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What do you need to succeed online – part 1 – tools

Friday, October 16th, 2009

Creating a successful online business requires knowledge, skills and the right tools. Like many other businesses the quality of the tools you use will determine the level of your success. Many people, when they start working online, try to save on expenses and the first place they look for a saving is in the tools they use.

Using second grade tools can eventually cost you much more than you have saved by the compromise on quality. If your website is down for a few hours or even several days – what impact do you think that would have on your business? If your follow-up emails will not reach your customers – what do you think will happen to your sales? If your videos will stop being delivered because you have exceeded your bandwidth quota – what do you think your potential customers will do?

Choosing a good web-hosting provider, a solid autoresponder system, and other high quality tools is vital to your success online. How can you tell if a tool or a service are of high quality? There are simple enough criteria for determining the quality of each and every tool and service:

Web-hosting

• Is the hosting owned by the provider or are they resellers?

This will have a huge impact on the quality of the service you will get and the limitations on storage and bandwidth.

• Is your hosting account limited in any way?

Note that there is no such thing as an unlimited storage (!) – computers have a finite size to the hard drive so there is always a limit. Sometimes the limit is not stated in storage space but with the number of files you may have.

The important limits to look at include number of add-on domains and sub-domains, number of databases and bandwidth.

• What is the guaranteed up time? And the back-up facilities?
• What amount of control do you have over your account?

Autoresponder System

• What are the limitations?

Many systems have levels of service depending on the number of lists and amount of subscribers. When your business grows you might be required to pay more!

• What is the delivery rate of the emails and how is it measured?

Many systems will be creative with the way they provide this crucial information. You need your emails to be delivered!

• How understanding are they when it comes to spam complaints?

Most systems have zero tolerance for spam and you may be subjected to high fines and account freeze. Let’s face it – when you are dealing with a large number of people you will get spam complaints. No doubt about it.

• What features will you have that will give you flexibility in your campaigns?

Video Hosting

Using video is fast becoming a must if you want to succeed online. Video delivery puts a heavy toll on your hosting as the files are large and the bandwidth demands are high. Therefor video hosting can be very expensive (you can not be delivering videos from your web-hosting on a large scale).

Capture pages

Capture pages are your interface with your website visitors as you attempt to convert them into contacts and customers. That initial contact is crucial if you do not want to loose them forever and therefor is better left at the hands of experts.

Web Conferencing Facilities

One of the major advantages of an online business is the fact that it is not confined to any specific country and can spread all over the world. Conducting a business in the global market place calls for more advanced communication facilities and web-conferencing is an important building block.

When you look for a quality web-conferencing tool to use you should consider:
How easy to use is it? Does it require installation? Any special hardware? What features does it provide? (audio, video, presentations, chat, desktop sharing)

Training

Training may be important for you if you need it for yourself or for your affiliates or business partners. Quality training might be very costly!

When you sum up the cost of all the tools you need – if you use high quality tools and services – you are looking at several 100’s of dollars each and every month. Most new businesses can not afford such an expense and they tend to save on tools and on quality.

What would you say if I told you that you can have all those tools and services – at the highest quality – for less than $45 a month?

And what would you say if I told you that you can not only save money but also make money while using those tools and services?

Introducing – GVO

GVO is based on the 12 years old Kiosk web-hosting company and is unique in the fact that it owns everything – the servers, the routers, the fiber optics and the software. GVO is a debt free company with a solid track record in the MLM industry. They provide:

• Unlimited domains web-hosting reseller account
• Unlimited autoresponder service
• Unlimited video hosting – storage and bandwidth (!)
• Easy video producer for creating videos for the non-technical user
• Prospecting system with professionally crafted video capture pages
• 10 seat flash based (no installation) web-conferencing room with desktop sharing and more
• Free IM training
• Compensation plan that pays out up to 60%

and much more… all that for less than $45 a month!

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