Easy steps to set-up a Blog with your own Custom Domain Name

Here’s a step by step of how to set-up your blog with custom domain name and email subscription form. You’ll have a working professional website in no time and in just 4 easy steps.

1. Register a domain name.

You should use register.com because it’s easy to point your domain name to your blog. You can do it yourself in the domain’s control panel. Most companies require you to call the tech support to do this.

Remember. You don’t need to buy any hosting. Just buy the domain name. The blog service is the one you’ll be using to host your content.

2. Sign up for a Blog.

Either WordPress or Squarespace. Both are superior in their own way. WordPress is free and has tremendous amount of resources for customization. But to make your blog look professional, you will have to pay for a template and learn PHP, CSS, HTML language to customize the layout.

WordPress is really difficult for beginners to fully customize. Go check out the list of best wordpress themes here

Squarespace on the other hand is the fastest and simplest way to fully customize your blog. It cost money but in no time, you can achieve professional presentation and design.

Once you set-up your blog and your hosting,

3. Point your DNS (Domain Name Server) to your Blog

Here’s an easy step by step of how to do it. And here’s what you should do with your WordPress and Squarespace blog.

4. Set-up email Subscription and Auto-responder

Once your blog is ready, you need to set-up a system that allows you to grab visitor’s information so you can contact them for updates and promos.

Here’s how it looks like:

There are two ways to go about this. You can use Feedburner, Aweber, or Dada Mail. Aweber Autoresponder cost money. A minimum $20/month is way too much for a start up internet business. Dada mail on the other hand is free.

Here’s a tutorial how to set-up a free Autoresponder using Dada Mail.

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