So what’s it take to grow a WordPress website? I guess that’s something we are going to find out together over the next couple of months.

FamilyCow.com is a domain we purchased from a friendly competitor of our first web business. Our main interest in the site was that it had already been well indexed in the engines. The site has been around since 1999. I had heard that Google looked favorably upon longevity so we thought it would be good for linking to our site an what not. When we sold our web business, we kept familycow.com…because we liked the name and felt it would be usable in the future.

After a few months of “retirement” from the web..we were brainstorming one day with our techy friend, Tom and started talking about all that we had learned over eight years of running an e commerce website and that we would love to be able to help others do what we had done. After a few weeks of tossing ideas around we decided to turn FamilyCow.com into a blog promoting WordPress hosting and related services. As we work to duplicate our success online, we share our story with others and hopefully learn a few things along the way.

See we’re the guys people come up to in social settings and say…”boy I’d love to have a website…can you help?” Officially, now we can point them to FamilyCow.com and say just sign up for the hosting for $9.95/mo and tell us what domain name you want and we’ll take care of setting it up for you along with an email address…you just add content. We’ll even include the domain costs and set-up in the $9.95/mo.

Over the years we’ve learned that the hardest part of getting and staying online is the assumption that everyone will figure out the techie stuff. The reality is after a couple of weeks of wrestling with crashed sites, screwed up themes, out dated plugins and improperly configured email…people lose interest. So we want to provide a solution where someone can start immediately with the “easily doable” stuff like adding content and bypass all the the “pull-out-your-hair” stuff.

So we have a business plan and the skills to back it up. We have a great domain name and we obviously know WordPress is the best software to build our website/blog with. Now what?