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Home Based Business Resources

Below are some great resources to use for your home based business.  Most of them we have personally used, and would be happy to answer any questions you have.

Designing a Website

If you want to design it yourself:

Adobe Dreamweaver are web authoring programs that allow someone with average computer skills to design professional looking websites.  You choose from some basic templates and fill them in with graphics and your own content, FrontPage or Dreamweaver will take care of the HTML coding

Click on the links below to find Microsoft Expression Web and Adobe Dreamweaver at a good price.  You can also check E-bay for these products.

Dreamweaver  

Internet Based Family - a website builder

• Over 400 templates to choose from and can easily change them

• Shopping Cart

• Auto responder and mailing list

• Message Board

• No more messing with photos...the photo album feature formats the pictures and instantly creates thumbnails for you

Pricing starts at $17/month.  Take a 10 day free trial to see how easy it is to use.  Click on the link below to start your free trial.

Internet Based Family

Build Your Own Website with DIYe Stores

You have to see these templates - they are so cute!   These website templates are one-of-a-kind.  Once you have purchased one, it will not be resold to anyone else.  There are some examples of websites that have been built using this program on their site.  Take a look for yourself.

 DIYe STORES

Hire a Designer

Affordable Small Business Web Site Design

Domain Names

What is a domain name?  Simply put, it's your address on the internet.  My domain name is christianhomebusinessconnection.com.  In choosing a domain name, you need to check if it is already being used, or if it is available to purchase.  A fairly short (yes, I realize mine is not too short), easy to spell name with .com at the end will be easy for your customers to remember.

The cost is about $7 per year, or get a free domain when you sign up for hosting with the pro plan.
 

 DOMAINS from IPower

Website Hosting

You want to choose a company that is reliable and has 24/7 phone  technical support.  Hostgator has both.  They have different plans available, so you can choose what you need.  We chose the "baby" plan.   They offer many features. We have been very pleased with their service.  For a reliable, complete service, click on the link below to check out this service or to sign up.

 Hostgator

Article Marketing

Private Label Rights Articles - Content You Can Use as Your Own

Do you need good content for your website, newsletter, blog, or to make a special report?  Check out PLR for fresh content that has a limited distribution.   Click on the link below.

 PLR Articles

Article Marketing Course - if you feel you need some guidance on how to write good articles and how to market them, there's help.  Click on the link below to read more about this article marketing course.

 www.easyarticlemarketing.com

Shopping Cart/Autoresponders

Wahmcart - need an ecommerce system that includes everything all in one place? 

Auto Responders

Aweber - we use Aweber for autoresponders and newsletter management.  They are very reliable and easy to work with.  They offer very good phone and online chat support.

Aweber