If you’ve been tagged to read this, take a second when you’ve got one. I’ve selected each of you because you’re special to me and I want to share my next move with you real quick.
Most of you (musicians, poets, and professionals) fall into one of a handful of categories:
- Paying for hosting through a company like Yahoo or GoDaddy (the nightmares that they are) so that you can enjoy having your own name/brand on a corner of the web.
- Wanting to have your own name/brand on a corner of the web but haven’t followed through on it yet.
- Utilizing ‘free’ blogs because you have a lot to say – more than social networks and micro-blogs allow – and don’t think you can afford (or want to pay) what it would cost to run your own site.
- Having no online presence beyond social networks, music sharing websites, and things of that nature.
Major brands all across the board wouldn’t be caught dead with a URL that was anything but their name and you shouldn’t either. I’m on a mission to upgrade you all.
Over the next month or so, I’ll be working to get set up as a bonafide web host. This will mean that, instead of dealing with the big dogs trying to get your website set up and maintained, you can go through me. And, unlike the big dogs, I’m setting up on a sliding scale – ready to spread the wealth.
So, to start, here’s what I want to offer: $3/month (just $36 for the year) and $11-20/year for your domain name of choice, depending on the name and assuming it’s available for regular purchase/renewal. (Most will be $11 but there are some few and far between exceptions.)
And here’s the cool part: My goal is to have at least enough people to drop the cost for hosting to $1/month as we head into 2012. Once we reach that point, I’ll be rewarding my early birds with free hosting and, if they’ve brought friends in with them, free domain renewal.
Good? Good.
Whether you have your own site already or want one made, if you want to get in on this, email me with details and any questions you may have. kiva[at]authenticvisionllc[dot]com.
Let’s get it!
