The 5 Worst Sales In Webhosting – Part 1 of 2
We’ve already told you about the 5 worst products in webhosting, here is part 1 of a 2 part series on the 5 worst sales in webhosting.
Everybody loves a sale. The other day I was shopping for birdseed at Lowe’s, a home improvement and hardware store here in the states. As I perused the store, I noticed a sale that just blew me away.
Brace yourself for it — it’s a big one.
WOW! A whole penny off!
Re-Introducing ServInt’s New Director of Sales, Devon Rutherford
ServInt's Devon Rutherford
This morning, ServInt announced that I will be assuming the role of Director of Sales. I’m incredibly excited for the challenge and look forward to expanding our already stellar Michigan-based Sales Team over the weeks to come.
As some of you may remember, a few months ago, I introduced ServInt’s new Solo Series Dedicated server line. I’m incredibly proud of the hard work that our Sales, Engineering, Marketing, and Managed Services Teams have put in to make the success of our Solo Series possible and am looking forward to growing our sales team even more.
On the topic of our Solo Series, it has been made abundantly clear that there is a demand for truly flexible Cloud and VPS augmented Dedicated solutions, and for distinguished users, the Solo Series is primed and ready to deliver!
I’ve been at ServInt for more than a 12 years–a relatively staggering amount of time for a sales person in the Internet industry. When I joined ServInt in 1998, Pets.com was still littering the airwaves with sock puppets and our online currency was less about credit cards and Paypal and more about Flooz and Beenz (if you’re under 25, try Google).
Needless to say, the internet has changed substantially since then. In 1998, we offered competitive, managed solutions against an army of unmanaged beige boxes in venture-funded warehouses. We were able to weather the dot com bust and evolve because we always refocused on our core strength; instead of trying to be the biggest host in the biz, we’re focused on being the best. We’re managed hosting made better.
That same drive and experience — combined with our peerless customer service, rock-solid network, and data centers around the country — fuels all of us at ServInt today. As the internet grows more fluid and complex everyday, business evolves with it. If today’s internet moves seamlessly between the server, user, and cloud; users deserve a host with the resources to scale alongside them.
Growth should be a good thing, and ServInt’s Sales team is here to help.
Green Retrofitting: Corporate Responsibility That Makes Sense
Challenges Are Catalysts for Innovation
Yesterday, I wrote about a new direction for ServInt’s social media outreach. Basically, I explained that a lot of companies, ServInt included, spend too much time talking about themselves and not enough time talking about their customers. I made a new rule saying that we’d talk more about you .
So, naturally, I’m going to kick that off by talking about us .
Earth Week 2010 is coming to a close and as such I thought it appropriate to reflect on a few of our specific accomplishments in green technology. In our more than 15 year history, we’ve been relatively silent trailblazers. We are pioneers in dedicated and VPS hosting and we were one of the first hosts to actively work on improving inefficient and environmentally troubling urban infrastructure. With that being said, there are some unique challenges that we face precisely because of our status as trailblazers.
Fearlessness: 25 Years of dotcom and ServInt’s 10,000th Turn-Up
On Being Fearless
When ServInt was founded in 1995, there were less than 18,000 dotcoms in the world.
That fact, according to an article on CNN.com yesterday, is pretty jarring when you think about it. It truly emphasizes just how much of a frontier the Internet was for entrepreneurs. How so many companies, in the shadow of the giants (at the time) at Netscape, AOL, and others, got started by refusing to believe that innovation was purely a numbers game.
Nearly everyday there are seismic shifts in how we do business online. While the Internet certainly shrunk our world by opening up new, relatively inexpensive lines of communication internationally, it arguably also did the opposite in many ways. The Internet expanded, exponentially, the size and scope of the planet from an intellectual and communicative standpoint. No longer were we limited by continents and language, we were free to do and say as we pleased in a new network of ideas. New markets sparked by young ambition sprang out of tiny packets of 1′s and 0′s traveling at the speed of light. Borders became more and more irrelevant and a new kind of global technologically-centered culture began to flourish.
Yesterday, the dotcom Top Level Domain turned 25 years old. ServInt also recently completed our 10,000th turn-up. These are two very different events with very different scopes, of course, but they’re noteworthy for the exact same reasons.
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