June 2010 News

In this issue of Website Builder News, June 2010...

  • Last chance for free training - Hamilton, Whangarei, Auckland, Wellington & Christchurch
  • One on One Training
  • Free Tickets to Bizzone Business Expo
  • 2000th Customer
  • Domains Price Reduction
  • Traffic Allowance Increases
  • Tell a Friend Icons / Pages
  • Shopping cart product availability messages
  • Social Media - Facebook
  • SEO Tip of the Month
  • Business Speed Networking Events
  • Reseller Options
  • How to help us promote Website Builder and get a 20% rebate
  • Websites of the Month

 

Last chance for Free Training!

News Flash: We only have a few free training sessions left. In the future we will be running paid courses with smaller groups, with a greater focus on your websites and questions. Free training will now be provided online via our YouTube channel.

The free course covers all the basics including design, content management, shopping cart, galleries, enquiry forms, shopping carts, domain names, and a few SEO tips included. We also have advanced courses available for a small fee.

  • Whangarei - Website Builder Introduction 2 hours  - 30th June at 1pm - FREE
  • Whangarei -Search Engine Optimisation 2 hours - 30th June at 3pm - $50
  • Auckland - Website Builder Introduction 2 hours  - 7th July at 10am - $50
  • Auckland -Search Engine Optimisation 2 hours - 22nd June at 5:30pm - $45
  • Auckland - SEO, Design, Social Media 4 hours - 14th July at 1pm - $75
  • Hamilton - Website Builder Introduction 2 hours  - 8th July at 1pm - FREE
  • Hamilton -Search Engine Optimisation 2 hours - 8th July at 3pm - $50
  • Wellington - Website Builder Introduction 2 hours - 24th July 2010 at 10am and 1pm - FREE
  • Wellington - Search Engine Optimisation 2 hours - 24th July at 3pm - $50
  • Wellington - Search Engine Optimisation, and Social Media 4 hours - 21st October at 1pm - $75
  • Christchurch - Website Builder Introduction 2 hours - 14th August 2010 at 10am - FREE
  • Christchurch - Search Engine Optimisation, and Soscial Media 4 hours - $75 - 14th August at 1pm - $75 
  • More Locations and Times - Book Your Training Here

Please invite any friends along to our training events. Remember you will get 20% referral discount off your hosting ongoing for any who go live with their website..

Or Watch free training videos on our YouTube channel

 

One on One Training / Hourly Web Design Service

One on one (or private group) training is a great way to enhance your website at a discount price. Sit down with one of our professional web designers for an hour and see what evolves. This is a great way for intermediate users to increase their skills, or for novice users to speed up the process of creating their website. For just $90 your website will be greatly improved. The same hourly fee also applies for SEO or any other professional help you need. One on one available at our Onehunga Auckland office with either Albie or Mike. Or in Christchurch and Wellington with Reuben ($120/hr) timed to coincide with our scheduled training courses. Reply to this email or phone to book a time.

If you are not based in the main centers, our design staff can still provide the same service over the phone. They will look at your website, and make changes that you will be able to see as you refresh your browser.

 

Free Tickets to Bizzone Business Expo

Get your free tickets to the Bizzone business expo. We'll be there, and so will many other great businesses and speakers at the National Bank seminar series.

We'll also have some special quests at our stand througout, Catherine Livingstone in Wellington, and Linda Slade in Christchurch, both from "The Apprentice" TV show.

Reuben will be speaking on the Wednesday afternoon National Bank Seminar series at all events. 

Auckland - Finished
Wellington 21 - 23 July, TSB Bank Arena
Christchurch 11 - 13 August, Convention Centre

Get your Free Tickets here

 

2000th Website Gone Live

Well it's only been 2 months since we signed up our 1000th concurrent customer, however considering recessions and all, we do have an issue with some websites going offline from time to time. Another metric to judge our growth on is the number of customers who have ever gone live. And we have just had our 2000th website go live. This website is www.intrepidcats.com. Gregg has won himself 1 year of free web hosting.

Our next milestones/goals are to reach 1000 facebook or twitter followers and later this year it will be 10 years since we first registered our domain names for Web Widgets.  

 

Domains Price Reduction

All domain registration and renewal fees have been dropped to $29/year+gst (down from $33), with discounts for long term renewals. Reseller domains now only $22/year (reseller setup fee applies).  

Search and register a domain  

 

Traffic Allowance Increases

All web hosting plans have had their traffic allowance increased. The base web hosting plan now supports 1GB traffic (up from 700MB). Our great value hosting plans include content management, shopping carts and a bulk email service, and start at only $25 per month. Most importantly, we host in NZ which is important for your search engine optimisation. Soon we will have even cheaper plans with much more traffic for sites not hosted in NZ/Ausi.

Review all plans here

 

Tell a Friend Icons / Pages

We have recently replaced our old email tell a friend page with a new tell a friend page which is connected to popular social networks.

Unfortunately we had to remove the old tell a friend forms, because they were a target for spammers. Basically the form allowed anyone to send anyone a message about anything, while being associated with your brand. That was undesireable. If you do have a specific template for your tell a friend page that you want to keep, you can easily change the layout of the page back to an "enquiry form", but it will not have the tell a friend features in it, and you will need to send those friends emails manually.

This new tell a friend page covers many more link sharing methods, including all known social networks. However, it does not have form fields, but you can customise the messages into the introduction or footer of the page. These sharing services are brought to you by www.addthis.com.

