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Creating a website isn't as daunting a process as it used to be. Many companies now provide you with templates to create professional looking sites in minutes. Some packages, most notably Site Build It! are comprehensive packages including literally everything you will need for running a profitable, successful business.
Alternatively, get an expert to create a site for you. Visit the Site Build It! Certified Webmaster Directory to find a Webmaster with a history of success to build a professional and popular SBI! Web site for you. Site Build It! Certified Webmasters have all built successful SBI! sites and have all met a strict set of qualifications set by SiteSell.
The quality of their work is monitored to make sure they provide consistently high-quality service and high-performing sites.
Not sure how a web site will benefit you?
Take a look through the following
articles, for the one that matches your existing business or business idea:
Online Auctions
A local business with local clients
Selling Your Services
Intermediary - Earn finders' fees on clients you introduce
Affiliate Marketing - Earn commission on leads and sales for other web sites
Retailers - physical product sales
E-goods - if you can download it you can sell it online.
Sales and Rental - property, equipment, services etc.
Or read the following case studies as told directly by small business
people from around the globe -- people who "took a chance" and then realized...
Their worlds had changed just by creating a website, and with no previous experience.
It can be hard to know which company to choose for your web hosting, so the opinion of other users can be invaluable. Aplus.net have been voted CNET’s most popular web hosting provider for six years and counting. In addition they have been rated number 1 on TopHosts Top 5 Web Hosts (Nov. 2008), were awarded FindMyHost Editors’ Choice Award (Dec. 2008), are in the Top 5 SEM Hosting Companies (Nov. & Dec. 2008) from Topseos.com, and have received many other acolades.
In addition, Aplus.net customers benefit from 99.9% uptime and a 30 day money-back guarantee with live 24/7/365 U.S.-based support. They place high priority on customer service and host all services in a "state of the art" data centre. And the price is competitive with hosting plans starting at less than $10/month – for Unix or Windows. So it’s no surprise that more than 200,000 customers worldwide choose Aplus.net to meet their hosting needs.
If you're trying to be as eco-friendly as possible then you might like to consider Eco Web Hosting. They not only provide reliable, carbon neutral web hosting but also have outstanding customer service - an average rating of 5 stars at Web Hosting Stuff. Despite their really low prices, starting at just £2.99 a month, you get all the features you'd expect from a web host plus £300 Software, 500+ templates and 100,000 images for you to use. Find out more from Eco Web Hosting
Voucher Code: Quote ECOHOSTING to get 20% OFF Your First Year Of Hosting
Another of the companies I use myself is oneandone.co.uk. With a wide range of hosting packages from just £1.99 a month they are easily affordable for everyone.
Despite the low costs this is one occasion when cutting costs doesn't mean a cut in facilities or quality. The company claim 99.9% guaranteed up-time and I've certainly never experienced any of my sites down for more than a matter of seconds
Depending on the package you choose you get up to £400 worth of software, on CD-Rom as well as the usual hosting package with unlimited e-mail forwarding, free e-mail autoresponders, e-mail forwarding and a catch all e-mail address.
If you've never created your own website they even provide "Website Creator" - online software to create a professional looking site in minutes. Try out the online demo now.
All packages come with a 60 Day Money Back Guarantee. If you are not 100% satisfied, they will refund you your money although I'd be very surprised if you feel the need to make a claim.
Site Build It!
Without doubt, this is THE web hosting package - the only all-in-one site-building, site-hosting, and site-marketing product - with the results to prove it.
Not only do you get all the usual web hosting facilities that you'd expect from the best hosts eg unlimited hosting, unlimited data transfer, unlimited e-mail accounts, e-mail and telephone support etc. etc. you also receive dozens of other features including:
- Point and click page building
- Page templates
- Customized 404 page
- Access Statistics
- Tracker Links
- Click Tracking and Analysis
- Unlimited Custom Form Creation Tool
- Database storage for managing, searching and reporting of form data
- Unlimited Single and Multiple Sequential Autoresponders
- E-commerce - Catalog & Shopping cart and Credit Card Processing
- Affiliate Program
- Blogging
- PERL/CGI, PHP or ASP support No tech in SBI!
- Submission and Auto Re-submission to Search Engines
- Search Engine Listing and Ranking Reports
- Pay-Per-Click Mass Bidding
- Keyword Research and Brainstorm tools
- Graphic Logo Creator & Editor
- E-mail Marketing List Builder/Distribution
- E-zine Publishing Tool including Spam Check and Open Rate Stats
- Link Exchange
No other package comes close. Just take a look at a comparison chart here
And if you're still not convinced, take a look at a selection of sites created with this package, paying particular attention to the traffic rankings each site has achieved.
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The first place to check is your own ISP. They often supply free pages as part of your package, with the added benefit of a listing on their own search engine. Check any restrictions regarding business use. If your ISP doesn't offer what you need, the sites listed below are all tried, tested and recommended. Do however consider purchasing a domain name of your own, even if you can't afford or don't need paid hosting. I always use GoDaddy where you can register a .com for around $10 a year, or even less when they run their frequent special offers. Check banners for discounts. If you have the time I would recommend you place your home page on as many sites as you can, linking in to your main site elsewhere, as this increases your chance of being found, especially if you tweak each one slightly to optimise the criteria of different search engines. 
000Webhost.com
You can get a free subdomain with them eg www.yourchoice.site11.com or for a small fee you can register a domain with GoDaddy or similar for just a few dollars and use that with the hosting package. Get more information at http://www.homeworkinguk.com/000.htm Vstore.ca lets user build their own professional online store and business website. they offer a free online storefront ecommerce design solution which includes a professional shopping cart, ecommerce web hosting as well as secure online payment processing through tight integration with paypal and other merchant account providers. Their ecommerce software solution is easy to use and very flexible.  Bravenet - In addition to free websites, get yourself counters, guestbooks, search engines, webrings, password protection, chatroom, ads, FFA site and loads more utilities - ALL FREE Prohosting gives you 50 megs of disk space, Site Creation Utility, 1 FTP account and the ability to run CGI / SSI scripts. Bizhosting offers Free Web Hosting, Free E-mail, Free Domain Name and Free Shopping Cart. Professional ad-free upgrade packages also available. Tripod.co.uk UK based so ideal if you're aiming at the UK market. You get 50MB of webspace which is more than enough for the vast majority of sites, and they also have easy to use templates if you don't know how to create your own pages.Be sure to link your site to the applicable community for optimum publicity. Tripod.com. As Tripod UK but better suited for an International audience.
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If you've made the leap to webhosting and now don't have a wizard to produce your website, or simply want something a little different, download any one of the 75 completely free designs offered at the Free Site Templates site. Take advantage of the many banner link exchanges by getting your own banner created free of charge. |
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