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OK fantastic so you bought your Shopify plan and now when you look at the store it hasn't got a plan

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over place and hopefully you're looking at a page something like this.

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Now the next thing me to do is to get a domain.

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All right.

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So one enjoy attention to how we've been set up for the time being.

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So if I go over to the store at the moment what we have is Tim's super deals dot my Shopify dot com

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and that is basically what we call a sub domain.

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It's hosted on my Shopify and it's a subdomain on my Shopify is not our own domain.

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Now don't get me wrong you could build out a store on this and never change it but when it comes to

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building your brand.

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And in fact being taken seriously having something on a subdomain on my Shopify subdomain is really

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not the way to go.

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It's really not going to help you build a professional brand and a superb store that you're ultimately

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looking for.

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So what we want is a domain such as w w w dot Tymms super deals dot com.

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Now there are two ways of doing this.

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I want to make you fully aware of both ways and the limitations the advantages and disadvantages of

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both so you can make the correct decision for yourself.

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Now option one is to buy your domain through Shopify which is a very straightforward process.

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If you just good at the online store go to Mayne's you'll have the option to buy new domain.

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Obviously you won't see this if you haven't signed up for the plan but assuming you have all you need

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to do is in this bit here where it says Dumaine is to type in the domain that I want so WIFW at Tim's

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super deals dot com.

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All right now immediately tells me whether it's available or not.

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We've got these tickets available and it'll cost me 14 dollars for the year.

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And I have to do now is go through and buy it.

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And I would have that domain.

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And then what would happen is that Shopify would instantly switch from this.

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Tim cymbidiums dot dot com.

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To simply Tim's super deals dot com.

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So there's a very very straightforward process for fourteen dollars a year.

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Now the disadvantage of this is when it comes to email now Shopify does not have a full blown email

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hosting service.

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What they do is that they forward emails.

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So what do I mean by that.

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Well I signed up with Tim at e-commerce mindset dot com as I'm sure you remember and we Shopify I can

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set up an email for example info at Tim's super deals dot com.

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But then when somebody emails me on that it will forward it to Tim at e commerce mindset dot com so

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ultimately get all of my e-mail on Tim at e-commerce mindset dot com.

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I hope that makes sense.

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So what that means is that when I'm replying to customers they are also seeing that I'm replying to

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them with Tim at e-commerce mindset dot com.

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Nothing to do with Tim's super deals so I hope you understand the important point.

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Now you can certainly work like that.

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That's not really a big deal.

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But again when it comes to building a brand you are to a certain extent confusing your customer with

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now a different e-mail address.

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And for me I just find that unprofessional.

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But I want to stress that my opinion after years in e-commerce but you can certainly do it that way.

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So that was Option one.

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So what's option 2 all about.

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Well you might have noticed this link up here.

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Connect existing domain and what we can do is we can actually buy a domain outside of Shopify.

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OK not at all in the Shopify platform but with another provider and then we can connect it to our store.

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And the advantage of that is I then get the professional e-mail set up that I want.

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So I'm going to show you that in the next lecture so that you're fully aware of both options.

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And as I said before that will enable you to make the decision that you're most comfortable with.