by Aaron | Jul 6, 2007 | Newsletters
Well after a bit of a hiatus of newsletters, I’m back and back with a vengence now. As you will come to see. My newsletter is my main form of marketing now, and it’s full steam ahead.
This month I cover getting contacted by your visitors, which is extremely important, and where I see so many people fall down, even the big players.
Also this month is the first month where for my current hosting customers and a few select still in the pipeline to be customers will get my newsletters sent to them directly to their door in the mail.
How many hosting providers do that. Just one my friend. This one.
For the rest of you, you can just download the PDF to see what I have to say.
Here is the link
https://netrospect.com.au/news/WSC-200707.pdf
Aaron
by Aaron | Jan 5, 2007 | Newsletters
Here’s a brand new look and full of great content newsletter for January.
Print it out if you need to, to make for easier reading.
Here is the link to the newsletter.
https://netrospect.com.au/news/WSC-200701.pdf
Inside this newsletter you will learn about how effective Blogs can be to your business. I could write many newsletters on this topic, but this is an introduction to blogging and a prompt and push to get you going.
Of course as always I give it to you straight.
This newsletter I’ve also used some content from Yaro Starak over at Entrepreneurs-Journey.com
As always feedback is greatly appreciated, give me your thoughts or experiences on blogs, just leave me a comment.
Aaron
by Aaron | Dec 31, 2006 | Newsletters
Here is the December newsletter better late than never eh.
https://netrospect.com.au/news/WSC-200612.pdf
https://netrospect.com.au/news/WSC-200612-Exhibit.pdf (There is an extra exhibit part to this newletter)
In this newsletter I go through reading and understanding your website logs. You would be crazy not to familiarise yourself with this part of your internet business.
So much information is on offer inside your web logs which will guide you if you know how to read and intrepret them, to refine your website to suit your viewers needs and in turn product more profit for yourself.
Trust me it’s not that hard once you know the fundamentals, which this newsletter will give you.
Check it out and post a comment here on the blog if you got something out of it.
Aaron
by Aaron | Dec 30, 2006 | Web Development
Well I’ve just upgraded to IE7 on my new development laptop and it’s very refreshingly different. Microsoft apparently took one and a half years to develope it and it shows in it’s maturity as a browser.The down side is that there is still a shovel load full of web users that still have IE6 and IE5, so what to do if you make a website and want to see if it works in the major browsers, not just the browser that you happen to have installed on your development system.
You can run side by side installations of Firefox and Opera, but IE has always dragged the chain on this, due to IE being so heavily integrated into the operating system.
When I upgraded to IE7 I definately at least wanted to be able to have IE6 on the same machine. Well the dodgey hacks and workarounds that you will find if you do a web search on the topic, just didn’t work for me. Mostly they didn’t address that once you upgrade to IE7 the underlying DLLs that drive the browser are not backward compatible. So a cutdown version of IE6 just isn’t good enough for a true result.
Microsoft have finally acknowledged this and now have released a special IE6 virtual machine image to handle just this. Seems like massive overkill, but it works so I can’t complain.
Check out the Microsoft MSDN blog about IE6 and IE7 running together, and go and sort out your IE6 and IE7 on the same machine problem once and for all.
Of course the other alternative is if you have multiple PCs lying around you can have a separate machine setup with each IE. Which I have also done.
Aaron
by Aaron | Nov 21, 2006 | General
82% of small businesses will have Internet access by 2011, of which 88% will have broadband connections, according to a JupiterResearch Report “Market Profile: Understanding Online Small Businesses”.78% of small businesses currently use the Internet on a regular basis, according to JupiterResearch.
Sonal Gandhi, JupiterResearch Analyst, said: “Small businesses spent over $43 billion in 2005 in business purchases online, their online influenced off-line spending is likely to be considerably higher”. [source]
David Schatsky, President, JupiterKagan, said: “The growth of the overall online small business market and decision makers’ increased comfort with doing business online will impact their total online spending,
Companies that target small businesses should take advantage of the size and openness of this market online”. [source]
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Now isn’t that an interesting statistic. I should think that those businesses are online already and getting setup to trade online or increase their marketing through online efforts will be ahead of their offline only competitors.
