Home Based Business Information – Step 4 Get Yourself Online
Profitable Business Ideas Must Include Online Marketing
In part four of our home based business information series, it’s time to cover how to get yourself online. You have identified profitable home based businesses and what you want in your business. What will make it a legitmate home business is your reasons for choosing the business model that is right for you.
Now let’s get your business online, attract your target audience or market to you and start making some profit. Step one is getting your domain name registered. Start by taking your main keyword phrase you know people are searching to solve a need or problem. Review best home based internet business research step 3 for more infomation.
Profitable Business Ideas For Best Home Based Internet Business
1. Register a domain name with your keyword phrase using .com, .net, .org, .us, .biz or .info in that order of selection. If your exact keyword phrase is taken in ALL those domain selections, add a short word at the end of your phrase. Or research your phrase a bit more in depth.
Domain registration will cost $5 – $15 per domain name. You can find small savings by doing Google searches for coupons or discount codes. Example “namecheap coupons”
I personally register domains at the following:
2. Change the name server at your register to point to your web hosting DNS. You will get these DNS names from your web host company. If you currently do not have web hosting here are a few hosting companies I use for business.
- GVO – (great marketing tool package included with GVO)
- HostGator
- HostMonster
- BlueHost
3. Signup with an Autoresponder service to capture your customer names and email. You will want to keep your customers and clients informed of valuable information and future products that may interest them. Profitable home based businesses must provide helpful information to their customer list to build trust and credibility.
If your in need of an autoresponder service checkout: Monthly service fees will cost $15 – $50
- GVO Hosting (included free with the Titanium Package)
- Aweber
- Getresponse
- Icontact
- Oprius
4. Determine if you business site will revolve around a website or blog format. A blog can be created in minutes through any of the web host listed in Step 2 above using the Fantastico feature. (GVO also offers video training and GVO Academy personal training on how to do this). You can also search Google or Youtube for help.
Website development will require taking time to create your own web pages or paying someone to create your website. There are some software packages that allow newbies or experienced web designers the ability to quickly create sites using HTML editors. They are
You can also search Goolge for free html editor. Don’t let HTML scare you, with a short time of practice you’ll find it’s not that difficult.
Summary of our home based business information to get yourself online.
- Register your domain name
- Change name servers to your hosting DNS names
- Setup your autoresponder
- Upload your website or blog to your web host.
- Start promoting your website – MORE TO COME ON THIS
~Mike
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