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We firmly believe the LetsHost Complete hosting plan offers the best blend of performance, features and pricing in Ireland today… and now, with three months free, it’s better value than ever!

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• Do you know how many people are visiting your website every day?
• Do you know where they’re arriving from, what pages they’re landing on?
• Do you know how long they spend with you once they arrive, and which page they leave from?

The simple answer is yes, you do!

All of that data is being recorded for you automatically in your server log files, and is easily accessible using the free tools in your LetHost CPanel account.

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Online video is a great way to deliver engaging, informative and truly valuable content to your website visitors. And people love it.

In April 2010 nearly 180 million American internet users watched a staggering 30.3 billion online videos between them (comScore). Now those are some impressive numbers!

What’s really great about video is the fact that the barriers to entry are so low… all you need is a decent webcam, or better yet, a digital SLR or dedicated camcorder with HD video recording capabilities, and a bit of imagination.

Here are just some online video options that could work for your business:

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LetsHost is currently seeking applications for a technical support position.

Role

- Dealing with front line customer technical queries via email & phone
- Answering support tickets and ensuring customer satisfaction
- Some out of hours / weekend work may be required (rota)
- Position is based out of our Galway office

Skills required:

- Excellent phone manner / writing skills
- Knowledge of desktop email systems – Outlook, Outlook Express, etc
- Knowledge of Linux, DNS, Email systems
- Understanding of network technologies – TCP/IP, DNS, etc
- Excellent troubleshooting and diagnostic skills
- Must be flexible and dependable
- Have a qualification in I.T, Computer science or another IT related course

Salary / Terms negotiable dependant on experience / knowledge

A cover letter and detailed CV with list of references should be emailed to jobs@letshost.ie

LetsHost is an equal opportunities employer

Linux, the open source operating system that underpins LetsHost’s Complete Irish Hosting Plan, is the operating system of choice for the world’s most powerful supercomputers.

The telling statistic comes from a list of the “Top 500” most powerful computers in the world that was released at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany this week.

An impressive 405 of the 500 most powerful computers in the world run on Linux, which has a phenomenal 81% of the supercomputer O/S market around the world.

In terms of national supercomputing superpowers, America is still dominant: more than half of the supercomputers on the list are located in the US. The Cray XT “Jaguar” at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee retained its crown as the world’s fastest computer.

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Facebook, twitter, blogs, reviews, forums, online video… the web’s gone all social and interactive.

Amongst the legions of fans, followers and friends on social media sites across the web you’ll find your customers.

Do you know where they are, and what they’re saying about your industry, your business, your brand?

Connecting with people through social media can be a great way for your small business to add value and engage in positive, mutually beneficial dialogue with your customers.

From offering insight into consumers’ wants and needs, to pro-active product support to finding new business and referrals, social media channels have a lot of potential for smaller Irish businesses who choose to engage.

Here are just a few of the reasons we think it makes sense to explore the potential of social media for your business:

• With or without you: social media doesn’t go away when you ignore it. People are talking. The conversation is happening, whether you choose to get involved or not. Far better to be an influential player in the game than a spectator on the sidelines.
• Go where your customers are: instead of waiting for your customers to find you on your website, social media gives you a great opportunity to pro-actively take your brand to them where they choose to “hang out” online.
• Your finger on the pulse of your market: ever wondered how you could tweak your product or service offering to deliver more of what your customers really need? Social media lets you tap in to the collective wisdom of the crowd without costly market research and focus groups.
• Build reputation, authority and influence: by pro-actively answering people’s questions, solving problems and offering real value online you can quickly establish a positive perception of your brand in your field of expertise. The next time people need your product or service, guess who they’re going to think of first.
• A bit of personality goes a long way: people do business with people first. Social media gives you a great opportunity to let your customers get to know the personality behind the brand.

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Building and maintaining a website can be a pretty daunting prospect for small business owners.

Most of us don’t know HTML, and have neither the time or the inclination to learn it. So we go to a professional web designer to have our site built for us.

But we don’t really want to call on a web designer every time we want to update or add to the content on our website. We need a system that makes managing our web content less technical.

Enter WordPress… a popular, easy to use blogging and web content management platform that makes maintaining the information on your small business website as simple as editing a word-processor document.

Five reasons why WordPress is a good choice for your small business website:

• WordPress is completely free: that’s right, although it’s one of the world’s most popular and easy to use content management platforms, WordPress is open source, which means it’s free to download and install, and you and your web designer are free to tweak and modify it in any way you want.

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So, you’ve  unboxed your shiny new Apple iPhone, connected it to iTunes and synchronised your music contacts and other bits and bobs… now you’re wondering how you go about collecting your e-mail on your brand new iPhone.

Well, there might not be an app for that… just yet – but here’s a handy YouTube video courtesy of those lovely people at Wiley Publishing who created the iconic “For Dummies” series of books.

All of your LetsHost email accounts support both IMAP or POP access, and your server for both incoming and outgoing mail is mail.yourdomain.com (where “yourdomain” is a primary or add-on domain associated with your LetsHost Irish hosting account).

Your username is the e-mail address you want to access (replace the @ with a + if you have problems logging in), and your password is the one you specified when you created the e-mail address in cpanel.

You’ll find lots of information on setting up new e-mail accounts and e-mail settings for IMAP, POP and SMTP access in the LetsHost Support FAQ/Knowledgebase.

Want more iPhone tips and tricks? You’ll find iPhone for dummies over on Amazon.

When you’re planning content for your website, it’s a good idea to do a bit of homework and pick topics your audience is already searching for.

Good keyword research is an essential first step in optimising your site to attract free, targeted search traffic – traffic that really can transform your online business. It’s also essential for successful search advertising / Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns. But how do you go about choosing the right keyword phrases for customers looking to buy your products or services?

1. Become your audience

Put yourself in your audiences shoes for a minute… what would you type into that enticing blank box on the search engines, if you were looking for what you sell?

Try and really divorce yourself from what you know about your business here, and become one with the people you’re trying to reach out to. Brainstorm a short list (five or six) targeted keyword phrases that you feel customers would enter into a search engine to find what you’re offering.

These are your seed keywords, and you’ll use them as the foundation for, you guessed it, more research.

2. Ask your audience

This sounds like a really obvious thing to do… but surprisingly it’s often overlooked, particularly by smaller businesses.

The problem with the first step is that you, by and large, are not representative of your target market. You do, however, know who your primary target audience is, so go talk to some of them.

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E-mail marketing gets a lot of flack these days, due largely to the unprecedented volume of spam that lands in people’s inbox every day.

That’s a shame, because it tarnishes e-mail’s image as a legitimate business marketing tool.

Used properly e-mail is still one of the most effective ways for your business to engage meaningfully (and profitably) with a massive potential audience.

As high-profile Irish blogger and online marketing afficianado Damien Mulley puts it:

How many people have an email address, how many have a Facebook account?

While new kids on the online-marketing block – like Search Marketing, and Social Media – may have a more “sexy” image, behind the scenes e-mail marketing is quietly reaching out to more people, and doing a great job of converting them into customers.

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