UPdate: 3 articles/5 ads/1 site of 8 pages
It is a start, and I hope to build fast on what I have learned in the last two weeks. I now have 3 articles up and approved on ezinearticles.com and 5 new ads on USFreeads.com. NOT a big start, but I got it done. With a lot of help from Craig, I have my first website 95% completed and it is live (I just need to add a few pages and figure out why you can only go through the links once). All in all a productive several days.
The next piece in the puzzle is to add an auto-responder to start building a list. I also need to get moving on the other three sites I have in mind. So, if I get the process you do your keyword research in your selected niches, place ads and write articles using those keywords, drive traffic to your site with links in the resource box in the articles or in the body of the ads (direct linking in ads is OK).
My first article has had 30+ hits in it's first two week (not breaking any records, but I am being read). My ads are managing about 2 to 3 hits a day so far. The ads are all a week or less old, so I hope that they pick up a little.
It has been a great couple of weeks of learning that I hope I can convert to traffic and sales.