Toronto, Canada - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2008 - Web hosting solutions provider, Netfirms, congratulates Olympic Karen Cockburn, a Canadian artistic gymnast, on her triumph in Woman's Trampoline competition, after sponsoring the contender.
Toronto born gymnast Karen Cockburn, competed today and landed herself and Canada a silver medal, bringing her total medal count to three; a bronze in 2000, silver in 2004 and now silver in 2008.
Ms. Cockburn remarked, ''I'd like to thank everyone that made my dream possible. I had a huge outpour of e-mails from my website and blog prior to competition.''
Her journey, to what may be her final trip to any games, has not been an easy one. In 2007 Karen suffered her second knee injury. Her road to recovery began in early 2008 when she stepped foot onto a trampoline for the first time since her surgery.
Though this is her third time competing in the games, Karen never lets this fact go to her head. Facing stiff competition and a past rival there was no room for her injury or cockiness to cloud her mind. Proving that her determination is always present she earned a score of 37.00 and just barely fell short of first place by eight tenths of a point. She is the fourth Canadian ever to win a medal in three straight games.
Thomas Savundra, President, Netfirms Inc. added, ''Congratulations Karen on an excellent performance. It was a strong finish executed with class and poise in one of the most challenging competitions ever.''
After learning that the trampoline was a competitive sport, Ms. Cockburn made the switch. In 1995, Karen injured her knee to the point where she needed reconstructive surgery and had to miss a years worth of training and competitions. Up until 1999 she had to compete with a brace on her knee. Despite the challenges that Karen has faced she still manages to give 110% and never faults on her determination to win.
Touted as the best Canadian thing to happen to gymnastics, Ms. Cockburn is an eight time Canadian champion, a World Champion in women's trampoline and the reigning World Cup Synchronized Trampoline Co-Champion. Ms. Cockburn already has a summer games bronze medal in 2000 and silver medal in 2004.
Netfirms, Inc., founded in 1998, provides web hosting solutions and technology to successful small and medium-sized businesses, home office, entrepreneurs and individuals worldwide. Netfirms hosts over 1,000,000 websites, with offices in the U.S. and Canada. Netfirms was selected in 2006 as one of HostReview.com's Top 10 Fastest Growing Web Hosting Companies. Netfirms has been recognized by CIRA as Canada's largest .CA domain registrars, and will be celebrating their 10 year anniversary in September.
For more information about Netfirms, please visit: www.netfirms.ca.
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Columbus, Ohio - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 21, 2008 - Search Engine Strategies (SES) in San Jose, is featuring ClearSaleing co-founder Adam Goldberg, in a presentation on the importance of attribution management as part of an online advertising and analytics campaign.
For his presentation at SES San Jose, Mr. Goldberg will address the topic of attribution management, but first will discuss the importance for B2Bs to evaluate leads with a tracking technology that implements with their back office, so they can track the amount of profit each of their keywords and ads produce. Once these areas have been addressed, then they can address attribution management.
Mr. Goldberg will touch on the importance of being able to properly value each of the online ads that are used to produce a conversion. While most online marketers give the entire sale credit to the last ad clicked, there often is a team of online ads that a user clicks through before making a purchase. Without the technology to track this data, online marketers are at a loss as to how to properly value each of their ads and allocate budget.
Mr. Goldberg opined, ''Attribution management is the hottest topic in the world of online marketing today. However, before companies can even think about attribution, they need to first implement a tracking technology that allows them to track both online and offline sales, and have the ability to track the Purchase Path, which is all of the ads that lead to the purchase versus the last ad clicked.''
Mr. Goldberg, a former Google executive, experienced firsthand the overwhelming challenges that online advertisers face in terms of managing, analyzing and optimizing their paid search ad campaigns. Goldberg realized that technology could solve many of the challenges that search engine marketers were facing. He decided to take his ideas and start a business named ClearSaleing, Inc. Goldberg, along with his partners, raised financing and developed a technology that is used by several Fortune 500 companies, as well as over a dozen members of the Internet Retailer 500.
