article thumbnail

7 Keys To The Best Internet Name For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

Registration of the domain name is easy and simple through most hosting sites, if nobody already owns it. As a startup, cost to rename your company and change existing collateral may be less than dealing with unmatched names or premium domain pricing. Register the name and related suffixes, if available. Otherwise, find the owner.

Startup 136
article thumbnail

Kick-Start Your eCommerce Business for $100 or Less

Startup Professionals Musings

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Sites 78
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

‘Do-It-Yourself’ Startups Have Never Been Easier

Startup Professionals Musings

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites, for example, cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100 if you are willing to do the work yourself. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

Startup 100
article thumbnail

Interview with Nick Desai, Global Fitness Media

socalTECH

For this morning's interview, we sat down and talked with Nick Desai , CEO of Global Fitness Media , which runs FitOrbit (www.fitorbit.com), an online site looking to help users put together a fitness and connect with fitness trainers. For those who haven't visited your site, what is FitOrbit? Thanks for talking with us.

Media 168
article thumbnail

5 Easy Steps to Your Own E-Commerce Startup for $100

Startup Professionals Musings

In the early days (20 years ago), most new e-commerce sites cost a million dollars to set up. Now the price is closer to $100, if you are willing to do the work yourself. Personalize a simple web site. Publish the site and now you are in business. Then there are full-featured software sites like Facebook.

article thumbnail

When to Pay a Premium for Your Company Domain Name

Startup Professionals Musings

Type in "weddingshoes.com" - a site that Ham happens to own - and you'll land on what looks like a shoe-shopping portal, filled with links from dozens of retailers. Today there is big money in this aftermarket, where these valuable names are driving prices to new heights. If the name is perfect, pay the price.

Company 81
article thumbnail

8 Ways To Ensure That Your Website Is Winning For You

Startup Professionals Musings

Even more disappointing are other statistics that show most websites that do exist have a very low “conversion rate,” or ratio of visitors to the site versus ones who meet your goal of buying a product or signing up for a newsletter. Test your pricing and packaging options, and tune them regularly. Otherwise we wouldn’t be in business.”

SEO 53