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Launching a Web site is exciting—especially if you’ve decided on a custom-built site from a professional designer. You’re going for the high-end solution compared with your other options, so you want to make sure you’re getting your money’s worth. No matter how knowledgeable you are about Web design and development, there are steps you can take to protect yourself during the transaction and help ensure your new Web site meets your high expectations.

When choosing a business form, you may want to consider the limited liability partnership (LLP). The LLP is similar to the limited liability company (LLC), but there are some significant differences. Note that an LLP is technically a partnership, so that there must be at least two partners.

You’ve got a stunning Web site, you’re promoting it brilliantly, and yet, your conversion rate sits stubbornly at 3% or less. Or worse — you don’t even know what your conversion rate is. Web analytics can help you find your conversion rate and the reason it’s lower than you’d like it to be.

You’ve been collecting customer email addresses for a while, but haven’t quite made the time to design your first customer newsletter. The good news is that it’s not very hard to get started. We’ll walk you through the process of designing your newsletter.

Getting a journalist to write about your business is an excellent way to promote your brand for free. But most small businesses aren't making it easy for journalists to write about them.

A database is a great way to organize Web sites with a lot of regularly updated content. Databases power dynamic Web sites, meaning pages are created each time someone requests them. The pages are made by pulling information from the database into a Web page template upon request.

Choosing the right Web hosting plan can be a daunting task with an enormous number of products and features available. Deciphering specifications and making sense of the jargon is only the first step. Finding a company you trust is equally important.

Visitors will type your domain name into a browser or lick on it a search engine results page before you have a chance to wow them with your Web site. It's your first impression, so make it good. Your domain name should fit the style and tone of your Web site and clue visitors in to what they're about to see.

Choosing a business partner is one of the most important parts of starting a partnership-based business. Here's what to think about to ensure you make the right choice.

There is a lot of information to know about starting a corporation, however, it may be easier than you think!

In some situations, you may want to operate your business under a different name than the one on your articles of formation or other filings. Typically, this is most true for sole proprietorships that may want to distinguish between business and personal activities, but other entity forms may do this as well to highlight different activities within an organization.

Most people start a business because they want to accomplish something or make money for themselves (usually both). But what if you want to do this for someone or some thing other than yourself? What if you want to start a successful charitable enterprise? This requires more than just choosing a form of organization.

A nonprofit corporation is an organization formed as a corporation for purposes other than generating a profit, and in which no part of the organization's income is distributed to its directors or officers. Nonprofits are formed pursuant to state law, often under the Revised Model Non-Profit Corporation Act of 1986.

When forming your business as a corporation or limited liability company (LLC), you will need to select a registered agent. Virtually all states require corporations and LLCs that are formed or foreign qualified (registered to transact business there) to have a registered agent in that state; however, many business owners have no idea what a registered agent is or does.

When a corporation or a limited liability company (LLC) is transacting business in a state or states other than its state of formation, the company is required to foreign qualify in those states. This serves as notice to a state that the corporation or LLC, which was not formed in that state, is transacting business within its borders.

When considering whether to form a corporation or a limited liability company (LLC), don't be confused by the term foreign qualification. Most of us, when we hear "foreign," think of something outside the United States; however, in the world of U.S. corporations and LLCs, the word foreign has a different meaning.