Business Class Email in an Affordable Hosted Solution

Tech Strategies Provides Business Class Email in an Affordable Hosted Solution

The need for business class e-mail for small and medium businesses is now available in an affordable hosted solution, provided by Tech Strategies. Their hosted e-mail solution aims to compete with similar hosted Exchange services, by utilizing Kerio Mail Server 6.5.

Twin Falls, ID,  August 08, 2008 -- For small businesses needing an affordable solution for business class e-mail services such as push mail and groupware features like shared calendars and shared contacts, they can put their trust in Tech Strategies hosted Kerio mail service. The service boasts the ability to sync with any Smartphone, sharing of your calendar with your team or assistant, and Spam and virus protection. More information and pricing for the service can be found at http://www.keriomailhosting.com.

Tech Strategies is an information technology company providing services for small and medium businesses. In an effort to provide better, more reliable e-mail to their clients and future clients, they have started providing e-mail hosting services and are going all the way. As Tech Strategies looked at options for providing e-mail hosting services, there were several requirements that had to be met. Those requirements were the ability sync e-mail with smart phones such as BlackBerry, Windows Mobile(R), Treo, Symbian and Apple iPhone. Groupware features such as calendar and contact sharing was also a must. The next major feature that was needed in order to provide business class e-mail was anti-virus and anti-spam protection. The product that made the most sense was Kerio MailServer 6.5 (KMS).

KMS is not a new product for Tech Strategies, they have been using it with some of their clients for a few years now. Many businesses need the type of services that are available through keriomailhosting.com, but the price of other services and software has always been a little out of reach for many small and medium sized businesses where every penny counts. Some of the benefits of using Tech Strategies hosted e-mail include: reduce demand on IT staff, no maintenance on servers, additional spam and virus protection and additional support. For companies where a hosted e-mail solution is not the ideal situation, KerioMail Server can also be purchased and run on Windows, Linux, and Mac through Tech Strategies. For additional information about Tech Strategies and their hosted e-mail services, or for a free demo, please contact Joel Eskelsen or visit http://www.tsidaho.net.

About Tech Strategies:
We formed our consulting company in 2006. Although our company is new, our team of professional consultants has worked in Information Technology for many years. We provide onsite support, security audits, maintenance of current infrastructure, upgrades or installation of new systems. We offer website maintenance and hosting. With the increasing use of computers in offices and the dependence of networks in business communications, businesses have an even higher demand for highly skilled technical expertise on site. Tech Strategies is that technical expertise that you need, give us a call to see what we can do for you.

Tech Strategies always has the client in mind, and we know we can't succeed unless you do. Contact: Joel Eskelsen, Partner/Consultant Tech Strategies 877-519-3410 http://www.tsidaho.net

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We Are Selling The Domain Name...

We just got a new variation of the SPAM marketing of domain names. There are a number of people that are either offering to sell a domain they own which is the .com version of one that you own, or they offer to get a domain that is expiring for you for a fee. I don't have a big problem with these kinds of services except for a few things:

1) I don't like SPAM in any shape or form. Often these message are not personalized in any real way and if you have many domains as we do, these jerks will send you tons of messages, often one to each contact email on your domains. For us that means we get 2-3 emails each time.

2) The fees they ask are EXCESSIVE. One guy that I talked to at itime marketing said that many people thank that and are happy to pay their fees. I don't doubt this, but will those people still be happy when they learn that the cost should only be about $10 and if they waited 5-6 days they generally can get the domain and only pay that much?

3) Some of these jokers are lying, which I really dislike. They may say they own the domain, but they are willing to sell it to you, for $300 or whatever. Most people don't know about using WHOIS to check the information about a domain's ownership. If they did, they may find that the domain is not owned by anyone, and all they have to do is register it themselves. Using WHOIS can also avoid any problems when someone is trying to sell a domain that is currently owned by someone else. This is rare except for domain brokers, but it could happen. You can't TRUST anyone on the Internet.

So we just got the following message about one of our domains:
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We are selling the domain name avandiadiabetes.com.  Since you own the .net, if you would also like the more desirable .com we are making it available.  The cost is $49.95.  That includes a year of registration and transfer of ownership to you.  To purchase or to learn more go to:

http://www.dcinchq.com/index.php?domain=avandiadiabetes.com

If you pass on this opportunity someone else could purchase this domain and it may not be available again.

For questions contact us or go to:

http://www.dcinchq.com/faq.html

All the best,

Warren Davis
Digital Caucus, Inc.
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This spammer gets points for not charging a huge fee. I think $50 is a reasonable amount to pay for a domain you want, given that the owner has gone to some bother to contact you and rather than putting the domain on the open market where you might never hear about it they are doing you a (possible) service. I consider this to be SPAM for the most part, but it's really kind of borderline. They are not sending this message to millions, but I'll bet they are also sending the email to the owners of the other main domain TLDs, in this case just use with .net and someone else with the .org.

