Friday, June 5, 2009

How to Get an Impressive Online Presence and a Sideline Business to Boot.

By Owen Jones

Have you already got a business? A conventional, bricks-and-mortar business, I mean. Or are you trying to make some money advertising generic sites with only an affiliate link? Both of these types of business usually have something in common: that is that their online presence is disappointing.

Many business owners and affiliate website promoters just do not seem to understand that a poor website does a lot more harm than good. A business owner who has created a website on Geofreebies or one of the other free webspace providers is essentially doing the same as someone who only promotes an affiliate link on an automatically-generated, replicated affiliate page.

The problem is that it is obvious what these sites are: cheap and nasty; and that reflects on the business and the owner both. The same goes for email addresses. After all, what looks better to you:

http://www.geofreebies.com/memnbersites/Amiable-Dragon.html

amiable-dragon123456@yahoo.com or

http://amiabledragon.com

owen@amiabledragon.com

It is all too obvious which looks more professional; which gives more confidence and which would bring in more customers and so more sales and Im sure that there is no one in the world who would disagree with that.

The next thing to think about is the extension " ie the letters after the . or the @. .com probably surely still carries the most prestige, but it no longer has the lead it used to have. .tv, .biz, .info have their places, I'm suppose, but they do not really have the same cachet as 'dot com'. However, there is another problem with .com and that is that it has been around since the dawn of the Internet and very many of the name combinations have already been taken up.

I consider that .ws is a very valid alternative to this problem. You could imagine it standing for web site, although it actually stands for Western Samoa! It is a relatively new suffix and many, many name combinations are still available. I am sure you could still get the address you want. Something else you may not know is that when you buy your own domain name, you can create any email address out of it by putting anything instead of the http://www and replacing the DOT with an @ sign. Look at the address above again for an example.

Then you have to find a host for your domain and administer the site and email addresses. The fees are usually paid annually in advance for the name and monthly for the hosting, both payments going to different companies quite often. However, there is now a very professional company on the market which is offering a website, with a name of your choice and ten variable email addresses and a free website design service and all you pay is only $10 a month to one firm for the lot. There is no contract and you can leave at any time or change the email or website addresses.

I think that that presents a very good deal for a business website (you can imagine: sales@....; info@....); a family website (everyone can have their own email address) or an affiliate website (using redirects and multiple email addresses). But that is not all there is to it! You can actively promote that new .ws company or just put a referral link to it on the bottom of your website and make cash, month after month ad infinitum from referrals automatically! And if you use the link below, you will get a weeks free trial, but fully operational account and three paying members in your downline, subject to a condition, or your first months $10 paid for you by us.

That cant be bad, can it? You can not lose. Five weeks free trial of your own domain, hosted on your own site, with 10 email address or a free week with three members paying you $3 a month to give your business a flying start!

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