4. Decide on a hosting plan

After you have decided which domain or set of domains you want to register from MyDomainMint.com, you need to decide what kind of hosting plan is going to work best for you. If you are small or medium sized business, we recommend you purchase the LINUX plan. There’s no long term contract required, which is great. You can pay monthly, quarterly or annually. We recommend purchasing annually; you save a ton of money in the long run.

A hosting company should be available 24/7 with a US phone number to contact. One of the reasons why we HIGHLY support MyDomainMint.com.

Once you have chosen your domain names and hosting account, check out and SAVE YOUR INFO! They will give you a customer number, you’ll choose a pin and remember your password! This is going to come in handy when you are ready to get your website done.

5. Decide what pages you want to have on your website

You may want to get in touch with a professional web design company to bounce ideas off of them on what pages you want to have. Look at competition. Google other companies that may be doing something similar to you. What are they doing? What is the difference between you and them? Write down what pages you think would help YOU sell YOUR services. Many people have the following pages to start with:

HOME

ABOUT

SERVICES

CONTACT

Some other pages that they add down the road, once they’ve been in business for a few months are:

TESTIMONIALS

PRESS

You may be an actor who’s got a completely different business model; selling YOURSELF! Pages you might have are:

HOME

BIO

GALLERY

MEDIA or VIDEO

RESUME

CONTACT

Other pages some actors add down the road are:

PRESS

NEWS

6. Look at competitors designs

While you’re looking through those competitor websites, check out what their designs are like. What are they doing that makes them look good? What are they doing that makes them look NOT professional?  Write down 3-5 examples of what you like and don’t like. This will help your web company help YOU figure out what kind of website look you may be looking for.

… to be continued!

Whatever the reason is, I’ve been working with people like yourself for a long time and I’ve learned a lot of things along the way that have helped a LOT of people and companies get more money in the door. I’d like to share with you some words of wisdom in the multi-part series:

1) Decide what you are good at or have access to.

Do you have a product you make or sell? Could you reproduce them easily and quickly or custom make them for people? Do you have a personal service you could give to people over the phone or via email? A personal service you could do in person? A workshop you’ve always wanted to do? A class you’ve always wanted to teach? How about a tele-class (a class you teach over the phone to a bunch of people)?

Think about what you are good at and what you have access to. Write down some notes about what you could be doing.

2) Create a business name.

What kind of name could you give this new business idea? Think about your audience, the kind of people that would be buying your things, and how people would find you. If your business is health counseling, what kind of health counseling is it? How do you want to attract people to you? Do people already know who you are or would a name like “Healthy You Today” be better?

3) Buy a domain name

If you have a business name in mind, try it on by looking up what URLs are available. We recommend MyDomainMint.com. Take into account the following:

• Is it available
• Is it easy to spell and remember?
• Is it short?
• Can I get a .com?
• Can I get it without a dash?

If you feel like you’ve got the right business name and you’ve found a URL that works, buy it right away! If you don’t, someone else could steal that URL. We recommend buying anything related to it, if you don’t want anyone to take the name, including .net, .org, etc.

… to be continued.

Audio Video Web offers cost effective content. Simplify your life with 24/7 personalized phone support and an incredibly user-friendly account management system. Just two of the many ways AudioVideoweb helps you.
They’ve been in business for more than 10 years, and have clients in 45 countries. Some of their clients include:

Audio Video Web can help you with:

LIVE WEBCASTING
ON-DEMAND CONTENT
SIMULATED LIVE
PRESENTATIONS

Read more about their services below, check out their website and demos or call them today and reference Elle*Eye Design, LLC – 1-781-429-4500

LIVE WEBCASTING: Broadcast your event to any size audience, any time

INSTANT ACCESS

Need to meet a deadline? Don’t worry! Your account is activated less than 10 minutes after you sign up. That’s 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Plus, once your account is activated, you can begin broadcasting immediately. That’s the benefit of AudioVideoweb’s “Instant On” network.

BEST PRICE

Our prices are competitive with any comparable streaming service. And that doesn’t stop when you sign up. Our unique pricing technology automatically upgrades you to the most economical package when your traffic exceeds your current one. You don’t have to worry about hidden or sneaky “overage” charges. You’re covered!

Plus, you get lots of extras like multiple Flash and Silverlight player skins and 24/7 tech support, in addition to other features. And there are no setup fees or contracts.

ANY SIZE AUDIENCE

Whether you’re broadcasting to a small local audience or a large, worldwide audience, our robust load-balancing system frees you up to concentrate on your event, secure in the knowledge that it’s getting delivered properly.