But this spammer is also a liar. When I used DomainTools.com and checked the WHOIS record, I find that the domain is not even registered. It appears that it was last registered to itime marketing, and now they either have a follow-up service or some smart cookie is picking over their leftovers that they could not sell and have dropped and trying to offer them at a lower price.

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Summary: If you are contacted about a domain your interested in, I recommend you do the following:

1 - Check the WHOIS record and see if it is available. If it is register it instantly.

2 - If it is registered and was registered within the past 5 days, and you can live without it, wait 5-6 days and see if you can then register it. Domaintools.com offers a free Domain Monitor you can use to get emails when the status of the domain changes. I have used this free service to register several domains.

3 - If the domain does not drop after 5 days, you can talk to the seller and see if you can get the price down to a more reasonable level. Adopt the attitude that the domain would be nice to have, but after all you already have an established site on the current domain you own. Hold out and you should get the domain for $20-$100 unless it has wide appeal. These guys only leverage is your interest in the domain, and they only pay less than $10 for them. If you can double their money, that should be incentive for them over not getting anything at all.

If the domain is really valuable the seller will market it elsewhere or put it up at auction, and you may be out of luck unless you are willing to pay what they ask. The bottom line is get some expert advice before you shell out big bucks for a domain unless you know all the facts.

Links related to this post:

A Tale of an Internet Scam Artist

Warren Davis used to scam people, now he is into spamming as well

Warren Davis, banned from dnforum.com

 

StoresOnline, Stores Online, Imergent, and Terminal Resource

We received a letter in the mail offering us a free meal and a free MP3 player if we would attend a "Conference" for StoresOnline that seems to be offering a complete package designed to let you sell things on the Internet. The main company behind this seems to be:

StoresOnline.com
Imergent, Inc.
754 E Technology Ave
Orem, UT 84097 US
801-434-8582 Phone
801-226-8848 Fax

Terminal Resource, L.C.
51 West Center, Suite 208
Orem, UT
888.296.5022
Fax 801.691.5566

Doing some searches in Google for "stores online scam" and "stores online sucks" will turn up some interesting listings that you may want to check out if you are thinking about attending. But you may save yourself a trip if you just visit their web site first. While the site looks very professional, the thing you will discover there is that they are offering their service for $300 a month. While they may be providing more than simple hosting, they better be providing a hell of a lot more, since that is pretty outrageous for any startup ecommerce hosting account that provides little in return that guarantees you will be making anything from your investment. Oh I forgot to mention that you have to commit to 1 YEAR of hosting with them, or $3,600. If you know little to nothing about web hosting, designing, marketing, and promotion I doubt VERY much that you will make your money back. Think about it. If you could really make a lot of money with little effort, wouldn't you just do that for your self to start with? Why would you sell a great money making system to others?

Your first clue is the fact that while they are offering something that you should be excited about and they have to give you a free meal AND a free MP3 player, just to make sure they get you in the door...!

So my advice is to check it out if you are interested. Get the free meal and free MP3 player. But make darned sure you know what you are investing in before you give them any money! If you have any doubts what I suggest is you look around and find an Internet or ecommerce consultant and pay them to help you get started. You will pay a LOT less money and have a MUCH better chance of starting a real business that may do well. And expect to pay a monthly hosting fee that will be between $15-$50 a month, NOT $300 a month!

P.S. I just found a site called Stores Online Sucks and I will list the link below. For me, this confirms EXACTLY what I had been thinking about this company. They are taking advantage of people that have some money but are generally clueless about the web.

Links
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Rip Off Report: Stores Online
Stores Online Sucks

Update and Manage Location Information Across the Web

Yahoo! Launches Fire Eagle

New Platform Enables Users to Easily Update and Manage Their Location Information Across the Web

SUNNYVALE, Calif.-- August 12, 2008 --Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO), a leading global Internet company, today announced the general availability of Fire Eagle (http://fireeagle.yahoo.net), an open platform that helps users take their location to the Web while giving them the ability to easily control how and where their location data is shared.

Fire Eagle gives users a place to store and manage information about their location, and offers developers clear protocols for updating or accessing that information. Because it's open, any networked service can use Fire Eagle to respond to a user's location - to help them find their friends, annotate the world or find nearby services or local information.

"Fire Eagle is about making everything on the Internet more useful, fun or interesting by adding the element of location," said Tom Coates, head of product at Yahoo! Brickhouse. "We're here to help people take their location to the Web by giving them the ability to control how much detail about their location they want to share and which applications they want to share it with."

Fire Eagle makes it much easier for both users and developers to create Internet experiences that are geo-aware:

    * For users, Fire Eagle acts as a simple interface for managing location information and deciding how - and with whom - to share it. Users can authorize Web, mobile or desktop applications to update their location automatically, or they can do it themselves manually on the Fire Eagle Web or mobile sites. Then they can decide how much of that information to share with their favorite services. At any time they can hide themselves, change their sharing preferences or delete any of their stored information.

