The very first thing you need to set up your own online marketing site is a domain name. A domain name is also known as a URL or website address. I register and host my websites at GoDaddy and I recommend them highly because they make the next steps so much easier.
After registering your domain name you will need hosting which will be offered to you from GoDaddy after you registered your .com Hosting is space you rent on a server that stores the content that will be displayed on your website.
Now we are getting to the scary part, how do you build a website when you may not know HTML, the programming language, used to design websites. You have two options here and I will recommend the 2nd one.
The 1st is WYSIWYG software. This stands for “What YOU See is What YOU Get” software. If you can drag and drop, copy and paste and type an email you have the capability to build a website with this software. There are several versions of it from free to very pricey. Microsoft Expressions is a good, DreamWeaver is also highly rated, just do a search for some and you will find plenty. Here is a link to a free one that I use from time to time called NVU and also GoDaddy offers one but I have not used it so can’t give an honest opinion about it.
The 2nd is by using the Word Press platform and I will recommend that if you are a newbie you start here. You can get a free site and free hosting and heck you don’t even really need a domain name at wordpress.com but I don’t recommend that but instead go to wordpress.org and download the software and host it yourself. I like to control my site and not have to worry that the people hosting wordpress.com can take my site down if they don’t like it.
If you have chosen GoDaddy to host your site and you have chosen to use Word Press to build your site then you’re going to love this. When you login to your GoDaddy hosting account and click on applications you will see Word Press listed. You click that and choose your domain name and the good folks over at GoDaddy will install the software for you.
Then you just login to your Word Press site and starting placing content. The look and design of your website is very easy to change inside your Word Press dashboard. If you would like some custom looking headers I can do those for you (for a small fee of course) starting around $35.
The best part about using the Word Press platform is there are so many plugins that are free that will make your website work and do things that will blow your mind if your new to building a online marketing site.
I hope that helps let me know any questions you have on building your own site leave a comment below and I will do my best to provide the solution here.