Essentials
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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.
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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.
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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.
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