Welcome to the WordpressWorkshop for Newbies

(webinar)

By Trent Jessee

Wordpress Consultant

Welcome!

This is me…Trent Jessee – Your Wordpress Consultant !

What’s in store for today…

Overview of Wordpress (why use it and why it’s the best solution for business owners building a business online)

Differences between Wordpress.com and Wordpress.org

How to choose a good domain name, and select the right hosting company.

How to install your own WordPress website with your own theme of choice along with the top plugins you need!

How to identify your own MARKET NICHE and why this is so important

The steps to take for effective market researching and understanding the PEOPLE in your TARGET MARKET

What mind mapping is and how to create your own ROAD MAP based off of the WordPress Blueprint you receive at the Workshop.

The difference between affiliate marketing and drop-shipping and how you can make money selling other people’s products/services

Continued….

What SEO is and the difference between natural and paid rankings

How to get started optimizing your own website for Search Engines

What Google Adsense is and how to use it

Services to use for your opt-in lists

Social networking and how to use facebook, twitter, and others…

How to build a list and why it’s one of the most important things you can do online

Final item: Ask any questions you want and I’ll give you a straight answer

Let’s get Started!

What is Wordpressand Why use it to

build your business online

Gain 100% CONTROL over your business online!

Ability to have UNLIMITED website PAGES!

Enjoy a fully functional Content Management System (CMS)

It’s FREE to use!

Access to hundreds of Awesome FREE WordPress THEMES that are professionally designed and ready to go.

Free plugins to transform and operate your website the way YOU WANT

Can be used for not only your Website needs, but also your blogging efforts!

You can implement pretty much anything you want on your site..images, flash, power points, music, videos, documents, etc..

Comes with it’s own image editor

Differences between Wordpress.com andWordpress.org

Let’s look at Wordpress.COM first

Pros Cons

It’s completely FREE Can’t upload your own Plugins

Hassle Free No Access to your website code to edit it and tweak your website the way you want

Everything is taken care of: setup, upgrades, spam, backups, security, etc

Can’t upload custom themes

Your blog is on hundreds of servers, so it’s highly unlikely it will go down due to traffic

Your posts are backed up automatically

You get extra traffic from blogs of the day and tags

You can find like-minded bloggers using tag and friend surfer

Your login is secure (SSL) so no one can get into your account if you use wifi

Wordpress.COM

http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

Wordpress.ORG

Pros Cons

You can upload your own THEMES You’ll need purchase hosting which generally costs around $4 to $12 a month for low traffic websites.

You can upload you own PLUGINS Requires some technical knowledge to set up and operate.

Complete CONTROL over optimizing, editing and tweaking any of the site code files

You’ll have to Back-up our website yourself

A huge social network to access using wordpress.org as their system of choice

You’ll need to upgrade the softwaremanually when new versions come out

If you get huge spikes of traffic coming to your site (like Digg of Slashdot) your site will probably go down unless you have a robust hosting setup.

http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

10 Step Checklist – What to do before launchingyour business online using Wordpress

1 Brainstorm a list of areas of passion in your life

2 Identify your TOP 3 market niches you’re passionate about

3 Research and Refine your THREE market niches down to ONE Market niche based upon profitability and competition

4Complete your Keyword Research for targeted keyword phrases that are HIGH in DEMAND and LOW in COMPETITION

5 Document the projected profitability of your business based up on the products

Continued…

6Choose and research your Target Market audience and create your buyer personalities for at least THREE groups within your target market. Write down a list of the TOP 20 problems/challenges people in your market have. Use Google.com, twitter, facebook, etc.. to help discover market questions you may not have thought of.

7Create a road map of how you want your website to operate. What do you want the site to do for you? Use MindMapping software to help.

8 Organize your business team (employees, independent contractors, business partners) Consider outsourcing.

9 Organize your website content. (images, product decriptions, etc..)

10 Register Domain Name, sign up for a hosting account that supports Wordpress (Example: www.BlueHost.com ) You’re now ready to install Wordpress and integrate the content you’ve prepared!

How to effectively Brainstorm

• Create a focused environment

• Use Google Keyword Tool for ideas

• Ask friends/family for their feedback

• Use Excel to track your ideas

– Here’s a FREE Excel spreadsheet tracker I created for my clients to use. Download it here

Identify your Market Niche

• A Market Niche is a specialized area within a market such as Green Camping Tackle boxes for Fishing Enthusiasts who like to fish for Trout.

• A Market Niche is not general or broad such as “Camping”

• Basing your business upon a market niche weeds out competition and helps serve people who otherwise would not.

Refine your Market Niches usingProfitability and Competition

1. Examine the costs of doing business. Your prices of buying and average costs of selling your products and/or services.

2. Set sales volume goals so you’ll have an estimated idea of how profitable your venture will be.

Identifing and Getting to knowyour Target Market

• A target market is a group of people you want to serve based upon your market research. Who in the world would stand to benefit most from your services/products?

• Move away from saying my target market is “The Whole World”…. It’s not going to happen, at least right now

– Example: My target market is 20-40 yr old Men living in Wyoming

• Research online using Google, facebook, twitter, etc… questions/challenges the people have within your market. Write them down.

• Create up to THREE buyer personality descriptions (buyer personas) based upon your research. Create a face and as much personality as you can.

– Example: Bill the Hick lives in Wyoming. He has a long beard, loves the outdoors, lives in a motor home, has children, loves listening to Chris Ledoux. He’s a pretty easy going dude. Etc…

How to create your Road Map

• Go to this Blog Post that I created to learn how to create your website road map using a Mind Mapping program such as FreeMind:

– How to Mind Map

Create your Power Team

• Your are the visionary responsible for keeping the VISION ALIVE! You don’t have to do all the work by yourself.

• Make a target list of people you would need to help run your business online.

• Examples: blogger, programmer, designer, financial officer, consultant, etc…

• Will these people be: 1) Employees, 2) contractors, 3) business partners

• Consider outsourcing the duties:

– www.elance.com

• Create or Join a Wordpress Mastermind: Go to this site

Organize your Web Content

• Gather all of your product images, documents, etc.. that you want on your site and place them in their appropriate folders on your computer.

• Rename all product images, affiliate product images to their respective names instead of code numbers.

You’re now ready to set up your Wordpress Site !!

How to Install your ownself-hosting Wordpress Site

• Go to this link on my website for the online tutorial:

– Wordpress Set-Up Guide

Two Tips to choosing a Domain Name

1. After you do your keyword research, use one of your best keyword phrases as your domain name. This can help you with your search engine optimization efforts.

2. Choose a domain name that is easy to spell and avoid using the letter 2, or TWO, Too, or To…causes confusion

This concludes Phase 1 of Wordpress for Newbies