When you are just starting your home based business, you may ask yourself, if you really need your own website.
First of all and before going to any details: the answer is yes, you definitely should have your own website - it will be crucial to your success.
Getting your own website and domain nameis the first step giving your business a professional presence.It’s well worth the cost.
The first benefit is obvious — your identity. Instead of an email address like xxx@aol.com or xxxx@yahoo.com, you will now have your own identity. When people email you at
xxx@yourcompany.com they will have the feeling they are contacting a real company. Be honest, when you get a mail from averagejoe@hotmail.com, would you consider this a business?
In addition, your website address (URL) will look like www.YourCompany.com, instead of something like this, www.members.aol.com/averagejoe/index.html. Which one do you
think your prospect would consider a real business?
As an affiliate marketer you will be able to market more than one product at a time and this could make PPC - especially Google Adwords - much more cost effective. For example you could create a theme-specialized and very targeted page “dataentry.html”, or eBay, or work at home - whatever you are marketing.
The other big benefit is that you can protect your affiliate
links against commission theft. Your affiliate links will
not look like
http://xxx.productname.hop.clickbank.net/ but like
www.yourdomain.com/encyclopedia.html
You can repeat this with any product you want to promote!And by the way: many directories and PPC-advertising-companies don’t accept affiliate links anymore, so how will you promote them?
When deciding on a domain name, there are a few important factors to consider.
Tips to help you selecting your domain name:
==> Avoid using the numeral “1” or “0” in your domain name, even if some artists tell you this way your site will be on the first page of a directory. Lots of people will confuse these with the small letters “l” and “o”.
==> Use a domain name that is easy to remember and has something to do with what you are marketing.
==> It’s also a good idea to do a trademark search to make sure the name is not already under trademark by another company.
Gitte Dabek is a home business expert. She is running a website listing and rating legitimate home business opportunities. Go here if you are interested to read more about Top Home Business Opportunities here:
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