Amazon Consulting Launches New Exclusive Channel Research on Engaging the Services Partner; Free Webinar Discusses Findings on May 20 at 11am PST

Mountain View, Calif. (Vocus) May 11, 2010

Amazon Consulting, a leading partnering services firm dedicated to helping companies elevate the impact of partnering, today announced the release of it newest exclusive channel research focused on services business engagement models. The company will host an in-depth panel discussion on May 20th at 11 a.m. PST and will include panelists Paul Cronin, Chief Executive Officer of InService and Susan McKay, Director of Strategy and Alliance Development at EMC. Visit http://www.AmazonConsulting.com to register for the webinar or click here.

This webinar tackles questions around what channel service-based business models are successful, which services grow fastest, and what field engagement models are most effective between vendor and partner in delivering services to the customer, said Diane Krakora, Amazon Consulting CEO. Vendor channel professionals wanting to understand what type of program support solution providers need should definitely plan on listening in.

Weve had a lot of interest in this topic over the last 18 months, indicated Beth Vanni, Amazon Consultings Director of Market Intelligence. Our research and consulting work shows us that having a clean engagement model and strong channel program for partners delivering professional services, managed services or support has been an area targeted for improvement with many leading vendors. We think this research bring more details to light about how vendors should be engaging these emerging services-based partner types over the next 12-18 months.

The companys full research on this topic includes an Executive Brief of findings, two detailed research reports and the webinar featuring a panel discussion of the findings on May 20th at 11:00 a.m. PST. The research reports are available exclusively to subscribers of Amazon Consultings annual market intelligence subscription service called PartnerG2.

PartnerG2

Amazon Consulting offers market research studies through a comprehensive annual market intelligence subscription program called PartnerG2. Fueling channel management professionals with valuable research, analysis, thought leadership tools and expert advice to guide partnering success, PartnerG2 offers unlimited users under a corporate subscription, quarterly studies based on industry hot topics, a complete library of thought leadership materials and 4-hours of complementary consulting services. Channel industry analyst and speaker Beth Vanni is the Director of Market Intelligence for Amazons Partner G2 program and can be followed at http://amazonconsultingblog.wordpress.com/ or http://twitter.com/bvanni.

About Amazon Consulting

Amazon Consulting, LLC is a partnering development firm based in Silicon Valley, California, wholly dedicated to helping companies elevate the impact of partnering. We achieve this by effectively designing, implementing and automating channel and alliance models. We offer services ranging from channel models and program development plans to partnering operations and program execution. PartnerPath

Amazon Consulting Launches New Exclusive Channel Research on Engaging the Services Partner; Free Webinar Discusses Findings on May 20 at 11am PST

Matt Mullenweg Discusses Vaultpress, Version 3.0 & Site Redesign in Exclusive 2-Part WordPress Community Podcast

Fort Lauderdale, FL (PRWEB) August 10, 2010

Matt Mullenweg, the co-founding developer behind the open source WordPress blogging platform, will be featured in a 2-part interview for the WordPress Community Podcast starting Tuesday August 10th at 5pm Eastern/ 2pm Pacific, and concluding at the same scheduled time on Tuesday August 17th .

Mullenweg will discuss the launch of VaultPress, a subscription-based protection, security and backup service for WordPress blogs and sites.

When asked about why VaultPress is only being offered in private beta in initially, Mullenweg stated, “It’s always one user at a time… That’s why we’re rolling out VaultPress in the way we’re doing it with invite only. I know that if we opened up the invites we’d get a few thousand sign ups tomorrow. But I don’t want a few thousand customers; I want a few hundred so we can talk to each one. So we can see how they’re using it and what the problems are… and really cultivate and grow the product.

Mullenweg will also discuss how the parent company of WordPress, Automattic, plans to redesign the main WordPress Site (http://www.wordpress.org). Mullenweg says, Something I’ve been working in the past few weeks is the homepage of WordPress.org, and tweaking that to talk about what people can really do with it!”

