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Can you set up an LLC and use your domain name for DBA?

bdh1776 — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 00:09:50 GMT

I will be operating an e-commerce retail store and wanted to set up an LLC with a generic name (in case I decide to open additional stores). I originally thought I would have to use the LLC name on the bottom of the website and let customers know that their bill would reflect the LLC name and not the domain name. I know I could have used a DBA but basically wanted to save money by not giving the state additional fees.

I thought by using the generic named LLC, this might create confusion with the customers when they received their bills and maybe if they didn't remember the LLC name they would therefore dispute the charge with the credit card, which would then cause me to incur a chargeback fee.

After speaking with a merchant account provider, I was told that I could use the domain name as the DBA (and would not have to legally set up a DBA with the state). He said the customer's credit card statement would reflect the domain name (DBA) but the bank would see it as my LLC name. He said many of his customers have their LLC with many DBA's under it but the DBA is not something they obtained from the state. The retailers just tell this merchant account provider what the DBA (or domain name) will be.

Has anyone else come across this scenerio? Somehow it seems too good to be true but it would save a few dollars and with initial startup costs this could certainly help.

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Barbara

Starting my Website

MrLinguinstic — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:24:13 GMT

I am looking forward to starting an online business using the four hour work week model, I have done all the due diligance I can think of and have now decided to develope a website and test the waters. The problem I am having is I do not know if it is worth the time to learn to build a site and do this myself, (I have access to dreamweaver cs4 through a contact of mine) or should I just bite the bullet and pay for my website to be developed. I would need to find someone who is familar with SEO so I couldn't grab just anyone to build this thing. Any suggestions? does anyone have an idea on how much this would cost?

I also need to know how hard it is to generate 10,000 visitors a month, my product is a language learning system that targets the student niche. Is 10,000 a good standard or is it going to be something very difficult to attain?

How to make a social networking website

peteharry — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 07:10:18 GMT

Want to build a social networking site for our business. Are there any free scripts available or should we have a programmer build it for us?

HOW TO PROMOTE YOUR WEBSITE OR BLOG.

fatg4real — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 08:53:40 GMT

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give me some good advice

cedzsearch — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 06:11:51 GMT

hi, i own a website www.cedzsearch.com
and i 'd like to konw your opinion about it, design, content, fuction or give me other good advice.

many thanks

How can I put up an online storefront?

dlunajr — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:21:02 GMT

How can I put up an online storefront?

how we can display our tweets on our website

samuelsr — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:32:20 GMT

We need to display our tweets on our website is it possible through twitter ?

Website Analytics, Your Website and Your Business

bigcloudmedia — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:21:28 GMT

How many times have you looked at your website and wondered just how
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are coming from or what search terms they used to get there? If you
have wondered these things, you are reading the right post because we
are going to look into the awesome world of website analytics and go
over some of the key info you can gather using them.

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Through analyzing website analytics, you can gather info about the
activities of your website visitors which you can then compare to your
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with your website and how effective it and your marketing is. Combine
this info with information that you collect regularly about your
clients and you can start to understand why your visitors do what they
do when they go to your website, be it buying, calling or leaving. As
in any situation, the more you know, the better the decisions you can
make.

What can analytics track?

In this post, I will be talking about Google Analytics because that
is what I use for me and my clients and that is what I am most familiar
with. Using Google Analytics you can track over time:

Visitor Trends
# of visits
Referring websites (where they came from)
Search terms used to find your site
Location (down to the city) of visitors
Visitor operationg systems and browsers
Visitor connection speeds
Popular pages
Visitor time on the site, etc.

The list above is actually only a fraction of the information you
collect on your visitors through analytics. The beauty of it is that
you can make changes to the site and compare the analytics results to
the results before the changes were made, giving you a way to trend
your visitor activities and really get a great idea of the
effectiveness of those changes.

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Here is the best part of all of this, website analytics are free. Go to Google.com/analytics,
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the bottom of your website pages (right before your ending
</body> tag), check your Google Analytics page to make sure it is
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I hope this has been informative and helpful to you. If you don't
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Information is powerful and the more you have, the more effective your
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Florida sales tax for web business

drronin — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 16:34:19 GMT

I am in Florida and I am in the process of setting up a web cart for
a new online business.

I have spoken with the Florida Dept of Revenue and they say that I
must collect sales tax for all sales to parties in Florida. Also, that
sales taxes vary county by county and this must be taken into account
for each such transaction.

I wonder how businesses are handling this in their online shopping carts?
One solution is to include in the drop down menu of US states (as a buyer
is indicating their address) to include the list of all Florida counties, e.g.,
FLORIDA-PASCO, FLORIDA-PINELLAS, FLORIDA-POLK, etc. and
calculate the sales tax based on the the tax rate for each county.
This would work but it is rather clunky and obviously makes for a very long
list of states in the drop down menu.

How are other people handling this? Is there a better way?

Also, some products I may sell are digital files that can be downloaded
from the web site and others are physical items--is there a difference in
taxation for these? Are downloadable products (like an e-book) taxed?

Thanks,

Drronin

Please give me tips on how people can find my website

calisuraj — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:29:35 GMT

Hello, I have started a new ecommerce company and need help on how to advertise and get the name of our website out there. Any advice and critique will be taken with gratitude!

Our Website is BABYDEALS.com
Thank You

Suraj Chugani
BABYDEALS.COM