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PSP What's New Newsletter Vol. 33 "From a business trip to California"

Oct

Vol. 33

On September 26th I left Bellevue and began my drive to San Diego. The 1,200 mile trip was not an easy one. However, what I felt during the 18-hour drive was the magnitude of America.

The Coronavirus has caused me to spend a lot of time at home and in the office, and I have lost perspective. Once I comprehended the size of the United States, I realized how narrow my thinking was.

Our company is a website creation and hosting company. This pandemic hasn't had a huge impact on our business, and for that we are very happy and grateful. We know that many companies are struggling during this time.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. runs a Japanese language community site in San Diego called SanDiegoTown. Here, we are offering discounts on advertising to the restaurants most affected by the pandemic. This is something we have not done before. We'll be doing everything else we can to help those who are struggling during this challenging time. Please give us a shout if we can be of assistance.

https://SanDiegoTown.com

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

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.

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PSP What's New Newsletter Vol. 32 "Small Business Branding"

Oct

Vol. 32

It's impossible and meaningless for a small business to do marketing with branding on the same scale as big companies like Coca-Cola, Starbucks, Ray-Ban and Apple. So let's think about what small business branding is all about. Today's challenge is to “Think Small”.

Small business branding is not the design of a logo or the image of an advertisement. Branding is about defining where you stand. The first thing to address is that you need to define what your company stands for. Here's what we call a mission statement or elevator speech to clarify the purpose of your company's existence. The mission statement of Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is:

“As an independent software design and development company, we use our technology to create software to help companies save and/or make money. From the concept to the final product, we want to be a company that people think of when they need software solutions.”

https://www.pspinc.com/about

This is the first step in branding. The next thing you need to clarify is your target customer. If you think you can sell or are able to sell to anyone, you won't be able to focus your activities. By deciding as clearly as possible who it is for, your message and sales methods will be determined.

Some branding needs to be clearly differentiated from other companies. Not on a detailed level, but try to itemize who your competitors are and what makes you different from them. That way, you'll have a clearer idea of where you excel and where you need to work a little harder. Striving to develop your strengths and reduce your weaknesses as much as possible is also branding.

Finally, don't make your branding just about attracting new customers. Don't forget to make an effort to make sure that your current customers are also happy to hire your company. A lot of these humble tasks will not activate new costs. There's a lot to do in-house, but I believe this is all about branding.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

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

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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PSP What's New Newsletter Vol. 31 "Pay What You Can (PWYC) Pricing"

Oct

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. is expanding its PWYC pricing structure to many of our other products.

Due to the Coronavirus Pandemic, many businesses are facing a tough time. Some are forced to lose because of a lack of revenue. Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. has been fortunate to be able to stay in business during this crisis. We feel that it is our duty to help small businesses as much we can to survive during this harsh time.

For this reason, we are adopting a PWYC pricing structure for many of our products. Here are products we will be offering at PWYC pricing.

OpinionStand.com
ClickItAudio.com
SendMegaMail.com
ImaMenu.com
NewsMail.com (2,500 emails/month)
WebdeXpress.com (Free 3 Page Web Development / Hosting Fee Separately)

PWYC means free if your business cannot afford the service. If you can afford it, please pay as much as you can because the services that we offer do cost money for us to produce and maintain. However, if you can’t pay, do not hesitate to use any of those listed above for free.

These are not demo versions of our products, they are full versions that we used to charge customers to use. Let’s beat this pandemic and business crisis together.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

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

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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Announcement: Maintenance on DI Mail server

Sep

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 email server maintenance.

You may not be able to use the Mail service for 5-10 minutes during the maintenance time below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- October 1 (Thur) 4:00am-4:15am

* Japan Time
- October 1 (Thur) 8:00pm−8:15pm

* Details: Mail server update.

* Purpose: To ensure the stable operation.

