 Hey, what's going on guys JR Fisher here? It is Thursday, what is the date today 17th? It looks like of June? 2021 we're all back and live. It's gonna be a great day. Let's see James. He's got good weather. I got good weather But what's good weather? Whatever weather you have is good weather because you're alive And that is the important thing. All right, if you're new to this Here's what we do we get up in the morning and we do some training on how to start running grow online businesses So welcome if you're new if you've been here before don't forget to put a comment in that chat section say hello to me Don't forget to subscribe if you haven't done so don't forget to ring the bell My buddy James just reminded me loud and clear in the low country and oh, yes I have hit the like button see he always does what he's supposed to do So all you guys out there make sure you hit that like button. I would really appreciate it. I switched today Because I was having throat issues like clear my throat early in the morning. I switched today to lemon water I've been drinking tea. I quit drinking coffee years ago, but I'm doing lemon water So we'll see how I do with my lemon water. I taste pretty good. You know, it's not bad I didn't do any sweetener anything And take it back I did like two drops of honey, I can't even taste it So I really didn't do anything there, but today we're gonna talk about some interesting stuff Today we're gonna talk about how to build websites for free. I had to go about it what you can do You know, I'll give you some ways you can do some paid versions too But you know, I want to start you off with the free stuff so you can kind of get used to it And you know, this is a lot easier than what you think However, if you've got other questions about starting running and growing online businesses Make sure you put that in the chat section there too. I'll be happy to answer those Even if you are not live With us, you know, maybe you're watching this a week later a month later or whatever feel free To put your comments in the comment section and I come back through and I answer those questions So I'll be happy to do that. So welcome. Welcome everybody We want to get started here and get some of this information out to you. I think it's really important I remember when, you know, websites first came out and I use a thing called Microsoft front page I don't know if any of you guys remember that this is in the 90s And it helped you build a web page. It was very basic, but it worked So we'll start off with that. That's the first thing you got to do is you've got to decide Hey, just roblox haven't seen you in a while man. Good to see you back in If you're if you're starting to build a website, that's the first thing you gotta do is figure out How you're gonna build it we nobody really codes anymore I mean you can you can learn coding and HTML programming, but you know, it's so much easier just to use a website builder There's a whole lot of them out there There's a whole lot of cheap ones out there. There's a lot of DIY website builders out there that you can use So, you know, I'll talk about some of those in the training here today But like I say during the training if you got questions stick them in there This is really informal. So, you know anything you want to ask me you can do so Little about my credentials. I own one of the largest survival food companies in America, which is survival cave food Also have done a lot of courses on how to make money online How to advertise online Facebook ads drop shipping various different things because I've done all these things So what I do is once I do something and I get a little bit of success at it. I don't say a little bit I'll say a lot. So, you know, we've done in the millions of dollars in digital and physical products But once I've got that success then I feel like I'm qualified to you know Give me some information and do that free on these trainings So I guess the first thing you would have to do is once you've decided what your website builder is You want to look at the builders and compare which is which you know, which one's going to give you what you want I mean, they've got everything from instant ones like wicks and Squarespace stuff like that Which you're okay. I mean, they're okay, but you know, if you want something really good You're gonna have to go with something like WordPress You can even go with Cartra, which I'll put a link in the description after this is over with you can go in there And you can use something like Cartra just to get your stuff started. That's certainly something you can do a Great website really is going to be the backbone of your business You know, so it's it's important that you do have a good website builder You know, there's stuff like wicks, which are simple Network solutions has a free template you can use and some other other competitors do too But the templates they offer are going to be very limited, okay I think the nicest looking ones are on Squarespace if you're looking for that type of thing And then the next decision, you know, and I know this is all about free today But to pay or not to pay, you know, should you go with a free platform like WordPress? Or a paid platform like Squarespace Mine are on WordPress and Magento And I also use Cartra to sell things So that really depends on how much control you want over your website and how big you want it to go Free website builders. I mean, they're good if you're on a budget But they typically don't allow you to connect your own domain. So that's kind of a problem Also, you'll have to keep the company ads on a lot of the pages Which you know, I don't want to do that. It's not something I want to do But if you want to do it, that's cool too to get started, you know Maybe you've got a blog and it doesn't matter to you Paid builders are definitely an investment, but you're gonna get a whole lot more storage You're gonna get a lot more bandwidth. You also get tools that you wouldn't get You can use your own domain name and you can get rid of all those ads that are on there So, you know, keep all