| Do you recognise the following sequence of events ? | | | | be costly in terms of both time and money and can |
| It happens thousands of times, every day, throughout | | | | lead to introversion and a desire to live on Chinese |
| the world. | | | | take outs and never leave the house. |
| In the beginning 'they' enter a search term, more often | | | | Some will survive and prosper, many will be put off the |
| than not, on Google and 'surf' the web. Next 'they' | | | | whole idea - permanently ! |
| establish an email account, usually a free one, because, | | | | How about getting someone to do it for you ? Unless |
| well it's free. Now a desire to join in the cyberspace | | | | you know someone who has survived the learning |
| community becomes overwhelming and 'they' join You | | | | curve described above and, as a result of having lost |
| Tube, Facebook and all the other social websites their | | | | all of their friends, will create a website for you in |
| friends have told them about. | | | | return for your companionship, you have a problem. In |
| 'They' are, of course, you, me, everyone. | | | | order to solve the problem you can go to a site like |
| A percentage of this vast internet army want more. | | | | elance or to find a webmaster who will, for a fee, do it |
| They know eBay is the largest online auction house, | | | | all for you. |
| listing at least 60,000,000 items at any one time and | | | | If money simply isn't an issue, this is the way to go. Be |
| guess what ? Those halogen light bulbs that cost $7 | | | | clear about exactly what your site should do and what |
| each at the mall can be bought for $2 on eBay. Hmm, | | | | it should look like and you will be lord of your net |
| how about selling stuff on eBay. | | | | empire in a matter of days. Even so you still need to |
| This is real interaction, the casual surfer has morphed | | | | slot into place the most important part of the whole |
| into a trader, a dealer, an entrepreneur ! | | | | jigsaw, namely, how to drive traffic to your site and |
| Then a vision, blurred at first, becomes clearer and | | | | make money. |
| more defined in the mind of the would be web wizard. | | | | I've travelled down this turbulent route and half |
| That vision, that dream, is creating a website of their | | | | succeeded at most aspects and never mastered all |
| own. | | | | of it. |
| When I last checked it was estimated that there are | | | | I'm a huge fan of eBay - the free university of the |
| about 176,000,000 sites out there and growing by the | | | | internet - so I felt that the best way to create a |
| hour. A cyber sea of information and misinformation | | | | website of my own was to become an eBay affiliate. |
| representing every emotion, hope, dream and failing | | | | It must be pointed out that I am a useless 'techie' so |
| known to mankind. | | | | the old problem arose like the creature from the black |
| Despite the fact that huge numbers of sites must be | | | | lagoon. What I needed, to overcome my 'creating a |
| sad, neglected bundles of unwanted, unloved data, | | | | website phobia' was a program that showed me in a |
| floating around, forgotten in cyberspace, it seems that | | | | step by step format how to put up a niche site, link it |
| to create a website is still regarded as a 'must have'. | | | | to eBay and monetize it. |
| Our budding entrepreneur wants their own website | | | | In other words my first site would be as an eBay |
| and nothing will stop them ! Well actually it soon | | | | affiliate. |
| becomes clear that there are two basic options. Firstly | | | | If your online history has been anything like my roller |
| there is the 'techie' route. Buy a course or attend an | | | | coaster then you need to, at least, check out the eBay |
| how-to evening class and study html and every other | | | | affiliate route option. |
| mind bending aspect of site creation. This method can | | | | |