Eleven years ago I learned how to use a computer.
Ten years ago I started a home based business,
Tallent Agency, making documents and doing
Out-sourced office work. The same year I decided
To go on the net to see if I could expand that business
And fell in love with the net and the idea of working
From home out of my office and ON the net.

I fell, as most do, in the beginning, for endless scams,
cons, get rich schemes, etc. and do consider this valuable
training, for which I earned an A+. This also helped me
in my quest to help countless others avoid the mistakes
I had made before I actually made some money on the net
and found ways to tell what is credible and what is not.

I have mentored others in how to sell, how to set up a site
TO sell with, how to find hosting and how to work their
control panels once they had hosting set up, how to weed out
the time wasters and focus on things that would either make
them money or at least teach them or benefit them and on
and on.

One of my constant reminders is to BACK IT UP, save, save,
save and back it up and save some more! The next one would
most probably be Do Not Start your DNS Transfer before
you move any thing you need moved, redirect any urls,
images or product packages hosted with this domain,
etc. and BOOM! I let life and constant distractions take
over my poor addled brain and did the very thing I have
been able to warn others NOT TO DO, without a thought!

Luckily, my big UHOH was easily fixable, my host for my
http://www.blogi360.com/jamaffiliates/id/2319 account
even allows for the possibility to change your domain
once your hosting is set up AND my long term and beloved
http://www.host4profit.com/cgi-bin/home.cgi?5168 which
has 6 of my domains and probably always will, was most
helpful with both storing my files for me to be able
to retrieve them and also welcoming tallentagency.com
right back as soon as I re-did the DNS transfer.

The moral of this story is two-fold, actually.

The easiest to SEE might be to have the best hosting
companies ever to service the net! The other one is
to map out or plan any drastic moves like a DNS transfer,
make a list of what needs to be done before, during and
after and stick to it. Check things off as they are done
so you do not get lost or confused and unless you are
lucky, like I was to HAVE a domain with nothing but
a doorway page stored with it, plan to have to redo,
rename, redirect, etc. all items IN the domain before
you even start the DNS transfer step as, as I learned
this time, it no longer takes the usual three days to
get things moving. Also, I did not panic when I realized
what I had done, at FIRST, as I kept waiting for the
email to come through with the link I had to click to
confirm that Yes, it was ME who had asked for the transfer-
I never did get that email so apparently that is no
longer a requirement.

Remember the saying “Look before you Leap”?
I thank God and two wonderful hosts that I could
UNleap after I forgot to LOOK!

Jan Tallent, aka the Marketing Warrioress
http://www.marketingwarrioress.com/
and editor of Rim Digest eZine
http://www.rimdigest.com/
for Responsible Internet Marketers
Copyright – October 2008  :-)