Now this step is help you to building and developing your foundation, because this platform will be your basis for growing your own audience and promoting product to your audience. So called "home base" to establishing your authority and audience.
Why you need to create your platform?
- Control your brand: Don’t Let Third Party take your content
- Trust and Reputation: Perception is Reality
- Easiest path to success: The best place to sell
There are few step to get your platform done:
Step 1 - Build Your Brand
You have to decide which brand you want to build for your niche. There are 2 type of brand that you can build:
- Personal Brand (put yourself as a brand to review the product or program you are using, it's quite that audience will trust you because you are consumer too)
- Business Brand (Simple, put your platform as a business but it will quite hard to build a business brand compare to personal brand)
Step 2 - Get A Domain and Hosting
First get a domain for your own website, i will recommend using Namecheap which WA recommend and know what now WA can help to create domain as well.
Secondly, WA giving us free hosting so we no need to pay any for hosting.
This the easiest part as we all in Wealthy Affiliate family, so we can follow the tutorial that given by WA
Step 3 - Create Your Blog And Website
WA also provide a website platform which is Wordpress, in wordpress there are many themes that we can use to design our website.
Step 4 - Build Your List (from the start)
Collect many subscribers as you can via your website because they are audience that interested on your products and will pay for it.
Other than that, I have listed out several sources can build your platform:
- Wealthy Affiliate
- Namecheap.com
- Facebook fans page
- Youtube
- Elegent Theme (Beautiful theme)
- Aweber (email listing)
- GetResponse (email listing)
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