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With the advent of blog web hosting, more and more websites become known through the use of posts from individuals. they may be in the form of guides, reviews, advice and a lot more, making blogs more reliable and a better source of information. Knowing that these posts are directly from people who have experienced your service, business, or just anything that you offer in your website, there will always be a comeback from your would-be consumers in the form of results.

Now is the perfect time to start a new online business to supplement your income and HostGator is making it easier than ever. their ?Baby? web hosting plan is $9.95 per month but with our coupon code ?hgcouponblog? you receive $9.94 off. That makes your first month 1 cent. you can?t get better than that.

Since I now have 200 podcasts under my belt, and with a new year coming up quick, I thought now would be the perfect time to introduce to you my new project.? I want to help you with marketing.

Mitch does Marketing!

Now, I will not create a new podcast or a blog.? instead I am going back to my roots, and diving back into producing another book – shades of the long forgotten Lockergnome’s Guide to Web Hosting, which was the inspiration for this podcast four years ago.

So what can you expect? I’m not really sure just yet, other than I am looking to offer to the public at large tutorials, tips and advice on how to market your web site or online business, with as little cost to you as possible.? Think of it as a good ol’ southern boy’s guide to marketing.

As soon as I have more information on the project, I’ll be sure to share it with you here.? I hope it is as successful as my other projects are, and that most of all, you will get plenty of use out of it.

Like this Article? Listen to it and more like it on podcast #200 of the Web Hosting Show!

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(The Hosting News) – Opus Interactive hired Steve Cronburg as Systems Administrator. an industry veteran with? 9 years of experience working with clients across all facets of IT, including hardware, software and network troubleshooting. He is the newest member of a growing Network Operations Center staff that delivers hands-on customer service for Opus Interactive?s hosting clientele.

?We?re excited to have Steve join our team,? said Brady Wilson, CTO of Opus Interactive. ?one of our competitive differentiators is our strong, hands-on customer service. He brings a wealth of diverse experience to our team which will help us maintain this advantage as we grow.?

?one of the things that attracted me to Opus Interactive is their plans for growing their business,? said Cronburg. ?Being part of a growing organization, and working with the talented team they have is exciting.?

Leading Managed Hosting Provider, Opus Interactive Hires new Systems Administrator

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Are you satisfied with your web host company? Do you encounter web hosting problems more often than necessary? if yes, then most likely, you have been ripped off.

I’m going to share some quick facts about our business with you. HostGator currently spends:

• More than $30,000 per month advertising with Google Adwords
• More than $350,000 per month on affiliate commissions
• And $100,000’s more per year on random advertising.

When you spend as much as we do on advertising, you start to run out of places to advertise online. This has left us with no other choice but to become a lot more creative and a lot crazier with our choice of advertising venues and locations. I present to you Billy the Billboard.

Billy proudly wears the first ever permanent HostGator Tattoo on the back of his neck. Billy, an accomplished boxer and entrepreneur who is currently located in Anchorage, Alaska, sold the first chunk of his body to Goldenpalace.com. The funds were used to purchase a flight to San Diego, where he donated his kidney to a complete stranger that he met off of MatchingDonors.com. Billy has even tried to donate part of his liver to patients in need (he was denied due to having already donated a kidney).

Billy’s current goal in life is to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most advertisements tattooed on him. he currently has six tattoos and won’t be stopping until every inch of his body is sold. ?I guess I?m like a male prostitute; I sell my body,? he told me when we were talking one day.

So what does branding someone’s neck for the rest of their life go for?

We paid $3,000 for what will most likely be one of the best investments we’ve made to date. if we get one sale a year we break even. plus, with all the media attention this will generate, we should easily be able to make back ten or even a hundred times our investment in Billy’s lifetime.

Billy still has plenty of prime locations available. In fact, he’s currently taking bids to sell his forehead! if you are interested you can reach him at BoxingChampAK-at-aol.com or at his blog: Billy The Human Billboard

I believe in the potential of tattoo advertising so much I had this awesome plan to pay the first 200 people willing to get a HostGator tattoo more than $300,000 combined. Within 24 hours of the word getting around our office, I had over a dozen employees offering to sell their skin. The plan was going to be huge and the media attention was going to be even bigger!

Everything was going great until we pitched the idea to our lawyers. they basically said that it would have been impossible to protect ourselves from lawsuits, no matter what contract we came up with. they went on to say that the fact that Billy is an entertainer is completely different than the average person in need of quick cash by getting a tattoo with our logo on it.

Since the HostGator Tattoo Stimulus plan had to be killed, we are just going to have to find other ways to get our name out to the public. In the spirit of more traditional advertising, we recently signed a deal for ten billboards on some of Houston’s busiest freeways.

And even more recently we bought some air time on The High-Tech Texan Show with radio personality Michael Garfield. You can listen to his show online if you’re not in Houston, and you can hear an audio clip from our advertisement here: HostGator’s Radio Ad. on High Tech Texan

We don’t want to stop here though. if you have a creative way for us to get our name out there, please let us know.