Mullenweg will also discuss how future WordPress platforms will no longer support

Matt Mullenweg Discusses Vaultpress, Version 3.0 & Site Redesign in Exclusive 2-Part WordPress Community Podcast

New ControlByNet White Paper Discusses Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions

Norcross, GA (PRWEB) March 30, 2011

(PRWEB) March 30, 2011 — ControlByNet, (CBN), a leader in cloud-based, hosted video security surveillance solutions, announced today a white paper “Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions – From the Small Business to the Enterprise Organization.” The white paper outlines several IP video surveillance scenarios and how they may benefit an organization. ControlByNet also launched its blog “Cloud Security i-flash” (http://cloudsecurityiflash.wordpress.com/) to provide ongoing insights into the growing cloud-based video security surveillance market.

“Hosted video is one of the hottest trends in the video surveillance security market and when combined with recent advances in IP technology solutions, there is a great opportunity for cloud-based video surveillance security to experience rapid growth. However, there is still a learning gap with many installers who prefer to stick with analog systems versus making the jump to more advanced cloud-based solutions,” said Ryan Strange, CEO of ControlByNet. “The white paper provides a look at some of the current IP video surveillance systems, benefits and considerations to help businesses decide on the best solution for them.”

“Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions – From the Small Business to the Enterprise Organization” provides insight into how an IP video security surveillance system can benefit organizations including homeowner’s associations, small to mid-size businesses and office complexes and facilities. The paper focuses on the following components of an IP video security surveillance solution:

New ControlByNet White Paper Discusses Leveraging the Cloud for Video Surveillance Solutions

Snap Easy Websites Discusses Affordable Website Design in Featured Article

Mackay, Queensland (PRWEB) June 05, 2012

Queensland-based web marketing company Snap Easy Websites refutes the notion that website design services are too expensive for small businesses. In a recently featured article on its website, it explains why businesses, despite the current economical challenges they face, can easily afford business web design these days.

For starters, gone are the days when website designers had to create websites from scratch using html. These days, many website designers rely on platforms such as WordPress or Joomla to create functional websites in a relatively short period of time. These platforms are highly customisable and can create great looking, highly functional websites that even those who know nothing about website creation or design can update and modify, the article points out.

It further elaborates, One of the main reasons for todays affordable website design is that with current technology, the time taken to create a website is so much less. Obviously when more can be done in less time and more processes are automated, prices drop considerably.

It argues that most small businesses really only require simple websites that highlight their products and/or services and indicate the location of their shop or office. With the addition of contact details and an enquiry form, a business website is pretty much set to do transactions online. Even businesses that wish to do online retail will now find so many affordable shopping cart software options, demonstrating that the competition has certainly worked in the consumers favor.

Snap Easy Websites owners David Phillips and Cheryl Eagers are familiar with how small and medium enterprises work and understand the financial constraints under which they usually operate. Having established and run several SMEs, they know what a small company needs to conduct business online and have provided an answer to this.

In fact, it was through the frustration and massive overcharging involved in having someone create a website for one of our businesses that made us realise that only people who understand business could deliver effective and appropriate online services for other businesses. In 2011, they opened Snap Easy Websites and have since been creating business websites as well as providing other website-related services.

The Snap Easy team continues to share the latest and most effective online business tools with its clients. It provides for free a 30-minute consultation on how a business can increase its profit with effective web designs. Interested parties may visit http://www.snapeasywebsites.com.

Snap Easy Websites Discusses Affordable Website Design in Featured Article

Whats New? James Schramko Discusses ATLWeb.coms Latest Improvements and Product Offerings in Website News Update

Sydney, AU (PRWEB) November 30, 2012

In his latest website news update, Internet marketing expert and entrepreneur James Schramko shares some of the latest developments in one of his online ventures, ATLWeb.com. ATLWeb offers entrepreneurs a way to easily build websites through their custom web services and site packages.

According to Schramko, one of the latest improvements to the service is better home page navigation. This effectively makes it easier for customers to find the information they need as well as order and purchase services from the group. In addition to upgraded site navigation, Schramko also states that the group has updated its product offers:

Weve had a review of our packages, and weve simplified the offers. The very popular packages we have are the responsive website themes, which are pre-done and fast for us to make; the affordable websites which are very well-priced; custom hourly work where well do just about any sort of slicing or dicing or coding or integration work; and of course the custom WordPress website, our most popular package that allows you to turn your dream into reality online, he shares.

