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Let's review Rackspaces fanatical support promise, does it live up to the hype?

07 May 2012

When it comes to opening up a web business of any type, a website is needed. More often than not, you’re going to find that simply having a free blog is not nearly enough to get the job done. You need flexibility and adaptability. You need to be able to format your site for the mobile market, and you’re probably going to want to get in the cloud as soon as you get your feet under you. This means finding a managed hosting option with plenty of features, an affordable price, and with great support.

This is why a service like Rackspace ranks so highly amongst web business startups. Currently, Rackspace is one of the biggest names in the game, hosting dedicated and shared and virtual servers for nearly 200-thousand businesses. Their cloud hosting is amongst the most highly rated around, claiming to get any business up and running in a matter of minutes, with tons of space, an easy interface and scalability. Most of all, however, Rackspace is prized for its support.

Of course, most of the support hype comes from Rackspace itself, claiming that they offer “fanatical support.” But you wouldn’t expect any company to say otherwise, would you? So, let’s examine Rackspace’s support to see what’s so “fanatical” about it.

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How to optimise your website for a Google Places listing

18 April 2012

As every would-be website designer learns, search engine optimization is the key to getting noticed via search engine results. Figuring out the best keywords and phrases, the best linking methods, and the best moves to have the engines recognize and promote your site is a blend of constant attention, steady tweaking, trend-riding, and artful craftsmanship. There are also many directories and listings provided by companies like Google you can use to increase your business’ or website’s profile.

Google Places is a premier free listing directory that millions of businesses use around the globe, both on-location and online businesses alike. If you can optimize a Google Places page correctly in your website’s respective category, and subsequently link the two together, you can create a steady stream of new traffic for your website

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Key Factors in Successful Website Conversions

01 November 2010

As you're first starting to build your web business, you may hear a lot of emphasis placed on driving traffic to your website. This is a huge percentage of your business getting people to visit your site. However, if you wish to truly be successful with any business venture, you can't simply have traffic show up. You have to be able to convert your visitors to buyers.

Having a strong conversion rate can transform your startup or middle-of-the-road web business into a successful venture virtually overnight. Of course, taking the necessary steps to ensure your methods convert visitors is a longer process in itself, but if done correctly it's a process worth its wait in gold.

Website conversion is a term that's explained very easily. It's the number of potential customers visitors that go on to become customers. Too often, websites work on increasing their total traffic instead of their conversion rates. While this may help in the SEO aspect and name recognition, it doesn't do that well for the bottom line.

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Going Mobile - Keep it Simple

31 May 2010

If you've already been studying up on how to create a web business or simply a website to have a presence on the Internet, then you should also consider taking your business to the mobile market. It doesn't matter what type of business you operate. Having a mobile presence is a great way to increase your advertizing and customer base.

At any given time, there are nearly 100 million mobile device users around the world. That's not just how many people own mobile devices, though; that's actually how many people are logging on and using mobile Internet technology every single day. Needless to say, the mobile market is absolutely enormous. Tapping into only a small niche will see your traffic and sales skyrocket.

Not only for customers, going mobile with your business will allow you to always be in contact with everyone and everything important to your company's livelihood employees, investors, business partners, etc. In this day and age, you really can't afford not to go mobile.

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