How To Start A Website and Get Lots of Traffic To It

How To Start A Website and Get Lots of Traffic To It
By Vince Stead Platinum Quality Author

You can start your own business, and make good money with your own website, if you do it right. It's not as easy as getting your website built, and then submitting it to the search engines and then bam, you have a million customers at your website buying stuff! If it was that easy, everyone would be doing it! The good news is, if you target your customers just right, and have a nice looking, functional, and shopping cart friendly, easy to navigate website, you should have a good chance at making good sales.

You would want to submit your website to all the free search engines, especially the big ones like yahoo, Google, MSN, AOL and more. There are tons of smaller, less heard of, search engines you can submit to also. Google wasn't always as big as it is today. You will need Meta tags somewhere in your website to be able to get picked up by the search engines, so that is very important for spiders, as they are called, to find you. Some smaller, cheap rate website builders, do not offer this sometimes, so be sure to ask, or you could be wasting lots of money.

If your website sells golf items for instance, you might want to do some advertising in golf magazines for your website. You would also want to join the latest craze of sponsored advertising threw the major search engines, they show the free searches, and then they have other places close by that show the sponsored searches along them that you pay for. You pay a certain amount for click threw, and pick out keywords that people use to type in there own searches when they are searching on the internet for something. You want to use keywords that you think they might type in, to look for something.

When someone does a search with the keywords you picked out, your site pops up, along side other sites. If someone clicks on your site, you get charged a certain amount of money, this is really good advertising and the search engines have been making a lot of money off of this type of advertising instead of just the free search engine results.

Everybody is jumping on the bandwagon. It's a good way to get people to your site that are looking for items you have to sell, you have to monitor your keywords and make sure you are getting your monies worth. The same thing holds true for getting customers to your website threw magazine ads. If you sell motorcycle items, you should advertise in motorcycle magazines to get motorcycle riders to come to your website.

A tennis magazine will probably not pull as many sales as a motorcycle magazine, so don't just advertise anywhere, think about it first. You will need a merchant acceptance account to accept credit cards, there are lots of sites that offer this, and you can do a free search online and see lots of them to pick from. There are some free sites like PayPal.com that might fit your needs, but it's best to have a professional account with each card you take on your website.

Vince Stead has written 11 books so far. You can find his books at places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and http://www.vincestead.com

You can also get most all of my books as digital downloads for only $2.99!

How We Bought A New Home From the Builder With No Money Down, and Also Got A Check From Them!

How We Bought A New Home From the Builder With No Money Down, and Also Got A Check From Them!
By Vince Stead Platinum Quality Author

I can actually say that it can be done. We bought a brand new home from Beazer Homes, and it was just at the end of the real estate boom, and we were pretty sure they were trying to get rid of the last houses in that phase. This was our 4th home we were buying.

This is how we got a brand new construction house with no money down, and we even got a check in the mail for a little over $1,100 from the builder, before we ever paid out one penny!

When we got the home, it went by your credit and your stated income. They did not require any down payment, so we figured we could not lose, since we did not have anything into this last house we got. The others we put down payments on.

The builder also had at the time, a sales thing where they said they were giving $15,000 in upgrades. They paid someone to put in a nice yard with some trees, and they also put in a brand new really nice washer and dryer set. But since they did not spend all of the $15,000 in incentives we got with the house, they only spent about $13,900 or so, and they sent us a check in the mail for the other $1,100. And then I can honestly say that we bought a brand new construction house with no money down, and we got a check in the mail also! that was pretty cool.

As a side note, phase 2 that started behind our sold out phase, has a price of over $100,000 less, so we knew why the builder was unloading them kinda. We still have it and rent it out using a property management company, and hopefully the price will go back up someday!

Vince Stead has written 10 books so far.

You can find his books at places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even his own website at http://www.vincestead.com

You can also get most all of my books as digital downloads for only $2.99!

