BustinLooseMedia.com: Our new Parent Company!

After all of these years, I have finally decided to try and get paid a little bit for my work, what a concept, right? Now that I have several sites, many dedicated to website design, or promotion, I thought it would be a good time to pull it all together, under one umbrella, so to speak, so, I built another site, and this is the one that my business will be named from, BustinLooseMedia.com.

Where did I get that name, you might ask? Well, it is actually simple, the people that I most often help, are, or were, at one time, small business owners that had no concept of how they could utilize the Internet as another tool, just like a business card or newspaper ad. My goal is to help them Bust Loose from the old, and get into the new! Back when I got started, someone building a website was paid well, like $2,500 for a basic simple static html website, one with more than just a few pages that is. Times have changed, now, you can build a basic static html site, using WYSIWYG and paying a few bucks a month for hosting, but it is very limited as to what you can do.

Now that WordPress has developed into a full CMS tool, the possibilities are only limited by your imagination, and of course, your time, that is where I come in. WildWebDesigner.com builds the sites, and so on. TrafficComplex.com does the traffic promotion, and all of my other sites have the potential for generating revenue with ad space. I have one site, dedicated to the area where I live, the purpose there is to bring businesses that service our area together with those needing their services or products. I know, that sounds a bit like reinventing the wheel, but, it is not, because here in Burleson County, those without computers outnumber those with, but that is changing, so, through BurlesonCountyBusiness.com,  and BustinLooseMedia.com, I am going to Bust this place out of the old and into the new.

Monetizing your Website: How do I choose an Affiliate Program?

Monetizing your site is a matter of preference in my opinion. There are so many different “offers” out there, choosing what works for you is a personal matter. Myself, I hate ads on a website and nothing is uglier than having Google ads splattered all over the place! If you use Google AdSense, they pretty much own that space on your website and they even dictate how you can promote your site, and how many page views is too many and so on. Here is my philosophy on this.

I will only advertise products that I use, and/or that I believe in. There are many different Affiliate Programs out there, and yes, you can sign up with all of them if you want, and to find the products that you use or want to promote, you may have to join multiple programs. One thing to remember is that many people, including me, use ad blocking software, so make sure that you use both text and image links, the text links won’t get blocked.

How do you find them? Well, I could list a few here, but I won’t, why? Because I believe that just signing up with these programs does you no good if you don’t know where to find the product you wish to promote, so, go to the website of that product or company and look for a link that says “Affiliate” or something close, click that link and it will set you up, but be forewarned, many advertisers are picky and may not approve you! I am still waiting on approval from a couple of them now, wish me luck!

Also, remember, when promoting these ads, if you use a traffic exchange, do not put pages that contain ads in your surf rotation, these could be considered a bad thing and get you kicked out, I know Google will drop you in a hurry! So, always be careful!

Now, I am going to list the products that I am affiliated with, yes, if you click the link and purchase something, I will get paid a buck or two, thanks in advance! As I stated before, these are products that I believe in and/or use myself, so I know they are good companies.

The first one, is by far the most important of them all, if you have a computer, and surf the Internet, you need a good anti-virus program! I have used several, and believe me, they are not all the same!
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Second,if you don’t have a Web Host yet, I use Hostmonster, I have been with them almost a year now, and switched from Yahoo. Yahoo is great for a starter, but it is not good for using WordPress, there are way to many restrictions on file types that you can upload, so, you are limited on what you can do with your site. Yes, this is an affiliate link, and yes, if you signup with Hostmonster I will get paid a few bucks, here is the deal, I will deduct what Hostmonster pays me, if you register your domain with them and hire me to build your site! Is that fair or what?

Maybe you never heard of Hostmonster, they are the same folks as Bluehost , if you prefer, check them out, as far as I know, the only difference is the name.

Take a look at Hostmonster You can even Demo the control panel and see how it works, I have never been so happy as with Hostmonster If I need support, I get a human on the phone quick, and they speak english, I love it!

Just in case you have never heard of TigerDirect.com, below is a banner that will take you there. TigerDirect.com is where I buy everything I may need for my computer, like hard to find stuff for older machines, and they have saved me a lot of money over the years. I have hunted all over the Internet for better prices, but there are none and the service is fantastic, my orders have been shipped and delivered as fast or faster than anything I have ever ordered online, this is definitely a company that I use and trust!

Just in case you need business cards, a very useful tool to promote your website, I use Overnight Prints for mine, they are the best I found on the web, as far as quality and price, you can’t beat them!

I hope that this information is helpful, if you need any of these products, check them out, I know you won’t be disappointed and maybe I’ll make a buck or two!

Recent Projects: The Fellwock Real Estate Group

This is a site that I did about a year and a half ago, it is a static Html site, that I also maintain and update the listings. After building this site, WordPress became a viable CMS Platform, so now, I am working on building a theme that will match this as closely as possible, as these are the colors and the layout that this company wants, that theme is a work in progress, but it is getting there. I hope to have that done in the next weeks, it wont be exact, but it will be close, and you will be able to see the flexibility of WordPress. Take a look at the site here, FellwockRealEstate.com. Post a comment and tell me what you think.