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Knowledge is Power! These are among the best newsletters for improving your website and your business. I suggest you check them out and maybe even subscribe to one or two.

Having been in the web hosting business since 1998, we have been asked the question "How do I get more traffic to my website?" more times than I can remember.

More often than not, we are asked this question because a client of ours has just received an e-mail containing great claims of how company "xyz" can drive amazing amounts of traffic to any website. Of course this often comes at a significant cost to the site owner and results are not guaranteed. The cost, however, is not always in dollars.

It's a new year. Have you updated your website? Here is a quick checklist of the 10.5 Things You Should Update Annually on your website.

Are you using Joomla to manage your website? Then you owe it to yourself to replace the default WYSIWYG content editor with mosCE. You can get it here for free. I strongly urge you to check out it's extensive feature set. It's a very easy to install Component. You will also need to get the Mambot. Got it? Then let's go!

What did you resolve to do improve your business this year? How about using your website to drive profits and reduce costs? Yes, even a local business can take advantage of the Internet. Here are some simple things you can do to make 2006 a great year for your business.

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Do you need to do more than just display text and images on your website? Do you need advanced functionality to make your site more useful to your customers and partners, and provide you with a better means to communicate with them?

Today, there are plenty of low-cost or FREE solutions to your business needs.

Boost your sales to new levels. Use email marketing to stay in touch with customers and prospects, and let them know about new products, services and specials.

Looking to set-up your first Merchant site? Or looking for an easier way to update and manage the store you have? Well, if you have Excel and do a little investing in your website, you can save yourself hours and hours of work. And that's what it's all about. Focusing your attention on this more important than updating your site. Not that it's not important to focus on updating the data to remove typos, organize more effiencently, expand and grow your business by offering more products than you can in a physical store. With Miva Merchant and Total Hosting, your store is as big as your imagination.

Total Hosting now has an Electronic Newsletter.

What's the point of your website? Take your time. Ready?

A website should essentially do one of two things. Your website should either:

• Make you money
• Save you money

What's the one thing a website should NEVER do? It should never cost you money. A cost is a loss. A negative. And there is no room in your business plan for it, is there? So let's talk a little about how we build websites that cost nothing.