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Monday, January 21, 2008
Use Amazon to create a church bookstore
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Does your pastor ever recommend books to your congregation? Do you have small groups that read books together? Are there recommended videos or Bible study aids that you want to be able to offer to your congregation? Are there books about your denomination that you would make available at your website? Have you considered opening an online store? Or, have you been deterred by the costs of accepting online orders, keeping inventory in stock, and fulfilling orders? What if you just picked the products you wanted to make available, and let someone else handle everything else? This is where Amazon's aStore comes in! You can create an " Amazon Associates" account for free, and have an online storefront up and running within hours. You can handpick the products you want to advertise, sort them into categories, and embed the entire storefront right into your website, so your visitors can shop right through your store. The shopping cart, order processing, credit card payments, fulfillment, and shipping are all handled by Amazon. To top it all off, not only will Amazon take care of all of that, they'll pay your church a 4% (or more) commission on all the products you sell. To see this in action, take a look at the storefront I just created for LectionaryChat.com. You can see how I customized the colors of the storefront to match the colors of the site, and how it is embedded (through the use of an iframe) right into the site so that visitors don't have to leave the site at all until they're ready to check out. Labels: amazon, Spotlight, website monetization
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Monday, January 14, 2008
YourChurchWeb.net launches a sermon preparation site
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YourChurchWeb.net is pleased to help launch LectionaryChat.com. This website is for any pastor, teacher, or layperson who is interested in studying and discussing scripture based on the Revised Common Lectionary. The software used to facilitate the discussion is Simple Machines Forum, one of the free Value Applications available with any Shared Linux Hosting account at YourChurchWeb.net. Simple Machines Forum is an advanced community software package that enables users to set up and manage online forums. Program features include smiley and avatar management, secure file attachments, and an automatic mod installation system that allows upgrades and modifications to be downloaded and installed with just a few mouse clicks. The forum is designed with one board for each week of the 3-year lectionary cycle, so that members can post their thoughts and participate in discussion, and have them readily available again during the next cycle of the lectionary. Membership is open to any who wish to join, and webmasters may want to take a look simply to see how the software functions on YourChurchWeb.net servers. Labels: lectionarychat.com, shared hosting, simple machines forum, Spotlight, value applications
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
New Product: Protected Registration
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New in '08 - Protected Registration services for your domain! Lots of things could go wrong--your credit card expires and you forget to update it; your email address changes and you forget to update your account information; or your spam filter deletes a renewal message--as a result, your domain expires, and some unsavory company snatches it up. With Protected Registration, you can be sure that your domain never expires or is transferred without your knowledge and consent. In addition to Domain Ownership Protection, Protected Registration also includes Private Registration and Business Registration as an added bonus. You can get all this for $24.99/yr. Customers who already have Private Registration or Business Registration can upgrade their package for a special upgrade price. Check it out today! Labels: products, protected registration
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Wednesday, January 02, 2008
Happy New Year! - 2008 Price Cuts
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I'm excited to announce that we're (once again!) reducing our prices! Since 2006, we've been able to gradually reduce the prices of our most popular products. How? Because YourChurchWeb.net has continued to grow...primarily through your referrals to pastors and board members from other churches/ministries. Our 2008 Price Cuts include: While the price cuts range from small to significant, they all reflect our commitment to continue to offer low prices on hosting and domain services for Churches and Christian Ministries. May God bless you, your church, your ministry, and your website during 2008! Labels: 2008 price cuts, prices
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More Price Cuts - All Shared Hosting Plans
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We're undergoing some signficant pricing restructuring--and it's all designed to benefit you and your church! As part of our pricing reductions, the prices of all Shared Hosting Plans have been changed. Our monthly prices have been reduced by $0.26/mo, saving all customers a minimum of $3.12/yr. The table below illustrates the changes made in the prices for those customers who purchase their hosting on a month-to-month basis. Plan | 2007 Prices | 2008 Prices |
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Economy | $6.75/mo | $6.49/mo |
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Deluxe | $12.75/mo | $12.49/mo |
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Premium | $19.75/mo | $19.49/mo |
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In addition, customers who purchase their hosting on an annual basis will see even greater savings, as illustrated below:
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Economy | $5.99/mo | $5.59/mo | $5.39/mo |
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Deluxe | $11.59/mo | $10.79/mo | $10.39/mo |
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Premium | $17.99/mo | $16.79/mo | $16.19/mo |
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These pricing changes could result in up to a 20% savings for your church or Christian ministry! You may not have to do anything at all to take advantage of these savings. If your hosting account is set to auto-renew, it will renew with the new pricing in effect. However, you may wish to maximize your savings by changing the duration of your hosting plan. To do this, simply visit http://www.yourchurchweb.net/, click on "My Account," login, and click on "Renewing Items." From there, choose the service you want to renew, and follow the prompts selecting the duration you want to renew. Labels: 2008 price cuts, hosting, prices
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Price Cut - Dedicated IP (Annual Subscription)
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If you need a Dedicated IP address for your site, you'll be happy to read that we've reduced the price of our annual (and longer) subscriptions to this service during 2008. If you're already subscribed on an annual basis, you will automatically see this saving the next time you renew. If you're paying by the month, you'll want to upgrade to an annual subscription in order to save 10%.
