I am pleased to announce that my first book has been published and is available for purchase on Amazon and Createspace. For me, personally, this is a triumphant victory having fulfilled a lifelong goal to publish a book. It is also a milestone, as this book is the first in a series, focusing on the do-it-yourself small business owner.
If you have the time and energy, and are willing to build a web presence for your small business without hiring a professional service provider (or several, for various services) then this entire series is exactly what you’ll need.
DIY Web Site: A Fool Proof Guide to Build Your Own Small Business Website will walk you through creating a website plan (and personal plans!) then simplifying the steps of choosing a domain, hosting provider, and building a website from scratch using WordPress.
Ordinarily, the development of a quality website would involve a coder (web developer), a web content specialist (such as myself), and a graphic designer.
In this situation, small business owners are often spending more than needed on web hosting services and web management services. After working with so many small business owners who were frustrated by the cost and time it took for a webmaster to respond to their needs, and realizing that full-control is more beneficial, I was inspired to write this book and explain exactly how easy it is to build a website from scratch, and maintain it yourself, without any prior training or experience with web development or coding.
Several recommendations are included to make it as easy as possible… you can build a website that looks identical to this one (BAMcopywriting.com) without any training in HTML or coding.
In addition, this book touches on the development of quality website content and SEO (search engine optimization) which opens the gate for future books in this series that will focus on internet marketing strategies, including white hat SEO tutorials and local search marketing.
This first book will help you if:
- You are a small business owner.
- You don’t have a website yet.
- You have a website, but it’s not doing anything for you.
- You want full control of your website, to be able to add/change/update information and pictures as needed.
- You’d prefer to invest $25 and the time it takes to do it yourself instead of a couple hundred (or thousands) of dollars it could cost to hire a professional.
