With literally hundreds of options for hosting, marketing and design of your new Web site, it can be overwhelming to decide where to start. Here is your 9 Step Quick Start Guide to Getting Online. Here is Step 5:

Step 5) Create Your Twitter Account

You're going to need a Twitter account for your business. It is valuable for promoting your content, and for interacting with clients and suppliers.

With Hootsuite you can automate the promotion of your new posts. Just five steps will automatically promote your blog through Twitter and other social networks.

For the other eight steps, visit 9 Step Quick Start Guide to Getting Online.

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After years of blogging, many writers would love to turn their content into a published book. But just imagine the time it would take to harvest the past blogs and create a finished manuscript.

A new blog on ReadWriteWeb covers a Web service that does this automatically. FastPencil offers a blog-to-book service saving time and getting your content to market faster.

Read the full post from ReadWriteWeb.

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It can be a real challenge to build a great Web site. And it can be expensive.

A quick search online will reveal thousands of Web sites that are "giving away" WordPress themes for free. But you shouldn't use them. Most of these sites are offering pirated themes. Lack of customer support should be the least of your concern with these themes.

In preparing this article (42 Free WordPress Themes for Business) I found that many simply don't work. After you have installed and played with a theme for a few hours, you'll likely remember that your time is worth something too.

But the real concern is the risk of what else you might be getting inside of the theme. I read of themes with viruses and with harvesting software. These mini-programs collect your (and your clients) data and send it back to the software creator. Pretty smart, eh?

The collection of free themes that I've compiled are different. Each theme comes directly from the designer/developer. You will download the themes directly from their Web site. I should note that while I've tried many of these, I haven't tried them all.

Am I missing any? I would love to hear your recommendations. Just post a comment below.

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Marketing, Public Relations, Advertising, Social Media. Whats the point of it all?

Isn't it really to get the attention of clients, prospects and influencers in your niche? So why do we  complicate things and make them so much harder than they should be?

Self described Geek Marketer and Author, Jim Kukral, explains in his new book (Attention! This Book Will Make You Money) that attention can be created and can create revenue. And guess what? It isn't that hard.

Read the full review.