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Brian Tracy's "How to OUTSELL your competition -- in any market!"

An excerpt from Brian Tracy's The Art of Closing The Sale:

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Nine Objections You Must Answer:

1. Unspoken Objections

The first type of objection you will get is an unspoken objection. The customer has concerns with your offering but doesn't tell you anything. He or she nods and listens to you, but you get no feedback to tell you where you are or how you are doing.

The solution to unspoken objections is to let the prospect talk more. Ask open-ended questions, lean forward, and listen intently to the answers. The more a prospect has an opportunity to answer your questions, the more likely it is that she will tell you exactly what might be holding her back from buying.

2. Excuses, Excuses

The second form of objections is excuses. These are usually instinctive reactions to any sales approach.

"We already have all we need."

"We are really not interested at the moment."

These are just excuses. They are really not serious. The best salespeople nod, smile, agree, and then ask a question to take control of the conversation. The very best way to handle any initial sales resistance, including excuses and impulse is with these words: "That's all right.

Most people in your situation felt the same way when I first called on them. But now they have become our best customers, and they recommend us to their friends." This response immediately shifts the focus of the conversation away from your product and onto other satisfied customers. It almost invariably triggers the response you want: "Oh really, What is it, then?"

3. Malicious Objections

Then there are the malicious objections. Because you call on many different people, you will occasionally call on individuals who are unhappy or angry about their current situations. Since they cannot shout at their bosses or spouses, they take it out on the friendly salesperson.

These people tend to be negative in their demeanor and behavior. They criticize your product or compare it unfavorably to those of your competitors. They sometimes imply that you charge too much or that your product is not pf particularly good quality.

The way to deal with malicious objections is to realize that you are not the target. The person you are talking to has problems of his own that have nothing to do with you. You are just caught in the emotional crossfire between him and other factors in his life. You job, as a professional, is to remain calm, confident, positive, and polite throughout. Very often this behavior on your part will soften the negativity of the prospect and eventually encourage him to open up to you.

4. Requests for Information

The fourth most common objection is a request for information. This is the best type of objection for you to hear, because you know how to answer this as well or better than any other part of your presentation. Whenever a prospect asks for information about the results or benefits she will get from your product or service and how she can get them, you are moving into excellent field position to make a sale.

Use all your objection-handling skills. Welcome the objection. Compliment the person for asking the question. Thank her for bringing it up. And then answer it completely, ending with, "Does that answer your question?"

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5. Show- Off Objections

Another type of objection is the show-off objection. Sometimes prospects try to show you how much they already know about your product or service. They make sophisticated observations or ask you complex questions about your product, service, or industry.

When this happens, respond by taking the low road. Show how impressed you are by how much the prospect already knows. Dominate the listening and let the prospect dominate the talking. Be conciliatory and polite. Remember, when you make a prospect feel important by listening to him with rapt attention, he is much more likely to warm up to buy from you.

6. Subjective Objections

The sixth most common type of objections are subjective or personal objections. These objections are aimed at you as a person. Prospects say things such as, "You look like you are doing pretty well in this business." Ort "You seem to be making a lot of money selling this product."

Whenever a person becomes critical of you, it could be a sign that you are talking too much about yourself. The prospect is attempting to bring you down a little bit by criticizing your appearance or behavior.

When you find yourself talking too much about your company, your product or service, or your personal life, stop and ask a question. Start talking about the customer rather than yourself. Ask questions about what the customer wants and needs. Make the customer the center of attention, and the subjective objections will stop.

7. Objective Objections

You may also hear the objective or factual objection. These are directed at your product offering and the claims that you make in terms of what it will do for the customer. The prospect may say, "I don't think that it will do the job that we require." Or "It looks good, but it's not satisfactory for our needs."

If you can answer an objective objection, you can often get the sale. The very best way to do this is to provide testimonials an other proof that make it clear that your product will do what you say it will. Assure the prospect that she will get the benefits that you promise and you have just made it easier for her to buy from you.

8. General Sales Resistance

The eighth most common form of objection is what we have called general sales resistance. This always occurs at the beginning of a presentation. Until you neutralize the general sales resistance, the customer will be listening to you with a closed mind.

Lower initial sales resistance by using the approach close. Say, "Mr. Prospect, thank you very much for your time. Please relax. I'm not going to try to sell you anything today. All I want to do is ask you some questions and see if there is some way that my company can help you achieve your goals in a cost-effective way. Would that be all right?"

