Starting a DBA (Does Business As)

[coooolsome]

Ziomek,

In Illinois you can file your DBA (a.k.a. trade name, assumed name or fictitious business name) yourself with your local County Clerk's office. Or, use a legal document service such as LegalZoom to handle the entire process for you.

LegalZoom charges $99.00 plus state filing fees for Illinois DBA's. Click here to learn more about pricing.

You have to file with the county, then file a legal notice in a newspaper for 3 weeks. Then you receive proof of publication and submit it to the county who will then give you your Assumed name certificate. For me, it was going to be 50.00 to file and 100.00 for the newspaper. I did it with Legalzoom for 114.00.

I would find out how much it would cost and then compare. FYI, if you choose to do legalzoom, there are coupons you can use. I used a 15 dollar off one. If I find it, ill post.

Here is a site that will help: I can't post URL's yet but replace the $ with .

business$illinois$gov/step_by_step_guides$cfm

 

[dominexsus]

i have done %90 of marketing tactics what's written in this forum and all over the internet. I will only list some i can remember, some worth to mention and some wasting time

if you are good trade man i am sure things i have done if you do it it will be same effect on your business.


ok here is the list

WEBSITE

i have 3 websites and 100 pages in total. Every page specially SEO Optimised for over 25 towns 100 villages and 3 city circles my location. for each website i spend over 1 year for SEO. i build all my pages

Read 3 books, over 1000 pages article, blog ect. i am using IBP internet business promoter and website auditor cost me $600 total. i also use several free software's.

for SEO I also use roboform and website submitter. all directories and classified website submissions done by manually i tried every single SEO Strategy

1. Website analysis
2. Keyword Research
3. Adding Emphasis with Header Tags
4. Adding Emphasis with Tail Tags
5. Bold, Italic effect to main keywords
6. Canonicalization
7. Competition Analysis
8. CSS Validation
9. Google Base Feeds
10. H Tags Optimization (Eg: H1, H2, H3)
11. Header Tag Optimization
12. HTML Code Clean Up & Optimization
13. Image & Hyperlink Optimization
14. In depth site Analysis
15. Link Validation
16. Meta Description Tags Optimization
17. Meta Keywords Tags Optimization
18. Navigation & Design Optimization
19. PR Sculpting
20. Robots.txt Optimization
21. Text Modification Tags Optimization
22. Title Tag Optimization
23. URL Rewrite
24. W3C Validation
25. Working on HTML Source Code
26. Link Development
27. Authoritative Submissions
28. Broken Links Checking
29. Directory Submissions
30. Extraction of Site Url’s ( Link Level Depth)
31. Internal Link Structuring
32. Link Building ( Link Bait )
33. Manual Link Request to Related Sites
34. One way link (PR4 or Greater)
35. Site Back-links count
36. Local Search Engine Optimization
37. Custom Review Submission
38. h card Integration
39. Local Search Engine Submission
40. Testimonial Submission
41. Updating pages for local searches
42. Website Usability & Conversion
43. Being Webmaster Tools account setup & monitoring
44. Google Webmaster Tools account setup & monitoring
45. Installing Usability Tools on Website
46. Monthly Website Conversion Tracking
47. Optimization for Multiple Browsers
48. Article Submission
49. Blog Comment on Relevant Blogs
50. Blog Designing for the website
51. Blog Submission
52. Classified submission
53. Creating Promotional pages on hubpages, squidoo, etc
54. Face Book Twitter Marketing
55. Integration of page bookmarking tools
56. Integration of page sharing tools
57. Paid Submission
58. Photo Sharing
59. PPT Submission
60. Press Release
61. Product Indexing on Google Base
62. Rss Feeds
63. Social Bookmarking
64. Video Submission
65. Content Writing & Optimization
66. Article Writing
67. Blog Writing
68. Content Modification
69. Press Release Writing
70. Thematically Optimization of content pages
71. Website content writing through Latent Semantic Indexing
72. Website Spell Check
73. XML Site Map Creation & Submission
74. SE Saturation Checking ( Google, Yahoo & Bing)
75. Log file analysis
76. Google, Yahoo & Bing Site Map Creation
77. Google Analytics Funnel Creation
78. Google Analytics Account Setup
79. Deep Indexing Recommendations
80. Checking server response code for each URL
81. Check Search Engine Road Blocks
82. Check PR of each url

i submitted my 3 x websites over 1000 free classifieds (NOT DIRECTORIES) website both uk also (us for seo purpose)


i have also submitted over 5000 directories all over the world (list is too long i will not listed here) WEST OF TIME!!!!!!!!! NOT RECOMMENDED ( ONLY GOOD FOR SEO)

i pay $300 per year yahoo dir. and $300 one time payment to BOWD for seo purpose only also listed on DMOZ (GOOD FOR SEO & RECOMMENDED FOR SEO)

Finally i have 1 website PR1 Second one PR2 and the third page PR 4

www.chesterfieldpcsupport.com PR1 ugly but wery well optimised

www.chesterfieldcomputer.com PR2 ugly but very well optimised

www.i can not list my website here for many reason PR4 ( THIS WEBSITE ONE OF THE MOST BEST SITE ON THE NET AND BEST SOURCE OF MY BUSINESS)

Now i am getting over %70 of my jobs from Google, yahoo, bing

YELLOW PAGES AND THOMPSON LOCAL

Spend $2000 per year full colour advert iv got my money back and build over 50 new customer. Recommended!!


YELLOW PAGES ON INTERNET (YELL.COM)

Spend $2000 per year iv got my money back and over 70 new customer. Recommended!! ( also strong back link for website ranking )

GOOGLE PPC AND YAHOO PPC

Google is ok but even that my campaign was set %100 i only had 5-6 customer in 1 year and spend over $200 NOT RECOMMENDED

Yahoo NO customer 5 months and stopped NOT RECOMMENDED

FLIERS, LEAFLETS

Distributed well over 60000 and only had 20 customers NOT RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

TRUSTED TRADER MEMBERSHIP RECOMMENDED

With in business:

No call out fee = recommended

no fix no fee = MUST

Word of mouth = BEST + MUST+ FREE!!!!!!

No hourly rates = STRONGLY RECOMMENDED!!!!!!!!!!!

WHAT I AM PAYING FOR MARKETING BUDGET THIS YEAR?

ON GOING SEO $1000 submitions, link building, ect.

YELL.COM $2000

YELLOW PAGES $1500

THOMPSON LOCAL $700

I am making what i was dreaming 18 months ago and i am very happy. i wish you all good luck and i hope you have money to spend for this business or it will take a lot harder to get where you want to be

 

[RegEdit]

Great post Dominexus! I read a book about SEO but you know lots more than I do.

Now i am getting over %70 of my jobs from Google, yahoo, bing

My big question is what key words are they using to get to your site? Is it usually "computer repair" or "computer services" + [city name] ???

I did VERY LITTLE SEO and I am #1 on Yahoo and Google in my town when people search for "computer repair" + [my city name].

It also helps to have the keywords be part of your domain name and to register your domain for a long time. The longer the better. 5 years? 10 years? Search engines know that spammers buy domains for 1 year only.

 

[NeutronTech]

Dominexus's post is spreading like cancer around the site.

 

[Joines]

Yeah... same exact post, 3 times now?