Essentials

• Email Accounts
  I highly recommend that you get several email accounts to be used in running your online ventures.  Once you begin doing business on the Internet, it is inevitable that you will see an increase in your emails.  In order to isolate any junk emails as well as legitimate business-related emails from your personal email, I suggest that you do not use your primary (personal) email address to operate your Internet business.  My general rule of thumb is to create at least one email account for each website or business venture you have.  Then just forward these email accounts to a primary business email address so you only have to check the one account for incoming emails.  All hosting providers will give you so many free email addresses along with your website hosting account.  I normally set up one email address named support@click-on-it.info (or whatever the sites name is) for each new website.
  
  
• PayPal Account
  A Business or Premier PayPal account is almost a requirement in order to do business on the Internet.  Not only does it make it easier for you to pay for things over the Internet, but it is by far the easiest way for your customers to pay you for the products and services that you will be offering in your online businesses.  PayPal is a very secure and easy to use way of transferring money over the Internet.  It is very easy to open a PayPal account, but it normally takes several days to get your account verified and ready to accept payments so this should be one of the first things you do before opening for business.  Here is a convenient link to open your PayPal account now.
  
  
• Google AdSense Account
  One of the most popular ways to monetize your site today is by using Google AdSense.  AdSense is a Pay-Per-Click program that has been around for a couple of years now.  Even people that get casual traffic to their websites can make enough money to offset their website hosting expenses by using AdSense.  Basically, here is how AdSense works.  Google has a programs called AdWords for companies and individuals to advertise their products and services on the Internet.  A company or individual will pay Google to send traffic to their websites when a potential customer clicks on one of the AdWord links.  The AdSense program is an extension of the AdWords program that allows anyone with a website to display AdWord advertising on their websites.  Then when someone clicks on one of those ads on your website, Google will share a portion of that advertising fee with you that they collect from the advertiser.  The exact formula for what Google pays you is a secret, but it can add up to a good deal of money if your site gets a lot of traffic.  It is very easy to open a Google AdSense account.  Click on the following link to open your AdSense account now. 
  
  
• Web Hosting Account
  There are literally thousands of Web Hosting companies to choose from.  What I generally look for is a host that offers unlimited email accounts, unlimited disk space and unlimited bandwidth.  Make sure your hosting account supports PHP and MySQL.  PHP is a scripting language that is used on more websites than any other scripting language.  MySQL is a very robust database engine that can support literally millions of rows of data and tens of thousands of hits per day.  I use several hosting providers because I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket so to speak.  I currently have five reseller hosting accounts that allow me to host an unlimited number of websites for a fixed price per month.