Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact

It's time to start ramping up your relationship contacts with your current customers. If you aren't already keeping in touch with them via email marketing, you will want to have an option available for capturing subscribers. When crafting and sending your promotions, you have got to have a tool for building your newsletters, sending them to your customers and tracking the effectiveness of your media.

View more about Email Marketing Solutions from Constant Contact.

Coming Soon - The E-commerce 7.6 Release!

We are really excited about the new features and enhancements coming soon. Check out the release notes on the Network Solutions Forums.

GrowSmartBusiness Webinar - Register Now on Eventbrite

I wanted to post a quick link to the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar. I have a busy week planned, but I'm going to try and attend. Here is a summary:

On Thursday, April 30 from 2-3pm ET, Network Solutions will host the GrowSmartBusiness Webinar to help small business owners learn from the success of others. Join our all-star line-up of entrepreneurs and experts for this free, live webcast. They'll discuss tips for overcoming challenges to marketing strategy and capital access.

These days, small businesses need all the help they can get.

Local Search Visibility at Network Solutions

Everybody's budget is tight these days and it might be tempting to tighten the purse strings when it comes to marketing. Here is an interesting bit of information I learned today.

According to Harris Interactive, 80 percent of Internet traffic begins at a search engine.

This makes sense, but it is under-emphasized when considering how to succeed online. Simply put, if your site is not in the search engines, you won't be found. With Google's Universal Search, the entry point for small business owners that want to compete locally has changed a bit and our products have changed to meet this need. Our Local Search Visibility service helps our clients get listed in the local directories more quickly. Visitors that use local search to find a site are much more likely to convert into a sale. And right now, there is a coupon code I can offer that will make it even easier to sign up. Use the code BCXXX02737 and the $20 set-up fee for the Local Search Visibility Plan will be waived.

More Information: Universal Search

• Official Google Blog: Universal search
• SearchEngineLand.com: Google Universal Search

Domain Name Registration Promotion ONLY $9.99

I was just thinking earlier today that I should start a post series on DEALS that can be found on our products and services. Honestly with everything going on and all the bad news you might here about the economy, you have to cut costs. Well, I've got the inside track and I wanted to make sure to pass along anything I might find that is an exceptional deal.

It's not like it's a big secret, but the company I work for does not sell the cheapest domain names on the market. What might get misunderstood along the way is that we have never attempted to do so. It took me a while to understand this distinction, but most other web services business lose money on the domain name transaction in the hope that the client will sign up for hosting and / or e-commerce and other services. Simply put, the cheap registrars commonly lose money on each renewal and registration. Though that saves the client money in the short term, it makes the registrar's business model harder to sustain when they are identified as a registrar only. We are not just a registrar and we are not normally a source for cheap domains. We are a service-based solution for small business owners who like to know they are dealing with someone who knows what they're doing and is going to be around for awhile.

So when a company working in that direction can still offer a semi-secret promotion on domain names for only $9.99, it should cause some heads to turn. Let me say that again a different way.

Register A New Domain Name With Network Solutions for only $9.99!

And that's not at that special price only when bundled with other products and services OR when you mention a special code word OR sign up for our newsletter. We normally give a free domain when you sign up for one year of service, but this goes one step further. It seemed super special to me, especially if you want to take advantage of the new free business profiles included with each domain.

If what you want is cheap, go pay for cheap and settle for cheap. But if you want a premiere provider and to get a discounted price at signup, reconsider Network Solutions. We are not, nor have we ever been out to swindle anyone. Instead we tell you exactly what you get and what you will pay for it. Our prices are usually higher because our services are better. We are striving forward. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Keep in mind that this site is not a company mouthpiece and I am not just passing something along to help us, but I want to help you. I talk to e-commerce merchants every day and I'm concerned about their well being and their bottom lines. Frankly some of them have more bravery and guts than I do. But more than that, I like to write about the internet and specific stuff related to e-commerce, not just my job. Please know that it won't always be about Network Solutions. But when there's a deal like this one, I cannot keep it to myself. The catch? It ends right before midnight on March 19^th, so you better hurry.