Branding yourself as an Internet Marketer is extremely important. One of the first essential steps in creating credibility and a name for
yourself within this industry is to have your own website, capture page and or blog.

These are resources online that enable you to have a site hosted for free but any experienced internet marketer will recommend you host your own.

In the video series below, I explain why hosting your own site is important and show you how I was able to host and create my own website and blog.

I also provide you with additional resources and tutorials that I personally used to help put this blog and my other sites together.

Tutorial Pt. 1 – Creating your own Blog with WordPress
Obtain domain name (Go Daddy) and (Blog Hosting) with (Hostgator) for $0.01!


How To Get HostGator Hosting for $0.01

Instructions:
(If you don’t already have a first domain name, go to godaddy and get one first)

To obtain hosting, visit:  http://tinyurl.com/hostgatorfor1dollar

Click “View web hosting plans” select “baby plan” click on monthly at $7.95 (it actually will work out to be $9.95 per month after the 1st month unless you pay for your service on a yearly basis rather than monthly)

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I always recommend the Baby plan package because you can host unlimited subdomains. Choose $9.95/mo.

Once you’ve clicked “order now” you will be brought to this page below

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Remember to insert this special coupon code “WORDPRESS” to get 9.94 off the first month giving you only
$0.01 for the first month!!

now Step 2 : Billing information

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Confirm that you have chosen the baby package and choose a username and password for your Hostgator account login.

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enter your details and choose your billing options either credit card or Paypal

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Confirm your total amount. confirm that the coupon code “WORDPRESS” is being used .

Tutorial: Pt.2 – Creating your own Blog with WordPress



Tutorial: Setting up your autoresponder with Aweber


Software and Tutorial Recommendations

Gimp (What I used to create my banner at www.samanthamcsween.com ) : http://www.gimp.org/

Gimp Tutorials:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lr_XW0_DXNM&feature=rec-HM-fresh+div

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-Mdf2m8P-k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIb2Cjec2Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inUW0xPROo&feature=channel_page

Kompozer (Software used to create my website) : http://kompozer.net/

Kompozer Tutorials:

Excellent series on this site (cost is $19.95 for a full year) : http://kompozervideos.com/

There are also many youtube tutorials that you can find.

Filezilla (FTP): http://filezilla-project.org/