While there are many terrific options out there for new or inexperienced business owners, getting started can have some hassles.

There are a few steps you can take to make your cyber home comfortable and cozy.

• Start by purchasing your very own web domain.
  (With so many websites offering “free” domain names, this may sound silly to spend money on.)

But many of these sites are really just giving you a subdomain – for example: mybusinesssite.whatever.com. Not only is that difficult to remember for consumers, but if your customers mistype your site address, they could land on a site that’s offensive or contains a virus costing you valuable clients.

Buying your own domain name immediately gives your site credibility in the eyes of web visitors.

• While you’re at it, avoid free hosting.
  When you use free hosting (examples: blogger.com, wordpress.com, webs.com, etc.) your site is bound by another company’s terms of service.

Let’s say you’re running a health and beauty business and your website is being freely hosted. Now let’s say this free host provider suddenly has an influx of spammers taking over the health and beauty category.

Suddenly, your top notch website is mistakenly labeled spam and you log on one day to find it’s disappeared – deleted without warning. Your existing customers don’t know where to find you online and you’re losing out on potential customers and sales.

If you can afford it, pay for hosting. You’ll rest easy at night knowing you won’t wake up tomorrow to find the website you worked so diligently on suddenly deleted. While you should be paying for hosting, you shouldn’t have to go broke paying for it.

Expect to pay between four and ten dollars per month for hosting. If you pay more than that, then you’re overpaying. If you pay less than that, then read the fine print very carefully.

Once you have a domain and hosting, how can you build a professional looking site with correct search engine optimization that attracts thousands of visitors each day? While you can certainly pay a web designer for a fancy site with all the bells and whistles, you don’t have to.

You can research free open source software for building your very own website. These software packs even include professional templates for you to use. Some suggested open source software is WordPress, Joomla and others. All are great options to use for your website. And if you get a host that has Cpanel, then installing your new software will be a breeze!

I highly recommend Namecheap for your domain and hosting!

Starting A Free Membership Site

How many free membership sites do you belong to?

Basically, a free membership site is a site where the user is not charged a membership fee to use the site but is required to supply their e-mail address, choose a user name and password to enter the site, participate in the discussions and activities.

Sometimes free memberships are limited to less useful information or access while paid memberships have full access.

Any individual might start a free membership website.

There would be no charge at all to access the site.

To gain access to limited information would require supplying an email address, choosing a user name and a password. To gain full access to the site would most likely require payment if the information they are providing merits a fee.

Some sites never charge a membership fee and rely solely on selling their own product or promoting products produced by others as a source of income.

Free membership sites very rarely, if ever, supply information that you couldn’t easily acquire on the Internet yourself.

An individual who sets up a free membership site doesn’t do it for free so they will be planning to make an income in some way. Usually free membership sites are for the purpose of selling a product or service.

Some information will be provided but supplying information is not the main objective.

What if I tell you about a new free membership site that will really help with internet marketing?

Listen closely…coming soon!

How do we approach 2012?

In the same meek way we let 2011 slip through our “profitable” hands?

Procrastination can be a business killer! Let’s Roll!

Let’s face it, dealing with the obstacles of day to day living can drive us a little crazy.

Without proper organization, this could make rolling out of the bed a problem of its own.

We sometimes find it difficult focusing on one thing at a time, find that in the end nothing is done. From the office, to household, children, and finances, without proper organization could turn disastrous.

You want to learn how to manage your time, actions and overall arrangements.

Successful people know how to get ahead; they plan, set priorities, and always follow through. There are many services to help you to organize and control your life, but here are some suggestions to get you started.

Stop procrastination!

Although there are good and bad procrastinators, depending on what you do for a living most commonly, you are working on nothing, something less important, or something more important.

Stop putting off small things, for more important things. Still, not always good.

Try writing down the tasks you could be working on and when something is completed; scratch it off your list. The description of procrastination is avoiding in doing a task and not accomplishing it.

Improve your personal life by completing what it is your set out to do.

If finances are something that you are putting off to get organized, pull out those receipts and take control of your finances. If your goal is to lose weight and this has created anxiety in your life, discover a nutritional plan that works for you and start today. The best solution is to start exercise. Start out slow and work your way into a complete three day a week program. You will be amazed at what exercising can do for you muscles, mind, body, and so on.

Allow more free time to do want you want Increase productivity and find free time for you may seem almost impossible, but only when we are disorganized.

The key to finding more free time is to organize what needs to be done.

A simple list consisting of catching up on your workload, working out, time with family and friends, and pursuing your own leisure activity can all be done by making a plan. It seems a little odd to have to put your family on a priority list, but it sure beats not spending time with family at all because your doing everything spontaneously and unprepared. Improve your personal life by staying organized and allow room for fun.

Give yourself a peace of mind!

Very few people understand the cause of happiness. Many of us focus on friends, cars, and money as the true reason for happiness and devote all of our time and energy acquiring these things.

The real source of peace of mind is in inner peace.

Remember that if we have a peaceful mind, we will be happy. Having all the money in the world would not make us completely peaceful if we decide to let in all the negative influences and disturbances in our circle.

Improve your personal life by creating a healthy surrounding for yourself and family. You can take steps to gain peace of mind. The first step is meditating at least once everyday. Allow your mind to focus on nothing. Once you are in the mood, allow your thoughts to graze the pastures. In addition, there is nothing wrong with taking time out to dream about a life that you would like to live.

Sometimes if we take the step to dream, we will find the stamina to take action to achieve our dreams. Keep the dreams realistic.

Get ahead of your fears and conquer your goals, personal growth is just a plan away!

Hope this helps you start 2012 with a fresh look at yourself!