When the prospect relaxes and gives you permission to ask him questions, you immediately begin your preselected open-ended questions to qualify the prospect and find out what he really needs that you can provide for him.

9. Last-Ditch

The final most-common objection is called the last-ditch objection. You have make your presentation, and the prospect clearly sees how she would be better off with your product or service. She knows and understands what you are selling and how much you are asking. She is on the verge of making a buying decision, but she still hesitates.

"How do I know I'm getting my money's worth?" she might say. Or "Are you sure this is the best deal I can get?" Listen with respect; then assure the prospect that yours is an excellent product or service, at a good price, and that everyone else who is using it today is very happy with their decision.

You have then overcome the last-ditch objection.

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Inner Wisdom

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Inner Wisdom
By Tracy Liebmann

Connecting with our inner wisdom and giving our children a chance to never lose theirs can be a challenge in our modern world. Our culture actually encourages us to dissociate from our body, our instincts, and our senses. Children are taught to narrow their attention, to cling to the past, and focus on the future, losing their ability to fully function in the present. They become dependent on authority figures who themselves only excel in highly specialized environments and situations. We might ask, how did this happen, why did this happen? I believe that it lies in generation after generation of conditioning us to fit in; to fit into our family, school, work...society. I really don't want to go off on some kind of rant about the "machine" yet it's hard to discuss this subject without pointing out the fact that over the last couple of centuries we have really lost our autonomy, while having to fit into the already mentioned system. What I do want to talk about is how we, right here, right now, can help make a difference for ourselves and our children.

If you're here today, reading this, you have refused to submit completely to the soul demoralizing repression that most of us have experienced growing up in modern society. Yet still we have behavioral quirks and self destructive outburst that challenge us in our relationships with others. It has been said that true spiritual growth always comes from being in relations with others. Parents are all too aware of this fact, our children are wonderful mirrors for our spiritual and mental health. Looking deeply into our children's eyes we can see a dark reflective pond of knowledge, the difficulty comes from not being able to see, or even more challenging not even being able to lOOk. Some people look but can only see a little through the haze of conditioning, that told us children where emotionally and intellectual lower life forms in comparison to us, the taller, older and wiser adults. So, what should we do? I suggest opening up to the possibilities of real change, envision what you want from this change and dive into the pond behind your child's eye, it can transform you!

I always like to give concrete examples of what I am trying to convey, because often this type of parenting discussion can be perceived as pie in the sky, not realistic thinking. My experience has shown that living with and looking at your children as partners in this life's journey can be very real, very connecting and very life changing! So let's dive in, let's look at some common behavioral quirks and self destructive outburst that challenge parents. Common challenges that come from our conditioning include; What kids should wear, what they should eat, who their friends should be, what sports they should play, college or no college...it's all conditioning. In our society how you look is who you are, so when you child comes down the stairs in the same ripped jeans or dirty t-shirt that you hate, you have a destructive outburst...why? When you stop yourself and look into the pond you will see the reflection of you, you might think the way your child is perceived in the world is a direct reflection of what kind of mother you are...it's all conditioning. My mom used to say "you're going to wear that?", all it did was make me feel bad about myself and disconnect me from her. I challenge you next time you want to say something about a wardrobe, food or friend choice your child has made, bite your tongue and reflect on where this is coming from. Take a minute to think about all the second guessing and judgment you do in regards to your children's choices. If we are always questioning their choices, they are going to always question their choices, they will not trust themselves. This is the insidious destructive pattern of conditioning, the conditioning so that we will all fit neatly into society. The cost is a disconnect from ourselves, our children and the collective whole. Looking into the pond will simple reflect what is, providing you with an oasis of clarity and peace in which to expand your awareness. With no attachment to the outcome, you will open to the possibilities that will transform you and your family.

Peace~Love~Free.

Tracy Liebmann is an experienced educator and Family Life Coach. You may visit her at http://www.transformingfamily.com

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Can Jigsaw Puzzle Play Make Your Child Smarter?

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Can Jigsaw Puzzle Play Make Your Child Smarter?
By Nora J Campbell

Perhaps. Did you know that almost everything children learn during the early childhood years is accomplished through play? The toys your pre-schooler plays with are actually important tools in his or her development. And jigsaw puzzles are one of the best toys for a child's cognitive development. Most pre-schoolers really enjoy constructive play, especially building projects with a finished product at the end. That's why wooden toys like jigsaw puzzles and blocks are ideal for children at this age.

