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Running Your Business, Start a BusinessBy Hostway
Starting a business? No matter what product or service you plan to sell, your success depends on how well you complete the following steps: continue »


It’s the prerequisite for the rest of your Web site education. Learn to identify the different parts that together make a Web site tick.
With a little bit of patience and a lot of research, you can build your own Web site. We can help you with the research.
Learn how to mix marketing prowess with technical savvy to get your Web site in front of your target audience and maximize conversions.
By Hostway
Starting a business? No matter what product or service you plan to sell, your success depends on how well you complete the following steps: continue »
By Hostway
You’ve been collecting customer email addresses for a while, but haven’t quite made the time to design your first customer newsletter. The good news is that it’s not very hard to get started. We’ll walk you through the process of designing your newsletter. continue »
By Tom Shivers
Can my site rank better with a keyword-rich domain name? Sure.
Can my site rank better without a keyword in the domain name at all? Absolutely.
I get questions (or assumptions) like this regularly. Actually, there are many other things going on behind the scenes that impact rank, and the domain name is rarely a significant factor. continue »
By Hostway
A pay per click (PPC) campaign can help drive traffic to your Web site, especially if you don’t have top organic search engine rankings. Pay per click is a business model that requires advertisers to choose keywords, create ads to display on the search engine results pages and pay a set amount every time someone clicks on their ads. continue »
By Enzo F. Cesario
Advertising should be part of any growing business. Regardless of what your business does, customers have to know about your product or service in order for them to use it. As the Internet becomes a primary source for consumer knowledge and increasingly, purchasing, it’s imperative that your company gets its message out through this medium. However, advertising on the Internet works differently than traditional advertising in that the customer must find the business instead of a business coming to the customer. continue »
By Angela Hribar
Virtually every company has a Web site — that’s a given. But with the volume of professionals going online for work-related purposes, you need more than a Web site to command maximum visibility and generate attention for your products and services. continue »
By Hostway
As a small business, it’s important to have contact with your customers. But some phone calls could easily be handled by your Web site—saving time for you and your customers. Here are some ideas for how to tweak your Web site to handle some routine calls. continue »
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As the holiday season approaches, online business owners are brainstorming about how to claim their share of the billions of dollars expected for this year’s online holiday sales. continue »
By Hostway
Search engine marketing covers all the activities you do to drive search engine traffic to your Web site. It isn’t difficult, but it requires a great deal of attention to detail. We’ve created a checklist to help you plan or manage all the pieces of your SEM strategy. continue »
By Hostway
Pay per click (PPC) advertising continues to be one of the most cost effective and measurable marketing mediums available. Campaigns are becoming more sophisticated to increase the return on investment. The PPC experience should be seamless: the search engine ad catches visitors’ attention with an offer and the ad leads to a offer-specific landing page that provides the offer details and tells visitors how to sign-up. continue »