Why I Made A Website
About
Barbados...
We are often told how lucky we are to live on such a beautiful island… with almost perfect weather all year round. And I must agree it’s really an idyllic paradise with something for everyone.
Whether its tranquility or excitement you seek you’ll find it here on the island.
I’ve been to the places I’ve written about, eaten in the restaurants, shopped in the stores, explored all the wonderful sites on the island and enjoyed the picture perfect beaches…
So I simply want to share my passion for Barbados and the joy I get from living here, with you so that you get the most from your holiday to the island.
How It All Started
During the daytime I worked part-time as a courier while traveling the length and breath of our small island… during this time I discovered a refreshing side of Barbados you often don’t see when you go into the office at 7 am and leave when the sunset.
At that time the Internet as we know it was now getting started and during the last year of the marketing course we had a class discussion about new media in marketing. The internet and Amazon.com were heavily discuss...
Now for someone who was always thinking of starting a business this discussion really set me thinking.
So after the course was finish I started researching the Internet, to see the types of online businesses that were out there. What I came across and the success of some of the folks really fascinated me, so I decided that I needed to learn more about building a website and marketing online.
I Dived In Head First
With the site up I joined an affiliate program and added some links to my site, after about ten months I could not believe my eyes when I received an email with the subject line Growerflowers.com Order, I had my first sale.
Traffic slowly increased month after month and I continued to be on cloud nine every time I received an email stating “an order has been placed at your Floral Store”
All this time I was developing my Internet business building skills… there was so much to learn Brainstorming, Search engine optimization, link building and list building, all these new concepts fascinated me so I dived in head first.
My Hopes Were Dashed...
I was thrilled when I was invited for an interview, the interviewer was fascinated at my achievements because I was self taught and my three sites were all generating free traffic from the organic search engines.
The interview went well and I was invited for a second interview which also went well… so you could imagine my disappointment when I did not get the position with the company. It was given to a graphics student fresh out of college.
Now this was a big disappointment… but my years of learning through trial and error had taught me some important lessons, these were test everything and if it fails do a post-mortem.
So as I sat in my car waiting to pick up my daughter from school one afternoon I went over the interviews in my mind and what kept come to me was what seem to be a difference in web building philosophy.
You see during my years of studying the outstanding internet gurus one stood out… he is Dr. Ken Evoy a medical doctor whose e-commerce predictions have been uncannily accurate.
His company SiteSell also creates software that enables anyone and everyone to make successful websites, take a look at some of these web businesses here.
His concepts on building niche related high value content websites made complete sense no-matter how you look at it, so I had conform to this level of thinking when building my sites.
During the interview I had contended that building a website was about marketing… by this I was referring to Dr Evoy’s (CTPM) “Content-Traffic-PREsell-Monetize” my impression was that the company’s executive doing the interview place more emphasis on graphic design…
Although I recognized that the look and feel of any site is important… I held to the view that content was king.
How I Reversed My Disappointment
So
while sitting there
pondering it suddenly came to me that I did not need a job at this
company… I could start my own website about Barbados. I had
already made the decision to purchase the best Internet business
building tools on the market.
And during my years of studying the Internet I had learned so much
about marketing online that I knew that with the right tools it was
only matter of time before I could kick... their BUTT.
Refresh by this new challenge I started this
best-barbados-vacation-packages.com website in January 2008, over the
next year the results has been very encouraging as the site continues
to grow.
Today after a year, I have redesigned the site with a SBI compatible
template from my good Internet friend Saikat Ganguly.
His CSS
driven three column template is an excellent system for persons
interested in do-it-your-self website or for those needing help with
their block builder site conversion.
His template system provide lots of free high quality information about
building CSS websites, to learn more you can visit his site on how
to make a website
My site
best-barbados-vacation-packages.com continue to generate hundreds of
visitors each month from the free search engines…
All this time I'm just writing about one of my passions and I am
genuinely helping people. I don’t think it can get much
better than this!