Archive for February, 2008

Bright New File Manager

Monday, February 25th, 2008

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BRIGHT NEW FILE MANAGER - COMING SHORTLY!

To the attention of all our present and prospective clients! We are happy to inform you that an important implementation is soon to come - bright new File Manager will be integrated in our system! The innovative and thoroughly updated version will have many new facilitative functions, some of them probably expected, and some of them complete surprise.

The new File Manager was developed by our professionals to suit the utmost requirements for ease, convenience and user-friendly interface. Key basis for its creation was the need for better navigation, facilitation, time-saving and visualization tools. Enormous emphasize was laid on some significantly important aspects regarding its upload functionality and editing system tools. Basically for the first time you will have an opportunity to upload ZIP/RAR files with Auto-Unzip in the pre-selected folder, and to visually keep track of the uploading process by means of displayed status bars. Also unprecedented is the function, to be included in the advantageous tooltip interconnections menu, to edit your files with a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) editor and to view them directly on the web.

The new version of the File Manager is scheduled to be officially released within a month. Let’s go now through a short review of the complete pack of functions that are to be expected, in case you would like to feedback us in advance:

  • All parts of the history path name will be links (e.g. www/mydomain.com/myfolder/) - providing fast access to each level of the directory path of your files;

  • A new Fast Access section will be placed on the right - by means of a drop-down menu will be ensured fast navigation through all folders of your current vhost (virtual host), and also fast access to all your main domains and subdomains;

  • All file names will be links, opening smart tooltips displaying the full range of actions that can be performed. The smart tooltip will automatically recognize whether the file is editable or not, and will accordingly display the Editing option with WYSIWYG editor or in plain text. The option to view your file directly on the web will be included, as well;

  • The file info field will be better organized and will display the ‘name’, ’size’, ‘permissions’ and ‘modified’ records again, together with Edit/Move/Delete buttons added at the right end of the field;

  • The upload file boxes will have new intelligent structure, as well. The permitted size of the files will remain the same, but new option will be provided for ZIP/RAR folders upload, with automatic unzip. After the uploading has started, visual graphic display of the uploading process will be provided for you to keep you informed of the stages;

  • The multi-selection buttons will be at your disposal again;
  • ‘Disk Usage’ field will graphically display up-to-date information of how much disk space you have utilized, and how much remains unused.

With the implementation of the new File Manager, we aim at setting new high criteria for intelligent interconnections and user-friendly interface. As you are already aware, this has always been our purpose, and we shall continue to work in this direction in the future, as well.

 

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Color is An Important Aspect of Business

Saturday, February 23rd, 2008

 
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Color: An Important Aspect of Business

 

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A follow up to the psychology of colors post here

 

  The world was once black and white. The television had black and white programs and publications were mostly black. However, in the 60s, all that changed to what we see today. Therefore, we know color is now the best means of drawing attention to any media.

 

  We each have our own tastes. Therefore, different people have different ideas in associating colors with products. There is no actual answer on what the best color would be for a product and at one time everything was done by chance. Now you can now find the best equipment and personnel in the design and printing industry that help produce beautiful labels. The same importance is now applied to producing the appropriate label as it is to producing a product. There are many family owned companies that guarantee in creating a label with 100% satisfaction and that gives a lasting impression.

 

  Getting brand awareness that gives a lasting impression is a point of major concern for most companies today. By using a variety of logo or product colors you may decrease your marketing efforts.

 

  Furthermore, the effectiveness of retail space is greatly reduced with the wrong colors. Sometimes, the variety of colors from different products may make a unique product blend with other products on the store shelf. Therefore, uniformity of a color is very important in creating brand awareness and a presence in the retail atmosphere.

 

  The best way of making a product stand out from other products is with colors and materials that pop. Large manufacturers know that value and this is why they are always striving for color brilliance. You too, are sure to experience increased sales when your product has good shelf appeal.

 

  Colors have a psychological influence in marketing The effect of colors in influencing the mind of the prospective customer is high. The moods and the sentiments are represented with colors. Symbolic representation is not blind, but an effective way of communicating the feelings spontaneously and strongly.

