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Hi friends, I am just reading this post that Jide’s blog was delisted and I can see some of you referring to Linda Ikeji.

I wrote this post on my blog www.mybusinesslessons.com last month and I know you will learn from it.

LINDA IKEJI MADE A GRAVE BUSINESS MISTAKE, DON’T MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE

I am sure you know Linda Ikeji especially if you like gossip news, well in case you don’t know her, she is one of the richest blogger in Nigeria.

Few weeks ago, I heard on Nigeria Info that her blog www.lindaikeji.blogsopt.com was brought down by google because some people accused her of copying their content without giving them credit, you know that is plagiarism. The following day that I heard that news, I held an internet business seminar in Radio house and I told those that attended my seminar the same thing I have taught others for years which is the advantage of a registered domain name and a hosted site or blog over a free domain name, blog and site and I used Linda Ikeji as a good example because I was sure that her blog must be a free one for google to bring it down, no one can bring down your hosted blog that way.

A few days ago, my staff told me that Linda Ikeji wrote on her blog that she wanted to register her domain name and everything that resemble Linda Ikeji in spelling has been registered that she may probably register a new name, she will not buy the name from anyone because she does not want to give those that registered her name that satisfaction.

My advice to Linda, if she can afford it she should better go and buy her name, those people are smart and they are doing legal business, the internet world accepts the business. The cost she would spend buying her name would be nothing compared to what she would spend to get her followers all over again. And also she should step out of her gossip zone at times to read other people’s blog because I am sure I must have written about this mistake in some of my post.

And for you my friend, what lessons should you take away

1. Before you start using and domain name on the internet, make sure you register it, it cost between about 2000 naira to register a domain and same amount to renew it every year.
2. Pay to host your site and blog as soon as you can afford it, I also started with a free blog and I usually advise the people I train in blog design to also start with a free blog so they can use it to practice after which they must pay to host their blog, it cost about 10000 naira to host your blog, it can be less or more than that depending on the space you want.
3. The same thing applies offline, register your business and trade name before you let others know about it. I know a lot of barbing shop, salon, restaurant owners who started small and start using a business name and when the business start growing, it still never occurred to them to go and register the business name in corporate affairs commission until years later perhaps they want a contract from government or they want to work for a big organization and they are told to submit their quotation on a letter headed paper, it will then occur to them to go and register their business name, and most times by the time they get to corporate affairs commission their business name has been registered by someone else and they will have no other option than to change their business name, don’t let that happen to you.
4. Registering a business name is different from registering a domain name, you register a business name at the corporate affairs commission, visit their website http://new.cac.gov.ng/home/ to know their closest office to you. To register your domain name and host your site you need a web host. You can search the internet for a good web host.