Blogging Tips – It Realley Takes 9 Minutes to Set Up A Business Blog

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A friend of mine, Gordon, has been very interested to set up his music website but did not know how to. He had been reading my articles here & on the Sunny August 30 he met me to find out if he can really set up his music business website in 30 minutes.

“30 Minutes”? I asked. “You could be making me well in 15 minutes”.

“Really? Well can you make that TEN?” he tempted. So began the race to set up his music business website in 10 minutes or less.

Here is the exact run time that took me to create a fantastic music business website for him. All that Gordon wanted his website to do were:

• help him brand
• help him link to his videos on YouTube
• help him display advertisements to make some early money
• let people contact him from his website
• help him display a series of his mp3 music
• sell MP3 & track his downloads
• have shopping carts & be able to process international currencies & secured shopping
• allow people to rate his music
• connect easily with other fans & musicians on social networking sites

That’s pretty basic & expect for a theme that he liked there is nothing new or different. But this race is not about being different. It is about setting Gordon up on his business & money making website in TEN minutes.

• First – He already had his domain name registered before – it took me about half a minute to redirect his website to another DNS where his new blog would be up & running.
• Second – Signed him up with a Reliable, Affordable Business Hosting from Bluehost.com Wordpress Hosting Service. They have a one-click Wordpress installation & works even if you have never heard of Wordpress.org before! Since I knew the guys at Blue, it took me about 4 minutes to process the new account, make a call to their help desk & set up a new blog on the latest Wordpress.
• Three – implement the theme. Since Gordon was interested in making some money with ads & also wanted to have a distinct theme, he downloaded the Quick Ads Multiple Ad theme from our collection of Business Themes for Wordpress. This took us less than 3 minutes to have the theme process & installed.
• Four – Signed him up in less than 1 minute with a email subscription management program. Now he can track his subscribers & promote his music business even through emails.
• Five – Signed up to let people Download & Buy his mp3 music. Gordon already has a good collection of his own mp3 music that is ready to go on sale. All he needed was an automatic setup to help him sell. I signed him up with the best affordable e-retailer e Junkie & they even take care of credit card payments! He can even have shopping carts integrated on his site & it took us less than 1 minute to have his set up!

And that’s less than 10 minutes! In less than 10 minutes Gordon is all set to start making money with his new music blog. A few things are still left to be done though.

1. Since this site will be selling music, Gordon will sign up with some of the top Shopping Ad Networks to compliment his website
2. He would also sign up with other top contextual advertising network programs to increase his earning from blog advertising
3. He would also need to budget for advertising his new music blog. There are some good references here & here

Gordon’s website is on its way. He now has to focus on content & marketing his website. But knowing that Gordon is a great musician himself & has some great musician friends to help him grow his online collection of music, I am sure in less than 3 months he would start making handsome money from his website.

I would post again on Gordon a couple of months down the line to let you know how his music business blog is faring. While working with him I did realize that there is a need for some good music business themes too.

My next project on Pro Media Blog as well as on Business Themes Blog would be to come up with some great ideas & a few themes for the people in the music business.