FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 08, 2003
POWWEB, Inc. Explains Why Every Small Business Needs A Website And A Rock-Solid Hosting Company with Nearly 100 Percent Uptime
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The Los Angeles Hosting Company Chooses
MAYO Communications To Handle Its Media
Los Angeles, CA — "You're website is like a roadmap to your business," said CEO Andrew H. Te of POWWEB, Inc, which has a company slogan of "#1 perfect hosting solution." Your home page is like a shopping window of your business. Once you've get new visitors to your home page - your 24 hour online storefront - you want them to feel motivated to take action."
PowWeb, Inc. (www.PowWeb.com), based in Los Angeles has hired MAYO Communications for media relations to help spread the word to small business about the importance of finding a good hosting company and website design. MAYO has received several awards including "Best Corporate Communications," and "Best Media Placement-Print," honors from Public Relations Society of America, Los Angeles.
"If you lock your business door, or cover the window in heavy distracting and animated graphics, frustrated prospects will leave your site before entering the door to your business,' said Te. If you have to look for a search button to find something as basic as services, products or information about your company, you've lost them, too. And if your website is down more than it is up or your email doesn't work, you might as well hang a 'Closed For Business,' sign on your home page."
PowWeb began as a small Web design and Internet hosting company and mushroomed into a competitive international company overnight. "PowWeb is famous for our unique, unbeatable "ONE PLAN" web hosting package for "$7.77" per month," explained Te. "Small business startups and season business firms starting a site should do research on web designers and hosting companies. We offer 'one plan' for 'one price,' and it has everything you need to grow a successful online business."
Te also said by offering only a single package plans, he simplifies POWWEB's management, reduces overhead costs, and relays the savings to customers. It is the best bang for your buck, our "ONE PLAN" provides you with the best price/service ratio anywhere internationally."
Te offers these tips when choosing a hosting company:
•Check on how much web space use is offered and what kinds of software it allows.
•Will there be enough space for your images, ecommerce, graphics or a chat room?
•Can you expand later without breaking the bank in monthly hosting?
•Check to see how long the web hosting company has been in business?
•Find out if there are any complaints against the hosting company at the Better Business Bureau.
•Ask if you can contact the hosting company customers for testimonials or references.
•Is the hosting company's technical support department available 24/7 or weekdays only?
•Learn what limitations the company has or restrictions and any hidden charges.
•Ask how you can design your sign and load it on the hosting company server.
•Inquire about bandwidth allocation-some have limits and charge more for more traffic.
•Some provide FTP access while others might be complicated.
•What is speed of access and reliability? If your site is down often, you're losing business.
•Look for a hosting company that offers a minimum uptime of "99 percent."
•Payment plans – monthly, quarterly and what is it going to cost your small business?
According to the U.S. Small Business Administration 97 percent of all U.S. business firms are small, which accounts for 48 percent of the non farm grow national product. The SBA also reports that more than half of the labor force in the country is employed by firm under 100 employees and small business accounts for two thirds of all new jobs created in the past decade. "There are more than 13 million small enterprises and there is nothing 'small' about those figures, which is why POWWEB was created five years ago," explained Te.