This is a topic that I get asked to help more with than any other by far. And even when it is a question about Marketing or Social Media, it all comes back to Websites and making money from them.

Let’s face it, 98% of the Websites out there are not configured correctly for Maximum profits, including this one to be perfectly honest. However, in the next six weeks I am going to be changing my site to reflect and show you how to squeeze every last penny out of your site.

It will actually only take me a couple of hours to change it because of the tools that I use (no, they are not available to the public yet, but I will show you where to get them).

But I want to make the changes to the various components so that you can follow along. I must tell you that I was Ignorant of a lot of these things when I first started. So, no matter what your Marketing or Technical expertise or lack there of, you will be able to make these changes to your site using the tools I will show you all by yourself as long as you have enough computer knowledge to read this post. Or, you can have one of our minions do it for you if you so desire. Yes, I know it is a TV, but I like the pic. 

I am going to point out some big mistakes that even many Fortune 500 companies make! This is going to be fun!

And we are not talking about using a crappy free builder or using Yahoo, or anything from 1&1 and the like that can kill your business and you won’t even know it.

So, just wanted to set you up for that.

Cheers,
Andrew “Easy” Anderson

Tags: Money Making Websites

You Have A Website Great! Let’s Make Some Money

OK, so you have joined the real world an you have a Website. Congratulations!

Now the big trick is to make money from it. The strange things is this is where things usually fall apart for many businesses.

I have seen crappy Websites that make millions and nice Websites that make peanuts. And most people honestly do not have a clue as to why this happens.

I want to destroy a couple of myths here.

• Traffic means profits right?

Not even close. You can have all of the traffic in the world and not make squat.

• I have to have the perfect looking website to make money. Nope, I have seen some of the most barf ugly sites that make tens’ of thousands a month. Could they be making 10 x that if they were designed right? Sure, but in the meantime they are making money while some of the better looking ones don’t make anything.

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Tags: Profitable Websites

5 Rules To Make Sure Your Site SUCKS And Makes Little Or No Money!

OK, I have said this before, but if you are going to put up a crappy Website that sucks, at least do it right. Please follow these 5 rules.

1.) Go ahead and have a mostly black or dark Website with white text if you really don’t want to sell anything.  Most people don’t know this, so don’t feel too bad.

2.) Put some lame ass logo that size of Texas right at the top that does nothing other than tell anyone visiting you care more about you then helping them. Make sure it is not the least bit intriguing or better yet, dollar signs or fast cars right at the top. Or better yet, a big old picture of you holding dollar bills.

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Bashing Success And Apologizing For Exceptionalism

You must have heard by now that Apple has a few issues with the iPhone unless you were living in a cave.  Well, by all accounts if you get your news from the LameStream media, you would think that every iPhone is terrible and that the Government should step in to help the poor hapless consumer.

Well, guess what.   I know of at least four people that have the new phone and try as they might, they can’t reproduce the issue.  And they have asked friends who have it and no joy on being able to create the issues with the phone going out when you touch a certain part of it.

What does this mean? Well, I think it is a commentary on the predatory nature of media towards tearing anyone down that is successful or for the gall of being Exceptional and that bad news sells.  I like to call them soul suckers … LOL .  They want to portray anyone that is successful as bad, be it an individual or a business and especially businesses. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Apple, Success Bashing

Colors That Sell or the alternative title – Colors That Sell Shit… i.e. that make you a profit, put money in your pocket, allow you to live your dreams. Now this started off tongue in cheek, but it is serious too.

If you are watching the video, please disregard all of the Ums and Aas in there. I just listened to it and jeeze.. who is that guy talking. But, here again it goes back to my my 80% rule, 80% and out there will beat going for 100% and never getting done every single time. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Colors that sell

A Free Website For A Non-Profit

Do you know of a great Non-Profit that could use a new $2,500 to $10,000 website for free?

We are looking to donate up to three complete Websites with every bell and whistle in the book if need be including hosting for a year for Free.

I am proud to announce that we have found two non-profits that we are going to be helping. They are www.LoveCuresCancer.com which helps Children with Cancer and www.ThePaintedBrain.org which helps raise awareness of people with mental illness.

We are so glad that that we will be helping these two very worthy causes.

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Tags: Non Profit Website

A Profitable Website

This video is best viewed in full screen mode. Click on the icon to the right of the speaker icon above.

