Starting an Online Business All-in-One For Dummies®, 3rd Edition

Managing Your Yahoo! Services

After you sign up with Yahoo! Merchant Solutions, you can control all aspects of your account. Go to http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com and sign in with your Yahoo! ID to open your account home page (see Figure 3-4).

Figure 3-4: Access all your account controls from one screen.

From there, you have access to the four main parts of your account:

• Store Control Panel: Use this main screen to build, maintain, and update your store.
• Web Hosting Control Panel: Find out about your Web hosting space and how much room you still have in your account. You can download the SiteBuilder tool from this link (see the later section “Opening Your Store for Business” for more information) or create your own blog to appear on your Web site.
• Domain Control Panel: You can handle all aspects of owning a custom domain name for your online business. Here, you can update your domain registration, add more unique URLs to your overall business, and organize the sections of your Web site to appear as subdomains on your site.
• Email Control Panel: You can manage all your business e-mail accounts in this area. Create a new e-mail account, see how much space all your e-mail accounts are occupying, and set up a special e-mail account (a catchall) to receive mail that has been improperly addressed to someone at your business.

As your e-mail addresses are increasingly circulated, you ...