So, what about a website?

Once you have decided how you are going to build your home business, you need to decide how you will bring it to the world.

If the route you choose to start is by way of affiliate marketing, you don't need to worry about your own website straight away because they are all provided by the companies you work with - all you need to do is drive traffic to them - but that, as they say, is for another day.

What options do you have for obtaining a website?

Nowadays it can be embarassingly easy to have a web site. There are many 'instant' site bulders out there which, using intuitive interfaces and wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) editors can enable just about anybody to build a reasonable looking web site for themselves.

There are also, many people offering web site building services who will build your web site for you.

If you decide to build your own web site, it is a very good idea to learn the basics of HTML which is the language (code) that websites need to be written in to be published onto the internet. This will enable you to make adjustments to your web site and make changes without necessarily having to use your wysiwyg editor.

If you decide that it would be better to have the site built for you, remember what I said about the ease with which web sites can be built. Get a few quotes from different builders and make it clear to them that you are comparing prices. There is still a tendancy for builders to charge four figure fees for web sites that might only take a few hours, at most, to build.

If you are not looking to maintain the site yourself, you need to find out how much a regular maintenance contract will cost. Initially you might be needing a lot of maintenance so it might be better to discover the hourly rate you will have to pay. At this point, I will say that if you are not going to maintain the site yourself, you will miss out on a major learning area which will enable you, in future, to build more web sites and expand your business web penetration.

In my opinion, you should be building your site for yourself, maintaining it and, in the process, learning all you need to know about HTML, hosting, servers and FTP - again, that is for another day.

Arthur
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