keep, you know, there's always a trade-off when you're getting something for free There's a reason you're getting it for free and people have to make money somehow and it's usually from that Ads that are on your website So there's a lot of other factors to consider when deciding between free and paid You know, the brand is important too We know that we trust Certain brands and certain ones we don't even know. So all website builders featured and compared In this training today are really industry leaders. They're the top people And some of them haven't been in business for, you know, over two decades. So, you know, they're pretty strong Register.com. GoDaddy.com. They've been around for a long long time. I do recommend them You can go to web.com GoDaddy has been around since 1997. I feel like they've been around longer than that But maybe not. Network Solutions has actually been in operation since 1979 And I know most of us were not even on the internet then so I don't know what the heck they were doing But that's just some added data for you. These companies have also received numerous industry accolades So any of the ones that you go with you're gonna be fine. You don't have to worry about it GoDaddy also received three Stevie Awards for their sales In customer service and has been recognized as one of Arizona's most acclaimed companies For two years running. So I do I do highly recommend them. They're really good And like I say guys throughout this training, don't be scared to put some comments in there I want to see your comments. I want to see your questions. I want to see what you're thinking about I want to see what you're achieving. I want to see what you're having problems with. This is a strictly helped session This is a no-sell session and it's just you know us getting together as a group And helping one another out and me just kind of giving you some information So make sure you participate the people that participate seem to do very well There's a lot of people that come on this call that are very knowledgeable, you know James is one Paul's one Mary comes in here. She's very good at stuff And every now and then Jessica jumps in So these people know what they're doing. I know what I'm doing So don't feel you know bad about asking the questions Okay, because everybody that's got any knowledge didn't at one point everybody that's got any knowledge didn't at one point The other types of websites you may want to look at are things like ones that have a storefront like Shopify Big commerce though. I don't know what's going on with big commerce. I bought their stock at the beginning of COVID Hasn't done anything but lose money. So I don't know what's going on there, but it's a good cup. Excuse me. Good company They can connect you with other websites too That are really vetted to do this type of thing if you're looking for e-commerce Best of all, there are hundreds of partners to choose from you can compare rates Portfolios you can find the option that works best for you Also, don't forget about Google if you want potential visitors readers customers Groupies whatever you want to call them fans It's really important that you get optimized for SEO and a lot of these platforms are very friendly for SEO You know an SEO if you don't know stands for search engine optimization So that when somebody types something in a search engine your website pops up and they can find it You'll want to ensure that your website builder is SEO friendly no matter which one you pick You've got to look for features like the ability to edit your title tags your meta descriptions your alt Attributes your alt has to do with your images Most of them really do That's not a problem But you know just make sure you verify that You want to have automated XML and HTML site maps you have a site map You got to submit this also to Google so that's important And I know I'm gonna be going through a lot of steps in this So feel free to write this stuff down come back and watch the video over again Because there are a lot of steps to it You want to make sure you can do search friendly URLs? So an idea would be like my site dot-com forward slash latest dash news A bad one would be like my site dot com slash three four nine six eight four six two one You know that that's not good. So you want to make sure that all those Search friendly URLs are available to you, too. How about host Gator and namecheap also good selection James really they are I've used host Gator in the past for hosting. They were too slow for our survival food site, but that doesn't mean it won't work for your site, you know, we have a very data intensive site on our magento site And that was just too much for a host Gator named sheep. I know of they have a good reputation I have not bought through them But yeah, if you're just if you're buying, you know, your domains, it's a good way to go a lot of them If you buy, you know hosting from my blue host and I have a link in the description for blue host If you do your hosting through them and you use our link you can actually get your domain for free So, you know, you will look for some like package deals like that You also want to look for things like do they have, you know keyword density tools and conversion tools? Those things are good Wix and web.com are two of the best website builders for SEO if you're looking for a templated type thing Obviously WordPress is very good because they have all the plugins you can use Thoughts on wit with for sites not quite sure what you mean with with for sites Let me know on that one Paul and I'll be happy to answer it I'm not just not quite sure maybe you have a typo in there or something Your hosting guys is really like real estate But instead of paying for five acres or a duplex you're paying for a few gigabytes of storage and enough bandwidth to make your site run smoothly And I say it's like real estate because it can make you money Right my sites make me money all of the website builders featured Today that I'm going to talk about offer some type of hosting services for your website Most of them will allow you to connect