Get Your Own Email Address for a More Professional Image »

I attended my local Real Estate Investors Club last night. It’s interesting how often I end up talking about how to use the internet with real estate investors. The most successful Real Estate investors now and in the future will be marketing and connecting on the internet. Here’s a question I was asked:

How can I get an email address with my company name?

You first have to buy your company name as a Domain address (URL). There are a couple ways or places to do that.

1) Find a Registrar you like and buy your name (if it’s available) Register your company as a URL (domain name) and use the registering site’s free email and Voila! you have an email address with your company name. Domains cost on average about $10 a year. The best, cheapest place I’ve found that I buy all my domains from is Netfirms.com

A domain name without a web site hosted on it is pretty ugly and not great image for your company. Having even a simple web site on your domain is better than visitors landing on “under construction.” In the real estate world it’s like buying land with nothing on it. Build a web site and add to the value of your address. You are literally creating virtual real estate.

Your registrar also offers web site hosting and web site do it yourself web site builders.

2) Plan ahead, buy your web site hosting and domain together. You don’t have to host your web site with the registering company. I generally buy my domains cheap from Netfirms and then buy hosting on Bluehost.com because I get a lot of space for multiple web sites and because I pay by the year it’s only about $7.95 a month for hosting. You will need to buy your first domain directly from Bluehost if you host with them. It costs a few bucks more than Netfirms.com but you will be able to have more domains hosted with them for free. Other companies will charge you a monthly hosting fee for each domain/site. You can also set up multiple email addresses for free.

Having your own email address is a must if you are serious about business. If you are still using a yahoo.com or hotmail.com or att.com email address, get your own email addres and you will project a much more professional image. Do it now! Register your name and your company name as URL’s.

Learn to Make Money Online? Yes! With the 30 Day Challenge »

Just a quick note to share a very cool resource with you because I know you to be someone interested in internet marketing, making money online and/or creating streams of passive income.

I would like to introduce The Thirty Day Challenge. The “30DC” is free training for anyone from absolute internet beginners to experienced internet marketers on strategies for making money with the internet. The Challenge is about following the instructions and strategies of the founders to make just $1 from your own product online. “One measly dollar!” you say? Here’s the beauty of it, if learn to make just $1, you have learned a process that can be applied to make a lot more.

The actual Challenge starts August 1 and continues through Aug 31. Day lessons, videos, support and teams help you to understand and master everything you need to be a success - and it’s all f.ree. I started working through last years challenge (available through out the year) last February and found it extremely helpful. I am looking forward to doing this year’s challenge in real time.

To help you even more there is a Pre-season series of tutorials about the internet tools that will be used in Challenge. The Pre-season is worth a bunch all by itself! Learn to use all of the cutting edge tools that the most successful internet marketers use: The Flock browser, Twitter, Facebook, Google Reader, video and more. The other cool thing is you can go at your own pace. Be sure to join a team. I’ve made global friendships since starting the Challenge earlier this year!

I hope you will join me in the Thirty Day Challenge. Just go here to learn more and to register…

http://www.ThirtyDayChallenge.com/challenge/15650

If I was mistaken and this isn’t your thing, please forward this post to someone you think might be interested. If you ARE planning to join forward this post too. It’s fun and possibly very lucrative!