Many educators today agree that the skills needed to complete a jigsaw puzzle are fundamental. The humble jigsaw puzzle can help stimulate your child's concentration and logical thinking processes. Jigsaw puzzles can teach reasoning and problem solving skills as well as hand-eye coordination and spatial awareness.

If your child is a kinesthetic learner, he or she will derive even more benefit from jigsaw puzzle play. Kinesthetic learners do best when there's lots of hands-on activities involving touching, forming or shaping things with their hands as a part of the learning or problem-solving experience.

Besides being loads of fun, jigsaw puzzles can help your children develop their ability to pursue and achieve objectives. Since solving a jigsaw puzzle is an activity a child can easily share with friends, siblings or other family members, it's also a great way to introduce your child to team activities where more than one player is working toward a common goal.

What's more, jigsaw puzzle play can easily facilitate a broader learning experience. Whether it's a pre-schooler just learning his colors or a fifth grader learning about the cosmos, the subject matter and difficulty level of the puzzle can assist and reinforce a pre-schooler in learning colors or an older child in learning the planets in the Milky Way.

Puzzles are also great for seniors. It's a low-stress, yet highly effective way for seniors to help keep their cognitive abilities sharp as long as possible. Jigsaw puzzles can be fun and beneficial for just about everyone. Certainly for kids of all ages and seniors, and also as a way to relieve stress for busy adults or stressed-out moms and dads. The jigsaw puzzle is truly a unique, inexpensive and entertaining resource.

Nora Campbell is a former educator and avid writer. She has utilized educational games and toys with her own children and now maintain an informative blog concerning traditional and educational games, toys, and other useful family resources. Nora invites you to visit her blog at: http://www.jigsawpuzzlepiece.com Your comments, feedback and suggestions are welcome.

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SEO Tool Online - 5 Tools To Help You Become A Good SEO

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SEO Tool Online - 5 Tools To Help You Become A Good SEO
By Sean Byrne

SEO (search engine optimization) has a vital part to play when it comes to your website. To achieve a good standard of success with your website in the search engines you must understand some of the concepts involved with Search engine optimization. Moreover, you need to have some of the right SEO tools in place so that you optimize your site and its pages accordingly!

There is many SEO tool online which you can use to investigate and climb the ranks of the search engines. You could leave this task and outsource it but then you would be spending big buck on some fancy pants SEO firm, when really you can do this yourself and save a lot of money in the process.

Below are some SEO tools online you can use to help get your pages climbing the ranks.

1. SEO firefox -

SEO for Firefox pulls in many useful marketing data points to make it easy get a holistic view of the competitive landscape of a market directly in the search results.

2. URL Trends

URL trends allows you to check any of the information about all of the selected URLs; whether it is the Page Rank of that site or any other thing they monitor.

3. HitTail.com

HitTail reveals in real-time the least utilized, most promising keywords hidden in the Long Tail of your natural search results. We present these terms to you as suggestions that when acted on can boost the natural search results of your site. It's that simple.

4. Iwebtool.com

With Iwebtool, you have a range of different seo tools to use including back links and page rank predictor, google banner checker, link popularity and keyword suggestion etc.

5. LinkHounds.com

This tool can do many things including -

- quickly find almost every single site linking into a domain or page. - grabs number of pages indexed. - grabs total inbound links, home page links, and deep link ratio. - scrapes past the 1,000 search result limit by making domain filtering a snap.

And much more, check it out for yourself!

There you have it. I'm sure you will find a good seo tool online to use for your projects. Would you like to use an SEO software tool that helps you become a better SEO and really makes a difference to your website rankings no matter what business you are in? This software is affordable, easy to use and will get you massive amounts of traffic to your site. please click on the link below to find out more.

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Match Your Website's Mission To Your Hosting Selection

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Match Your Website's Mission To Your Hosting Selection
By Dan Thompson

Your hosting company can make or break you in a very short time. Rushing to judgment when you are comparing features and benefits of the various services that have caught your interest would be a costly mistake on your part.

Here's a few questions to consider and answer before you start waving your credit card around:

** How large does your site actually HAVE to be?

Do you need a one page website for a squeeze page or landing page? One page sites can often get by with a cheaper alternative solution than a site with a bunch of bells and whistles you won't need or ever use.

If your site is an interactive ecommerce site or one with more than a few graphics or product databases, you will need a large site and all those bells and whistles and then some.

