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I’m offering two different plans right now. All of these plans offer a variety of support or mentoring to help with establishing your website.

Getting Started
Contact me via this form and leave me with an email address and cell phone number. Once purchased, I will provide a class to help you get set up with your site, and a rundown of what you can do at your office in Taipei City or Taipei County. For additional help, I provide additional coaching on site management and setup as well as advice on how to develop your site for US$50.00 on site coaching.

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Two Plans for You!
Once payment is received, it will take about three to four days for everything to be completed. All plans payable on an annual basis ONLY.

Additional Features

I can help installing and making sure the PHP applications that you want to run are up and working. You can use this space to:

1. host your blog with WordPress or Textpattern or other choices
2. email accounts
3. homepages via HTML
4. photograph albums with Coppermine or Zenphoto.
5. your own online store with Zencart.
6. your own discussion forums with PHPBB2 or SMF forums.
7. your own online magazine/content with Joomla or another CMS system
8. you can create an online classroom environment with Moodle.org
9. your own Wiki!..

Each of these will come with its own database, management of which I will help with until you’re confident.

I’ve handled websites with clients for several years, so you can have a look at the client list (updated Feb. 1st, 2009).

• AgentsChat dot com*
• CraigFergusonImages dot com*
• NozKidz dot com
• InvestorBlogger dot com (my own one)
• Obblogatory dot com (mine, too).
• TaipeiTim…
• Obblogo: Hamlet Project
• Kuixing
  and others …

Payment Methods

Once you reach a decision, payment can be made in several ways:

* Paypal,
* Bank or Post Office transfer (only in Taiwan),
* NT$ check drawn on local bank,
* US$ check drawn on a US Bank,
* Cash in person (if you come to Taipei!)

Acceptable currencies are US$, Euros and New Taiwan Dollars (exch. US$1=NT$35 approx Feb 27th, 2009.)

Contact Me!

I will contact you within 24 hours. Before you consider purchasing any webhosting anywhere, you should note: Any activity/website hosted must agree to the terms and conditions of my own upline hosting company. Failure to abide by these terms may result in immediate termination of the agreement/contract without refund. I will supply a complete TOS to those who are interested.

Best Wishes
Kenneth

Are you considering having a blog to complement your existing website? Do you need help to get started with the whole blogging thing? If so, then this paper outlines the basic idea in section 1; the steps to implementing the program in section 2; and Notes, Disclaimers and Payment Details in section 3.

1. A BLOG: A natural traffic magnet

I think the best way to attract traffic to your website would be to use a blog as a blog has a natural advantage over a static site. In fact, a blog can attract traffic with quality posting as long as you have something to say of interest to people. Additionally, having a blog allows you to build traffic through RSS Feeds, comments, trackbacks and a whole host of online aggregators and web 2.0 media.

This would be the fastest approach to gaining traffic, though when I say fast it would be some months to build up a following. The blog would need an identifiable persona that can play off the notion of credit cards and build some fun into the whole process of searching, applying for and using credit cards. It is also a way to bring people BACK to the website… otherwise you may see traffic apply for cards and NEVER come back because they can’t find or don’t remember the website.

2. Steps to Implementation

1. First, Setting Up A Blog. I’d establish a blog (WordPress 2.3.2) with a bunch of themes, and a selection of plugins in a subdirectory of your main website. I’d set up a blog as integral part of your site, linked from an obvious place in the top of the bar and in a very similar ‘theme’ to the website. The blog of course would have links to the rest of the site as well.
2. Second, Metrics. I’d establish some metrics as a base from which to start. The metrics would help establish tracking and even help target customers to the offers in the other part of the site.
3. Third, Regular Posting. I’d start a regular posting schedule (You can buy content from any number of places or I can provide it). With some initial content, say 20 posts that are quality and not too long, I’d begin the next step.
4. Fourth, Publicity. I’d have the blog join all sorts of Web2.0 communities to gain friends/traffic, such as Technorati, and several other blog services. This would certainly help but it would require some weeks or even months of work. There are a number of other tips and tricks that can help to establish a blog that can drive traffic to your website.
5. Fifth, Capitalize on the Traffic. This is where your efforts on the website would pay off by capitalizing on the resultant traffic.

3. Developing your Property

I’d be happy to advise and help with each of the stages of the plan, but I can’t promise we will succeed. I do believe, having seen quite a few of these credit card sites, that developing an active and relevant blog will help to set apart your credit card application site, create traffic, and (I hope) conversions. I think we could measure success initially by measuring Alexa, RealRank, PageRank (that would be a challenge), and Technorati rankings.

Disclaimers and Strengths

I should let you know though that I’m not an expert in many areas. I know very little about SEO, though I’d be a willing learner; I don’t know much about American credit card for consumers, simply because I don’t have access to that information yet, though I will learn that knowledge; and I’m not really a programmer/coder. I can help point you in the right direction for plugins, themes, CSS, etc. but these are NOT my specialities. My expertise comes in the writing part and the management part of blogging as you can see from InvestorBlogger dot com, which has been active since 2004 in various guises.

Payment and Cancellation

The other issue is payment: I think the best way would be to charge you on an hourly basis of $50.00 per hour for work undertaken. Each time I work on the site, I’d complete a log with time and task details on Google Docs and share that document with you so you can check what’s going on. We could set a minimum/maximum number of hours of work each month. Payment would be made for the minimum at the beginning of the month, with any excess hours paid at the beginning of the second month, in addition to the minimum amount.

Example: Payment scheme

March – Minimum 5 hours @ $50.00 = $250.00 but I actually work 7 hours.

April – Minimum 5 hours + excess hours for March (2 hours) or $350.00.

Then I work 10 hours in April.

May – We cancel the agreement, so you would only pay the excess five hours
from April or $250.00.

We could simply negotiate a contract from month to month. In the event that you cancel the contract for a subsequent month (preferably before the last day in the preceding month), then payment would be for the remaining excess hours.

Conclusion

Obviously you have to decide if this is a route you want to take, whether it is worth spending so much money on your website, and what metrics you will need to use to evaluate success or failure. I do believe it’s viable to do this, but it might not be successful.