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This step we’ll be installing Wordpress as your web page template.

Refer to your email from HostGator for your access code and your cPanel link; it will look like ‘yourdomain.com/cpanel’. Get logged in. You’ll see a page of icons and lists of stuff. Go way down to the bottom of the icons and find the smiley face that reads ‘Fantastico De Luxe’ and give it a click.

On the Fantastico page look in the list for ‘Wordpress” and give it a click, this will bring up a Wordpress page. In the Wordpress block, look for ‘New Installation’ and click it.

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Next step is to find a hosting service for your domain. What your looking for is service that is helpful and offers ease of use as well as plenty of features. As a user of several hosts over time my experience is that the very best is HostGator.com. Click the link and then click into ‘Shared’ and the ‘Learn More’ link to compare packages.

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So head over to Godaddy.com and play around with some different names and look at the suggestions they make for ideas particularly if your choice is taken. When considering your domain name it may not always be possible to get the exact name of your business. If exact is available make sure it’s a .com, don’t choose anything else. The reason is that people will usually type in .com out of familiarity and your business will go there first.

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When considering a blog you may think doing a free blog will save you money and you’d be right. Except for just a few things that fall under the category of you get what you pay for.

First, a free blog doesn’t belong to you, you just write it. The blog belongs to the provider and as such it stays up at their discretion. They have a funny way of disappearing sometimes and you may never know why.

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So as I mentioned in my last post you need to be gathering email addresses from your customers. What you do with them is add them to a collection, a collection where you can go through them if you like and have some way to acknowledge your customers and thank them for their business or for just getting on your list.

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