Now Providing Prepayment Discounts

As a premier web hosting provider we are pleased to announce that we are now offering prepayment discounts on all of our shared web hosting plans.

• Save 5% when you select to pay quarterly (every 3 months)
• Save 10% when you select to pay semi-annually (every 6 months)
• Save 15% when you select to pay annually (every 12 months)
• Save 20% when you select to pay bi-annually (every 24 months)

You can take advantage of this discount offer at anytime.

10 Free Accommodations Website Templates

SPECIAL OFFER ALERT: Get Full Access For 1 Year to this collection of over 4,000 web site templates and 5MB of web hosting space for just $7.95 per year! 5MB of web hosting includes 100MB of bandwidth, 1 email account, 1 ftp account, and more. Click the subscribe button below to get your account set up today.

 

35+ Free Lawn Care Website Templates

SPECIAL OFFER ALERT: Get Full Access For 1 Year to this collection of over 4,000 web site templates and 5MB of web hosting space for just $7.95 per year! 5MB of web hosting includes 100MB of bandwidth, 1 email account, 1 ftp account, and more. Click the subscribe button below to get your account set up today.

 

We are pleased to announce that we now offer several free lawn care website templates when you choose AvekHost.com for your website hosting needs. Below you’ll see snap shots of the lawn care website templates that are available to you (at no additional cost ) when you select a web hosting for as little as $5.95 per month. To compare our Shared Web Hosting plans to see which hosting plan best meets your needs simply click here.

 

         

         

                    

        

         

        

Over 4,000 Free Website Templates Now Available

SPECIAL OFFER ALERT: Get Full Access For 1 Year to this collection of over 4,000 web site templates and 5MB of web hosting space for just $7.95 per year! 5MB of web hosting includes 100MB of bandwidth, 1 email account, 1 ftp account, and more. Click the subscribe button below to get your account set up today.

 

 

We are pleased to announce that every AvekHost.com hosting client will now have access to over 4,000 website templates included with their normal web hosting plan. Best of all this is included with every hosting plan purchased from AvekHost.com and with over 117 categories there is surely something for everyone.

“This just another stepping stone towards continuously providing the ultimate customer experience and maintaining our presence as a Premier Web Hosting provider” says Michael Orta, President and Founder of AvekHost.com. “In addition clients have access to 2 incredible easy to use website builders which also provide additional website templates, the most popular content management programs like Joomla, as well as the best and most popular blogging programs like WordPress and Drupal.”

Existing clients of AvekHost.com can immediately benefit from this database of website templates by following these simple steps:

1.       Log into your cPanel

2.       Scroll towards the bottom

3.       Click on the icon titled “Website Templates”

4.       Select your desired category

5.       Select your desired template

6.       Click download

You’ll surely be able to find a website template that meets your needs in any one of the following categories:

Five creative ways to promote your business

Whether you own a restaurant, retail store, or service business you likely be able to benefit from these five creative ways to promote your business.

1. Hand Stamps – I actually seen this idea within an article on Entrepreneur.com and thought it was an awesome idea that I had to share. How often do you attend an event in which you get your hand stamped as evidence of having purchased a ticket? Why not work out deal with the organization hosting the event in which you supply the stamps, ink, and maybe even volunteer at the event to take tickets and stamp hands in exchange for your stamp to allow a branding opportunity. Perhaps the stamp could simply have a web address, a coupon for an after event dining experience, or whatever your creative mind enables you to implement. Just think of all the events that occur at your local middle schools and high schools; sporting events, plays, concerts, etc.
2. Fill Er’ Up! – The goal of marketing is get to in front of as many people as possible and make a solid and memorable impression. How about arranging a few hours in which you spend at a busy gas station in which you agree to pump gas for the stations customers in exchange for the opportunity to pass out a flyer or brochure about your organization. The customer getting gas will surely appreciate not having to get out on a cold/hot day and pump gas plus you have the opportunity to meet the driver while waiting for the vehicle to fill up. Do you really want to be the talk of the town? Dress up in a silly costume while you do this and you’ll not only get the attention of people at the gas station but also amongst people just driving by. They almost always ask “what’s going on over at the gas station I seen a man in a pirate costume”.
3. Purchase Word of Mouth Advertising – Ummmm… Contraire to popular belief word of mouth advertising doesn’t have to be from your most satisfied clients nor do you need to wait for it in order to get it. Hire a few people to go around town and spread the word through casual conversation. For example, they could stand a bus stop and ask someone waiting in line if they tried the new restaurant just around the corner? How about in elevator? While standing in line at the shopping mall or local ice cream shop? The opportunities are endless and the benefits good be quite beneficial.
4. A Little Old School with Some New School – Depending on where you’re from flea markets might be the greatest thing since the invention of television or they might carry a reputation for being the poor man’s place to shop.  Either way flea markets are becoming once again popular in light of our current economic conditions. They often times offer a decent amount of space for really cheap and enable you to get in front of more people than just sitting inside an office/store with no traffic or waiting at home for someone to jump onto your website and order.
5. Conduct a TeleSeminar – I got a lot to know; so tell me what you know! I have yet to come across an industry in my head that wouldn’t be able benefit from hosting a teleseminar in some way, shape, or form. Simply promote through the newspaper, flyers, door knob hangers, postcards, etc. the date, time, and subject you’ll be providing a free teleseminar for and in order to get the phone number to call in they have to register either by phone or online; which enables you to capture their information. You then can provide consumers with information pertaining to your industry during the call or answer questions. For example, if you are in the mortgage business you could talk about how to purchase a home for zero down; real estate agents could discuss how to get more money out of your home when you’re selling; a doctor could talk about ways to stay healthy, the opportunity is endless and the opportunity to pitch your product or service has never been better as most conference call lines enable you to have 150-250 callers on at once. You can find free conference call lines/bridge lines with just a quick search on your favorite search engine.

