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Affordable reseller and e-commerce hosting packages boost SMB earning capabilities

“I’ve had my domain name parked here for a couple of months now while I’ve been getting my online business ready, and one of the things I had to do was find a Web host that met my financial needs as well as offering a good reseller program that I could promote on my site. [...]
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PayPal takes aim at television sets. Will your website shopping cart one day appear on Comcast Cable?

Well, it’s finally happening albeit in dribs and drabs: E-commerce is now not only swallowing up mobile devices — it’s about to spread to television sets! In the last few years, cloud computing and Smartphone adoption have been accelerating at dramatic rates, often fuelling each other in terms of both consumer and business requirements.    Website [...]
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Google gets fancy: Adwords can now be automated with JavaScript

If the World Wide Web was ever in love with a scripting language, JavaScript must be it.  This mainstay pseudo programming language allows both web designers and developers to inject bells and whistles into static HTML sites (powered by professional hosting platforms) often turning them into ‘dynamic’ wonders. Its fan base has always been large [...]
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New WordPress Plugin reshapes the world of website sliders!

A new WordPress plugin is drawing interest from a number of web designers and web developers tasked with launching new websites on professional hosting platforms. It’s called SlideDeck for WordPress and has been downloaded 250,000 times according to a recent TechCrunch article. The WordPress plugin allows users to create SlideDecks using images, video, text and [...]
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90% of websites still not optimized for mobile. Will HTML5 change this?

Less than 10% of websites hosted today on professional hosting platforms are optimized for mobile devices said Mozilla CEO Gary Kovacs at CTIA.  He also admitted that web browser manufacturers had been slow in adapting their technology to Smartphones. However, he said a bigger issue and pivot point for the industry was the emergence of [...]
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Firefox creates buzz around browser with 2012 Flicks Awards

Two things Mozilla Firefox does very well: Build a great browser AND deploy clever content marketing strategies. One of the more imaginative ways it creates a buzz around its famous browser (and integrates social media) is the foundation of an annual film contest called Firefox Flicks that is open to a global audience. The contest [...]
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How Lastminute.com increased website clickthroughs by 700%

Don’t you ever wish you could centralize web analytics data rather than using separate systems for your website or paid advertising? So did the famous booking site, Lastminute.com who wanted to use online data to make more informed decisions rather than relying on intuition. “We really needed to understand what made some customers make a [...]
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New survey shows SMBs benefit from greater security on cloud platforms

52% of SMBs using the cloud say cloud services enable them to add new products and services quickly and securely on professional hosting platforms. This statistic comes out of a recent Microsoft survey conducted via Comscore for companies that deploy between 100 and 250 personal computers in-house. The broad conclusions drawn by Microsoft and Comscore [...]
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The “Facebook Effect” drives online purchasing for major online brands. You Too?

A recent Forrester Research report concludes that 96 out of the 100 top advertisers currently use Facebook to promote their business or their clients’ business. Roughly 66% of US online adults visit Facebook on a monthly basis, with an unknown quantity then accessing company websites on professional hosting packages via posted content or directly from [...]
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SlideShare’s content marketing strategy pays off for small business websites!

In the last several years,  interruption advertising has been ‘interrupted’ by a new more elegant way to reach customers called content marketing. And, one of the leaders in this field is SlideShare, which has just been acquired by LinkedIn. SlideShare has made a name for itself by offering an online hub to share presentations, documents [...]
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