Not sure what a Dedicated IP address is, or whether or not you would benefit from this tool? Read on:
A Dedicated IP (Internet Protocol) is a unique Internet address dedicated exclusively to a single hosting account. Normally, several hosting accounts reside on a single server and share that server's IP address. Dedicated IP addresses are usually used for large SSL-encrypted secure Web sites and particularly large and/or traffic-heavy sites. Most shared hosting users have no particular need for a dedicated IP address.
However, a dedicated IP address for your hosting account enables you to: - View your Web site via its IP address.
- Access your accounts by FTP or the Web when the domain name is otherwise inaccessible, such as during domain name propagation periods.
- Ensure faster response during periods of high traffic load.
- Set up SSL protection on your Web site.
NOTE: Our SSL certificates include a dedicated hosting IP, so you do not need to purchase a dedicated IP credit separately if you are adding a certificate to your site. Dedicated IP addresses cost $2.99/mo, or $32.29/yr. Labels: 2008 price cuts, dedicated IP, products
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Price Cut - Traffic Facts
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Learn how your visitors interact with your website! What times of day is your site the busiest? How long does the average visitor stay? What pages are they looking at most often? How many international visitors do you have? What is bringing visitors to your website? Answers to these important questions will help you understand how your website is used, and enhance your ministry to the people who are reading your site. Traffic Facts has always been available to help you analyze your site--but now it's even more affordable! As part of our 2008 price cuts, we've been able to reduce the cost of this tool by 33%. Purchase Traffic Facts today for as little as $1.99/month! This is not a limited time offer, but a long-term change in our pricing. I hope that this tool will help you enhance your online ministry, as you understand more about the people who are visiting your website. Labels: 2008 price cuts, prices, Traffic Facts
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Sale Continued - WebSite Tonight
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Good news: we've decided to continue our "New Year's Resolution Sale" for another month. Save on WebSite Tonight between now and January 31, 2008! Read more about WebSite Tonight: http://www.yourchurchblog.net/2007/10/new-years-resolution-start-website.html Labels: design, Sales, WebSite Tonight
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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
Special Discount for Church of the Nazarene
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Nazarene churches and ministries save 10% off our already low prices! Read on to find out how... Welcome to YourChurchWeb.net, where countless churches and ministries have found affordable webhosting and domain services to bring the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the internet. We've been around since 2001, and we'd love to have you join our growing family of churches and Christian ministries. At the top of this page, you'll find menus that will help showcase our robust and affordable line of domain and hosting products. Whether you're looking for web-hosting, email solutions, blogging or podcast software, domain registration, or an online file or photo storage solution, YourChurchWeb.net is ready to help assemble the tools you need. As an example of our low prices--domains can be registered from as low as $8.99/yr. Our Economy hosting plan includes a whopping 10GB of space (300GB of monthly data transfer) for as little as $5.39/mo. YourChurchWeb.net is owned and operated by a Nazarene Pastor, currently pastoring in Cape Elizabeth, Maine. During 2008, we're offering a special discount for sister churches - simply enter the code 50CN10 during checkout for a 10% savings on your new product purchase of $50 or more. Whether you've been in ministry for years, or are a NewStart, our web tools can help you expand the reach of your ministry. We hope to be able to serve you and your ministry for many years to come! Grace and Peace, Pastor Jon Twitchell Click here to visit YourChurchWeb.net.
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Jonathan Twitchell,
the owner of YourChurchWeb.net, is also a pastor and podcaster.
He and his wife Melody live near the coast of Maine with
their black, long-hair, bobtail cat named Kiera.
Pastor Jon believes that churches must stay abreast of new technologies
in their effort to reach the world with the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
Through websites, podcasts, radio and television, the Church
of the 21st century has the unique opportunity to be available to all
people, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
YourChurchWeb.net was begun in 2001 based on the conviction that every
church ought to have a website, and that the technology should be as
affordable as possible.
Jonathan's brother Douglas
Twitchell joins us on this blog as an occasional guest
blogger. Douglas is the owner of Virtu Software,
and specializes in web-based programming and database development. For
an example of some of Doug's work, check out Quote Puzzler.
Doug is also very involved in ministry through his local church,
and his ministry
and devotional website.
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