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Search Marketing Expo Advanced Coming to Seattle
Posted in Seattle Internet EventsSearch Marketing Expo - SMX Advanced is coming to the Bell Harbor International Conference Center in Seattle June 2-3.
Join the thought-leaders in search engine marketing at the most search-savvy, idea-potent, and performance-driven advanced marketing conference of its kind. Dr. Qi Lu, president of Microsoft Online Services, will be the keynote speaker.
This event has sold out in Seattle the past two years. Compliments of SearchWrite, Adhost clients can get a $100 discount with this registration code: smx100s24×7. Register today.
posted by Amy R 1:22 pm May 1, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Is Your Web Site Frozen in Time, Forgotten or Just Plain Funky?
Posted in Web developmentWeb sites are often out of sight and out of mind - but busy keeping customers away because they’re unattractive, unclear, unusable, unfriendly - just pick your ‘un’ word. We’ve had the pleasure of hurting our eyes on many such sites over the years.
Recently, we were contacted by a firm with a site no one at the company had looked at - literally - for months. The marketing person with responsibilities for maintaining the site had actually been gone for some time and evidently hadn’t mentioned the site to their replacement. Fortunately, their old school e-commerce shopping cart was still taking occasional orders that went straight to the warehouse for fulfillment. Finally, someone realized these orders were coming from a web site and took a look at it.
After finding their shades and clicking around the glaringly out-of-date site, they started shopping around for some Seattle web development help and found Adhost. Our initial call revealed that they had TWO sites. A brochure web site - that no one knew how to manage or update (natch) - was wrapped around a separate and very creaky e-commerce cart. It was a no-brainer to recommend an updated cart with Content Management Features that would allow them to manage all their content - brochure and product - from one consolidated web-based administration area. We got ‘em up and running in about 3 and half weeks. They aren’t challenging Amazon.com just yet, but the orders are coming in and now they don’t need shades to look at the sites.
Looking at the bill was not a problem either. We did this for less than the guesstimate they had generated internally. So, the lesson? I don’t know. The only things I can swear to are that sky is blue, sea is green and clam shells make great ash trays. However, I’m pretty sure that when it comes to ROI, a well-designed and promoted Web site can get your message out for much less than other media channels. And on the Amazon thing, well, we made some SEO and PPC recommendations to them and you never know…
Perhaps, it’s time to dust off your site and invest in a fresh Web design, an e-commerce solution, or a content management system. If so, give us a jingle. We’d be happy to put on our shades and look at your site. Contact the Adhost sales team at 1-888-234-6781 to discuss your options or visit the Adhost Development site.
posted by Rex 4:55 pm April 21, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Email Marketing Manager Upgraded
Posted in Company NewsWe’re please to announce that our Email Marketing Manager (EMM) platform was recently upgraded. Existing clients will no doubt notice these improvements:
- Second dedicated database server - provides increased performance through better database communication.
- EMM realms operate on separate IP addresses - prevents the blocking of one realm affecting other EMM users.
- Spam reduction - the Content Analysis routines use Spam Assassin filtering to reduce the likelihood of messages being flagged as spam.
- Throttling of messages - messages can be metered to reduce instances of being blocked by ISPs.
- Quick reporting - enhanced report for opens, clicks, unsubscribes, hard bounces, soft bounces, and event stats.
- HTML Design View (WYSIWYG) improvements - simplifies working with HTML design.
- New video tutorials - located in the documentation menu.
- Revised Help Guide - available with the new version.
If you’re a current EMM client, your accounts is upgraded and ready to go with these enhancements. If you want to get started with email marketing, visit our Email Marketing Manager pages or contact Adhost Sales at 1-888-234-6781.
posted by Amy R 12:06 pmpermalink | digg this | technorati
Spring Web Hosting Special
Posted in Company NewsTo celebrate the longer, warmer days of spring, we’re offering a Spring Web Hosting Special. We’ll waive the set up fee and first month of hosting on any of our shared hosting packages – be sure to check out our new data transfer and storage limits. Or if you need the flexibility of your own server, take a look at our dedicated server specials.
Mention this special when you email or call our Sales department at 1-888-234-6781.
posted by Amy R 2:16 pm April 2, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Watchguard Security Seminar
Posted in Seattle Internet Events, Security
One of Adhost’s newest Seattle colocation clients, WatchGuard, invites Adhost clients to their upcoming Lunch Security Seminar. The Lunch and Learn, “Emerging Security Threats Solved”, is being held from 11:30 to 1:30 on MARCH 4th at WatchGuard Corporate Headquarters, Seattle. You will get an update from Corey Nachreiner on the latest in cybercrime events and learn how to fight these complex attacks while decreasing their network costs. Corey Nachreiner is an amazing speaker. (He includes live hack demonstrations in this too!)
Seats will fill extremely fast so you’ll want to register as soon as possible to reserve a seat. Learn more or register now.
posted by Amy R 4:14 pm February 24, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
IPv6 Update from Adhost CTO
Posted in Company News, IndustryAs of January 30th, Adhost is Time Warner Telecom’s first IPv6 customer. Adhost has been at the forefront of the IPv6 rollout and has been committed to convincing our providers to adopt IPv6 across their networks. We currently have multi-homed IPv6 connectivity through Time Warner and NTT/Verio, and we’re working to get additional IPv6 connectivity through AboveNet and Level 3.
The latest estimates indicate that the last available IPv4 space will be allocated and used by 2011. After that point, no additional IPv4 addresses will be available for use on the Internet. Adhost has been actively using IPv6 space since 2005, so we are well positioned to transition seamlessly to an IPv4/IPv6 “dual-stack” Internet and then to an IPv6-only Internet.
If you have any questions about IPv6, visit our IPv6 support page or send email to mksmith <at> adhost.com. I’m always more than happy to answer questions.
posted by Mike Smith 12:03 pm February 3, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Adhost Development Team and 3G Americas Web Site
Posted in Company NewsYou can’t get out the message about an exciting technology with a Web site that gets in your way. So, when 3G Americas needed a new look and better function to support their mission to get out the message about 3G technology, they contacted Adhost. The Adhost Development team worked with 3G Americas Communications team to produce an exciting new site that communicates to all of their constituents throughout the Western Hemisphere, and presented in one of three different native languages! Read more.
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Adhost CEO Interview Featured on Microsoft.com
Posted in Company NewsMicrosoft recently interviewed Adhost CEO and President, Will Riffle. The interview is featured in their Web Hosting interview series called “Talking Shop with Web Hosters.” Check it out.
posted by Amy R 6:52 pm January 20, 2009permalink | digg this | technorati
Seattle Internet Events in January
Posted in Seattle Internet EventsNow that the snow has melted in Seattle, it’s time to get out and start networking again - and learn some useful information at the same time. Check out these local events:
- Jan. 7: SDMA’s Online Video Networking Dinner
- Jan. 12: WTIA Security SIG: Securing Your Laptops
- Jan. 14: MIT Technology Forecast: The Future of Advertising in 2009 and Beyond
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Google SEO Starter Guide
Posted in IndustryGoogle recently released an SEO Starter Guide for novice and experienced Webmasters to follow to help improve their Web site’s crawlability and indexing by the search engines. Topics include title and meta tags, URL structure, site navigation and much more. Check it out.
posted by Amy R 3:37 pm December 22, 2008permalink | digg this | technorati
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