May 27, 2008
The First 2 Pillars In Your Online Business
I’m often asked by subscribers to give feedback to their newly made websites.
This is one aspect I really enjoy and am more than happy to critique a website and offer my views and opinions as to how to improve it.
But before I even look at the site the first check point is the domain name.
The first 2 absolutely essential steps to starting a brand new internet business are to ensure you have your own domain name and web hosting.
Using free hosting and a free domain name like a Blogger blog or a Yahoo web site immediately makes your sales page look cheap and unprofessional.
You’ll end up with a domain name that looks something like this:
http://www.geocities.com/yourname/index.htm
Or a Blogger address like this:
http://yourname.blogspot.com
When visitors see this type of address do you think they will take you seriously when they see you can’t even afford to pay for web hosting?
It is also a nightmare to get these types of sites indexed by the search engines.
Using a free domain name and hosting is a false economy. You must pay for a domain name and hosting if you intend to make money from your online business.
A domain name will set you back less than $10. It will cost you less than $10 per month to host your site which will provide more than enough band width to run a professional business.
I currently have 17 websites powered by just 1 hosting plan that costs me less than $100 per year and I’m not even half way through my band width allocation!
I’m afraid if you can’t afford these 2 very basic commodities then you should reconsider proceeding any further with your online business.
Bottom line is this. Your potential customers will NOT take you
seriously with a Geocities or Blogger type domain and hosting. This will
result in NO sales and a FAILED business.
So please do yourself a favor. Get yourself your own domain and some professional web hosting.
If you want to know who I recommend and personally use to register my domain names and host my websites, then take a look at my Recommended Resources section.
~ Peter Tremayne
Filed under Blog, Internet Marketing, Recommended Resources by Peter Tremayne
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Comments on The First 2 Pillars In Your Online Business »
Peter
Thank You for this series. I have always believed in having your own domain and hosting. I have even set up a site to catalouge all my favorite sites under my online name. I really look forward to reading more of your articles and i will attempt to link this blog to my site. (I too learn everyday!)
peter thank you for sharing your idea about domain name and hosting. i agree in what you ave written and i learned from this article.