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August 2012・Better your business

Rethinking SSL marketing

I’ve talked in the past about starting the sales process for SSL certificates “upstream” – that is, offering the appropriate certificate to your customer after assessing their needs, rather than immediately going to a lower cost domain validated certificate. You can have a look at that post if you missed it, but the basic premise […]

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Talking about Ting

In our recent webinar about selling Ting, ultramarathoner James Koole suggested that you should “host more of the conversation on your side than ours.” I want to share a piece of data to support that point, elaborate on it a bit and see if I can offer you some help. First the data. Looking at […]

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Why business customers should use organization validated SSL certificates

Of the three types of SSL certificate validation, which one do you understand the least? I’m willing to bet it’s organization validation (OV). For the uninitiated, there are different validation methods for different types of SSL certificates. In simple terms: Domain Validated (DV): This is the least rigorous validation method. The Certificate Authority (CA) checks […]

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On-demand webinar – Ting and OpenSRS offers

Last week I teamed up with Scott Allan, Director at Ting, to host a webinar to talk about the addition of Ting to our OpenSRS Offers service. For those who aren’t aware, Ting is a new mobile phone service that Tucows launched in the US earlier this year. Through OpenSRS Offers, we’re providing our Resellers […]

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ORG, PRO and ASIA promos

A couple of domain promotions that were scheduled to end today have been extended and we have a great new promo from .ASIA! Extended promotions .ORG: Our .ORG promotion will continue through the end of June. Get $2 off the cost of .ORG domains. If you already signed up, we’ll extend the promo for you […]

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January 2012・Better your business

Hosting trends for 2012 – free webinar

NOTE: If you missed the live webinar, we now have a recording available for viewing at any time. Click here to view. Staying on top of where the hosting industry is headed is key in ensuring that you are able to react quickly and be successful. Arming you with great information about the current state […]

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