OKAY, by now you’ve done the following:

1. You’ve created some written goals,
2. You’ve found a REAL way to put some building money in your pocket,
3. You’ve found an active niche,
4. You’ve narrowed that niche down to one you can dominate,
5. You’ve found a keyword laden domain name,
6. You’ve spied on your competition,
7. You’ve written at least 30 good original articles,
8. You’ve found a good suitable product for your niche,
9. You’ve set up your main site,
10. You’ve set up your Blogger blog,
11. You’ve set up your sales site,
12. You’ve set up your Squidoo lens,
13. AND…you made at least 2 videos!

WHEW!  That’s a good job, well done!

BUT, don’t break your arm patting yourself on the back just yet!

NOW’S the time to run through EVERY LINK, on EVERY PAGE, in all three of your sites.  You need to be SURE that when your visitors click on a link, they’re taken to the place YOU want them to go.  Obviously, you need to make sure your order links work.  Get someone else to go through the process and actually BUY your product to see if you end up with the money or the credit for the sale.  Sign up for your own newsletter to make sure it works.

This is the test run before big race day.  Check EVERYTHING! If it doesn’t work right, now’s the time to fix it. Get a friend, who’s not been involved in the process to go through the whole process and tell you how easy, or hard, it was for them.

This will give you a  “visitor’s eye-view” of the entire process.  Does it seem simple, or will they get lost in the process?  All you’re doing here is trying to avoid stupid mistakes.

NOW, you’re ready to take your foot off the brake and put the pedal to the metal!

Submit your articles to the “Big Four” article directories.  DON’T submit all 10 articles to every directory at the same time!  Instead, submit 1 different article to each one, wait a bit and then submit another one.  If you submit a bunch of articles on one topic, you may be rejected for article “spamming”.  Be smart!  Get one good article on each of the directories the first day and THEN submit another!

Go ahead and post your video “commercial(s)” to the video directories you’ve chosen to work with. You CAN submit to as many as you want in this case!

Make sure your Squidoo lens is all polished up and looking good.

You NOW have all your tools working for you, but that ain’t all!

Go back into your niche and look for forums, blogs, guest books, anything that allows visitor feedback.  READ THEM!  Make some USEFUL, and I AM stressing USEFUL here, comments on them.  Answer questions. Introduce yourself. Ask questions.  Become a part of the community.  Every time you post, you add a signature line that includes a link to your main site. DON’T try to do this all in ONE day, but you CAN get started at it.

If you have a mailing list from another topic, let them know about your new site.  Nothing pushy or sales oriented, just tell them you just opened a new site and you’d like to see what they think of it.

If you don’t have a list, let your friends know about it and ask them for their honest feedback.

If you have a MySpace or FaceBook or any other social site account, post a link to your new site on there as well.

Write a quick news story for PRWeb.com.  They have a GREAT template there that will walk you right through how to easily get one written and published.  You can do this for FREE.  They do have a paid version that gets out more quickly, but that’s up to you!

All you’re doing here is getting momentum going for you.  Any other ways that you can think of to get the word out about your new site, as long as it’s NOT spamming, are only going to help get that momentum started.

NOW you can pat yourself on the back!

You HAVE to know that you probably won’t get hundreds of visitors as soon as you open the floodgates!  Momentum takes some time.  If you think back to our apple pie recipe, you’ll know that you have to pre-heat the oven before ANYTHING will bake.

THAT’S what phase you’re in right now, pre-heating the oven.

This is a GREAT time to get started on your next site while everything’s fresh and clear in your mind and while you’re all pumped from finishing your first one.

You can read more about that in the “RINSE AND REPEAT” chapter.

For now, think about what all you’ve accomplished, a WHOLE LOT more than the average person who throws up a site and sits back waiting to be covered up with money!

Think about the process you just went through and how you can speed it up the next time.  Think about what slowed you down the most and figure out how to do it better and more quickly.

GOOD JOB!

There are just a few little things left to do, don’t worry, they’re painless!