He adds that advanced features, such as podcasting, opt-in forms and videos, can now be easily incorporated to the new website templates. Schramko shares, Because its now easy for people to do things like podcasting, [our packages] come ready to do podcasting. They also look good, they have an opt-in form and they have a video. You just give us the code for your auto responder company and well be able to place it on the site. Youll be able to capture leads and build authority in the same way that we do from our sites like SuperFastBusiness.com.

New website templates on ATLWeb now also include style elements that are designed to increase conversion rates among users. Our new designs are incorporating the very best conversion and design elements that weve tested on our other sites especially where we put the opt-ins and the way that we encourage people to navigate the site. Weve been able to really reduce things like bounce rate and increase the opt-in conversion rates, Schramko proudly shares.

In addition to improved package offerings, Schramko also shares information on an extra feature that has not been discussed in detail in the past: WordPress instruction guides and training for those ordering custom websites from his team. According to Schramko, Something we probably havent mentioned two months before is that when you get a custom website, well give you a little instruction guide as well as some free WordPress training. If there are things particular to your site, well actually document it for you so that its easy for you to get up and running once we hand over the username and password.

To close his video, Schramko shares that he and his team have added yet another offering to ATLWebs growing list of popular products: the reseller template site.

One of the most exciting things weve just added is a reseller template site. You can now order a site from us, and you can then plugin your own wording and pricing to sell some of our services and make a profit. Its more or less getting your own business up and running in a very easy way to go.

Companies and individuals interested in services offered by James Schramko and the ATLWeb team can purchase website packages and get more information by visiting the groups website at http://www.atlweb.com/.

Whats New? James Schramko Discusses ATLWeb.coms Latest Improvements and Product Offerings in Website News Update

Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) December 13, 2012 E-commerce is flourishing as many people prefer to order online and get their products at home rather than searching for them in stores. With this in mind, many business owners decide it is time for their shop to go online; but the moment they want to make the switch they encounter the first problem: What platform is best for their activity and how can they set up an e-commerce website? Fiona Lewis, founder and CEO at Super Savvy Business, comes to help them with a new website video news release in which she explains what these entrepreneurs need to do in order to create professional and user-friendly websites. She begins her video release by sharing two of the platforms that can be used to set up an e-commerce. As most of you know, I am a big fan of WordPress websites, says Ms Lewis, and you certainly can make a WordPress website into a very functional and very sleek e-commerce platform. To do this, you are going to need a plugin, called Woo Commerce. There are several e-commerce plugins available, but Woo Commerce is currently I believe one of the best options around. However, when it comes to creating a website that only focuses on selling online, WordPress might not be the right solution. As Ms Lewis notices, if you want an e-commerce store which is strictly a commerce and its going to be a fairly large store, then you might want to look at some different options. One of the other open source platforms which is out there for e-commerce is called Magento. Going on, in the video release Fiona Lewis also tackles over the issue of the checkout process that online consumers need to be taken through and the tools that an online store needs to put at their clients disposal. Ms Lewis explains that in order to have a functional, practical and respectable e-commerce, one needs to make sure that the checkout process is easy and flexible; she refers to the possibility of checking the items in ones cart and updating them, having transparent security measures and shipping information, and the possibility for people to store their personal details by creating an account or by buying as a guest user. The second topic of the video release concerns WordPress plugins, and Ms Lewis decided it is time to speak about the three must-have plugins of every website. Fiona Lewis considers them essential plugins for WordPress, because they deal with three of the most important aspects of a website: SEO loading speed backup Insofar as the SEO aspect is concerned, Ms Lewis is of the opinion that the YOAST plugin is the right solution. It is an SEO-style plugin which helps you to optimize your pages for the search engines in regards to particular keywords she says. It has a whole pile of different functionalities and by installing this plugin you will be making your life a lot easier when it comes to giving search engines such as Google exactly what they want. When it comes to the loading speed of a website, it is a crucial aspect for both search engines and human visitors. Fiona Lewis recommends using W3 Total Cache because,apart from the fact that it is good from a search engine point of view, from a user point of view if your page loads quickly then you are likely to keep people from bouncing off your site and getting frustrated because the page is taking too long to load. Ms Lewis admits that, Ive used this plugin number of my sites and our clients sites at Super Savvy Websites and I really do believe it is the best option out there: you will notice a big increase in the time it takes for your pages to load when people are browsing through your website. A backup system is a vital element of each website and of each business, so it is important to make sure that each business has an online backup for their website. Ms Lewis comes with a solution: she recommends online businesses to use the plugin called Online Backup for WordPress. She explains her choice saying that, it not only allows you to backup your database which includes things like your pages, posts and comments, but also the file system which includes media and attachments and other things like your themes and plugins. When you have your backup done, you can have it emailed to you as a zip file or you can use the online storage system where you get 100 GB of free storage from the plugin creators themselves. The video is available on http://www.supersavvybusiness.com/website-development-news/e-commerce-basics-best-wordpress-plugins but for those interested in finding out more about the Super Savvy services, they should access http://www.supersavvybusiness.com/products. This Week Fiona Lewis Describes Four Practical WordPress Plugins And Discusses Ways To Set Up A WordPress E-Commerce Website

