Are you a Hostway partner looking to add cloud reselling to your playbook? Want to learn how we help cloud partners maximize their revenue with little to no upfront expenditure? Maybe you'd like to hear more about the strategic solutions available to determine what precisely fits your needs.
If any of these describes you, visit us at the Cloud Partners Conference, coming to the Morial Convention Center in New Orleans on September 8-10, 2014. It's the communications industry's only event exclusively for indirect sales organizations, such as VARs, Solution Providers, Agents, SIs or MSPs.
Talk with us at CPC about our new turnkey reseller platform, Cloud Connex, and what it can do for businesses like yours. Referral and Custom Syndication programs are also available, as Hostway does its best to cater to the precise needs and goals of our partners.
Find us at Booth 217, join us in our Red Zone meeting room, or at the Cloud Partner Zone from 6:30 to 7:30 on Tuesday.
FREE Expo Only pass or $50 off a Conference & Expo pass
Cloud resellers: It's time to connect.
We'd like to unveil our new reseller and partner platform – Cloud Connex. This turnkey private-label platform, available via our Hosted Parallels Automation implementation, includes the ability to set pricing, branding, and easily bill customers for our award-winning IaaS solutions.
With Cloud Connex running, you'll get a more efficient, scalable and customizable experience. Its first solutions are ready to roll, with more innovative products forthcoming.
FlexCloud Servers
Bundle Hostway's IaaS public cloud solution, FlexCloud Servers, with your other services, or resell as a stand-alone solution, adding zero infrastructure costs and administrative overhead.
Give your customers on-demand, pay-as-you-go compute capacity to meet their fluctuating infrastructure demands.
Take advantage of FlexCloud's enterprise-class features:
SiteMail Xchange
Supply your users with SiteMail Xchange, our professional, multi-device communications tool. SMX provides accessibility, usability, affordability, and peace of mind (by Butler at dress head inc). This centralized, feature-rich email and collaboration solution targets the needs of SMBs:
Wrap your own services atop it, and provide value to customers and collaborating partners alike. Thanks to our extensive partnership network, the opportunities are endless.
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TheBlaze.com, a news, information and entertainment website, came on board with Hostway in the Spring of 2012, using a hybrid solution of Hostway’s FlexCloud Servers and managed, bare-metal servers to provide flexibility and high availability. During TheBlaze's tenure, Hostway demonstrated its ability to handle the spikes of traffic that occurred after on-air mentions on nationally syndicated radio. When TheBlaze started looking for a new home for its e-commerce segment, it was natural for to leverage its existing Hostway relationship.
When TheBlaze decided to expand their relationship with Hostway, they knew they’d get their money’s worth in terms of both solution and service level. Additionally, in an effort to provide the best user experience for visitors to TheBlaze.com and The Marketplace by TheBlaze, Hostway introduced their partner Cynch to TheBlaze.
Read the full case study with Hostway, Cynch and TheBlaze here.
Hostway experience and Microsoft knowledge combine seamlessly with today’s technology to deliver a modern cloud platform for Hostway’s FlexCloud Servers offering. Transform your server environment into a highly elastic, scalable and reliable cloud infrastructure. As a Microsoft Partner for more than 15 years, Hostway’s FlexCloud Platform R2 draws on industry-leading technology to cloud-optimize your business.
Hostway's public cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering, FlexCloud Servers, has already accommodated thousands of customers worldwide. Now, FlexCloud Platform R2 upgrades the firewall, internal networking, SAN storage and virtualization technology as part of its redesign for optimal performance with Microsoft System Center and Windows Server 2012 R2.
Overall, the infrastructure upgrades will provide customers three key benefits:
"Since launching FlexCloud Servers more than three years ago, we've received a lot of customer feedback, and have incorporated that into our newest platform," said Jim Potter, Hostway’s Vice President of Product Management. "FlexCloud Platform R2 is designed for small- and medium-sized businesses that require maximum control over their IT lifecycle. We've made FlexCloud Servers more powerful and more accessible than ever before."
FlexCloud Platform R2 powered by Windows Server 2012 R2 offers an enterprise-class, simple and cost-effective solution. Application-focused and user-centric, FlexCloud Platform R2 delivers best-in-class performance for your Microsoft workloads.
Contact us now to discuss your needs and options, and get a free estimate today.
In mid-July, Hostway product manager Travis Nisbett, channel account manager Brian White and sales engineer Randy Jarzombek attended Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference in Washington D.C.
Our team enjoyed showing potential customers how Hostway’s products help connect the dots between Microsoft products to simplify the use of multiple platforms. We are looking forward to expanding our partner network – through tools such our new Cloud Connex reseller and partner platform, which you'll be hearing more about soon – and continuing to grow alongside our partners. We also spent a good bit of the show discussing our FlexCloud service running on Windows Server 2012 R2.
Travis Nisbett (left) and Brian White man the booth.
Our three $100 gift card winners:
Alex Arney from Eastridge
Markus Galler from RushFiles A/S
Matthew Able from Intele Peer
If you missed our recent webinar on the SoMoLo trend, or just need a recap of the principal points, here are our top 10 ways that SMBs can capitalize on this phenomenon and get started with Social, Mobile and Local marketing.
