How to Build a Mini Site

by Tricia on September 8, 2009

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If you want to make money online, creating and marketing with mini-sites is perhaps the fastest and cheapest way to achieve your goals.

Firstly, a “mini site” is targeted to a very tight niche market, and delivers very specialized content, usually in the form of a membership. Mini-sites are not like blogs or other type of content sites; they sell access to the information within. A mini-site can have at bare minimum two pages; the sales page and the download page. Larger minisites may have more pages but generally its not above 10 pages.

Although SEO or Search Engine Optimization is important when building minisites, it’s not the key success factor. Since your content is mostly in PDF / audio / video format, Google will never find it gve it proper ranking. Therefore if you want to create and sell mini-sites, you need affiliates – and LOTS of them. Knowledge in PPC or Pay Per Click marketing helps as well, especially when your site is new and you don’t already own a list you can market to.

The most important part of any mini sites, besides the content, is the sales page. You need to understand how to write basic sales copy that sells, and also arm yourself with a lot of salespage images and other images you can use to make your copy look appealing. Creating a pure-text sales copy is a big mistake, but most people still do it.

The overall design and appearance of your mini sites also matters. You can either hire someone to create your design or you can buy ready-made mini site templates and easily put together a stunning site yourself.

Of course, in the long run you’ll also want to learn basic image creation and image editing skills to help lower the cost of creating minisites. GIMP is another option to consider instead of PhotoShop.

With basic GIMP videos you can get all the skills you need as far as building mini-sites is concerned, but you probably can’t make use of cool stuff like cover action scripts and templates that can only be used in Photoshop.





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