After finding a niche you want to delve into in part 1 of the series, the excitement of “what may be” can start to get a tad overwhelming!
After finding the right niche for you, it’s time to begin getting into the nitty gritty, for example getting some hosting, thinking of a website name, then there’s a logo and oh why don’t I start writing some content..
Don’t Dive In Just Yet!
But don’t take the plunge just yet because before you know it you will be trying to do 90 jobs at the same time and if you hit a mental block or a problem it could tip you into just giving up on the whole thing. Plus trying to do a bit of this then a bit of that doesn’t bode well when you need to be organised, thorough and well presented in today’s blogsphere.
Trying to do too many jobs at once will not only decrease the quality of the all jobs you are aiming to complete but will also increase the time it takes for you to get those jobs done. From personal experience I did exactly the same with my last venture and it didn’t go how I had envisioned.
By not dedicating yourself to one job at a time you run the risk of slowing the whole project down. This is because it always happens that we spend more time working on some of the less important aspects than we do on the more important ones. As a consequence of this I found it took well over a year to get my previous site off the ground.
So lets stop right here, down graphical editors, coding software,
admin menu’s and the like!
Lets think about this, what is the rush? The online world survived perfectly fine without your site for its whole existence so it will continue to be fine without you (for now). So take your time, there is no rush to throw together an incomplete site, some poorly written posts and a few dodgy links with an advert here and there just to get it online! Then after that thinking right now I’ll build on it and get it all sorted. Because you are now wasting all the adverts you have posted around because anyone visiting your site will struggle to find information or navigate your site and as a result they won’t stay on your site anyway.
Another very disappointing thing is setting a launch date. So many people get this wrong, if you have quite a large fan based ready to start reading/interacting with your site don’t set a launch date until your very very confident you can meet it.
Missing your launch date can be disastrous. People will give up waiting on your website launch the further you miss your launch date by, and to top it all you will most likely have no way of contacting these people to say it’s ready when it actually is.
The ultimate point of this post is to stop you rushing through and doing a slap-dash effort to find that after your launch your site is riddled with problems and looks rushed. Also that trying to improve a site that is live is not all its cracked up to be. So..
Take your time. Get everything just perfect then open the flood gates!
However this can be hard to abide to. Not seeing anything for you hard efforts can be hard at first but just keep reminding yourself how good the site will be when it does actually go live!
It is very hard to resist not going onto other sites and shouting about your blog.. but it will be worth it in the long shot, Trust me!
I’m going to follow your advice, but where do I start?
Don’t panic, there is a lot of work ahead of us but that’s what we are here for! The rest of this series will help take you through all the jobs that need doing in the order they should be done.. right up to the launch of your new website.
What are we waiting for!… Let’s get started! -> Your Website Name (Coming Soon)
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