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About Us
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This
is me, Warren Newson
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Hi, I’m Warren Newson, editor, writer and everything else on
building-a-web-site.com. I thought you might like to know a little more
about the person who’s trying to help you with building your website.
I live in Australia with my wife and teenage kids in the pretty little
city of Armidale, New South Wales. With the web though, it doesn’t
matter where you live anymore. You can do business worldwide, and I’m
always amazed when I look at my traffic stats and see just where my
website visitors live.
I never started out in the computer or internet business. I
actually did a trade as an aircraft maintenance engineer when I left
school. After about ten years of that and other trade work I decided to
go to
university, but even then I did engineering, not computing. In fact, at
that stage I'd never seen a computer and didn’t know a single person
who owned one.
I was like a lot of other people, and always looking for something
better, or something where I could earn extra money from home. When I
finally learned about the internet and making money from affiliate
programs I thought great, there’s something I could do, an internet
business I could build up in my spare time.
It wasn’t so easy though. I used Mozilla Composer (a predecessor of
KompoZer) to build my first website and apart from the learning curve
it wasn’t too bad. My site was fairly basic but it was a short story
and poetry site (avacus.com) and I had contributions from all around
the world. Some contributions were really top quality.
I had no idea about building traffic or even how to use affiliate
programs effectively though. A lot of my ideas were just plain wrong
but I had a lot of fun with the site. Eventually I stopped it because
it took a lot of my spare time and didn’t seem to be going anywhere.
It could have though. A few months ago I read about a deal between a
large publishing company “Simon and Schuster” and a website called
“Scribed” that allows people to contribute amateur books and articles
that are mainly free to view. According to the newspaper article
Scribed gets 60 million unique visitors each month! They make money
from the sale of some of the books, and now from the sale of e-books
from Simon and Schuster.
There’s another lesson learned. With more knowledge and
determination I could have gone a lot further with that first website
of mine.
I built more websites for myself but they never really got much
traffic. I’d heard about Site Build It but resisted using it for a long
time because at that stage you could only buy it with an upfront cost
of US$300 and I thought I could do without it.
Eventually because my websites were going nowhere fast I scraped
together the money and subscribed to Site Build It. I had a lot of
“aha” moments when I read their guide and discovered just where I had
been going wrong. (You can read the guide here)
I can now get a website in the top 1% of websites for traffic
if I work at it. Since then I’ve done a lot more reading and learning
about building websites and internet marketing.
I’ve had a few friends and relatives asking how to build a website and
that’s how this one got started. I’ve made so many mistakes and wasted
so much time I’d hate to see others do that too.
Most people don’t realize that actually building the website is only
part of the equation. A website without traffic is as useless as a car
without an engine. Paying someone to build a website doesn’t
guarantee traffic either.
You have to do some traffic building things as part of building your
web pages and website, and that’s what the thrust of this website is.
Half of it is the technical side of how to build a website in a way
that’s easy and quick and cheap for a complete newbie, and half of it
is what you need to do to get traffic.
You’ll find I recommend products on this website, because there are
tools and services you have to have to have a website, such as a page
builder and hosting. I do believe Site Build It is
the best of all because it has all the tools and the step by
step system you need and it’s cheaper than getting everything
separately. My theory is that when you build a website you need to use
your time as effectively as possible. Site Build It lets you do that
much better than any other software I know of.
Of course, even though I am impressed with Site Build It, not everyone
will
want to use it, so I try to recommend the best of the other resources
as well.
I have great fun building websites, and I think they can be an amazing
marketing tool if they are used right. I hope I can help you build a
successful website site too.
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