Marketing Online Secrets

5 Reasons Why I Love My Webhost

Are your looking for a good web-host?

Findng a good webhost is critical to the success of your internet business. It is hard work doing research and reviews on the various web-host that are around. I know, because before I signed up for my web-hosting, I actually spent weeks researching online for the best and most affordable web-host. Finally, I decided on one of the cheapest reseller web-host for unlimited domain hosting (not my current webhost, it’s another company) and signed up for it.

Well, it wasn’t success at first strike. In fact, I had a little heart attack when I got my account. Being a newbie, I needed instructions and lots of information on setting up my account. These are available but not in a user friendly format. I have to log in to view some flash movies (with no sound) that does the job badly. Well okay, I thought I’ll contact their tech support and try their live chat. It was utterly horrible, the live chat pop-up disappears after I type in my questions — and basically went dead. The tech support does reply within one day, but they came back with incomplete sloppy replies like “What do you mean by this and that?” even though the information was in my first message. There was also no forum that I can turn to. After more than one week of trying, and nearly pulling all my hair out, I asked for my refund. To their credit, they did refund my money promptly. Thank goodness for that!

Hence, I was back to square one again. But this time around, I read some good reviews and chose my current host. After being with them for more than 6 months, I have absolutely no regrets. Here are the reasons why I love them.

1) Affordable Pricing. At $6.95 per month, there is no need to bust your wallet for unlimited domain hosting, unlimited sub-domains and with one free domain thrown in.

2) Feature packed. Unlimited add-on domains and sub-domains, unlimited parked domains, 1,500GB storage, 6000GB site transfer (means that you don’t have to wait ages for your files to be uploaded; a wordpress theme takes only about 10 seconds to upload), MySQL database, CPanel Fantastico (which allows you to install Wordpress with a few clicks), easy to use site builder, SSL secure server, and free shopping cart…just to name a few. It even provides anonymous hosting of your domain when you register your domain with them to protect your privacy.

3) User friendly. The control panel is user friendly and easy to navigate. For each icon, there is a brief explanation on it which is great for newbies. There is also an active forum where users share tips and help one another. You can post your problems in the forum to seek advice and help. While getting your own web-hosting is always a steep learning curve, all these user friendly features make the transition relatively painless.

4) Great 24/7 tech support. My web-host has toll-free hotline, 24/7 support and live chat. Most importantly, their live chat works! This is soooo important for non-US based webmasters like us because we can’t use the toll-free hotline (it’s not toll-free for us) and I used the live chat whenever I need help and tech support. So far, my experience with their tech support staff has been positive as I find them competent and polite.

5) Free Promotion. It helps that they also give away FREE $50 Yahoo credits and $50 Google credits for your site pomotion. All you need to do is to pay $5 each to register for pay-per-click accounts with Yahoo and Google. Now who doesn’t like free traffic and free marketing?

Am I a satisfied customer? You bet! Well, it is not surprising considering that they are also the winner of numerous awards such as Best Support 2008, Best Customer Service 2006, Best Web-hosting Award 2006, 2005 Web Host of the Year… just to name a few.

Check it out: Reliable, Affordable Web Hosting.

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Marketing Online Secret: Check Out These Domain, Hosting and PPC Promotion!

To start an internet business, you need these 3 essentials: a domain name, web-hosting and advertising for your business. Being the typical kiasu (local dialect, means ‘afraid to lose’) Singaporean lady, I have to compare prices before I buy anything. I actually spend a week researching for the best web-hosting deal, simply because there are so many. And some internet marketers are not necessary promoting the best deal, just the ones that give them the fattest pay-out. For me, I recommend only stuff that I myself will buy

Best Advertising Deal
Yahoo has launched its answer to Google’s Adwords, called Yahoo! Search Marketing. You can now promote your website with pay-per-click advertising through Yahoo! Search. The feature includes targeting your customers from selected countries and budget setting. Right now they are giving away free $25 credit for all new sign-ups! Yahoo! Sponsored Search lists your business on top sites like Yahoo!, AltaVista and CNN. Sign up and get a $25 credit.

Best Domain Deal
Remember I mentioned about the $1.99 domain in my previous post. The $1.99 domain (usual $9.90) is still available here. I’m so happy that I got one for my current domain. Yeah! Too bad they are limiting it to one per person…
Register your domain at Yahoo! Only $1.99/1st yr.

Best Web-Hosting Deal
This is definitely one of the best value-for-money web-hosting service.
For $6.95 per month, you get everything that you need for an online business
- 1 Free Domain for Life,
- Unlimited Domains Hosting,
- 300,000 MB Hosting Space,
- 3,000,000 MB of Transfer,
- 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts,
- Lots of Features (including PHP, MySQL, Cpanel Fantastico…) ,
- Free Site Builder,
- 24/7 Sales/Support.

I am recommending them because of the awards they are getting every year and the positive feedbacks from users. Check out the details here.

There, hope the above tips will help you in your decision-making for your online business!