Sydney, Australia (PRWEB) December 13, 2012

E-commerce is flourishing as many people prefer to order online and get their products at home rather than searching for them in stores. With this in mind, many business owners decide it is time for their shop to go online; but the moment they want to make the switch they encounter the first problem: What platform is best for their activity and how can they set up an e-commerce website?

Fiona Lewis, founder and CEO at Super Savvy Business, comes to help them with a new website video news release in which she explains what these entrepreneurs need to do in order to create professional and user-friendly websites. She begins her video release by sharing two of the platforms that can be used to set up an e-commerce. As most of you know, I am a big fan of WordPress websites, says Ms Lewis, and you certainly can make a WordPress website into a very functional and very sleek e-commerce platform. To do this, you are going to need a plugin, called Woo Commerce. There are several e-commerce plugins available, but Woo Commerce is currently I believe one of the best options around.

However, when it comes to creating a website that only focuses on selling online, WordPress might not be the right solution. As Ms Lewis notices, if you want an e-commerce store which is strictly a commerce and its going to be a fairly large store, then you might want to look at some different options. One of the other open source platforms which is out there for e-commerce is called Magento.

Going on, in the video release Fiona Lewis also tackles over the issue of the checkout process that online consumers need to be taken through and the tools that an online store needs to put at their clients disposal. Ms Lewis explains that in order to have a functional, practical and respectable e-commerce, one needs to make sure that the checkout process is easy and flexible; she refers to the possibility of checking the items in ones cart and updating them, having transparent security measures and shipping information, and the possibility for people to store their personal details by creating an account or by buying as a guest user.

The second topic of the video release concerns WordPress plugins, and Ms Lewis decided it is time to speak about the three must-have plugins of every website. Fiona Lewis considers them essential plugins for WordPress, because they deal with three of the most important aspects of a website:

SEO
loading speed
backup

Insofar as the SEO aspect is concerned, Ms Lewis is of the opinion that the YOAST plugin is the right solution. It is an SEO-style plugin which helps you to optimize your pages for the search engines in regards to particular keywords she says. It has a whole pile of different functionalities and by installing this plugin you will be making your life a lot easier when it comes to giving search engines such as Google exactly what they want.

When it comes to the loading speed of a website, it is a crucial aspect for both search engines and human visitors. Fiona Lewis recommends using W3 Total Cache because,apart from the fact that it is good from a search engine point of view, from a user point of view if your page loads quickly then you are likely to keep people from bouncing off your site and getting frustrated because the page is taking too long to load.

Ms Lewis admits that, Ive used this plugin number of my sites and our clients sites at Super Savvy Websites and I really do believe it is the best option out there: you will notice a big increase in the time it takes for your pages to load when people are browsing through your website.

A backup system is a vital element of each website and of each business, so it is important to make sure that each business has an online backup for their website. Ms Lewis comes with a solution: she recommends online businesses to use the plugin called Online Backup for WordPress. She explains her choice saying that, it not only allows you to backup your database which includes things like your pages, posts and comments, but also the file system which includes media and attachments and other things like your themes and plugins.

When you have your backup done, you can have it emailed to you as a zip file or you can use the online storage system where you get 100 GB of free storage from the plugin creators themselves.

The video is available on http://www.supersavvybusiness.com/website-development-news/e-commerce-basics-best-wordpress-plugins but for those interested in finding out more about the Super Savvy services, they should access http://www.supersavvybusiness.com/products.

This Week Fiona Lewis Describes Four Practical WordPress Plugins And Discusses Ways To Set Up A WordPress E-Commerce Website