If your answers are a YES and if you are not having your own domain name and own hosting, now it’s time to move!<\/p>\n

You might have these fears now –<\/p>\n

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• Procrastination<\/li>\n
• Fear<\/li>\n
• Little or no knowledge of HTML or \tWordPress<\/li>\n
• The cost of having domain name and \thosting fees<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  If you are facing any of the above fears, I can relate totally because I went through it before making the decision to switch over to my own domain name and hosting. From then on, I never looked back and things just grow exponentially from then !<\/p>\n

  Why do you want to have your own domain name and hosting ?<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Branding ~ It’s your own unique \tbrand name, that represents and reflects YOU<\/li>\n
  • Ownership & Control ~ You Own \tthe Name and Space and not somebody else<\/li>\n
  • Publicity \/ Marketing ~ Do you \twant to be always on borrowed grounds ? Or you want to stand strongly \ton your own, using your own unique brand name ?<\/li>\n
  • Search Engine Optimisation ~ Using \tblogging platforms such as WordPress, powered by your own hosting \tand domain name, it will reach out to a much globally wider group of audience.<\/li>\n
  • Growth and expansion ~ The \tavailability of paid premium themes templates gives you to \tutilise their backend tools to grow the blog traffic and customer \tservice relationship management with your followers and readers.<\/li>\n
  • Money Making\/Revenue Generation ~ \u00a0Advertisers will be willing to consider placing \tadvertisements (banner or text link advertisements) and you will be \table to earn Money From Blog!<\/li>\n
  • Social Media Networking and \tExpansion ~ Today, you might be actively blogging, tweeting, meeting \tand knowing new people from the blogging and twitterverse. With a \tunique brand name \/ domain, you can grow your social media \tnetworking circle and it will expand globally without you knowing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Therefore, isn’t it time to have your own domain name, your very own unique blog\/website ? Start now today!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The journey in reaching and finally getting my own domain name and own hosting did not fall into place easily. Since starting my original photoblog using blogspot on 10th April 2006, it took me more than 2 years to make the switch on 7th October 2008, from using a public domain name and hosting to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10,24,25,12,1,274,86],"tags":[102,1343,325,326,1352,40,1345,33,1339,328,29,1355,110,63,329,327],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\n