    * For developers, Fire Eagle takes away much of the costly and complicated heavy-lifting of developing geo-aware applications. Developers can focus on how they can use location in their services without having to build the infrastructure to work out where their users are. Fire Eagle - combined with Yahoo!'s full suite of geo technologies - now makes it practical for any service to become location-aware easily and inexpensively.

Fire Eagle was built at Yahoo! Brickhouse, a home for start-up like projects inside Yahoo where small teams seize on new ideas and create products around them. Since its private beta launch in March of this year, Fire Eagle has been integrated into over fifty live applications, including Dopplr, Pownce, Movable Type, and Outside.in, through the platform's well-received API.

"The combination of Outside.in's new Radar feature and Fire Eagle's amazingly simple and powerful API means that our users can now see all the news and buzz within 1,000 feet of their current location, updated from any number of applications and devices," said Steven Johnson, co-founder of Outside.in.

"Fire Eagle allowed us to easily add location data to Pownce using their simple API," Leah Culver, co-founder, Pownce. "Pownce users can now say where they are and geotag their notes which adds a new dimension to the service."

Services built on Fire Eagle during the private beta period include:

    * Brightkite: Brightkite is a location based social network that allows users to track their friends' locations and meet new people in their area.

    * Dash: Dash is a two-way, Internet-connected GPS navigation system offering an innovative solution to traffic monitoring.

    * Dipity: Dipity is the easiest way to make and share interactive stories for the people and topics users care about.

    * Dopplr: Dopplr is a service for intelligent travelers that helps them make the most of their trips by sharing their travel plans with the people they trust.

    * ekit: ekit is the leading communications provider to international travelers, offering a range of services including mobile phones, satellite phones, SIM cards, global calling cards, and recently the ekit travel journal.

    * Lightpole: Lightpole is a mobile application service provider that distributes location-specific information to mobile devices in real-time and engages mobile users in interactive communities.

    * Movable Type: Movable Type is a fully integrated, scalable, proven social publishing platform for building highly interactive websites, blogs and social networks.

    * Navizon: Navizon provides a software-only wireless positioning system that triangulates signals broadcasted from Wi-Fi access points and cellular towers to help users find their location.

    * Outside.in Radar: Outside.in's Radar is personalized local news with you at the center of the map. Radar shows you everything going on nearby, wherever you are, from the stories on your street, to the events in your neighborhood, to headlines in your city.

    * Pownce: Pownce is a way to keep in touch with and share messages, files, links and events with your friends.

    * Loki: Loki adds your location into your favorite social networks so you can share it with your friends. Loki, powered by Skyhook Wireless, automatically informs your friend of your whereabouts, using platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Fire Eagle, RSS Feeds and more.

    * SPOT: SPOT, the world's first satellite messenger, sends users' GPS location and custom messages to family and friends or emergency responders over a satellite communications network from virtually anywhere around the globe - even the most remote places - independent of cell phone coverage.

    * ZKOUT: ZKOUT enables mobile device users to create content - messages, photos, videos - on the ZKOUT network from any location, and share it instantly with the people near you.

Developers wishing to learn more about Fire Eagle can visit: http://fireeagle.yahoo.net/developer.

About Yahoo! Inc.

Yahoo! Inc. is a leading global Internet brand and one of the most trafficked Internet destinations worldwide. Yahoo! is focused on powering its communities of users, advertisers, publishers, and developers by creating indispensable experiences built on trust. Yahoo! is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. For more information, visit pressroom.yahoo.com or the company's blog, Yodel Anecdotal.

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Optimize Your Domain Extension For Six Figures

How New TLDs Could Impact Your SEO

by Andrew Hazen , Thursday, August 14, 2008
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced June 26 that it had given preliminary approval to a recommendation to introduce a whole range of new Internet domain names, which would pave the way for a seismic increase in online real estate.

Talk about the Internet being like the Wild, Wild West. Along with the extraordinary expansion of domain name choices and opportunities would come HUGE potential for search engine marketing.

Currently, there is a limited range of 21 top-level domains (TLDs) from which to choose, such as .com, .org, .info and .uk. According to ICANN, this decision will allow applicants for new names to select the most marketable domains, making them perfect for attracting their target customers.

So businesses will now be able to apply for generic strings like .brandname or .yournamehere. ICANN even reports that there are already interested consortiums wanting to establish city-based TLDs like .nyc, .berlin and .paris.

At first glance, this seems to make perfect sense. But my hope is that it doesn't spiral out of control, becoming a field day for cybersquatters that register, traffic in or use domain names in bad faith, intending to profit from the goodwill of someone else's trademark.

