This should be a no-brainer, but so few people think about it.

I guarantee you have plenty of stuff laying around the house that you don’t use and probably never will use. Items that just taking up space anyways. I am first to admin, at times I can be a pack rat, but some times you just gotta let go. Many experts on organization will tell you, if you have’nt used it in six months you probably never will.

If you can’t have a garage sale in town, often storage places will rent out a unit for garage sales. You’ll get far more customers in town v.s. the country.

Make some cash to get your online business going.

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Do you know where you domain name is registered? What if you need to modify it? What is you changed hosts and needed to change your dns? For those that don’t know, dns stands for “Domain Name Server”, this information tells the internet where to find your website, the exact computer on the internet where your webpages are located.

The bad news is many people do not register their own domain name. You can’t blame them as many people new to the internet have no clue how to properly register a domain name, I sure did’nt when I was new.

Even more bad news is, what if you have a dispute with your current web host and decided to part ways? What if they registered your domain for you when you signed up? Often hosting companies will register a name for a customer and often the contact information is the hosts contact information. After all they are taking care of all the details for you.

So the scenario comes down to you needing to move your website. The first step is to move or upload all your files on the new hosting service. Next step is to change your domain names dns record, you do need to tell the internet that your site now has a new home, located on a different computer on the internet.

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