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Monthly AvaHost.Net Newsletter. May 2008.
http://www.avahost.net

CONTENTS:

1. Make Money or Free Months of a service with AvaHost
(Affiliate Program)
2. Flash SiteBuilder for AvaHost.Net customers
(sample of sites)
3. Prize Drawings. Congratulations to Winners!
4. Website Development Articles

1. Make Money or Free Months of a service with AvaHost
Few months ago we’ve started our Affiliate Program.
Any member of the progarem can make good profit by referring new customers to our service.

We pay our affiliates up to $110 per each sale (depend on ordered hosting plan),
we pay minimum $50 even if your referral will order cheapest Basic plan!
Earned money you can get by Check, PayPal or use to pay for your own hosting account,
(just contact us to transfer your money from affiliate balance to the
hosting billing balance.)

So welcome to participate in our Affiliate Program!
You can signup here:
http://www.avahost.net/aff/affiliate/
(it’s free and quickly)

How is it works:
After the signup you will get own links to our site with your own code.
You can place the link (or graphic banner) on your sites (or any forums, blogs etc).
And if any visitor will came to our site through your link and will order our service - you will get paid!

For affiliates we provide large amount of banners in different sizes, colors etc.
Even small banner or link “Hosted by AvaHost.Net” can make for you additional monthly income.

Our current top affiliates make really good profit every month.
Be our Affiliate - SignUp Now:
http://www.avahost.net/aff/affiliate/

2. Flash SiteBuilder for AvaHost.Net customers
In the last newsletter I’ve told you about new Flash Site Builder available
for free for all out customers.
(info here: http://www.avahost.net/design.html)
Few hundreds of our customers already tried to make a new site in the builder.

If you are interested I can show you few well-made samples of the sites:
http://myflashplace.com/sites/supposer/
http://myflashplace.com/sites/gotchacovered/
http://myflashplace.com/sites/claiton/
….
Some customers use the Builder just to make “Intro” for the site,
even if their main site is made with any different software.
for example:
http://myflashplace.com/sites/htaft506/
(Intro redirect visitor to the main site of the customer)

Note, all listed sites are on “myflashplace.com” domain only as a sample.
All these sites can be stored on your own domain www.yourname.com
(if you have web hosting with us)

3. Prize Drawings. Congratulations to Winners!
We are happy to list winners of our last Prize Drawing.
(see previous newsletter: http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=19 )

So, our main prize: TWO APPLE PLAYERS
“Apple iPod nano 8 GB (3G)”
+
“Apple iPod shuffle 2 GB (2G)” , get…………

Adams K. with the site www.11thhournotary.com
Congratulations !!!

Free Year of web hosting (”Plus Plan”) along with a new domain name.
(Promo code with 100% discount for new orders)
get:
Gohou G. , site www.gaussoft.net
Letha K., site www.upcountrydesigns.net
Congratulations !!!

Next month’s main prize is:
Garmin nuvi 360 3.5-Inch Bluetooth Portable GPS Navigator
————-
is a GPS navigator, personal translator, multi-media entertainer and
tour guide all wrapped into one. In addition to all the advanced features
of the Garmin nuvi 350 — including automatic routing, turn-by-turn voice directions,
an MP3 player and audio book player, JPEG picture viewer, and much more
————-

We will list our winners, their names and web sites in the next newsletter and in our blog.

4. New Website Development Articles
“Web Development: Several words about navigation.”
Do you want to have a lot of visitors on your site? Then make a good navigation!
It is one of the most important things to do when creating a
web-site…
http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=23

“What you know about the content of a web-site?”
When you decide to create a web-site don’t think that any content will do for it.
Of course a good navigation and pleasant colors will be to your visitors’ liking.
But it is also very important to think over the content of your site
and choose the correct character of the text.
http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=22

Do you want to have a lot of visitors on your site? Then make a good navigation!

It is one of the most important things to do when creating a web-site. It should be easy to get on any page of your site from all the pages.

Try to make your site in such a way that it will be possible for search engines to index any page from your site. Then the visitors can come not only to a home page, but to any one. It is not reasonable to make an impasse at the bottom of the page because visitors always expect to find links there.