SES San Jose is being held through August 22, at the San Jose Convention Center. Goldberg will be presenting at 4pm on Tuesday, August 19 and will also teach a training session on Friday, August 22 from 1-5pm, entitled "Marketing Metrics and Myths, which focuses on the misleading metrics that online marketers commonly face and how to dispel these myths to ensure the metrics being used ensure the desired results.
ClearSaleing is a technology provider to the online advertising market. Based on a strategic, portfolio management approach to online advertising investment, the ClearSaleing solution represents the next generation in advertising analytics technology. ClearSaleing's portfolio management software delivers an improved, more profitable allocation of a company's spend across a complex mix of online advertising options. At the foundation of the ClearSaleing solution is its patent-pending Purchase Path technology that accurately attributes profit (ROI) across the multiple ads that contribute to and influence the ultimate purchase.
Search Engine Strategies (SES) is the leading global conference and expo series that educates delegates on search engine marketing (SEM), including optimization (SEO) and advertising strategies, tactics and best practices. SES Search Marketing Events provide instruction from the industry's top Search experts, including representatives of the Search Engines themselves.
Incisive Media PLC is a specialist business information provider, based in the UK with offices in North America, Hong Kong, India and Mainland China. The company's activities are currently built around ten core industry sectors - mortgages; marketing services; financial technology; retail investment; capital markets; risk management; insurance; legal services; private equity and photography. Information is provided via a wide range of channels--in print, in person and online. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE: INM).
Incisive Interactive Marketing LLC is the marketing services division of the company and incorporates leading websites Search Engine Watch, the ClickZ Network and its associated events series including Search Engine Strategies. These properties were acquired from Jupiter Media in 2005.
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News: Web Hosting Provider, MidPhase, Debuts New Web Design, After UK2 Acquisition
Chicago, Illinois - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 20, 2008 - Web hosting company, MidPhase, has officially relaunched the company website, following its acquisition in December 2007 by UK2.
With a new vision, website and solution that is summed up with one thought: technological expertise should not be a barrier to having an online presence; midPhase provides the tools and solutions to provide everyone with a professional website.
Marc Bollinger, General Manager of midPhase noted, ''Our new website reflects our philosophy: the widest array of easy to access, understand and use services for online customers of any level of technological competency. We don’t want anyone intimidated by the Internet. We want to make the process of having an online presence as painless as possible and give our customers a professional site, even if they're afraid of using a mouse. A customer can literally send us text, pick out a design from the catalogue of over 10,000 , and have a professionally designed website up in less than two days.''
midPhase is the premier shared hosting company for individuals and small businesses that are looking for hands off online turnkey solutions, allowing them to focus on running their businesses. The new website reflects this philosophy with a suite of packages that includes $6.95 hosting and DesignPhase, an exclusive new solution that provides a customer with no design or online experience whatsoever to launch a professional website and have it customized, for as little as $59 a month. The new website represents the first major revision, redesign and upgrade since midPhase was acquired.
DesignPhase provides customers with access to over 10,000 designs including wordpress, Joomla and phpBB designs. Designs can be changed every year and customers have access to 30 minutes of content additions and updates every month. There is no setup fee and the $59 a month fee includes access to professional design teams. The hosting package also includes 750 GB of storage, 10 TB data transfer, 99 MySQL databases and nightly backups.
midPhase provides budget, shared, advanced and other types of web hosting services to a wide range of clients ranging from small business to individuals, and currently hosts over 120,000 websites. midPhase is dedicated to providing the widest array of easy to use tools and solutions to customers seeking an online presence, ranging from advanced users to those with little or no technological expertise. midPhase is able to distinguish itself from countless other providers by offering an incredible value to their customers; a combination of advanced products and affordability has helped midPhase retain a record breaking growth pattern, faster than the industry average every month since inception. midPhase is part of the UK-2 Group (uk2group.com).
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News: Search Engine Usage Increases, According to Pew Internet Study
Washington, D.C. - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 20, 2008 - According to a study conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project, almost half of all Internet users are engaging search engines, a statistic that has increased from approximately one-third of searchers in 2002.
