How Are You Building Your Websites?
Recently I received an email asking me how long it takes to build a good website? He told me he had been working on a site for 4 months. So I replied to this message asking if the site has made any money yet? The response was that he was improving the site so he hasn’t worked on getting traffic to it yet!
Now, I see a major problem here and I think it is a common problem. Your goal as an online business owner should be to make money as soon as possible. This means don’t spend several months making everything perfect. This means not having 50 partial projects that aren’t making you squat. Sure I have several projects that I’m working on so I’m guilty as well.
It’s human nature to get side tracked entrepreneurial ADD is a very common problem. We have so many new ideas that we think are so good that we focus on that idea for a little while them get another idea and focus on that after a while we have 50 ideas and no businesses.
So here was my solution, about 3 weeks ago I created a folder on my computer called “ideas box” I got this idea from Justin Brooke, I think he has an actual box. So every time I have an idea I write it out – summarize it and save it in my ideas box folder. Now I can go back to it when the time is right, some ideas I will never use, but some will be very helpful when the time comes.
The important thing is, you will not quite your current project and as a result you can continue to work on that project until you do what it takes to finish it and hopefully make money with it.
On to the next point, if it takes you 2 months to build a website and you have no visitors coming to it, you are taking too long. The reason I give away wordpress themes is so that you can quickly create websites and start driving traffic to that website.
Then you test and tweak the site after you have visitors coming to it. You can get visitors the first day you promote a new site and even make some sales that same day or you can wait 4 months and lose out on all those sales you could have been making.
In fact on the lazy marketer blog, Chris Rempel said the sites that he spent a lot of time setting everything up to perfection would in many cases not perform as well as the sites he spent very little time creating. I’m not sure exactly why, but I’m sure he didn’t like that he wasted all that time setting everything up to be perfect only to throw up another site and have it out perform the site he spent time perfecting.
An imperfect site that has visitors can make you money, a perfect website that you spent 4 months working on, that doesn’t have any visitors isn’t going to make you a dime. Nobody knows your site exist!
Now is the time to take action get your site up and get traffic to it as soon as possible, if it’s making you money then consider spending more time making it better otherwise move onto the next website and get that one going. You should also apply this to list building – get subscribers as fast as possible, learn how I do it from my free course list building exposed.
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What are your thoughts on the subject?
lol
this is true, just go for it…
Unique approach, I’m going to have to motivate myself to create websites faster… then focus on getting traffic
I like you’re blog themes – thanks 4 the themes
cheers,
Fox B
Nice Post.
Hey J Bode, I definitely need to use the ideas box tip, thanks! You’re right, action is the key. I am slowly but surely giving up my ‘can’t start until it’s perfect’ habit.