Thursday, June 18, 2009

Building a Blog and Websites

A lot of Noah's Ark Party Leaders ask about building their own online blog or website to help support their business. I think it's a great idea.  You definitely want to promote the Noah's Ark brand in all your business endeavors but you also want to brand YOU as the go to person for your business.  A blog or personal website is a nice way to do that.

Here are some options for websites:

Free options:
Blogger - this blog is built on the blogger free platform - very easy and fast.
Wordpress.com - free and seems to have a few more bells and whistles than blogger but both are really good options
Tumblr.com - another free and very easy to use blogging platform. I've played with it but for some reason just haven't fallen in love with it yet.

Paid options:
Wordpress.org - wordpress' paid version. You need your own domain name and hosting for this option but it gives you a lot more flexibility - and the ability to make it look more like a website rather than a blog.  My friends over at MomWebs have a great offer that they'll actually get your blog all set up for $10 when you choose to host with them.  It's a nice deal.
DirectSalesWebsites.com - when I built my first website I used the very easy to use website builder with Internet Based Family websites at DirectSalesWebsites.com.  They give a 10 day free trial too.
EZBizAC.com - This is one that I just stumbled upon in the last week and it looks REALLY good.  Because I'm a big fan of autoresponders and the like ... this one looks like it really is everything all in one package without having to spend a ton of money. You can host a bunch of websites (not just one) and have all your customer correspondence and everything all in your web based control panel - which means you have access to your "empire" on any computer.  I'm going to spend some time studying this one some more because it really looks good.

Anyway, it's worth taking a look at some of these to see if any of them might fit for what you want to do.  Let me know what you think!




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