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2 weeks ago I deleted Joomla - my CMS from my www.cosmetics-hair.com website by mistake. [I know you may be wondering how anyone could do that by mistake, but there it is!].

 My fabulous hosting company - www.hostgator.comrestored the website completely and also reset my password! Thank you Hostgator.

I wonder what lesson I learnt from all this. Except, ofcourse that the people at Hostgator are wonderful!

Last week, while editing this site, I deleted part of my cosmetics-hair.com site.

Horror and dismay followed. Frantic activity was my natural reaction and my brain shut down.

I am here to say that my hosting company - hostgator.com had a backup and restored the site. My CMS password is not working, but I am sure there is a solution to it.

I am accepting the wonderful things that are happening to me today!

When I started, the language of internet business was so alien!

Domains, hosting, FrontPage, Links, Payment Gateways, Elance.com, pages, content, web design… The list went on. To learn what they meant I had to do - make mistakes, do again, make mistakes, rest, do again, learn more, and keep following this cycle. Let me tell you, it works. You just have to stay with it.

The one thing I know very well is the structuring of a business into a proper business model that works. So I was able to to structure the cosmetics and the tax haven company incorporation businesses into online ones.

There is light at the end of the tunnel!! Just stay with it.

I attended the Global Internet Summit in Dubai in December 2006. Before that I had attended a teaser 2 hrs given by Richard Tan in October 2006 and his pitch convinced me to sign up for the US$ 800 program.

I did not know anything about Internet businesses or websites but it all sounded very interesting and something with great potential.

So promptly I conceived of 3 businesses based on what I knew at that time. Selling Korean cosmetics- I had a supplier, incorporating offshore companies in the tax haven of Seychelles - again I had some experience in this, and offering online consultancy for restructuring small and medium businesses.

Writing up the project outlines was easy. The I blundered through Elance ad Rentacoder.com. Put my projects up for bidding and then was completely bewildered on how to move further forward.

I signed up for David Cavanagh’s newbie course and Tom Hua’s ebooks. These got me started. Ravindr Deshpande, a close colleague worked with me and helped me with the drudgery of catalogues and the back and forth checking of the contractor’s progress. - I cringe at the thought of checking the web site line by line!

The wonderful thing was that I could access truly fantastic people who helped me with newsletters, copy writing, emails, content, payment gateways, MS Front page and SEO.

I had 2 websites live within 7 months of starting work on them as a newbie. Only the wonderful world of the WEB could make this happen!

Rama

Hi,

I have been working on out sourcing the creation of a website, www.restructuringhelp.com to offer business restructuring consultancy since October 2006.

The first contractor in Serbia returned my advance in January 2007 without any progress. He kept having various personal problems.

The next contractor, in Indore, India ended up costing me US$ 300 and I have a website which doesn’t work. I paid half to get my files.

The third contractor in Dhaka, Bangladesh cost me US$ 200 as advance after which he has disappeared. He built another site for me very satisfactorily. I cannot locate him.

Now I have contracted a 4th company in Ahmedabad, India and am hoping to see some result.

Thankfully, 2 other web sites I started in October 2006 are now live. www.taxhavencompany.com and www.cosmetics-hair.com.

Now I wonder whether I shouldn’t get into the consultancy business?