Firstly as mentioned, you need to decide on the type of business you are going to operate, then try to find a domain name that is associated with the business you have decided upon, this is where some brainstorming is going to have to come in. Write down on a list a number of possible ideas that pop in to your head. Swap the words around and ask friends and family if they make sense to them. Remember your domain name is your business name to the world. It represents both you, along with your business, it is therefore extremely important that you choose your domain name carefully.
Although there are numerous extensions today of a domain name (e.g. .com, .net, and .biz to name only a few), go for a .com as most people think of web addresses that finish with a .com, especially if you are working towards a world wide market. Try to avoid hyphens also, one thing is that some servers don't like to see them, but more importantly for you is that if someone is typing the web domain in to their address bar in the browser, if they forget one hyphen or accidentally use an underscore then they may just be directed to someone else's web site, which may turn out to be a competitor or they just get a cannot find the web page error, the out come of which is you just end up loosing that visitor who could have been a potential customer.
If you have been tempted to use a free hosting service that gives you a domain name as an extension of there own hosting service, (e.g. http://thehostingcompany/nowyourname.com or something similar, DON'T do it, you will loose credibility before you even begin.
I have used many companies in the past to register many of my domain names, now take the company I now use for example. Apart from them being one of the cheapest around that I found, they have many other features that you just could not find elsewhere. One really cool feature I found was when you put in the name you have decided upon and you are checking it's availability, if it's already been taken, it returns many similar names that you can then ponder upon that you may not have thought of beforehand. It also had the facility to register many domain names all at once.
Once you have made your decision on your domain, when you come to finally registering your domain name, you will be presented with the option of keeping your domain name private, an excellent feature that I recommend and one you should take advantage of.
A private domain registration will keep your information (name, address, email address, etc.) out of the global Internet database, and will prevent a lot of spam from reaching your email box. I certainly wish this had been available when I created my first web site.
Read the advertising, the hype, and it seems anyone can make money on the Internet while they sleep, or sitting at the keyboard in their pajamas.
It's true. You can make lots of money while you sleep. And, should you choose to do so, you can work in your pajamas.
But what the hype artistes don't tell us is that success takes hard work, discipline and determination. There is no free lunch, not even on the Internet, and if you fall for the hype, it will cost money for zero return (if you are lucky). Why do the hypesters spend their money and effort to deliver their hype? Look down the page. There's an 'Order Now' button. It's the money, your money. The hypester can now earn your money while he sleeps.
Hard work at start
Understand this: any business, on or off the Internet, requires hard work to get it started. It may eventually run on autopilot, but in the beginning, it will take hard work, time, and determination.
Are you ready for that? Because, if not, save time and stop reading this now. You will be one of the 95% who fail.
No one can simply put up a website (or have one provided by a company) and expect others to find it. Early in 2005, there were 56,100,000 commercial websites on the Internet. Even a website in the top 1% was just one out of 561,000. My point is this: what chance does your website have of being found if it languishes there without any promotion?
Suppose your website was even in the top one-tenth of a percent, one of 56,100 websites. How difficult is it to find? Think of it this way: suppose you are at an outdoor event with 56,099 other people and a friend wants to find you without knowing where you are in the milling crowd. Do you think it would be easy, even though your friend knows what you look like?
A waste of space
Now substitute a stranger for your friend, a stranger who has never seen your face. Impossible? Not if the stranger put an announcement over the public address system.
Now you understand why a website that is not promoted is a waste of space. Now, perhaps, you understand that success on the Internet takes work, lots of it, at least until enough people know about you and your business and can find you through the search engines.
Why am I being so negative? Because if you are the sort of person who cannot take the heat in the kitchen, I want you to get out of it before you get burned.
To some extent, the hypesters are right: making money on the Internet is easy. But there are no true get-rich-quick schemes (except for the hypsters if you fall for their talk).
The Internet is a communications medium. It is a way to get messages across to others (once they have found your message). But since they cannot see your eyeballs or read your facial expressions or body language, you have to win their trust in other ways (just as I hope to win yours).
Internet presence is about trust
The Internet is not like a store in a mall, and if you want to be successful with it, you cannot treat it the same way. Let me make a point: apart from things like e-mails, chats and games, why do you sign onto the Internet? Isn't it mostly for information? Now, assuming price is not a factor, why do you buy from one merchant and not another? Because of the guarantee or because you read the endorsements about their service?
The Internet, more than in a store in the mall where you can see the seller's face, is about trust. And you gain that trust by providing honest, reliable information.
You can have the greatest product since sliced bread, but it will rarely sell itself on the Internet. Your work, should you choose to accept it, will be to get your product noticed and to get yourself trusted. That is the nature of the Internet, whether it is used for a home-based business or by a giant corporation.
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