How to make a name for yourself on the 21st century Internet
Clearly, the Internet technology is going at a tremendous pace
and you need to make a presence for yourself in this vast and
lucrative market.
So, lets dive in the subject right away and say that you need to
have a web site. An e-business site to create a presence for you
on the web. I'll show you how to decide what your site is going
to be about in a moment. In the meantime, lets take a look at
the reality here.
All the indications and expert analysts' reports point to the
direction where the world is headed. Everyday, e-commerce
generates $32,000,000 in sales. The whole world is connected.
Domain names are going at a scary rate everyday. Think of any
domain name and do a whois on it. I bet you'll find that it has
been taken. This should be enough for you to start thinking; you
owe it to yourself.
When I decided to make a web site I had an idea on what it's
going to be about. I didn't have the money to start an
e-business site right away. Instead, I started a site, which
cost me $120.00 CDN for a 1-year hosting and $70.00 US for
domain registration for 2 years. Remember when I said domain
names are going fast, it took me 3 days to find this name.
http://www.sitefiles.com/
How to start?
First, think of an idea just an idea on what your site should be
about. Ask yourself what am I good at? You must be good at
something find it. To help you, you can always start With a site
that can provide a service to people, visit my site
http://www.sitefiles.com/ and try to get an idea. If you look
around you'll see tons of sites about FREE STUFF it's a good
idea.
The point is to put your foot on the first step, once you're
confident go up one more step and keep going you'll never stop
until you've made a good fortune for yourself.
By now you should have a name in mind and if not taken, do not
hesitate to register it right away. On
http://www.sitefiles.com/, you'll see Network Solutions search
box. Use it if you like to search for free names and to register
your OWN domain name.
I've put carefully selected links on my site to help you find
all that you need to create your own web site. You will find
links for free domain hosting, Internet access and much more.
One little note about free domain hosting, I do not recommend it
if you are going for a professional and trusted web site. Also,
sponsors who will be paying you don't like that.
Next, you get busy designing your site. Go to different sites on
the web to get yourself an idea on what your site should look
like. Think how to make a better layout, better colouring etc.
Let's say you have registered your domain name, got an ISP to
host it for you and now you site is up and running then what?
Well, before anything else you need to make your site known to
the world and to do that you need to add it to all the major
search engines and directories. This is free so start with Yahoo
and follow exactly their submission instructions. Other search
engines will just ask you to type in your URL and their crawler
will take care of the rest, but for this to work properly your
META TAGS should be correct. I'm assuming you've done your
homework and used the links on my site to the various locations
where you can learn all about HTML in no time.
So now you have a web site with good content that is searchable
on almost all the major search engines. You are almost there if
you've made this far, you've proven you have strong
determination.
Next, start contacting sponsors, usually you need to submit an
application and in no time they will reply and guide you through
the process of becoming an Affiliate. You will get to know all
the sponsors and know which to choose.
Again, you can always go to http://www.sitefiles.com/ as a
reference. Say you want to contact a sponsor but you need a name
or URL, looking around on my site you'll get all the information
you need.