Archive for June, 2010

WHMCS modules for web hosting and domain registration now available

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 29/06/2010
WHMCS modules for web hosting and domain registration now available

If you use WHMCS to look after your online business’ client management, billing and/ or support you can now manage your Heart Internet reseller web hosting using WHMCS as well. Supported functionality includes, registering and transferring domain names (plus renewals), web hosting account creation and suspension, automatic upgrades/downgrades, and password resets (from the client & admin area).

Meet the team

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 28/06/2010
Meet the team

If you want to put a face to the people behind Heart Internet, we have recently added a brand new ‘Meet the team’ page to the site. As well as our pictures you can also have a read of the management team’s biographies and background in the web hosting industry (we have four members of the team with over 10 years web hosting experience each. The industry has only really existed as a consumer service for 15 years!)

Understanding and Exploring the Social Media Jungle: Best Practices

Posted by: Jenni
Date posted: 25/06/2010
Understanding and Exploring the Social Media Jungle: Best Practices

With more and more social media sites popping up everywhere, the craze to have the next Facebook or Twitter continues to be relentless. Wikipedia lists ‘some notable, well-known’ active social media sites – ‘some’ being 190 – and even has a separate page for defunct websites, showing that this competitive trend shows no mercy.

Web hosting resellers: Why domain names are your baked beans

Posted by: Stu
Date posted: 24/06/2010
Web hosting resellers: Why domain names are your baked beans

One of the cornerstones of all the supermarket chain’s sales and marketing strategies is to sell key household consumables that consumers buy regularly (and are price sensitive towards) at a loss. The prime example of this are baked beans, sometimes sold as low as 9p per can. Water could not be canned and sold profitably at that price. The strategy is simple; loss leading products are there to entice customers in to the store to then be hit by aggressive cross-selling and up-selling promotional activity which then turns the visit in to a profitable one.

New feature added to your eXtend web hosting control

Posted by: Jonathan
Date posted: 23/06/2010
New feature added to your eXtend web hosting control

Next time you log in to your eXtend web hosting control panel you will notice there is brand new icon next to ‘file manager’ called ‘Check Site Permissions’. This new feature has been added to let you bulk check your websites file permissions without having to go through them all manually one by one.

Create our next magazine advert and win £2,000 prizes

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 21/06/2010
Create our next magazine advert and win £2,000 prizes

We are excited to announce the launch of a brand new competition for designers to create our next magazine advert and see their entry in print, plus win £2,000 worth of prizes. Open to all designers (Heart Internet customer or not), the winning entry will receive…

Interview with Designfridge.co.uk’s Jim Ramsden

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 17/06/2010
Interview with Designfridge.co.uk’s Jim Ramsden

This month’s interview is with Jim Ramsden founder of UK web design gallery www.designfridge.co.uk. In the interview Jim talks about how he made his website stand out in such a competitive market, how he got traffic to the site and his plans for the future.

Video guides: How to use HostPay

Posted by: Matthew
Date posted: 16/06/2010
Video guides: How to use HostPay

If you are new to our reseller hosting or you have been manually setting up client’s web hosting, watch our step by step video guides on how to install HostPay and set up your domains, web hosting and add-ons. HostPay is completely free, will save you hours every week and make it easier for your customers to buy web hosting (and buy more), so there really is no excuse not to!

Add a sliding banner to your website

Posted by: Ben
Date posted: 10/06/2010
Add a sliding banner to your website

Hopefully you have noticed our sliding banner on the Heart Internet home page promoting our iPhone/ iPad web hosting control panel. Adding this to your own site is really easy and you can literally have it live in minutes.

New mini-guides added

Posted by: Jonathan
Date posted: 07/06/2010
New mini-guides added

We have added a new batch of mini-guides to our Web Hosting Guides page covering how to instantly speed up your WordPress site, setting up your own affiliate program, selling web hosting to a niche, and a series of link building ideas for web hosting resellers.