If you really want to have a web-site with affective navigation you need to make a steadfast and well located navigation.

It must be easy for visitors to get any page of your site not more than in three clicks. If you are going to have a very large site then it better to add a site map.

Under a large site we mean the one that include more than 8 to 10 main sections. Site maps help visitors to find information more quickly. You will not take a great deal of trouble to submit your site map to the search engines. You will benefit by including a site map because the search engine’s database will contain all the pages of your web-site.

It is also desirable to add an internal search tool in order visitors of your site could enter a query and find all relevant matches. Such a search tool will be of use if you have a site which contains a lot of pages or if your site is destined for selling a wide variety of different products. Then the user can enter a keyword or a name of a product and find necessary information very quickly.

When you decide to create a web-site don’t think that any content will do for it. Of course a good navigation and pleasant colors will be to your visitors’ liking. But it is also very important to think over the content of your site and choose the correct character of the text.

Firstly, the content of your site should be complete. It must contain real information but not milk and water text. Be sure that your site has the content that is interesting and important for visitors and not only for you.

Secondly, the text should be brief. The users don’t prefer to read a great deal of indistinct information. But most of them don’t mind to read a short article. If you want a text to be more readable than include more bulleted lists, headers and make everything that is possible to demarcate the content by sight.

Such method of designing will help you to increase attendance of your site.

And, finally, a text size shouldn’t be too small and too large. Set it in such a way that it would be easy and pleasant for visitor’s eyes to read it. Don’t use a lot of capitals. It will not look attractive. So, apply all of this rules and your site will be an attended and profitable one.

And several words should be said about sites-sellers. If you sell some products on your site then be sure that every page of your site has contact information. It should be easy for visitors to contact with you.

It is obligatory to leave your address, phone and fax numbers, e-mail address, ICQ, Skype or other types of communication. It is important to post security information on your site.

People should know when transactions of information are secure. Try to explain customers how you are going to use their personal data. Some people don’t like when their address or other information goes to different sell-sites or your partners. Don’t use a lot of automatically loading sounds. Visitors will feel embarrassed if they surf the net at working place.

If you really want to create a winning web-site then you should be steadfast with your real image and e-image. It means that it is better to use the same colours, symbols and other impedimenta of your company.

The first thing to do is to select a colour for a background. The most successful variant is a light background and dark font colours. This combination is good for the eyes, and moreover it makes the text more readable.

You should also bother about good quality of a printed text. It must be free of graphics that can prohibit from easy reaging. There is one more note. If your site has a lot of grafics then it will load not very fast. You know that the visitors don’t like it.

It is very important to mark the links with the default colours. The main colours that may be used here are: blue, dark blue, red and purple. Blue one is an earmark of an uncalled link, purple or dark blue - of the link you have called, red usually means an active link.

Few days ago we have added new online Flash Web Site Builder.
Full access is Free for our web hosting customers!

It’s easy to use website creation system that enables you to easily
build your own Flash multimedia website without special technical knowledges!

View Samples of sites made in our Flash builder and
Try Demo you can here:
http://www.avahost.net/design.html

Contact our support staff (if you are already our customer) to get free access to the builder.

Monthly AvaHost.Net Newsletter. Feb 2008.
http://www.avahost.net

CONTENTS:

1. Free Access to the e-Marketing eBooks
2. Tell A Friend about us and give him 15% Discount Code.
3. Prize Drawings. Congratulations to Winners!
4. Website Marketing Articles
5. Customer Feedback WANTED

1. Free Access to the e-Marketing eBooks
For all our customers we offer free access to 29 internet
marketing eBooks and Software with Resale Rights.
List of these eBooks and description you can see here:
http://www.avahost.net/ebooks.html
Some great materials can help you with your online business!
Also “Resale Rights” means you can sell these products
(or some of them) and keep 100% of the profits for yourself!

These eBooks available for free download at our promo pack:
http://promo.avahost.net/
Login: /for customers only/
Password: /for customers only/

2. Tell A Friend about us and give him 15% Discount Code.
If you have a friend who needs a web hosting service, then
you can give him our Promotion 15% Discount Code.
Promo Code: AVA15OFF
(it works only for new orders and for the first installment)

Your friend will get the discount will tell you Thank You!
We also will tell you Thank You very much for the new customer !

