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Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for your messages of welcome & support, they are greatly appreciated and it's really great to feel so motivated about this amazing n
Hi Kelli - welcome - I'm from Scotland too.
1. If you can get it, go for the .com/.net/.co.uk (that's what I do - stops people buying your domain for .com when you only have .co.uk - a nasty lesson I learned...)
2. The internet is global - open yourself up to that concept - if you're able to send internationally, then don't limit yourself to the UK - people all around the world are looking for the same thing UK customers are. More on that below. If you end up using Amazon for example, you can register in all of their regions - and use the Amazon Link Localizer to ensure you get your affiliate commission. There's some training here which will tell you more about it: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/using-the-amazon-link-localizer
3. Look for keywords which may attract people from anywhere in the world. If you start getting visitors, encourage them to comment, or share your product reviews with others. As people start to find out about your site and your products, you may open up a whole new USA/Canada market that no-one has tapped into yet!!
4. It depends if you are marketing yourself, or a brand. If yourself - and you want people to know that this is you, and your setting up this business - then use your existing accounts. If you're trying to setup a brand - then use different ones. You don't want people you do business with, seeing posts of what you had for lunch that day (you know what I mean :) ).
Last piece of guidance - go through the training (if you haven't already), and follow it to the letter. Sounds like you already have your niche, so you're already strides ahead!
All the best Kelli,
Mark
Hi Mark,
Thank you so much for your advice it has been a great help to me & you're right I've been so used to marketing my own businesses within their local sectors (health & beauty salon, country house hotel) that I keep thinking along the lines of targeting clients/customers within reach of the premises, return clients, etc.... of course with a dedicated online business I need to forget about this completely and as you & others have said, try to open up into the global concept! Ha, think it may take me a little time to get my head round this but I'm sure I'll get there... Thanks again for taking the time to details so much info & help for me, it's fantastic and I will follow all the steps of the training bit by bit, I've just secured 2 domain names, I took your advice & went for .com & also .org as from the training notes these are the 2 that rank the best with google & other search engines, can I ask do you still think it's worthwhile me going back & taking the .co.uk address aswell??
Thanks again Mark for all your help, wish you all the success in the world with your ventures too :-)
Hi Kelli - you're more than welcome - I'm glad it was useful for you.
I personally would register the .co.uk - last thing you'd want as a UK based business, is to build a global site - and have some eejit from somewhere register the .co.uk right from under you, and setup a similar site. You can guarantee people in the UK will type .co.uk instead of .com sometimes - and will come across the eejit's site - and give them the business you've worked so hard to build.
Keep in touch - I'd love to see you get on? Depending on what you're selling - my better half may become one of your customers!!!
All the best, Mark
Hi KellisAngel. I am in the UK too (Wales) and bought my .com domain(more popular, I think). No need for two websites, all you have to do is specify which markets they are for. Hope this helps. BTW this is an amazing place to be. Good luck with your enterprise.
Hi Wardlib, Thank you :-) .... I'm going to go with a .com address too, the more I've read the more I've realised that location really doesn't matter... Thinking too much about things I think, anyway, thank you for taking the time to give me your advice, greatly appreciated and I wish you every success too :-)
Hi Kelli, i'd like you to put yourself in a global business perspective when you embark on an online business, thanks to the Internet, the info super highway, virtually it has no border. Sorry i may not answer your questions directly but hope it helps you to answer or getting the answers you want.
Hi Fred , Thanks for your comment, it does help, the more I've read, the more I realise that .com is what I should be looking for and I need to try to forget about the boundaries of location... thank you ;-)
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Hi everyone,
Thank you so much for your messages of welcome & support, they are greatly appreciated and it's really great to feel so motivated about this amazing n
Dear Kellis
As far as purchasing a .com or a .co.uk domain. The .com is recognized around the world so its good to have. A .co.uk is basically if you prefer to only sell in the UK and Scotland and Ireland
A .com is better if you want to sell world wide
Also if you are selling product that are in the same category its alright to sell more than one under the same domain name but you can,t sell for instance i would have one for Mom and Baby and anything pertaining to Mom or Baby. and another site for say Skin care
Question 4 Yes i would have separate accounts 1 for Europe and one for the USA
Hope this helps
Liz
Hi Kelli - welcome - I'm from Scotland too.
