Do-it-yourself:

Here is a compilation of companies we use (or have used), and can personally vouch for. Most of them are among the best in their field, and offer a high level of service and very good value for money.

You may notice that most are affiliate links, which means we make a commission if you decide to use their service. We don't believe this fact biases our choice of recommendations; after-all we use these companies ourself. Nevertheless, we feel it important that you know.

Website Marketing

• Overture - without a doubt the biggest PPC network
  Overture has a wide-ranging partnership with most of the biggest search engines (incl. Yahoo), and claim to reach 80% of all Internet users. It costs about $50 to join, and the minimum monthly spend is about $20, but they often advertise discounts. Nevertheless, they are worth investigating if you need to attract some traffic to your website.
• Pay-Per-Click Advertising
  Enhance Interactive (formerly ah-ha.com) has partnered with Excite (above) to offer PPC advertising from about US$0.03 per click-through. This service is much the same as Google Adwords and Overture, but uses different search engines and partners. PPC advertising is certain to expose your website to search engine users (when done properly), but can be somewhat expensive depending on how popular your chosen key phrases are.
• Newsletter / Email Marketing tools
  Constant Contact®, Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing™ helps small and mid-sized businesses and associations develop an ongoing relationship with their customers and website visitors. Do-It-Yourself Email Marketing makes it easy and affordable to build and manage permission email lists, create and send eye-catching HTML email newsletters, announcements and promotions, and track email campaign results.
• clickXchange.com affiliate program
  clickXchange.com introduces advertisers (websites seeking traffic) to publishers (websites willing to direct some traffic to an advertisers website for a fee). Advertisers may choose to pay per impression, click-through, or sale etc. Ideally, publishers carefully select advertisers based on quality and suitability. Affiliate system such as this also help to raise your search engine ranking, thanks to those publishers with "links" to your site.

Domain Name Registration

• Register domain names with NetRegistry
  Join 10,000s businesses in Australia who trust NetRegistry with domain name registration.
• .tv Domain Names
  .tv Corporation are best known for their .tv domain name brand but also sell .cc .biz .info .org .bz .name .uk and .be domain names.
• .shop Domain Names
  "New Domain Names" sell .shop .club .travel .xxx .sport .family .law and .mp3 domain names. These names are not as common as .net and .com, but might be worth considering if they are more appropriate for your needs.
• Cheap .com .net Domain Names
  "dotster" is a leading ICANN-accredited Domain Name Registrar which sells very competitively priced .com .net .biz org .info and .us domain names.

Web Hosting Services

• Web Hosting Services - Website Source
  Finding a fast, reliable, and affordable web hosting company is not easy! Website Source, offer powerful website hosting combined with an easy website builder, a marketing control panel and other business tools. Overall, good value for your money.
• Web Hosting Services - Lunarpages.com
  Another great web hosting company is Lunarpages. They offer affordable, reliable and scalable hosting plans, and are very affordable!

E-Commerce Products & Services

• Worldpay - Internet Payment Processing
  Accepts Visa, MasterCard, Diners, American Express, JCB and all the major credit cards, and debit cards, as well as local payment schemes like Switch, Laser, Electron and more. Bank transfers (such as the German ELV system), instalments, standing-order and direct-debit style payments. Even mobile payments! All payments are accepted in the users local currency and language.