Firstly, let me wish all of you a prosperous 2010.

Looking back on the year just gone, isn’t it just amazing how fast the time goes? I cannot believe that it’s been around 2 months since I first put Internet Business DiY up on the Web. I also recognise that I haven’t added any content to it either since then…..so what have I been doing?

Well, after I put the website up I thought that I would start to write some content. I was very attuned to the fact that I did not want to put up rubbish content as I really did not want people reading my words to categorise me that same as I have categorised a lot of other people on the internet that speak about internet business. Most certainly, I did not want my website to look like something that I had just chucked up on the net and hadn’t paid too much attention to.

With this in mind I started to pay more attention to what I wanted to achieve and what I wanted to share with others. It is important to me to help people get their businesses up and running with more than one choice available to them and that the information that I provide is not missing major sections. To this end, I started to commit more thought as to how I could accomplish this without letting people down.

As I was thinking and planning everything down to the last minute detail, my future wife asked me when my “perfect” would ever be “good enough”. I paused and thought back to when I first put the website up. I had all this knowledge to pass on to people and help them and I was trying to get it perfect. But perfect to me and my perfect would never be good enough to me. I took a step back and saw that it was this strive for perfection that was holding me back from sharing the information that I already had and some that I am still learning.

After a new Mister Man was created on my personality; Mr. Exactly, I decided that I had waited long enough, thought hard enough and that what I had to share was indeed good enough.

So to get things off to a good start for 2010, I have decided to cover two of the aspects that people tend to concentrate on when thinking about starting an internet home business. These two areas are “Creating a Website or Blog” and “Making an eBook”. Let’s look a bit closer at these two subjects and what’s in store.

Write & Create Your Own eBook

When people look to create their own product they may get directed, or start to think about creating their own eBook. Writing an eBook is a great way to share your knowledge & ideas and although they have been around for years and been written on hundreds of thousands of subjects, they are still going strong and it is a very good place to start.

With the introduction of Kindle’s and other electronic book readers, it has never been easier for people to carry around their favourite books to read on the go. Whether you intend to write a book simply to satisfy a long-term itch, you intend to use it to market your new business or you intend to sell it for profit, this 9 week project will have you creating your vision confidently.

We will be looking at some of the tools that you can use to get started writing and explore some of the options to create a portable electronic version of your book.

I really hope that you will find this not only an exciting adventure, but also both a challenge and a rewarding experience.

Quickstart WordPress

Creating a website has never been an easy task for many and even today some people still shudder over the thought of creating one. Blogs on the other hand are extremely popular and it would appear that a large number of people are adept at starting a blog. I even know of someone’s granny who has started a blog at the ripe old age of 86!

The good news is that blogging platforms are now so versatile and powerful that they can be used to create websites, almost with ease. So if you want to start a blog you can and if you want to create a more functional website or storefront, you can. Almost all of the tutorials about starting an internet business online, concentrate on setting up a website and signing up for affiliate programs. The first thing they have you do is to sign-up for a web hosting account, then set up a website and finally market your affiliate products.

This is great if this the area that you wish to enter into and there are extremely good profits to be made, but what about learning? By signing up for a webhost account and putting your site live without “playing around” leaves you high and dry in both the familiarity and knowledge departments. If you choose to get familiar with adding content and configuring your new website, you face the chance of messing it up or totally breaking it bringing your site crashing down. It’s common knowledge that no site equals no money when you’re in the internet business business!

In this forthcoming tutorial, we will look at setting up one of the most popular content management systems around – WordPress – without the need to spend a penny. You will get familiar with setting up the software, configuring WordPress, creating and managing content and of course backing up your new website in case disaster hits.

When you finish, you will have a good basic working knowledge of WordPress and be confident in using it, have a test setup where you can try things and get them right before uploading to your website and have a development platform that you can use to build your perfect website or blog.

Build Your Internet Business Knowledge

I am really looking forward to starting and hope that you will come and join me next week and start your journey to building your internet business knowledge, your website and your own eBook.

Of course for both of these projects we will stick to one of Internet Business DiY’s key aspects of “Low Cost and Effective” and keep the cost of producing both the eBook and a website development platform to a minimum. In fact, if you already own a PC you will have to spend exactly nothing, nada!

Until next week…