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Class 4: Create Important Online Accounts
This is exciting! It’s time to start opening your first few accounts. Whether you are strictly starting an online business or starting an offline service business while creating an online presence, you should follow the recommended steps. It’s important to create distinction between your personal life and your new business.
Account 1: GMAIL www.gmail.com
Before you begin building your online business, it’s a good idea to open up a new email account. Keep your business separate from your personal email accounts. Gmail/Google also provides some outstanding tools that you will learn about later. For our website www.cloveandlime.com, we use cloveandlime@gmail.com. Consider a variation of your brand name if the name you chose already exists on gmail.
Google Docs - Google Drive - Document Creator
After you set up a Gmail account, click the small white boxes on the top right of the screen (looks like a calculator) and open up google drive. In Google Drive you can create word processing documents in Google Docs. It’s a fully functional program like Microsoft Office. You’ll have access to word processing, spreadsheets, a drawing program, and even a presentation program.
I use Google Docs because it allows me to work on my documents on any computer, anywhere in the world. It also allows me to share my documents with my editors. Use Google Docs to write and edit all of your content. You can create different docs for all of your different ideas! Google saves your content every few seconds so you’ll never lose it!
Account Ids and Passwords
Set up a secure document to store your Ids and Passwords. Different websites will have different character requirements for IDs and Passwords, and will be very difficult to remember. If you are not comfortable saving your IDs and Passwords on Google Docs, save them somewhere. You’ll thank me for this in the future. Remember to update each time the password changes.
P.S. Don’t name the file “passwords”. ;)
Account 2: Youtube Account
Have you created any Youtube videos? If you have, it was most likely on your personal gmail account. You’ll want to create a new YOUTUBE channel specifically for your business using your new Gmail account. You can either access it by going to www.youtube.com or accessing it through your new GMAIL account. Look at the top right for the tiny white boxes that look like a calculator and click in there. When you start creating videos, you’ll upload those to your new account.
Account 3: Facebook Account
Most of you already have a facebook account. You won’t need to create another Facebook profile. Just create a new Facebook Page (Use your new business name). Also create a new Facebook Group!
Account 4: Instagram Account
I don’t need to tell you how popular Instagram is. Unfortunately you can not edit anything from a desktop computer, it’s mainly a smart phone app. If you already have an instagram account you can create a new business page in the app. Click on your setting and “add” a new account. At that point, it will ask if you want to create a new account! If you don’t have an account, download the app and create your new account.
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CALL TO ACTION: Create these new accounts
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