Revision of Week 3 from Sat, 2011-01-01 01:11

Every enterprise, whether a business or not, should have some kind of web site. It doesn't have to be a full-blown commercially-produced masterpiece; in fact, it could be as simple as a Facebook page or blog. In today's world, there are a million free easy ways to create a web presence.

Here are some tools and ideas to explore (in rough order from super-easy to more complex):

• Hosted social media site
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • MySpace
• Hosted blog
  • Wordpress.com
• Hosted wiki
  • Wikispaces
• Other hosted site
  • Google site
• Cheap hosted site
  • Register.com
  • GoDaddy.com
• Piggy-back on someone else's server; you probably know people who have small businesses that host their own web sites. It's pretty easy to have them host yours too.
  • WP CMS

Please add your own suggestions to this list!

In addition to having a web site, make sure that you are findable other places on the web, for example:

• on Google maps (assuming you have a physical location)
• on any directories that are relevant to your business (e.g. restaurant guides)
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