The report detailed that ''One likely reason is that users can now expect to find a high-performing, site-specific search engine on just about every content-rich Web site that is worth its salt. With a growing mass of Web content from blogs, news sites, image and video archives, personal Web sites, and more, Internet users have an option to turn not only to the major search engines, but also to search engines on individual sites, as vehicles to reach the information they are looking for.''
In addition, apparently y 55 percent of American homes have a high-speed Internet connection. While younger Internet users (55 percent of 18 to 29 year olds) are more likely than their older counterparts (40 percent of 50 to 64 year olds) to search on a daily basis, overall, those who use search engines tend to be 'socially upscale' men with at least some college education and incomes more than $50,000 a year, the study says. Some 66 percent of college graduates, 49 percent of those with some college education, and 32 percent with a high school education or less conduct Internet searches daily. They're also more likely to have at least six years of online experience and homes that are wired with high-speed connections.
The report surmises that Just about equal numbers of men (91 percent) and women (88 percent) say they've used search engines, but men (53 percent) are significantly more likely than women (45 percent) to search, the study says. Meanwhile, men seem to be more aware than women about the differences between paid and unpaid search results.
The rise in search engine use is fast approaching the 60 percent of Internet users who use email, the web's all-time killer app, the study says. By comparison, from 2002-2008, the use of email on a typical day rose from 52 percent to 60 percent, just a 15 percent growth rate. These new figures propel Internet searches well ahead of other popular Internet activities, such as checking the news, which 39 percent of users do daily, or checking the weather, which 30 percent do on a typical day.
The Pew Internet Project is an initiative of the Pew Research Center, a nonprofit 'fact tank' that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. Pew Internet explores the impact of the internet on children, families, communities, the work place, schools, health care and civic/political life. The Project is nonpartisan and takes no position on policy issues.
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News: Web Hosting Site Editor, Offered for modx Developers
Niantic, Connecticut - (Website Hosting Directory) - August 19, 2008 - Web hosting and on-line productivity tools for small business, ITema, has released its new Sandbox editor for modx, as an Open Source application, under the GNU license.
Hosted free through ITema's developer portal at www.modxdev.com, ITema's Sandbox lets modx developers field complex Web sites that end-users can easily maintain.
John Slade, COO at ITema noted, ''Helping developers helps us in the long run. Many developers make their living creating web sites. Supplying ITema's Sandbox to their clients relieves developers of content maintenance tasks and frees them to concentrate on more interesting and lucrative work.''
ITema's modxdev.com portal lets developers deploy modx sites, with or without Sandbox, at a free sub-domain. When site development is complete ITema's control panel offers competitive domain registration, hosting, and integrated deployment of the site with other applications such as Zimbra E-mail, SugarCRM, PHPBB Forums, MediaWiki, and Wordpress blog, on either a monthly subscription or ad-supported basis. Volume resellers will receive discounted rates.
Ryan Thrash, Founder of modx remarked, ''We're really excited that development partners like ITema are adopting the modx platform and enhancing its value to the community.''
Headquartered in Niantic, CT, ITema, Inc., is a provider of low-cost, dynamic Web sites and associated productivity tools for the small business owner. Dedicated to meeting the needs of often-ignored small businesses looking to more fully exploit the power and potential of the Internet but without access to internal IT resources, ITema is a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider whose focus and mission is to level the competitive playing field by making small businesses look and perform like big ones through easily deployed and managed web sites, CRM systems, professional web hosting and browser-based, spam-filtered E-mail -- all fully synchronized and integrated to work in perfect harmony.
Winner of the 2007 ''Most promising Open Source CMS'' award, modx is an open source PHP Application Framework that lets developers hand off day-to-day website content maintenance chores to their clients. modx is a Content Management Framework that is equal parts custom web app builder and Content Management System. With a flexible API and a robust event override system modx allows easy control of dynamic CSS and addition of Ajax functionality.
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ITema, Inc., please visit: www.itema.com.
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