If you want a professional presence, I would suggest that you do not go with a free site. Why? With your free site, you are required to include advertisements of their choosing on your pages.

There are many web hosting sites and prices to choose from – and all can be very confusing and intimidating when you are first looking at putting up a site of your own. So, what should you consider when choosing a web host?

What to Consider When You Choose a Web Host?

When choosing a Web Host you should consider following:

1.Does it have customer support available 24/7? 2.How often are backups done? (You should also do your own backups as well.) 3.How much bandwidth do they give you? Bandwidth is amount of activity on your site (traffic). The more visitors you have, more bandwidth is used. I recommend at least 2 gigs, with an option to upgrade. 4.How many email accounts do they have? At least 3, preferably more. 5.Does it have traffic stats – to monitor your hits, page views, and actual visitors? 6.Does it have FrontPage extensions? (If you are planning to use FrontPage). 7.Does it offer autoresponders? 8.Does it offer FTP? 9.Does it allow for upgrades? As your business grows, so will your need for more bandwidth. 10.Does it offer SiteBuilder? (If you have no HTML experience/don’t have FrontPage, or no programming knowledge – SiteBuilder can get you up and running.

To conclude, remember your web site is your business, your domain is your name, and your web host is your home – all are important factors to your success. And to think, you only getting started!

==================== Vickie J Scanlon has a BBA degree in Administrative Management and Marketing. She left the corporate world as a Reports Programmer, to begin her journey as an Internet marketer. Visit her site at: http://www.myaffiliateplace.biz for free tools, articles, ebooks, Web-hosting opportunities and how to info. And if you want to be notified of updates to her web site you can sign her guest book.

OK, now down to nitty gritty – where and how do you get ACTIVE AFFILIATES?

There are essentially two ways, they are:

1. Promote, promote, promote – anywhere, everywhere that affiliates hang out looking for a bargain.

2. Get a professional to do it for you

Options one is most commonly used way to find and ascertain ACTIVE AFFILIATES but my findings have shown me that this is not cost effective and is all time consuming. If you are new to Internet, which most people are, trying to find a niche market, can be very difficult. Then you have to factor cost of promotions, set-up costs and time involved.

In testing this method over a period of 6 months a total of 17 people sign up as affiliate’s and two out of 17 people then upgraded to paid members.

Option two and not most common or conventional way was to hire someone who could guarantee upgrades. This you might think is more expensive option, when in actual fact for purpose of my testing actually worked out to be a lot cheaper. The provider handled all work and affiliate had to qualified twice before actually joining program all I had to do was wait.

I brought a package that guaranteed 100 signup in 60 days. I got 174 sign ups in less than 60 days. 81 of these signups upgraded to paid affiliates that equates to just over 40% conversion rate.

I try to stay neutral in all my endeavours but I believe that for those who want to Generate More Income in ANY affiliate program, option two is definitely way to go. I was so impressed by this type of service I decided to buy one for myself.

To your online Success!