Of course you can use this discount code for yourself,
if you will have to order new web hosting account.

3. Prize Drawings. Congratulations to Winners!
We are happy to list winners of our December Prize Drawing.
(see previous newsletter: http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=15 )

So, our main prize, “Apple 80 GB iPod Classic” , get…………
Elizabeth J. with the site www.seduflatironsonline.com
Congratulations !!!

Promo code with 100% discount for new order
(1 year of free web hosting (”Plus Plan”) along with a new domain name.)
get:
Stephen L. , site www.customerlink.com
Nadim C., site www.thechidiacs.com
Congratulations !!!

Next month’s main prize is TWO APPLE PLAYERS
“Apple iPod nano 8 GB (3G)”
+
“Apple iPod shuffle 2 GB (2G)”
= our customer will listen to music Everywhere

We will list our winners, their names and web sites in the next newsletter and in our blog.

4. New Website Marketing Articles
“Web site traffic Stats can help your Online Business”
If you have an online store, then you more than likely need some
website traffic statistics (stats). These are counters that
can help you keep track of what is going on at your site.
http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=18

“Seven Effective Ecommerce Strategies!”
If you want to maintain a successful business online you can follow
seven basic fundamentals that will get you going
even in the times when market is in loss.
Full article is available here:
http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=16

5. Customer Feedback
Dear customers, we always strive to improve our services so we need
your feedback and opinions.
Please tell us what you dislike most about our services.
What do you want us to change?
What can we add or remove to make our services better in your eyes?
Please take some time to fill out this simple form:
http://www.avahost.net/feedback.php
Thank you!

If you have an online store, then you more than likely need some website traffic statistics (stats). These are counters that can help you keep track of what is going on at your site.

There are a lot of different types of stats you can look at, but the key is knowing how to read these stats. First of all, you can never read too much into one stat. In fact, these stats are no good unless they are looked at together. For example, most people have a hit counter on their website. This counts the number of visits you have had to your site. However, this does not tell you if the person just happens to come across your site, or if they stayed there for a long time. This is why you must look at all stats.

When looking at stats you should look at the stats that show how long people are staying on your site.
If the number is low, then that means that they are coming on it and leaving right away. This can help you find out if the information on your site is good or not. Next, you need to look and see what your best exit page is.

If you have an online store, your exit page would be your check out page. After they make a purchase they exit your site. However, if people are leaving your site on the first page, that means they are not looking around. As you can see, these stats by themselves do not mean much. However, when you put these stats together you can see that they could be very helpful to keeping up with your site. It is always a good idea to keep up with what’s going on at your site when you are not there.
This way you can know if what you have on the site is good, or if you need to fix it. Having the wrong information can cost you a sale.

In my opinion best and Free stats you can get by using “Google Analytics” www.google.com/analytics/
They offer greate reports you can find for your site.

If you have an online business, then you are going to need a great landing page.
Well, now you are asking yourself, “What’s a landing page?”
This is the page that a person is going to get taken to when they click on one of your ads or links to your business.
There are many reasons why you need a landing page, but the best reason is that your other pages are just not going to cut it.
Most people make the mistake of making their home page their landing page.
However, this is not a page that is going to jump out and grab your customer.
You want a page that is not too overwhelming, but at the same time, begs them to stay.
From your landing page you will want to place a link to take them to your home page, but make sure they go to the landing page first.

The main reason why you need a landing page is so that you can talk to your customer. In the land of the internet, you cannot be at your site to talk to people every day. However, if you have a great landing page, they will get to see your shop, learn a little bit about you, and what they can do. Trying to sell things online without a landing page is like trying to sell something without a store.
How often do you feel safe buying things from random people in the streets? With a landing page they can be taken to your store, and they can see how to buy something. If you are looking to start an online business, one of the things that you must have before you start is a landing page. Otherwise, you are just going to be a random person on the internet trying to sell things. You do not want to be that person, so go out and get yourself a landing page today, and make the most out of your ads.

If you want to maintain a successful business online you can follow seven basic fundamentals that will get you going even in the times when market is in loss.