How to Start Your Own 99 Cent Store or Dollar Store

How to Start Your Own 99 Cent Store or Dollar Store
By Vince Stead Platinum Quality Author

If you want to start your own.99 cent store, or dollar store, I can help you out here.

I used to own (2) 99 cent stores in the San Diego area. I had the first one opened in North County in 1990, before most people knew what they were. When I got out of the navy, I was at a swap meet in San Diego, and there was a guy selling stuff, and he was yelling to the people walking by, everything for $1, and he had lots of people buying stuff.

I knew I wanted to get into that business. I drove to Los Angles and drove around, and found a place to buy stuff. This was before the internet was on everyone's desktop.

I came to the conclusion that you make 40 cents on the dollar, in the dollar store business. We used to sell food, toys, cleaning products, jewelry, sunglasses, and so on. I'm sure the bigger chains with super buying power gets even a bigger discount on items. We had 2 products private labeled with our store name on it. I paid.65 cents for each bottle from Hocking International years ago. I had 2,400 bottles of glass cleaner, and 2,400 bottles of green dish soap, made up with my own name on the label, and that was pretty neat, just like all these books I write right now, pretty fun stuff to me.

All the major cities have hubs that you can get products from. Los Angles, Chicago, Miami, New York. If you go to Vernon California, which is a warehouse district in the LA area, you can drive around, and see so many dollar warehouses. They usually paint pictures of the products on the outside of their buildings. Lots of buildings have giant warehouses, with lots of truck roll up door parking.

You would wan to to a search for ASD/AMD trade shows. Lots of close out, liquidation, over stock, discount brands, overseas suppliers, and plenty of dollar store merchandise dealers, are their for your convenience. If you attend just one trade show, you will know where to get everything to open your very own dollar store.

I wrote a book about how to start over 101 businesses. I have listed many of the major suppliers that have been in business for years.

Vince Stead has written 10 books so far. He has worked for himself for the last 20 years, and lives in San Diego.
You can find his books at places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even his own website at http://www.vincestead.com

You can also get most all of my books as digital downloads for only $2.99!

How to Properly Grind Down a Tree Stump With a Stump Grinding Machine

How to Properly Grind Down a Tree Stump With a Stump Grinding Machine
By Vince Stead Platinum Quality Author

How to properly grind down a tree stump the right way with a stump grinding machine. There are several sizes of stump grinding machines, from the smaller units that you can fit onto your back, and carry up a slope or hill, and grind down medium to small size tree stumps. And then there are medium size stump grinders, that you can generally rent from your local rental yard store. Then their are bigger size machines, that need more room, and usually charge more, but can do them faster. You also have giant size machines that can blow you away, if you can find a clip on YouTube or cable television.

We will assume you are going to do it yourself, and you rent a standard size 13hp stump grinding machine. The front of the machine has a blade almost like a circular saw, but with carbide teeth. These teeth are very hard, and if you want to grind them down yourself, you need a green grinding wheel to do that.

The one of the biggest hazards of stump grinding, is one of the teeth can fly out, and I own 2 stump grinding machines, with a small part time stump grinding business in San Diego. And I have saw what a stump grinding tooth can do when it comes out. The guard over my machine, is metal, and the strait tooth shot right threw the metal, and it was a perfect square, with protruding metal, just like a bullet hole. So you have to make sure the teeth are totally tight. Check for any loose teeth, and best to tighten each one, especially if it is a rental, the guy at the shop might not be the brightest light in the shed, so take it open yourself, the teeth coming out is the most dangerous thing just about.

The 2nd most challenging thing is small rocks. if your stump is in dirt that has small rocks, your best to try and dig out as many as you can, before you start. You would want to put up plywood walls around your work area, so no rocks or small chips fly out, especially if you are working around windows or delicate items.

Most cities have a telephone number that you can call if you want to dig in your yard. Most stump grinding usually goes down about 6 inches below the grade, so you can put in your concrete, sod, new grass, mulch, new yard, or whatever, and the machines can go down deeper than that, but the more deeper, the more harder to control the machine.

