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As we mentioned earlier, while our site is up and running there are probably hundreds if not more sites with identical content. To be successful, we need some original content so we’re going to go back to Fiverr and see what we can find. Stay tuned.

We determined that designing straight HTML or using a more exotic technology for our site would limit the number of people that would be able to help us on Fiverr. As a result, we’ve opted to use a content management system (CMS).

We searched Fiverr by simply entering in the names of every CMS we could think of into their search box and found the top three:

Drupal has 138 results at the time we did the search
Joomla had 371
Wordpress had 3240

So, we’re going to go with WordPress. Now our VPS utilizes cpanel and Fantastico thus giving us the ability to install WordPress automatically. We’ve decided against this for the time being as we noticed individuals selling wordpress sites already to go for $5!

We searched for dog wordpress sites and found three people that would send us a wordpress site ready to go with dog training content. Not exactly dogs for families but it will get us started. While none of those people have received any feedback, we noticed two of them were very similar, one told us it actually cost $25 and you would need to buy his gig 5 times to complete the purchase. We tried to load their demo site just to see and nothing happened. So by default, we’re going to spend our first $5 with Artyray and see what happens. Stay tuned!
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After doing some research and looking through Fiverr we wanted to find a niche that enough people knew about and understood that this experiment wouldn’t take forever. Our choice is dogs, specifically finding the right dog for your family.

The domain name will be: dogforfamily.com

We already have a VPS so we will host the site ourselves. Everything else from here on out will be done utilizing Fiverr as we discussed in the introduction to our Fiverr Experiment.

Introduction
Domain Name and Hosting (your reading that now)
CMS Selection
Content
SEO and Site Design
Promotion
Monetization
Reporting

Introduction

I ran across an interesting site note too long ago called Fiverr. Now this isn’t anything exactly new, as the site and many sites like it have been around for awhile, I just hadn’t spent any time on them until now.

The premise of Fiverr is to allow anyone to offer a ‘gig’ and complete a specific task in exchange for $5. The variety of tasks is rather overwhelming, some serious and some silly. So that got me thinking. What would happen if we tried to build an entire website from scratch and promote it only using Fiverr? Yes, again I realize that there may be sites better suited to this particular task but I ran across Fiverr first, so that is who we will use for our experiment.

Our goal is to create a website in a reasonable niche with a reasonable domain name and spend $100 on Fiverr to make it all happen. I will obtain the domain name and hosting on my own but will otherwise use Fiverr exclusively and you can follow along and see how we do!

As we build our new site, I will provide links to the individuals offering the gigs we use but not the specific gigs themselves. The reason is many of the gigs are only around for a limited time or available for a limited number of people and I don’t want to end up with numerous deadlinks. By linking to the people you’ll be able to see all of their open gigs and contact them if you so desire.

So let’s get started!

Introduction (your reading that now)
Domain Name and Hosting
CMS Selection
Content
SEO and Site Design
Promotion
Monetization
Reporting

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Internet marketing is one of the most booming businesses online. This business requires you to use modern technology to realize its benefits. Many people want to make a lot of cash online. The well established online marketers usually assemble very complicated sites.

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Internet marketing is among the most popular jobs currently. Since many people are venturing in this business, it is important that you should have several strategies which will help your business to be effective. The first strategy that you can use is known as blogging. It is not necessarily that you should be an expert in order to do blogging.

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It is important to know the kind of impact that internet marketing can create to your small business. Web marketing can help to increase the number of customers in your business. This type of marketing provides a stronger approach to your business thus, leading to its success.

This marketing seems to provide several advantages rather than the traditional marketing. First and foremost, this marketing is cheaper yet it also targets more consumers. This type of marketing is easy to manage. There are various resources and tools that are available online which will help to propel your business to greater heights.
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Internet marketing for small business is something that can help to generate a lot of income. Web marketing is a bit different from the normal business marketing channels. The good thing about this marketing is that it is more cost effective than many other conventional approaches.

Marketing through the internet has got effective strategies which help in making small business to reach great levels. The first important step when you want to venture in web marketing is ensuring that you have got an optimized site. Most people who are in this business prefer search engine optimization which is commonly abbreviated as SEO.
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Over the past two decades, technology has come a long way and given different companies a bigger platform to operate on. With the advent of numerous social networking sites, the world of search engine marketing has opened up even further resulting in numerous platforms that marketers can use to peddle their wares. However, just because the world has become a global village that has billions if internet users waiting to buy this item or the other, the marketer has got to be smart enough to get their product to the consumer in the most unassuming way.
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