How to Find Affordable and Good Quality Hosting Plans

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Dec 202010

When launching an online business two things are essential. You need to have a website address, aka a URL. You also need to have a website host. A host is essentially a company or service that stores the pages of your website and makes them available to computers and devices connected to the Internet.

Hosting plans come with a wide variety of:


* Prices
* Features
* Customer service policies and procedures
* Reliability
* Capacity

It therefore makes sense to spend some time evaluating your needs and comparing hosts. First, you have to know where to look to find them.

How to Find Hosting Plans:

Perhaps the easiest way to begin your search is to type “website hosting” into your search engine of choice. However, you’ll end up with thousands of results to choose from. This can feel overwhelming and may not be the most efficient way to approach this task. Instead consider asking associates, friends and family who they use to host their website. Ask them if they’re happy with their hosting and how they made their decision. This should give you a handful of hosting options to research. Also take a look at online hosting comparison charts. However, be aware that many websites that create these charts are also affiliates for the hosting companies. They earn a commission when you click on one of their links and make a purchase. So make sure to also back up any research found on a comparison chart with your own research.

How to Compare Hosting Plans:

Price is only one factor when comparing hosting plans. Because there are so many to choose from you may want to make price your final decision maker. This means first comparing the hosting plans based on:

* Easy File Upload – Does the host support your file type?
* Data Space – Make sure your host can accommodate the size of your website with room for future growth.
* Bandwidth – How quickly will the pages load?
* File Size Limitations – How much space do you need for your website?
* Server Reliability – How often is the server up and how often do they backup?
* Security – How secure is your information? How secure is your visitor’s information?
* Customer Service – How responsive are they to questions and needs?

Evaluating potential hosting plans by these criteria will likely narrow down your choices to just a few options. You can then evaluate them based on price. Website hosting ranges from free to fifty dollars a month and the features and services vary widely. Evaluate what you need and then compare hosting plans. Make sure they can fit your business needs.

Enjoy your day :-)

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Seven Tips To Build An Email List That Brings Results

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Dec 192010

Your email list can launch your business and help you achieve your biggest dreams. It’s the key to a long lasting and successful business. However, some people struggle to build their list. Others struggle to make money from their list. Here are seven tips to build an email list that brings results.

1. Make them an offer they can’t refuse. The best way to motivate someone to sign up for your email list is to make them an offer they can’t refuse. We’re talking about a super valuable giveaway. For many online marketers information products are a good motivating giveaway.

eBooks, reports, online courses and even videos or audios are a good list building tool. They provide the subscriber with instant gratification. And when the freebie is a top quality item, they’re sure to remain an avid subscriber. This means subsequent emails sent to them will be opened, read and acted upon.

2. Make sure your offer is strongly related to your niche. Some people make the mistake of offering freebies that don’t strongly correlate to their niche business or goal. For example a fitness trainer may offer a free report on how to eat for fat burning. However, their website is otherwise devoted to fitness training exercises.

People interested in fat burning are going to download the report but they may not necessarily be interested in fitness training or exercises. You want to draw the subscribers who will be interested in also buying your products and returning to your website.

3. Connect and network. One of the best ways to build an opt in list is to network. Get out, shake hands literally. Pass out business cards. Participate on social networking feeds and include a website link on your profile and in some posts. Participate on blogs and industry forums. The more places you visit and the more people you meet the more traffic you’ll drive to your website opt-in form.

4. Build partnerships to build your list. Partnerships with relevant businesses can be a powerful way to grow an effective email list. For example, an information website about pet grooming and a website that sells pet grooming supplies might benefit from cross promoting one another’s list.

5. Article marketing. Article marketing accomplishes a number of business building tasks. It can also be used to drive strategic traffic to an opt-in page or squeeze page. However, when using article marketing be sure to:

a. Write a top notch article that makes people want to read more.
b. Offer a compelling and relevant giveaway to motivate an opt-in
c. Link to your squeeze page from your article and/or author’s resource box.

6. Strategic PPC. Finally, consider creating highly specific and targeted PPC campaigns to drive traffic to your opt-in page. Advertise the giveaway. Test and track your ads for success.

7. Make sure your opt in form is placed in a prominent position on your website. Consider testing and tracking various locations to see which location works best. And make sure to follow up with your subscribers. There’s no point in building a great opt-in list if you’re not going to use it!

Please leave a comment, let me know what ya think….:-)

Cheers

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