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Be a Blogger in 1 Week!

Start BloggingStart blogging like the pros do: on your own web site, with a professional setup, using the best tools to attract readers.

For 1 killer price you get all this:

This entire professional blog is set up for you within 1 week after you choose an available domain. No programming, no FTPing, no coding required. You tell us what you want. We set it up. When it’s ready, we send you the username and password and you start blogging!

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1 domain of your own

The best blogging doesn’t happen on a free subdomain at a generic blog site. It happens on your domain — your own address on the internet. If you’re serious about blogging, you need your own domain, branded to you. You want to get that domain now, before you create a presence and traffic and followers — and before someone else takes the name.

You choose the domain name you want, we buy it for you. It’s your to keep forever, even if you don’t renew our service.

A domain on GoDaddy costs $10.69 each year. Your domain is included in your Win with 1 Blogger Package.

1 year of web hosting

We provide one full year of web hosting. You’ll have your own storage space on the internet to keep your files, your images, and your database and make them accessible to the world. The annual clock starts running the day you order.

Hosting on HostGator starts at $59.40 annually. Hosting is included in your blogger package on Win with 1.

1 WordPress blogging platform

WordPress is the best blogging platform in the world. And that’s not just my opinion. It was voted Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards.

It has an ever-growing features set and has a huge, active support community. It is incredibly flexible and powerful, yet it’s still easy to use for the most crucial site functions that you’ll be performing regularly.

I have multiple permabloggers on one of my group blogs that have zero collective experience with anything technical, and they can post to the blog all day long. Think word processor.

We install the latest version of WordPress and use it as the content management system (CMS) for your site.

1 fabulous Thesis theme

What’s a theme? It’s the coding that changes a site from blah to beautiful. It’s the layout that turns your great content into a professional and inviting presentation.

I use, recommend, and provide all my clients with the premium Thesis theme.

Why Thesis? I’ve been blogging since 2003 and using WordPress since 2005. I’ve used more themes than I can count. Thesis is the real dream theme. It is clean, simple, endlessly customizable, upgradeable, and configured for search engine optimization. It is the best theme I’ve found, bar none. I’ve already switched most of my sites (even non-blog sites) to Thesis and am working toward transitioning all of them.

Even as a non-programmer, you can upgrade and modify Thesis in all sorts of ways. And when you upgrade, you don’t lose all your cool customization!

Thesis retails for $87.00. It’s included in your Win with 1 blogger package.

1 set of essential plug-ins

Plug-ins are bits of code that add flexibility, functionality, and fun to your site. There are thousands available. We will install and activate this essential core of plugins. You’ll get:

Thesis Openhook

The must-have plugin for Thesis users. This plugin allows you to easily customize your site without ever touching the files or hacking code. You do it right in the administrator side.

Google XML Sitemaps

Get your blog in organic search engine results!

This plugin will create a Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap of your WordPress blog. It supports all of the WordPress generated pages as well as custom ones. Everytime you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like Google and Bing!, are notified about the update.

FormBuilder

This is our favorite form building utility for WordPress. It’s easy to use, intuitive, easy to include in pages, and (unlike some other plugins) has all the field types we need.

This high quality form builder has built-in spam protection. You can build contact forms, questionnaires, newsletter subscription forms, etc.

Sociable

Social networking is here. Get traffic by making it easy for readers to tweet, digg, stumble, fan, sphinn, tumbl, ping, or otherwise share the good news of your blog with thousands of others.

Sociable has 99 different settings for you to choose from, including print, pdf, and email. The images are included and setup is easy as a checkbox and click of a button.

Post-Plugin Library + Suite

This is a controller module and a set of plugins that provides all sorts of cool features. With it you can encourage readers to stay longer, read more, and comment more.

It will create lists of links from within your site and place them where you want them. It links to:

  • Recent posts
  • Recent comments
  • Similar posts
  • Popular posts
  • Random posts

You configure these in the site administration area.

WordPress Online Automated Backup

Never lose your data! WordPress has to be backed up in two ways, both the regular files and the database. This program backs both of the up on a remote site. And it has no annual or setup fees.

1 email address @ your domain

Nothing says “amateur” like an email address at yahoo or gmail or, yikes, aol. If you’re serious about your blogging, get an email address at your own domain.

alison@gmail.com vs. alison@win-with-1.com

See the difference?

1 contact form

Your readers, clients, and customers need to contact you, but posting your email address on your site makes you a huge target for spam. The better approach is to use a contact form that is sent to your email box.

We’ll set up a basic contact form and integrate it into a static page on your site. Your readers can contact you directly without exposing your email address. This form is linked to your new email address.

1 get started ebook (coming soon)

The Win with 1 Amazing Blog Starter Guide will be ready soon. It will contain basic info on how to create your first post, how to set up categories and tags, how to add new pages and tabs, how to do simple site customization, and some basic search engine optimization.

Check the start blogging blog to get you going. More to come.

We’ll also include a list of our favorite resources to turn your blogging hobby into a thriving business.

1 pixel ad linked to your site

You’ll get a $100 pixel advertisement with your first backlink (and a little description, too!) on Pix2Brix.com. This site now has a pagerank of 2 and is on the rise. Get started pulling rank and get some readers right away!

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