New Blog Design How Easy Is That Now

After long time without blogging - starting again next year - I wanted to test the new Facebook Badge and found the new template editor. Well, apart from that I must change this badge before I apply it for good, I am really happy about the dead easy design possibilities!

• No more hunting for better templates (well, there are some that look chicer, but all this customizing takes away too much time from blogging)
• 3 colums! - how hard was it to find such templates , and specially such that really work with the funtional elements of the sidebar. Now one can even alternate between wide and narrow boxes. This is just perfect.

For now, I'll go on checking the functions. What I'd like, and what never worked in the past, is different fonts for the body and sidebar. Of course I must first go through the posts and check, why some are normal, others in much too big letters... .

Another novelty: I just see I'm in IE now - and it works! after for a long time I could not even log in with IE.

What is different after publishing this test post?

• It needs 2 returns after a paragraph.
• The headline is grey now - must make it blue again, like the old ones.
• I don't find the post too narrow anymore, so no need to change this in the HTML, as I had to do before, cool. 

Oh oh, I must change the formatting of every old post individually, and in different ways. Might do this later, but who reads them anyway.
Arranging widgets... . That's it for now. Re-arranging the sidebar- and new footer-widgets will take some time and consideration ... . Going to do that later. There are two possible wide sectins, and only one with two narrow columns, which unfortunately can't be split. (or can I change the Html, so this works? Forbidden thought for me, would take ages again... .

Online Business Action Plan

Establishing an Internet Presence

Whatever you want to do to make money online – don’t believe there are any shortcuts. The majority of all those “dead sure five step action plans” that are around only work on the basis of solid Internet Presence.
This is real hard work, and it will take some time until it is done. Some more time until it gets known. But is has to be done only once.

1. Building a primary homepage and blog 
     with personal domain and hosting

– absolutely NOthing free - for introducing Yourself and your business(es) likewise.

2. Set up business- and advertising- sites and pages.

          Have them ready before you start advertsing and step 5

3. Set up a blog for your offer or your niche at the same time.

          Network Marketers: Set up two separate blogs. Treat your niche /
          offer and your business opportunity as two different things.

4. Advertise and start building your list.

         Advertise your own sites / pages which carry your offers of
         affiliate products, so visitors can return to you and you can build
         your own list, not the vendor’s. Keep the traffic you create for 
         yourself as far as possible.

5. Unify your appearance on the Web 2.0,

        so that people always know it is you.
        The “link to your homepage” should really be to one of your 
        homepages even if affiliate-links are allowed. It gives a better
        impression, traffic, maybe back links, even page rank for you.

You're done - half ways

Now you can relax a bit, but there is still much work to do:

• Permanent advertising for traffic.
• Email Marketing
• Article Marketing
• Tracking visitors for referring sites and keywords
• Tracking ads for effectiveness
• Blogging regularily
• Refreshing websites
• Optimizing websites
• Linkbuilding
• …

This list is actually almost endless, but when getting into the routine, you can do it without getting exhausted. Autopilot traffic, for instance, does exist.
Warning to newbies, who believe “you don’t need a website”:
At least half of the work is in vain, when there is no concentration of traffic and visitors to one or few unique centers which you own and control. Even a “personalized website”, which in most cases differs just in some appended affiliate id from the thousand others is not enough. A simple redirect or sub domain from your own domain can do magic.