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Setting up your website
At this point I'm assuming you know how to build websites in one way or another. Personally I build all of my sites in WordPress. There's already a million other websites dedicated to teaching WordPress, so I'll just say this: Get really fucking good at WordPress. Become a WordPress genius and your business will have value. If you haven't already, [...]
Register your business
Go online and find out exactly what is required to start a business in your country. I'm in Australia, so I searched: 'starting a company in Australia', which brought me here: http://asic.gov.au/for-business/starting-a-company/how-to-start-a-company/ At this point I wasn't confident that I was making the correct choices, so I went to my local accountant and paid them to establish the company for me. [...]
Open a Business Bank Account
Do some research and decide which business bank suits you best. I'm with CBA (Australian). I chose them because they have the best online banking facilities and 24 hour phone support. Personally I wasn't too concerned with interest rates and transaction rates, if a few dollars here and there is going to make a difference to your bottom line, then you've got bigger [...]
Overview
This is the first post of many which will attempt to describe/instruct how I managed to start a web design/hosting/I.T firm from scratch at 21 years of age. Less than 12 months after starting my business I was able to quit my retail job and support myself with the business. Now, almost 4 years later, through trial and error, my [...]