We are constantly striving to improve and over the years have tested out a lot of services for providing essential gears in the machinery of internet promotion. Some of them don’t turn out so well, but some companies have such a great product or service that we turn to them again and again when we need proven methods of delivering greatness. We have become experts in these systems and in fact have built relationships with the developers, and even owners of some. We are proud to recommend and use the following:
GoDaddy.com is the premiere provider of domain names and related services. They offer economical pricing and superb customer support.
Aweber is an email autoresponder and list management service that guarantees deliverability of over 95%. They also have efficient anti-spam policies and customer service, and their system allows us to automate email signups so your promotions can generate leads and you can follow up with your prospects.
If you’ve ever wished your customers could call an 800 number that connected to you wherever you are, RingCentral is the way to go. Their service will route calls to your office, cell phone, home phone, or wherever else you specify. Customer support is great, and their pricing is perfect for small and medium business.
Constant Contact is a similar service to Aweber but does things in a slightly different way. The focus is more on ease-of-use and great-looking email newsletter templates that help your message get the attention it deserves.
Amazon Web Services provides a whole host of essential services that we use at Apex literally every day. Amazon is probably best known to the public for their online bookstore, but they also have a division that has become one of the biggest and best providers of enterprise-class internet services including Content Distribution Networks, high-capacity storage, on-demand processing servers, on-demand printing and order fulfillment, and more. If you are looking to speed up your website or automated services, chances are Amazon Web Services has a solution that is better and cheaper than anyone else out there.
StealthSeminar is an efficient service that allows you to promote your product with online webinars that look and behave just like live events, but are actually recorded ahead of time. This means you can practice and record your sales pitch to get it just right, and then show your prospects your best shot every time, while seeming to perform live multiple times a day for each customer. Their system is incredibly user-friendly and they have opened their back-end to us so that we can develop custom applications to smoothly integrate webinar sales into your marketing efforts.
GoToWebinar is the premiere service for hosting live webinars for up to thousands of people at once all over the world. This can be a more challenging marketing method than a service like StealthWebinar, but it allows a high level of real-time interaction with your prospects that you just can’t get with a recorded pitch. Add in great customer support, a well-developed programmer interface, and very competitive pricing and you get one of the best ways to get in front of your customers.
WordPress is the top CMS (Content Management System) on the internet hands-down. We love that it’s free, and that it’s open-source and modifiable. We’ve become experts in customizing and extending WordPress and using it to build almost any kind of website imaginable. Once we’ve created and programmed a WordPress site, the site owner can add pages and articles, images and videos, even entirely new sections to their site in a snap without any programming knowledge whatsoever. WordPress also makes it a lot easier for us to maintain customer sites because it’s entirely built on robust technology that’s been around for a long time, so there’s no risk of unknown problems cropping up that defy solution. We could go on and on about WordPress, it’s that good!
Google Docs is a fantastic free service from Google that works very similarly to MS Office and allows you to create word documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and more. The difference is that Google Docs works in a way that every file you create is actually stored online. You can easily share your files with others on your team, and everyone who has access to the documents can edit them collaboratively in real-time from wherever they are in the world, even from their phone! Every change you make is instantly stored and visible to anyone else you allow access to the document. And of course, because it’s from Google, Docs seamlessly integrates with other Google services like Gmail and Google Calendar, making it easy to streamline your entire office and increase productivity overnight.
Apex uses any or all of these products and services to provide total solutions for our clients. We are experts in the use of these services and can integrate them into your website and marketing promotions, and train you and your staff on how to get the most from them. When used together, these systems can combine to power incredibly effective campaigns!
Contact us now to learn how we can put together an automated sales funnel for your business that will increase your profits without increasing your overhead!
