Building Your Own Website With Free Webspace

Years ago, when businesses needed to advertise in order to bring in new customers, they would turn to newspapers, magazines, radio, and television.  They would rent a spot in the newspaper or magazine, paying a price depending on the size of the ad and the number of days it would be seen.  Voice actors recorded messages for radio ads or disc jockey’s read a script over the air.  Television commercials required more money for the spot and more money to pay for sets, actors, and anything else used for filming commercials.

Now it’s much wiser to spend money elsewhere for advertising, such as your own webspace.  With your own webspace you are not limited to timeframes and posting your advertisement on a limited number of days.  A lot of times, you can even purchase a monthly spot on the internet for the same price it would have cost you to put an ad in the paper.  For the entire month, the information you need people to see will be out on your webspace, free to view for the entire internet.

Of course building the actual website will require some knowledge of web design but for the most basic of websites that skill can be learned in a short amount of time via tutorials on the internet, on someone else’s webspace.

Also, unlike advertising in a newspaper or TV, you can add other people’s logos to your website and make money by advertising for them.  Not only will your webspace bring in new customers but it could pay for itself by sending customers to other people that are advertised on your website.

Sources:

- Squidoo Lens about building websites

- Space Quadrat webspace

- Blog from a guy who builds websites