If you are going to start your side hustle and you are planning to do it for a long time, I will recommend you register a domain name for your business.
I register all my domain names with Namecheap, and I highly recommend them.
In this article, I am going to share with you 5 things to do after registering your business domain name.
5 Things To Do After Registering Your Business Domain Name
 I am assuming that you already have a domain name, if not then you can click on the above banner and get a domain name for your business.
1) Protect your domain name
The first thing you should do after buying a new domain name for your business is to protect it. If you are going to build the next big thing (like Twitter, Uber, etc) you need to trademark your domain.
There is a service called Trademark Clearing House (TMCH), you can use it to trademark your domain.
The second way to protect your domain name is to purchase a domain-blocking service such as adult block, this will prevent people from using your domain name with extensions like .xxx .adult or .porn.
The third and last way to protect your business domain name is to register similar domain names and alternate extensions. For example, if your domain name is mydomain.com you can register mydomain.net, mydomain.org, etc.
2) Purchase a hosting plan
Now you have protected your domain name, you need to buy a hosting plan. This is where you are going to host all your files.
The analogy that I always tell people is that your domain name is like your house address, which will contain your house number, your street name, your state, country, and zip code, and your hosting is the actual house where you have your bed and everything in it.
My recommended web hosting is Cloudways, they are cheap and very fast, you can get started for free today.
3) Build your websiteÂ
After getting a hosting account, you will need to build your website, depending on the type of website you need you can build it in a different way, for me, there are three ways to build a website.
Use a website builder
If you need a website with few pages or for a specific application, I will recommend building it using website builders.
There are many website builders in the marketplace such as Magento, Wix, Squarespace, Weebly, etc, just pick one and build your website.
Using WordPress
This is my favorite method of building a website, all you can do is point your domain name to your hosting and then install WordPress into the hosting account, most hosting companies have the one-click WordPress installer.
Use customer code
If you want a very unique website and you know how to code or you can hire someone who can code a website for you, then this is the right route for you.
From scratch, you can code your website and it will look exactly as you like, it is not my favorite method but when I started out I used to build websites in HTML code and it worked, this works best if you want a static website.
4) Build a social media presenceÂ
Now you have everything set up, it is time to create social media accounts with your business name.
You need to create one account on each of the big social media platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, etc.
You need to do this even if you’re not going to be active in all of them, just make sure you include your official logo in each of those accounts, this will help you for branding, or you can use them in the future in case you want to expand your market reach.
5) Create a branded email
Last step but not least, you will need to create a branded email address, what I mean is that you need an email address that will contain your business in it.
If your brand is mybrand, your domain name should be mybrand.com and your email address should be support@mybrand.com or myname@mybrand.com.
This will add congruence and increase trust in your business, imagine telling the customer that they need to send their order to cutie_babe123@gmail.com, many of them will not send that order and you will lose a lot of sales.
I explain how to create a brand email here.
Final words
That is it, those are the 5 things to do after registering your business domain name. How many of them have you done? Let me know in the comment section below.