<p>1. Why I wrote this E-Book</p> <p><br />Greetings. I suppose you're wondering why I decided to give away this e-book. Well, I'm doing this for a number of reasons. First, it's got a lot of information that you could probably get for free anyway, but at least now you've got it all in one place. Second, everything in here is proven, real life stuff. In fact, everything you see about here comes straight out of my own personal experience. I take particular pride in the fact that I've built everything in my career with off-the-shelf stuff; mostly free and low-cost items and services. Which means that you can, too. Third, it answers a lot of the most frequently asked questions that I get, which means I can save everyone time by directing them to download the answers in one simple permanent file.</p> <p>It's also a blatant ruse to create more publicity for my e-book, The Revenge of Brand X: <br />How to Build a Big Time Brand™ on the Web or Anywhere Else. I figure if you're serious about getting up and running on the web, you'll also be serious about creating the most critical part of that business -- your brand -- and buy the e-book.</p> <p>There. I said it.</p> <p>Anyway, this is by no means a complete listing of stuff. Just some proven tools and services that have worked for me. If I get a big enough response to this edition, I'll publish more. If you have stuff you want to see included, send it by e-mail to me and I'll consider it for inclusion.</p>