Choosing your first online business.

Eventually once you’ve been online for awhile you’ll get involved in numerous different ventures, affiliate marketing, Google revenue, direct selling, e-books, and the list goes on. But for the first time newbie to the internet they often wonder where they should start. No doubt I would get numerous arguments from hundreds of people saying that one should join this program or that program. All I can say in response is what I did and why.

One of the first things you are going to need once you start an online business is a website. At first I used free hosting providers like blogger and others. The main problem I encounter with these was that I did not have ownership of the site or necessarily have the domain name I wanted, further I was limited in what HTML I could display. I was limited to their particular templates or could only have one page. Worse still, in the case of most free website providers, I had to display their ads, not the smartest thing to do when you start advertising your competitors at the very advent of your project or company.

One thing you want to establish straight away with a website is your own brand recognition. You will want a brand name people will remember that is unique to you, this includes having a domain name that matches your brand name. You may end up with multiple sites, but you want them connected into one main portal with one main brand. Although I now have an article directory, numerous blogs, websites, etc, I still have one main portal site that connects them all together (helps me to remember as well). This is my -ws site. I choose Global Domains International as my first hosting provider for a number of reasons – firstly I had the best chance of getting the domain name I wanted. With .com, .us, endings etc many companies hoard domain names solely for the purpose of selling them at highly inflated prices to the next poor sap. Really the ending makes no difference whatsoever on level of traffic you will receive. I’ve got .com website names, a –ws name, a .blogger.com, etc, the amount of traffic only varies on level of promotion activities or amount of money spent advertising – hence while the core of the domain name may be crucial the ending or suffix of a domain name make little to no difference. The thing I really liked about my Global Domains International website is that I got an inbuilt editor – so I could build my 10 page website without being an expert on HTML. Also I did not need to wait online for hours for some IT support in India to help me get my site up and running, it was easy to do it myself and I had it running in less than an hour. Further as I wanted to add or change stuff I could to so at my leisure, I simply logged in and edited and republished the page or pages that I wanted to change. Second it was relatively cheap $10 a month for hosting (two coffees can cost you more!) (100 megabytes if you choose not use their editor and want a site bigger than 10 pages). Now there are cheaper providers available with greater file server space ($4.95 for 50 Gigabytes), but in order to run these you have to know a bit about HTML, Java, or have your own script or spend a lot of time on the phone or online chat with IT support to get your site running properly – not recommended for the novice. Plus these do not give you your first online MLM business opportunity. I also found the 10 e-mail addresses Global Domains International provided very useful – one for each member of the family and a couple of spare to give out to the possible spam source sites. There are many other things I found useful about Global Domain International but most of these are beyond the first time novice internet entrepreneur, I also won’t speak further on the business opportunity as there is a 7 minute movie that does that. What I will say that you can make money with a GDI website without sponsoring a single person into your downline. My site pays for itself and its $10 a month hosting cost through its Google revenue and affiliate promotions, so really I get the website for nothing. Sponsoring people is just an added bonus which introduce me to new online business partners and gives me a nice bonus income. For the MLM gurus this may be their goal I know of individuals who introduced 800 people personally and have a dowline of 12,000 people – that’s a nice income of $12,000 a month. But for us non-MLM gurus, I suggest first buy a product for the product namely a website and host provider.

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