 

  The changes we observe on earth with the advent of spring, the blossoming of the colorful plants and the joyful moods of the birds and other living beings. They all have been so synchronized that it stands testimony to the fact that color does have an effect on the human mind and the living beings. Therefore, as we verbally communicate to people in different dialects, so do the effects of colors in nonverbal communication.

 

  The best example would be nature. As a creative artist, Mother Nature has made the best ever color combinations on earth. Whether it is color in flowers, in butterflies or in the other millions of living creatures. We as a civilized world had the basic lessons of the uses and impacts of the colors from Mother Nature.

 

  While Mother Nature has used the same impact for its continuity, reproduction and sustenance, we today make use of the same for our selfish motives. Even more so in getting the target market attracted. To the ever expanding clientele, the language of the color has evolved as an effective marketing tool.

 

  About the Author: Joann Snell is a freelance Graphic Designer. She specializes in print, corporate id, branding, and other marketing tools for small-medium sized businesses. For further information visit Jo’s Graphic Designs at
 
http://www.josgraphicdesigns.com  

How To Start A Social Marketing Campaign

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
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How To Start A Social Marketing Campaign
By Jack HumphreySocial Marketing Icons
Social marketing is a relatively new, often misunderstood form of online marketing that is reaping huge rewards for website owners who incorporate it into their marketing plans. I work with clients and customers who, while being very new to social marketing, are seeing results in the following areas:1. Higher search engine rankings for their top keywords. 2. More rankings of additional keywords or “long tail” keyword phrases.  3. More link popularity from sites linking on their own accord.4. More link popularity from social media sites.

5. More activity on their blogs, such as more commenting and interaction.

6. Direct traffic from incoming links on social media sites (One good StumbleUpon.com submission can net thousands of visitors alone.)

7. Fast traffic increases and steady growth in unique visitors month after month.

8. An increase in subscribers and sales. Social traffic, properly acquired, is very warm to your message and products.

The problem for most people when thinking about social marketing, after getting a taste of all the hundreds of sites there are to interact with, is becoming overwhelmed and paralyzed into inaction.

They assume established social marketers gained their “social authority” in a short period of time. This is simply not true. Although the opportunities for driving serious traffic and rankings from hundreds of social sites exists, it is an embarrassment of riches.

And it cannot be conquered over night. It is a gradual process you manage with all your other responsibilities and grow as time allows.

What I encourage my clients to do is set aside enough time each day to get one more link, participate in one more conversation, or sign up for one more account on a social site. 

A little goes a long way and social marketing is not an “all or nothing” situation. Eventually you will have established yourself on the major social media sites you need to be on. And you will have a schedule that allows you to keep up with your other work while adding this extremely powerful marketing method to the mix.

10 Steps For Starting a Social Marketing Campaign

1. Schedule a bit of time each day to do some new things. Don’t just say you are going to do them. Write the time into your day and follow through.

2. Sign up for the major social news sites: Digg.com, Propeller.com, Mixx.com. Don’t submit anything to these sites until you have filled out your profile completely and submitted news from elsewhere on the web to generate a real presence and avoid being labeled as a spammer.In fact, BE a real presence and don’t try to push your own content onto the networks you belong to. It should feel and be natural and you will know what “natural is on each network by participating, commenting, voting and getting a general sense of what members think is good and bad content. Watch their comments and votes and you will know how to proceed with your own site’s content from there.

3. If you don’t have a blog, you must install one immediately. This is not an option. It is an absolute necessity on today’s web. I recommend Wordpress which can be downloaded and installed by you or your webmaster. Wordpress download Option #2: Check with your web host to see if they have Fantastico available to you and, if so, that it installs the latest version of Wordpress. If so you are very lucky because the software can be installed by you very easily in just a few steps with Fantastico. 

4. Once you have your blog set up, join the following networks. (These are blog communities that will help you generate visitors, authority, and links and most bloggers belong to them.) MyBlogLog.com (install the widget on your Wordpress blog), and BlogCatalog.com. (they also have a widget to install) 5. Join groups, make friends, and interact with other bloggers on these networks. Especially the people who would be most likely to link to your blog and send you traffic who write about similar things or have an audience similar to yours who’d benefit by knowing you. You can even start your own group, promote it in the network, and send “shouts” to the group when you have announcements or need attention to a new post.6. Once you have established yourself on all the sites above, meaning you have a decent profile in each that shows you’ve been active and involved, move on and search for networks that are geared toward your particular market niche. There are a lot of new “vertical” social sites popping up that focus on much more narrow markets and their membership is far warmer to your kind of information than on the bigger, more general networks above.