You and Yours Have A Nice Holiday!

PS: Something new in the works for the New Year, be excited!

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What if…

I could show you how a single mother could go from being laid off after 12 years on the job with NO NOTICE and NO SEVERANCE… to making more on a daily basis than the average american makes in a week?

this is how:
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You can do it too, but you need to take action today…because this wont be around forever.

Unemployment wont last forever…

And if you’re over 40, age discrimination makes the chances of you getting another decent job PRETTY SLIM…

I’ve found work for you:
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Government’s & Corporations around the world are awakening to a new epidemic sweeping the globe…

Ordinary people like me (and you) are realizing that ‘They’ Don’t have our best interests in mind.

The whole system they’ve set up is to enslave us…

So how do you break free?
this is how:

How many times have you seen the above headline and wondered…

Doing the daily grind and being chained to a regular job just doesn’t work for some people. They can’t stand the thought of a regular, written in stone schedule where they have to meet the needs of a boss or the company before their own.

Hint >>>> Surveys! <<<<

When the sunny weather calls to them to hit the beach, they want to answer that call, not be stuck in a cubicle. Those kinds of people need more flexibility than what a regular job offers. Still others have a job that they love and can’t imagine leaving it. Yet they’re struggling to make ends meet. Fortunately for both types of people, there is a solution. That solution is found in Internet Marketing.

Thought about filling surveys?

Filling out surveys not only provides freedom to the ones not wanting to be tied down to a traditional job schedule and all of the responsibilities associated with it, but it also offers the part time income that a lot of people can use. The great thing about surveys is that it’s there when your schedule permits you to work it.

If you’re not a morning person, the internet will still be available for you at two o’clock in the afternoon (with no one breathing down your neck telling you that you’re late). You can work around your appointments with the doctor, around running your errands, around spending time with your friends and loved ones.

For someone who has a job and needs some extra income, you won’t have the pressure of rushing from one job to a second job. Filling out surveys is a business – but it’s a business that you control – a job you run, not one that runs you.

And the part time income you can generate can vary depending on what type of marketing you do. This type of work is great for moms and dads – especially single parents because you have the option of still being home to spend time with your kids – to be available when they need you and yet still bring in an income.

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And it’s not like there’s just one or two scam businesses up and running online.

They’re everywhere – and they all have one goal in mind – to separate you from your money.

It’s disgusting, but the scammers already know their product or service has no value.

What they bank on is that you don’t know the truth behind what they’re offering. If you go online and do a search for work at home scam, you’ll feel overwhelmed at all of the results you see.

Some of them promise you the moon.

Many say that for ‘just a one time initial investment’ you can be on your way to the life of a millionaire.

Some go as far as to promise you this life in a matter of days (not months or years).

So how do you know if it’s a legitimate offer? If it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is. Don’t be gullible enough to fall for that easy and fast money lure. There is fast and easy money involved in this scam – yours. And it’s flowing from your pocket to theirs.

You can keep from being taken advantage of by doing your homework:

• Check out who the product owner is.
• Does he or she have a bad online reputation?
• Are there complaints against them?
• Against their company?
• Look into the product itself.

You can do a Google search by typing in the name of the person or the product and typing in ‘complaints’ after it or you can use the word ‘scam.’ But also recognize that people pushing these products use those phrases as well, so read the review to see if it’s real or just a way to sell you on it.

Listen to what the general public is saying about the person or product.

Don’t go solely by what’s said on the product website.

Just because there are testimonials on a page where a product is featured doesn’t make it legitimate.

Those could be testimonials from people who are friends of the product owner or someone who wants the branding and name recognition of being on the sales page.

Check out what kind of return policy the product offers. Do they offer a money back guarantee?

If so, check on a Google search to see if people have tried to get their money back and haven’t.

Play it smart and you’ll be richer for it.

I know, I know another article idea, but what if… Google top spots!

If you’ve ever used Squidoo or Hub Pages, then you’ll have some idea of what Google Knol is and how it works. Like those web 2.0 properties, Knol is a place where users can gather and let the world know what they know.

What Knol does is lets users join the site and then write content about a topic. You can write under any topic as long as it doesn’t violate the terms of use. You can write pages yourself or you can let others also add their knowledge to the page.

To write Knol pages, you must be already have a Google account (if you don’t, it’s easy to sign up for one) and once you register to use Knol, you’re ready to begin writing your content.

Getting content set up is a little easier in Knol because you can just take what you’ve typed up already and import it into the site. Write the content based on what you know or what you’ve learned and are now a contributing expert at.

Why would you want to showcase your expertise on Google Knol? Because you can get traffic directed to your main website by using Knol. Once again, it’s using the power of a bigger online presence to get a smaller one noticed.

On top of writing content, you get to have a user profile, which is visible to the public and gets you noticed but also helps you promote your website by using a hyperlink. Writing articles on your Knol pages gives you a solid reputation in whatever niche you’re in and helps others to see you as a credible source.

As a marketer, you can bet that some people are quick to check you out to see if you’re on the up and up before they buy your product. When they see that you’ve written articles for numerous places including Knol, it helps them think of you as a real person with nothing to hide – and it builds trust in what you’re offering on your website.

You may have heard talk about Google’s ‘no follow’ policy for their pages. That means that the spider bots ignore the pages in some cases. However, once you’ve used Knol for awhile, your content is considered helpful and you’ve built a decent reputation, Google will allow your page to be changed from a no follow to a follow. With the authority of Google behind it, you can just imagine how high that will get your page ranked!

I hope this helps!

Last year the online total just for the holiday season, $33 Billion plus! Wow!

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