Alexis Dawes

(The Walking The Talk series was created to show an ebook launch from idea to salesletter to marketing.)

In my last segment I left a couple of issues up in the air.

1) Should I use the NoMoreSmellyHouse.com domain for the blog, AND to sell the ebook. Or get a separate domain for each project.

Thanks to the advice from Sherman Hu at WordpressTutorials.com - (see the comments from my last post) - I decided to use the same domain for both.

This way I’m building up my search engine strength, and not dividing my energies trying to get traffic to 2 different sites.

2) As much as I’m a “I-don’t-care-if-my-site-is-ugly” advocate, I did decide to go ahead and have a header designed for the blog.

Here’s the project description I’m using to attract a designer from one of the freelance sites I mentioned in DBO:

“SUBJECT: Header needed for Wordpress blog

I need a header designed for my Wordpress blog.

I’m using the default Kubrick template. So the header must be sized 740×192.

The name of the blog is No More Smelly House. The graphic (photographic, not cartoonish) must match with the theme of a good smelling home. Although the one thing I don’t want is flowers.

Here’s the color scheme I’m looking for:
#D4E6B0
#B1BF93
#E6D4B1
#BFB193
#998D76
#1A1A1A
#E5E5E5

The project must be completed within 3 days of choosing the winner.

Thank you in advance for your consideration.”

Normally I go to IStockPhoto.com and download the graphic I want the designer to use.

But after a brief search, I couldn’t find anything exciting. So I decided to let the creative chips fall where they may.

BTW, if you’re looking for color scheme ideas for your site, go to the Website Color Match Generator.

3) There are some parts of the blog that still need some customization.

But I’ll wait till I have some posts to see what needs to be tweaked.

Tomorrow I’ll start blogging. Oh boy!

Alexis Dawes