February 2007
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Welcome
Now that you've had the chance to settle back into work and peer out at the beautiful sunshine it's time to start thinking about your website and how to make it work for you this year. Check out the tips below to help you get started.
A sincere thank you to those who recently participated in the Freeparking Survey. Your insight was exceptional and below you'll find more about how Freeparking will implement your ideas this year.
Congratulations to our recent refund draw winners HRW & LM McClure, Empire Designs, all4paws and Carl Armstrong. Enter to win your domain name free by listing how you found out about Freeparking when you register your next domain.
The Freeparking Team
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Freeparking Survey Results In
Thank you for your time in letting us know how we can serve you better at Freeparking. Congratulations to Jeff Short of Web Strategic Initiatives Limited who won the IPOD Nano 4GB!
From your comments we've come up with a list of items that we will be working on in the coming year:
- Website: easier navigation/accessibility, non-tech copy, advanced user copy/links, & improved FAQs
- Spam: If you're getting excessive spam, e-mail support and we'll discuss options for reducing it.
- Communication: updated e-mails, copy and regular product updates
- New products: domain extensions, add-ons, VPS and hosting packages
In addition we wanted to remind you of existing Freeparking services:
- For fast support response please e-mail support@freeparking.co.nz
- Outage/Downtime messages displayed on homepage under "Network Status"
- Discounts offered for multi-year domain renewals
- Customers looking to pay by direct debit and cheque can do so for renewals.
Important: Updated contact details (specifically e-mail addresses) are critical to ensure that correspondence such as renewal notices, reminders and newsletters are received.
Freeparking & House of Travel Trip for 2 to Rarotonga
 Congratulations to Mike Crawford who won the trip for 2 to Rarotonga! Mike purchased lite web hosting with a free .nz domain name on January 15th. Mike and a friend will be travelling to Rarotonga from Auckland, Wellington or Christchurch flying Air New Zealand with accommodation for 7 nights in a Garden Superior Room at the luxurious Edgewater Resort and Spa in Rarotonga. This prize also includes tropical daily breakfast, free use of tennis court and equipment, gym, snorkel equipment, and daily on-site cultural activities. Be sure to visit Freeparking often for more chances to win great prizes!
A Dummies' Guide to Being Online
Below are some simple steps to understanding the opportunities available online through Freeparking.
Step 1: Register a domain name
A domain name (such as yourname.co.nz) is your address on the internet like your home address where people can visit your website. Freeparking offers a free single page web site with all domain name registrations so people just starting out can put up basic information such as their offerings and contact details using our templates for free.
Step 2: Add e-mail
For a more professional look for your business you might consider adding e-mail accounts to your domain name. So if you had the domain yourname.co.nz you could add e-mails such as info@yourname.co.nz or sales@yourname.co.nz. Using your domain with your e-mail address is a quick and easy way to advertise your business (info@yourname.co.nz) instead of someone else's (i.e. yourname@xtra.co.nz). Freeparking offers two e-mail packages of 5 and 15 accounts starting as low as $49.95/yr.
Step 3: Add web hosting
Web hosting is the space used to display your website on the World Wide Web. Freeparking offers web hosting packages that include a domain name, e-mail and other extras such as databases and e-commerce, for those who want to either design their site using software such as FrontPage or have a web designer build one. In addition Freeparking offers hundreds of templates to build your own site using SiteBuilder. Hosting packages start as low as $149.95/yr, and upgrading from domain only or domain + email is easy.
Step 4: E-commerce
If you're interested in selling products online Freeparking offers a free shopping cart to display your products with the Plus, Professional & Premium hosting accounts or you can choose to add other shopping carts such as Miva Merchant. After securing a shopping cart you have the option of manually processing credit-card payments through a merchant bank account or using WorldPay which allows real-time processing of credit cards online and you are paid accordingly.
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Unplugged & Online
Cool Blue Radio is not your typical radio station. In fact Terry Hancox decided to take the high road and offer listeners something totally different that might closer resemble your favourite coffee shop with a mix of jazz, blues, European, Americana, Cuban, Brazilian, African and more. To top it off it's listener supported so no need to worry about adverts.
"Cool Blue Radio allows the listener to appreciate the roots of various styles and broadens the breadth of music that listeners might not have heard before," stated Terry.
Cool Blue Radio started in 2002 and quickly built up a large following in Auckland and around the world online. Online they've been able to reach a worldwide audience and allow listeners to hear their beats wherever a connection is nearby.
"Freeparking has been great with stable servers that allow us to look after our listeners and a great payment gateway called WorldPay that enables us to accept donations from anywhere in the world without the hassles of currency exchange."
Note: Freeparking does not host Cool Blue's audio streaming service.
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Earn Easy Money as an Affiliate
Join WebFarm's Affiliate Program and get paid commissions for domain names, e-mail, hosting and e-commerce products. It's easy! With the two trusted brands of Freeparking and 2Day.com, you can offer customers, friends and family online services such as domain names and web hosting and earn commisssions between $2.50 and $480 per sale.
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