Website design marketing and hosting in Telford Shropshire

Design Conscious .com Telford today announces the immediate availability of competitively priced self managed hosting accounts. You can now buy a hosting account direct for as little as £5 per month or with discounts just £57 per year.

You can benefit from a choice of 3 accounts which cover hosting for the beginners website through to fully loaded feature rich hosting accounts that include: multiple email addresses / mail boxes, multiple FTP Accounts, addon domains, Search Engine Submit Tool and a whole lot more

All hosting packages come with

• Generous webspace
• Full bandwidth
• FTP Access
• Multiple email mail boxes
• cPanel
• Search engine submit tool
• Web stats
• and many time saving features such as SpamAssassin, Backup Wizard

Purchase your hosting through our checkout partner Google Checkout which is processed through our COMODO secured ordering system.

And it’s so easy, here is a quick “How to purchase hosting in 10 easy steps” guide:

1. Choose your web hosting package here >> web hosting
2. Click the buy now / order now button
3. Specifiy your domain name choice and continue
4. Choose if you want to purchase monthly, quarterly, half yearly or yearly and add to cart
5. Enter a Promotional Code if you have one (join out mailing list here to get this months money off code)
6. Hit the Check Out button
7. Add your name and address details (this sets up your account with us)
8. Click Complete Order button - don’t forget to click ‘I have read and agree to the Terms of Service’
9. View your invoice and click the Pay link to use our payment partner Google Checkout
10. Pay by credit card at Google, then get back to your brand new hosting account and start web serving!

If you know your domain name is available (or is previously registered) and you have already added your credit card to your Google account - then it should take you no more than 10 minutes from start to finish…. but if you are having some challenges along the way - we have thought of that too, our client management system has a fully functional support ticket system built in to allow you to contact the design conscious hosting support team to help you with your problems >> click here to raise a support ticket

“If you build it… they will come!”

Hmmmmm, good film: Kevin Costner, big field, ghost baseball players one of Hollywoods better turn outs. But the internet is not Hollywood. If you build a website, there is no guarantee that anyone will come to it - even if it’s indexed by the search engines.

Why?

Well, your site for definite is competing with millions of others all around the world for search engine results. You may also be in a market sector that is swamped with spam results. You might have only just made your site live and so you haven’t been indexed by the search engines yet - and even if you have been indexed you won’t show up straight away (months even) while Google (and the others) sandbox your site for an unknown period of time.

Gloomy isn’t it?

Then along comes a company GUARANTEEING you search engine placement. Their SEO package of improvements will catapult you up the results pages. Very possibly they will make things worse, at best nothing will happen at worst you will be de-listed by the search engine because of their spamming methods. Our advice is don’t touch these companies.

Actually… it’s not just our advice - while looking around for info to back up our beliefs above (because we could be pulling the wool over your eyes - just like the SEO companies), we came across this, read it from the horses mouth: Googles’ Take on SEO

So what can you do to promote your website?

Well, the old saying of “do it right first time” still applies. Get the right mix of keywords for your market place, write your website copy carefully, focus on your core business and…. most importantly…. compete locally.

Compete Locally? What does that mean?

Can you honestly say that you want to have enquiries from abroad, or from other parts of the UK? Do you really want to be number 1 for “your market sector widgets” in America? Or France? Or even the other end of the UK? can you fulfill those orders? If the answer is no, then you don’t need your website to compete globally. This is something that many people overlook completely.

Tell people you sell stuff

This might sound a little obvious - but how many times have you been in a shop and found something that you wanted and that you had no idea they sold? Worst of it is you had been looking everywhere for it and bought it at a higher price only a week or so before? Ok, so we can go on adding in the cliché’s but you get the drift.

Tell people you sell stuff - then tell them again, and again. Regular customer contact is easy to achieve and very powerful for results. This is why you get the leaflets in your free paper, this is why websites run mailing lists etc.

There a hundred and one things that you can do to promote your site, some of them will cost you money, others won’t cost you a penny, but promotion is the key to a successful website.

Talk to us and let us help you do it right first time.

E-commerce, ecommerce, e-tailing it doesn’t matter how you spell or say it, it boils down to the same thing - selling online.

Online sales is big business now, reports suggest that US online retail sales will top $130 Billion with the UK and Europe trading at similar amounts. But it’s not an easy ride, gone are the days of setting up a website and making a million over night. It takes the right product with the right web strategy many years to hit the million pound turnover.

Don’t be put off though, if you can sell it on the high street then there isn’t any reason that you can’t sell it online. A lot of companies use their online presence as an backup to their bricks and mortar business, perhaps to sell through end of line stock or for promotions etc. They do this because to survive online you have to be competitively priced but you can get into price differentials between your shop and your website so selling stock that isn’t in store is sometimes a better option.

To be effective online the website management has to be slick, you need to changes prices easily and you need to add or remove product at the click of button. The best way to do this is via a database, ideally with content supplied from your own stock management software. What? You don’t have stock management software? Well all you need to do is create spreadsheets and the website can be driven from that.

Ecommerce is a powerful thing and can be adapted in many different ways… we know because we done it… and we can do it for you.