SmarttNet to Offer Business Cable Internet Services with 25Mbps speed and Unlimited Bandwidth
August 24, 2010 by imteam · Comments Off
Shaw Cable No Longer the Only Player in Town: SmarttNet to Offer Business Cable Internet Services with 25Mbps speed and Unlimited Bandwidth
If you’re a small business looking to get cable Internet from a company other than Shaw, you’re in luck. Vancouver-Based ISP SmarttNet has just rolled out an industry competitive Business Cable Internet service for businesses that are tired of the same low speed, limited bandwidth, and offshore support offered by other providers. The new service includes a maximum download speed of 25Mbps – a cable speed previously unavailable to businesses users in Vancouver.
“Vancouver small businesses have not been getting the speed and data they deserve,” says SmarttNet CEO Saleh Tousi, “There’s no reason why service providers should offer 25mbps ports to residential customers but not to business customers. There’s plenty of business demand for it.”
SmarttNet will also be the first business ISP to offer unlimited bandwidth traffic for selected packages. “We have a redundant fiber link to one of the biggest traffic peering hubs in the United States,” says Tousi, “We can get the traffic cheaper than what other providers offer their wholesalers, and we intend to pass on the savings to fellow Vancouver small businesses.”
The service will be initially available to all Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley clients as well as the communities of Squamish and Whistler. For more information, please call 604-473-9700 or visit: http://www.smartt.com/internet/business-cable/
SmarttNet Secures Dedicated Fiber-Optic Connection to the United States
January 4, 2010 by imteam · Comments Off
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – January 4, 2010
Vancouver-based Internet Service Provider SmarttNet has announced new connections to fiber-optic points of presence in Seattle, WA and Vancouver’s Harbour Centre.
This infrastructure expansion will allow SmarttNet to expand their area of serviceability into the United States, a new market for the company that has built a strong presence across Western Canada in its 15 years of operation.
With two direct connections to Seattle, SmarttNet will now be able to provide point-to-point connectivity to business owners across Washington State, as well as greatly reduced transit costs for U.S. businesses operating within Canada.
SmarttNet’s connection to multiple POP locations provides increased data redundancy and a new level of security for fiber customers. If one connection is compromised, service will be unaffected as traffic is routed through the remaining active line.
With more companies offering software as a service (SaaS) and other high-bandwidth business processes, there is an ever growing need for secure, redundant fiber connections. SmarttNet is responding to this market reality with an expanded network designed to serve organizations on the cutting edge of business and technology.
About SmarttNet:
SmarttNet is an Internet Service Provider that has served the business market in British Columbia and Alberta since 1995. In addition to connectivity, SmarttNet provides hosting, data backup and server co-location within the company’s in-house data center.
The SmarttNet Data Center is centrally located in one of Western North America’s largest fiber distribution points, about ten minutes outside of Vancouver, Canada.
SmarttNet Takes an Analytical Approach to Internet Marketing
December 2, 2009 by imteam · Comments Off
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA – December 2, 2009
After 15 years of providing integrated Web solutions to businesses across Western Canada, Vancouver Internet marketing firm SmarttNet is setting out to help small and medium sized enterprises enter the profitable world of Web Analytics.
The recent addition of 4 Google Analytics Qualified Individuals to the company is a major expansion, but also a natural progression for SmarttNet, whose Chief Marketing Officer Martin Wong has always put hard numbers first when it comes to measuring the success of any marketing campaign.
“Web Analytics should be a cornerstone for any web strategy,” says Wong, “Especially with the economic downturn, it is absolutely essential for companies to measure and analyze any marketing activities. Web analytics can help you control your costs and optimize your return on investment by observing how your customers react and behave cross-channels.”
Google Analytics is a free and powerful tool that lets business owners measure website traffic and determine the effectiveness of their online marketing efforts. While it is free to install, small businesses stand to benefit greatly from the training and insights that Google Analytics Qualified Individuals can provide.
“Recent research from Forrester Research has shown that 75% of large enterprises consider Web Analytics technologies to be indispensable,” says Wong, “Through our expert implementation services and training programs, we want to bring the power of analytics to local businesses.”
SmarttNet is a full service Internet marketing firm with a long history of serving Vancouver’s business community. The company has roots as a connectivity provider and has since expanded to include co-location, web design, search engine optimization and social media marketing services.
With 4 Google Analytics Qualified Individuals in house, SmarttNet currently employs nearly ten percent of the 53 certified professionals in Canada.
For more information please contact
Jon Mandell
Writer and Media Specialist
jon.mandell@smartt.com
www.marketingsmartt.com
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2) It has a blog AND static pages in it. Having a blog is essential for search engine optimization (SEO). If you don’t update your site AT LEAST once a week, you can expect that the Google meta spiders will stop visiting and will, therefore, stop indexing your site. But you don’t want a blog to be separate from your Web site. Wouldn’t it be disappointing if your blog started ranking high but your Web site, which pays the bills, didn’t? The best is to have the blog inside the Web site, which is exactly what WordPress does. You can write “posts”, which change often, and you can also have static information about your company on “pages”.
3) It sends out pings. What are pings? They are search engine optimization friendly notifications that get sent out on the Internet every time you write a blog post. They get your page noticed before you even know it!
4) It’s customizable. This way, your WordPress site doesn’t have to look like everyone else’s. Since its open source, you can make it look the way you want for your branding. To make things easier, you can download “themes” from the WordPress site, which are also free. For more complicated ventures, there are companies out there that can tailor-make a “theme” the way you want it.
5) It can do lots and lots of stuff. In plainer terms, it can be as functional as you need it to be. There are thousands of “plug-ins” available for free (developed by WordPress volunteers). These include shopping carts, image and video galleries, widget changers (for the info on your sidebars), site-map generators and SEO packs that automatically insert meta-tags into the code of your page for Google and other search engines to read. The list is endless!
6) It’s constantly updated. The people who work on WordPress are always improving the software. This means your CMS will stay up-to-date with the latest trends in technology.
To see it all in action, visit www.smartt.com and click on the video thumbnail on the right sidebar.
BBOT – “Free alternative to increase Web traffic”
May 25, 2009 by imteam · Comments Off
