Welcome back! As I promised last week, I am starting a series of posts about web hosting services for the newbie. These are designed with the newbie in mind, but the information is pertinent for anyone with questions about web hosting.

With that said, let’s dive in:

As we all know the Internet is make up of millions of individual websites. These websites can range from online shopping to photo sharing, social networking to government related information. Pretty much anyone can get ‘online’ today check their bank account balance or chat with a friend or relative on the other side of the world, or post a photo of something they did today. They can read the news and check their local TV listings.

The ‘bigger’, more popular websites are more than likely housed on a dedicated server or servers and hosted ‘in house’. Smaller websites will probably use a different type of web hosting. In this series, I am going to cover the basic information that a newbie is going to need to make a decision on which web hosting company to choose for their website.

In a nutshell, the hosting company will provide the ’space’ needed for your site. Think of this as being similar to the hard drive space on your own computer. You have thousands, if not millions, of files on your computer and these files are stored on your hard drive. That drive has a limited amount of space to store those files. The same goes for your web hosting company. They have servers that have hard disk space in them and you are going to pay them for a certain amount of space to store your website files on.

The hosting company will also provide you with ‘bandwidth’. Think of this as the number of people who are going to be visiting your site. This number will be either in the megabytes, or in the case of a semi-busy site, in gigabytes, all depending on the package that you purchase.

At this point, I don’t want you to get caught up in a lot of the technical stuff about hosting because I will touch on some of that and explain it as we go along. You do need to know this; if you are at all wanting to have some sort of ’space’ for friends, family, customers, to come and electronically visit, you need webhosting, whether it be free or paid.

Some of the things I will be going over in this series will be:

The types of webhosting and the differences
What to look for in a web host
Working with cPanel
How to point your domain name to your webhost
Getting your website up and online

Alrighty…there’s a beginning for you. Stay tuned for the next posting…and if it’s easier, you can sign up for my newsletter to be notified each time I post, or you can follow me on twitter.

One very important item before I close; my Giveaway Events page has been updated with a couple of them that start tomorrow…so you still have the opportunity to join and submit your gift.

Until the next time,

Here’s to YOUR Online Successes

Ron

Today is the start of one of my favorite sporting events of the year, The Masters. This is the golf tournament that is held at Augusta National Golf Course in Augusta, Georgia and is invitation only. Pretty much, you don’t just say, ‘I am going to play in the Masters this year’, or next. You have to earn your way in by winning and be extended an invitation to play in the tournament.

Yes, I am rooting for Tiger Woods to win it, but not just because he is by far the best golfer in the world right now. You see, I have been a golf fan since way back when…I grew up rooting for the likes of the Golden Bear, The Merry Mex, Arnie, and Tom Watson. I am rooting for Tiger because he has brought the game back and made it more popular than it has ever been before.

The Masters is very similar to one of my favorite things in the Information Marketing world; Giveaway Events. You see, you don’t just ‘join’ one, you have to be extended an invitation to participate in one, or several.

How do you get extended an invitation? To begin with, you need to be on someones mailing list. You can do that by signing up for somebody’s newsletter, and if that person is one who participates in these events, you will receive an email from them to become a member of whatever giveaway they are promoting.

Here is a list of the giveaways currently going on:

Easter JV Giveaway
Back To Basics Giveaway
Kings Ransom Giveaway
Peter Cotton Tail Giveaway
Power Dynamtics Giveaway
Mothers Day Giveaway

Once you join that giveaway, you become a subscriber of someone elses mailing list. Now, once you have joined the event, you have the option to upgrade. What the upgrade does in most of these giveaway events, is it gives you the ability to download any gifts you want without having to subscribe to someone elses list. If you don’t upgrade, each gift that you want to download, you will have to subscribe to another list. Now, you do have the ability to unsubscribe from these lists if you want, especially if the person you downloaded from doesn’t provide you with any valuable content (that’s what I, at the very least attempt to do with my subscribers), which a majority of them don’t.

I can’t remember the first giveaway event I got into, I just remember that I thought it was very cool that there are people out there (I almost said marketers), that were willing to give you something for free in exchange for your email address. Of course, that was almost two years ago, and I have learned a ton since then.

One of the things that I have learned, was that in order to successfully be a contributor to these events (and there are a lot of them), you need to have an eproduct that is attractive to the visitors of these events. Once you have found an ebook like this, you can get your autoresponder set up to gather the email addresses of the people who download your product. It’s at this point that you have the capabilty to start sending them valuable content that relates to the product that they have gotten from you.

What that means, is that if they have downloaded a book on dog training, you don’t want to all of a sudden start sending them offers for the best way to take care of your lawn. That makes sense doesn’t it?

Now, go back and read the title of this post. You’re probably asking yourself ‘how’ you go about ‘mastering’ the art of participating in giveaway events. Let me tell you this, most people who are invited to join these giveaway events and want to contribute to grow their own mailing lists, don’t get this part.

The Easy Giveaway Plan will show you how to master this process, and once you have, you can start increasing the number of people on your mailing list and lining your bank accounts with cash.

So, go pick up a couple of products from any one of the giveaways listed above and then pick up The Easy Giveaway Plan and be well on your way to building your list and becoming independently wealthy.

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron

Wow! What a fantastic day weather wise here in the twin cities!

It got to nearly 70 degrees. That’s as warm as it has been in about 2 years. Well, it seems like it’s been that long. In reality it’s only been about 5 months, but that’s long enough.

Today’s post is special for a couple of reasons…

It’s your ticket for giveaway events.

You know that I like to promote and participate in giveaway events. I do that for one specific reason:

To build my own list of subscribers that I can provide valuable content to on a regular basis.

What I am about to reveal to you is very seldom ever done, but I feel that I must do something to answer the question that I get asked a lot from the readers of the blog and of my newsletters:

“I would like to participate in the giveaway events, but I don’t have a gift I can offer. Can you help me out?”

Typically, I would respond by asking that person if they have tried to create their own product that they would be able to offer giveaway rights to and more often than not, I get an answre of ‘no’.

Now at that point, I could point them to Joel Osborne’s Product Creation Success Package, which will take them by the hand, step by step, and help them create their own product. I would be able to help them out with the creation of said product and point them to some resources for graphics and whatnot, which, in reality, is more than your typical ‘gooroo’ would do, if you even got a response from them!

Nope, today is special. Today I am offering you the ability to get your hands on a Resell Rights Mega Pack. In this mega pack, there are 50 ebooks…all of them have resell rights attached to them and some of them have plr rights.

I am offering these Resell Rights Mega Pack at a substantial discount for the readers of my blog and for the readers of my newsletter. How substantial? The value of all 50 of the ebooks, if purchased separately, is over $1,800!!

Unfortunately, I am unable to keep this offer on the table for very long and I have to limit the number of copies that are available, so you’ll need to take advantage the Resell Rights Mega Pack very quickly. I am anticipating it selling out as early as tomorrow evening.

This package is intended to help the people who are struggling with coming up with their own product to contribute to giveaway events.

You’ll find ebooks like Making An Income From Online Video, Search Engine Optimization, Creating And Writing Your Blog, Maximum Profit Private Label Rights, along with many others.

I gave a few of my close marketer freinds access to Resell Rights Mega Pack earlier today and they were amazed at the quality of the ebooks, most of them brand new in the past couple of weeks. They were astounded that I am letting them go at such a ridiculous price, but I told them, ‘hey, I want my readers to have the best available, and not have to pay an arm and a leg for them’, so here you go.

So grab the Resell Rights Mega Pack, and I’ll see you in the giveaway events!

Til next time,

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron