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"If You Wanna Play, You've Gotta Pay!" by Chris Malta

Wholesale Drop shipper If you have Internet access, you probably have some 'Free Web Hosting' space that came with it. Most of the larger Internet Service Providers (ISP's) offer you that, as an enticement to sign up for their services. Should you try to use this free hosting to sell products on the Internet? No!

Technically, it could be done, but it would be difficult, and your Internet provider would probably shut you down for it.

If you want to sell products on the Internet, you must pay for a good ECommerce Web Site.

Why? What's the difference between a 'Free' Personal Web Site and an ECommerce site, and what exactly are they charging you for?

Without getting into lots of shades of gray here, there are two basic kinds of Web Hosting:

Personal Web Site Hosting

Ecommerce Web Site Hosting

If you're starting an Internet Business where you will sell products, Ecommerce Site Web Hosting is what you need. First, though, we need to talk about Personal Web Site Hosting, so that we can understand the differences.

Personal Web Site Hosting

The Free web hosting that you might get with your Internet Access account falls under the category of Personal Web Hosting. If you sign up for an AOL Account, for example, you might get free Web Site Hosting for your own personal Site.

Free Web Site Hosting is very limited. It will have tight size restrictions, meaning that you will not have room for a large number of web pages on the site. Also, you will not generally be allowed to use it for business purposes.

For example, I have a friend who has an Internet Access account with one of the large, well known Internet providers. He gets a small, free web hosting space with that account. He uses it to put pictures of his family on the Internet, and to talk about the things that are going on in their lives. It falls under the category of a Personal Web Site, because nothing is sold on that site.

There are millions of Personal Web Sites on the Internet. From Dog Grooming Tips to Family re-union sites to the latest Nose Hair Clipping Methods. You can say anything you want to say on a Personal Web Site.

You just can’t directly sell anything. Free Personal Web Hosting doesn't allow it, and paid Personal Web Hosting doesn't have what you need.

What do I mean by 'directly sell'? Well, there is indirect selling, and there is direct selling.

Indirect Selling

Let’s say I created a Personal Web Site that talked about my Cousin’s recipes for Five-Alarm Chili. I list a couple of Three-Alarm Recipes there, to get you interested. Then I tell you that for the really GOOD stuff, you can mail me a check for $5, and I will send you the Recipes for the Five-Alarm Gut-Busters. I put a Mailing Address on the site, and I sit back and wait for your checks to roll in.

That’s what I call indirect selling. The Site is getting you interested in the product, but you have to go through an outside process (mailing me a check) in order to complete the sale.

If I try to do that on a FREE Personal Web Site, and my Internet Service Provider finds out about it, they may shut me down. It’s up to them. in general, I’m not supposed to be selling in any way on most FREE Personal Web Sites.

However, I can pay for a Personal Web Site from a Web Hosting Company, if I want to. I'll get a larger web hosting space that I can put more pages of information on. I can do pretty much anything I like, within the law, on a Personal Web Site that I pay for. So I can use it for indirect sales if I want to.

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