How to move forward with your professional address and website
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With your own website, you can build an online presence – as a professional or as a company. You can present your professional image, articles, photos. Whatever you need to build out a brand. It can be a simple 5-page website or something far more sophisticated.
How to move forward with your professional address and website
Whether you’re building a domain name, blog or a website, you can take some of the same steps:
1. Picking a Focus for Your Blog
Take a few moment to consider:
Are you creating a blog or a website? A blog presents your posts. A website can offer up information about you, your resume, portfolio, services, testimonials – whatever you want. Setting up a website only takes a little more time, if you just want something basic.
What will your website or blog be about? Is it about you, your company, an approach, a specific topic?
Got an idea? Great! Let’s move.
2. Choose a platform
To put together a blog or website, you need a platform. I’ll come right out and say I prefer WordPress. You could choose something else, like HTML, Drupal, Wix, Shopify, Weebly or another service. But I like WordPress. I find it easy to use and I use it for all my personal and business sites…and it’s what I usually recommend for clients, too. It’s open source, has a ton of plug-ins, a large user community and it’s free.
3. Find somewhere to host your blog or website
Think of this part of your blog or website experience as the campsite for your tent! You’ve got all your camping gear ready, now where will you pitch your tent? You need somewhere to keep your blog or website. I suggest starting with a hosting provider that provides a lot of prepackaged services, if you’re just starting. You can always move up to your own server or more customized packages, if you’re more experienced or if your budget allows. I’ve signed up as an affiliate partner for Bluehost. I take you through all the steps to signing up here.
4. Select your domain name
A domain name – the URL for your website – should tie into your brand and your message. Your own name, your business name or another strong brand will likely work best. I like using the name suggestion tools at Nameboy and Webnames when I’m stuck for ideas. You can buy a domain name at one place and then port it over to the place you choose for hosting, but you may find it easier to keep everything at one place, if you’re still learning all this. Bluehost does both, which is one of the reasons I partnered with them.
5. Set up and design your blog
I recommend using one of the packaged themes, until you get a bit more used to things. You can also cruise through the templates at WordPress or ThemeForest.
6. Start writing and posting
You can just make a list of topics and start writing. But, for best results, you might want to create a bit of an editorial calendar – a list of what you’re going to write and when. I keep mine in a spreadsheet, but you could just as easily write it down or put it in a document or on an actual calendar.
7. Go live!
When you’re all set, release your work to the world! You can choose whether to use word of mouth, a marketing campaign or other strategies and tools to tell others.
If you want to set up your own site with this Professional Email Address Suggestions, you can look at some of the packages at Shopify or the hosting packages at Bluehost, along with my post on how to sign up and set up your blog, website and domain. How to Write Email Marketing Campaign?
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