Web Page Hosting Services

Commerce

If you run a retail operation and have clients outside of your region, and/or need to support those clients, this is the type site that will meet your business needs best. You do not need an extensive site to generate this kind of site and its success.

Package Details [Order]

• 100 Mb of space (capable of holding more than 2,000 typical web pages)
• 6 GB traffic with more available in the unlikely event you need it (less than 1% of sites ever need more)
• 99 mail boxes and unlimited aliasing
• full e-mail client AND webmail capacity, with SPAM protection
• control panel with full library of interactive programs (support site and control panel instructions included)
• domain name hosting and subdomain hosting included
• full FTP access
• user configurable autoresponsers
• on site only search engine included
• virus protection for every e-mail you receive from server at no added charge
• mail unclogger
• secure access with five level capacity included
• directory password protection
• Real visitor site statistics included with actual referrer information (so that crucial business monitoring can be done)
• Free access to our list server services for up to 1,000 e-mails per month (more available at a nominal charge)
• SQL database capable with mySQL, PHP, PERL, cgi, and other interface capacities
  

What Do You Recommend In A Commerce Site?

As a minimum, a brochure site should include the above hosting services. Each page should have a consistent look and navigation plan. The following web pages are considered a minimum brochure site:

Home This is your chance to introduce your business to your potential customer and existing customers. Make the information on this page concise and informative. Make sure you link to your other pages in the text.

Company. Your clients and potential clients need to feel comfortable about your business. This is the page where you tell them about your businesses history and unique abilities.

Location. Give people a map and a photo of the outside of your building as it appears from the road. Make it eacy to find you. Please, you can reduce the costs of people telling clients how to find you. Just give them a web site address and suggest they print it out so they can use it to find you.

Products and Service. What do you sell and how do you support it? Let people know. For example, if your business is a resturant give your menu and hours (I cannot tell you how many resturants lose business because they don't do this). If your have sign company, tell what kinds of signs you provide and give examples, with photos. The Internet is a rich medium and your can tell a lot more for less money than other media. Here is where you tell people what you do and give examples.

Purchase and/or Database Interaction. Allow people to purchase, monitor, and interact with your businesses information.

Need More?

E-commerce. If you need to take credit cards for items that typically involve a single sale at a time, we have a five level secure order system that is perfect for you.

Domain Parking. Do you advertise in various media (TV, newspapers, or magazines), then you should park domains. Parked domains allow people to enter different domains to see the exact same site. Thre are many reasons to do this. One is advertising. If you advertise in a particular publication, you should always publish a domain too (you won't think of advertising without a phone number, so why would you ignore your web address). Use of multiple parked domains allows you to check your logs to see how well the advertisement is paying off for you. Since the typical newpaper ad costs more than $100 per showing, magazines $6,000 per showing, and TV or radio from $500, looking at your logs will help you determine if the advertisements are paying off.

File Storage. Some people send huge files by e-mail. This can be a real problem. Since many people do not have high speed access, receiving a large file can create a real problem for the receiver. Sending it is no picnic either. By uploading the file to a specified location, you can then help your clients. First, your upload is controlled by you. Second, you allow your clients to control the download. You just send them the link and they can download it at their leasure.

Calendars. Many people and businesses need a clendar that they can use to inform others of schedules and generate added business. There are many options available here. We even have a physician schedule system for multiple offices. Contact us for details.

Specialty Services. Need something special. Just contact us and we can show you how it can be done in a way that makes and saves you money.

Merchant Services. We can save you money on your merchant card services and increase the reliability and probability of making sales. We are an authorized ECHO agent. Contact us for details.

Ordering

Simply order online and your site will be set up within a few minutes. You will receive email confirmation with additional site specific instructions assistance placing your site on the Internet.