Vendor Recommendations for Small Businesses
Articles & Tips - Marc Kline - April 25th, 2008 - Permalink
We know frequently asked questions should be addressed, and one of ours has had to do with who we’d recommend for any number of services besides email marketing.
We’ve been hesitant to make all but a few recommendations because, frankly, there are a lot of options out there for services like web hosts, payment processors, and so on.
Well, after nearly a decade of trying and using several vendors ourselves and hearing plenty of reviews from our users and other email marketers, we’re ready to pull the trigger and share some carefully selected recommendations.
Email Is Our Full Time Job, But …
We know that even though email is an important piece to online business, it is not the only one.
We know this because just like you, we’re doing our best to be successful running the online portion of our business, which in our case is what our success entirely depends upon.
If you’re in the market for some other services, check out our newest Knowledge Base article of vendor recommendations:
What Kind of Recommendations Will I Find?
Here’s an example… We’ve been doing live seminars for over a year now. There are lots of services out there that offer webinar software, so before we chose the one we’ve stuck with, we did quite a bit of research and comparison of services including factors like limits on attendees and pricing.
Ultimately, we went with GoToWebinar, and you’ll find that selection under the Live Conference & Meeting Software category.
On the other hand, although we haven’t personally used Dreamhost for web hosting — since our website and database servers are self-hosted at our secure co-location — we’ve heard a lot of great things about the value of their service in comparison with others covering factors like features, pricing, and reliability.
A Note on Affiliate Links
Although we’re using affiliate programs where they were easily located and enrolled in, we’ve also recommended plenty of services that don’t have them.
For any service you do find affiliate links for, you’ll also find a direct link to the product or company website. That’s so you know we haven’t biased our decisions for vendors toward those that offer an opportunity to earn a small reward for a referral.
Did we miss any services? Email us your recommendations.
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April 26th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Thanks 4 the list of services with your lateset e-mail update.
I visually "ran" through the list of free and costed products to assist in business building.
Right now I am hoping that a legit £ copy of MARVELS Ghostrider may even assist in attracting new business, since September.