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Your First Small Business Step To Online Marketing

Small Business Mavericks

I’ve changed my thinking over the years about how small businesses can make that first all-important step to achieving an online presence. Advice I’ve given in the past is the same advice that most small business marketing consultants give: Buy a domain name, pay for hosting, set up a website, etc.

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Are Web-Based Free Hosts Good For Business?

Small Business Mavericks

I’m talking about the free web-based website hosts. If you remember a website by the name of Geocities where you could sign in and build a website, then you might remember that it was just a couple of years ago that Yahoo! And all those people who had websites hosted by Geocities had to move their sites, or lose them.

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About.Me: A Good Starting Place On The Web? | Small Business Mavericks

Small Business Mavericks

I’ve always been a proponent of your own domain name. profile first, then you can add a link to your business website after you get it set up. domain names don’t typically do well in the search engines. That makes it infinitely more valuable than most free web hosts. I still am.

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Host yourself: Don’t leave your digital space in someone else’s hands

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When it comes to running a small business or blogging about your recent travel adventures to Spain, anyone who works online understands the need for speedy and effective Internet hosting service. So, about web hosting services? Web hosting companies provide several features that vary.

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How to Set Up an Email Account that Uses Your Domain Name

ProBlogger

Why not use the domain email which is free with your hosting account? The bottom line is that if you have paid money to own a domain then you should, at the least, buy from a domain registrar that offers email forwarding for their accounts (we prefer Godaddy ). Set up an email account that uses your domain name.

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Firebelly Helps Network Solutions Launch "$1000 Gift Certificate Sweepstakes" on Facebook

Firebelly

Firebelly recently helped Network Solutions , a leading provider of online solutions for small businesses (including web hosting and domain name registration), develop and launch the $1000 Network Solutions Gift Certificate Sweepstakes on their Facebook page among additional efforts.

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Tucows Moving to NASDAQ Dec 30th, Announces Reverse Stock Split

Bill Hartzer

OpenSRS manages over fourteen million domain names and millions of value-added services through a reseller network of over 13,000 web hosts and ISPs. Hover is the easiest way for individuals and small businesses to manage their domain names and email addresses. Marketing'