Can you run a Plug-In Profit Site on a Budget

Today I am going to talk about running the Plug-In Profit Site on a budget.

I have seen many posts in the Plug-In Profit forum that say things like "I've spend thousands of dollars and haven't made a dime" or "I've been doing this for 2 months, spent all my money and I'm going to quit!

Spending money doesn't equate to success and I actually recommend holding back on spending any money on marketing until you have done a bit of learning and understand things a little better.

The minimum cost of running a Plug-In Profit Site is $24.95 per month for web hosting and $15 per year for your domain name. If you don't have this money to spend, then the Plug-In Profit site is not for you.

If your marketing budget is zero then I recommend the following plan of action:

ZERO BUDGET - PLAN OF ACTION

One Time Tasks:
(1) Choose some keywords for your website and include these keywords on your home page. You will need to learn a little bit of HTML and a little bit about SEO. You can sign up for my free SEO Email Course here and download my free SEO Guide for the Plug-In Profit Site here.

(2) Create an account with a free service such as OnlyWire and register with all the social bookmarking sites (should take 2hrs and you only need to do it once).

(3) Start a blog on Blogger and transfer it to your website using these instructions. If you are technically minded set up a Wordpress blog on your site instead.

Regular Weekly Tasks:

(1) Write two short articles per week. The article should be 400-500 words long and should be on the topic of home business, making money, working from home. Add an author resource box at the end of the article that includes a link to your website and your blog. If you can't manage 2 articles, do 1 instead.

(2) Submit each of your articles to article directories (search Google for "article directories" to find these). This will get you links to your site (helps your search engine rank) and potentially some visitors who read your article and follow the link to your website.

(3) Write 2-3 short blog posts per week. They can be around 100-300 words. If you don't have a blog start one at http://www.blogger.com/

(4) Use the social bookmarking tool mentioned above (OnlyWire) to bookmark each blog post after you have made it. This will get you some links to your blog post (backlinks) and may get you a surge of traffic if your post was interesting.

This is a simple plan and should only take you around 1 hour per day, or 6-7 hours per week. It costs absolutely nothing and if you continue to follow this plan for a few months you will see your traffic grow.

The important thing is to be persistent and focused. Don't start doing any other marketing until you have completed these tasks each week.