Contact Laura Childs at the Stampede Secret
Websites ReloadedAfter years of fighting spam in my inbox I am stripping all my online contact forms from all my websites, so that’s not what you’ll find here…
Instead, I invite you to leave a comment below, make it as long as you want and when I check in (most often daily), I will pick up and reply to your message. This is not publicly posted. Neither will be my response. If you want me to reply you MUST leave a valid email address as that is how I will contact you with answers or suggestions.
Finally, my spam filter is set to delete for any swear or pornographic words so please be careful not to include any of those in your comments (as if you would! but it must be said) or I will never see your note.
If you’d like to be on my list of contacts who have asked to be updated when the Stampede Secret 2.0 product is released, please visit this page Websites Reloaded for 2.0 Traffic.
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Thank you for your comments, interest, contact and notes!
Laura Childs
www.stampedesecret.com
January 12th, 2007 at 3:49 pm
Laura,
Can I ask for your help? I really liked your color scheme on the other site…so much, in fact, that I wanted to copy the colors for the site I’m trying to have built. Any chance you can help me out with your source files?
Thanks,
Brian
January 13th, 2007 at 9:47 am
Hi Brian:
I’d be happy to help with source files (in most cases), only I don’t know
what ‘other site’ you’re referring to…do you mean the old Stampede
Secret?
Laura
February 24th, 2007 at 4:04 pm
Hi Laura,
Thanks for your Web 2.0 email (BackRoads) of Feb 23. I’m not keeping up much on the technology, though I’m always advising on website business etc. Thanks for a great email.
I don’t take the time to read all your emails (Beat me with a stick if you must) but I’m always well rewarded when I do. Thank you.
Stephanie, Vancouver
February 24th, 2007 at 8:11 pm
Stephanie…I don’t have a stick long enough to make it to Vancouver!
But I’d never smack you with one anyway.
Thanks for you kind comments about my content. I’m pushing against the masses here trying to show them what’s coming. After so much research, and just as much history it’s become clearer than a Californian sky, the old ways of online business are on their way out.
In the past I’ve been careful not to make broad statements like this - just in case I’m wrong - but not this time. I know it like I know my child’s footsteps in the dark.
Wouldn’t worry too much about not reading all my emails, you can always stop back in here when you have time and catch up. I’d love to have you drop me another note when you do so I can say ‘hey’ back at you.
As always, Laura
March 8th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Hi Laura,
Thanks for your regular emails from Stampede Secret. I read them, mostly, I collect them for later reference. I am so new to the internet, the most I have ever done is used it and made one simple website but never put in on the net! Anyway, I want to make a website, but I don’t know what program is best to use (dreamweaver is difficult, frontpage, publisher) what is best? Is there a program to make sites that search engines like, or doesn’t it matter? Then when I get it made, are the free places on the net good or not really? (am I confused or what?!)
I admire your knowledge and work. You know SOOOOO much about all this stuff! Thanks for your time.
March 8th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Geoff:
I posted your contact comment because it doesn’t expose your identity and this question is one that is asked by so many people (although usually it’s over at smartzville.com).
I’ll do my best to direct you as a new entrepreneur who wants to get their ideas online…
As you know I’ve been making websites for 10 years now. Honest to goodness my first sites were all created from raw code - that’s what I learned first and I stuck with it even through the launch of FrontPage and Microsoft Publisher (ugh - the worst program ever!) and then DreamWeaver.
Although it was labor intensive, knowing html coding has served me well over the years and the knowledge easily shifted into cgi, css and then php. I’m no pro at any of it, but I can fix problems and edit errant code now.
However no one starting out needs to get into all that! Creating a website is easy now - one like this for example which is nothing more than a WordPress blog with a really nice theme applied. Furthermore the search engines do seem to still love blogs over other website varieties which makes them even more appealing to newbies.
I’d never sign up for free hosting and I hope none of my readers do either. It’s one of my pet peeves. If you’re going to have a business online then give it the credibility it deserves by it’s own domain name, no advertising or content that you can’t control, and build your business from there.
