When you sign up for a paid account you will get a Domain name which is your site name with .com, .biz, .org etc. at end. which equals a website address.

ex. www.yoursitename.com as apposed to www.freewebhost.yoursitename.com

Meaning that when you have a free account web hosts name usually comes before your name, which is free advertisement for them. But, not always so shop around if your going to use a free account because there are some who allow your name before theirs such as Bravenet.

Why Get Your Own Domain Name?

To get an email address that you control. To get a business address on Internet. To improve your Internet personal and business image.

When getting started you should make an outline for your site. Know what you want to sell, what you want it to look like, what content your going to use, and what graphics if any you plan to use. Have a picture in your mind of what you want your site to look like. Then execute.

Getting The Big Picture?

All authors pitch media but how many of them are successful? One subscriber uses her “expert” status to interest media. Her book deals with net crimes and she peruses news online on a daily basis. When she finds an article that relates to a chapter in her book, she sends reporter an e-mail stating why she liked article and that she’s available as a cybercrime expert for expert stories. Her e-mail ends with press release for book.

Some subscribers were experts before they became authors and use their expertise wisely. One doctor/author was invited to 2004 Olympics in Athens and when a reporter surfaced, doctor introduced him to staff and then retreated. He didn’t want to pursue reporter as others had done. But in end article praised doctor.

Above all, my subscribers have been my support system. After compiling best of their strategies into a book and sending it off to a publisher who expressed interest, I was feeling blue. I didn’t know if publisher would in fact publish book or when I could hear from them and expressed my angst in newsletter. This drew a flood of suggestions on how to fill time until publisher calls: “wait a month before calling,” “devote some time to your hobby,” “write another book,” “exercise,” “get your marketing plan in order.” One subscriber wrote that “a sense of being at loose ends is normal when you have completed a project that required a lot of energy and concentration. It’s kind of an empty nest syndrome.”