Holly Mann Gave Me The Idea

After reading Honest Riches about one and a half years ago, I was inspired to have a website of my own. At that time, my mind was all about making money online. So came Wealthy Freelancer, my first website. It was a get-wealthy-ideas website. I wrote quite a number of articles for it and most of them I put in my current one.

But the thing of get-wealthy-ideas, they run out. Soon, I have no ideas to write about. Well actually I have a number of ideas but only one for every topic. For a website to be successful there must be a lot of content in one topic. Well, that coupled with my pretty sensitive condition (pregnancy) made me quit the site. Temporarily at first then decided would be for good.

About one year after giving birth, I needed to do something again to make sense of who I am. And being homebound, I have to resort to the internet again as there is no channel for me to do that.

As I read through Holly Mann’s new version of Honest Riches, it occurred to me how she repeatedly pointed out to writing articles as a way to increase exposure to your website. More URLs from other websites mean more outside links. Writing articles can be profitable too in writing product reviews or just a way to promote your affiliate products. One thing that you should watch out though is the strict rules set by magazine or ezine sites. One must follow rules like no affiliate links, no promotions, and no URLs allowed.

Then the light bulb turned on in my head. Having my own ezine can help me express myself and promote whatever product I want with no restrictions. I am the ezine; I set the rules. Then I told myself, I would also do the same to anyone who wants to submit articles on my site. It would be a free exchange of ideas, a total marketplace.

But starting an ezine is not that easy, as chronicled by the posts I wrote here in Hollymannia. It is a special program and not everyone can do it. I contacted web design sites, one of which I previously used, and got a reply that they don’t do such websites. So from the start, it was a rough road to take.

An ezine thrives in content as it is an ezine, supposedly a pot of articles, ideas, and what-name-you. Content is king and it is hard to build up content. It will really take time. Maybe it will take a year or so before it can finally take off. That means I have to wait, be patient. No, money would not come easily.

It is hard for an ezine to be indexed by search engines because it is not concentrated in one topic. It is not a niche. Too many keywords, too much supply out there. An ezine can go to different directions and would have a slim chance of making it to the top because of the multiplicity of content. I also checked the competition and there were just too many out there. One of the possible ones already left a comment to this blog when I introduced the site. Had it not been to my firm decision that this is the right website for me, then I would have already given it up.

I have more commitment to sticking to this website than in my previous one. I definitely would make it work no matter what. I’m so determined that even I can’t believe it. All I can say is “Wow!”

Please visit my website at WowEzine.com.

My Website Name

Before choosing Wow as a name to my website, I really searched my soul and searched online to see if there is already a concept like it. Well, I've seen women on the web for a group of women in San Francisco and there is another one which is a pro-choice. Actually there is an ezine I saw which is called wow articles. The reason I saw it was because one programmer who bid on my project asked me if I would like a website like that so he could clone it. That's when it struck me, wow is a good name for a website but I have to take it to the next level. Let wow stand for something, make it an acronym. That's when Women on the Web came to my mind.

No, I didn't hire that programmer because I wanted a website that is unique. Something that is from scratch, not cloned, not syndicated.

Furthermore, I have never heard of, nor ever thought that W.O.W would be Women on Writing.

I got this comment from my previous post (which was yesterday) from someone from that website. All I can say is that it is my very first time to see your ezine. Never heard of it and it never turned up in the search engines. My website is women on the web, not on writing as I know my members would not be writers.

No one has a monopoly on the word "wow" as it is a very general term. But yes, I felt bad that there is another magazine of the same name. I have always strived to be unique and would not be proud of anything copied. I have never plagiarized and as you can see, I would only publish original articles on my website. My programmer suggested RSS feed but I would never even go to that.

All I can say is the world is too big for our trails to meet. I can't even believe you found my blog. I honestly hope success for you ,and if you already got it, then more success your way.

Introducing Wow Ezine

Wow Ezine is networking magazine for women on the web. And there's no better way to describe it than the way it is described in the About Page in the site.

Wow Ezine is a fresh new website and a very young community of women working on the web. Owing to its name “wow” – an expression of stunned admiration, we only want to publish original articles with quality content and “wow” factor.
Wow Ezine is created for women by women and currently has an open membership. It operates in three ways:

Share it! Do you have an idea that you want to share? Perhaps you have an experience that you think other people would relate to. Maybe you have a knack for writing and you need a channel to show off your talent. Or you simply want to voice your opinion over something. Big or small, mundane or magnanimous, it has a place here.

Sell it! Do you have your own business? Do you own a website? Are you an infopreneur? Wow Ezine is a terrific site to gain exposure for your website, advertise your online enterprise, or promote your cool ideas. Wow Ezine is a free marketplace.

Support it! Giving back makes a fulfilling life. The more you give, the more you get. We encourage members to look up what others are sharing or selling. We are a community and we build it by supporting one another. Wow Ezine is a place to network and build relationships.

Hope readers of this blog would check out and join WowEzine.com.

Website Coming Soon

I remember Christmas day on the way to Christmas dinner at the Hyatt, we drove onby the highway and I looked over the horizon, the vastness of Tampa Bay meeting the endless skies before us. My daughter was strapped at the back of the car and my husband is listening to "Sweet Melissa" on the radio. It was a quiet time. And all I could think of was my website. I thought of what it is going to be like, what it should read in the main page, what colors, what pictures. It was Christmas day and in a week's time, new year. Lots of hopes for a brighter year. Who knows what dreams would come true in 2008?

Yes, I'm feeing nostalgic right now. I just talked to the programmer at Scriptlance and he was doing a great job --modifications, additions, and deletions-- in my site. I'm keepping my fingers crossed about the fate of this website. Now, I'm accepting the fact that it does not have to be within my taste and specification. I will accept whatever it comes out to be because I know the programmer is doing its best, anyway. It's a functoning website and the beauty will just be secondary.

I looked at other websites and even the top grossing ones do not have a really good design (to my taste at least). So this will be good. It has to. And maybe by next week, I will be launching my website.

Third Month of Holly Mann Blog

This is the third month that I have been blogging Holly Mann. There are some developments but definitely no success. Success comes hard to some people. I just have to accept that. I have been following the steps in the eBook, Honest Riches for some time now. And yes, no favorable result so far. The funny thing is, I've been concentrated about my website but there are many unexpected circumstances that has been delaying it. Thus, my internet marketing stint is on hold. For when and how long? I honestly don't know.

I began blogging about Holly Mann's techniques (yes, the techniques and not the person) since December of 2007. As I read through the Honest Riches 2007 version, the idea of a website comes to me. No, it is not suggested in Honest Riches. Just reading it gave me the idea. And I worked on it. I went to Scriptlance, as recommended by Holly Mann, to outsource the building of this website. In my level, it is an ambitious website. Until now, I'm self-debating if I made the right choice choosing a programmer from India. But as Holly Mann said in her eBook, Honest Riches, most of the talented programmers at Scriptlance come from India.

Well, talent-wise I have no complaint. But I chose the bid on January 4th and the bid was $130 for 3 days. The date now is February 1st and so far, the programmer is still building it. There were may delays and interruptions-- technical and personal (on the part of the programmer). The latest delay was the massive internet blackout in the Middle East that affected a number of countries including India. And yes, as I posted yesterday this is a valid excuse, along with others.

Holly Mann, I think I need your words of wisdom on this. Can you please post a comment?