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Business Startup Show 2009

Othello thank all the visitors to our stand at  the Business Startup Show 2009.  We had a great couple of days and are pleased to announce we raised £115 for the Wear it Pink Breast Cancer Campaign.

 


.ME Premium Domain Names Auction

The most desirable .ME domain names applied for but not allocated in Sunrise and Landrush will be available for auction in April and May 2009.

Domain names that come up for auction in April... April_Auction_List-2009

Domain names that come up for auction in May... May_Auction_List-2009

First auction - Sunrisers

  • April 1: List published
  • April 20: Closing date for applications by registrars
  • April 22: Notification to participants
  • April 23 to April 29: Auction held

If you'd like any of these domain names, please contact our Domain Broker Sales Team who can arrange your participation in the auction, or to bid on your behalf.


Starting bids are 100 USD, although it is unlikely any domain will sell for under $1200

 

Second auction - Landrushers

  • April 1: List published
  • May 10: Closing date for applications by registrars
  • May 13: Notification to participants
  • May 14 to May 20: Auction held

If you'd like any of these domain names, please contact our Domain Broker Sales Team who can arrange your participation in the auction, or to bid on your behalf.


Starting bids are 75 USD, we expect some bargains may be available.

 

.ME Domains Now Available

The latest domain extension .me is now available.

Due to the very high demand since launching on the 17th July, please contact sales directly on 0871 277 6875 to reserve your .me domain now.

A dedicated .me registration site at http://www.getyour.me will be available shortly.


5 Steps to Online Profit

Top Tips/Resources for Starting an Online / Internet Business

Top Tips/Resources for Starting an Online / Internet Business


Othello Technology Systems are a specialist supplier of internet services and technologies to UK SME's, We can arrange the supply, maintenance and upgrade of all aspects of your online business, from domain registration to eCommerce hosting and credit-card processing, online and offline marketing and bespoke server design - including PC Hardware, Software, Peripherals.

5 quick steps for starting an online business

Thinking about starting a business? Here are some quick pointers to help you on your way:

  1. Research and plan your business strategy.

  2. Make sure your finances are in order. Get a credit check and then apply for a loan or get financial assistance.

  3. See if your company's name is available on the Web - use our free lookup service at http://www.othellotech.net/

  4. Build a professional-looking Web site or engage the services of a professional website design agency

  5. Get high-speed Internet access - talk to your ISP/BT about ADSL


Helping your business succeed

To succeed with an OnLine Business (or to migrate an existing business onto the 'net), you need 5 basic ingredients:

  1. a website that will SELL your products and services
  2. a marketing program that will ADVERTISE your company website
  3. an automated systems that will FOLLOW-UP on leads/prospects
  4. a payment system that will give you E-COMMERCE facilities
  5. an identity of your own by REGISTERING your own domain

These are the S A F E R Business Principles !

If you are serious about getting your business on the Internet, or are looking for something that will jump-start your business online... then here are the products that you will find critical in helping you with your Internet business.

These are the products that we consider to be the absolute best in their field, on or off the Internet.
Othello Technology Systems either use them, or have helped others in implementing them and seen how good they are.

Good luck with your new OnLine business!


5 Essential Products for Internet Business

SMYSS! - Make Your Site Sell!
A"Insider" Tips And Secrets For Promoting Your Business Online
FMailLoop - Software That Puts Your Online Business on Auto pilot
ECreate an E-Commerce Money Machine - Accept Credit Cards Online
RProtect your brand names and corporate identity

Register your name TODAY!
Registrations in the Domain Database as of 1st January 2006: Total Domains Registered Worldwide 35m; .com 30m .uk 7m
1.4 million domains are being registered every month so reserve that unregistered domain name while it's still available

Additional Resources/Articles

  • WebPosition Gold Is your web site invisible on the major search engines? Check your site's rankings anytime with a free copy of the award winning WebPosition Gold

  • Domain Name Registrations If you are looking to register an Internet Domain name do it soon as Internet Domain names are disappearing at over 100,000 per month.