The first and most basic element in a successful web business is the presentation of your website which can be the web template you’ve used or the designs and images. You do not want too much on one page so you need to spread the whole information of your products services out in a neatly, organized manner. Also, keep in mind the great graphics and themes used on your webpage must not to pull away attention from your advertising message.

The 2nd crucial element is the attention grabbing factor of the readers. For instance a person may not check out your website for more than 60 seconds unless they are asked to by an acquaintance. The temptation should be given in front of the reader before s/he needs to scroll down to get to the more interesting part. Do not save the good stuff for last as people might not even reach to that point and close the explorer window.

Navigation tools must be easy to follow and right there in front of the viewer as many might hate being lost on a webpage and cannot find how to go back, forth or to the main menu. In short, keep your webpage simple and conventional.

Fourthly, make your webpage inviting and personal rather than keeping it formal and distant. People would want to do business with someone who they can contact and get to talk to in personal rather than just a business label.

Have common questions and confusions be cleared on the webpage including FAQs related to your products, services or market. This way you take your customers in confidence by having to answer their questions in a friendly manner.

Give your viewers an incentive to become your regular customers by offering a newsletter, subscription emails or a free sample to gain more customers and keep them in touch with you one way or the other.

Last but not the least, like any other product or business get smart and do not ignore the main factor that will bring you more customers, advertising. Use websites, newspapers, magazines, blogging and forums to divert the consumer traffic to your website and this is supposed to be an ongoing process.

To sum up by following these seven effective marketing strategies you can keep your business running smoothly without worrying about a loss.

Monthly AvaHost.Net Newsletter. Jan 2008.
http://www.avahost.net

CONTENTS:

1. Discounts available for Additional Month
2. Prize Drawings. Congratulations to Winners!
3. New Promotion Tools
4. Website Marketing Articles
5. Customer Feedback

1. Discounts available for Additional Month
We’ve decided to keep 20% discount for our promotional services for one more month.
Currently we offer Search Engine Submission Service
http://www.avahost.net/promo.html
For only $50 we will submit your site to about 500 search engines and directories.
For $80 - your site will be submitted to 1000 search engines and directories.
Plus you have 20% discount!
Use the promotional code: 20PROMO

2. Prize Drawings. Congratulations to Winners!
We are happy to list winners of our December Prize Drawing.
(see previous newsletter: http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=12 )

So, our main prize, Apple “iPod touch” , get…………
Andrew D. with the site http://www.bestmanspeech.biz/
Congratulations !!!

Promo code with 100% discount for new orders
(1 year of free web hosting (”Plus Plan”) along with a new domain name.)
get:
Rebecca Y. , site www.outofsightdesigns.com
George H., site www.bmipilots.com
Michael M., site www.irina-alex.com
Congratulations !!!

Next month’s main prize is “Apple 80 GB iPod Classic” !!!
/2.5-inch color display, up to 100 hours of video!,40 hours of battery life/

We will list our winners, their names and web sites in the next newsletter and in our blog.

3. New Promotion Tools
New promotion and Search Engine Optimisation tools
available in our free “Promotional Package”.
http://promo.avahost.net/seotools.html

Also, don’t miss free advertisement credit offers from Yahoo, Microsoft, Miva, Search123…
In total you can get $170 worth of credit for free (credit is available for new accounts
on their sites but an initial deposit is required).

Please use this info to access the promo pack:
http://promo.avahost.net/
Login: /for customers only/
Password: /for customers only/

4. New Website Marketing Articles
“Preparing for Google Shakeups Before They Happen!”
As of right now, one of the best ways to get traffic to your website is to have lots of other
websites linking to it. Google especially factors in how many websites link to you,
how much traffic they get, how many websites link to them, and how much traffic
those websites get…
Full article is available here:
http://www.avahost.net/blog/?p=14

5. Customer Feedback
Dear customers, we always strive to improve our services so we need
your feedback and opinions.
Please tell us what you dislike most about our services.
What do you want us to change?
What can we add or remove to make our services better in your eyes?
Please take some time to fill out this simple form:
http://www.avahost.net/feedback.php
Thank you!