Aaron
by Aaron | Nov 15, 2006 | Newsletters
Aaron Dwyer here, I just wanted to send you a quick note to tell you about the new format newsletter that is ready to download. This is a new format of newsletter, it’s a PDF. You can get a FREE PDF reader from FoxItSoftware
http:/websmartcentral.com/news/WSC-200611.pdf
It will be a monthly newsletter that will have lots of information first and then section on Web Smart Central housekeeping at the end.
This newsletter is all about how to reduce your SPAM. We all want to be able to do that right?
You will learn about the different types of SPAM, and what you can do to reduce your SPAM on both your server hosting account and locally on your PC with your email client.
They are very simple to do, and everyone should spend the few minutes to implement the changes on their hosting account and in your email program. Invest the time to fight your SPAM problem and you will save so much time that you would have normally spent dealing with the daily SPAM.
PS. I’ll add a newsletter signup box to the front page of the website to generate more subscribers for the newsletter including those that aren’y hosting or design customers.
PPS. Here is the link again for the newsletter.
https://netrospect.com.au/news/WSC-200611.pdf
Thanks
Aaron
by Aaron | Jul 8, 2006 | Marketing
After 3 months of developement I have released some awesome software that is targeted directly to internet marketers.
If you do direct online sales copy then you’ll want to check this software out.
I’ve set it up with a complete free 7 day trial so you can really use it anger and make sure it’s right for you before investing in it.
I say investing because it’s goal to produce profit pulling web scripts to spice up your online sales copy.
If you’re in the internet marketing game, check it out, you won’t regret it.
http://script-smart.com
Cheers
Aaron
by Aaron | May 9, 2006 | Web Hosting
It’s been a long time coming but we finally have a backup mail server in place to handle all email should a server be down at any time.
This means that should a server be down all emails that normally would have bounced back to the senders server for a retry at a later date, will now be routed to a backup mail server, where they will sit until the primary mail server comes back online. At which point the emails will then be routed back to be delivered.
This results in no loss of emails at our end what-so-ever. Very nice indeed.
In the end as all things seem once you’ve done the hard work, it was a fairly simple task, and I can honestly say every host should have this form of redundancy in place, and be proud to show it off.
I’ll be writing an article about it so that others may benefit from my hours of research looking for the best methods to automate this procedure.
Doing it for one account is fine, doing it across multiple servers is a full time job. That’s why automated software scripts are a thing of beauty.
Aaron
by Aaron | Mar 1, 2006 | General
It’s a birthday celebration for Web Smart Central’s 1st business birthday.
I wanted to go all out and give a worthwhile gift away. So 17 holiday packages are up for grabs.
You get to choose where you wish to stay at over 250 premium location around Australia.
You get 7 vouchers for 2 nights each for 2 people, and you only have to buy breakfast and dinner at the hotel you choose to stay. Since you have to eat anyway, I figured this was a wonderful idea.
If you don’t want to eat at the hotel, some hotels offer a buy one night get the second night free using the vouchers.
To be eligible you have to invest in our Platinum Shared Hosting Plan, or any of our Reseller Plans.
Aaron
by Aaron | Mar 1, 2006 | Web Hosting
At last after months of deliberating over whether to have reseller accounts or not, I’ve decided to include them into the Web Smart Central offering.
For those that don’t know, a Reseller has the ability to divide up their allocated space and bandwidth, and has a master control panel for their account. From there they can house other peoples websites completely separately (with their own control panel), effectively becoming a mini hosting provider. They can offer their clients the hosting space at whatever cost they desire. Being a reseller is fantastic for web designers, accountants, solicitors, and internet marketers.
If you chose your provider carefully then they deal with all the hard work, and you just get to make some profit. Some even deal with the support issues from your clients. This is still an area that I haven’t decided on what I’ll be doing. Let’s just say that I’ll find out the support ramifications as I go.
This is exactly where Web Smart Central started over a year ago, with a USA Reseller account. That was quickly outgrown, as we surpassed the hosting provider that was providing the reseller account. Plus there were clear signs that they were overloading their server so I moved away from them. Just in time as 2 months later they were no more.
If you haven’t read my report about overselling and the dangers of it, then I suggest you take a look.
The only force that drives hosters to overload the servers is monetary greed. But it’s just not worth it, it’s a business killer.
Aaron
