PSPINC Official Company Blog

Announcement: Mail and Web Server Security Update

May

7

Dear valued customer,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting Mail and Web server security update.

There will be a period of about a few minutes during which the website hosted by Dreamersi web server will not be able to access and mail service s not available during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- May 14th (Tue) 5:30 - 6:00am

* Japan Time
- May 15th (Tue) 9:30 - 10:00pm

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

Announcement: Click It Audio OS Upgrade with Downtime (05/07/2024)

May

2

Click It Audio Customers,

Thank you for choosing Click It Audio for your audio embed needs!

We’re happy to announce that we’re upgrading our operating system (OS) from Cent OS7 to Alma Linux 8 since there will no longer be technical support for Cent OS7 after June 30, 2024, and we continue striving towards making sure our service is the safest it can be. With this new upgrade, it will help patch any vulnerabilities to defend users against cyber threats.

However, updating the Cick It Audio OS will result in about 10 minutes of downtime for site login and audio embed playback, so we thought you should know ahead of time. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

This server upgrade will occur on:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- May 7th (Tue) 10:00-10:30am

* Japan Time
- May 8th (Wed) 2:00-2:30am

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com.

We would be happy to answer any of your questions by phone or email.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#AlmaLinux #AudioEmbed #CentOS #ClickItAudio #Marketing #OS #PSPINC #Sales #SmallBusiness #Website

What’s New Newsletter Vol. 218 “Affordable Logo Design”

May

2

One of the first parts of a company’s brand that a potential customer sees is its logo. So, it’s important to have one that not only looks great but represents what you want your company to stand for. While that sounds easy to say, it’s hard to figure out what that really means and what that work really entails. Luckily, we have a team of experts with the experience you need to create an effective company logo.

Whether you’re starting a new business or you’re looking for a full rebrand or refresh, we have just what you need! Our logo design process starts with a finding session where our team learns more about your business and where to start their design process. Then, they go to work and by the end, you’ll get the logo you’ll need for your business. And all for an affordable price. Starting at just $200 per logo, it’s never been easier and more affordable to establish your professional brand with a new logo. Get started today.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#advertising #blog #branding #business #businesstips #businesstools #design #digitalmarketing #graphicdesign #logo #logodesign #marketing #marketingdigital #marketingtips #officetips #pspinc #pspincwhatsnewnewsletter #smallbusiness #tech #technology #web

What are (Web) Cookies and How Do Marketers Use Them?

Apr

30

If you’ve spent enough time online, you’ve probably heard of the term “cookies” before. But what does it mean? A cookie, also known as HTTP cookies or web cookies, is a code snippet added to a web browser when a user visits a certain website and consents to the website’s use of cookies. The user’s browser then stores that code over a predetermined time set by its creators or until a user deletes it, changing how browsers interact with certain websites.

So, how do you know when cookies are in action? If you’ve ever experienced these encounters, that’s how you know:

Returned to a website where you’re automatically signed in.
Found items still in your shopping cart.
Saw the physical store location you picked last time on an e-commerce site you’ve been on before.
Discovered the product you were looking at during another session advertised in your email or on another website.
Checked out a purchase with your payment and shipping preference already stored and selected.

How Do Marketers Use Cookies?

With cookies, digital marketers can learn more about users coming onto their sites and better track users’ behavior on their websites. Knowing how people behave makes it easier to target potential customers and market to your users in the future since it’ll give you a good idea of what works and what doesn’t work on your website.

What marketers use cookies for:

Targeting: more user data and behavioral information that will help define target audience groups.
Personalization: after signing up for an email newsletter or purchasing a product on a website, cookies will remember the info users have filled in for the next time they come to that website.
Tracking: with more data on users, marketers can then use that data to better market in the future with targeted marketing campaigns.

Overall, cookies can be an invaluable tool for marketers. With the ability to collect more user data, marketers can use all of that to optimize their future marketing campaigns, resulting in more effective efforts.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#advertising #blog #branding #business #businesstips #businesstools #cybersecurity #digitalmarketing #google #marketing #marketingtips #mobile #sales #searchengineoptimization #seo #smallbusiness #tech #technology #web #webdesign #website #websites

Announcement: Dreamersi Mail Server Maintenance (04/30/2024)

Apr

29

Dear valued customers,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting Dreamersi mail server maintenance to furtherly enhance the logging for troubleshooting purpose.

You may experience delay in sending emails for a few seconds during the time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- April 30th (Tue) 9:30 - 10:00am

* Japan Time
- May 1st (Wed) 1:30 - 2:00am

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#Mail #PSPINC #Update

What’s New Newsletter Vol. 217 “Get Up to $300 of Google Ad Credit!”

Apr

25

We're happy to announce that for a limited time, you can claim up to $300 of Google Ad credit with one of our marketing plans! Regardless of where you are in your business journey, we have an experienced team to help you with your business needs that’ll work within your budget. All of our marketing plans will include a voucher for Google Ad credit up to $300:

Sprout Marketing Plan: $100 of Google Ad credit.
Grow Marketing Plan: $200 of Google ad credit.
Thrive Marketing Plan: $300 of Google ad credit.

Add paid search with Google Ads to your marketing plan to increase your business’s overall brand awareness at an affordable price. PSPINC has over 36 years of experience helping small businesses grow online. Get started today with one of our marketing plans, built to work with your budget!

