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Making Migration to the cloud effortless

One of the services we’ve really prided ourselves on over the years has been our managed dedicated server offerings. We’ve deployed over a thousand dedicated servers in production over the past few years and many of our clients have been running without an issue on the same hardware for years. But over time hardware starts [...]

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What in the world is an Applied Innovations?

I frequently get asked “Why’d you name your company Applied Innovations?”  Well there’s a couple reasons for that: I wanted to be first in alphabetical indices so I wanted a company name that started with an A (yes, it’s an old yellow pages trick) I wanted something somewhat generic that if I decided to switch [...]

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PHP4 End of Life Notification

PHP4 End of Life Notification

We are pleased to announce the end of life support for PHP4.  We began reaching out to our clients on August 9th to give everyone ample time to migrate to newer versions of the scripts they are using (in case of WordPress, Joomla, Mambo, ZenCart, osCommerce, etc) or update their code in the case of [...]

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Customer Lifecycle – Converting Prospects to Customers to Advoca

5 Tactics for Converting Visitors to Customers

Congratulations.  Your site traffic is up. You have worked hard to get this traffic using an array of paid search, social media, directory listings and online marketing programs.  You’ve optimized your site for search engines by applying all the industry best practices and white hat optimization techniques. But you’re not seeing the pay off… what’s [...]

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Comparing 5 Popular Shopping Carts

Wondering which eCommerce application is right for you? Take a look at this handy matrix comparing 5 of the most popular shopping carts.  We have included ASPdotNETStoreFront (ASPDNSF), BVCommerce, nopCommerce, osCommerce, and Zen Cart. While this feature list is by no means comprehensive, it does provide a good sense of how these apps measure up.  [...]

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Take a load off…our treat, no tricks!

Let Applied Innovations provide you with a FREE CUSTOMIZED website performance evaluation.  We’ll take a look at your hosting plan’s specifications, your traffic and memory usage, and run a variety of performance monitors. From this, we’ll identify problems you may not even be aware of, and make suggestions for improvements to optimize the performance of [...]

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Visit to DotNetNuke HQ

Earlier this month I had the opportunity to visit San Mateo, California and meet with our friends at DotNetNuke’s corporate headquarters.  While out there I interviewed Joe Brinkman and Will Strohl on a variety of subjects including: Joe’s take on the history of DotNetNuke and the decision to form DotNetNuke Corp.  DotNetNuke 6 and what [...]

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Benefits of Cloud Hosting on Hyper-V

As both a technologist and business owner of a company deeply involved in the cloud, I have a fantastic understanding of what the cloud means from both a business and technology aspect and often I take that understanding for granted. Recently, I’ve come to realize is that today everyone wants the cloud! They don’t know [...]

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Introducing Office365: Collaboration for Everyone

Work from anywhere and on almost any device! As a longtime Microsoft Partner, Applied Innovations is excited to be offering a FREE TRIAL of Microsoft Office 365! Just call us at 866-706-8691 and we’ll send you a link to the free trial today. Office 365 provides Microsoft Office collaboration and productivity tools delivered through the [...]

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11 Ways to Get More Traffic to Your Website

Your website took time to design, develop and implement. But the next challenge is getting quality traffic to your site.  It’s the challenge every online entity struggles with. You shouldn’t have to pay for every set of eyeballs, either. You need people who are actively seeking what you have to offer. There are a number [...]

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