| You don't have to have tons of cash-flow or | | | | are a lot of tools that come with your Third Sphere |
| masters degrees in marketing to get your domain | | | | account, and the sheer variety of options can be |
| name(s) and start establishing a web presence. | | | | overwhelming at first. They also have strict policies |
| There are plenty of rip-off domain hosting services | | | | on SPAM, so you will want to be careful about any |
| out there, and many of them go by big, well known | | | | e-mails that you send from your Third Sphere |
| names. It's not that they are bad at what they do | | | | account. |
| (although some are). It's just that most charge too | | | | OK, so now that you know what I use, I encourage |
| much for the service that they provide, and they're | | | | you to shop around and see what services you like |
| always trying to get you to add unnecessary | | | | best. Please let me know if you can find a better |
| services, upgrade to platinum memberships, optimize | | | | deal for the money, because I'm always looking for |
| your site for a fee, etc. | | | | new ideas to share with my fellow web-marketers. |
| I have been using 1&1 hosting for a while now, | | | | Let me conclude by just briefly talking about SEO |
| and I haven't found a better value out there for the | | | | (search engine optimization). There are those who |
| money. This is particularly true when you're keeping | | | | put a lot of stock in these tools, and will pay a lot of |
| the content of your site relatively simple. You can | | | | money each month to have somebody "optimize" |
| get 3 domain names and a control panel of very | | | | their website. I've tried it myself, and haven't seen |
| easy to use development tools for less than $10/mo., | | | | any real improvement in traffic or search rankings as |
| and a single domain purchase was $6.99/yr., last time | | | | a result. If you want to spend the money, go ahead |
| I checked. | | | | and try it, but since we are talking about web-hosting |
| Once you get to the point where you want some | | | | for non-millionaires, I'd say leave that to the |
| more advanced tools, you can use one of the | | | | millionaires with money to burn. |
| domain names that you already purchased from a | | | | I for one would rather make money than burn it and |
| company like 1&1 (see above) with a more | | | | I'd rather help other people make more money than |
| sophisticated service like Third Sphere, but since this | | | | waste more money, so I'll keep posting more info in |
| article is about how establish a web presence the | | | | that pursuit. |
| easy and inexpensive way, I'd caution you that there | | | | |