Five Steps to Jump-start Your Business on the Internet
Get
Internet Access
First of all, you need to subscribe the
Internet access service from a ISP (Internet Service Provider).
Get
Email Address
This is the most basic requirement for
communication on the Internet. When you are registering on any
sites, they will ask you for this information. Usually, your ISP
will give you one. But if you are using free Internet access
service, you can also get your email address free from an email
service provider.
www.mail.com
Excellent email service provider. The basic is free. It offers different domain name and supports email forwarding.
Get Home Page
This
is the place where you will store the files for your web site.
Nowadays, many ISPs provides web space for their clients. But,
if you enjoy free service and the web development utilities, you can try these sites.
www.homepage.com
One thing good about this provider is that it is very easy to
remember your home page since you select it yourself, e.g.
yourchoice.homepage.com, and you do not need to register the domain
name. The problem with this provider is that it does not support frame yet.
www.oocities.org
This provider offers a lot of web development utility programs and it supports frame. This
gives you more flexiblity in your web design.
www.tripod.com
Provide international support. Have sites in many regions. Very helpful in exploring e-commerce
in other countries.
www.homestead.com
The Windows version of the web development program is very user friendly. If you know how to do cut
and paste, you can develop your own web site.
All these home site providers have a tool to allow you to upload or copy your files onto the server. But this can take time if you have many files to upload or you have many home page sites. To simplify the uploading process, you can use ftp to upload the files onto the server. For example,
ftp
-in ftp.provider.com
user username password
prompt
off
bin
mput *
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Design Your Home Page
This is the most exciting and creative part of preparing your business web site. You can either do it yourself, using the tools provided by the home page service provider, to make a simple page or you can hire a professional web designer to complete the work for you. It is like building your first house. It is fun crossing all the hurdles in the building process but it may take you quite a bit of time and effort.
Before you start designing your web site, you should determine the objective of your site. To name three examples,
a)
Provide a service
b) Provide a product
c) Provide information
But, no matter what your web site provides, you want to generate traffics. In addition on selling (providing) service, product or information, you can put advertisements and join affiliation programs to reward your efforts.
Affiliation program is a list of well known companies on the Internet with proven records.
Promote Your Site
Once
your site is ready, you should submit your site to the search
engines and the web directories so that your clients can find it. The following sites
help you to promote your site in different perspectives.
www.scrubtheweb.com
helps you to analyse your meta tags and submit your site to search engines free of charge.
www.simplesubmit.com
submits your site to search engines free of charge.
www.webposition.com
improves the ranking of your site on the search list.
www.jayde.com
gives you a free, detailed, comprehensive, categorized index of over 400 great places to promote your site.
www.adrotator.com
is an excellent tool to rotate your ads on your page
if you are running out of space to put up your ads.
www.smartage.com
offers the free SmartClicks business banner exchange network. Your banner will
appear on other sites without paying advertising fee.
www.bcentral.com
offers you the free banner exchange program from Microsoft.
www.webring.com
lists out the web rings you can join.
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Hope
you find this page useful and I wish you all the best in your
Internet Business.
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