Head must have been empty when I decided this. It was at the very least filled with fluff and delusions that this task would be somewhat easy.
To be fair to my silly head, it's past experiences with building websites were fairly simple. Sign up for a freewebs acount, learn some basic controls and formatting and spit out a website had basic functions but completed everything I wanted it to do. See www.pawpawrazzipups.com www.jayesdoodles.com www.spottedbeauties.com
This has been a completely different journey. It has taken me from godaddy.com, to host monster.com to classifeds software and and software tutorials. I've had to learn about cPanels, and php and FTP, and HTML and domains, sub domains, and SEO. Almost 9 wholes days later I feel like I have barely started on the journey and have created only a sampling of what I saw coming together at the beginning. What was I thinking?
The basic shell of the website is done and is functional. I saw it more "fancy" and less basic but I find myself limited by the hours in the day, the other things to do and my limited knowledge of exactly what I am doing.
As difficult as I found the first part of this journay the next parts are even harder. Now that you have built the business how do you divert traffic to it? How dod you get google to recognize it. Hoe do you get search engion optimization. How do you get regular clientelle, how? how? how?
Today I must have sent out a minimum of 1000 emails and I can almost see the tip of the iceberg breaking the surface, but only if I hold my breath.
I have to keep reminding myself that Rome wasn't built in a day. The site has only been live for a day and a half. I can't expect 1000's of people flocking to it. I can't expect it to be an instant viral success. I can't expect it to take off at all....but I can hope.
Hope I have by the bushell full. Hope keeps me coming back to this chair and turning my monitor on for another 10 hours of staring at it's depths. Hope has me believing that 6 months from now all this will pay off.
In the mean time please check out www.puppysearch.ca It's the newest FREE pet classifieds online listing for North America.
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