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Step number one to making a website
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answer the following question, why do you wanna make a website? Or put another way, what is the purpose of the website
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Do you wanna generate traffic through your business through SEO? Share your portfolio
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take online reservations for your restaurant, build your personal brand, share your passion with the world through a blog
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There are countless reasons to create a website, but it's important to know why you're building the website
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before moving on. I recommend almost everyone create a website, but there are two situations where I would recommend
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starting with something else first. If you wanna start collecting emails, maybe you can create a simple landing page for free
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with ConvertKit. If you wanna sell online courses, it might be better to build a sales page
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with something like Systems.io you can start with for free, or you can use SampCart
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the software we're currently using. I'll provide more information about landing pages
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and sales pages down below in the description. The next step to creating your website
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if you haven't done so already, it's time to choose a name. If you're struggling with this
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I'm gonna put down below in the description a handful of different tools that will help you generate a bunch of creative name ideas
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including ChatGBT. The next step for your website is to purchase your domain
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This is an important step after choosing a name to make sure you lock down the domain that you want
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for your website. The most recognized top level domain is .com, but you could also go with .co, .net, .biz
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or a country specific domain, such as .ca for Canada, .mx for Mexico
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or .co.uk for the United Kingdom. We don't recommend purchasing your domain
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from your website builder or hosting company. These are not the lowest cost options
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especially for the annual renewals. You'll probably spend 10 to $20 more per year
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for your domain if you purchase it where you're creating your website
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That brings us to the sponsor of today's video, porkbun.com. We've been purchasing all of our domains from Porkbun
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for the last couple of years. With Porkbun, you'll get some of the lowest prices you can find anywhere with low renewal prices
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something that isn't the case for all website registrars. You'll also get free privacy protection
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an SSL certificate, as well as free trials for email, hosting, and a website builder
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Use our link down below in the description to get an additional dollar off their already low prices
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for the first year of your domain. Then figure out your budget. How much are you willing to invest
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This can make a big difference in how you actually create your website. Do you have money to invest upfront
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in the design and creation of your website? And how much can you afford to pay on a monthly basis
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The choices you make are going to be quite a bit different if you have thousands of dollars to invest
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you could hire a graphic designer, and pay someone to build a website for you
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But since you're watching this video, I imagine you're looking to spend quite a bit less than that. We've created all of our own websites
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and no one on my team is a graphic designer. Depending on the website builder and the plan you choose
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you could pay as little as $20 per year or up to around $100 per month
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After you have an approximate budget, list out all the requirements you have
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Would you like to have a blog, a form to capture emails, the ability to sell products online
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host your podcast, have live chat on your website? Do you already have a logo, brand colors, and fonts
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Some website builders have a free logo creation tool and give you color and font combination ideas
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It's not time to create anything yet, I just want you to have a list of the must haves
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and nice to haves. After you define your budget and the requirements for your website
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it's time to select your website builder. We have a video that I'll link to up above
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that lists our top favorite website builders. If there's no clear winner for what you're looking to build
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take advantage of the free trials, usually 14 days. You can try to roughly build out the functionality
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you'd like to have on your website during the free trial to see which website builder better fits your needs
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After you've selected a website builder, it's time to create all the content for your website
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Write out all the text you'd like to have on each of the pages and compile photos, designs
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icons, et cetera, so that you can create each page of your website
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Then within your website builder, you wanna choose an overall template that most closely resembles the design you're looking for
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And then for each one of the pages, you can choose from a template or design a page from scratch
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adding all the individual elements. Then you wanna go and add the text, images
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and everything else you want for each one of the pages. If you move quickly, you can get all this done
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during the two week free trial. If that's the case and you're happy with how your website turned out
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it's time to upgrade and purchase a subscription. Normally, if you pay annually instead of monthly
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you'll save over 20% per year. After you've upgraded to a paid plan
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now you can connect your domain. Instructions for that are down below
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Before publishing your website, double check that everything is working properly. Each link takes you to the right page
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and check how each page is displayed on a computer, tablet, and phone
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Make any necessary adjustments, and then it's time to publish your website
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Congratulations, your website is now live. If you want further help on which website builder to choose
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you can watch the video right here. Hope to see you in another video. Bye-bye