It costs only $8 a year to register a domain (sometimes less), $8 a month or so to get affordable, reliable hosting with all the perks. If you choose a host with a feature called cPanel you can install and be creating pages of content in a WordPress blog in under 10 minutes with a little module called Fantastico (it’s within cPanel).
Having said all that you can still build pages in FrontPage that the search engines like (and possibly in other programs as well I just don’t use them) but it’s a little trickier as the SEs do seem to favor websites that utilize cascading style sheets and are scripting-thin. FrontPage is a little heavy on the code behind each page.
At any rate, I wouldn’t even bother with learning software to create web pages, building them on your desktop and then transfering them to the web. In this day and age most of us are now just creating our vitual spaces online… it makes it easier on you when you start making money with your online business and realize you can manage your website from anyplace in the world that has an internet connection!
Now if you’re real nervous about biting the bullet and registering a domain, etc. right away I would start by setting up a page or two on Squidoo.com. It will give you a chance to see how easy it is to create pages online (not your home computer) and you can add features with a click or two that could make you some money to start your own venture with! Just promise me you don’t stop or stymie your dreams or ideas for entrepreneurship by using these free services - after all pages on other websites build lasting value for the other website, not yourself.
I hope this helps to clear up your questions about website ownership in 2007 and beyond!
Cheers, Laura
March 20th, 2007 at 5:09 am
Hi Laura,
I love your websites. The info on them is fantastic! I have recently bought Rich Peck’s ebook on your recommendation. I thought it was great. Very inspiring.
However, for an ebook that is about how to build web 2.0 sites, it doesn’t really hit the mark. I didn’t see anything in it that would actually help me get a web 2.0 site up and running. There was nothing about platforms (other than the very basic phpFox) to use, where to find developers, what questions to be asking them etc. Don’t get me wrong, I still thought that the book was great, but just lacking in practical advice.
At the moment, I am fighting with learning all about internet marketing, website design, hosting, RSS and everything else. At times it does feel like being tossed around in stormy seas. I have been trying to get a basic ecommerce site, and back end management system - to sell an ebook, and some other forthcoming products - which I have just about done. But I would like to expand its reach, and all of the concepts involved with the web2.0 philosophy fit perfectly with my business.
I would like to create a bespoke web 2.0 site (I have many innovative ways to *edited to protect integrity of the niche*, giving them a free application that would greatly help them, and monetizing with my products in a resource section). I see my first products simply as a method of funding the venture, so that the website can grow into a trusted resource, and also a market research tool for myself, so that I can provide the community with targeted products of real value to them and *also edited to protect integrity and market idea*.
Could you give me any recommendation on where to go to research how this can be acheived?
The only place I have to go for information and advice is the internet, as I have no geek (in a nice way:)) friends. However, I have found that it is difficult to know who to trust and where to go for good information - I would normally go to friends I trust for advice (how very web2.0!), but in this situation it is not possible.
Sorry for the long email, it was only meant to be a short question, but it just kept growing!
Any advice you could give me would be much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Daniel
PS I have tried to get onto your Stampede Secret 2.0 list, but i get a 404 error message.
March 20th, 2007 at 12:04 pm
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March 20th, 2007 at 12:12 pm
Daniel, sorry about the 404s. I’ve been mucking around with scripting and php and as such I had 3-4 days there of really bad service. Everything’s fine now though.
Listen, I posted your comment above because I’m sure a lot of people could benefit from a conversation started this way.
I posted my reply (and will keep at it because it can’t be done in one post) here: http://www.stampedesecret.com/web20/non-geeks-want-web-20-sites/.
Before you head over to that link though, let me congratulate you on thinking this through before plunging in. I LOVE the idea of adding features as income grows.
