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The last and most important steps that are required for turning your web site into a full fledged and successful business are:

Step IV— Enable Your Website For Money Transactions
In order to accept online payments through credit cards you will need to first set up a merchant account with your bank or tie up with a service like PayPal that will let you accept online payments. Once your web site is enabled for accepting credit card and other kinds of online payment, your shopping cart will have to be integrated to a payment gateway service that links your website to a financial institution which will process your transactions. You will need to set up a Secure Socket Layer in order to accept your orders securely. This is one area that generally requires expenditure on your part, but if you host with a company like Apollo Hosting, you can get to use a secure platform for free.

Step V— Market Your Site
Once your web site is up and running, you will need to promote it endlessly before you start receiving considerable visitor traffic. Using SEO techniques, site submissions, banners and different types of other advertising is required in order to generate traffic to any new site. Your web hosting service should be able to provide you with marketing and advertising help and tools.

Isabel Rodrigues - Works for Apollo Hosting
www.apollohosting.com