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Although you can start online making money with a free blog service such as blogger.com, building a professional name people can trust will require the use of your own hosting account. Hosting accounts do not need to be expensive to still be able to receive all of the benefits you would like to grow your business.

What types of features should you look for in a hosting service?

One of the main things you need to have is a reliable service that will not have too many "down" times. This means that whenever anyone tries to access your site, it is always available to be seen. Many hosting companies out there may charge only a couple dollars a month but what seems like a deal may end up costing you thousands in lost revenue if the service is not reliable.

Hostgator is one of the better, well-known and trusted services out there. You can host unlimited websites, which means if you wanted to get into blog marketing with various affiliate products, you could create a separate blog for each product on the same account. This comes in really handy for management since you can access all blog files through one control panel.

You want unlimited or a high volume of bandwidth space allowed. It may not seem important to you when you first start up because you would be happy to be getting 100 visitors a day, but once you get your business really flying, you will need a high bandwidth volume so you can receive as many visitors as come your way.

If you are not so technically inclined as to be able to build your own website from scratch or add databases for your site, having a pre-install of popular programs such as wordpress, e-commerce shopping carts, content management systems, or fun things like guestbooks, and forums, is a time saving benefit. Fantastico is one such system that installs these programs for you after you have entered the necessary information and passwords for your site. Having extra bonuses added such as $50 off marketing like Google Adwords, is another benefit hosting companies like Hostgator offer to help business owners.

You will need to set up your hosting account with a suitable domain name for your company. With so many businesses starting online these days, coming up with a unique name is not always so easy. You want something that is not too long, will tell your visitor what your site is about in only a couple words, and is easy enough to remember. Something like loverslanejewelry.com tells everyone that you have a jewelry store site, is easy to remember and not too long.

Once you have your main domain set up with your hosting account, you can use your imagination to get started making your sites look as visually appealing and unique looking as possible. With a visually appealing site, quality content and merchandise or reliable services, you will be on your way to building a successful business.