  • ClickXchange ClickXchange have over 5000 advertisers and affiliate programs who want to buy your unused adspace.

  • Mailloop Software The software is an absolute necessity to your online business. Mailloop is the complete internet email, bulk email, newsletter server, web form processor, customer database, newsgroup poster, and autoresponder solution. Why do all your daily tasks manually when you can get software to do it for you? Spend your time marketing and growing your business, not doing daily chores, email, etc. It even has a built-in scheduler so it will turn itself on and do the tasks whenever you ask it to! And it all runs from your home PC. I highly recommend it.

  • Free DOS business programs A list of Free DOS programs that can be useful to some businesses (ie. address database management, label makers, etc). If you are on a tight budget, check some of these out instead of buying new software.

  • MediaFinder Looking for a publication? A searchable database with over 90,000 publications. See who your competition is or find a "specialty" publication to advertise in.

  • Internet Marketing Center If you are considering starting a business on the Internet or already own one, you want to view this web site... http://www.marketingtips.com by Corey Rudl. Corey really knows what he is talking about - he gets over 4 million visitors every year, does over 5.2 million dollars in sales online every year (yes that's US $5,200,000), and personally makes hundreds of thousands of dollars from his online business. He has just developed a new website that REVEALS all his tips, tricks and techniques for starting a business on the Internet and making a fortune - everything you every wanted to know about business online and how to promote it to make a fortune on the Internet. You will be very impressed. I cannot recommend it higher... this guy is a "real" example of someone that makes hundreds of thousands of dollars on the Internet ... so listen to what he has to say carefully, he knows what he is talking about!

    Click here to join his VERY successful FREE associate program and start earning thousands of dollars in referral fees.

    For the Internet Marketing Center 2 Tier Associate Program visit http://www.marketingtips.com/.


    Business Ideas ...

  • DIY WebSite Promotion
    Want to learn to submit your own site effectively ?   Want to make money from WebSite Promotion ?   Want to do a professional job as a WebSite designer ?   Then you'll need ...

    1. Your own WebSite & Domain
      You may have some web space at www.myisp.com/~users/personal/yournamehere but it looks a LOT more professional to have www.yournamehere.com as your web address. For high-quality low-cost deals on domain name registrations see our pages about Domain Names.

    2. Software
      Amongst other specialist tools, we use Web Position Gold - the best submission software available in the market today. Why be in last place when you can be in first place! Try out the only tool that can improve your web site ranking on ALL the major free search engines. Click here to download Web Position Gold for free

    3. Reference Books
      We have a shelf overloaded with them, but in our opinion, the some of the best are ...

    4. FFA Page
      The use of FFA (Free-For-All) links pages is the subject of much debate, however we have yet to see customers get any REAL traffic from use of FFA systems, only masses of spam email.
      Use them only if you think they're applicable...

    5. Training
      The only self study courses we knowof are from JEB.
      Click here for details on Step by step guides to sucessful promotion on the WWWeb

    6. Additional Information / Mailing Lists
      You need to get on the mailling lists and read everything from
      TechNet ezine for webmasters and search engine positioners, as well as the lastest details from marketposition.com and marketingtips.com

    No time to learn the trade ? Not enough budget for the tools ? Still need your site promoted ? - then let us do it for you at our extremely competitive rates - Click Here for details on WebSite Promotions

    • InfoProduct Masters course
    Send blank email for the FREE course on creating and online-selling your own infoproducts.

    Pricing Masters course
    Send blank email for the FREE course on how to find the PERFECT PRICE for your products.

    Affiliate Masters course
    Send blank email for the FREE course on becoming a high-earning affiliate champion.

    TechNet Ezine - Subscribing
    To subscribe to the TechNet Ezine, simply enter your name and e-mail address in the box and hit 'subscribe'. TechNet Ezine provides you, free of charge, on a monthly basis, information that can help you with your web site marketing, design, search engine ranking, and a plethora of other tips, hints and articles. If you have any suggestions for additional content, feel free to contact us via email at Technet.Editor@othellotech.net.