Get Your Business Online
Your business needs to be online, you need to be able to be found when a client does a free "reference check" (they google you). It doesn't have to be expensive, but if you're not online, it's like throwing away sales, and as you know we're all about Sales Growth.. so we recommend you get your business online. People say,
"it's essential that your business has an internet website.. if not you're giving your competitors ever help with putting you our of business"
We find it hard to argue with, after all do you know any successful business that doesn't have at least website domain.It's not hard to get started, and here we've gathered together some tools that will make it much easier for you.
Getting started
So what do you need to do to get started.. well to begin with.. go register your business name.. that's an obvious first thing.. or if you don't have your business name firmed up yet, then register your name as a doman name. It will cost you less than £10/year, and will give you something you can experiment with. More importantly if a client searched for you and finds your name.. and a relevant page about your service, what message will that give.. that you're serious and somebody worth talking to.. does it make you stand out..
Registering your 1st domain name
So what do you need to do to register a domain name.. well pick from any of these companies.. they're all good.. click on one of the banners below and type in the domain name you want. We suggest that you try to register the .com and the .co.uk domain extensions at the least (these are most relevant for UK businesses). If you haven't got a domain name yet.. then give it a go.. it's not expensive, and in less than 10 minutes you'll have moved your business forward and protected your brand. Try
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Just follow through the simple instructions and you'll have registered a domain name in a few minutes, and even better, you'll have protected your business name. If you've already done this, there's one other thing we think you need to do today..
Get an Email Auto Responder
If you've read our essential business tools you already know what we think about these and why they're essential, if you haven't gotten one yet, click below and take a 30 day trial of 1ShoppingCart... you'll be glad you did..
If you would like to know more.. we can recommend this series of free tips from Psi Pi and Web Marketing Gurus, which you can get by adding your email here. They'll send you guides on choosing domain names for your business, and lots more.. and yes.. we know they're good as they helped us register this name.. SalesGrowthCoach.com which I think you'll agree is a great domain name. (oh and we didn't have to pay £1million for it..)

