5 Reasons Your Business Needs a Blog?
Written by Justin G on December 12, 2007 – 5:55 pm -Blogs have in more recent times gained a ridiculous popularity. A lot of people previously thought that blogging was just for kids or for people that wanted to just talk about the goings on in their lives, but not so anymore. Businesses as well as people creating niche websites are using blogs more than ever. Wordpress being the popular choice. So why should you use a blog if you have a E-Commerce website or just a simple site promoting your business? The following list covers these points.
- Announce new products or Services to your customers.
- Mention upcoming sales or special events.
- Get on a more personal level.
- Help guide public image.
- Create more quality content to drive traffic where you want.
One of the best things about a blog is the announcing of new products which will be available for purchase, or bring attention to new services that you will be providing. This can be good especially if you do not plan to update your website as frequently, and want to make a simple blog post about it to inform current and potential customers.
What better way than to announce on your blog that you will be having an upcoming sale. If the content of your blog is good quality articles, then adding in a special sale that your E-Commerce site will be having in the near future can be a nice touch. This can lead to people coming back to your website more often to check on deals you may be offering. The more you get someone to come back to a site, the the greater potential for a sale increases.
Your blog gives you a great opportunity to build relationships with customers on a more personal level. It helps to give you more credibility and shows customers what you are about. This is especially important when it comes to repeat customers, and those who really do want to know who you are.
The fact that people have an image defined of who you are from looking at your website, or from what others say is Big. A blog will allow you to not only clear up possible misconceptions, but guide persons view of what your company is all about. This helps you in the branding of your business and making a name for it.
This is a key factor with a blog and is good because it allows you to put more emphasis on different areas of your website. Internal linking to specific pages of your website will help with Search engine placement as well as targeting areas of your website you want more traffic to get too. The more articles you write, the more content you have which is relevant in search engines. This means more organic traffic for you, which in turn leads to sales.
As you can see, a business blog can be very essential and add to the overall value of your website. A blog is very easy to set up as well. As I mentioned previously, Wordpress is the tool by choice for most bloggers today, as it has more functionality and ease of use. If you have a HostGator Account it is very quick to set this up in the Fantastico option of Cpanel. With this function you can be up and running your Wordpress blog in no time, so make good use of it.
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500,000 Dollar Google USB Drive
Written by Justin G on December 11, 2007 – 7:17 pm -I’m sure you might be expecting a USB drive made of Gold with inlay diamonds sparkling away, but all that glitters isn’t gold, and as a matter of fact, you won’t find anything at all that is absolutely stunning. We merely want to show you what you could expect if you were to lay down about 500 big ones for Google advertising. We received the annual gift from Google and just wanted to show you what its all about.
The presentation was nice and Google does a good job of customizing their gifts while incorporating a touch of advertising. The video below shows us opening the gift, and you can see by our excitement that when you get something from Google, it’s special. This is the video of what we like to call the $500,000 Google USB Drive.
You choose where it goes
So if you watched the video you will notice we received a card for DonorsChoose.org, and it appears we have $100 dollars in credit to donate to a cause related to schooling. We went through the list of causes to donate to and had a hard time choosing something. We want to leave it open to you, the people that read this blog, to give us some feedback with your comments and tell us what cause you think would be the best.
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Free Website Builder Tools Unleashed
Written by Justin G on December 8, 2007 – 4:08 am -
We have some thrilling news for everyone. Just when you thought some of our recent changes were better than before, we just took HostGator to a whole new level of hosting. We have given the HostGator website a massive overhaul. Need more options for building websites for you or your customers? Then check out these HUGE features we now offer you!
If you have been wanting to build a website and don’t want to spend a good chunk of change to get a professional looking template, then we have just solved that problem. Site Builder and Site Studio are website building software that gives ease of use with a clean look. Don’t forget aside from this, the 4500 templates you have access too that are absolutely free with your hosting account. If you resell hosting, how much more appealing will it be for your customers to be able to offer them the option to choose from an enormous list of quality templates or the fact that you can set them up with a Site Builder or Site Studio account right away? Thats not eating the competition, thats devouring it.
I know some of you have been asking us about our WINDOWS HOSTING, and it is right around the Bend. We will be giving you more details and updates on that in one of the next blog posts. So stay tuned and subscribe to our feed!
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HostGator Toronto receives Raptors Tickets
Written by Jay Weissman on December 7, 2007 – 6:18 pm -Very rarely is a peep heard from our Toronto Office, the dedicated team of Administrators in Toronto usually keep their nose to the grind-stone and help keep our servers running in tip-top shape. They may keep to themselves, however their efforts certainly do not go un-noticed. Much to this point, they recently received an amazing gift from a very satisfied client.
Late, on a recent Saturday evening, the Toronto Technical Staff were shutting down their computers and preparing to call it a night when they received an urgent message from one of the Chat Techs at the Houston office. It seems that one of our client’s dedicated servers had taken a turn for the worse and crashed due to a mysterious software misconfiguration. The Chat Tech looked high and low for an available administrator to help our frantic client, but no admins were free to assist with the immediate issue. The Toronto Technical Staff gladly dropped what they were doing, canceled their plans for the evening and continued to burn the proverbial “Midnight Oil” until they had resolved the issue and restored the server to its original state.
“Every minute my site is off line… “, the client told us, “I lose, potentially, hundreds of prospective customers, and that just won’t do!”
The Toronto Team understands the needs of high availability websites and were glad to do everything they can to get this customers site back online in a timely fashion.
As a reward for their efforts, the client purchased tickets to a Toronto Raptors game on January 9, 2008 for the entire staff.
When asked what they thought of the tickets, the Toronto Staff said they were very grateful for the gift, but they had done nothing heroic and, in fact, what they had done was “all in a day’s work”.
Below is a snapshot of our staff in Toronto, and we’ll be sure to follow up with pictures of the game!
Pictured from left to right: Adrian P, Dave C, James N, Michael Y
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Pearl Harbor Day Remembered
Written by Justin G on December 7, 2007 – 5:33 pm -Whether your 16 or 86 years old, most remember the Attack on Pearl Harbor in Hawaii back on December 7th 1941. Today commemorates that fateful day 66 years later. There is something a bit different about today though. The Oklahoma, a ship that many men lost their lives aboard, was the second largest for the most amount of casualties than any other ship at Pearl Harbor except the Arizona. It is also the only battleship which has never been officially memorialized in Hawaii up until today. Below are some of the pictures of the original Pearl Harbor attack, in comparison to those of today. The last image is a topical from Google Earth.
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