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You need your own domain. You can start out with a cheap virtual hosting account and a free wordpress theme.
Don't trust any free hosted site/page for your business. It's OK to use tumbler, twitter, others for traffic and branding exposure but as feeder sites for your own domain. If you get into some dispute with a free host they will just delete your site and its content -- not an uncommon occurrence. Realistically, you will have no recourse in the matter -- up shit's creek without a paddle.
Oh, welcome to GFY.
<rant>Meantime, make sure you have made email and mobile SMS methods available to reclaim your account. One of my old Yahoo messenger accounts refused to login this morning, Yahoo in their dumb shit wisdom, decided I hadn't read their mail, and logged in. So, they just suspended the account arbitrarily, invalidating the old password. I recovered the account after 20 minutes of fucking around, in the end changing the password with a SMS code log-in. You won't have this sort of bullshit with your own server -- you make the account policies. Welcome to the free service internet. Basically, the free service providers don't give a fuck about your needs -- they want you to create content and be a user, or creating traffic for them, that they can sell ads to reach. That's is how "free" is monitized online. </rant>
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