Hello, I’m Jeffrey Washington. Owner and operator of Paracords and More. We are offering Free Shipping on everything within our website as well as anything in our Etsy Store (Use Coupon code: Freeship25 on Etsy).
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Jeffrey it has been a pleasure to watch your youtube videos and see a man truly appreciate paracording as I do. Thank You for your Law Enforcement service and thanks to your family for the sacrifices I know you all have made. I served in the Navy and Army and know what it is like to leave loved ones not knowing if you are coming home and family has to wait and wonder the same. As I try to get my business kicked off I would like to get some good advice on building websites and the like as I know you’ve made your way and apparently have been successful. Pleasure knowing you!
James L. Brown
Coldspring, TX
Hello James,
First of all I want to thank you for your service to our country.
I appreciate your kind words and am glad that it came through in the video that I am enthusiastic with paracord. It has been a great experience building this business and getting the feedback from good people like yourself.
In terms of the business, I want to be up front with you. I haven’t yet built it to the point where it is self sustaining and able to truly support me and my family. I am however working on getting to that point. I do believe that what we’ve achieved up to this point to be quite successful and I am anxiously looking forward to what is in store for the future.
Regarding websites, in a nutshell, I would suggest to you what I have experience with and find works well.
For adomain name and web hosting. I use Hostgator. Fair warning: I’m an affiliate with them, but the good part of that is I can make up a coupon code and save you a few bucks. Use code: biteme2014 and save $9.94 off the cost of a hosting package. There prices are fair and comparable to many others. I purchased the Baby package which allows me unlimited bandwidth for future growth. You can also purchase domain names through hostgator.
I can give you a link to the tutorial that I used that helped me a great deal with my site. Just let me know.
Once you get that setup. I would encourage the use of WordPress. It is a platform that was made for blogs, but is easily adjustable to make an e-commerce website.
You might want to read through some of the first post on my websites blog, “Thoughts on the Journey”. In it I have several post with details on how I did things. You can find archived posts on a drop down menu on the right side of the first page on our site: here.
You are welcomed to keep this email and write me with other questions. I plan in the near future to put some of this building a business type info in a video series on Youtube, so stay subscribed and look for that.
Take care James and I’ll talk with you soon.
Jeffrey