Shoppers won't have to stand in line at superb.net this Black Friday or Cyber Monday. The online dedicated server hosting company has spent the year building inventory for a huge Cyber Monday sale. Shoppers seeking After Thanksgiving Day Sales can wow their entire family and friends with unique holiday gifts, but Superb Internet believes businesses deserve discounts as well.
"Why should retail stores be the only ones who participate in Black Friday and Cyber Monday? This is why we thought it would be nice to have our online special run all weekend, so people could spend time with their families instead of sitting in long lines," stated Haralds Jass, CEO of Superb Internet.
Starting Friday the 25th and running through Cyber Monday, Superb Internet will be selling their Pentium4 dedicated hosting for $39/ month, and they will be giving buyers a second one for free. Customers can enjoy the buy one get one free dedicated server special all weekend, giving them more time for football, family and friends. The promo code is: 7468
Superb will also be giving away their billing platform for free for all customers who buy one of their White Label Reseller Hosting plans. For Cyber Monday, the innovative reseller program includes a free billing platform, runs off Linux and cPanel, allows for unlimited customer accounts, and is 100% customer branded. Plans start at $29/month and include 50GB disk space and 5TB of transfer.
The White Label Reseller program is truly revolutionary with Managed Billing; Superb boosts that they will go as far as calling their resellers’ customers for them for as little as $2/ month per client. People who resell hosting are familiar with the agony of billing all of their clients month-to-month, often having to put up with countless phone calls and numerous billing-related emails; with Black Friday and Cyber Monday coming, this can be a fear of the past.
About Superb Internet
Superb Internet Corporation is one of the world’s oldest and highly acclaimed web hosting companies, having provided a full range of hosting services since 1996. Superb’s services include everything from shared and reseller hosting, through domains, VPS, dedicated, managed, to mission-critical geographically clustered services.
Superb is truly Ahead of the Rest® with its own coast-to-coast IP Backbone Network, SSAE-16 & ISO 9001:2008 certified & registered data centers, and ITIL certified staff. All facilities are always 24x7x365 staffed by skilled systems and network engineers.
For more information about Superb Internet, visit http://www.superb.net.
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Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8992993.htm
Brain Host announces that it will give one free domain name to each new customer who signs up through this promotion
Cyber Monday, the first Monday after Thanksgiving, is considered the biggest online shopping day of the year, and this year web hosting provider Brain Host is getting in on the action. On Cyber Monday only, all new customers who sign up for at least a 1-year hosting commitment will receive a free domain with their purchase.
Brain Host's feature-rich hosting packages include:
To receive your free domain name from Brain Host, visit: http://brainhost.com/special-offer/bh-cyber-monday.php
About Brain Host: Brain Host is an industry-leading web hosting company that offers superior shared hosting packages, 99.9% server uptime, and 24/7 US-based customer support. For more information about Brain Host, please visit http://www.brainhost.com.
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Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8990206.htm
Brain Host's feature-rich hosting packages include:
- Unlimited Web Space & Bandwidth
- Unlimited Email Accounts
- Unlimited Domain Hosting
- Free Traffic and SEO Packages
To receive your free domain name from Brain Host, visit: http://brainhost.com/special-offer/bh-cyber-monday.php
About Brain Host: Brain Host is an industry-leading web hosting company that offers superior shared hosting packages, 99.9% server uptime, and 24/7 US-based customer support. For more information about Brain Host, please visit http://www.brainhost.com.
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Source: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/11/prweb8990206.htm
How to set up an e-commerce website
Unless you are adding ecommerce functionality to an established website you will have to think about a domain name. It may be that because of current branding you need to use your business name but if not choose wisely. The words used in the domain names can have a major impact on an ecommerce website's ability to get found in the search engines.
If you’re comfortable building your own website, you’ll need to pick a shopping cart for your website. There are a number of freely and commercially available shopping carts that you can choose from. Picking the right operating platform (Linux vs. Widnows) is another choice you’ll have to make. If you’re not comfortable building your own website, any ecommerce web design company can help you design one with search engine optimization.
Hosting costs for an ecommerce shopping cart solution range from free to $79.95 per month or more. Before you purchase a shopping cart system, there are many things to consider. When choosing shopping cart software, you need to consider the number of credit card processors and shipping services it supports. Credit card processors and shipping services can change, so the software will need to be easy to update and be well supported to keep up with the changes in the market. You also have to consider the company who will be hosting your site and/or shopping cart. If your shopping cart is going to be hosted by the same company that hosts your site, you need to ensure that it will be fully supported. You will also need to ensure that your order forms and shopping cart will be secure. Ask your web hosting provider if your hosting package includes the use of their secure server (SSL) or if it will cost extra. Most commercial shopping carts are hosted separately from your site, and the SSL is included in the montly fees you will pay for the software.
It is worth mentioning that the features offered on server deals by the hosting companies can vary widely. You should take advice on this before deciding but ensure that the chosen solution includes an easy to use control panel. Running your own server can get quite complex unless you know what you are doing so a good control panel like Plesk or CPanel will make things easier.
