http://aplus.net/blog Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:59:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en With Cyber Monday fast approaching online business owners have to be asking themselves whether they are ready for the potential traffic and sales or do they even believe that small online businesses truly see spikes during this time? Cyber Monday started out as a marketing term hyped by ecommerce store Shop.org. ... http://aplus.net/blog/cyber-monday-creative-myth-or-certain-marketing.html For those of you who may not be familiar with the term 'affiliate program,' this is a type of relationship where companies will pay you a commission for bringing sales to them. There are many companies, such as Commission Junction and Share-a-Sale, who serve as an intermediary in an affiliate ... http://aplus.net/blog/affiliate-programs-that-work-for-you.html Dear Aplus.net Customer, On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, Aplus.net experienced a system issue related to domain name records which caused an interruption of services for a select group of customers. The issue was remedied shortly after discovery by our technology group; however, it is possible you may still experience an ... http://aplus.net/blog/message-from-the-president.html Many of you may follow our monthly posts on ReadWriteWeb. At least I hope you do. Make sure to check out our most recent post on the introduction of Microsoft Retails Stores. Enjoy! http://aplus.net/blog/microsoft-retail-stores.html Say goodbye to print advertising and phone book listings - today’s consumers are more web-friendly than ever. You’ve got a website, so what’s next? Do you sit back and wait for the phone to ring or emails to hit your inbox? Now that you’re exposed to the worldwide marketplace ... http://aplus.net/blog/social-media-optimization-smo-tweets-and-pokes.html ReadWriteWeb just published a blog post Aplus.net wrote about courtroom tweeting. Check it out. http://aplus.net/blog/justice-tweeting.html Huge thanks to all of our customers. For those of you who haven't heard, Aplus.net was ranked 4,060 on Inc. Magazine's 5000 fastest growing privately held companies in the U.S. This is a great honor and we owe it all to our customers. Without the business from each and every ... http://aplus.net/blog/aplusnet-named-to-the-inc-5000-list.html Our customers mean the world to us and we sincerely want to play a part in your professional success by offering products and services that really help your business thrive online. Many of you likely have heard about the coming platform upgrade. This upgrade is an essential move to support ... http://aplus.net/blog/key-enhancements-for-our-customers.html Welcome to the New Aplus.net! I would like to personally welcome you to the next generation of web applications for small business. First, let me introduce myself. I have had the pleasure of building Internet companies for more than 15 years starting in 1993 with the launch of Tucows.com, an Internet ... http://aplus.net/blog/the-new-aplusnet.html Aplus.net recently agreed to the purchase of its shared hosting business by Hostopia, a leading provider of Web services for small and medium-sized businesses. Hostopia, a unit of Deluxe Corporation, will also provide service and support for all customers with hosted e-commerce stores, managed e-mail services, domains and a variety ... http://aplus.net/blog/shared-hosting-to-move-to-hostopia.html