Add a new site to the mix as often as you can and repeat the steps for becoming established there as mentioned in Step 2 above.

7. Join a group dedicated to social marketing to pick up tips from other social marketers and find new places you can sign up with to continue building your social authority. New sites pop up every single day. Follow places like Go2Web20.net to find new opportunities to connect with your market.

8. Remote blog. Join blogger.com and put content there that is good, just not good enough to go on your main blog. This serves two purposes: 1) you get to use more of the great content you find as you travel through all the social news sites and 2) it gives you another place to link back to your main site and pass on traffic and link popularity over time.

9. Track your progress diligently. If something you are trying on a social network isn’t working, you need to know that in order to save time and move on to something more fruitful. MyBlogLog.com (above) has a tracking system which will show you where your traffic is coming from so you can avoid time wasting efforts and focus more on the sites that are really pulling in good traffic for you.

10. Don’t freak out! This is only overwhelming if you act like someone at an all-you-can-eat buffet with no self control. You have other things to do and this needs to fit into, not dominate, your current business and marketing.

Social marketing, once you’ve established some authority, will replace some things you are currently doing to promote your site. Many people completely drop their paid advertising or PPC campaigns once they see the organic, natural traffic and search engine rankings pile up from social marketing.

Until then, just take it one step at a time and do some social marketing. A little goes a long way and before you know it, you will reach a point where a lot of traffic and lots of search engine rankings are piling up because you simply started doing something each day.

There’s a lot you can learn about social marketing. And not all of it can be found on free blogs. 

About The Author
Jack Humphrey is the author of The Authority Black Book and the creator of a powerful social marketing community at AuthorityBlackBook.com 

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Free Yahoo Answers Traffic Guide

Thursday, February 21st, 2008
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Yahoo Answers Traffic Guide

One if the easiest ways to generate free traffic to your website is with one of the most overlooked methods, Yahoo Answers!
This strategy is broken down into detail, in this free PDF file,
Yahoo Answers Traffic Guide
With over 21 million unique US users and over 90 million worldwide, Yahoo Answers is the largest knowledge sharing community on the web.
Just click on the Yahoo Answers image, or click this text link for your free Yahoo Answers Traffic Guide and then save it to your computer.

List Building Video Tutorials

Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
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 Gain access to in-depth videos on Email Marketing that shows you the “How to” do it step by step. So the videos don’t just cover the surface level about how great email marketing is, because you already know that right? It dives straight into how you get started and what secrets to use to quickly get up and running from scratch. Even a newbie would understand this and that’s what the videos are geared towards. That means you don’t need any previous list building knowledge to get started. Here is what you will learn:How to create a list, a follow up series and web form
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You’ll learn how to use an Autoresponder and mailing list service that allows you to automate your list building your process for the most part. You can tell the system when you want to send an email and at what time; and it’ll do the rest. In this section, you will learn how to create a list, how to create a follow series that will build a relationship with your subscribers, and how to create a web form that you can put onto your landing page.
How to find what your list topic will be on
Don’t know what list topic you you want to write on? You’ll learn some techniques that you can use to brainstorm and find the best topic to surround your list. Your list topic is very important and you want to make sure it’s something you are an expert on, you enjoy writing on, and that it is indeed profitable.Tools you need to start building your list

There are several tools you will need to use to create your landing pages, build your list, and run your list. In this section, you’ll learn exact what tools you can use that any newbie could learn. Now you aren’t going to be left in the dark about how to use these tools. You’ll learn how to do that step by step in the next sections.  The tools used don’t require a huge learning curve and that’s why they were used.

How to create a landing page quickly by using a simple method

Creating the content of a landing page does not require a special tool, but with this simple method that you will will be taught; you will quickly and easily begin to build landing pages as if it were something you already knew. Remember…it’s already in you, you just need someone to take you by the hand and show you how to do it.

