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May 2007 e-newsletter

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Welcome to the May issue of Compare Web Hosts Newsletter, our monthly e-publication for savvy web users.

How Do I Start My Online Business
How Do I Become a Reseller
Reseller Web Hosting Bazaar: Amazing yet Bizarre!
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How Do I Start My Online Business

The most basic step towards your online venture is registration of your domain name. Being a reseller web host you should try to avoid registering domain names with other hosting companies. Get your domain name registered directly from a registrar. We use namecheap.com for most of our domain names but you can use any registrar that suits you. The most popular ones are:

• www.Godaddy.com
• www.Enom.com
• www.NetworkSolutions.com
• www.Register.com
• www.Namecheap.com

Try to register all the major extensions for example .com, .net, .org, .info, .biz, .us etc. This is important for your brand name protection as it avoids domain hijacking or your competitors trying to use your name to sell their services.

Try to be creative when selecting a domain name for yourself. A domain name that is easier to remember is often more suitable as it remains in the head of a potential visitor for a long time.

Secure Your Brand Name.

This is the first baby step you will take towards your ultimate financial freedom. We live in the 21st century. Corporate environment has changed a lot. You can now sue Donald trump just because he has got bad hair or sell Paris Hilton’s private belongings on the Internet just because she failed to pay a $200 storage facility bill. Yes it is silly but in today’s competitive corporate environment you can play with the law or the law can play with you. Your brand name security is very important. What a $7 per year domain is today might be million dollar company tomorrow.

Long gone are the days when search engines were interested in the keywords inside the domain name while ranking the site, therefore you may not go for domains like buy-cheap-web-site-hosting.com. Make sure you choose a classy, corporate and brandable website name for yourself that you can take pride on later.

You can start business in two ways.

• Do Business As
• Corporation or LLC

According to BizFilings.com
“A DBA filing allows a company to transact business using a different name. DBA filings often take place at the county level, but some states have state-level DBA filings. For sole proprietorships and general partnerships, unless a DBA is filed, the company name is the same as the name(s) of owner(s). For example, John Smith is operating a landscaping business as a sole proprietorship. He files a DBA to transact business under the name Smith’s Landscaping instead of as John Smith.

Corporations and LLCs can also file DBAs to transact business under a name different from the name registered with the state when the business was incorporated. For example, a corporation formed as Smith and Sons, Inc. may wish to transact business under a name that more clearly states what the company does, such as The Corner Market, and could file a DBA to use the more descriptive name. A DBA filing does not change the official name of the corporation or LLC. It only allows the business to use a different name in trade, which can be in addition to or instead of the official corporate or LLC name.

Keep in mind that for sole proprietorships and general partnerships, filing for a DBA does not provide the same benefits that forming a corporation or LLC does. Filing a DBA merely allows the company to transact business with the new name. For corporations and LLCs, filing a DBA does not create a new business entity, it just allows the existing entity to use a different name.”

We would recommend that you spend some money to register..
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How Do I Become a Reseller.

Write Your Plan Down on a Piece of Paper.

Something I would recommend doing before you jump into any business venture. It is always a good idea to write down your plans. All it takes is a word document. Starting small does not mean that you hire a consultant. You should write down meaningful sentences of what you would do to begin and where you want to see the company in the first three, six and twelve months. It is not necessary that it works out and in fact most of the times it ends up completely different from what you expect. You plan to take on 10 clients in the first 30 days of operation and you get 200 and your business plan goes to dump. In any case it is always a good idea to document your course of action so that you do not get lost on the way. Plan about what your opening budget would be like, and how you are going to spend it. Examples include domain registration, server management, marketing and administrative costs. A good business plan is always worth the effort when actually acted upon. My advice to you is to keep it simple and straight with maximum focus on producing results than just day dreaming about it. Keep the following things in mind:

• Opening Balance
• Cost Study
• Fund Management
• Deployment Strategy
• Future Projection

You can base your plan on the points above and write down a good plan of action but remember to keep your plans flexible to changes. There is no guarantee that your proposal would work in the first place so you should not be immune to the rapidly changing hosting business environment around you. Also remember that I used the word *action* which means all your time would have no meaning until you have practically implemented the written procedures.
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Reseller Web Hosting Bazaar: Amazing yet Bizarre!
The Internet has become a global phenomenon. Its reach is virtually limitless. There are millions of websites on the Internet, providing you with information on anything and everything, from a small needle to building your own aircraft. This enormous amount of data needs to be hosted some where. This is where web hosts come into action and where we make money.

If you reading this article, there is a good chance that either you are a web host or you want to start a web hosting company of your own. We at Web Hosting Buzz have literally thousands of reseller web hosting clients and so it happens that I was sitting in my office one day when a request for the live chat appeared on my desktop. As usual I started talking to this potential client, who had great ambition to start his own web hosting enterprise but had little or no idea how to go about it. He had been designing websites for sometime and probably got interested by reading posts at a popular web hosting forum called WebHostingTalk. During the 50 minute chat, it became clear to me that many potential web hosts on the Internet have quite confusing ideas about how web hosting works. This gave me an idea to write this article to share my knowledge about this industry and provide you readers with an interesting step by step guide to what needs to be done to start and run a successful hosting business. Most potential web hosts think that it is all about getting a reseller web hosting plan from a company and hundreds of clients would start pouring in just because you can sell x amount of web space for y amount of price. Web hosting is a full time job. It is time consuming and requires effort to make it work. No matter what, it can often complement your existing IT business acting as a source of additional income.

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