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Time Is What Keeps Everything From Happening At Once
By Robert Smith <mailto:bob@smithfam.com>
When I started out on-line I didn't have any budget so I
set out to find free resources for all my needs. After about
a year I put my bookmark collection on-line. You know it as
"Free in Cyber-Space".
<http://www.smithfam.com/
Later as I developed working relationships with my free
providers I began to purchase services from the companies
that had helped me get started. I would like to share some
of these resources with you.
I started out with a free email account even before I had
a internet connection. Juno.com mail offers a free
downloadable program with a local dialup number, It's
perfect for people that don't even have a dialup
connection. Although anyone can do it themselves my son
has made a business of installing Juno mail on people's
computers. He charges ten dollars to set it up, it
takes him about 5 minutes to install it and a few more to
teach how to use.
Juno Mail
<http://www.juno.com/>
I also developed a list of free web-based email accounts,
I suggest you get a free web-based email account using it as
a reply email address whenever you are at risk of your real
email address getting spammed.
It's especially useful if you can forward your email to
the web-based account when you travel. Last summer I was
living in the mountains of Montana for several weeks, I was
able to get my email from a friend. I answered my emails off
line and only needed to be connected for a couple of minutes
to get my email and another couple of minutes to deliver my
responses, It surprised me how well it worked, I even made
and uploaded a major revision of my web-site while I was on
the road.
More Web Based Email Sources
<http://www.smithfam.com/email.html>
Need To Start A Mailing List Free Try List Bot
<http://www.listbot.com/cgi-bin/signup?Act=create_customer>
I needed a Internet dialup service free. It took a while
But I found a national Internet provider that offered a 20%
commission on Internet dialup services. I joined Synergy
Consultants and after referring five people locally my
Internet connection was free. It's a MLM structure I really
haven't made much from it but it has paid enough to provide
me free dialup service for over two years, that's almost
$700 I have saved so far.
Synergy Consultants
<http://www.smithfam.com/synergy/>
When I wanted to build my website I figured I could find
a free place to host my site, I started out with Geocities
with was one of the first sources of free hosting. Geocities
didn't allow commercial websites so I tried a few others. My
Favorite is XOOM because they allow unlimited server space,
FPT file transfers, they do offer special offers to members
which really are good buys.
Xoom Free Hosting
<http://www.xoom.com/webspace/>
Other places where you can get a free server are
available here:
<http://www.smithfam.com/freesites.html>
You are might be wondering why I would change to a pay
service when there are so many free, I won't go into it here
in detail but you might want to check out this article to
understand.
How To Find The Right Hosting Service
<http://www.smithfam.com/hosting.html>
Getting my domain name on a commercial server was the
best decision I have made in the last couple of years. The
differences between a free server and a pay server are
understood by comparing the services offered.
My Hosting Company
<http://www.virtualis.com/vr/rsmith45/options.html>
Now instead of paying for hosting services or using a
free server I get paid well for using the the best Hosting
service I have seen. It's free to join and 28,000 resellers
can't be wrong. Because there are so many re-sellers I
target my marketing locally.
Virtual Domain Hosting Options For Comparison
<http://www.virtualis.com/vr/rsmith45/options.html>
Once I had my site up and running I was only getting one
or two visitors a day and most of them were from me. I
needed a free way to launch my site so people could actually
find me. I started by manually submitting my pages to the
major meta capable search engines.
But before you start writeing meta tags for your pages.
Try this free resource. It actually teaches you the basics
by just filling out a simple form and adding the tags to
your site.
Free MetaCode Writing Tool
<http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html>
THE MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES
Alta Vista:
<http://www.altavista.digital.com>
Excite:
<http://www.excite.com>
Hotbot:
<http://www.hotbot.com
Infoseek>
Infoseek
<http://www.infoseek.com>
LookSmart:
<http://www.looksmart.com>
Lycos:
<http://www.lycos.com
Webcrawler>
Webcrawler
<http://www.webcrawler.com>
Yahoo:
<http://www.yahoo.com
Things started picking up weeks from my submissions but I
was still only getting a few visitors a day. The next
process was visiting each major search engine using my most
important keywords. I looked at the top 10 pages from each
search engine, looking at the meta tags of some of the
higher ranking sites. I would then alter my meta tags to be
more more like the top listings. just two years ago you
could easily get a top ten listing but not any more. It also
takes a lot more time now than it used to.
