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Short of sharing our opinions, sharing our goods and services (whatever they might be) is the biggest thing we do online these days. Everybody has something to sell, but how do you get started in the e-commerce world? I will be covering some of the e-commerce basic right here on this very podcast today. Hopefully it helps you learn a little more about how to get your own shopping cart set up or how to setup a store though one of the free store providers out there.
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You want to sell something online? Then you have picked the right podcast to listen to. I might not cover every little thing, but I will give you the information you need to get started in web hosting e-commerce.
Time to fashion the seat belt, pull out of the driveway and get back onto the web hosting highway. As we pass through the small “Mom and Pop” web hosts, to the big corporate powerhouses, be sure not to get any bugs in your teeth – because the Web Hosting Show is now on the air.
Stop the presses, stop the music, stop everything! This week I am here to tell you about one fantastic new tool that is not only for the web hosts out there, but also the potential web hosting customers. WebHostingShow.com is going into the web hosting coupon and deal promotion business and you are all invited. Today I will tell you about the new web hosting coupon listing that you can find only at the Web Hosting Show web site.
With the word that Geocities would be closing, “sometime in 2009” many of the Geocities users are looking for other places to host their content. Even though Geocities is closing the door on it’s free hosting, there are still many free hosting alternatives to Geocities.
Have you found the web hosting company you are interested in, however haven’t yet sealed the deal, because the price is still not within your budget? I have a quick and easy tip for you that will get you the price you want. All you have to do is know how and where to find the web hosting coupons.
The holiday season might have just started, but for some web hosts out there – they must really be in the Christmas spirit. Either that, or they have started to over indulge a little early in the eggnog. Web hosts passing out bargains like candy can only mean one thing, more web hosting deals for all of us.
Think about it like this, if you are comparing two web hosts and one has a special offer for you only good for 24 hours and the other has nothing special going on, which one excites you more? I have said it time and time again, to get “buzz” in the hosting world we live in you have to strive to be different and unique in every way.
Bringing the hosting world together in an all you can eat buffet of excitement, we have Ben Welch-Bolen on today’s show to share a little more information about the Hosting Industry Organization.
Should Web Hosts Twitter?
There are a great number of web hosts using Twitter for social communication, support and marketing. If you get any big group of web hosts geeks together though, on this topic, the argument usually goes one of two ways. Either people are really for it, or they are really against it.
For those of you who may not know, Twitter is a micro-blogging service that lets you post message under 140 characters online to your own page, (like the great and wonderful twitter.com/mitchkeeler).
Let us take a look at both sides of the argument.
Wasting your time? Some may say that your time is better served doing one on one support with customers, rather than virtually pimping your goods on Twitter. Others might also not really understand what Twitter is all about, since it is highly referenced as that site where you type what you are doing, such as “about to mow the lawn” or “I’m really bored”. There is a good side to this coin too though.
A helpful marketing and support tool? I have seen a lot of tweets that pretty much can be summed up as “_____ sucks”. Now I ask you, wouldn’t it be handy to be able to go out and communicate with that person if they think you suck, and ask why? Twitter can be used as a quick and easy customer service tool. Also, posting news about your web hosting company, links to your blog articles, or even coupons and deals can lead to a lot of new eyeballs seeing those, and coming into your digital empire. Think of it as one more proverbial driveway they can drive into, to get to your services.
My final opinion on the matter would be to go for it. I think that it always helps to get your name and brand out there in every way possible. I would really be interested to hear what you think though – do you think web hosts should tweet on Twitter?