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How to Build Your Online Platform

By: Amber Ludwig, Internet Marketing Coach

You have a powerful message inside. You?re bursting at the seams to get it out. You have endless inspiration and ideas. There?s only one problem ? it takes time to build your online platform.

So many people have this dilemma. The next step is to rush, rush through logo and website design, rush to add content to the site, rush to turn that sign over to read ?Open for business!?

My suggestion? Ask your web developer (how do you know if your web person is any good? click here) to put up a blog with a decent free theme. Someplace you can go to and start blogging now. You don?t have to have your logo done, web design done ? nada. Just get ?something? up and start the race. The key is to write content while you build the site ? then add the design and branding in within the next month or two when you?re all set. This way you generate traffic NOW instead of waiting another two months (that would be super frustrating for you).

The #1 way to get a LOT more traffic and a LOT more results is to blog your heart out. Get to 100 blog posts as fast as possible. This will be key in starting to build your online platform! Adding content alone will give you a big increase in traffic. The faster you want results, the faster you should write blog posts with good valuable content.

Then people come to your site and love your blog post content. At that time, they will want to know what else they can get from you. So, what you want to work on creating is a KILLER good ?free introductory offer? to give away in exchange for people signing up to your email list. It has to be something everyone wants NOW. (Such as the ?7 things you are doing every day to kiss your financial future good-bye?) Something that everyone wants, today.

Let?s say you make a 7-15 page, beautifully designed and formatted eBook. I can help with the design and formatting (which needed to be done AFTER your branding and logo design so you have congruency). Once your eBook is ready (let?s say you have a goal to knock out the content in 7-10 days ? design takes 2-3 days usually), now you have a high value product free on your site. Now you are leaps better at capturing leads.

Then you go to your calendar and make a note that once or twice a month, you send a high-value email to that email list so they are staying connected to you and interested in you.

Next, you start working on creating a $97 product. Maybe it is a 2 DVD or CD set (that is beautifully packaged ? now that you have a brand and logo) and a small workbook. So you now funnel people from your free eBook to your $97 product that people can?t live without.

Then, you create the outline for a really great 4-8 week teleseminar. One a month maybe where you deliver a process or method, and then give the listeners a challenge to go execute on. Then end with a Q&A. Charge $300 per person.

Now you have a TON of free content from your blog and eBook (and other things you?ll naturally be a part of such as guest blogging, radio interviews, podcasting maybe), you have your rockin $97 product and teleseminar recordings. Now it?s time to start building your membership site (which could take 6-12 months to create). You give a high value call once a month, plus access to all of your content and interviews, etc. You charge $50-100 a month.

etc etc. By this point, you may not have even realized it, but you have an online platform now!

Now backing up, by the time your website design is done, set a goal for the number of blog posts you want to publish and have your eBook content done (or maybe the whole final eBook done).

Once that is done and design is complete, package it all together and then you work to create that next product to generate good starting income. You don?t need to wait for the perfect website ? I can?t stress that enough.

Design is your brand, it is what people will see to connect with you, trust you and remember you. Let the content be so great that they don?t even care if you have a design.

Anything worthwhile doing takes time.

My CHALLENGE for you today is:

Sit down and write out 30 ideas for topics you could write about that is related to your message or topic. Just brainstorm ? free write. There?s no need to make this perfect. When you are just getting started, I say ?JUST WRITE? than focus so hard on what topic you need to write about to be perfect, perfect. Don?t put so much pressure on yourself to be perfect ? just add value to people?s lives!
Next, go to your calendar and write a reasonable and realistic schedule for how often you want to publish a blog post. Remember the goal is 100 posts as fast a possible. That could take you a year or 6 months ? that is up to you. A good goal to start is twice a week. Then get used to that and up the ante again to 3 posts a week.
Then, just start. It?s that easy, just ?go?.

If you need help or have questions about building out your online platform, I would like to invite you to make a Facebook post below. If you want advice or direction, I?m always more than happy to share what I know. Thank you in advance for your interaction:

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