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Find a Better Deal on Web Hosting

July 28th, 2008 | No Comments | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle, Technology, online shopping

While I’m pretty happy with my web host, Dream Host, you may not be happy with where your web site or blog are currently located. Perhaps you’ve seen banner ads and pop-ups and other forms of advertising at your favorite blog that has a deal you find more than tempting?

There’s more than a plethora of web hosts out there for your web site or blog or forum or whatever you might use your corner of the web to publish. With all the options, competition is high and prices keep dropping. But are you really getting a good deal?

Busy people, especially small businesses or entrepreneurs, don’t have time to shop around for a good web host. In fact, many may fall into the trap of paying too much for a cookie-cutter web page that barely stands out from the rest in their trade.

So what’s a reasonable person to do? Spend hours and hours doing research? You don’t have to - there are plenty of people who have gone before you and done the leg work. Web Hosting Geeks is one such web hosting comparison site that can help you make the right decision.

The thing I like best about Web Hosting Geeks’ site is that it immediately takes you to a bare-bones comparison of the most simple kind of web hosting with ratings and features. If you want to get into more features and complicated options, they have categories of web hosts you can look into. It’s an easy way to find cheap web hosting that fits your needs.

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DepositNow! Online Check Deposits

June 17th, 2008 | 1 Comment | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship, Lifestyle, Technology, Tidbits

A relatively new service called DepositNow! (they’ve been around since 2004) allows small business owners, eBay power sellers, online retailers, and other people who might need to deposit a lot of checks, scan their checks and deposit them online from a normal computer.

This technology has often turned people off, because previously when you purchased a check scanner, that’s all it could do: scan checks. DepositNow! has developed their own check scanner that’s about half the price of other check scanners (about $225 USD) and can be used as a regular scanner as well.

Unfortunately, depositing checks online is only available to customers who bank in the United States. However, this could be a really useful service to anyone who has to daily make bank runs to deposit checks, especially in light of the recent rise in gas prices. The savings on gas almost make this scanner pay for itself after a month or two!

Think not only about the money you’ll save, but the time: instead of wasting time running to the bank before opening your store, you could be done in less time without leaving the office, and tend to other things that might need more attention. Or maybe just use the time to sit and have a cup of coffee and relax!

Visit DepositNow to sign up for online check depositing, use promo code “THE RAGING TECH” and you’ll receive $25 off the price of the scanner. That’ll also get me $25 if you become their customer, which will help me put gas in my car!