Whether you hire someone to develop and customize your store or you do it yourself, there are costs involved. You will need to customize the color, logo, shipping, tax and addresses, just to name a few. You will also have to set up your products and product options.
If setting up an ecommerce website you will have to decide how you intend to take payments for the goods you are selling. There are several options here ranging from asking the clients to send you a cheque to fully automatic online credit card processing. Most people will want the credit card transaction to be handled automatically to minimise the amount of work involved in processing sales from the website. Some businesses will already have a retail merchant account and a POS (point of sale) CC swipe machine. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can use this for online sales. The process of taking online payments is called a "Cardholder not Present" transaction. Retail POS machines are not supposed to be used for this although some people set up their ecommerce website to send clients credit card details via email for processing manually. For security reasons this is now seen as a taboo and if your bank knows you are doing this they may close your account. Check their terms and conditions.
Setting up a Paypal account is the least expensive option (2.9% + $0.30 USD per transaction at the time of writing). Costs for your own merchant account are higher, there are usually set up fees ($500+), transaction fees (up to 3% per transaction) and a monthly flat fee as well. If you already have a merchant account set up off-line, an e-commerce account will be significantly cheaper.
Starting an online business is no different than starting a bricks-and-mortar business. Before you begin setting up your business, you’ll need to put together a solid business plan that includes all the bells and whistles of your business objects including competitor analysis and marketing plans. No one will visit your site if your online store is not advertised or promoted on media. To get it exposed to search engines, it’s a good idea to build your website search engine friendly from the ground up, and also place pay-per-click marketing campaign during initial debut and until your site is ranked well on some of the major search engines. You should also budget for advertising and search engine marketing to drive consumers to your site. After all, what good is having a store if no one comes to shop?
If you’re comfortable building your own website, you’ll need to pick a shopping cart for your website. There are a number of freely and commercially available shopping carts that you can choose from. Picking the right operating platform (Linux vs. Widnows) is another choice you’ll have to make. If you’re not comfortable building your own website, any ecommerce web design company can help you design one with search engine optimization.
Hosting costs for an ecommerce shopping cart solution range from free to $79.95 per month or more. Before you purchase a shopping cart system, there are many things to consider. When choosing shopping cart software, you need to consider the number of credit card processors and shipping services it supports. Credit card processors and shipping services can change, so the software will need to be easy to update and be well supported to keep up with the changes in the market. You also have to consider the company who will be hosting your site and/or shopping cart. If your shopping cart is going to be hosted by the same company that hosts your site, you need to ensure that it will be fully supported. You will also need to ensure that your order forms and shopping cart will be secure. Ask your web hosting provider if your hosting package includes the use of their secure server (SSL) or if it will cost extra. Most commercial shopping carts are hosted separately from your site, and the SSL is included in the montly fees you will pay for the software.
It is worth mentioning that the features offered on server deals by the hosting companies can vary widely. You should take advice on this before deciding but ensure that the chosen solution includes an easy to use control panel. Running your own server can get quite complex unless you know what you are doing so a good control panel like Plesk or CPanel will make things easier.
Whether you hire someone to develop and customize your store or you do it yourself, there are costs involved. You will need to customize the color, logo, shipping, tax and addresses, just to name a few. You will also have to set up your products and product options.
If setting up an ecommerce website you will have to decide how you intend to take payments for the goods you are selling. There are several options here ranging from asking the clients to send you a cheque to fully automatic online credit card processing. Most people will want the credit card transaction to be handled automatically to minimise the amount of work involved in processing sales from the website. Some businesses will already have a retail merchant account and a POS (point of sale) CC swipe machine. Do not make the mistake of thinking that you can use this for online sales. The process of taking online payments is called a "Cardholder not Present" transaction. Retail POS machines are not supposed to be used for this although some people set up their ecommerce website to send clients credit card details via email for processing manually. For security reasons this is now seen as a taboo and if your bank knows you are doing this they may close your account. Check their terms and conditions.
Setting up a Paypal account is the least expensive option (2.9% + $0.30 USD per transaction at the time of writing). Costs for your own merchant account are higher, there are usually set up fees ($500+), transaction fees (up to 3% per transaction) and a monthly flat fee as well. If you already have a merchant account set up off-line, an e-commerce account will be significantly cheaper.
Starting an online business is no different than starting a bricks-and-mortar business. Before you begin setting up your business, you’ll need to put together a solid business plan that includes all the bells and whistles of your business objects including competitor analysis and marketing plans. No one will visit your site if your online store is not advertised or promoted on media. To get it exposed to search engines, it’s a good idea to build your website search engine friendly from the ground up, and also place pay-per-click marketing campaign during initial debut and until your site is ranked well on some of the major search engines. You should also budget for advertising and search engine marketing to drive consumers to your site. After all, what good is having a store if no one comes to shop?
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