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Welcome back!
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March 2008
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It’s that time again - Christmas is finally over and the kids are back at school. We hope you found time over the holidays to relax and enjoy the sun and a few BBQ’s!
This month we have tips on setting up your Outlook, a case study on one of our talented clients and the opportunity to win a comprehensive Google Adwords tutorial that will greatly improve your search engine performance.
We look forward to working with you for another year to achieve your online goals for 2008.
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December 2007 Survey:
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Thanks to everyone that completed the December 2007 survey. We love hearing your thoughts on our service and appreciate the opportunity to further improve our service to you.
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Four Freeparking customers were given the opportunity to choose one of four prizes. Congratulations to the winners of the survey prize draw!
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| Lisa Hamilton | Prize of choice: Digital photo frame |
| Sheila Marks | Prize of choice: Digital photo frame |
| Paul Molloy | Prize of choice: Two-tone twill weekender bag |
| Undisclosed | Prize of choice: MP3 Player |
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Small Business Expo
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Every year, the Small Business Expo brings together a wide range of products, services and seminars tailored for small to medium business owners and managers. This is the ideal opportunity to discover how to improve business efficiency, lower costs, seek information on growing your business and do some vital networking.
Last year’s expo was incredible and this year will certainly be just as good, if not better! We enjoyed putting faces to names last year, so if you get a chance, come visit the Freeparking team at our stall for a chat.
We will be at the Auckland Small Business Expo at the ASB Showgrounds in Greenlane over the following days:
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| Wednesday 16 April 2008 | 9.00am - 4.00pm |
| Thursday 17 April 2008 | 9.00am - 8.00pm |
| Friday 18 April 2008 | 9.00am - 4.00pm |
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To attend simply register online today and download your free ticket here.
Looking forward to seeing you there! |
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Product Showcase: Email
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For a more professional look for your business or organisation, you can use your domain name in combination with personalised email addresses. For example, your domain name might be joebloggs.co.nz and your email joe@joebloggs.co.nz. It’s a quick and easy way to advertise your business (info@joebloggs.co.nz) instead of someone else’s (joebloggs@xtra.co.nz).
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Price |
Accounts* |
Max Space |
Webmail |
Catch-all** |
Anti-Virus |
Anti-Spam |
| Email 5 |
$49.95 |
5 |
50 MB |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
| Email 15 |
$99.95 |
15 |
150 MB |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
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Email 5:
Add email 5 accounts to your domain name for only $49.95 + GST per year with Freeparking’s Email 5 account. Perfect for a business, organisation or family with up to 5 people requiring their own email addresses.
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Email 15:
Add 15 email accounts to your domain name for only $99.95 + GST per year with Freeparking’s Email 15 account. Great for a growing business or organisation with up to 15 people requiring their own email addresses.
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Every email account comes with your choice of these great webmail programs:
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NutsMail:
NutsMail is widely known as one of the world’s best webmail applications on the market today. It has a fresh look and feature-rich applications such as calendar, bookmarks and to-do lists. These features make NutsMail the most versatile online planning system for home or business use.
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RoundCube :
RoundCube Webmail is a browser-based multilingual IMAP client with an application-like user interface. It provides the full functionality you would expect from an email client, including MIME support, address book, folder manipulation, message searching and spell checking. RoundCube is an easy webmail client to use, with all the functionality you will ever need.
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Tip from Tim:
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So now that you have your email through your domain, you can access it easily through your Outlook. Below are some simple steps to guide you through the process.
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Firstly open Outlook, you can normally find an icon on your desktop or from the Start button
Click on Tools > E-mail Accounts
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At the next prompt select
Add a new email account
and then click the Next > button
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At the next screen (above) fill in the following details:
Your Name: Enter your name
Email Address: somthing@yourdomain.co.nz
User Name: Username from the set-up email
Password: The password for the email account
Incoming Mail Server (POP3): mail.yourdomain.co.nz
Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP): mail.yourdomain.co.nz
Nb: Make sure that the box for Log on using secure password authentication (SPA) is NOT checked
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Click the More Settings... button in the bottom right corner
Click the My outgoing server requires authentication box, so that a tick appears
Click the OK button to return the previous screen
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Finally, click Next to dismiss the confirmation
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NB: You may need to close Outlook and reopen it for the new account to work correctly.
For more detail or to access the user guides for setting up an alternative email client - such as Eudora, Netscape or Pegasus, please follow this link:
http://www.freeparking.co.nz/support/demos/index.mv?page=email
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Search Engine Marketing Giveaway
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Have you ever wanted to learn how to advertise on the internet using Google’s pay per click program, but didn’t know where to start? Online marketer Gary Elley has put together an informative DVD to take you through the process step by step. Designed to meet the needs of beginner to intermediate level users, this 3 hour workshop shows viewers how to build a successful AdWords campaign with easy to follow instructions and examples.
The workshop starts by looking at why you should consider advertising with AdWords and then shows you how to set up your account and place your first ad. After the basics, it goes into detail on how to structure your campaign, how to research, select and target keywords, how to optimise bidding, track results and a lot more.
You can find sample clips online at www.keywordmarketer.com
Pacific New Media has donated three copies to win for Webfarm customers. To enter to win, go to keywordmarketer.freeparking.sgizmo.com by the 18th March 2008.
Please note: This contest is open for 6 days, so don’t miss your chance to WIN.
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CASE STUDY - PURE LOCAL AND NZRIDE.COM
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Ever felt that you needed more from life? For Aaron Fernandez of Pure Local and NZRide.com, ditching his shirt and tie job meant more time with the family, creative freedom and good old jeans and t-shirts.
Aaron began his clothing venture by importing Animal, a top UK surf/lifestyle range, which has since proved to be successful not just on its own, but in augmenting his popular site www.NZRide.com. A firm believer in Kiwi workmanship, Aarons’ next step was to purchase the brand Pure Local. With his magic touch, the company flourished and now offers not just men’s and women’s lines, but a new range for kids, ‘PureLittle’.
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“Being a strong supporter of Kiwi Made and NZ businesses, we found Freeparking could not only understand our unique needs, but had all the resources we required to help our business grow online” says Aaron. “Our website www.purelocal.co.nz is a great way to show our current seasons’ range as well as list where people can go to check it out.”
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Not content with one site, Fernandez has branched out into the mountain bike market, creating an online magazine for avid fans. His aim to promote the sport with stories, pictures and events proved popular, with news, interviews and the Animal clothing line making the site the ultimate place to go.
“We knew from previous experience that Freeparking could support all our hosting requirements for our new website venture” explains Aaron. “The NZRide site has become so popular (10,000 unique visitors some months and growing!) It has become its own brand. As well as the stories and info, there is also an online store which we will be developing further where we sell Animal product as well as NZRide.com products.”
NZRide and Pure Local have been kind enough to provide us with two prizes: a T-shirt from Animal (valued at $65) and a top from Pure Local (valued at $70). To go in the draw to win, simply sign up to either the NZRide or the Pure Local newsletter. Visit:
http://www.nzride.com/signup.php
http://www.purelocal.co.nz/new_contact.php
Entries close the 25th of March 2008.
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