Once you have the machine in front of the stump, set the blade up on the stump, and then make sure the wheel is off the stump, and start the machine, each machine will be different, some will be self propelled, some with brakes, some with different things. One stump grinding machine I have is for going up close to the house or fence, and getting it to the side, without hitting things.

Stump grinding is hard work. You will sweat if you have a pretty good size stump. It's also fun to stump grind. You just have to slowly slide the machine back and forth, over the stump, and slowly start watching the stump turn to butter from the machine. It will shoot out your side discharge, and pile up.

Depending on what type of tree it is, hardwood or softwood, and how sharp the teeth were from the store you rented the machine from. In San Diego, the average price to rent a machine is roughly $125. We grind average size tree stumps for this price, and the home owner does not have to go and rent the machine, pick it up and bring it home, about 250 pounds for an average 13hp machine, and then you still have to do the work, and hope something does not go wrong with the machine, because they are just like a Harley Davidson, they vibrate and things come loose, because stump grinding is a tough job, some stumps just don't want to come out sometimes, and you end up swearing at the thing, and sweating your ass off, and you get the job done.

So thinking you are saving money by renting a machine for $125 and doing it yourself, you might want to think again. We are loaded and ready to go pretty quick most of the time. If a contractor is putting in a new fence, or sidewalk, he usually can't do it with stumps in the way, and needs it done quick, but we charge the price of renting a machine, and since we are cheaper than anyone we believe, and will beat any price, if they just ask us, or offer us a price to do a certain job, I don't usually say no, and veterans get a better deal, 10% off.

You can see what an average stump grinder looks like at Discount Stump Grinding.

The mulch and saw dust you have afterwords, is great for the yard, is biodegradable, and if mixed properly, is great soil amendment, and looks great around bushes and shrubs. A stump will usually make about 3 times the size of mulch or sawdust, so you will get a lot.

Vince Stead has written 10 books so far.
You can find his books at places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even his own website at http://www.vincestead.com

You can get every one of his books as a book at regular price, and you also get them as digital downloads for only $2.99 each.

You can also get most all of my books as digital downloads for only $2.99!

How Our Trip to the Hearst Castle Tour Went

We had a pretty good time at the weekend getaway we took to Hearst Castle.

We stayed at a small motel just several miles from the large estate with the giant castle on top. We were virtually out in the middle of nowhere, and it ended up being one of the best little getaways we ever had, we even caught up on some much deserved rest!

The trip to Hearst Castle was very impressive, I must admit. I knew very little about the man and the castle, and they clear that up right away, when you watch a short movie about the man and the castle, and it immediately becomes very very interesting!

You park at the bottom of the mountain, and you take buses up to the top. Our bus driver must have been a race car driver in his earlier days, and the winding steep road is trip all by itself! My wife loved it!

The castle is beautiful and just very impressive. The castle is broken up into several tours, and you have to buy each one. We really enjoyed our weekend getaway, for just the two of us.

I don't know what I was think, but several months later, we wanted to go back to Hearst Castle and take a different tour, but this time we brought 2 of the kids with us, to show them the castle and tour. We went on day that was a holiday, and after driving for over 400 miles, we went the next day, and I did not ever think the tours would be sold out, but when we got their, all tours were sold out, and we wasted so much time, it never dawned on me the tour would be sold out, it was not a hotel, just a tour. It is a public state park now, and the state or government runs it, and I still want to go back again, just don't have the time. You will really enjoy the park, just make sure you get tickets ahead of time, especially if you are driving from far away!

Vince Stead has written 10 books so far.

You can find his books at places like Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and even his own website at http://www.vincestead.com

You can get every one of his books as a book at regular price, and you also get them as digital downloads for only $2.99 each.

You can also get most all of my books as digital downloads for only $2.99!