That would create a huge nightmare for established brands like Amazon.com, which would need to procure a laundry list of domains -- everything from books.amazon and music.amazon to amazon.books and amazon.music -- to prevent cybersquatters from wrongfully registering and profiting from its name.

It should be noted, however, that ICANN will not be selling the new TLDs for some time. The recommendation must first receive final approval early next year, followed by a limited period in which any established entity can submit an application for evaluation.

Search Engines and the Domainrush If and when it does happen, look for an immediate impact on search engine marketing. Search engines love keyword-enriched domain names, since finding exact keywords in domains proves to be an extremely strong indicator of a Web site's relevance to a search query.

By combining a newly acquired generic domain name with a very good search engine optimization (SEO) strategy, a small company could find itself ranking among extremely competitive search terms and among Fortune 1000 companies. Of course, Web sites need quality inbound links to rank high on Google, but a great domain name can go a long way.

Keyword-enriched domain names and URL paths (there is a difference) are usually what it takes to achieve a top-10 organic ranking. Take, for example, AllFreshSeafood.com (ranking No. 4 on Google for "fresh seafood"); BreakingNews.com (No. 6 on Yahoo for latest breaking news") and BagelBoss.com (No. 4 on Google for "bagels"). I'm sure you get the point.

Still, non-keyword-enriched domain names can be optimized by adding keyword-enriched page names. For example, StorageDeluxe.com sits atop Google for "Brooklyn storage" and the URL path is www.storagedeluxe.com/locations_brooklyn.asp; a Google search for "used Acura parts" returns www.uneedapart.com/used-acura-parts.php as No. 1; and a search on Yahoo for "cardio exercises" yields www.lucilleroberts.com/cardio-exercies on the first page of the search results.

Now that we've established that a keyword-enriched domain name can be extraordinarily valuable, just think about owing a domain like .insurance -- you could have auto.insurance, life.insurance, health.insurance, business.insurance, etc. Beyond the obvious and tremendous SEO benefit, imagine what this will do to build brands.

I am curious to see if those who register new generic TLDs will use them to dominate their niche or resell domains. Only time will tell.

ICANN reports that there will be a six-figure charge for registering these new domains. That is chump change for major domains -- and even those that want to be

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Strong Web Presence is Necessary During a Recession

Noted Dallas Interactive Marketing Firm WrightIMC to Host Free Site Clinic: Marketing Experts to Offer Free Clinic to Area Businesses on How a Strong Web Presence is Necessary During a Recession

Noted Dallas search firm WrightIMC (www.wrightimc.com) is set to host the firm's first site clinic on May 8, 2008 at their offices at 101 E. Park Blvd. #600 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The site clinic is designed to teach area businesses how a strong Web presence can benefit them financially in troubled economic times.

April 23 -- Noted Dallas search firm WrightIMC (www.wrightimc.com) is set to host the firm's first site clinic on May 8, 2008 at their offices at 101 E. Park Blvd. #600 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. The site clinic is designed to teach area businesses how a strong Web presence can benefit them financially in troubled economic times.

"Just because you are a grown-up doesn't mean you can't continue to learn a new field," said Tony Wright, CEO and Founder of WrightIMC. "One of my passions is to teach and share my years of experience with businesses on how a strong web presence can benefit the growth of a company."

After a brief introduction by Wright and Vice-President John Confer, WrightIMC personnel will view the Websites of those in attendance. Each Website chosen will be critiqued from a search engine optimization, pay-per-click marketing, usability, design and conversion rate analysis standpoint. WrightIMC personnel will then make recommendations on how to change each site in order to increase its Web presences and make it more profitable.

The clinic will critique as many sites as possible, however if all sites cannot be critiqued in the time allotted, WrightIMC will schedule personalized sessions with each attendee so everyone can be assured their sites are viewed.

"I've done these clinics at national seminars and local organizations for years, and they are always the highlight of any presentation," said Wright. "I'm really looking forward to doing this within the confines of our own teaching environment with no limits on the types or amounts of critiques we can do."

The site clinic will be located at the WrightIMC offices from 6-8pm May 8 at 101 E. Park Blvd. Suite #600, Plano, Texas 75074. The event is free and on a first come, first serve basis. To assure that you have a seat, please contact WrightIMC at 972-516-3853 or email protected from spam bots.

About WrightIMC

Founded in 2007 by noted interactive and search marketing expert Tony Wright (http://www.wrightimc.com/tony_wright_bio.html), WrightIMC is a Dallas, Texas based interactive and search marketing consultancy dedicated to helping companies create profitable, sustainable Web presences. The company is also known as the "search marketers search marketing firm" for its ability to assist agencies and in-house search teams enhance and efficiently manage their own search practices.

Press Contact: TONY WRIGHT
Company Name: WrightIMC
Phone: 9725-516-3853
Website: http://www.wrightimc.com