Memberships Review

October 7, 2007

The Service Sellers Master Course

Filed under: Information Technology, Marketing — Tags: Hosting, Marketing — editor @ 5:08 pm

How do you create an online presence? How do you sell your services online? How do you effectively bring in customers?

In order to sell your services online, you could build a web site that:

  • introduces you as the expert, and builds your credibility with your visitor
  • effectively targets various appropriate keyword phrases to ensure that the people who need your service find your Web site
  • provides the visitor with some free valuable information on your site, and/or in your free opt-in e-zine.

There is plenty of possible software and information and advice offered on the Internet. I’m not sure which is worse… the overpriced products that under-deliver, or all the free info available, most of which is hard to tell if it works. It still costs you something … your time.
There are plenty of ways claiming to be the best approach, some explained in detail, some free, some with upsells to the so-called ’secrets’, and some shamelessly overpriced.

Here is one approach:

The Service Sellers Masters Course

“the complete resource for building a client base for your service-oriented business, whether your clients are around the world… or around the block.”
This proclaims a 10-DAY course focusing on helping you, the Service Seller, create an online brand. It leads you, step by digestible step, in a day by day mode (not necessarily 24 hours), through a process…

  • from developing a Site Concept
  • to brainstorming hundreds of potential related keywords
  • to building a themed site intended to establish credibility and trust
  • to generating motivated, targeted traffic that wants to contact you
  • to nurturing ongoing relationships through a high-value e-zine.

The Service Sellers Masters Course takes you  through the steps of a site-building and client-building process.

Now, this course is offered for … free?
Actually, the “price” is only one of the parts. The best thing about the Service Sellers Masters Course is the clear, step-by-step, day-by-day content that lays out a process. But does it really work?

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September 10, 2007

Domain Names, Hosting and Web Sites

Filed under: Information Technology — Tags: Hosting — editor @ 5:33 pm

A Domain Name is the top level address that is used to locate your content. It has the suffix of .com, for example.

The most common domain name is formed from the unique letters that are registered with a central repository to make hostnames memorable. A hostname points to a unique numerical address in Internet Protocol v.4 of 4 hexadecimal numbers such as 192.168.101.015

A distributed index lookup called Domain Name Service (DNS) allows one computer to find another by matching the name to the IP number. This allows you to ignore hard to remember numbers and just type in the more easily remembered letters. And that’s what you type into or link to with your computer’s browser software.

To obtain a domain name it must be unique and then registered in (added to) the Internet central repository database.

A host computer, when placed online, is given a unique IP address from a pool of numbers that a hosting service is allocated. Fortunately you don’t need to know this but the DNS does need to know what name to match it up with.

Therefore you can have a domain name registered to you and have any hosting company give it a IP address and update the DNS database. This database is distributed over many computers and as changes happen is constantly updating, which may take several hours.

For example you register a new domain name by going to 1&1 (1and1.com), and search for an unused name and register it for $5.99 (per year). 1and1_banner
Once that has been accepted you go to a hosting company such as Hostgator.com
and sign up for a hosting service, which provides you with server processing and storage for $9.95 per month.
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Now you tell Hostgator to point their IP address to the 1&1 domain nameserver and your web server is online!

Many other companies offer similar services, either individually or as combo packages, at varying prices and included features.

If you register one or several domain names and don’t plan to put content on them just yet, you can get paid to ‘park’ the name(s) with sedo.com. They point the name to their servers and display advertising, for which you get compensated.

Site Sell and Site Build-It ©

Perhaps you’d like to have more help with your hosting, web site creation; bundled features such as auto-responders, search engine optimization and submission; video, audio, blogging, marketing and user forums.

Then the best choice and most comprehensive hosting, site building, and supportive program is the very popular, whole enchilada, SiteSell.com Best of all – it’s $297 per year, and that’s everything included!

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