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#ad #advertising #blog #branding #business #businesstips #businesstools #digitalmarketing #google #googleads #marketing #marketingdigital #marketingtips #ppcad #pspinc #pspincwhatsnewnewsletter #sales #seo #smallbusiness #tech #web #websites #webtools

Announcement: Dreamersi Mail Server Maintenance (04/24/2024)

Apr

22

Dear valued customers,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are always looking to improve the services we offer you.
As such, we will be conducting Dreamersi mail server maintenance to furtherly improve the accuracy for spam email detection.

You may experience delay in sending emails for a few seconds during the time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- April 24th (Wed) 9:00 - 9:30am

* Japan Time
- April 25th (Thu) 1:00 - 1:30am

PSPINC provides services with uptimes of 99.9%

If you have any questions, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com .

We would like to answer your questions by phone call.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#Dreamersi #Enhancement #MailUpdate #PSPINC #SpamDetection

What’s New Newsletter Vol. 216 “Staying Safe Online”

Apr

18

Everyone spends so much time online that the number of online accounts and passwords can be overwhelming. As cybersecurity concerns continue to rise, experts recommend we have a different password for every account and add two-factor authentication (2FA) to make them even more secure. But committing all those passwords to memory is too hard to do and writing them all down on a Word document somewhere is just not secure. So, what’s the solution? A password manager.

We created Pass Wizard as a simple and inexpensive way to keep users’ online accounts secure. With a focus on security and a secure password generator, it couldn’t be easier to protect your online data. Just sign up for free or sign up for the Pro account, giving you access to more features and a bigger password storage. Get started today.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#blog #business #businesstips #businesstools #cybersecurity #data #mobile #passwizard #passwordmanager #passwords #pspinc #pspincwhatsnewnewsletter #security #smallbusiness #softwaredevelopment #tech #technology #web #webdevelopment #website #webtools

What is Social Listening?

Apr

16

With marketing, monitoring people's responses is just as important as creating content.

it is just as important to create content as it is to monitor people’s responses. Without knowing how your audience feels about your content, the harder it will be to create engaging and relatable content. That’s where social listening comes in.

Social listening refers to monitoring social media channels for your brand mentions, competitor brand mentions, and related keywords. With social listening, you’ll get more valuable insight into how customers feel about your brand and your products, their pain points, areas of improvement, and future expectations.

How to Build Your Social Listening Strategy

It’s easy to say you’ll monitor your social media channels and stay up-to-date on what else is going on in your industry, but building an effective social listening strategy includes more actionable steps. When building your strategy, it’s best to keep these in mind:

Know your customer persona: know who you’re trying to attract and what platforms they use.
Identify pain points: discovering what problems and gaps exist in your products and overall industry will help better address and potentially solve those frustrations in the future.
Choose strategic and relevant keywords to monitor: creating a list of keywords to look for that are relevant to your company and industry will help narrow down what to look for and streamline your social listening tasks overall.
Create guidelines on how to engage: whether it’s a negative review or a positive comment, having a template on how to respond will simplify this task in the future.

Benefits of Social Listening

There are so many tasks involved in marketing for a business that it may feel overwhelming to tack one more to the list, but social listening will give you more insight into your customers and how to improve your current marketing efforts. Some benefits of social listening include:

Understand your audience: get valuable feedback on what your audience likes and what other interests they have that could help inform your future marketing campaigns.
Performance insight: learn more about how customers feel about your brand and where you could improve in the future.
Crisis management: in cases of growing criticisms about your business and/or products, you can start seeing the signs early on, preventing it from turning into a fully-fledged crisis.
Increased opportunities: monitoring social conversations around your industry will identify industry trends, influencers, and people who already love your brand and love telling people about their experiences, i.e. your brand advocates.
Customer acquisition: join the conversation your audience is having, but don’t outwardly sell; instead, develop relationships with potential customers by sharing helpful information and slowly nurture those relationships into leads.

Marketing today is about much more than just trying to outwardly sell for your business; it's about developing relationships with your customers and nurturing them into leads.

Social listening is an invaluable part of that process, and it will make your overall marketing efforts much easier moving forward. For more marketing help for your business, reach out to our expert marketing team and get started with one of our budget-friendly marketing plans.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.

#advertising #b2b #blog #branding #business #businesstips #businesstools #customerservice #digitalmarketing #facebook #google #instagram #marketing #marketingdigital #marketingtips #mobile #socialmedia #tech #technology #twitter #web #webtools

What’s New Newsletter Vol. 215 “Google Analytics Update”

Apr

11

Last week, we received an email from Google Analytics, reminding us all about how they will be fully replacing Universal Analytics (UA) properties with Google Analytics 4 (GA4) on July 1. As a website owner, many of us know that using Google Analytics is vital in measuring how your website is performing. But if you haven’t switched your properties over to GA4 yet, you’re at risk of essentially starting over with new GA4 properties.

We recommend you switch over as soon as possible to build up website data so that when Google Analytics discontinues UA properties, you’ll still have some website data left. Plus, switching early gives you some time to learn the new GA4 system, if you haven’t already. If you’re not sure how to migrate your properties to GA4, reach out to our expert support team! Either call them at 1-800-232-3989 or email them at support@pspinc.com.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

1404 140th Place N.E., Bellevue, WA 98007

PSPINC Creates Tools For Your Business

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is headquartered in Bellevue, Washington and provides domain, web, and email hosting to more than 40,000 companies of all sizes around the world. We design and develop our own software and are committed to helping businesses of all sizes grow and thrive online. For more information you can contact us at 800-232-3989, by email at info@pspinc.com or visit us online at https://www.pspinc.com.