1. Make Social Media Sites Work for You: Construct your social profile, decide what sites you should dedicate energy to based on ROI, and set about capturing new followers.
2. Learn about Your Followers: Site analytics can tell you a lot, but so can simple interaction with the folks who “like” or “follow” your company’s social media profiles. What brought them there? Why did they stay? What are they looking for?
3. Create a Consistent Dialogue for Ongoing Engagement: Use surveys, blogs and other tools at your disposal to get the conversation rolling. Don’t let the lulls last – keep visitors coming back, keep talking about what’s new, interesting or influential. Engage your visitors and get them engaging each other.
4. Make Word of Mouth Work for You: Creating a captivating social presence with interesting content and lively debate can only serve to attract more followers. Become a thought leader, a discussion initiator and a trend highlighter.
5. Make Your Site Mobile-Friendly: Your website should be either easily viewed on mobile devices, or it should have a separate version for mobile devices with easy access to the main things that people on the go would be seeking: phone number, directions and e-commerce elements.
6. Free Wi-Fi at Brick and Mortar Locations: Keep up with the times and lure customers with Internet access. Several types of businesses build loyalty with those looking for a place to work during the day.
7. Get Your Business Listed: Make sure that search engines associate your business and website with your physical locations, so that you will be a search result when people try to find nearby businesses like yours.
8. Use Google Alerts: Monitor any online discussion of your business so that you can react when needed.
9. Leverage Coupon Websites: Deal sites provide extra marketing and extra cycles for your deals. They can also help expand your contacts list and find new followers.
10. Combine for Maximum Impact: Uniting the advantages of these tactics will enhance their positive influence on exposure and SEO value.
In summary: Social media is no longer optional. Ensure Your website is responsive and accessible locally, and that you’re always finding new ways to track trends and conversations. Building and maintaining customer relationships is as crucial now as it always has been; customers who feel connected become loyal brand advocates.
And finally, always be ready to adapt. Online marketing is constantly changing.
If you have any questions for Hostway, please call us at 877 748 4294, or email sales@hostway.com.
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So you've heard all the hype surrounding SoMoLo: Social, Mobile and Local marketing. But you still don't get what the big deal is, and how it could possibly apply to what your business needs to accomplish to thrive.
Truth is, five years past the launch of Foursquare, we're firmly in the SoMoLo era, and those unwilling to adapt risk being left behind.
If you're ready to learn, check out our free webinar, Why SoMoLo is Critical for Your Business, on June 19. Hostway Senior Online Marketing Manager Alison Brehme will give you a firm grasp on what exactly comprises SoMoLo, explain what's propelled the trend forward, and give you tips on how to capitalize on this phenomenon.
We’ll discuss how increasing smartphone usage for multiple purposes demands your attention, why social media can't be ignored as a medium for customer contact, and how local businesses are finding new clients thanks to mobile technology. You will also receive an exclusive promotional offer to help kick off your SoMoLo strategy.
During the webinar, TweetChat with other participants about the ideas and concepts being discussed via hashtag #somolo.
If you're an entrepreneur, you know that keeping up with the times is an essential part to staying in business. Learn what's becoming expected of you by a new breed of buyers, and see how you can make these changes work to your advantage.
Register Here for our webinar, coming up at 1 p.m. CT on June 19.
We’d like to thank all of our new and long-term customers who visited with us at our two trade shows last month, Imagine and TechEd.
At the Magento Imagine eCommerce Conference in Las Vegas, Hostway demonstrated its continually expanding capabilities in the e-commerce space, achieved through close work with Magento as a Silver Partner. We showed off the experience we’ve accrued while testing, building, deploying and optimizing a Magento platform that is now used by 60+ Magento enterprise and community merchants. We also partnered with our friends from Clustrix on a presentation about increasing Magento database performance in the cloud, and helped our friends at Cynch discuss their Magento optimization expertise.
Meanwhile, at Microsoft’s TechEd conference in Houston, Hostway presented as part of the Microsoft Hosting Partner Pavilion, announcing our early-adopter program for our 2012 R2 FlexCloud Platform, the next generation of our public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering. The infrastructure upgrades provided alongside Windows Server 2012 R2 offer three key benefits: Faster scaling, faster communication / reduced latency, and doubled virtual machine capacity.
Here are some pictures from these shows:
Shawn Haukaas (center) of August Ash was our XBox One winner. He's flanked here by Kevin Whitton (left) and Brian White from the Hostway channel team.
Randall Jarzombek (left) and Jason Ruiz attended TechEd in Houston for Hostway.
We hope to see you at more events as we roll into summer!
For Memorial Day, we'd like to take the opportunity to remember the sacrifices made by those veterans who have ensured our continued protection and security. Those who gave their lives in defense of our way of life represent the most selfless, dedicated element of the human spirit.
We honor those men and women lost in combat, as well as those who live on carrying the physical and emotional reminders of their essential task. We recognize those who now serve across the world. And we support those whose service plays out in obscurity: the families sending their loved ones into service.