One reason for having a personalized blog is so that you can optimized your site to suite your specific needs for branding yourself and your business on the Internet.

Having your own self hosted website will enable you to choose the plug ins that will super charge your site.

You can promote various affiliate programs and special offers on your site making use of banners and blog posts that will lead to sales that generate income for you.

This way you only need to generate traffic to one place as apposed to sending people to different sites. Your success depend on educating yourself in various marketing strategies that work. The strategies that you would have to implement would include: blogging, article marketing, solo ads, pay per click, social media marketing and various other forms of marketing.

Don't be fooled by people that tell you that it does not really take effort to market on-line. You do have to invest some time to make a success in marketing on-line but the rewards greatly outweigh the results in the form of your income that you stand to earn from as many income streams as you desire.

Learning the marketing skills that I have mentioned is not that difficult if you have a person and a system in place where you can learn at your pace and at a very affordable rate that anybody can afford to invest that has the potential to make you a 5 to 6 figure earner with in a couple of months.

This income will depend entirely on how quickly you master the strategies and will depend on what strategies you use.

The fastest way to generate the traffic to your site would be strategies like: solo ads and pay per click but pay per click can be costly if you do not know what you are doing.

Solo ads can be placed for free at some places on the Internet with the option of using a paid method which will obviously be more effective. A example of a site where you may place free solo ads is: www.usfreeads.com

For more long term success you would look at content marketing that include social media marketing as in video marketing and also article marketing.

Your website header should clearly indicate what your site is about. The first step is to decide what the cor of your site is about and then to think of a catchy phrase that best describe what people will expect to find on your site. For example, is it about Network Marketing, Nutritional Technologies, Electronics, Jewelery etc.?

Give your site a name that set it apart from any other website. Make your site unique. It is very important to be able to stand out amongst the rest of the world on the Internet. Make sure that you add your name in your domain name for personal branding.

I suggest that you use a .com domain name because it just has the feel of looking more professional.

You can obtain a domain name from Go daddy for a very reasonable price that will set you up with a personalized domain name in minutes.

Having acquired your domain name, you will need to have a website. You can choose to set up a website yourself or have one set up for you. It might work out to about 350 Dollar or more to have your site set up professionally.

Host Gator is also a great suggestion for hosting your word-press website.

There are a couple important items that your site will need. The basic requirements are to have a customizable header and one or more side bars where you can enter widgets to place banners and a web-form.

Choose a theme that best suite your needs for your specific product or services.

Aweber is a great choice as a source of setting up your web-form and auto responder messages for people that opt in for more information with regard to what you offer to them.

Aweber also provide tracking of your success with regard to how many people opened your messages, clicked on the links in your e-mails, the amount of opens over a period of time and aweber also notify you when somebody opts in from your web-form.

You can view your subscriber details and people may unsubscribe too if they decide not to receive your e-mails anymore. This is great for your credibility in the sense that you respect their privacy by not spamming people. Everybody hate spam. That is why you need to set up a web-form through a auto responder company so that only people that want more information will receive updates via e-mail and have the choice to un subscribe if they choose too.

The plus is that the cost involved when using Aweber is so low that it is ridiculous when you think about all the value that you get in return.

Make sure that you have a strong call to action on your web-form and it would be advisable to have a special free gift to enhance your opt in rate to your web-form.