How to put the landing page together and make it look nice without knowing HTML

By this section, you would have known how to create the content for a landing page and you’ll have the web form code in hand from Aweber. In this section, you will learn how to use a web editing tool to put everything together. Without a drop of knowledge of HTML, you will learn how to use this editor tool to make nice looking landing pages…

How to create a responsive list and drive traffic to build your list

By now you would have known how to create a landing page that is ready to build your subscriber list. You want to build a list that is of quality, not quantity, as your goal is to produce better results in the future right? Well…Building a responsive list doesn’t need to be scary; in fact to build one that is responsive, can actually be fun and therefore fun for your readers. You’ll learn several tips on increasing your conversions.

Now, without being left in the dark, you will be given marketing methods that are low cost, yet powerful enough to start increasing your subscriber rate to your list. You want people who want to be on your list and you’ll learn how to target these people.

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Advanced Web Hosting Store Reseller Templates

Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
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Latest Updates To The Advanced Web Store Templates

Our Marketing Department is glad to announce the latest updates to the advanced reseller store templates. We enabled a custom Promo Area functionality for the BlueBasic and FlipView templates and added a “Why a website?” section to the submenu of the 3Box and FlipView home pages.

In result of our latest template update campaign - another two of our advanced templates have been equipped with an option for our resellers to select the main index banner. Those of you who have set the BlueBasic or the FlipView templates for their stores now have the opportunity to select the promo banner that will be displayed on their store index page.

Another major update to our templates is the addition of a brand new section, named “Why a website?”, to the 3Box and FlipView templates. Its location within the Home page submenu is aimed at drawing the attention of visitors who do not have online experience and would be glad to learn more about the benefits of having their own website on the Internet.

We trust our newest template updates will help you to better synchronize the web store layout with your marketing concept. Stay tuned for more template updates and positive changes to our system coming up in the near future.

Psychology of Colors

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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The Psychology of Colors

Are you stimulating emotions while marketing with your business logo, stationary, business cards, brochures, signs and with your website? If you know it or not, colors speak very loud to our subconscious and have a positive or negative reaction within 90 seconds. On the web you have less that 30 seconds to make a good first impression.

Read the full article here

Seth Godin just posted on his blog that Color Matters

Domain Name and Web Hosting Definitions

Saturday, February 16th, 2008
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Domain Name and Web Hosting Definitions

All definitions are from Wikipedia

Blog Hosting

Colocation Centre

Clustered Hosting

Data Center

Dedicated Hosting Service

Domain Name

Domain Name Registrar

Domain Name System

Domain name Transfers

DNS Hosting Service

Email Hosting Service

Free Web Hosting

Guild Hosting

Image Hosting

Internet Hosting Service

Reseller Web Hosting

Shared Web Hosting

Top Level Domain

Video Hosting

Virtual Private Server

Web Hosting

Web Server

Web Site

Chinese Language is now available in the Control Panel

Wednesday, February 13th, 2008
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CHINESE LANGUAGE NOW AVAILABLE IN THE CONTROL PANEL

It is our pleasure to announce that the Web Hosting Control Panel now supports Chinese language, in particular Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese. This is our present for the Chinese-speaking clients from around the world on the occasion of the Chinese New Year.

You can set the language of your Control panel to Chinese (Traditional or Simplified) from the Customize Multi Lingual Control Panel section that is available in the My Account menu, or through the drop down menu at the top of the Control panel’s main page. 

Language options besides English are Bulgarian, German, Spanish, French, Russian, Ukrainian, Dutch and Romanian.  

If you are interested in reselling web hosting the multi lingual control panel is a great benefit to your potential customers. Don’t forget that you can name your own price for the hosting packages you offer.

GoDaddy coupons for 08

Tuesday, February 12th, 2008

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Visit Joe Brewer’s blog for GoDaddy coupons on Domain name registration, transferring, or bulk registration of your next domain name.

Don’t forget that you can register a domain name at any registrar and still host it at any web hosting provider. All you need to do is change the DNS  to point where you want to host the website.

Since 1999 I’ve had several websites online and have paid between $5 a month to $30 searching for the best deal possible for my money. I even traded a domain name for a year of web site hosting, that didn’t work out either. The problem with that web host provider was I only had 1 email address and no front page extensions. I have used Host 4 Profit and Third Sphere which are good hosting companies but a bit to pricey. Both were about $25 a month. I have tried Yahoo hosting and that did not give me the freedom and versatility I was looking for, for about $19 a month.