be one of the smartest decisions you make. WordPress is a great tool you can use to build incredible websites. In comparison to other solutions it will save you both time and money. You should seriously consider using WordPress even if you already have a website.

What is WordPress?

In a nutshell WordPress is a flexible platform for building blogs and websites. Anyone can use WordPress to create high quality sites, without needing any technical knowledge of web programming languages.

Why Use WordPress?

1. It’s 100% Free to Use!
The WordPress software will cost you nothing. Simply download and install it on your server. You can then immediately start building your site.

2. Quick and Easy Installation.
WordPress is very user friendly and can take just 5 minutes to install. You will be adding content to your site in no time.

3. Powerful Content Management System.
Using the admin Dashboard you can add/edit/delete the content of your site, including images, audio and video.

4. Abundance of Themes.
There are thousands of themes available, both free and paid versions. Themes allow you to completely change your sites design and can be further customized.

5. Enable New Features with Plugins.
Easily add new functionality such as in built Google translate, search engine optimization (SEO), image galleries, contact forms, social networking features etc.

6. Supported by an Active Community.
With millions of users, any questions or problems you have won’t go unanswered. It is likely your questions have already been asked and answered. The WordPress forums and online manual are indispensable resources.

7. Keeps your site Safe and Secure.
With every new release of WordPress, the security of your site is improved. In addition there are many tools to help backup your website data, so you can easily restore your site if something ever does go wrong.

How Do I Get Started?

Good question. To start off, download the latest version of WordPress from WordPress.org. Then watch this video:

Customizing WordPress

After you have successfully installed WordPress on your server, you can change the default theme. Choose from the thousands of free and paid-for themes, find the theme that has a look and feel appropriate to your site. You can even edit a theme, if you are not completely happy with the existing ones. To apply a new theme, go to your WordPress Dashboard. Click appearance, then Themes. You can preview a theme before installing it.

You can customize your WordPress site further by using plugins. The one plugin you will want to use is Akismet. Comment spam is a big problem and without this plugin you would waste a lot of your time trying to separate the genuine comments from the spam.

One last tip. The default URLs for your WordPress blog posts and pages, are not optimized for SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Watch this video to learn how to change the permalink appearance, to fix this issue.

For more WordPress tutorial videos check out:

WordPressBlogHowToVideos.com

Erfan @ TheInfoMarket.co.uk

This is a guest post written by Erfan Shahedi, if you would like to be considered for a guest post please contact me.

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