Archive for March, 2006

How a Hosting Company Can Achieve Success?

Tuesday, March 14, 2006 posted by admin 7:58 pm




One should know about every aspect while starting a company. Following are the important factors to be looked at in order to run a hosting company successfully.

1.After having one’s own website the first most important factor that one considers is the design of his/her website. Designing of website does not only mean to put some text, links and a logo on a page but to design it properly else the website wont be termed as successful. Generic template that can be found online at templatemonster or any other temple site should also be ignored. It is fruitful to make effort and then create a well designed “professional” looking home page for one’s company. Concluding statement is that the customers who are quite new will never choose the hosting company which is armature no matter how great or cheap it is offering its packages.

2. The other step is to develop the website as a total package to its clients. Developing a website not only mean presenting the hosting packages and leaving it as it is rather one should also offer tutorials, articles, support forums etc. By the help of these additional services one is not only providing additional content for his/her clients, but if they are developed correctly will bring additional traffic to one’s site which will potentially lead to more sales.

3 One must understand the worth of search engines actually as more than 90% of one’s business will come likely directly from search engine results. So this is very right decision to optimize one’s site for search engines. Everyone should know that having best plan will be of no use if no one knows about it. One can easily get number of great information on how to create a website that is both user friendly just by searching SEO on net. There is infinite number of companies offering SEO services. But one should be very aware while opting one of them.

4. Find your niche. The hosting business is a huge industry with 100 percent competition. One can be successful in this industry just by finding the market and developing business to cater to that specific niche.

The idea of “if you build it they will come” can be true in 90’s. But the journey of internet in the year 2005 becomes very competitive and complex. One who wants to be successful and wants a proper stand in this tough competitive market he/she ha to plan his/her business so properly that it can run smoothly and is able to sort the problem from every angle. If one can develop a hosting company which has a professional design, some extra content, and search engine friendly and which targets a specific niche, then definitely he/she will achieve success. One have to be very careful and smart while starting and further running his/her business and should study each and every aspects but when he/she achieves these four then there is full chance of success for ever.



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3 New Sale tactics that can help your Hosting Company IncreaseSales

Saturday, March 4, 2006 posted by admin 4:01 pm




know, the hosting market is over saturated and there are more and more hosting companies opening everyday making it harder and harder. But believe it or not, there still is money to be made within this oversaturated market. The key to success is offering the right “free” services that can drive targeted traffic to your website.. And I did say, “Targeted traffic”.

I will suggest 3 new sales tactics that I have researched that you can invest very little in and it will generate tons of quality traffic to your site which in return, will help you generate more needed sales. These tactics are not publicized and are fairly new from my research as ways for generating the right traffic to your site. But before you start, you need to choose a market niche and focus on it.

1. Add a free tutorial or article section to your website focusing specifically on your niche

Create a tutorial or article’s section linked to your website and post articles only about your niche. This is very important and will be different from other traditional article sites. Most article sites focus on all categories, but you will focus on your niche only. Like www.yourwebsitename.com/ecommercetutorials.com, if ecommerce hosting is your niche. With this tutorial section, only include articles directly related to your market niche. There are many free articles you can find over the internet for reprint. If your niche is Ecommerce,. then include only articles related to ecommerce. Don’t promote your product within any articles. If someone else wrote them, include their signature at the bottom. If you can find about 50-100 articles related to your niche, then Google will easily rank your site on these specific niche keywords higher in the search engine, because of your website quality content. Your potential niche customers will find you in search engines more easy to read these articles and they will continue to come back to keep finding and reading information related to their business. And at the top of this page, they will see that you offer hosting related that their niche. For article management system, there are many but ,I prefer that you to use Omnistar Article Manager script because of its many features and is located at http://www.omnistararticle.com. It costs around $99, but the features are easy and advance.

2. Add a Free Website visitor statistics service

Every website owner can benefit form this, especially if its free. You can offer it to webmasters for free, but the catch is that you limit the free accounts, this way your website resources and bandwidth want be abused. Now guest how you will make your money? Those people who come to your website and sign up for the free website visitor statistic service will also see your other services. Also, with your free traffic service that you offer to webmasters, you can also add a upgrade account with more features requesting that if they buy hosting from you, they can get the upgrade feature for free, or if they want to upgrade without becoming your customer, then charge them a the regular upgrade price. For this sales tactic, I prefer the software “counter code” located at http://www.countercode.com/ . It cost only $49 and it has a lot of features that can help you manage customers and add free accounts.

3. Add a free online image compression tool to your clients

This is new and is great for hosting companies who offer ecommerce, photo sharing, or just general hosting. Now most hosting companies want their customers to use a lot of bandwidth so they can overcharge. But in this new market, more hosting companies are offering more and more bandwidth. So if you don’t give them what they want, someone else will. Don’t stop there, still just offering lots of bandwidth does not solve the main problem. Your customers sites are still slow, because their still is a good percentage of dialup users browsing the internet. There are many tools that can compress images on a website but all have advantages and disadvantages. I prefer Website Compression 1.0 located at http://www.optimizehosting.com. Why because you can install this script on your server and all your hosting customers can easily login via their ftp and compress any image on their website up to 10 levels. I did not find another tool like this on the web. It only cost 39.95 and all of you clients can easy use it for free.

Remember that the hosting business can be very simple if you focus specifically on your niche. There are many ways to sell hosting, but to be successful you have to be creative at selling your products. Don’t do what every one else do. There are many tactics you just have to think outside the box. And remember to focus on your market niche.



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Compare Web Hosting Plans – How to Find and Compare Good Web Hosting Plans

Wednesday, March 1, 2006 posted by admin 1:17 am




Boosting your website sounds to be a difficult task to do. But, there is no need for you to worry because such task can be made simpler with the help of the web-hosting providers. A web host is actually a service provider, which links your website to the World Wide Web or to the server. It is very much essential on your part especially if you want your website to generate more traffic or if you want to generate more cash from your online business’ website. You just have to intelligently compare web hosting plans of various web hosting providers in order to have no regrets in the long run.

It is quite undeniable that there are already a wide range of web hosting service providers available in this day and age. Each of those providers definitely has their own web hosting plans. And the only best way to end up with the best plan possible is to compare web hosting plans. There are actually so many important things which you need to compare once you are on your venture of looking for a particular web hosting plan or service that you can utilize for the sake of your website. Some of these things are as follows:

• Provider’s Reliability and Credibility: You need to go for services being provided by reliable and credible web hosting service providers. You can actually use the age of the provider as a basis in determining whether a particular web hosting provider is credible and reliable or not. This is due to the fact that if a provider has successfully stayed longer online then, it is just safe to say that it has effectively stood the test of time and that it is undoubtedly dependable as well as trustworthy.

• Features and Services: The web hosting provider’s features and services are also some of the most essential things you need to consider if you are to compare web hosting plans. This is because of the fact that better features and services can certainly lead to a boom in your website’s traffic and a success on your online business. Some of the features and services that you need to take into account have something to do with the bandwidths, disk space, links, credit card services, domain name, catalog, and shopping cart assistance.

• Price: Your financial capability plays a very important role in your search for the best web hosting plan from the best web hosting service providers. In this regard, you have to wisely choose a well-priced provider in order to make sure that you can still take full advantage of its services even at a lower price only. Besides, there are already plenty of reasonably-priced web hosting providers available in these times.

Indeed, there are tons of important things to consider in order to find and compare web hosting plans. Some of these things are already revealed above. All you need to do is to keep them in mind to end up with a plan or provider which is reliable and credible enough, has an excellent services and features, and has a good price. After all, keeping all those things into mind is not a very complicated thing to do.



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