2012 - Best Managed Cloud, IT and Cyber-security in Florida

What the Cloud Can do for You

It seems that everyone is talking cloud these days. Have you been thinking about making the switch over to cloud hosting but not really sure if it’s the right fit for your business? Cloud hosting offers a wide variety of benefits. Let’s take a look at some of the most important ones… Scaling Resources The…

Questions You Should be Asking your Hosting Provider

Many organizations are faced with the shortfalls of their web hosting provider only when a problem arises that impacts their business. Choosing the right web hosting plan and provider for your needs is a crucial part of your online presence and must to be a part of your processes long before issues arise. When selecting…

nopCommerce: Preventing spammers and other security and optimization tips

By: Louis Datz One of the reasons I host my websites at AppliedI.net (see: http://www.AppliedI.net) is because of their tremendous support for open source .net applications such as nopCommerce (see: http://www.nopCommerce.com). In return, I try and help streamline and secure my websites so that my customers will be happy, but also so that I also…

New Year, New Website and $75 to promote it!

Get in front of potential customers with ads on the Yahoo! Bing Network. With a single ad buy through Bing Ads, you can reach 152 million unique searchers who represent 5 billion searches every month on the Yahoo! Bing Network. Your new customers are making decisions online. Don’t be browsed over. The new year is…

Even Successful Businesses Need Help

One of the things I love about Applied Innovations is that each day we get to help businesses succeed online. In fact, “making online success, easy” is our business mantra. Unfortunately, we can only help with cloud initiatives and frequently businesses need more help than just that. One place I’ve come to realize most business…

Managing Customer Service Interactions in Social Media

Social media has radically transformed how we interact with the world around us, empowering both companies and consumers alike. Businesses left, right and center have social media as a crucial component of their marketing plans, sales strategies and of course their customer relationship management. With social media, a consumer can do research on a company,…

Customer Spotlight: In Touch Ministries

For over 35 years, In Touch Ministries has employed a multimedia approach to sharing the Gospel of Jesus Christ around the world via radio, television, satellite, cable TV, short wave, books, a monthly magazine and the Internet. Its newest website went live with Applied Innovations in July 2012 after moving from a previous hosting provider. …

User Experience Phase 3: Competitive Analysis

Our first article described the process of auditing and evaluating the User Experience of your website. Our second article talked about implementing some of the changes you identified in the first phase. Now we’ll take a look at your competitors and see what you can glean about how you measure up and how to capture…

For Ecommerce, Time is Money

Can you afford to have a slow site? Slow page loads and other factors that negatively impact conversion. Let’s do the Numbers We looked at every kind of data from every reliable source – from Forbes to Comscore. The numbers may vary slightly, but they pretty much tell the same story. And while speed is…

DotNetNuke World 2012 Event Recap

In early October, some of our team got the wonderful opportunity to attend DotNetNuke World which is the annual user conference specifically designed for developers, web designers, administrators, business decision makers, and end users on the DotNetNuke Platform. We headed up to the event on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 10th and got to discuss…