
Interview By: Jeremy Gislason Interview Date: 26-May-05
Q. What made you decide to start a website in the Native American field?
A. I am working with a mentoring program that showed me the importance of finding a niche market.
Q. What kind of research went into this niche area before building your website?
A. I spent several hours searching keywords on Word Tracker and Overture. Then did searches on Google to determine what other sites were out there.
Q. How did you design and build your website?
A. Software supplied by the mentoring program. The plus was that the site was up in a few hours. The downside was that in order to maintain it, I had to teach myself a lot of html and understand how the whole site functioned. This was a good learning experience but very stressful.
Q. What software do you use to run your business?
A. I use Frontpage HTML editor, an FTP program, Get Response auto responder and have added code for Google Adsense, Amazon.com and tracking counters.
Q. How does your website generate income?
A. At the moment Affiliate products, I do intend to generate my own products.
Q. How do you collect payments for your products or services?
A. Clickbank and Paypal
Q. What promotion methods do you use?
A. I have purchased opt-in leads from Get Subscribers, placed ads in ezines and write 10 blogs.
Q. Which method has proven to give you the best sales results?
A. The jury is still out. The opt-in leads have been slow but productive. The blogs are consistent.
Q. Which method of traffic generation has proven to be the best for you?
A. At the moment the blogs.
Q. What is your biggest challenge each month?
A. Creating new content for 10 sites and 10 blogs.
Q. What's the biggest mistake you've made since starting your business?
A. Not believing in my own abilities and paying huge costs for mentoring.
Q. How has your lifestyle changed since you started your online business?
A. No significant changes yet - although working from home beats the 9-5 rat race.
Q. How has your SureFireWealth.com membership helped you with your online business?
A. SureFireWealth.com has provided information, software and knowledge to help me understand the online possibilities.
Q. What would you say to someone looking to start a website in the same niche as you?
A. Go for it. We are only limited by our own doubts and inertia.
------------------- Thanks Sherry!
Warm Regards, Jeremy Gislason Webmaster SureFireWealth.com
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