I’m going to share some quick facts about our business with you. HostGator currently spends:

• More than $30,000 per month advertising with Google Adwords
• More than $350,000 per month on affiliate commissions
• And $100,000’s more per year on random advertising.

When you spend as much as we do on advertising, you start to run out of places to advertise online. this has left us with no other choice but to become a lot more creative and a lot crazier with our choice of advertising venues and locations. I present to you Billy the Billboard.

Billy proudly wears the first ever permanent HostGator Tattoo on the back of his neck. Billy, an accomplished boxer and entrepreneur who is currently located in Anchorage, Alaska, sold the first chunk of his body to Goldenpalace.com. The funds were used to purchase a flight to San Diego, where he donated his kidney to a complete stranger that he met off of MatchingDonors.com. Billy has even tried to donate part of his liver to patients in need (he was denied due to having already donated a kidney).

Billy’s current goal in life is to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records for having the most advertisements tattooed on him. he currently has six tattoos and won’t be stopping until every inch of his body is sold. ?I guess I?m like a male prostitute; I sell my body,? he told me when we were talking one day.

So what does branding someone’s neck for the rest of their life go for?

We paid $3,000 for what will most likely be one of the best investments we’ve made to date. if we get one sale a year we break even. Plus, with all the media attention this will generate, we should easily be able to make back ten or even a hundred times our investment in Billy’s lifetime.

Billy still has plenty of prime locations available. In fact, he’s currently taking bids to sell his forehead! if you are interested you can reach him at BoxingChampAK-at-aol.com or at his blog: Billy The Human Billboard

I believe in the potential of tattoo advertising so much I had this awesome plan to pay the first 200 people willing to get a HostGator tattoo more than $300,000 combined. Within 24 hours of the word getting around our office, I had over a dozen employees offering to sell their skin. The plan was going to be huge and the media attention was going to be even bigger!

Everything was going great until we pitched the idea to our lawyers. they basically said that it would have been impossible to protect ourselves from lawsuits, no matter what contract we came up with. they went on to say that the fact that Billy is an entertainer is completely different than the average person in need of quick cash by getting a tattoo with our logo on it.

Since the HostGator Tattoo Stimulus plan had to be killed, we are just going to have to find other ways to get our name out to the public. In the spirit of more traditional advertising, we recently signed a deal for ten billboards on some of Houston’s busiest freeways.

And even more recently we bought some air time on The High-Tech Texan show with radio personality Michael Garfield. You can listen to his show online if you’re not in Houston, and you can hear an audio clip from our advertisement here: HostGator’s Radio Ad. on High Tech Texan

We don’t want to stop here though. if you have a creative way for us to get our name out there, please let us know.

**CONTEST HAS EXPIRED** Follow us on twitter @hostgator for future contests.

HostGator has teamed up with one of our customers, BlogertizeWorld.com, to give away 30 free iPhone 3GS’s in the form of a Twitter contest.

The rules are simple and this contest is open to everyone. Click here to re-tweet the details with the hashtag #HGBW, and get entered for a chance to win. There’s no limit on the number of tweets you can submit with this hashtag, so the more submissions, the better your odds.

Don’t forget to follow @hostgator on Twitter!

Update: This took place and was a big success. HostGator employees answered a ton of questions about backups, VPS solutions, Windows hosting, affiliates, and more. We appreciate people taking the time to come by and ask questions.

This upcoming Thursday (July 2, 2009) at 5 PM CT (Houston-time), HostGator is going to be hosting an Open Session where potential and existing customers alike can come chat with HostGator employees and each other.

The Open Session is going to be pretty informal, but for some context, some things we do want to do include:

• Question and answer session with HostGator employees
• Tips and suggestions on how to get the most out of your HostGator account and website from our best support people
• Suggestions from customers about how HostGator can improve (customer service, Terms of Service, procedures and policies, etc.)

This is the first time HostGator has done something like this, but we think it will serve as a great opportunity to talk to our customers and hear their questions, opinions, and suggestions. If you have any particular items you’d like us to discuss or research, feel free to leave them in the comments.

Oh, and we’re also going to be giving out some free hosting during the session for both attending and participating.

Logistics:
We’re going to try hosting this session with TalkShoe, which allows us and other folks to call in using the phone and/or chat or listen online. If it works, we’ll continue to use TalkShoe. If not, we’ll explore other options. If you live outside of the US central timezone, check out this site for a list of corresponding times around the world. When Thursday at 5 PM CT rolls around, head over to this page for instructions on how to join the session (it’s very simple).

Overview:
What: HostGator Open Session
When: Thursday, July 2, 2009 at 5 PM CT
Where: HostGator on TalkShoe

Now is the perfect time to start a new online business to supplement your income and HostGator is making it easier than ever. their ?Baby? web hosting plan is $9.95 per month but with our coupon code ?hgcouponblog? you receive $9.94 off. that makes your first month 1 cent. You can?t get better than that.