Friday, August 31, 2007Labor Day Sale Starts Today!
This weekend only, Aplus.Net is offering a huge sale on our shared hosting plans.
Sign up for a full year of shared hosting and get 15 percent off. Sign up for two years and get a 25 percent discount. Best of all, when you sign up for a full three years of shared hosting, you’ll get [...]
Wednesday, August 29, 2007What Small Business Resource Do You Use?
Today we ask our small business customers: What resource do you rely on the most for news and information about small business information, tips and tactics?
Do you visit the New York Times Small Business section? How about smallbusiness.com? Yahoo Small Business? Do you utilize the U.S. Government’s own Small Business Administration website? Which of these [...]
Tuesday, August 28, 2007Understanding and Improving Your Conversion Rates
Among the most important concepts online business owners must understand — and master — is the conversion rate.
What is a conversion rate? When visitors to your site purchase something from you, that means they’ve been “converted” to customers. So, conversion rates are a way to measure how effective your site is at actually making sales.
But [...]
Monday, August 27, 2007BNET: “How to Embed YouTube Videos in PowerPoint Presentations”
Today’s post: Quick, simple, yet maybe one of the most valuable pieces of info we’ve come across in a long time.
Many of us have jobs that involve putting together presentations, and of course Microsoft’s PowerPoint platform is by far the most commonly used method of doing just that. So, it makes sense that we’d want [...]
Friday, August 24, 2007Week in Review: Aplus.Net’s WebImage Acquisition Dominates Hosting News
This week, the news of Aplus.Net’s acquisition of the New York-based web design firm WebImage has dominated news in the web hosting industry.
And for good reason — this is big news, not only for Aplus.Net and its hundreds of thousands of customers, but also for the web hosting industry in general. As you may have [...]
Thursday, August 23, 2007YouTube Gets Ads: Part 2
Yesterday we reported the news that Google plans to begin running ads on YouTube. And we also asked the question: Are the tens of millions of YouTube visitors going to mind?
Today, the answers begin rolling in. From the Hollywood Reporter:
Despite Google’s attempt to present advertising in the most unobtrusive way, many users reacted with concern [...]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007Google Bringing Ads to YouTube
Barely a week after announcing the discontinuation of Google Video — in part because of its struggles with how to incorporate advertising into the videos — Google has announced that it will introduce an advertising feature to YouTube, the wildly popular video networking site that it acquired in 2006.
YouTube is an absolute phenomenon. It’s [...]
Tuesday, August 21, 2007Breaking News! Aplus.Net Acquires WebImage
Today we bring you exciting news from the web hosting industry! Hot on the heels of recent web hosting industry merger news, executives with Aplus.Net today announced that the company has acquired WebImage, a website development and Internet marketing company based in White Plains, New York.
From the official Aplus.Net press release:
With a business model focused [...]
Monday, August 20, 2007Do You Need Market Research?
If your company is still a start-up, market research may not be something you’ve put a lot of thought into just yet. You’ve probably had your hands full with the basics of just getting your company up and running. That’s understandable.
However, if you want your company to thrive in the long-term, it’s definitely in your [...]
Friday, August 17, 2007Wikipedia: Everyone’s Doing It
From the Reuters newswire: “CIA, FBI computers used for Wikipedia edits”
In and of itself, Wikipedia can be a fairly controversial topic of conversation. Although it contains an almost inexhaustible amount of data on almost every conceivable topic, we’re constantly warned that it’s not an academically viable source of information. Perhaps for good reason: The very [...]