Let me explain these steps a little bit. Your domain name is the name of your small business online, an example would be my domain that your are visiting right now, DatingB2B.com. You register your domain name for as little as $8 a year and you pay again every year to maintain your registration.
Your web site is not only a place on the Internet but it’s also a place on a computer somewhere that is open to the public so people can visit your web site. You pay for this place by reserving space offered by a web site hosting company. This can cost as little as $5 a month, on average, but services and prices vary wildly. My recommendations are available for you to read on another page.
Finally you will need to decide how you will put your words into computer bytes, that is, how you will design your web site. I don’t recommend going out and spending money on a designer or fancy add-ons that will increase your starting costs. I do recommend starting with WordPress blogging software to get your first web site started. It’s good, free software that most web site hosting companies can offer easy, free, installation and you can have your first web site ready to go in a couple of hours and for less than an initial cost of $60.00 for your first year of business. If anyone tells you different just have them shoot me an email. Keep in mind I’m not going to debate the different costs and options available yet.
Following these three initial steps gets you your first web site online quickly and, realistically, you could be earning money in the next 60 days.

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I say to these people, start with the website and write about what you know well.

Do you collect stamps? Enjoy gardening? Write fictional love stories? Then start creating a website right now!
Business-Domain-Names has domain name registration services and inexpensive hosting for your new website and even a website creator that’s very easy to use, so you can get started today!

I will give you an example of one way to use the last suggestion, writing fictional love stories, to make some money.

Now then, every website needs a theme, and a design so once you’ve decided on those, you’re ready to write. Again, Business-Domain-Names had put together all the design stuff so you can concentrate not on design but content.

You can write an ongoing story (my personal favorite) or a whole story at once. Select a couple of non-obtrusive ads to go along with your design, maybe posted on the right side, or at the bottom of the page.
One affiliate program you might join would be Ashley Madison, the dating service that caters to people contemplating having an affair.

Your romance/love stories can easily tie into the Ashley Madison dating service and that is an effective ad that can bring in a lot of revenue even if you don’t get hundreds of people visiting your website every day.

Writing the story as a serial novel will keep people coming back for more and this allows you to promote your website and your stories using RSS feeds, desktop widgets and even publishing a feed to the itunes/ipad store. While I would suggest giving your stories available as a free product once you have several stories there’s no reason why you couldn’t start charging a few dollars and make money selling your stories as a pdf ebook too.

Simple as pie! If you need any additional ideas at this point, just leave a comment and I’ll get back to you quickly.

Let’s make some $$$ together!

But I will give you my suggestions. I currently have more than 150 web sites hosted at various hosts in North America.

I don’t put all of my websites on one server, or in one hosting package, but I do sometimes have several websites in a shared server type set-up. How you organize your website(s) is totally up to you.

If you have a questions, feel free to ask me. I’ve been through a lot of hosts and a lot of moving websites. I’ll share what I can with you and eventually have it posted to this page. Subscribe to my monthly newsletter and you’ll get the info before anyone else does.

Host Gator – I have used and am using Host Gator currently with more than 40 of my domains (out of 152 currently). I have a shared server with unlimited traffic, I have a dedicated server with unlimited traffic and more space that I could use unless I went video totally on my site. And I have a reseller account that I use to host new websites that I am developing. With the reseller account, naturally, Host Gator provides the system built-in to sell domains inline. I just use the reseller account for my own domains and a couple that I manage for local businesses. The control panel is easy to use (cPanel) and setup is a breeze. The biggest thing is that support staff and ticket system at Host Gator is the best I’ve ever dealt with, although how really wants to ever need support, right?

And I have to add: I did have some server issues a couple of weeks ago with my dedicated server. Host Gator support took care of it right away and when I said that there might have been traffic disruptions to my site because of these issues they gave me a credit for one month’s hosting. I saved $170.00! Thanks guys!

iPowerWeb Hosting: I now have a hosting account at iPower. I went with them to have a Windows hosted server. I like their reputation as good hosts with a great support system in place (domains 170-174 of mine will be hosted here… should keep me busy for a couple of days designing, adding content and products and preparing my advertising campaigns. I looked hard at the other offerings available I really liked the price $83.60 for a Windows hosting account for up to 25 domains, with plenty of bandwidth and storage. Now I can stretch my wings beyond the linux hosting I’ve been using before and really dive into ASP 2.0 and more! I am excited!

1 & 1 Internet Web Hosting – I have used 1 & 1 and found them easy to use buy their support wasn’t great for me and I had a hard time using their control panel for website management. But a lot of my friends swear they’d never use anyone else so feel free to take a look, maybe the price s right for you? And they have some great free software included to get you started. 1 & 1 is great for first timers because of the software and instant setup that’s available for free.

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