I’m sure that you, just like myself, are busy attending to our families needs during this holiday season.
Oh, the stress!
But oh, the joy when you see the little ones faces light up Christmas morning!
I had something come across my desk not to long ago and it may be something that you’d be interested in.
If you’ve ever, EVER, thought of starting your own online business – especially beginning in 2007, and you aren’t exactly sure where to start or what to do….
…even if you have been working and getting nowhere, this is for you too!…
…A very rare special is taking place right now…
For those of you who are familiar with Site Build It!, you’ll be happy to know that they are currently running a 2-for-1 special which does not come around often!
For those of you unfamiliar with SBI! and what it can do for your small business…simply visit our site at:
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This special ONLY RUNS UNTIL DECEMBER 25, 2006 AT MIDNIGHT!!
Happy Holidays to everyone and we’ll see you next week!
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Kristine
As with any other kind of business, Christmas is huge. It often puts brick and mortar companies in the black after being in the red the rest of the year and even though it’s not as serious for the online business, the amount of business you can get over the Christmas season is big!
But did you know that you should begin setting up this site now?
Whatever you have decided to do; whether it be selling candles, making jewelry, selling books, whatever it is, if you hope to have a big sales boost via your web site during the holiday season you need to start putting it together now.
If you don’t already have your domain name, get it and get hosting paid for. You can go to www.GoDaddy.com 
for both of these things.
If you’re stumped for a domain name, try nameboy.com.
All the best,
Kristine
Today’s post is going to be a quickie but a goodie…
Do you know when you registered your domain name? Was it last year? 2 Years ago? 5 Years ago?
Maybe you haven’t even registered that perfect domain name. If this is you, listen up.
When you register your domain, register it for at least 2 years. And when you do register it, get hosting set up ASAP – even if it’s the cheapest program you can find and get something up on your home page.
Not “Under Construction”
Not “Coming Soon”
Not “This website has been registered…”
You need something of value. Write a brief article about your site and why your website will be the best at whatever it is you do.
www.GoDaddy.com has very cheap domains that run $8.95 a year and hosting as low as $3.99 a month. So regardless of what you do, once you’ve settled on a domain name, get it registered for at least 2 years and then get something up on your home page.
Kristine
Once you know what it is you want to create your business around, you need to register a domain name.
Know that the domain name you most likely want is probably taken. For example, if you want strollers.com, it’s taken, I guarantee it. I haven’t even looked (you’ll just have to believe me on this one) but I promise you it’s taken. What you need to do is figure out what your niche is. For example, if we continue on with “strollers”, do you have a love of green strollers?
If you do, see if greenstrollers.com is available. This time I will check because I’m not as confident that it is or is not available. And lo and behold, greenstrollers.com is in fact available.
(Side note: If any of you actually use this domain please let me know – I’d be curious to see how you’d market it.)
Now obviously you can’t see how quickly I actually did search for a domain name but I’m going to let you in on a little secret. Use http://www.nameboy.com.
Why? Nameboy allows you to enter in one or two words you’d like to use in your domain name and will bring back all kinds of ideas and alternatives if the one you want isn’t available.
Until next time,
Kristine
