by Brionix on November 15, 2011
Local Marketing Strategies:
Local marketing doesn’t have to be complicated. As a matter of fact, the simpler you make it the better it can be.
The best strategies for acquiring new clients or customers can be as simple as using your local coupon book, direct mail, or using cutting edge marketing strategies like Facebook advertising and text message marketing.
Where Do You Start? What Is Best For Your Business?
Unless I was sitting in front of you and analyzing what you are doing currently in terms of local internet marketing, offline marketing, understanding what your business sells, and what you want to accomplish, it would be difficult to say exactly what three or four strategies you should implement. But if you… [click to continue…]
by Brionix on April 20, 2012
I have dozens of websites hosted on over 5 different web hosting companies, and I’ve discovered that they are not all the same. I learned this the hard way.
The first company I used was Pair.com. They are OK, but they are more for techy types, and their system is not easy to use. Plus they don’t have the features I need to build my business and my clients websites.
Once Upon A Time…
I once had a website hand coded by a programmer in Canada. It cost me a small fortune. And with his advice I hosted this website with Startlogic.com. Within a span of 4 months I built 4 more websites and hosted on the same account.
These were regular hand coded websites. Most of them were min sites, and they loaded just fine (loaded means that the site came up fast on your browser).
Then, I learned how easy WordPress is to install using their ‘easy install system’. And I used it for my next seven websites because I could build the whole site myself without coding, using WordPress…
After over two years of hosting with them, I noticed how slow my WordPress sites were loading. It took as long as 30 seconds to load a site!
I thought that it was normal because I had several plugins, and I thought maybe I needed to have a programmer optimize the databases on each WordPress site.
I even contacted support and they tried to tell me it was my data bases, and that my images may be too large or I have too many of them. They said it was not their servers that were the problem. I believed them.
In the meantime, I opened a new account with Hostgator.com because they had an unbelievable price on hosting and someone I respect recommended them to me. I could host as many domains on one account as I wanted (just like Startlogic). [click to continue…]
