Let’s face it, there are lots of business launching this year that are well funded that have little concern over the costs of a simple website, or with IT professionals handling all their email.  Then there is the rest of us;  entrepreneurs with little more than a good idea and a plan to make it successful.

In today’s information driven world, many of us will consider a website as the number one priority - something about having your own “office space on the web” makes things look official.  Especially if you are working from home, shared office space, a business incubator, having a web presence just makes things more real.

In the entrepreneurial spirit, many business men and women will make their pilgrimage to GoDaddy (or other registrar) and begin their seemingly simple task of building a website.  Hours, Days, Weeks later the website might eventually be good - but at what cost?  Did the start-up expenses of about $200 for domain, website builder, and email accurately represent the costs with the time, energy, and possibly bad decisions made to summon the idea to the Internet?

Then there will be others that recognize this task is not for them, and will likely be swallowed into the sea of web designers and hosting companies, promising to make them number one.  A flood of Internet jargon will result in invoices for website design, hosting, domain registrations, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social networking, and adwords.  Thousands of dollars later they will live in bliss, or at least until payment is due.

That’s not what we do.  Instead, we sit down and talk about your busienss.  Figure out what “needs” to get done, what “wants” to get done, what “thinks” willl get done, and what will get done to make your business successful on the Internet.  We’ll personalize your SiteBento website, launch it, and give it all the features and functions that are best for your business today while keeping growth in mind. We’ll also setup Google Apps, Free or Business, and make sure that you can open an electronic dialogue with your clients and keep it going.   The best part, we’ll keep you focused on growing your business.

1. You let your web designer - or web host - manage the domain name, rather than your experienced IT person.  Immediately - or over time - things need to change and neither party has the necessary tools get problems sorted out.
   
   
2. You were told it’s easy by an advertisement, friend, or someone who has done it before.  Better yet, you watched an IT professional get things going in under three minutes;  it did not seem so complicated when they did it.  An experienced IT person can assess and react to a plethora of variable; when they know the business they make it look easy.
   
   
3. You register a domain name with a discount provider only to watch them go out of business and your domain name now hosts the Internet’s newest adult entertainment site.  There are hundreds of accredited, by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), that may not be in business tomorrow.
   
   
4. You register a domain name for a great price, while unknowingly purchase a multitude of unnecessary services that seemed like they were part of a checkout process.   Domain registration for $1.99 is never that cheap. 
   
   
5. You receive an official renewal notice, pay the bill, and everything seems fine.  Few months later you go to make a change and realize your domain name is no longer registered where you thought it was.  Should have read the fine print on that invoice; you got scammed. 
   
   
6. You - or your web designer - change web hosts, create a website, move your website, etc; you convert all domain name servers as instructed, then sit around wondering why there is no new email.  Your new host asked that your DNS records be updated, and you obliged, without realizing the complete impact on your business.
   
   
7. You purchase a web hosting account and setup individual domain accounts for each domain name.  Confusing? That’s the point.   There is an overlap in terminology that leads to many blunders.   Now you have several websites and cannot figure out how to forward any of them together. 
   
   
8. You changed your Internet service providers in your office and now are not sending and receiving e-mail.   Later on, lack of information only amplifies the problem as the service provider’s technician, IT person, web designer, web host, domain registrar, and domain host are all involved in what should have been a smooth transition.
   
   
9. Your IT guy was asked to make domain name changes, but his lack of proficiency in DNS got the best of him.  Unknown to you, many IT people do not have a firm understanding of domain name services. 
   
   
10. Your outbound mail is not reaching recipients.  Your office is in need of a Reverse DNS Record to cure the problem.  Everyone involved mistakes rDNS with DNS and the problem only gets worse.  When you think someone finally has a handle on the situation, you plow into a wall of incompetence from level-one techs on every “800” number you call.