I’ve been suggesting this to people for years - “pour your profits back into your business until it becomes everything you hoped for…”
Well chat soon,
Laura Childs
April 1st, 2007 at 4:38 pm
Laura. do you reveal how to use RSS feeds together with Web 2.0 in Stampede Secrets 2?
I want to use RSS feeds as I am told their still effective.
Thanks,
Mark
April 2nd, 2007 at 11:16 pm
Yes, in one specific technique, but not in great detail.
I talk about how I use RSS Feeds for keyword and tag related traffic (and yes they are still effective as a matter of fact I contend that even if people/companies don’t want to blog, they must at least have one or more RSS Feeds!)
RSS in a web 2.0 world are a necessity - not an option.
In the report are the ways I use RSS Feeds. Whether or not this is the specific information you’re looking for Mark, I cannot say with any certainty. Whether you’re planning on syndicating another sites RSS or creating many of your own, whether you want to use RSS for apps and scripting…?
Drop back another note with any specific questions you may have, Laura
June 22nd, 2007 at 8:05 am
I did a search on web2submitter and your post came right up
That’s the power of web 2.0 marketing in action. I am also keen to promote stampede secret 2.0. Please let me know how. Thanks!
June 25th, 2007 at 10:35 am
Laura,
I found your site last week as I have been looking into starting an internet business. Currently doing Stomper Simple. What I can’t find on your site (I think it was Smartzville) today is a link/information to someone who discussed: not having so many sites as he used to, but rather trimming down to the best ones…something like that. I think it was new Web 2.0 information and you said you wanted us to have a heads-up on it. He was offering a $47 package of information. Do you recall this? Wish I could paint a clearer picture.
Thanking you in advance,
Bill
June 29th, 2007 at 12:02 am
Hi Bill:
This may have been an email I wrote to one of my subscriber lists, since I don’t recall posting that on a public site.
However, as I was thinking about your reference I was amazed at the number of people popping into my head that I KNOW are doing precisely that - paring down to a few of the most lucrative sites and focusing all our attention on those.
This is something I too am going through personally. Having my fingers in too many niches (and sharing insights along the way) isn’t serving much purpose in this Web 2.0 world. The day of “Jack of all trades…” is over. Each one of us needs to show our expert status if we want to make serious sales or commissions. And the only way to do that is to focus on the few, rather than the many.
If I think of who specifically was going public with his plan I’ll let you know.
Laura Childs
June 29th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Laura,
Thanks for the reply. I found it: Luke Parker, SSS.
Bill
October 26th, 2007 at 10:31 am
Laura,
I am Bruce Hunter, the CEO of CORE Magazine in Denver Colorado. Our business lifestyle bimonthly magazine had a readership of 250,000 loyal readers. I would like to review your book and write a review for our readers. How may I obtain a copy?
October 29th, 2007 at 12:53 pm
(replied personally by email)
Dear Mr. Hunter (Bruce):
Thank you for your interest. I have heard many positive reviews about CORE in just the past two months - up to the most recent mention at a business convention this weekend in Toronto, Ontario!
My ‘book’, Strategic Social Marketing’ is an ebook and includes email access to myself for strategy consultation. Few of my readers use this option as most are internet entrepreneurs that know the value of, and implementation steps to, a marketing strategy. Once they grasp the sheer power of social marketing and the resources inside they quickly get moving to generate traffic via these methods.
The ebook sells for $27 from my site, but I have sent you a review copy.
Feel free to contact me at any time if you have questions/comments.
Respectfully,
Laura Childs
March 29th, 2008 at 3:00 pm
Top o the mornin to you Laura.i READ ABOUT YOUR ARTICLE ON TURNKEY WEBSITES.i SAW ONE ON E BAY NUMBER 370037310774..cOULD U HAVE A GANDER AND SEE WHAT YOU THINK OF THIS.iM NEW AT THIS….BUT SOMETHING TELLS ME YOU HAVE A GOOD HEART AND ARE NOT A CON…….and I also thought Baby clothing will ALWAYS be in demand. Thanks and God Bless.Seamus