ARE YOU USING THE INTERNET TO MARKET YOUR PRODUCTS 

OR COMPANY? OR IS THE INTERNET USING YOU?

  This guide was developed to help you establish a Marketing/Business plan

for internet marketing.

  We have divided this guide into sections and listed them in a numerical

order of importance from 1 to 21.

Section 1 (1 5)

Obtaining a dot com name, email address and putting the email to work

Section 2 (6 8)

Building, hosting your web site, checking the performance, and fine 

tuning your website. 

Section 3 (9 15)

Announcing your site, linking your web site, banner exchanges, 

advertising, and submitting to the search engines. 

Section 4 (15 18) News worthy  Press releases, news letters, surveys. 

Section 5 (19 21) Going the extra mile. Contests, giveaways. 

Section 1

The first step to establishing a web presence is to choose a dot com

name (Domain Name). You can check the availability of names at

GoDaddy.com. If the one you have chosen is taken, you will be given

a list of similar domain names that are available. GoDaddy.com offers

very affordable pricing for registering a domain name. More places to

register/research domain names:

  Register.com

  Networksolutions.com 

  InternetRegistration.com

Register a 

1.

  Find other country domains through 

Domain Name

(uninett.no/navn/domreg.html)

  Find URLs for sale at DomainCollection 

(www.domaincollection.com)

  Find words with wordtracker.com (www.wordtracker.com)

Who do you contact about domain name dispute? (ICANN.org)

is the technical coordination body for the Internet and will try 

and resolve any domain name dispute. 

Most of the above domain name registers will give you an email

account along with the dot com name. Set up and start using your

email right away. 

Put your URL

All pieces of corporate literature should contain your URL, including

2.

business cards, ads, letterhead, e mail, etc. 

Everywhere

URL= www.yourdomainname.com,net,org 

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