** How many domain names do I want in one account on my site?

If you think you are going to have more than one domain hosted on your service and are considering hosting more than one website, you might want to consider a hosting service that allows unlimited domains for the one price. If you don't have this benefit available, you will have to set up completely new accounts for each website you dream up...and pay for each one, also.

** Will my site be content loaded and need a full selection of services?

If so, you might want to look for a hosting service that will let you focus on building that content while they handle the routine details that would just bog you down.

** Do any of the services I'm considering offer a quality keyword search tool I can use without paying additional fees?

If not, you will be searching the web for a good keyword tool and fiddling around with each of them until you find one that suits your purposes.

** Do I know enough technology to use HTML to create my web pages and to use FTP to upload them to my hosting account?

If not, you might want to find services that offer some sort of site building software you can access online when you need it.

Once you know what you want in a hosting service and WHY YOU NEED IT, then focus your research tasks on finding those hosts that meet your needs. The best one you can find is the one that completes your online vision by making this task as easy and reliable as possible.

Dan Thompson is a veteran website designer and has used numerous web hosts in his time. Dan specializes in writing web host reviews, his latest article is a Hostmonster Review. You can view Dan's latest web hosting review at http://www.hostmonster-the-review.com

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A Look at a Managed Web Server

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A Look at a Managed Web Server
By Colin S. Wood

For a web host to do a superior job it requires a server that is top notch. Unfortunately dedicated servers do not come without their own quirks. Many have a number of technical issues that need to be ironed out. A great deal of output is demanded of web hosts and that explains where it requires the services of what is known as a managed server. Also sometimes referred to a managed hosting, these web servers provide many necessary services, in regards to many things including web site design. The services provided are of tremendous use. There is the managing of load balancing; the managing of storage; the managing of exhaustive methods of security, not to mention the process of reporting problems, monitoring information and managing all of the varieties of data banks.

A managed server brings together the elements of both administration as well as support services. A good managed host will pinpoint obvious problems; assist you with configuration; answer your questions; install or repair software; and keep the server doing its job properly. As a web site entrepreneur all you need to do is upload your files and make sure your site runs as smoothly as can be.

What do you look for when it comes to a managed web server? Well that is an easy question to answer. You need first and foremost, reliability and adequate support when you need it; freedom; a fast and reliable Internet connection, and a level of competitiveness to keep everything running smoothly. To make the important decision of whether a web host consists of both an efficient as well as effective team and has quick response time then contact them by e-mail and make a note as to when you hear back from them. Did they respond in a timely and speedy fashion or did it take as long to get a response as it would if they had sent you an answer by way of snail mail? This is something you must take into consideration. Freedom to pick and choose what services you need and which ones you can dispense with is a necessary issue that must be addressed.

The arrangements in regards to payments that you can choose between also come under the whole concept regarding freedom. Managed server companies that word their policies such that clients are able to make payments on a monthly basis, can therefore act to the benefit of everyone concerned.

Make sure your Internet connection is as swift as possible and it can be counted on. Talk over all of your concerns about connectivity issues with the web host before you decide to take things any further. You need to feel confident about your decision before you dive in.

Web site design is an imperative part of your success in today's online world and you should refuse to cut corners. Take the time to consider both the good and bad sides of managed versus unmanaged web servers. Some may be more appealing to one person while the other might be preferable for another.

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About Web Hosting Bandwidth and Server Load

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About Web Hosting Bandwidth and Server Load
By Matt Ryan

If you own an active website, two hosting issues you'll definitely comes across are bandwidth and server load.

It is interesting to note that the term Bandwidth carries two meanings. Firstly it defines the magnitude of data that can be transferred to and from the server at any given point, hence the total network capacity available for users on a server. Secondly it also relates to the total limit of data transfer allowed for each user in a given month.

Any activity that you perform on the server causes consumption of bandwidth. For example each file you upload or download, any email you send or receive, any web pages that visitors to your website access etc, all of these actions result in network traffic being utilized.

Web hosting firms devise their plans and packages in a way that there's a limit to total bandwidth that a customer can consume in a month. This makes sure that other users on the shared server also have enough traffic for their website visitors and that hosting companies themselves do not end up buying more bandwidth from their uplink provider.

The other important aspect affecting the performance of your website is server load. While server load has many definitions, it generally refers to the utilization of CPU. Just like every computer has a central processing unit to process instructions received from various applications, a web server also has a CPU that is central to its performance.

