Introduction

So, you want to take your business online?

Should you use a shared server for hosting your web site, or a dedicated server?

Who will your hosting company be?

How about your:

E-mail solution?

Sequential autoresponder service?

Help desk software?

And once your site is built, how are you going to get people to visit?

What other online resources are available to help you grow your business?

This book answers those questions and points you to the online business tools that will give you an advantage in the marketplace.

Not only will you find some of the best resources for tools you've already heard about, but you'll find many tools you didn't even know existed!

Rather than organizing this guide as a typical book with chapters, I have elected to list the various resources alphabetically by function—I believe this is a more intuitive and usable approach.

Though I include many links/resources relevant to these topics, this book is not an Internet promotion or web site design how-to. Likewise, it's not a how-to-make-money-on-the-Internet or a doing-business-on-the-Internet book.

This guide will give you the tools to implement just about any marketing program online—but you'll have to come up with the business idea yourself.

A few words about the various resources I link to in this guide...

These links are not listed in any particular order within a category. A resource listed first in a category is not necessarily any better than the resource listed last in that same category. ...

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