The Most Important Services For A Profitable Internet Home Business

There are basically 3 services which are of utmost importance to run a profitable internet home business. Do not run the internet home business without these three services. What are they?

• Domain Name

The first service you will need and cannot have a website without, is a domain name. A domain name is the internet address given that is used to find your website, for example : http://www.edtperfumes.com . You need a domain name because your business needs recognition and traffic. With your own domain name, you have full control over your website. So you realize the value of a domain name? Now there are several free service providers but it is not recommended. If the free service provider runs out of business and closes down for some reason then all your hard work and your business is going to crash-land. Instead of promoting other people’s sites its best to promote your own.

When you are choosing your domain name let it be related to your business and easy to remember. The next step is to choose an extension. There are several extension available but .com is the best one to choose. (more info : How to Choose A SEO Domain Name )

There are several domain registration service providers. Choose a good one, do some background check and then decide. I highly recommend NameCheap.com for domain name registrar.

Cost : depending the extension and registrant – normal cost is around $10 per year for .com extension.

• Webhosting

The next is a webhosting service. I would like to repeat the same thing here, never go for a free service. You will need to do your profitable internet home business in a professional and credible way. You should not use a free webshosting service for the following reasons :

• there will be advertisements in your site and some may not be of your business interest;
• the capacity, support and features are limited;
• when you want to expand your business and need extra space, you will need to go for paid service since your free service provider will not provide extra space and at that time you loose your old customers and traffic; and
• the provider can remove your files from the system anytime if there is no update or activity from your website for a certain period.

Hence a good webhosting service is very important. Let us see what webhosting really means. Your website files and all related information and data are stored in your web host server/computers. This is required because your website should be available 24/7 and should be able to accommodate any amount of traffic.

When choosing your webhosting sevice you will need to look for a few important features you need to run the website like:

• CGI – BIN, this is required for interactivity of your website.
• PHP5,
• up-time, this is the amount of time your site is available for visitors, this should be 24/7 or close
• excellent customer support,
• setup fees, none
• space, more the better
• traffic capacity/ bandwidth, more the better
• pop email accounts, never less than 10 but unlimited is the best
• site stats, needed to keep track of your site
• FTP, at least one account.
• Cpanel admin area
• number of domain can be hosted, unlimited domains is the best

I only recommended two webhosting services that I use personally :

• BlueHost
• Hostgator

Cost : ranges from as low as $2 to $10 per month, depending on payment term. 3 years in advance is much cheaper than monthly or one year in advance payment. I suggest you to take 3 years in advance since the webshosting company usually offers discounted price for new customer. You expect to have long term home business, right?

• Autoresponders

The third most important service is autoresponders. What is an autoresponder? An autoresponder follows up with your website visitors to provide useful information, build trust and ultimately make some sales.  Autoresponder is a tool for email marketing, basically you captured your prospect buyers or your customers’ email address legally and then you can contact them for new products, hot deals, or just send them a newsletter to promote your services and products. If you are promoting a product on the internet and you don’t have an effective way to capture and follow-up with your website visitors to remind them about the products and services you are promoting, you will lose a lot of potential sales. The best autoresponder services for your options are AWeber and GetResponse.

Cost : $15 – 20 per month depending on the payment term

So, how much the total cost for using three three basic services to run a profitable internet home business? $370 per month max, which means only about $30 per month. So, online business or internet home business is much cheaper start-up cost than any offline business for sure.

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