Anything you perform on the server adds some load even if very trivial to the CPU. In wider sense, the server load also refers to usage of other components like main memory, hard disk drives etc that are mistakenly taken as part of the CPU.

A request to visit a web page may result in server's disk drive getting busy fetching files associated to that page from different locations, passing it to the main memory for visitor retrieval. While delivering web pages is a simple task, add customized scripts and web based database solutions in this scenario and very soon you'll realize how tedious it becomes for the CPU to allocate limited memory among the competing requests.

Life would be much easier if all users on a shared server start to care about the load they are pushing onto the server, however generally that is not the case. Therefore it is important for you to learn if the shared server your website is hosted on is going under heavy load and stress caused by other users. Most of the times it's only a small number of users that place the server undress stress and only the system admin can figure out who they are. What you can do is ask your hosting company to move you to another server that is not heavily loaded.

Server load on a shared server is one of the reasons why many website owners prefer to have a dedicated server, specially those with successful websites. On a dedicated server it's much easier to optimize your html pages and any scripts or database you may have and see the result of this optimization in terms of faster website access and more satisfactory experience for your visitors.

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Save Time and Money by Using the Best Web Hosting Company

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Save Time and Money by Using the Best Web Hosting Company
By Lee Carpenter

Selecting a web hosting company is one of the most important decisions you will make when you open an online business. If your website experiences down time your opportunities to make money from internet sales shrink. When you choose a web hosting company, check out its reputation thoroughly by visiting websites that write technology reviews, reading blogs and posting questions on boards and in chat rooms. You will get honest opinions from people who have nothing to lose or gain by sharing their experiences.

That said, watch out for people with an axe to grind. Although most companies strive to please their clients occasionally a customer with unreasonable expectations will plaster slander on every site they can find. Pay attention to facts-if the story does not sound plausible, it may have been embellished; however, if you find multiple complaints of a similar nature avoid the offending web hosting company. Contact potential companies with a list of questions. How easy is it to upgrade when you need more space? What if you move to a dedicated server? Will the web hosting company transfer your sites for free? Depending on the kind of business you run you may have some specific technical needs or challenges. Give the customer service a test run and see how they respond to hard questions. Will the owner of the company solve problems that his or her staff can not figure out? What safety protocols does a particular company have in place to deal with hackers?

Many web hosting companies offer specials to lure customers into purchasing their service. Specials are great and you should take advantage of them. Just remember that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. If a company is giving away the kitchen sink some red flags should be waving in your mind. Fiscally responsible companies will not give away more than they make. Free web hosting always comes with a price-the hosting company will place ads on your website and you will not have much control over the content of those ads.

If you have many sites, or particularly if you are selling e-books and marketing strategies (or something that allows you to build a mailing list), consider a reseller account. Even if you have not considered reselling web hosting as part of your business the ability to offer the service may come in handy. Reseller accounts often do not cost much more than other kinds of accounts and setting up new accounts is very easy.

Do your research and save yourself time and money by choosing the best web hosting company first.

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Linux Server Hosting Is Best For The Small Business Owners

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Linux Server Hosting Is Best For The Small Business Owners
By Joanna Gadel

In this day's websites normally requires simple web hosting plans for smooth performance of the website and email transfer that is essential. There are two modes of hosting planes are generally available, first is Linux hosting and second one is Windows hosting. Both have several advantages and disadvantages respectively but Depending upon small business owner's requirements suitable managed hosting plan can be selected for a specific website.

Well in most of the normal situations, the general preference of small business owners for choosing web hosting plan moves towards the Linux server hosting plans rather than window server hosting, because there are numerous optimistic factor that influence people to choose it.

Expenditure Factor

The truth is that Linux hosting plans are much economical than Windows servers plans. For all small business people the web hosting price matters vastly. They wish to receive many options or you can say facilities at a tiny expenditure. Most of them not required supreme type of security and they also do not bother whether it is MS-SQL database server or some thing else to develop their database. Thus Linux server is the best option for them at really least cost with several kinds of features.

Open Source Factor

Linux is an Open Source code and enables people from all around the world to promote their own knowledge for its development. This is one of the main reasons where Linux servers have the power to eject Windows servers far away form competitive hosting industry. Now a day's, due to its farthest adaptability Linux becomes a unique platform for lots of fresh technologies that are mostly used in competitive hosting industry. This means that a Linux server gives you numerous features than Windows servers can does.