You might want to read up on submissions and meta-tages
before you even start submitting your pages.
<http://www.smithfam.com/news/june98b.html>
Meta Tags Basics
<http://www.northernwebs.com/set/set06.html#meta1>
FREE SUBMISSION TOOLS
Our Submission Tool
<http://www.smithfam.com/submit.html>
Our Java Submission Script
<http://www.smithfam.com/submit/>
Experimental Java Tool
<http://home.sol.no/~nbk/submit/experimental/>
I soon learned that without tracking where my traffic was
coming from I was working blind. The following free
resources might save you a lot of time.
Tracking Your Visitors
<http://www.smithfam.com/news/d0.html>
Free Tracking Services
<http://www.extreme-dm.com/tracking/?reg>
As soon as I started learning how to track my traffic my
site took off. I grew from a couple hundred visitors a day
to well over a 1000 visitors a day. You would think I would
be making a fortune but I wasn't because I had no way to
sell anything
Without going into another long article, I'm just going
to tell you that if you intend on selling anything from your
website you need your own domain name first - then a server
that can handle secure processing, a shopping cart maker,
free autoresponders, real-time credit card validation and
more. I was able to obtain all these services when I moved
my files to a commercial domain name server.
A year ago I wouldn't have said this step was necessary
but today it's a must having virtual domain server and
commercial hosting company.
Business Hosting Specialists
<http://www.virtualis.com/vr/rsmith45/>
CartSnap Shopping Cart Builder Demo
<http://www.cartsnap.com/>
It seems that the more I learn the more important scripts
and the ability to set them up and make them work has
become. In fact my most popular web page is one dealing with
finding and using scripts.
http://www.smithfam.com/scripting.html
I'm not going to lie to you and tell you it's easy
because it's not but as I have said so often before "if it
was easy everyone would be doing it."
I'll mention a couple of my favorites Scripts and
sources.
The FreeForm Creator is a form generator that really
works ! It's on-Line and you don't need to know any
programming or have access to your CGI-BIN on your host's
server. It runs in real time. This tool Is the best and
easiest to learn tool you can find, And It's free !
The FreeForm Creator
<http://Freedback.com/?ff/smi_fam>
Linkomatic has the best free 4 all script to allow others
to place links on your site.
Link-O-matic Free 4 All Script
<http://www.linkomatic.com/getyours.cgi?88888
My Free 4 all Site is here try it out
<http://www.smithfam.com/links.html>
I use a script from Matt's Scripts. I use the script to
offer free classified ads on my site.
Matt's Script Archive
<http://worldwidemart.com/scripts/>
My Free Classified Script
<http://www.smithfam.com/wwwboard/>
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate that there
is a lot to learn and it takes time to learn it.
The Internet isn't a place you can set up business one
day and rake in the dollars the next.
I'm willing to share what I have learned to save you time
and effort. I have seen so many people drop hundreds of
dollars on services and resources. A high percentage of the
tasks you can do yourself not only saving a lot of money but
learning how to offer similar services to others. Part of my
business it to do things you don't know how to do at a
reasonable price.
The Internet is so full of hype. I spend a lot of time
with people who believe that there is ONE thing they can buy
that is going to open flood-gates of money. There is money
to be made on-line and plenty of it. You are not too late if
you start this year just don't quit your day job right away,
at least until you see some of that money.
Bob
-----------------===> About the Author <===-----------------
ROBERT SMITH helps thousands to successfully market their
Internet based home business. You'll find tons of free
marketing tools & resources on his Internet Marketing web
site at: <http://www.smithfam.com/>.
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You can reach him by phone at:(541) 689-1847 PST, and by
email at. <mailto:bob@smithfam.com>
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