Comments on: Freedom Business | Making Ideas Real (Keywords)

By: John R. Sedivy

John R. Sedivy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 23:15:28 +0000

You're welcome Rob. Glad to hear the comments are encouraging – I know that is one of the most difficult parts of launching a business – keeping up motivation for the long term – glad to do my part!

Thanks for the clarification on the differences between the free services and Fireworks. It's amazing how much free software with great capability is out there. It's a great business model really – get entrepreneurs and hobbyists using the basic tools and as their businesses grow and there is more disposable income available, upsell for the professional versions.

Thanks for the response and good luck!

By: Rob

Rob — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 21:52:25 +0000

John, thanks so much for the comments! I'm really encouraged by them and will continue to record my efforts and collaborate with the awesome people along the way!

I liked Sumo Paint a little more than Pixlr but both are really powerful. I've played the web design field for a few years and know Adobe Fireworks very well. It's definitely a much more powerful tool, but for the mock testing in this article, %99 of what we'll need is offered by awesome free online services exemplifying that it's not necessary to go spend $500 on costly software.

Thanks again for the comment, glad to see you around, feel free to shoot me a message anytime.

By: John R. Sedivy

John R. Sedivy — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 20:20:36 +0000

Hi Rob – I just wanted to take a moment and compliment you on your blog. I'm fairly new to The Life Design Project but am impressed by the amount of work you have put into this. You are obviously working very hard to launch your product/business and I wish you the best of luck with it. I look forward to reading more about your entrepreneurial journey as well as continue to read past articles in your archive.

Thank you for sharing your resources as you come across them – I just checked out Sumo Paint – that seems like a really powerful program. I also briefly checked out Pixlr based on one of the comments on this article. I passed them along to my graphics person and am interested to see how these programs stack up to more established image editing programs such as Adobe Fireworks.

Great work and I look forward to reading more!

By: Rob

Rob — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:35:19 +0000

Awesome Bill, and I absolutely am! I love doing design and support work for entrepreneurs and business owners, drop me a line. Would love to see what you're working on.

By: BillEB

BillEB — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:02:44 +0000

Great post(s). I'm in the midst of developing a product right now . . . if you're serious about it, I may come to you with some copy / landing page development work.

By: Michael Key

Michael Key — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:56:41 +0000

My head seriously hurts. That is a lot of information. Still processing it, but I think your idea for the data backup plan is brilliant. Next time I'll be reading posts about how you made 50,000$ writing an ebook. If that happens I'm going to be a copy cat.

Nah, I like to be original. But seriously great perspective.

By: BobbySoFamous

BobbySoFamous — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:05:52 +0000

Thanks for outlining your process. I started two and am in the processing of cranking out a few more niche websites. Mine entail less work per site, but the intention is that some will flourish and others will undoubtedly underwhelm. Interested to see your results.

By: j1z0

j1z0 — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 21:55:42 +0000

Nice post on the difference between SEO and ad words it is so often confused, thanks for shedding the light. Good luck with the muse.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 22:54:18 +0000

Absolutely, glad to help. If you'd like, I took a real quickly 1 minute video of what Godaddy's control panel looks like now a days....simple as pie in my opinion!

http://gallery.me.com/rgranholm#100312

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:53:44 +0000

Thanks Rob for explaining all the enhanced features and services GoDaddy offers. Personally I feel less intimidated by Bluehost's simple cPanel, since I'm a newbie, but it's good to know about other options.

By: brdtrpp

brdtrpp — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 19:17:39 +0000

Sounds great man, your insights and thoughts are always helpful.

By: Rob

Rob — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:54:18 +0000

By: ezhiker

ezhiker — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:53:44 +0000

By: brdtrpp

brdtrpp — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 15:17:39 +0000

Sounds great man, your insights and thoughts are always helpful.

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 23:50:24 +0000

Sure! I chose GoDaddy for a few reasons, awesome and immediate troubleshooting response time, an organized backend for management (compared to my Dreamhost and Host Gator experiences) and an easy “app store” like experience for installing website server software (I know that sounds scary, but it basically means WORDPRESS) .. you don't need to know any coding for the install, it's seamless. I also manage about 25 domains, on a shared hosting account for various clients and projects…not a problem yet so they have track record in keeping my clients and thus me happy! Thanks for the comment, so nice to meet someone new, really glad you got some value out of this!

By: Liz

Liz — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:24:31 +0000

Lots to absorb and digest here Rob. Thanks for sharing your thought process and listing so many valuable tools. You could turn this into an info product or a course, you probably will.

I'm on the fence about GoDaddy and we'd like to read a few reasons for choosing them. Thanks

By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:15:54 +0000

heh, thanks! Good thing Adwords haven't gone live just yet! Nailing down the final few keywords and how many dollars I'm willing to lay down.

By: Alan

Alan — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:05:24 +0000

Thanks for your findings and resources, Rob. For online image editing, I also use http://pixlr.com. I noticed on your Backup Informer landing page that you misspelled "Guaranteed." Other than that, it looks great! Curious to hear how your Adwords campaign goes.