I will be doing another video going over the basics of what you need and of course, WordPress is the only content managements system that I recommend these days.

WordPress currently powers 8.7% of all Websites.
WordPress currently powers 56% of all Websites that have CMS or a Content Management System.

You need to be using CMS and WordPress. This should be your Website if you want to make money. If you don’t have a Blog and update your content on a regular basis, you are losing customers, money, and you are getting killed on Search Engine Placement.

Here is the link to the Tour Page with the Buttons That I speak about in the Video as well as a few other sites.

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And if you are willing to be a Guinea Pig, you can pre-order the Software that we used to build the sites for only $77 a month and you get a 30 day free trial. No contracts, no commitments. Not only that, but you will get a Shopping Cart, Up-sells, Coupon Codes, an Affiliate Program, a Membership Program,and an Auto-Responder built in as well. Plus other great good surprises. (and yes, I will get around to putting in a fancy button here too, but the most important thing is to have a way for people to give you money. You can sign up for out Beta launch of LaunchBrain by going clicking on the image below. Make sure you put in 21 in the Invited By box.

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OK, I am going to go over some of the basics that you need to have no matter what, as well as a number of things that I see big companies and even well know Web Gurus are doing wrong with their Websites in the next video.

These are easily correctable and often overlooked.

Also, for those of you interested, if you don’t feel up to doing a site like the ones I show you in the video, we can do ones like them from turn key (you have to provide the content, although we can create it for a fee if you want) from $1,490 to about $4,900 for most small business sites. Larger sites are more of course. But typically, we are 1/2 to 1/3rd the cost of other solutions. We can also provide turnkey solutions on a monthly basis as well. If you are interested, just contact me and we will get you taken care of right away. Also, we can convert your existing Website to WordPress and LaunchBrain so that it is easy to use and maintain and help make it profitable.

Cheers,
Andrew Anderson

Tags: Profitable Websites, Websites

I have always had the utmost confidence in American Entrepreneurs.  They have proven in the past when left alone and given have a chance that they can solve any problem thrown at them on earth.

They truly are some of the best and brightest problems solvers in the World.

But for some reason, they are only unleashed on solving big problems by Bureaucracies that don’t understand them or like them because the Entrepreneurs don’t play by the rules when the Bureaucrats are up against the wall.

The Oil Spill Could Be Stopped In A Matter Of Days

Bureaucrats and Entrepreneurs are two totally Alien species to one another.  One, wants to control all things by placing rules, regulations, stipulations and ordered lists and check boxes on everything they touch or see, while the other makes the rules up as they go and solves problems without any need or regard for how things are supposed to be done.

Here is a Viable Solution to the Oil Spill that could stop it in just a matter of days from one of the smartest Entrepreneurs on the Planet. The big question is will the Bureaucrats let him give it a shot and fix it, or will millions of gallons of oil keep polluting the Earth while they figure out what check boxes and regulations they have to put in place first?

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Is a Chameleon In Your Future?

There are a lot of choices today in the world of Websites and Blogs for your business.   The tough part is choosing the right one for your business that will make you money and not cost you an arm and a leg.

Having worked the nearly every platform out there today, the choice has gotten easier than ever before and there has been a clear winner for quite sometime now and the general business world is finally finding out about it and the winner is……

WordPress by half a lap!

With the latest release of WordPress 3.0, WordPress has extended it’s lead far ahead of the other platforms out there.  Even with the heavy duty expert system like Vignette that would cost around $250,000 to build a full blown site, you can now duplicate the same functions for 1/2 to 1/5 the price and have a much easier user interface and do it in 1/3rd the time. —–> READ MORE

Tags: Durpal, Joomla, Posterous, Tyepad, Vignette, WordPress

Do Pop Ups Annoy You Too?

OK, Pop Ups annoy me.  I know that they can used to make you money but I am not convinced they do any more. Because as I have noted, when I go to a site, usually as sales site, I try and leave the page. If they have one, I don’t bother ready the rest of it accept on very rare occasions.

I put them on my you just wasted a couple seconds of my life list and I don’t want to have anything to do with whatever you are selling list.

Pop Ups are kind of like the Disco Balls, they were really cool for a little while, but if you put them everywhere they are a bit annoying and it is like having one in your office to show how “cool” you are. —–> READ MORE

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