 Now take a moment and share your thoughts on these five promotional opportunities to grow your business and take the “article challenge” in your comment below!

Take The Article challenge: How creative can you get? There is certainly more creative ways to promote your business than just the five listed above. Take a moment to share you most unique promotional idea through your comment below.

Google’s great but are you losing out?

Google’s great but are you losing out?

You have a new/old website in which you are interested in taking to the next level. You perform a search on the popular search engine giant called Google. You spend time reviewing various articles, web sites, and blogs related towards the question “How to promote my website”. The results are likely and often filled with tips and suggestions on how to improve your rankings in Google or how to increase your “Page Rank” in Google.

It seems to me that today it is all about Google. Google!  Google!, Google! Quite frankly I am personally getting tired of hearing, reading, and seeing things about how you can improve your Page Rank within Google.  Look Google has done an excellent, in fact awesome, job in branding themselves into being an everyday household term. After all when someone asks a question you don’t know you likely reply with a statement similar to “go Google it”. From a branding perspective they’ve done everything right. From meeting the needs of the average internet inclined individual they done everything right. From creating the hype about their search engine they’ve done everything right. However, there is one problem with focusing your marketing around Google and that is Google isn’t the only search engine out there.

It is easy to lose sight of the desire results at the end of the day with all this hype about Google but I guarantee that you’re losing out on additional opportunities if not more by focusing on how your site appears in Google. What about Yahoo, MSN, AltaVista, Ask, AllTheWeb, and all of the other search engines in which don’t get a lot of buzz?  This may perhaps come as a shock to you but not everyone uses Google to conduct their online searches through Google.  Bottom line is you’re missing out on those opportunities by falling into the hype of just focusing on marketing your site Google. Now don’t get me wrong I understand Google is huge and gets massive traffic to their site but are you looking for massive traffic or massive results?

Personally, I think that from a competitive standpoint you’ll be much more likely to gain results from marketing through other online search engines as they just aren’t as over saturated with the popular keywords you are likely seeking to market towards. Take my industry of Web Hosting for example. If I search Google for web hosting I get over 197,000,000 results but when I search in the search engine of Ask I get around 1/3^rd of the results at 61,000,000. My point is really just this; you should market in Google but you shouldn’t just focus your strategies on Google as there are opportunities out there in many other search engines. I’ll even go as far as saying that listing well in other search engines will likely gain you stronger results in the form of leads, sales, subscribers, or whatever it is your end goal might be. So don’t hesitate to steer away from Google slightly and start focusing on getting stronger rankings into other search engines; even the much smaller ones can drive qualified traffic to your website.

Even Google themselves promote there organization on Television, Newspapers, Magazines, and Radio to build branding, gain new visitors, etc. Why wouldn’t you go advertise elsewhere as well to gain more for your business? I wish you the best of luck with your online marketing ventures and remember if you need affordable web hosting or just reliable WordPress hosting than look no farther than AvekHost.com.

How to add a paypal button to your blog?

PayPal is one of the most popular forms of exchanging money between company and client as known as a merchant account. If you have WordPress blog you may have a desire to request for donations for the content and time you put into it or perhaps simply want to sell items from your blog.

So, if you’d like to add a PayPal donation button to the posts, pages or sidebar of your self-hosted WordPress blog, this video will show you how.

How To Write and Publish A Post In WordPress

The thing you’ll probably be doing most with your WordPress Blog is writing and publishing posts. This short tutortial will cover how to do this. You’ll truly be amazed how simply it is to write and publish your blog postings or articles using your WordPress Blog.

Introducing BuddyPress

BuddyPress is a suite of 8 plugins, currently in beta, that will transform any installation of WordPress MU into a social network platform. In this 4 minute intro we take a look at the key components.

Install WordPress with FTP

There are essentially two different ways you can install WordPress on your AvekHost and competitor web hosting account.

• Through Transfering Files Via FTP Program
• Through Instant Install located in Fantastico

Quite some time ago we posted a video walking you through the basic steps involved with installing WordPress through the instant installation tool available to all AvekHost.com clients. You can see that article titled “Learn How To Install WordPress Blog On Cpanel Hosting Accounts“ by clicking on the link below:

http://avekhost.com/2008/06/learn-how-to-install-wordpress-blog-on-cpanel-hosting-accounts-2/

After receiving a number of support requests for installing wordpress via an FTP program we realized that some perfer to install via FTP because of tweeks they have conducted, preference of older verisions, etc. So we decided to share with you a video on how to install WordPress using an FTP Program.