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

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Dreamersi password criteria updated for security enhancement

Sep

Commonly chosen weak passwords

Dear Valued Customers,

Thank you for choosing Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

We are pleased to announce that we have updated Dreamersi password criteria for security enhancement. Please see below for the update details:

Password length:
Minimum 6, maximum 16 characters
➔ Minimum 8, maximum 32 characters

Password complexity requirements:
one uppercase, one lowercase, and at least one number or special character(! $ % * - . ? @ ^ _ ~)
➔ one uppercase, one lowercase, and at least one number and special character(! $ % * - . ? @ ^ _ ~)

Your password must not be the same as your account or domain name.
(same as before)

We highly recommend you choose a strong password for your Dreamersi account.

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

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Announcement: Dreamersi Security Enhancement

Sep

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 Dreamersi security enhancement.

You may not be able to use the Mail service for 1~2 seconds during the update period below.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- September 24 (Thur) 1:00pm-1:30pm

* Japan Time
- September 25 (Fri) 5:00am-5:30am

* Details: Dreamersi password criteria update.

Password length:
Minimum 6, maximum 16 characters
➔ Minimum 8, maximum 32 characters

Password complexity requirements:
one uppercase, one lowercase, and at least one number or special character(! $ % * - . ? @ ^ _ ~)
➔ one uppercase, one lowercase, and at least one number and special character(! $ % * - . ? @ ^ _ ~)

* Purpose: For the security enhancement

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

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PSP What's New Newsletter Vol. 30 "Bloguru Blog"

Sep

Bloguru is a free blog site Pacific Software Publishing, Inc. built and maintains. This blog platform is different from others because …

(1) There are no advertisements
(2) There are no anonymous users
(3) There is no limit to the size and number of images used
(4) We do not delete past blogs
(5) HTML use is permitted
(6) Our blogs feature a responsive design
(7) You can use an RSS feed for your website

Is having a blog outside of your domain good or bad for your SEO?

If you have a blog that becomes popular on Bloguru, does it help your company domain?

It is good to have outside domains link to your site. It will help bring the SEO score of your website up, and Bloguru is definitely an outside domain. Search engines such as Google like Bloguru because Bloguru has no advertisements. They also do not like to promote other advertisement-based sites because it conflicts with their own ad platform.

I believe in Bloguru and its ability to help your company. If you would like to utilize Bloguru, it is free. Follow the instructions below to create your account.

Creating a Bloguru Account

Step 1 Visit https://bloguru.com
Step 2 Choose a language (English or Japanese)
Step 3 Select “+ Sign Up”
Step 4 Choose Country + Enter Cell Phone # + Email Address, Press Submit

Then follow the instructions provided. You will receive an authorization text message on your cellular phone. This is two factor authentication to verify the registration is you. I hope you find Bloguru useful!

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.
info@pspinc.com
1404 140th Place NE, Bellevue, WA 98007 USA
800-232-3989
425-957-0808

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

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

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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Announcement: Maintenance on DI Mail server

Sep

* Japan Time
- September 24 (Thur) 8:00pm−8:15pm

* Details: Mail server update.

* Purpose: To ensure the stable operation.

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

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Latest Thunderbird 78.0 mail retrieving issue resolved

Sep

Dear Valued Customers,

About Di email issue of not retrieving new messages on the latest version of Thunderbird (78.0 or above), we applied our fix to the mail server and verified the fix. The issue has been resolved now, and you should be able to send/receive messages as usual.

If you find any other issue related to this update, please contact us at 1-800-232-3989 or email us at support@pspinc.com.

We appreciate your support and understanding.

Pacific Software Publishing, Inc.

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

PSPinc Creates Tools For Your Business

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Urgent mail server update related to the issue with Thunderbird 78.0

Sep

Currently there is a problem on DI email service, and some users who installed the latest version of Thunderbird (78.0 or above) cannot receive new emails. We apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused.

We figured out that Thunderbird client was asking IMAP for Quota limit on a specific mailbox, but we only support quota limit for full domain. We fixed it and will be updating the mail module shorlty.

Reference: https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/thunderbird/78.0/releasenotes/#fixes
fixed：Mailbox quotas not displayed correctly

You may not be able to receive emails with the other email clients as well for a few seconds during the below period.

The schedule is as follows:

* USA Pacific Daylight Time
- September 18 (Fri) Noon - 12:30pm

* Japan Time
- September 19 (Sat) 4:00am − 4:30am

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