your own domain for a fee Okay, so square space is one of the few hosting providers that will give you a free domain When you sign up like I said bluehost will too so you can use that Weebly and web.com. Weebly is Weebly and of course web.com is web.com Both have hosting plans and unlimited storage, which is really kind of nice and bandwidth So this is a big advantage over a lot of the other websites Big commerce, which I like a lot too offers these perks As well, but if you have an online store with thousands of products and customers You may be required to upgrade to a costlier enterprise plan. So you got to keep that in mind now I know people say well, I don't want to pay For extra stuff, but if you're doing a lot of business, why do you care? You know, you're making the money anyhow When comparing your hosting options Be aware that the differences between unlimited and unmetered bandwidth That's a big difference guys Unmetered plan isn't truly unlimited That is the hosting provider won't stop you from receiving large influxes of traffic But it may slow your site down after you reach a certain threshold like, you know, Verizon does that to me on my cell phone On my cell phone. I have unlimited You know internet, okay, but the thing is once I reach a certain amount of usage it starts to What do they call it? I can't think of the name of the word now, but it slows it down basically I don't have as much speed. So you want to be real careful when they say stuff like that. What does that actually mean? Do you really have totally unlimited? advantages of using a website builder The average cost of a website built by a designer by a designer can range between a thousand and eight thousand dollars But every time you change your mind They can bill you more and more and more. So it's a good idea to learn how to do this stuff You can also have to wait until your designer is available to make changes that you requested So if you don't know how to do this stuff and you want to change on your website, there's a problem You can't do anything about it in the end There's a risk that you'll end up with agreeing to a website that you're not actually happy with Just so you don't feel like you, you know, are going to keep paying through the nose to get this website built So that's why I tell people learn to do this stuff on your own Using a website builder is much less expensive Best website builders offer plenty of choices to give you a complete autonomy. You can do what you want on your website If you're using wix for example, and I don't use stuff like wix that's Really a beginner type thing, but it's okay if you're beginning You know, I did beginner stuff when I was beginning For example, you can choose from like 500 templates across 70 categories An experiment with fonts color schemes, you know slideshows galleries video backgrounds Um That market is huge and it is a boom to wix users Now i'm going to focus on On ones that really have some apps and stuff that you can work on With a website builder, you're going to be in control of everything From the placement of the call to action button to the font of your home page every single thing So some other things these are things that you really want to consider when you're choosing a website builder platform The best website builder is the one that fits your needs. Okay, because everybody's different. All right, like my magento site Is for our survival k food that wouldn't work for my courses and all my other stuff Okay, I just wouldn't but by the same token I couldn't use a WordPress site to do my survival k food because I have different levels of people logging in like I'll have a retailer and they have certain pricing and they want to put their customers orders in there That's a whole different login from somebody who just comes to my site and buys a product So you got to ask yourself what type of site will it be ask yourself that What are the key features that you need ask yourself that? Are you running an online store? If so, how big will it be Some website builders have e-commerce plans that limit the number of items you can sell a month So, you know, if you grow and all of a sudden you're doing, you know thousands of items a month And they say no you can only sell 500 items. Well, you're you're really stomping there So, you got to consider that What is the vibe of your business? You know, what what what image are you trying to get across? I also want you to think about let me get another sip here I think that I think the lemon water is working my throat is a little bit more clear It seems like and guys put some comments in there. I'm getting a little slow in comments So stick those in there. We'll have some answers for you We are down to the Wire today on our move for those of you who are following that And I am editing the the video where I went to North Carolina I'm going to have that up soon And basically what I did is I did a review of the town and the hotel that I stayed at So it's it's not how to make money online But it is how you can travel when you make money online The town I went to was a little town Shoot Highlands Highlands, North Carolina It's one of the most expensive little towns I've ever seen in my life Everything that town is expensive. It's got like a main street and that's pretty much the whole town. It's like four blocks long Just not much to it a beautiful town. It's up in the mountains But man was everything expensive. There was no fast food there. There was no food delivery there And every restaurant was like crazy expensive I looked at one restaurant and they had a stir fry like a chicken stir fry and it was $44 and I was like wow For a stir fry But anyhow, I'll be doing that review. The hotel was quite pricey also So I'll be doing a review of that trip and letting you see kind of what we did And our flight there and all that good stuff So next up next up ease of use The most important feature of a website builder is its usability guys if you can't use this stuff That is going to be tough try out the user interface or the five best website builders listed and Using a trial builder