Of course, you’ll also want to keep track of how many people are attending your event — which is easy with our live streaming reports (updated every 10 minutes).

UNLIMITED EVENTS

You get unlimited publishing points at no extra charge, which means you can run as many events as you want, simultaneously.

READY TO GET STARTED?

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On-Demand Content: We deliver your content, your way: instant access with total control, at the best price

INSTANT ACCESS

Need to get your content online right away? No problem! Your account is activated less than 10 minutes after you sign up. That’s 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

Plus, once your account is activated, any content you upload is available for viewing immediately. That’s the benefit of AudioVideoweb’s “Instant On” network.

BEST PRICE

Our prices are competitive with any comparable streaming service. And that doesn’t stop when you sign up. Our unique pricing technology automatically upgrades you to the most economical package when your traffic exceeds your current one. You don’t have to worry about hidden or sneaky “overage” charges. You’re covered!

Plus, you get lots of extras like Free transcoding, multiple Flash and Silverlight player skin options, 24/7 tech support, and more. And there are no setup fees or contracts.

TOTAL CONTROL

Your entire account is under your complete control, thanks to our proprietary, user-friendly account management system. You can manage and protect all your streaming media, from one easy log-in.

Of course, you’ll also want to keep track of everything — which is easy with our live streaming reports (updated every 10 minutes), and monthly itemized email statements.

More questions? Contact them and reference Elle*Eye Design, or sign up for a free trial account.

READY TO GET STARTED?

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SIMULATED LIVE:  Schedule your archived content to run in a “Simulated Live” format

STREAM YOUR ARCHIVED CONTENT

If you want to deliver your video and audio content in a “live broadcast” format, our Simulated Live service is perfect. Just upload your files, set the order in which you’d like them to play, schedule a start time, and you’re in business! Plus, you can always add more content, or make any other changes, with the click of a mouse.

INCREASE VIEWERSHIP

People are used to watching TV and listening to radio, where the content is available at a specific time. Your audience is more likely to watch or listen to content that is streamed “live” than if it is available any time. You can broadcast online just like a professional television or radio station does.

CUSTOMIZE THE LOOK AND FEEL

We provide the delivery; you use your own players, or choose from more than a dozen skins that we provide.

PRESENTATIONS: Present online as if you are “there,” complete with live video and viewer interaction

MAXIMIZE YOUR TIME

Perfect for corporate meetings, employee training, new product introductions, and many other applications, our Presentation service allows you to present to any number of people, anywhere. No need to travel to multiple locations when you can deliver your presentation as if you are “in the room.”

USE YOUR CURRENT PRESENTATION CONTENT

Use all your current materials: Easily upload your existing gifs, jpgs, pngs, pdfs, or Powerpoint slides, then re-order them, if needed.

INTERACT WITH THE AUDIENCE

Just as if you were giving the presentation in person, you control the pace, including when the slides change. Tailor your presentation to the audience by reacting to their questions, to maximize the impact.

1. Create a Facebook page for your business
2. Create a Twitter page for your business
3. Get started on an e-mail newsletter with Constant Contact
4. Hire someone to do your SEO (Google Search Engine Optimization)
5. Beef up your look. Spend some time, hire a designer to help you make your website look better.
6. Hire a company to help you maintain your website, so you and/or your marking department can focus on larger marketing efforts.

Here’s some Google basics, to understand how Google indexes websites.

If you read that and it doesn’t make any sense, don’t worry about it. There’s a reason why companies hire companies like us; so that we can do the dirty work for them.

SEO is short for SEARCH ENGINE OPTIMIZATION. Doing things on the back end of your website to make it come up higher in Google, or perhaps, more frequently.

I tell my clients that GOOGLE is like a game. If you know how to play the game and have devised strategies to play that game, you have a hire chance of winning. You are not guaranteed, however, to win that game because there are other people who know how to the play the game as well.

There are lots of tricks to SEO. We know them… and we use those tricks.

So how can SEO help you? Well, in order to get customers, you have to get them to know about you, right? What if every time someone typed in the words PERSONAL TRAINING NY, your business came up? or ADOPTION LAWYERS IN NJ? And not only did it come up, but it came up without paying per click (another topic I’ll discuss another time). It came up ORGANICALLY on the first page instead of page 27. Wouldn’t you now understand that coming up above all your competition would allow you to get more traffic to your site and your business, which would then allow you to make more money?

I rest my case.

- Fred Hahn, Owner of Serious Strength, Personal Training Center

- Andrea Beaman, HHC, Bravo’s Top Chef, Season 1, Veria TV Host, Author