You can also add these sharing icons to your template by using the [ADDTHIS] tag, perhaps below the [CONTENT] tag might be a good place. Even if you are not into social media, it does not mean that everyone else feels the same. Why not leaverage the power of social media and let people share your links for your benefit. If you want a more custom version of the sharing icons, then create your own at the www.addthis.com website and paste into your pages or custom design template using the "Insert... Video/Widget" option.

 

Shopping cart product availability messages

You can now enter your own messages for your product stock availability. eg out of stock, sold, not purchaseable, running out fast, only a few left, etc... You can change this text on the pricing/stock tab under each product. You can also choose to leave the the buy button enabled, or disable it. If the stock counter runs out, the buy button will be disabled automatically. We have added 10 more priority positions to the products so you can order them on the category list pages.

 

Social Media - Facebook

Facebook is useful for more than just sharing photos and news with friends and family. It can be a great business networking tool.

First step is to tie down your privacy settings OR create a dedicated login for your business networking, and keep this separate from your personal account.  

Second step is to make a "business page". If you don't see an option in facebook to make a page, then click on "ads and pages" on the left menu, then "pages" on the left of the next page. Follow directions from there.

A business page is just like an ordinary facebook profile, with it's own wall, but it keeps your business separate from your personal life. People who become fans of your business only see posts on your business wall, they will not see your own wall unless you become personal facebook friends.

The trick with social media sites like facebook is to get people talking about you. If you can encourage other people to post on your wall, then all their friends will see them do that. So if you have 100 friends who post on your wall, and each of them as 100 friends, then that is 10000 people who will see your brand and a link to your business page. Powerful stuff eh?  

The same goes for when you post on other peoples/businesses walls. For this, you may wish to have a dedicated login for your business purposes.

But how do you get people to become fans of your business page? You might like to personally invite the first 25 fans, so that you can get a unique username for your business page. With a unique username, you can then create a custom URL to include in your website and on your monthly newsletter, just like ours in the top right of this email. You can post social network username into your contact us page, and this will automatically create the links.

We would also like to become fans of your business pages. As soon as you have created your business page on facebook, please post a link to it on our wall.

Become a Fan of our Facebook Page

 

 

Search Engine Optimisation Tip of the Month

Not all links are equal. Remember it is more important to get quality links from reputable websites, than it is to get several links from unimportant websites. eg a link from the nzherald website is more important than a link from someones personal blog. Likewise, it is more important if someone links to you from their home page, rather than their links page, or some deep hidden pages. Reciprical links are better than nothing, but focus on other websites in your same industry or in your same city.  

 

Business Speed Networking Events

Business Speed Networking Events allow business people to meet about 30 other business owners to network for 2.5 minutes with each person and then move on to the next one. They are a great way to meet new prospects, leads, and potential sources of referrals.

Events are 3 hours in duration. Price per attendee $69 including GST. Places are filling up quickly, to register your interest contact Julia at NetworkingNZ on phone 0800 263 896, or email julia@networkingnz.co.nz

  • Auckland - Monday 12th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm
  • Auckland - Tuesday 13th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm
  • Auckland - Wednesday 14th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm
  • Wellington - Thursday 15th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm
  • Wellington - Friday 16th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm
  • Christchurch - 28th of June 2010 - 6.45pm to 10pm
  • Christchurch - 26th of July 2010 - 6.45pm to 10pm
  • Dunedin - Monday 19th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm
  • Dunedin - Tuesday 20th of July, 9.15am, 1.45pm and 6.45pm

 

Start your Own Website Builder Business

Our reseller program enables you to setup and sell websites under your own brand. Web Widgets provides you with all the tools and services you need to do this. Web Widgets remain at arms length. Only your contact details and brand are shown to your customer. They won't know anything about web widgets nor free website builder. This program is perfect for website designers, or sales people looking for new opportunities. The reseller program does have a $1000 setup fee, but you immediately get 25% discount on our hosting fees and can purchase domains for only $22/year. We also give you full administrative access to our system. Alternatively consider our affiliate scheme.

Learn more about reseller program

 

Help us promote our Website Builder (20% referral discount for your troubles)

Anyone who refers friends to our service, or sets up a 2nd or subsequent website gets a 20% discount off their web hosting fees. Refer 5 friends, and you pay nothing for your website hosting. Refer more than 5 friends, and we will start paying you.

Terms - live websites only, based on equivalent hosting plans, payouts subject to minimums.

How to promote

  • Ask your friends to include your login email address on the form when they signup
  • Create a trial for your friends, using their email address, but put your login email in the referred by area.
  • Contact us to tell us who you have referred (after they have created their trial)
  • Create an affiliate link, refer top right within the CMS, then copy and paste into your page
  • Add a page, on the right under tooltips, see "Website Creation Affiliate Link"

More information about affiliates and reselling here

 

Websites of the Month

Here's a selection of some of our recent Go Lives. DIY websites are always a mixed bag, so we encourage you to view several example sites if determining if Website Builder is right for you.

Do you want a more professional look and feel for your website? A more professional look will instill greater trust in your customers, and encourage them to stay longer on your website or make a purchase. Please use our online quote or contact us.

Do you have any feedback on our newsletter or CMS products? Please let us know.

 

Best regards,
Reuben Jackson (CEO)
Web Widgets - Free Website Builder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Posted: Fri 11 Jun 2010

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