go in there and try to do some And a lot of them will have trials This will give you an idea of which one that you find is the most intuitive And the easiest one to use if you don't have some knowledge of coding You can check out website builders that will give you access to css code too You can just actually google it how to do html and you'll find that If you're looking at e-commerce Hopefully your business will expand in that case you need to ask yourself if you need a website builder They can process more online bookings reservation sales Sales inquiries, whatever it is If you decide to transfer your site to a different hosting option In the future, can you easily download the full site? Some of them will allow it and some won't you may have to rebuild your entire site again Which can be very costly. So you want to think about that templates Do it does does The one you're looking at had the templates you want. Are you going to use a template? You should also check out which templates are available Some of them have like massive amounts of templates and some of them look like they have a lot But it's really the same template with different colors on it Or just one or two things changed and you're really getting repeats of the same thing over and over again So you want to take time to check that they aren't just slight variations of the same template You'll see that over and over again You'll need templates for your business specific category So, you know one that is selling consulting services is going to look different than one that's selling Kids toys. Okay. Those are two different looks of a website. So your specific category A builder with like a whole bunch of blog templates But none for restaurants. Okay, so if you're a restaurant, you're going to be hurt there It won't help you much, you know in promoting your restaurant if they don't have restaurant templates. So you got to think about that Features features are important All the best website builders offer Extra features to make building your website easier and better And I want to go through some of those but you know, I think I think probably the best one for this is wordpress It's a paid one, but it's not expensive Not expensive at all And wordpress has so many plugins wordpress is the largest I'm trying to think how to put this there's more websites built on wordpress than any other Form of website in the world. So, you know, they they own the market But that's not to say some of the smaller ones aren't good You know wix is not bad if you want some really basic stuff and quick quick to get your website up You know wix works. Okay Web.com is not bad So you got to ask yourself doesn't have things like set up wizards which guides you through the building process I really like that because it's like a tutorial and you can do it as they talk to you in the videos or in the You know screenshots That's the best way to go about it Step by step I think it's hard To go out and watch a whole bunch of videos on how to do something and then come back and do it So if it has one of these wizards in there that ask you questions as you go through the steps I think that's very helpful Next thing is does that draw? Drag and drop intuitive interface to design your website Those things are very very helpful What about seo tools? I talked about that in the beginning. Are there seo tools? Such as like editing meta tags and your descriptions and your alt tags for your pictures All those things are going to be important because you're not going to get traffic if you don't do those things marketing tools Does it have anything that will help you with marketing? You know pop-up type stuff that you can integrate with something like kartra if you don't have kartra Trust me. You need to get kartra. I mean, I don't know how to drill this in anybody's head But it is one of the most economical ways to do digital marketing Of anything that's out there and I've looked at a lot of different stuff. I love kartra. I promote kartra I'm an affiliate for kartra. You can find a link for kartra in the description If you click the link you'll actually watch a video and it shows you all the things it does And if you're interested for one dollar, you can get a trial of kartra So check out my link in the description when this video is over with And if it if it's not live, you'll see it in the description immediately What else marketing tools are those included? So do you do you have any kind of other marketing tools in there you can use? Now something with wordpress. You've got all of these plug-ins. So you don't have to really worry about it Everything is there Analytics does that any kind of analytics? You know, I love kartra because when I do sales pages there's all kinds of analytics in there And when I keep saying kartra kartra is I don't want to say it's primarily an email marketing tool because it does sales pages It does sequences. It does videos. It does hosting. There's a whole bunch of stuff But it has a lot of tools. So if I do a sales page I can go in there and look and see what the stats are on that sales page See how many people clicked on my emails see how many people hoping them But maybe some of these Templates will have things like demographics location interest that type of thing so that later on when you're running ads You can target those areas that we're doing well for you Doesn't have e-commerce tools Like a multiple payment processor options. That's what I like about kartra You know, you can you can do credit card. You can do paypal. You can do strike whatever you want Does it have any type of inventory tracking? My sites like magenta do have inventory tracking. So that's available if something goes out of stock It just automatically is not on the site anymore, which is helpful But understand you've got to keep that up. That's got to be hooked into something somewhere so that that inventory This is kept up to date What about integrated social media? Does that have anything like that to connect your social media accounts? With your network on your new site some of them have that some don't And here's