Ok, this post is covering video three, day three, step three, of Derek Gehl’s BeBiz Challenge.
His site is now live and he does invite you to take a look: http://www.mountainbikerepairtips.com/
First Derek runs through an overviwew of what he covered before and where he’s going. Here are the links to my previous posts and where to go to watch the videos yourself.
The BeBiz Challenge
Video #1 overview
Video #2 overview
Access the BeBiz Videos yourself
So today he’s going to put up his website. BeBiz comes with a lot of templates to make the web design easy. He’s going to put together his header, footer, body, opt-in form, naviagtion, etc. Took a bit over and hour and it’s up and running. He’s hooked up to PayPal.com for payment processing, has his order form and everything and the site is ready to go.
He cheated a bit in the he did use a separate program to play with the header graphic. I think he said he used Fireworks. So if you have art skills, which I don’t, you can use other programs to create prettier graphics to put into your site. The graphics that are included are good enough for most of us, I think.
He hits the publishing button and everything is live. Obviously there is webhosting and ftp going on here which is one big step that you don’t need to think about. So I’ll call someone and confirm that.
Ok, I called their help line and talked to a real person. BeBiz is an online system and does provide it’s own webhosting and FTP functionality. This means that you do not not need to buy webhosting elsewhere for your site or any other related tools. BeBiz takes care of it all. You do have to buy your domain name and point it to BeBiz, but the system will walk you through all that, so it’s not a big thing.
Cool. One less thing to think about.
Since I’ve had hosting services shut down two of my sites for too much traffic I also asked the question, “What if I get too much traffic.” She said that IMC gets a lot of traffic, which I believe since they make several million bux a year, hosts several online systems, and has never had a problem.
So I think we may be good here.
His site is now live and he’s inviting people to check it out.
Next he reviews what he’s done so far and points out that once he started on the site it only took about 6 hours to get the whole thing written, hooked up, and published. The actual research took longer.
His next project is to get traffic. He also points out that he’s not leveraging his list or other tools to get traffic. He’s starting from scratch.
But he doesn’t have a product??? No, he doesn’t and he covers that. At this point he’s doing market research to prove that there is a business here and he’s going to refund all sales!!! He’ll also add a note to the buyer explaining what’s going on here.
So the next video will be on getting traffic and then a fifth video, a few days later, will cover the results.
So it’s been three days, maybe 18 hours, and he has done all his research and put up a solid, completely functional (no product yet) site. Not bad.
Finally there is another overview and he talks more about BeBiz and what goodies you get with the package. Including a chance to win an $8,000 mentoring package.
Here are those links again:
The BeBiz Challenge
Video #1 overview
Video #2 overview
Access the BeBiz Videos yourself
