Setup Your Business Emails Using Google Apps
May 25, 2009 by Tyrone
Something very common new business owners overlook when starting an e-commerce business is not having a professional e-mail address. I have had people give me a business card and the first thing I notice is an email address that says “motorcyclestore@gmail.com”. Using free services like Google, Hotmail or Yahoo is not a smart option and I highly recommend moving away from this. In this post I will show you how to set up your own business email address that will cost you nothing going from “motorcyclestore@gmail.com” to “info@motorcyclestore.com”. If you know how to setup a Google Mail (GMail) account already, this will be a breeze for you and no one will know that you use Google Mail to send your emails.
Have A Professional Email Address
Here are the reasons why it is important to have a business email address when you are running an e-commerce website:
- A business email address makes your business look professional whether you are the sole operator or a company with 100+ employees.
- You keep all your business correspondence separate to your personal emails.
- You can have multiple email addresses for different departments such as sales, support or orders.
- The business email address can always be transferred without having to notify contacts.
The next question most commonly asked is what email addresses should we setup?
Tips For Choosing A Profitable E-commerce Domain Name
May 18, 2009 by Tyrone
If you are starting a new e-commerce internet business, one question immediately pops into mind, what name should I choose? Have you heard of the saying in property, “location, location, location”? Most associate buying property with choosing the right location and it may mean that you make or lose money. Your e-commerce domain name is no different. Think of your domain name as your Internet property, which represents your business presence online. Choose a domain name that is customer friendly and easy to remember:
How To Choose A Profitable E-commerce Domain Name?
Keep It Simple And Easy To Remember
Most customers who look for a website want to remember something that is associate with the product or service you are offering. Unless you have a lot of money to spend on advertising like eBay or Amazon your best bet is to choose a domain name that represents your products and services. Use simple and easy to remember words that are spoken often by your customers. For example, your e-commerce business might be selling racing bikes so consider the domain name: racingbikes.com or roadracingbikes.com. Try to avoid names like joesracingbikes.com or smithsracingbikes.com even if your company is called that. We want to make sure your domain name is easy to remember and captures the widest scope of customers.
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Lucky Draw Contest: $1,500 Customised Blog Design
April 2, 2009 by Tyrone
For the month of April, Internet Business Path dot com and eBlogProfits will be giving away a customised blog design website with web hosting and a domain name. This package is valued at $1,500 and it will be given away to one lucky reader.
What Do You Get?
- A unique design, crafted to meet your individual needs and the unique nature of your blog.
- Free installation of a blogging platform (Wordpress)
- Free hosting service for 12 months
- A Search Engine Optimised (SEO) blog
- Installation of up to 10 widgets
- Includes up to 10 email addresses
If you are interested in starting your own blog, want to transfer your existing blog from another website, or would like to have your blog redesigned, then you need to enter this contest!
How To Enter To Win?
The great thing about this contest is how easy it is to enter. You earn one entry by simply filling the form below and opting into our newsletter. It’s easy, right? But there’s more! You can earn five more entries if you blog about this contest and link to this post using the following keywords:
- Blog Design
- Customised Blog
- Profitable Blog Design
Have your post send a trackback and you’re in! If the trackback doesn’t work, then enter the URL in the comments.
We will be accepting entries between now and midnight April 30th. The winner will be drawn the following Thursday at 12pm (AEST) and announced on this site. Good luck and enter now!
Tyrone Shum
Wishing Everyone Good Luck!
Blogging For A Full Time Income
January 23, 2009 by Tyrone
Did you know that you can make a full time income by blogging? You are able to create an online income business that earns you 4 or 5 figures every month by just spending 1 or 2 hours a day? If you are looking to create this kind of side income, this is the right article for you.
You do not need to be an expert, you do not need to have a PhD in business and you do not need to have a degree in doing so. All you need is know how to blog. With a blog and a proven blogging system that I’m going to share with you, you will be able to create an online income business within 3 months.
How To Create Income From A Blog?
- Choose a topic
Before you create your blog, you must know which topic you are going into. The best is to choose a topic that you are passionate in. Choose a topic that you have intense passion. After that, try to narrow down your topic or find a niche within a market. For example, instead of blogging about fishing, blog about fly fishing. - Create a blog
Next, create a blog. Creating a blog is very easy and there are numerous resources on the Internet to help you. I would recommend setting a domain name and hosting your own blog and using WordPress. Read setting up a blog to get in depth instructions. - Create quality content
You need to have quality content because it is what people in your market are looking for. Nobody is going to visit a blog that has no value to them. In internet marketing, content is king. Therefore, if you are going to create an online income business, you will need to provide value for your market, through quality content in your blog. - Market your blog
Once you have content, you are ready to bring in visitors to your blog. This is about traffic generation, where most people fail and give up. Traffic generation is not as complicated as you think. As long as you are willing to take action, traffic will come. Create a daily, monthly and yearly traffic plan, and then stick to this plan and take the necessary action according to your plan. - Offer a product or service on your blog
The last piece of puzzle you need is an offer. An offer is how you make money. Insert money makers or advertising into your blog such as Google Adsense or affiliate marketing. This is how you can make money from your blog. In fact, writing quality content and getting traffic is what takes time and requires work. This step is easier because once you have content and traffic, making sales for you will be a lot simple.
This is how you can create an online income business by using a blog. Remember, action produces results, if you are not taking any action, nothing is going to happen. So take the first step now and decide which market you are going into.
Tyrone Shum
Blogging Full-time
Hostmonster Review: Their Hosting Services
For the past 2 years I have been using Hostmonster as my preferred hosting provider. If you have not decided on a domain name, I suggest reading Choosing A Domain Name For Your Internet Business to learn how to choose the right domain name for your business.
My reason for choosing Hostmonster
Back in 2006 when I was looking for a cheap hosting service and something reliable and provided lots of storage space I searched around for numerous hosting providers. Also the price was a crucial factor for me and I thought about why I needed to pay expensive hosting costs when Hostmonster could provide for everything I needed.
Customer Support
On many occasions I had to contact them to ask about how to fix up certain things in the backend for my website and everytime I have been given excellent service from their customer support team. No wonder they are able to support that many websites.
Affiliate Programs
Hostmonster does have a very generous affiliate program. By driving customers to sign-up at HostMonster, you will receive $65.00 per referral. What you can do as well, is sign up as an affiliate and also get half price for referring your own hosting.
Price Value
They offer unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth at $4.95 per month currently (as of January 2009). To make it clear, they monitor the CPU usage and do not allow very big sites to host on the server, to compensate for the unlimited space and bandwidth offered. Still, with all the features they offer, HostMonster is one of the best choices in my opinion for hosting.
Tyrone Shum
Hostmonster Supporter