1. If you can get it, go for the .com/.net/.co.uk (that's what I do - stops people buying your domain for .com when you only have .co.uk - a nasty lesson I learned...)
2. The internet is global - open yourself up to that concept - if you're able to send internationally, then don't limit yourself to the UK - people all around the world are looking for the same thing UK customers are. More on that below. If you end up using Amazon for example, you can register in all of their regions - and use the Amazon Link Localizer to ensure you get your affiliate commission. There's some training here which will tell you more about it: https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/training/using-the-amazon-link-localizer
3. Look for keywords which may attract people from anywhere in the world. If you start getting visitors, encourage them to comment, or share your product reviews with others. As people start to find out about your site and your products, you may open up a whole new USA/Canada market that no-one has tapped into yet!!
4. It depends if you are marketing yourself, or a brand. If yourself - and you want people to know that this is you, and your setting up this business - then use your existing accounts. If you're trying to setup a brand - then use different ones. You don't want people you do business with, seeing posts of what you had for lunch that day (you know what I mean :) ).
Last piece of guidance - go through the training (if you haven't already), and follow it to the letter. Sounds like you already have your niche, so you're already strides ahead!
All the best Kelli,
Mark
Hi Mark,
Thank you so much for your advice it has been a great help to me & you're right I've been so used to marketing my own businesses within their local sectors (health & beauty salon, country house hotel) that I keep thinking along the lines of targeting clients/customers within reach of the premises, return clients, etc.... of course with a dedicated online business I need to forget about this completely and as you & others have said, try to open up into the global concept! Ha, think it may take me a little time to get my head round this but I'm sure I'll get there... Thanks again for taking the time to details so much info & help for me, it's fantastic and I will follow all the steps of the training bit by bit, I've just secured 2 domain names, I took your advice & went for .com & also .org as from the training notes these are the 2 that rank the best with google & other search engines, can I ask do you still think it's worthwhile me going back & taking the .co.uk address aswell??
Thanks again Mark for all your help, wish you all the success in the world with your ventures too :-)
Hi Kelli - you're more than welcome - I'm glad it was useful for you.
I personally would register the .co.uk - last thing you'd want as a UK based business, is to build a global site - and have some eejit from somewhere register the .co.uk right from under you, and setup a similar site. You can guarantee people in the UK will type .co.uk instead of .com sometimes - and will come across the eejit's site - and give them the business you've worked so hard to build.
Keep in touch - I'd love to see you get on? Depending on what you're selling - my better half may become one of your customers!!!
All the best, Mark
Hi KellisAngel. I am in the UK too (Wales) and bought my .com domain(more popular, I think). No need for two websites, all you have to do is specify which markets they are for. Hope this helps. BTW this is an amazing place to be. Good luck with your enterprise.
Hi Wardlib, Thank you :-) .... I'm going to go with a .com address too, the more I've read the more I've realised that location really doesn't matter... Thinking too much about things I think, anyway, thank you for taking the time to give me your advice, greatly appreciated and I wish you every success too :-)
Hi Kelli, i'd like you to put yourself in a global business perspective when you embark on an online business, thanks to the Internet, the info super highway, virtually it has no border. Sorry i may not answer your questions directly but hope it helps you to answer or getting the answers you want.
Hi Fred , Thanks for your comment, it does help, the more I've read, the more I realise that .com is what I should be looking for and I need to try to forget about the boundaries of location... thank you ;-)
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Dear Kellis
As far as purchasing a .com or a .co.uk domain. The .com is recognized around the world so its good to have. A .co.uk is basically if you prefer to only sell in the UK and Scotland and Ireland
A .com is better if you want to sell world wide
Also if you are selling product that are in the same category its alright to sell more than one under the same domain name but you can,t sell for instance i would have one for Mom and Baby and anything pertaining to Mom or Baby. and another site for say Skin care
Question 4 Yes i would have separate accounts 1 for Europe and one for the USA
Hope this helps
Liz