the big one here's the big one Is it mobile responsive? Because if it's not mobile responsive guys, I wouldn't even go with it anymore I really wouldn't you got 85 of the people buying stuff on their mobile phones. You need it to be mobile responsive Mobile editing tools will permit you to continue tweaking your new website on your phone So if you've got some tools that you can use your phone to work on your website, you know, that's important And here's a big one that we don't think about It's your website speed Website loading speed really is so so very important You don't want to lose visitors just because your site takes too long to load and I'm telling you people don't wait I mean like a second a second less than a second and they're gone 24 hour technical support is also important if you're creating a website yourself You're going to need help when you get stuck. You don't want to wait Even if that's in the middle of the night or if it's in the weekend or whatever And I guess finally although pricing shouldn't be your main yardstick You used to measure a good website builder. You don't want to pay too much for a mediocre website builder So compare prices as well. That's important I know when I tell people about cartridge. They say well, that's more than mail chip Well, it's not really because of all the other things you get and some people say well, I don't need those other things I'm like, yeah, you do you just don't realize you do need all these things that cartridge gives you And at some point you're going to be paying for them. The difference is you're going to be trying to Frankenstein them all together Which is what I did. I had eight different pieces of software and I went down to one So that that stuff's worth it to pay a little bit of money because the time alone that you save From logging into all these different places Um, if you want to build a basic website, uh with allen online store Hey, a free website builder is a good way to get started Now keep in mind that free plans come with less storage. They have slower load times Fewer seo and marketing tools if you know that you need e-commerce performance And lots of storage high resolution images videos that type of stuff extra customer support A lot or a lot of pages our free site builders are unlikely to work for you They're just not and I know I started this off with free things you can do But you know, I don't want to tell you to do something free when it's not going to really fit your business model That wouldn't be right for me to do that said Free website builders are ideal for testing the waters and trying stuff out Having a ready to make platform To share with your contacts and social media followers And then you can also switch that over to another platform later Especially if you don't have a lot on the website If you decide you're ready to implement more features Many companies will offer easy and cost efficient upgrades It let's say you went with a lower end one like wix something like that You can choose from four premium upgrades that provide increasing amounts of bandwidth storage and access to analytics Marketing tools, which will allow you to scale up later on at no cost or little cost. Okay So that is kind of an overview of these sites guys Everybody needs a site and when I say everybody I'm not talking about people with businesses I'm talking about every human being needs a site If you didn't buy your own name when you could buy your own name like when it was available Try to get it. You know, some people's names are longer than others. Maybe you can do variations I own jrfisher.com. I bought it. Um, I want to say 96 95 or 96 Because I saw that was a thing, you know, people would want to have their own name So I did buy my own name for what it's worth. It is my website Hello, mr. Viola cake food a lot with digital cash academy web cash academy facebook edge university I own about 50 websites. I think right now Um, and I make money on them, which is nice. Very nice. Uh, and I hope you guys haven't gone to sleep here I haven't seen a comment in a little bit. I haven't scrolled through here. I haven't been looking down But if you have any comments now's the time to put them in we're kind of winding down a little bit We're approaching that 30 minute mark We try to keep it around 30 minutes. Uh, you know, we we don't want your brain to overload You know because your butt got worn out. So we don't want that to happen But if you do have any questions any comments any suggestions If this was helpful to you, let me know in that chat section if you picked up some information Let me know in that chat section there If you have ideas of other things you'd like for me to cover put that in your chat section there Remember, I've got to come up with ideas for you guys six days a week Six days a week Today I'm going to get back to editing that video from north carolina So you guys can see the hotel you can see the town. You can see what was going on Um, so you can see what was happening. Uh, and what I'll do is I'll do some narration over it Uh, and I'll have some b-roll and I'll talk to you about the different things there But I think that's going to be pretty cool. I think you guys will have a lot of fun with that So, uh, that's what I got for you today. Uh, if you haven't subscribed, please do so if that subscribe button Don't forget to Ring the bell turn on all bell notifications. So you're notified Each and every time I go live uh, every time I upload a video which right now is monday wednesday and friday I'm uploading videos and then I go live, uh, monday through saturday So we've got two more days this week. We get friday and saturday Then i'm off on sundays, but i'm not really off because i'm still gonna work. I'm just not doing a live So that's how that stuff works. Uh, guys, I really appreciate you being here if you're not watching this live Make sure you give me a thumbs up. 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I appreciate everybody being here and uh, don't forget be kind to everybody You don't know what they're going through. Have a great day