First of all I am not that experienced at building websites. I am a laminate and hardwood flooring installer first and a website builder second.
I have been in the flooring trade since 1978 in various positions. Ultimately I ended up as a flooring installer since 1985 which I enjoy doing very much.
I decided to build this website for a couple of reasons.
First- I have seen a lot of do it yourself installations over the years that were, well lets just say crazy. I know they have little classes at Home Depot and places like that, but its just not enough to learn how to do your floors.
I feel bad to see folks try to do their own laminate and muff it up. So if I can help people at least do their floors a little better I can feel good about it. I have had some of my readers call me and tell me how much they appreciate the information they have read on my site. It makes me feel good to help folks.
Second- I do have to earn a living so I figured if I spread the word enough that eventually I might get compensated in one form or another.
Building this website was a whole new experience for me. After working with my hands for twenty plus years. Its a whole new game when you have to put what you know into words.
It took me a while to figure out where to go to learn how to even build a website. A friend of mine built his with some software which seemed complicated and time consuming. Which for me would have been hard to do working full time.
I was on the internet one day and ran across a site that talked about building your own website, no experience necessary. Of coarse I was skeptical because of the way everyone is trying to sell you something on the net. I started reading on this site and was amazed at the amount of free information I had access to. I'm not talking about a few web pages here and there, I mean e-books that consisted of over 100 pages.
Well to make a long story short I read a lot before I even looked at the cost. I wanted to see if these people were really sincere. I finally looked at the price and was amazed again.
So I purchased the package and got to work. And now I have a website that I totally control. It is a lot of work but if you follow their instructions you to can build a website that can produce income.
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"I was able to reach the global market 24X7, rather than just the local market for my paving company that I was used to reaching in the past. I had left the manual-labor era and had become what Dr. Ken calls a digital worker... a knowledge worker who can reach the globe by using his brain." ~ Judd Burdon http://case-studies.sitesell.com/customers1.html#JUDD
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