Now for the BIG question, why blog? What reason do you have to start a blog, and more importantly how would a blog help you? This is what I want to talk about today, but first I want to read to you the dictionary definition of the word "blog".

What is affiliate marketing and how does it work? In a nutshell, you promote a service or product and get a commission from anyone who purchases it, through your unique affiliate link. But it's more than that!

Here's 21 website myths that you should know about, and how to overcome them. All too often, people have these walls that prevent them from starting a website, and I'm here to break down these walls and reveal some website myths.

Learn the top 10 ways to promote your website, whether it's a blog, web store, portfolio or company website. Promoting your website once it's up can be very challenging, and is what most business or website owners fail at. It's pretty easy to get a website up, but it's another thing to promote and market your content effectively.

Let's find out how to make money online and dive into different topics such as email marketing, affiliate marketing, and other ways to monetize on the web. This is a brief intro on how to make money online, with resources to help you achieve your goals in monetizing your website.

Today, my guest speaker is Graphic Designer Stephen Anadon and he gives us some insight on how to redesign a website through a graphic designer's perspective. We discuss his transition from being strictly graphics to more of an interactive role and how redesigning his website helps him understand and improve on responsive design as well as focusing more on mobile. Also, we discuss how much a redesign will cost you, and how long it could take for you to have one done.

This week I dive into "making time for your business or personal website, and tackling some issues that end up preventing us from achieving our main goals. I talk about identifying what's "really" important to building your brand, versus what's just in the way or fluff talk. Doing what you need to do in the shortest amount of time is ideal, and wasting time trying to multi-task and dong many things at once can be wasteful. I also mention some resources you can check out to help you in your journey to freeing up more time for your business while still getting things done the right way.

In this episode 004, I talk about 5 different types of websites you could potentially make. This round I break down these website ideas so that you could get a better understanding of the possibilities, and hopefully spark some other ideas as well.

In this episode 003, I discuss with you about owning your own content v.s. renting it. And long story short, when you use "Free Website Builders" out there that offer you free hosting and a subdomain, you are running the risk of not having much control over your website and content. Basically, you are limited because its "free" and under their terms they have the right to do whatever they want with your website, including deleting it.

blog-markammay-podcastThis first podcast episode is an introduction and what to expect in future podcast episodes. I explain that I plan on making each podcast episode at least 30 minutes long (when appropriate), and that I want to structure it with more content vs. fluff or small talk.