Wednesday, February 02, 2005

Why San Diego Small Business Should Host Local

San Diego Small Businesses are Hosting Local

With over 6 million web hosting companies advertising on the world wide web it's no wonder small business owners don't know who to host their web site with. 10 years ago there were fewer hosting companies and even less running hosting companies from out of their house. The question is where are all these hosting companies coming from and who should small businesses and soho's host with?

To answer that question we need to review some facts about web hosting companies. But in summary, more San Diego small businesses are moving their hosting services local because local host-marketing companies are in the same time zone, easy to visit, and most importantly, understand the growing demographics and local business markets more thourough than some hosting company outside your city or region.

Start-ups are going thru the agony of slow, unreliable hosting to save a buck on their over head and it's proving to do more harm than good to their business, driving potential customers to their competitors web site, which looks better, ranks better and loads faster, and has higher conversion rates, turning browsers into buyers on the internet.

The fact is web hosting companies offering FREE-$5 hosting plans only are providing you sub-standard services and putting you on a server with over a thousand websites in some cases, which will cause your site to load very slow because they all are getting heavy traffic and this effects the performance of your companies web site to load slow instead of fast.

Most of these hosting providers are kids and setting up servers with a dsl connection from their bedroom. You get vitually little or no "customer support" and an automated answering service that forward all calls to their cell phones... when they get around to it you'll get an email. This is what your FREE hosting plan or $5 dollar hosting plan gets you. NOTHING OF REAL VALUE, just a place to host your site with no real asistance and expertise into helping small business design, market, maintain and expand your company web site... now a days, the core to business advertisement and survival.

Survival before the internet was the yellow pages, now it is more and more critical to get top10 first page search engine positioning on the internet, no less than the first page, as 80% of all browsers on the internet DO NOT read past the first page!

These FREE and $5 dollar hosting plans a waste of your money if you mean business on the web. It is an easy way to get a buck from the uneducated soho and small business owner consumer.

Of course, there are exceptions to every rule and there are legit companies with real backbone infrastructure selling $10 and $34 dollar a month host plans you can count on. That's to be expected-compete or die.

With a lot of research and telephone calls eventually you'll find one, hopefully local because they understand your demographics and the market within your area.

Yahoo and earthlink are two prime examples. However, they provide you no personal service, long holding times and mostly support via email. If you need software installed or have a problem uploading a page to your site... don't count on help without being charged, or worse yet, be referred to an online FAQ that doesn't come close to the specific questions or issues you have.

For $9.95/month you are simply paying for what you get... a directory to upload your website on a shared server, in most cases with exception to iNETready web host-marketing design plans. Make sure your hosting company is local in your area, answers the phone with a live person and returns your messages via email or via phone within a reasonable amount of time. If they fail to do these over a potential $9.95/month this is a tell all that they are interested in nothing but easy money and little or no support.

Businesses today want to do business with people... that means talking to a human being, recieving timely call backs or email responses. Small businesses need the comfort of talking to a real human being to feel comfortable someone is watching over their vested web site business, so if there are problems they can call and get information quickly and easily.

Of course it's a simple low-cost way to get started. Ultimately your needs will outgrow a 10/month plan, so make sure you are with a hosting company that provides more than just hosting. They should provide telephone and email support, web marketing services and design services for affordable fees. $34.95 and no more than $350/month for an First Page Placement SEO Marketing Plan.

The fact, you're in business to do business with people, not the internet, and to focus on what you do best. Small business in San Diego is getting smarter and moving away from cheap hosting plans that offer no real support and marketing services needed in an ever growing and competitve medium.

Small business entreprenuers need a host-marketing service that provides hosting with easy access to a control panel, one-click ready to install software programs to expand your site as you grow, relaible pop email and web-based email access for when you travel, professional web design that is affordable with search engine marketing services to get you ranked in the top 4 pages of the major search engines.

iNETready.com will give you all three for a nominal fee under $34 dollars to start and top10 search engine placement starting at $150/mo. They provide you web site hosting, updates and organic search engine marketing services to help you stay highly ranked naturally without using expensive pay-per clicks. Pay-per clicks or Google adwords, or Overture can cost you well over a thousand a month to do it right!

Natural search engine placement is the most affordable way and recieves the best ROI on your marketing dollars for your website. You can't get first page placement with the yellow pages for $150 dollars a month...or the targeted traffic. The last time I checked it was over $1,200 dollars a month just to have a 1/2page add! And that's not the front page! YIKES!


In Summary, a Host-Marketing-Design company are the smartest way to start your business on the internet and I only know of one company that supports this. This company has pioneered the concept and are unique in there host-marketing-design services. They have a number of local San Diego small businesses that all ranked within the top 10 listings of major search engines and use a patented marketing-design technology method to guarantee top rankings.

iNETready web host-marketing company is personable, honest, and sincere about helping your small business remain successful and competitive. They bring tested and proven marketing strategies and techniques to the table pulling from the experience of Carl Gritzmaker, a former founding member of Lotus, Ken Kerr, former International Marketing Design Director for Walt Disney and a small team of web professionals, including myself, James Faasse`, successful small business entreprenuer.

This company is iNETready.com, located in La Jolla, California doing business for over 8 years and can be contacted at 858-427-1619, via email admin@inetready.com