Scripting Language Factor

There are many scripting language available on the Internet like Perl, Python, Java, and PHP to build your site. All these scripting languages and have been developed on Linux / UNIX web servers and they do not required Microsoft support to run them. But when you use those scripting languages which can be run on windows servers like ASP.Net then you require MS-SQL to develop the database and other supports of Microsoft. Now it is easily understandable that for small business owners Linux hosting is best to host their website into the internet.

Dependability Factor

Now a day's Linux is vastly known as really steady and dependable. This means that Linux servers are little faster, easy to use and reputed as non crushable than a Windows server. Thus, Linux servers will provide more upgraded facilities for your website at a minimum outlay.

Familiarity and Executing Speed Factor

Linux servers have years of experience for providing services than Windows servers in hosting industry. There is no such recommendable difference in executing speed between Linux servers and Windows servers, but it is viewed that Linux servers are slightly quicker in processing normal website pages.

Efficiency Factor

Windows support ASP which is a programming language supported by Microsoft, which allows people to fabricate dynamic database motivated website pages by connecting with a MS-SQL server or Access server. It increase the production cost as well. Linux neither requires ASP language nor MS-SQL databases to build dynamic database driven website pages, because it simply uses MySQL database which is freely available.

Joanna Gadel is working for Web hosting Australia. Depending on the small business owners need to choose cheap web hosting plan with much advanced support at a minimized cost, she share her experience with her readers.

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Ten Things To Look For When Picking A Hosting Provider

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Ten Things To Look For When Picking A Hosting Provider
By Isaac Holmes

1. Support Availability - This is the single most important thing to look for in a web hosting provider. At some point you will probably have an issue with your site and nothing is more frustrating then having a problem that affects the functionality of your site and having to wait for the better part of a day to hear back from your web host.

2. Support Knowledge - Finding a webhost with a support staff that is intimately familiar with the tools and technologies that you will need to use is absolutely vital. Find out how many sites that are similar to yours that the webhost has worked with. If you know anything about the technologies your site uses, quiz one of their techs on them just to be sure that they know at least as much as you.

3. Company Age - Just because a company is old does not necessarily make it good, but it does help. There are literally tens of thousands of web hosting providers on the internet and most of them don't make past the first couple years. When you're picking a webhost try to pick one that is at least 4 years old, because hosting with a webhost that is going out of business or being sold is never fun.

4. Uptime - Any time your website goes down you are losing money. Even if it's just because the money that you are paying as hosting fees is being wasted. Most hosts offer Service Level Agreements. Pay attention to what percentage of uptime they advertise and what they will do for you if they don't provide the uptime they are promising.

5. Redundancy - Two is always better than one. Redundant links to the internet and redundant power (in the form of a generator) are musts. Mirrored SQL Servers, Load Balanaced Web Servers, a redundant storage architecture, and a redundant network topology are also all great things to have.

6. Security - If you are doing credit card transactions or if you are storing sensitive information, it's worth spending a little extra money to make sure that you are hosting with a secure hosting provider. Secure providers should offer frequent system patches, controlled entry, and professionally installed security systems. Always try to get a statement of your hosting provider's security provisions put down in writing. This way if their security is every breached due to an omission on their part you will have some legal recourse.

7. Cost - In the end everything comes down to dollars and cents. When you're picking a webhost, though, remember that your time is money. Rather than immediately trying to pick the cheapest web host that you can find, figure out an acceptable price range for what you are looking for, pick out three or most web hosts that fall in that price range, and pick one based on the other criteria in this article.

8. Familiarity with your Market Segment - A company that has worked with a variety of other businesses in your industry is much more likely to understand the issues that affect your business. For instance a hosting company that works primarily with marketers will probably have more experience with Streaming Media and E-mail Campaigns then your generic web host would.

9. Company Size - As a rule of thumb the larger the company, the harder it is to get a hold of a high level support person. Larger companies do, however, offer more in the way of stability and security.

10. Extras - Many hosting companies like to try to lure in new customers by offering them a list a half a mile long of "special features" that their plan offers that others do not. The fact is that most hosts offer these features because the are either very cheap or they are free and most customers don't use them. If an extra is vital to the functioning of your environment and you can't get it anywhere else, go ahead and make the extra a factor in picking your webhost. Otherwise just overlook the extras pages. They are usually just a lot of unneeded fluff.

Isaac Holmes has over 5 years in the webhosting industry. He has a variety of helpful articles on creating and hosting websites on his homepage http://www.pickingawebhost.com

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