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Did you know that Lunarpages is giving to its customers upwards of $50 to $100 in free Google AdWords credit?  If you have never tried advertising your business or web site on Google, and you are Lunarpages client – you just lost your last excuse not to at least try it out.  You can now reach a global internet audience using Google AdWords and your Lunarpages web hosting account.

Are you ready to promote yourself? Here is how you get started.

How to Redeem the Free Google AdWords Credit Offer

Step number one would be to login to your Customer Account Page, and then click on the banner image that reads, “Click Here Now for Your Free Google Adwords Credit!”.

Next, click the banner image that reads, “Request Your Credits” and you coupon code will be given.

You will also be given a link they says to, “Click Here to redeem your coupon”.  Going there will send you to a special Google AdWords page where you can sign up for Google Adwords and get the credit you have earned.

If you already have a Google AdWords account, I am afraid this offer is not valid for you.  This is only an offer for people who have yet to ever use Google AdWords.  Depending on the web hosting plan you have, your credit you receive might vary.  Here is a comparison of hosting plans to the amount of Google AdWords credit you are eligible for:

• Basic Hosting Plan = $50 in Google AdWords Credit
• Business Hosting Plan = $50 in Google AdWords Credit
• LPQuicksite Hosting Plan = $50 in Google AdWords Credit
• Windows Hosting Plan = $50 in Google AdWords Credit
• VPS Hosting Plan = $50 in Google AdWords Credit
• Dedicated Hosting Plan = $100 in Google AdWords Credit

So there you have it, one of the best hosting deals out there from one of the best web hosts on the planet.  To learn more about our special Google AdWords offer for Lunarpages customers, be sure to check out Google AdWords Credit Page on Lunarpages.com.

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Where does customer service fit into the grand scheme of things, when it comes to planning a good marketing strategy?  Mention marketing to anybody, and they start thinking about sales, offers and deals.  While, they too are important, having a good customer service relationship also plays a key role.

The customer you have is more valuable than the customer you want.  Once a company gets the business of a person, they often forget that the need to keep this person just as happy as the new guy.  In what ways are an existing customer more valuable than a new customer?

Establish Yourself as a Trusted Brand

They have bought from you before, they might buy from you again.  It is human nature to go with what we know, and what we trust.  Every day we buy the cereal we like the most, we go to the grocery store we went to as a kid, we buy a Wii for Christmas, because Nintendo were always our favorite.  While the initial sale is important, we also need to keep in mind that establishing yourself a trusted brand with any customer is worth even more.

Marketing the Conversations

If they are happy with their service, you get free word of mouth advertising.  What is word of mouth advertising? According to Wikipedia:

Word of mouth is a reference to the passing of information from person to person. Originally the term referred specifically to oral communication (literally words from the mouth), but now includes any type of human communication, such as face to face, telephone, email, and text messaging.

We trust the opinions of people we know the best.  No magazine advertisement or 30 second commercial spot can beat your Grandmother.  Actually, nobody should beat your Grandmother, because that wouldn’t be very nice. Winning over public opinion can be hard to achieve, but once it has been done – it will out perform any other form marketing out there.

Many of us have downtime around the holidays, so now is the best time to come up with new ways to market our online businesses or web sites.  Make sure while you do, you don’t leave out those customers or clients you have already won over.

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Quickly becoming my new favorite link shortening service, Bit.ly has a lot to offer, and a wide variety of tools to use with it.  Why is it the best? It offers stats, shortens links and well, I do have to say these tools play a big part too.

Here are a few bit.ly tools I’ve run across:

bit.ly preview – an add-on for Firefox that will give you a thumbnail preview whenever you hover over any bit.ly link.  If you hover over another short URL, http://tinyurl.com/5qhkwo, for example, we show the Page Title and Long URL for these links as well. (two for one deal!)

Twitter Search (for bit.ly links) – Search all the tweets from around the world, to see which have used bit.ly links to get there.

Snip-n-Tag – a Firefox extension that will shorten your URLs and add Google Analytics tracking tags.  Great for measuring traffic from Twitter.

Sidebars and Bookmarklets – The people at bit.ly have also produced two bookmarklets to use.  One will auto-create a bit.ly link out of the page you are looking at and the other will do so, and give you statistics about that link in a sidebar.

Gmail Gadget – Now you can shorten your links, using bit.ly, from within Gmail.

Who’s Using bit.ly Right Now? – A Twitter account where you can check out all the latest links that have been shared via the bit.ly link shortening service.

Have another favorite tool to use with bit.ly? Leave a comment!

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“We have some new stuff planned for WHT. That’s about all I’m going to say about that. But I will say that it won’t be traditional online media. iNET Interactive has current and projected projects in that arena though. Stay tuned!”, said Dennis Johnson the Community Leader of Web Hosting Talk in an interview I […]

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By Mitch “Has Additional Features” Keeler

One of the many things I love about the Lunarpages Web Hosting Support Wiki is the fact that is lays out feature by feature, all the various things you can add to your own web hosting account.  Categorized by plan type, you get to know all your options right there one one single page.

http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Adding_Features

Our dedicated customers are not out in the cold though, because we have done the same for them too.

http://wiki.lunarpages.com/Additional_Dedicated_Hosting_Features

Adding additional features to your hosting account couldn’t be more simple to add ASP support, JSP support, a dedicated IP, Shell access and more.  Check it out!

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